God Rolls - Splicer Lessons, Loki Finale, Cyberpunk Surprise
Osiris watch is over, for now
Welcome to another week of God Rolls, in which I am not playing as many games as normal, but gearing up for a big week with the launch of Genshin Impact’s new region. But as ever, more Outriders patches, Destiny news, and wait Netflix wants to get into gaming now?
What I’m Playing: I have mostly been farming Outriders to perfect my sets on all classes. I am more or less done with Solstice and I used up all my transmog grind materials but am still 15 short of the “free” season total which is annoying.
What I’m Watching: Started watching The White Lotus on HBO. The Fear Street trilogy on Netflix ended up being really good. I did all of Never Have I Ever season 2 in one sitting. The Loki finale lived up to both predictions and expectations.
Now, for the recap!
Destiny
10 Lessons Bungie Should Learn From Destiny 2’s Season Of The Splicer - This is what I think the takeaways should be from this season.
What Will ‘Destiny 2’ Vault Next? Only One Answer Makes Sense - Here’s what I think is going away when The Witch Queen hits.
Destiny 2’s Solstice Package Drop Rates Reveals Some Issues - Here are the drop rates you’re looking for. They ain’t great.
Destiny 2’s Transmog System Results: Bad For Solo Characters, Bad For Multiples - Sorry but no matter how you play, Destiny’s transmog is a bad grind.
Other Games
‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Is Topping PS4 Downloads Charts, With No Help From Sony - Cyberpunk was the most downloaded game on PS4 last month. How?
‘Marvel’s Avengers’ Black Panther Expansion Boosted By Kratos And Evan Narcisse - Just saying the Avengers Black Panther expansion is starting to seem pretty sick.
I Don’t Buy This ‘Ghost Of Tsushima: Iki Island Is 20+ Hours Long’ QA Leak - There’s a supposed leak about the Tsushima expansion but it doesn’t add up to me. Here’s why.
Everything We Know About Genshin Impact’s 9 New Inazuma Heroes - Genshin has previewed not just the three in the new patch but nine total Inazuma heroes coming to the game soon.
YouTube
My thoughts on Solstice of Heroes and why it really needs to change at this point:
Here’s how Bungie is changing the vendors next season:
I hit 50K on YouTube! Celebrate with an Evie special:
My take on Netflix trying to get into the video game realm:
And finally, guess who is turning three…today! That’s right:
Happy Birthday to my co-pilot.
Season of the Splicer was one of my favorite seasons. I know (so far) there was no Harbinger or Presage mission, but I really liked the Expunge and Override missions. I actually liked Expunge enough to do the speed runs of each one. I really like the story of Osiris being weird and Quria infecting the Vex network and the Fallen in the Tower.
The weapons were pretty good - but then again I'm easy to please if it's a machine gun and auto rifle. Love that the Moon and Dreaming City weapons came back - hello, Arc Logic, it's been a while.
Not finishing transmog because I actually think it's impossible unless you play full-time. I'm at level 179 - yes, I play that much - and here’s where my three characters stand right now:
Warlock - 4/10 Bounties
Titan – 2/10 Bounties
Hunter – 3/10 Bounties
Transmog suggestions - remove the 750 cap for synthstrand because that's illogical. I get that we're encouraged to spend it, but there's not cap on legendary shards or bright dust, so this cap is confusing. Also Synthstrand needs to drop faster. One piece ever two minutes is arbitrary anyway and frankly it's a sure-fire way to make sure no casual player could ever accomplish a full set of gear (not counting the 11 freebies we got per character).
Looking forward to:
- Vanguard, Crucible and Gambit reputation reworks - especially Gambit because finishing the Legend milestone is almost 100% luck-based.
-The Epilogue on August 10.
- Season 15 reveal.