Grenade-spamming Guardians giddy on magical spacepop will proceed to muck up Destiny 2 PvP for the subsequent three weeks, Bungie have confirmed, saying they’re unable to simply disable the particular occasion merchandise that’s inflicting bother. The Reveler’s Tonic arrived in Destiny this week as a part of the MMOFPS’s vibrant spring occasion, The Revelry, and can provide gamers large boosts to capability recharge charges. With the fitting character construct, Guardians can continually spam homing cluster grenades. That’s foolish enjoyable within the Revelry occasion mode and normal PvE, nevertheless it sucks to face in PvP – and particularly the Crucible’s ranked Competitive mode. Apparently, it’ll proceed to suck for the total period of the occasion.
If sufficient individuals in a match construct round exploiting Tonic bonuses, it performs like an entirely totally different game – one which’s tedious, spammy, and mainly gained by whichever staff has the least disgrace. The tactic isn’t unbeatable nevertheless it controls the form of the game, bending it right into a irritating kind. Other wacky murderbuilds would possibly but emerge from different abilities too. While Destiny 2’s Crucible meta tends to at all times have a couple of dominant builds, they’re hardly ever fairly so tacky.
Destiny 2 already has a irregular PvP mode with wacky-fast cooldowns, named Mayhem, however that’s at all times confined to a separate mode as a result of Bungie know not everybody desires that. Tonics, nonetheless, are energetic in all modes and actions besides personal matches.
Seems Bungie had just a little an excessive amount of fizzy pop themselves, getting carried away with social gathering antics.
“With the Revelry, we wanted to rejuvenate every activity type in Destiny with a global change to the Sandbox meta that lasted for a limited time. We knew this would be disruptive, but were willing to try the experiment because the event only lasts for a few weeks,” Bungie group supervisor “Cozmo23” stated final evening in a Reddit thread about Tonic-fuelled spam.
“It’s clear we overshot – instead of adding excitement and variation to the Crucible (especially in Competitive), we’ve instead made the experience random and frustrating.”
I’m reminded of the time my friends rolled dozens of mudballs for a form of summertime snowball combat at a celebration, however solely obtained to throw a handful as a result of tears quickly began rolling and oldsters apparently frown on youngsters pelting one another with sun-baked clay.
In yesterday’s submit I stated, “Three weeks of Tonic-powered PvP will be awful so I fully expect Bungie to soon disable it in Comp, if not the whole Crucible.” Turns out, Bungie can’t.
“We don’t have the ability to immediately remove Tonics in Competitive via our servers,” Cozmo23 defined. “We’ll continue to investigate possible changes but this experiment will have to run the duration of the Revelry before we can patch a change.”
I’m shocked and upset to listen to they can not simply flip it off in PvP. The Revelry will finish on Tuesday, May seventh, which is very long time for critical play to be dominated by spammy rubbish. I miss it already.
Competitive Crucible with an organised staff is a few of the most enjoyable I’ve had in Destiny 2, difficult and stunning and rewarding, at all times pushing me to enhance. For the remainder of the Revelry, it’ll push me to both abuse gimmick builds or contort myself to counter them.
“We’ve learned a lot from the last 2 days of Revelry,” Comzo concluded. “The next time we make changes that affect the overall Sandbox for a limited time, we will ensure a much better experience for the Crucible.”
In the meantime, I suppose I’ll focus elsewhere. The Tower’s so fairly with the Revelry’s greenery I’d simply construct myself a festive outfit then sit by my spacegrandma Eva listening to her tales.
