As we roll into the last week prior to the release of Forsaken, the information being revealed is increasing both in frequency and importance. I was out of town for this TWAB, but it’s worth it to catch up and let you know what it was all about.
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If you were looking for a Season Four info dump, this week’s update from Bungie has you covered. As always, you can find their original post here, and I’ll do my best to re-summarize the information for you and provide some commentary.
It’s a lot. Let’s get started.
Continue reading “Talkin’ TWAB: Weapon Changes, Economy Updates, Eververse…”There’s not a ton to boil down for you out of this week’s This Week at Bungie, but what’s there may be significant for you. You can find Bungie’s original post here.
What we do have is a lot of statistics, and some data regarding Year One weapons as we roll into Year Two in four weeks. Solstice of Heroes is well underway at this point, and I hope this week’s update finds your armor grinding underway (or not, if you’ve chosen not to pursue it).
An updated Development Roadmap, incoming changes to power progression, sandbox changes, a new Crucible Labs test, and a bonus info drop from Game Informer—this week was pretty loaded with information.
The posts referenced in this update are:
- This Week at Bungie: 26 July 2018
- Destiny 2 Development Roadmap Update: 25 July 2018
- Game Informer: “How Milestones And Mods Are Changing In Destiny 2: Forsaken” by Suriel Vazquez
Here’s what you need to know:
Continue reading “Talkin’ TWAB: 26 July 2018”So, uh, well… Bungie didn’t give me a lot to write about this week. Most of what they had to say wasn’t about anything game-related. The real post they made this week is the one on Solstice of Heroes.
You can find the TWAB here, I guess? To break it down, here’s the important stuff you should know.
Continue reading “Talkin’ TWAB: Infusions, I Guess?”This is something I’ve been thinking about doing for some time now: more discussion regarding what I like and what I don’t like in games. I think it’s only natural to start with Destiny 2, which is a game I have played (and continue to play) in rather obscene quantities with my son and other groups we’ve found out there.
In talking about games, I’m going to try very hard to follow the advice on game design feedback that I have digested from this Twitter thread, which is worth your attention:
Here, have a short thread on giving useful feedback to game developers, because I run into too many people who might mean well but give completely unusable and kinda entitled feedback, whether that's a conscious thing or not.
— Jennifer Scheurle (@Gaohmee) July 4, 2018
Let's go:
I also thought it’d be a decent idea to start with talking through Bungie’s weekly updates and patch notes for Destiny 2, which are something on which pretty much everyone has an opinion, and affect a fairly large number of people who play a game over many hours. (My son and I have around 600 hours each in Destiny 2 to date.)
This week’s This Week at Bungie (or “TWAB”) can be found here, but read on for some snippets and commentary on the announcements therein. It should be noted that I’m only going to touch on game-specific announcements and not the links to external coverage or GuardianCon stuff.
Continue reading “Talkin’ TWAB: Bounties and Prismatic What Now?”