After a bumpy journey with daft quantities of grind and a halting bug, Destiny 2‘s latest quest, The Lie, can be completed. That’s the one the place our not-so-benevolent AI overlord, Rasputin, wished us to grind Seraph Towers and shotgun kills. The closing step brings a brand new little bit of story, which is sort of good, and a brand new shotgun you actually would possibly need should you play PvP. Aggressive-type shotguns are superhot in the intervening time, and Bungie are right here providing everybody a straightforward (albeit grindy) technique to get a assured good one, Felwinter’s Lie.
The Lie began final Tuesday with a mammoth communal goal to grind Seraph Towers, the seasonal exercise about defending zones to cost Rasputin’s satellite tv for pc launches. The Towers being a bit uninteresting by now and troublesome to finish with whichever random pubbies occur to cross by, the purpose was wanting like unlikely to get hit this season. So Bungie whammed on a huge multiplier and it was accomplished on Sunday. Soon after, we found the ultimate step of quest was bugged and wouldn’t begin. So! Finally, on Thursday evening, Bungie fastened that in a diddy hotfix. You can now full the search and declare its reward, Felwinter’s Lie.
I received’t discuss a lot concerning the story stuff as a result of it’s good to see for your self. I’m certain you’ll find movies on YouTube should you wanna watch. I’ll say I’m disillusioned that we’re persevering with to disregard the approaching extinction occasion of a miles-long spaceship crashing into Earth, and with simply over a fortnight left within the season to resolve this. But it’s a pleasant little storybit in itself, certain.
Felwinter’s Lie, that I’ll speak about. It’s a Legendary photo voltaic shotgun of the Aggressive body selection, and comes as a hard and fast roll with a alternative of nice perks. Two Aggressives are the recent PvP shotguns this season, Astral Horizon and Mindbender’s Ambition, however you’ll doubtless must win quite a bit in Trials Of Osiris or grind quite a lot of Nightfalls to get a terrific one. Felwinter’s Lie comes fastened with Full Choke, Accurized Rounds, a Range Masterwork, a alternative of Slideshot or Quickdraw, and a alternative of Opening Shot or Vorpal Weapon. Very good. It additionally has a novel trait, Shot Package, which supplies its unfold a reasonably constant sample. You can quibble a bit over potential and perk preferences, however it’s undeniably a improbable PvP shotgun – and simple for anybody to get.
You do must get 1000 shotgun kills for the search, which is a chore however not troublesome. Just slap shotgun ammo finder and scavenger mods in your armour, then go play no matter common PvE you need armed with a kinetic shotgun, an power shotgun, and Tractor Cannon or Legend Of Acrius in your energy slot – you’ll be high quality. Or you are able to do it in PvP, the place every shotgun kill is value six. It’s uncommon for excellent PvP gear to be really easy to return by.
I hope Bungie take into account placing top-tier weapons behind quests like this extra. With their plans to put limits on how long most weapons can be upgraded to the Power cap, they should be extra beneficiant in handing out the great things. The present grind can not proceed if weapons might be on a timer to turn into much less helpful. I’m additionally in favour of meta-defining weapon sorts being simpler for anybody to get. I’m cautiously hopeful about ‘sunsetting’ giving Bungie more room to create highly effective and attention-grabbing weapons realizing they’ll’t trigger everlasting issues. Just please, don’t destroy Titan.
Do notice that Power degree doesn’t matter in quite a lot of Destiny. Felwinter’s Lie will maintain being nice for normal PvP till weapon steadiness shifts. After a 12 months its Power cap would possibly begin to drag you down in Iron Banner or Trials, however which means nothing in plain outdated Crucible.
Speaking of the longer term, the most recent This Week At Bungie post reveals the World loot pool for Season 11, with a complete lot of weapons phasing out and a few oldies coming again. They’re additionally making an attempt to make extra gun perks viable by nerfing the ever-popular perks which velocity up reloads and buffing some rubbo perks, like Hipfire Grip and Pulse Monitor. They additionally element buffs for slug shotguns and bows in PvE and high-impact pulse rifles in PvP. Sounds like Aggressive hand cannons would possibly get some love too. Adaptive autos would possibly get introduced extra according to different autos, although.
Help maintain observe of future plans, I used to be not too long ago pointed to the Destiny roadmap on Blueberries.gg, which retains observe of Bungie’s statements and places them right into a calendar. That’s lifeless helpful.
Oh! Be cautious to not by chance dismantle Felwinter’s Lie. Bungie warn that you would be able to’t at the moment pull a brand new one from Collections, which might be fastened in a future replace.
Here’s famous theorycrafter “Fallout” with some Felwinter’s Lie evaluation and motion:
