Hi there. It’s God Rolls time. Busy week, and it’s only getting busier. You probably already heard this on one of the other five social platforms I announced it, but I’m having a kid! Hooray! I will teach them the ways of Destiny 2 from birth so they can be on my raid team by the time they’re five in time for Destiny 3. This is what fatherhood is right? Anyway…
What I’m Watching: Doing some random horror movies for Halloween. Really loved The Night House. Titane is going to haunt me for the rest of my life with its absurd body horror. Foundation is still good but slowing down. Invasion is not good but I’m still watching it.
What I’m Playing: Still mostly New World, despite being on the verge of giving it up every day. I think once I hit 60 I’m done. Also, this wasn’t this week, but I released my Guardians of the Galaxy review from when I played a while back with my review copy, and it’s surprisingly great.
First, it’s time to announce my Halloween contest winners, but instead of doing a full post here, it’s a thread on Twitter and YouTube video this time:
Okay, other stuff:
Destiny 2
‘Destiny 2’ Confirms November Is Its Month Off This Season - As I expected, Bungie has confirmed that there is quite literally noting happening in the entire month of November until the Anniversary event. Time for a break, or to catch up.
Telesto Breaks ‘Destiny 2’ Immediately After Being Patched For Breaking ‘Destiny 2’ - Telesto has been a badder boy than usual this week, breaking the game like three different times.
Something Is Wrong With Destiny 2’s Sunset Weapons - Destiny 2 has screwed up a bunch of its sunset weapons for some reason. They say they’re on it, but many are unusable for now.
‘Destiny 2’ Contingency Plan God Rolls, The Meta-Breaking Scout - A god roll article for God Rolls. CoolGuy made me want to go farm one of these. Even though you kind of…can’t farm them.
Other Games
Five Things I Wish I Knew When I Started ‘Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy’ - My advice post for starting this game after I’ve spent 20 hours beating it.
‘New World’ Has Been Losing 135,000 Players A Week Since Launch - New World’s playerbase is fleeing in droves after an initially successful launch.
‘Roblox’ Still Down After 60 Hours, It’s Reportedly Not A Hack - Roblox has been down for almost three days and no one knows why. A really big deal.
Gotham Knights’ Elias Toufexis On How Video Game Acting Got Him Through The Pandemic - I did an interview with Adam Jensen himself which was a lot of fun.
YouTube
Not about a specific game but I have a whole lot to say about Mark Zuckberg’s bullshit metaverse concept:
Exploring a fun theory about how Sagira may end up being Savathun’s ghost:
My quasi-video review of Guardians of the Galaxy:
Alright folks, why you’re all here, and a more special exclusive Evie photo than usual:
Can’t wait :)
God Rolls - Destiny Hiatus, Guardians Surprise, Roblox Disaster
Sorry for the 3 congrats, SubStack kept bugging it. Better overdo it than under do it on big news, I say. :P
Finally got to the end of Season of the Lost questline and got Ager's Sceptre.
Agers
Paul, you did not lie, it's so good for mob clearing. I find a lot of exotics really are, but this was a good one. Will it hold up to the Gjallarhorn? Time will tell when that bad boy is re-released during the 30th Anniversary.
Season of the Lost
I'm glad I got to catch up, but I'm also kind of weirded out that the story is clearly not over, but it's not dropping any time soon. Bungie confirmed nothing is happening in November. We have the Dawning and Bungie's 30th Anniversary coming up. I guess Season of the Lost will end after both of those.... my guess is the middle of February 2022 is when this story arch ends. It might even be like Season of Arrivals, where the last weekend had some event.
Not that the ending of Arrivals wasn't cool - especially the black screen with the ominous message: "Light alone cannot save you. Come seek us out on Europa". That was great. Too bad no one can experience that (again).
My objection to doing that kind of thing is that there is no guarantee that a player can experience it. I tried to log in during the Arrivals event and just couldn't because the server was understandably overloaded. At least someone put it on YouTube later. :)
A Note on "Slow Months"
I personally like slow months because with the new seasonal models and the weekly rollout of content/story beats, I like waiting for it all to come out before I tackle it. It's more efficient for progress. All the weekly challenges are open to you and all the quests.
It's Kind of like waiting for your favourite show to finish so you can stream every episode in one season over a single weekend. :)
Congratulations Paul, from across the pond in the UK. Gaming at 3am whilst feeding your baby with some formula will become a habit for a while. Best wishes to you all 🤘