Osiris goes live on the 5th but bungie also announced a bunch of changes and new content coming in a free update on the 12th.

Fuck me so I need to buy that alrewady too.

Yeah. December/early January was when The Dark Below dropped. So the timing here sound about right.

Fired this up got to the Farm.

Anybody do the Curse of Osiris stuff yet? I hear the campaign is really quick.

Not even contemplating spending money until they fix PvP playlists.

New areas are pretty cool.

lol Bungie themselves admitted the new exotic tracer rifle is completely broken

Looks cool as fuck though. Want it.

Finished the campaign yesterday. Pretty good. Cool end boss. Also adds 3 adventures after that, as well Heroic versions of adventures.

Gonna Czech out the strikes tonight.

New exotic hunter arms kinda lame. Got Orpheus Rig combined with Nightstalker which is BEAST, but I don't really like the look of Rig, and I'm very much about style when it comes to Destiny

Mercury faction armor looks neat. Might try and get the set.

Damn, wish it was like the first one where you could just choose a specific strike. Random playlist kinda sucks.

Yeah that's a major issue for me in PvP. Strikes were always random tho.

Heroic strikes wereIn the first game, you could choose a strike on the mission map if you wanted to try it out.

You can preview the armor ornaments coming in the next faction rally and god damn, New Monarchy and Dead Orbits look really cool.

Future War Cult dull as ever. All their budget must have gone to that fancy room in the tower.

Sucks, as their stuff was so cool in the first game.

Yeah nobody did that, there was very little reason to do that. Aside from liking the set pieces that much.

Being able to choose individual Strikes at their rewarding Heroic difficulties would be the middle ground we need.

Ouch, looks like you're locked out of shit you used to be able to do and some weapons you used to be able to get unless you pay up for the DLC again? Fuck me, I was waiting to see if this bullshit would go on again.

Looks like it might be possible to refund the base game though:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheG...rchase_thanks/

That's actually how it's always kinda been. The new high end gear is often DLC and the an update tends to add new stuff to the endgame. You always had to spend money to keep up in power and activities.

This paid content thing is starting to hit hysteria levels. Not every DLC item is a cause worth rallying against, unless everybody actually wants to spend $90 on a game. I would, but most would not.

Yeah, it always has been, but locking people out of activities that were already doable (especially on PC which has only been out for a month and a half) should be unacceptable. They should make a compelling reason to buy the DLC rather than make people feel like they have to.

I wasn't mentioning new high level gear either. I was saying that certain previously obtainable gear is now not obtainable.

EDIT: Thought I had that part in my original post, but I didn't. Here it is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheG...ed_off_by_the/

So give people the shotgun, I guess.

Patrolling this time around is a bit confusing at first. But I'm starting to get it........again. Apparently I need to move heaven and earth to get a Sparrow.

Also wish there was a legend for those new symbols dotted around the map. I know one is for area loot chest. Don't know what the other is.

lol The vanilla game literally has less content if you don't buy the DLC.

It's like Activision saw everyone calling EA the worst publisher ever, and went "hold my beer"

Okay, started this up. Is there any active TPWW clans via Xbox?

Nah. You're gonna want to join a clan that has 40-50 members, so you can reap the benefits and get illuminous engrams every week, in addition to the level prks.

I've gotten a raid gun without even participating in the raid.

Alright. What is the best way to find a clan? Forums I am assuming.

https://www.bungie.net/en/ClanV2/MyClans

Could be wrong, but I think you can sign up to a clan right from that site.

0layed this for a few hours and am already level 11. Seems odd since the max level is 20 pre expac. Is this game super short?

The levels just regulate the gear you get. Lvl 20 is when the real game begins. From their you're basically trying to max out your light level, or at least getting to a place where you're good with your loadout for whatever you like to do in the end game, be it Trials or Raid or whatever.

Jesus Christ, Prometheus lens is crazy good.

Made it to Titan last night. Weird setting. Although this must be Bungie's vision of what it looks like on the surface.

There are areas deeper in that look pretty cool.

I made it their too last night. We are like twins!

I havnt fought any new enemies yet I don't think either. Feels odd. Figured there would be a whole new breed of enemies or a ton of new types for the current factions.

Every planet has lost sectors.

Fully aware.

Have you gotten to the Arcology?

Yep. Wrapped things up on Titan and jetted over to Nessus. Wrapped up the 2 missions there and on my way to Io.

Yeah don't expect that to last. Bungie is already on it's way to nerf it by...Tuesday I think. Whenever the next patch is anyways. I do love the fact that instead of just hording it, they gave it to Xur to sell to everyone.

Can't have an advantage if everyone's got your toy.

Beat story mode. Now, the real work/fun/grind begins.

Grabbed some Silver and bought a couple 5 packs on engrams. Got some sweet Sparrows and some other..........stuff.

Damn it. When I posted this, I thought they meant they were putting an in game codex into the game. Not the case. They say players can discover the lore in game, but it's no where near as encompassing as the grimoire.

As much as I hated how they were implemented, the cards themselves were great for lore nerds like me. I loved reading the little snippets on every boss enemy, and the little mini stories about various topics.

Gettin' lucky with the Bright Engrams.

Got an exotic ship and exotic ghost for in a couple yesterday. Ship got a lousy transmat effect, so gotta find a cooler one.

Almost ready to venture into the big bad world of Strikes.