Just over a day after setting Destiny 2 gamers a brand new communal aim to grind in the direction of, Bungie have made adjustments so it’ll be completed a complete lot sooner. A brand new quest, named The Lie, begins out with a aim shared between all gamers: full the seasonal Seraph Tower occasion 9 million instances. Given that almost all Seraph Tower makes an attempt appear to finish in failure, it’s not a enjoyable problem. Progress was so gradual, it seemed like it might take months to complete. So Bungie have made the occasion simpler and boosted the progresses price.
The first step of The Lie challenges gamers to 9 million completions of the Seraph Tower occasion, three million every on Io, the Moon, and the EDZ. The occasion includes retaining factors away from enemies till it spits out orbs, then tossing them to cost a machine. It’s, like, effective. But half-way by way of the season, Bungie jacked up the issue by making a number of factors lively without delay. I’ve solely seen this harder model accomplished a single time. They require simply sufficient talent, consciousness, and first rate gear to be a large number whenever you’re counting on random gamers getting into the general public zones the place it occurs.
Without matchmaking, with so many failures, with the identical ol’ not-great rewards, and coming so quickly after the boring grindfest of the Guardian games, it seemed like a flop. After the primary day of the problem, gamers had been barely 2% in the direction of the goal. The season will finish in lower than 4 weeks so, ah, clearly Bungie anticipated extra. So they’re giving extra.
Bungie announced final evening that they’ve adjusted the problem. Quest development now has a 5x multiplier, and on weekends that’ll go as much as 10x. Yep, that’ll assist. They’ve additionally barely tweaked the occasion issue by making every cost cycle give 10% progress as an alternative of 9%, so that you solely want 10 full cycles as an alternative of 11. And whereas the Champion bosses after charging are certainly not the laborious a part of the occasion, they’ve made these weaker too, for the hell of it.
Datamined leaks say The Lie is resulting in us getting a good shotgun coming back from the primary game, Felwinter’s Lie. I’m up for that. More story bits will are available throughout the search too, although it appears like hundreds extra grinding as nicely. At least now we’ll really be capable to attain the subsequent step and see that.
Bungie neighborhood supervisor “Cozmo23” defined there have been just a few ‘switches’ they may flip to rapidly make adjustments to the occasion. Hence the curious Champion change.
“Yea, it was one of the switches we had so we flipped it,” he defined on Reddit. “The progress one should be the one that is more impactful.” But they haven’t any choice to so simply change the occasion’s time restrict, he added, “or we would have likely also utilised it.”
He additionally recognised some of event’s problems. He added, “The point of this step wasn’t to challenge the community to complete something, and if they didn’t, they wouldn’t get something. It was to rally everyone to a single event to kick off ‘The Lie’.”
Bungie have grow to be good at recognising errors they’ve made. They discuss a lot of good talk about future adjustments. But man, they preserve making errors and a few appear actual apparent.
