Jason Schreier interviewed Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy (Destiny)

by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, 09:45 (2003 days ago) @ Korny

“Highest levels” is nebulous at best of a description. There is no meaning to it, so you would need to be more specific as to what you mean, because I can’t think of anyway to play Destiny where you are forced to Engage the game in any way you don’t choose to.

It’s been a problem since nearly day 1!

I liked raids and crucible. Can you play raids without first leveling up? No? Well gee then I have to level up and grind for powerful rewards even though I don’t want to.

You can now, which is something I liked.

I bought Forsaken this past week. I'm not even halfway done with the campaign, and I jumped up from 380 to 500+. As soon as I complete the campaign and hit 50, I'm going to be given a short 20-minute quest that will give me gear that will shoot me up to 690. This will be enough to do every bit of endgame content. Every single raid/raid lair, though I might not be able to beat the newest one. That said, casual play of only the stuff I wanted to do on PS4 (playing only a single character) already has me at 720+, which is enough to beat the entire raid, if I wished to do so.

Plus, Menagerie is fun, and the better you are, the harder it gets, so there's challenge if you seek it.

The problem with this is that Cody only wants to play crucible and disregard 80% of the rest of the game to level up to play the newest raid. To me this sounds ridiculous. However, you CAN use this strategy. You get powerful engrams for just playing crucible! And even prime engrams for playing the game. So it's totally possible, it's just going to take... let me do the math... 5 times longer because you aren't playing everything you paid for.