In Destiny 2, the director Luke Smith wrote 4000 words about the state of Destiny 2. Three highlights from it are currently receiving a lot of attention.
Here’s what it’s about: A few hours ago, game director Luke Smith published a “Director’s Cut” about the current status of Destiny 2. In over 4000 words, he provides insights into what went well around Destiny 2 in recent months, what did not go well, and what has been happening behind the scenes.
This is the first part, with more “Director’s Cut” editions coming out in the next few days.
Basically, one could address almost every paragraph and create several articles from Smith’s massive text wall. Today, we will also pick out and categorize a few topics individually. However, we will summarize the 3 highlights below that are currently being celebrated in the community.
Bungie brings order to your Guardian life
This is the highlight: This autumn, likely with the Shadowkeep release, the quest log will be overhauled. This is the overview where your missions and bounties are displayed.
In the future, bounties will be displayed separately from quests:
This is intended to create more clarity. Additionally, they want to improve “tracking” so you can prioritize which task you want to tackle next.
For PC players, there’s another new feature: This autumn, you can assign a key that takes you directly to the quests menu.
This is what Smith says about it: Earlier this year, the quests menu was moved from the inventory overview to the navigator menu. Smith admits that this change not only made it difficult for the Guardians to adapt for a long time, but it also did not feel like an improvement over the previous system.
“It felt like we started renovating a house without finishing the work,” Smith said.
The community’s reactions to the new quest log were terrible, which burdened the Bungie team. “Not only because of the sometimes harsh feedback but also because this team wanted to create something great, surpass your expectations, and meet their own expectations. None of that happened.”
The new quest overview is expected to be better received now – and so far, it is. On reddit, it is among the top topics in the comments. The comment “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” received over 1000 upvotes.
Bungie has a raid cheese team
This is the highlight: Luke Smith revealed that Bungie has a secret, internal team named “Velveeta.”
This team was established after the Crota raid debacle. In the Crota raid of Destiny 1, many ways were found to beat the raid in significantly easier ways than intended, such as causing connection drops.
Since then, Velveeta has been tasked with seeking out the most impossible “cheeses” in the hardest PvE activities. This is to eliminate these issues before the community discovers them.
Velveeta is said to consist of the smartest and best players. They are also brought in to test whether an activity is too difficult – or not difficult enough.
Here’s how the community reacts: “What I take away [from the Director’s Cut] is that Bungie has its own cheese team called Velveeta. I love that.” This is one of the top comments with around 2000 upvotes.
In the meantime, a new thread with 3.4k upvotes has sprung up, demanding that the Velveeta team should create future ViDocs. Because the community wants to see how these players spot the cheeses and what funny tricks, bugs, and glitches they find.
By the way, community manager dmg04 also commented on this. He says that his first mission in the Velveeta team was: “Try to destroy King’s Fall.” That was the Oryx raid in Destiny 1. dmg04 summarizes that those were wild times.
Scout rifles will become stronger
This is the highlight: In a side note, Smith mentions that with Shadowkeep, there will be some changes, such as buffs to scout rifles.
This is also a highlight that is celebrated in the community. In Destiny 1, scout rifles were the favorite weapons of many guardians; in Destiny 2, they only play a minor role. They were once completely useless and not usable, but even after previous buffs, they are not the first choice for guardians.
That is why so many players are celebrating right now, as they hope to finally be able to wield strong scout rifles again.
If you want to fight through the 4000 words of the Director’s Cut, you can find the link here. It is recommended to read the English version, as there are errors in the German one. For instance, scout rifles were translated as “sniper rifles” – which is inaccurate.
Additionally, you can expect one or another article on MeinMMO today, in which we will pick out more exciting information.
