Today there are new details about the DLC “Curse of Osiris” in a livestream on Twitch for Destiny 2. We will provide live updates at Mein MMO.

The second of three planned livestreams for the DLC “Curse of Osiris” is coming up. The release date for the DLC is December 5th. This is Expansion I, which will release simultaneously for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

Today’s livestream will focus on “New Ways to Play,” and new activities are expected. Maybe we’ll get information about the heroic strike playlist, the new area Infinite Forest, and new PvP maps.

You can watch the original Destiny 2 stream on Twitch here. It starts around 8:00 PM our time:

We will accompany the livestream with a ticker in German here at Mein MMO.

19:50: Welcome to the Mein MMO live ticker. Destiny is in a similar situation to 1. FC Köln. Financially, everything looks great, but the current season is not going well. The results are missing, even though it’s often close and we’re very near. One of the key managers has already disappeared into the bushes and is untraceable. The darkest hour has arrived, hope lies with the B team. But at least: It comes as it comes, and it has always turned out well!

19:56: Today in the stream, we are going into the Infinite Forest. This is a new area in Destiny 2 that is supposed to have slight variations each time. It is made up of various components. It is the place where the future, present, and past converge and overlap. The future is a terrifying place where everything is Vex.

20:01: Some people might mock this: The soundcheck from DeeJ contains just as much information as in a “This week at Bungie”; but … that would be mean.

The livestream starts

20:07: DeeJ with a beanie. Dave Matthews is the Art Director, he was already here last week. He is responsible for the artistic appearance, coordinating essentially how the look of Destiny 2 appears. Dan Miller in a t-shirt is the Game Director of the DLC, essentially the top boss, the director of the game.

20:09: Uh, DeeJ said endgame. Something completely new! Something with weapons in the endgame? A new system. Hopefully, there will be more and it’s not just the forge system that we introduced last week.

Public Event Vex Crossroads – the biggest and best event in Destiny, they say

20:11: The “biggest, most elaborate and rewarding public event in Destiny history” – looks a bit like “Vex attack Stargate.” It looks quite dynamic: You travel from place to place on these little islands. If you’re standing around shooting Vex, that could be pretty nice.

20:15: It must be frustrating for Bungie that they put so much effort into crafting new content here, while most people probably want to hear how they will overhaul the systems: The public event is supposed to have several heroic modifiers in any case. How they work exactly, we should learn soon from YouTubers and journalists. Apparently, a whole bunch already visited Bungie – they can only publish their content directly after the respective streams.

20:18: The “most rewarding” public event means: There are two chests at the end from which tokens come out. One must be a bit immune to irony there. Oh, now a new endgame reward system. 

Endgame activity: The Forge

20:21: Here is the Forge – an endgame activity. We have already reported on this. Additionally, there is a new secret in the Lighthouse that one must collect. Brother Vance as the central quest giver. This starts a series of adventures that will explore Mercury. These adventures have heroic modifiers and are for stronger players.

20:24: The idea is that one gets an item, a “Verse.” To decipher it and obtain a specific weapon, one must embark on a kind of quest. However, the quest can be completed relatively freely. For example, you need to complete public events or strikes. Then you can solve a verse. It is submitted to Brother Vance, and in return, you receive a “Prophecy Weapon” – with which you’ll head to the Forge.

20:29: It then becomes quite a drama until one obtains the weapon. This should also be visible to everyone else. There are 11 legendary weapons in the Osiris look.

2 new Strikes in Osiris – they will first be played as missions

20:31: Strikes are supposed to become part of the story. Two new strikes will come with Curse of Osiris. But they will be first played in a story, and they should also be doable solo – once you have completed the campaign, these missions will then become strikes that you play in a team of three.

20:33: Hm, now DeeJ has said “endgame” three times, but there wasn’t really much about the system changes players are waiting for. This Forge is essentially a limited activity after the campaign ends, but nothing that one will do permanently.

The Infinite Forest

20:37: The Infinite Forest is intelligently assembled from prepared pieces. This is supposed to provide variety. All four alien races are here, allowing new combinations: This specific race combination has never fought against each other outside of the Infinite Forest.

20:40: There are different simulations of reality. In the “Dark Future,” Vex have won, there is neither light nor darkness, only the Vex. And apparently, the Fallen are also visiting there.

20:42: The individual adventures in the Infinite Forest are supposed to highlight different gameplay mechanics. The shown “Dark Future” version probably has jumping puzzles. DeeJ gets a simulated attack of acrophobia.

20:44: With all due love – every time a chest opens and a token and a blue item comes out, you can hear how a community facepalms.

20:45: DeeJ is completely right. The DLC now in Destiny 2 is really larger than the DLCs in year 1. However, Destiny 2 also has much larger system issues than Destiny 1 at the same time. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything about that this time either.

20:46: Next week weapon balance with Jon Weisnewski and new armor and a fashion show.

20:47: That was the livestream today. Next week on Wednesday we will be back with the final livestream and a live ticker. In the meantime, here on Mein MMO, you will find all the essentials for Destiny 2.

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The online shooter Destiny 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox One) has a clearly identifiable huge problem in the endgame, but can Bungie solve this with the DLC Curse of Osiris in December?

Veterans of Destiny 1 have seen the central problem of Destiny 2 coming early: Due to the removal of random rolls on weapons you only need to obtain each item in Destiny 2 once. Because it only exists in exactly one version, the perks are fixed.

The central criticism of Destiny 2 is thus: The endgame is missing.

Bungie wanted to transform Destiny 2 into a “collecting game” but significantly reduced the collecting aspect.

160 weapons instead of 1800 variants – Destiny 2 cuts back as a collecting game

On reddit, a player calculated:

• Vanilla Destiny 2 has 160 legendary weapons with fixed perks.
• Vanilla Destiny 1 only had 60, but due to the random rolls, there were 1800 variants.

The removal of random rolls eliminates the collecting aspect of Destiny 2. Hardcore players quickly fill their inventory with all items and have no reason to continue playing. In Destiny 1, you could always exchange specific weapons for better versions of the same weapon. The inventory took ages to fill. Players had goals.

In Destiny 1, there was no real reason to collect optimal items. There was nothing in Destiny that required a “perfect weapon collection.” Players simply wanted it and played the same content for hundreds of hours. That was okay because the gunplay was so fantastic.

These contents are also available in Destiny 2, the gunplay is still fantastic, only the reason to replay the content is missing.

The silence of the developers

At Bungie, it has been known for a while that there would be problems here. They promised to develop “exciting ideas” to make duplicate items more interesting. However, these ideas have apparently never made their way into the game.

A discussion about this has been lacking from Bungie.

Instead, player dissatisfaction grew louder, and finally, at the end of October, the announcement came: “To find new systems and rewards to give the most engaged players something to do.”

But since then, Bungie has remained silent on that topic.

Curse of Osiris too long in development

On December 5th, the first DLC for Destiny 2, Curse of Osiris, is set to be released. The English-speaking site PC Gamer had the opportunity to play this DLC, but due to a complicated confidentiality agreement, they are not free to report fully on it.

However, they warn fans not to expect the DLC to fix the endgame of Destiny 2 on its own. According to PC Gamer, this DLC has been in development for a long time and one cannot expect that player feedback on Destiny 2 will be fully addressed.

However, there is hope. PC Gamer speaks of an “update” that the live team of Destiny 2 is working on. This should include “some of the balance changes” that Bungie has hinted at.

This is the “Season” update, which is also supposed to bring numerous new items and restock the cash shop.

Interestingly, the savior of Destiny 2 seems to be Chris Barrett, the Game Director of House of Wolves and Rise of Iron. We thought until now that he could also be the Game Director of “Curse of Osiris”. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case. In the last stream, Dan Miller was revealed as the Game Director.

He has also been with Bungie for a long time, having been a mission designer for Halo 10 years ago, and is now apparently stepping into a leadership role for the first time.

Barrett has a different position.

This could mean at best that Chris Barrett has moved to the live team and is working to fix Destiny 2. We prefer not to think about the worst-case scenario. That would anticipate a solution only later in 2018.

Curse of Osiris will not solve the endgame problem. However, there is a small chance that the accompanying free patch will address some of the issues.

When can we expect new information about the endgame?

It is crucial for Bungie to finally lay out solutions and a timeline. Tonight’s stream should not be expected to bring much news. Hopes rest on the stream about the gear next week or a straightforward announcement for the free update on a Thursday evening in “This week at Bungie.”

We at Mein MMO keep you updated. We will accompany tonight’s stream about “new ways to play” with a live ticker starting at 8 PM.

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In Destiny 2, the Calus Challenge is live! Here you will find the solution on how to complete the raid challenge in the Throne Room.

The last challenge in the Leviathan raid is now known! On 21.11, the challenge against the final boss Calus went live, which you can now defeat in a special way.

The raid challenge is available in both normal mode and prestige mode.

Solution for the raid challenge in the Throne Room

One condition must be met for the challenge:

• In each damage phase, you must activate all four platforms simultaneously while dealing damage to Calus.

This means that each platform must be occupied while you shoot at Calus. If you are only on one platform or activate the other platforms too late, the challenge will fail. This will be indicated with the message “Challenge failed” at the bottom left corner of the screen:

How do I best approach this challenge?

Play the encounter as you did before. Three Guardians stay in the dimension, three players return to the throne room (you can also play 4 in the dimension, 2 in the throne room). The players in the dimension shoot at the skulls, increase the buff, and also return to the throne room.

Normally, all 6 Guardians would now stand on one platform together, deal damage to Calus, and then jump from one platform to the next together. This time, do not proceed that way.

Instead:

• Decide in advance who will jump to which platform.
• Tip: 2 Guardians take the platform front right (Sun), 2 Guardians take front left (Cup), and one Guardian each stands on Dog and Axe. This ensures each platform is occupied, and since the front platforms are closer to Calus, you can avoid any damage drop-offs here. Now hit Calus with everything you have.
• As all platforms have been activated after this phase, you must wait until the next damage phase to deal damage to Calus again.
• So repeat the entire process until Calus is down. This should definitely be possible within three damage phases. However, there are also several reports from Guardians who managed to defeat Calus in two phases this way.

Nexxoss Gaming shows you the challenge in the video in German:

As a reward, there are tokens, a guaranteed raid item, and this exclusive emblem called “Usurper”:

Good luck with the challenge!

Interesting: Destiny 2: Prestige Raid – These are the changes – with solutions

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The event Fanfare Call in Destiny 2 was supposed to significantly increase experience gains. However, players are reporting incorrect displayed EXP and cooldowns. Was the event broken?

Bungie wants to keep players engaged in Destiny 2 with regular events, ensuring they stay interested or at least return to the game more frequently. In recent days, an event in Destiny 2 that doubled experience gains was running, as long as you were playing with at least one clanmate.

This is useful in two ways:

• You can bring another Guardian to the maximum level of 20 faster with a clanmate, or
• You can more easily obtain Bright Engrams, which contain various cosmetic items.

Bungie plans to hold the event in the future, but under different conditions. Next time, clan membership will no longer be necessary.

Guardians are now reporting consistently that the amount of experience points gained does not match the display in the game. Is the entire event ineffective?

The problem with experience points in Destiny 2

We recently reported, that there are generally problems with the display and the actual amount of experience points gained in the game. Many Guardians have now written on Reddit that these issues can be transferred to the Fanfare Call event.

Players specifically criticize:

• Displayed experience gains do not match external sources like the Destiny Item Manager or Destinytracker (it’s significantly lower than what the game suggests)
• There seems to be a cooldown on EXP gains. Those farming public events or other activities for an extended period receive progressively fewer experience points, though this is not visualized in the game

The second aspect also applies to chests and planetary resources. If you collect too many in a short time, you eventually run out. It seems Bungie has applied this system to EXP as well.

A player has published a screenshot on Reddit showing the effect of 15,000 EXP on the progress bar. Buffs like the Fireteam Medallion, “Well Rested,” and the Fanfare Call were active:

As you can see, there’s almost no gain on the progress bar. Although 15,000 EXP is displayed, the bar hardly fills up.

Comparisons with EA’s Star Wars Battlefront 2 Lootbox Disaster are becoming louder

Why are experience gains displayed incorrectly in the game? Why are the bonuses of the Fanfare Call event seemingly marginal? Some Guardians suspect malice on the part of Bungie / Activision.

They accuse the responsible parties of wanting to force players to invest real money in Bright Engrams due to the low experience gains. Therefore, the Fanfare Call event was completely pointless if the XP gains have cooldowns.

Comparisons with the loot box disaster surrounding EA and Star Wars Battlefront 2 are becoming louder. The Bright Engram system is seen as a similar money grab.

EA made the principle of “loot boxes” a core element in Star Wars Battlefront 2 and after loud protests at least temporarily rolled back – disabling in-game purchases via real money.

Even though Bright Engrams primarily contain cosmetic items, players feel cheated. It’s not so much about the aspect that experience gains are subjected to an invisible cooldown, but that the game presents alternative facts that do not hold up to reality.

Even though this issue has been known for a few weeks now, Bungie has yet to comment on this problem, which further frustrates the player base. It remains to be seen whether the increasing discussions will change Bungie’s communication policy.

Have you noticed any irregularities in experience gains in the past few days as well?

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