Along with a new dungeon and Halloween event, yesterday’s Destiny 2 replace slipped in a shock new open-world exercise on the Moon, named Altars Of Sorrow. It is a fantastic demonstration of how, typically, the saviours of humanity are so drunk on loot they’ll idly blindfire into an enemy spawn level till the bottom glitters with goodies. This is how Altars Of Sorrow goes. Between merchandise drops, ammo containers, orbs of capability vitality, and Halloween sweet, it quickly seems like a Christmas the place I’m opening presents utilizing an SMG. And then the game goes “Hey, you paying attention there?” and kicks you sq. up the arse.
Set on the gates of the Crimson Keep in Sorrow’s Harbor on the Moon, Altars Of Sorrow is a wave survival mode just like Escalation Protocol on Mars. Dozens upon a whole lot upon 1000’s of trash monsters pour out of a portal, attempting to succeed in one other close by portal and sacrifice themselves. Shoot them and also you get additional seconds on the clock. If the common boss spawns attain the portal, they take massive chunks out of the timer. By and huge, you may idly spray bullets in direction of the portal and simply watch the our bodies (and loot) pile up. It is just not troublesome.
I get pleasure from this burst of pure homicide. Six folks hearth every thing they’ve at a steady torrent of horrors in a grand show of tracers, explosions, magic powers, and merchandise drops. It is even dafter than Escalation Protocol as a result of even the wave bosses aren’t robust. Sometimes I’m an fool who simply needs to spawncamp moonmonsters and watch their corpses rain sweet. I prefer it when colors occur. Then the large lad arrives.
The sixth wave is the large boss battle. He can and can homicide you however, greater than that, the regular race of minibosses in direction of sacrifice portals is now an actual menace. If you’re not on the ball, they’ll dash proper for the objective and win in below a minute, sending you again to repeat the earlier wave. For 5 waves, you’re nice so long as one participant is vaguely being attentive to bosses. Now, out of nowhere, you want teamwork – and to cease simply spraying bullets on the spawn portal, you lootdrunk idiot.
The boss isn’t significantly troublesome however the distinction between spawncamping a torrent of trash and needing to chase down bosses does make me snort once I see folks abruptly realise what’s occurring. It often takes one failure and repeat for assembled teams to grasp they need to most likely concentrate.
I’ll be sorry when the Halloween occasion ends and takes away the bathe of blue sweet pyramids. They’re not even that precious however the sight of them raining down is such a pleasure. I ought to be working to cease an historical evil. I’m as a substitute taking sweet from spacebabies.
I’ve simply realised that “blindfire into an enemy spawn point” is mainly Ikora’s plan for coping with the season’s massive Vex villain. She’s constructing a portal within the Tower so she will shoot into its face with out even leaving the home.
