Killed Valus Ta'Ruc with all Shotties (and other thoughts) (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Monday, March 16, 2015, 13:36 (3794 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

It was fun and interesting. This was in a normal strike, so it was super easy mode anyway, but we put up a bubble near him with Blessing of Light, and then ran out of the bubble, shottied him til he did his knockback, which knocked us through the bubble, refreshing our armor, and repeated. We killed him surprisingly quickly, and it was really fun. It actually gave us a reason to kill the adds, too, since I needed to refresh my super.

My main problem is that the punishments for dying (especially in nightfall) are so harsh that it encourages players to play as safely as possible in order to stay alive and get loot, rather then being forgiving to the point that experimentation is rewarded.

All of the bosses have such terrible AI that the fights aren't really - in and of themselves - fun. They're all super predictable and 1-shot deadly. It's dumb (and why I quit WoW). I'd love to fight a boss that had great AI but wasn't as 1-shotty, so that when he surprised me I could stay alive by running or something. Another part of the problem is that the player has very limited verbs: Shoot, jump, move. I'd love to see better use of these, by giving us blocks to push to create or block sightlines, things to jump on that activated other things, or stuff to shoot that wasn't obviously "the boss" but that assisted in the fight somehow.

The thing about needing multiplayer custom games is that players enjoy putting limitations on their gear in order to experience the game in a different way. Raids and strikes need the same sort of custom options. Shotguns only, no shields, grenades explode for 5x damage... you want options to make them more fun or interesting.

Destiny, for the most part, isn't fun enough to want to play without there also being a reward at the end, so if custom games were a thing that offered no reward, I'm not sure how utilized they'd be. And if they did offer rewards, they'd be exploited.