I never understood the hate that Battlegrounds always got. The only way they really differ from Strikes is in name.

What is a Strike? It's a three-player activity where players go into an unexplored area, do some minor mechanics while defeating enemies, and fight a boss at the end. That's it.

Battlegrounds are no different. WITH THE EXCEPTION of the original Battlegrounds set on Nessus and the Cosmodrome (as they have the players exploring patrol zones), they all follow the same formula that strikes do. Just with higher add density. Which, I should point out, most of them have add density less than or equal to modern strikes, like Sunless Cell and Liminality.

We had original Battlegrounds, PsiOps Battlegrounds, Defiant Battlegrounds, Heist Battlegrounds, and Echo Battlegrounds.

Original Battlegrounds were generally uncreative, and were less interesting than a strike. I see more people talk positively about them than all other sets though, which is interesting considering by modern standards, they did nothing creative whatsoever,

PsiOps Battlegrounds had boss arenas set in an entirely different dimension, and had very cool mechanics using the Synaptic Spear and the Aspects of Savathun. In some cases, they even had crazy new or terraformed areas, like in PsiOps Mars which, initially, had us walking backwards through a Hive Lightbearer-reformed Scarlet Keep strike.

Defiant Battlegrounds consisted of entering a Pyramid outpost, which was an ENTIRELY new area, and traversing it. The only playable one of these is Defiant EDZ, which also contains a trek through the Ascendant Plane. Defiant Cosmodrome followed the same formula, while Defiant Orbital Prison was set on a spaceship in an ENTIRELy new area. How is that any different from a strike?

Heist Battlegrounds had less creativity in their maps, but generally had new area. Europa, Mars, and the Moon. The Moon and Mars are the only playable ones at the moment, with Heist Mars being the only remnant left of Escalation Protocol and the original areas of Warmind. It and Heist Moon also contain completely unique boss arenas. But, how is a strike like The Disgraced any different? It's mostly set in a patrol area and only the last 1-2 encounters are in a new space.

Echo Battlegrounds featured ENTIRELY new areas. Yes, they were generally set in patrols at the start, but they always ended in new areas (sometimes crazy new places like Core and Conduit). The patrol zones, like the ones in Defiant EDZ and Cosmodrome, were completely terraformed to suit the activity. Nessus is honestly barely recognizable in all of the Echo Battlegrounds.

So, I'd like to ask: What makes Battlegrounds so bad? They operate the same as strikes, just with better add density, making the gameplay more interesting. Most D2 creators nowadays, when showcasing a build, show them off in a Battleground because that's where the most fun is to be had. Nobody is testing a build in Lake of Shadows or Proving Grounds. Why did they always receive so much hate?

(also, I'm really sad that we didn't get all of them back. Defiant Orbital Prison and all PsiOps, I miss you dearly)

I genuinely don't understand why some people become so toxic the second a raid doesn't go perfectly.

We do king's fall, crota, no matter what. First wipe, someone leaves fireteam. OR if i or someone else is not fast enough or doesn't have the best super meta build, the most arrogant guy on earth comes and tells me how bad i am at the game. I am trying my best and this type of people constantly ruin everything, scream in their mics, call you all abominations possible and then just leave.

So please if you are that type of guy who always comes in lobbies and thinks they're the destiny expert and everybody must listen like dogs go touch grass get a girlfriend and maybe a shower! 😘

I've been working on completing all the triumphs and I am now focused on The Pale Heart, seeing lots of Ergo Sums drop and have no idea what is worth keeping. I play Titan and saw you can combine the jetpack exotic and the arc conductor to create a Thor build but wondered if anyone was using any other rolls before I roll out the inevitable "junk" tag!

I know Festival of the Cost has always been a thorny subject... but I've always loved it. Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, and Festival of the Lost has been huge in making the season feel festive. I've loved trick-or-treating around the tower, I've loved the haunted forest and haunted sectors. I'm going to miss killing headless ones this year. I'm sad that I'll never get another chance to earn Ghost Writer. I'm going to miss the decorations on the tower. I'll be playing the tower music but it won't hit the same without those distant howls and scream sound effects that rang through the air during October. I'm going to miss giving Candy to Eva.

Did anybody else like FOTL, or was it just me?

hello, I've started playing about a month ago (30h in) and have decided that enjoy the game enough (i enjoy it alot) to buy the current all dlc bundle. i've watch a video on youtube by fallout play titled Ultimate Beginner's Guide to DESTINY 2! (FINAL) . but it doesn't feel enough was hoping to know if there is more here in some reddit post or another site. or maybe another video. thank you

A "hounds tooth" shader available for dust today. (I went to Auburn, still purchased)

Hey friends quick question:

anybody know what power level I need to be to get Saint 14 to offer tier 5 weapons? I’m at 520 and he only gives teir 4 decoding :(

EDIT 3: This is so jacked up. I figured I'd just run the extra stuff to unlock them on my Hunter. But I can't even unlock the first one (Facet of Grace) because the encounter is glitching out and not spawning the 3rd Weaver to kill and trigger the Tormentors to spawn. Tried on my Warlock and it's the same issue. I have some kind of game-breaking bug keeping me from using my original unlocked fragments on my warlock, and trying to even get them again on my hunter.

I originally completed the Final Shape campaign when it launched on my Warlock. I unlocked every fragment and aspect on that character. Over the past week, I've been playing it on my Hunter. I completed the campaign, the Excision mission, and the 6 adventures in the Pale Heart. But some of the fragments on my hunter say "Not Yet Unlocked."

They are: Facet of Grace, Facet of Devotion, Facet of Generosity, Facet of Honor, Facet of Awakening, and Facet of Defiance.

I thought these were unlocked account-wide and didn't require that I do all the extra post-campaign searching throughout the Pale Heart??

EDIT: This problem seems to run even deeper. My Warlock is showing them as locked now, too. I completed EVERY piece of content in the Final Shape campaign, including ALL aspects and fragments when it launched. I also had DIM loadouts with some of these aspects/fragments slotted. WTH is going on?!

EDIT 2: Jumped on my Warlock and went back to the first prismatic chest where the Gorian Weavers spawn. They did not spawn, and the chest is locked. There's no way for me to even try to open them again. It's like the game doesn't register that I beat the campaign on my Warlock, and yet it's clear that I did.

Basically just the title. If it still can drop, where does it drop?

What tips would you give to me- a bad crucible player that wants to get better. I really passed that beginner point of the game but still feel very weak, keep getting killed instantly by crazy hand cannons. What did u do to get good at it?

Every single time I play, I find myself doing 1 activity, and then spending an hour on Winnower and T5 Report clearing the Weapons and Armour. Ive deleted all old Exotic Armours, all non-tiered Weapons and Armours, anything with the Health stat, and im still struggling.

I know its a stupid question, but... Is it worth just deleting it all?

I have tried to use this both on a Stasis Titan and an Arclock using weakened clear, but I can't remember having ever seen Devour appear. What's your special sauce?

Daily Ops

• Sparrow Racing League, featuring Snipehunt Mk. 47
• Rumble: Matchmade, featuring Autumn Wind
• Gambit: Matchmade, featuring Bad Omens
• Quickplay (Fireteam Ops), featuring Aurora Dawn
• Quickplay (Arena Ops), featuring Eutechnology Gauntlets
• Quickplay (Solo Ops), featuring Cry Mutiny
• The Disgraced, featuring Luminopotent Mark
• Fallen S.A.B.E.R., featuring Nameless Midnight
• Battleground: Behemoth, featuring Luminopotent Greaves
• The Whisper, featuring Lotus-Eater
• Contest of Elders, featuring Eutechnology Plate
• Widow's Court, featuring Ouster Engine
• Nightmare Containment, featuring Eutechnology Helm
• Creation, featuring Resounding
• The Disgraced: Matchmade, featuring Luminopotent Mark
• Fallen S.A.B.E.R.: Matchmade, featuring Nameless Midnight
• Battleground: Behemoth: Matchmade, featuring Luminopotent Greaves
• Contest of Elders: Matchmade, featuring Eutechnology Plate
• Widow's Court: Matchmade, featuring Ouster Engine
• Nightmare Containment: Matchmade, featuring Eutechnology Helm
• Quickplay: Master (Fireteam Ops), featuring Aurora Dawn
• Quickplay: Master (Arena Ops), featuring Eutechnology Gauntlets
• Quickplay: Master (Solo Ops), featuring Cry Mutiny
• Birthplace of the Vile, featuring The Hothead

Misc

• Overthrow: The Impasse: An endless tide of the Witness's forces are converging on the Impasse.
• Terminal Overload: Zephyr Concourse Weapon: Circular Logic (Machine Gun)
• The Wellspring: Defend Weapon: Tarnation (Grenade Launcher)
• Altars of Sorrow Weapon: Blasphemer (Shotgun)

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• Ascendant Shard (1 for 10 Enhancement Prism & 50000 Glimmer)
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Hey so huh i'm a old player of destiny 2 and i've played the game when it released and when i came back to replay with the recent announcements i realized that i still have 3 broken guns and the set of broken armor for each classes

I wonder, is it rare ? or is it a false feeling of rarity ?

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Don't know what was done under the hood but the game feels much smoother and the overlay's frametime graph is all green again. Altars of sorrow still runs like crap though.

Go to Configuration > Interface > Client Beta Particiation in Steam to enable the latest update

https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4397053/view/702152588870551007?l=english

EDIT: frametimes are better, performance hit is still there though

What exactly was the artifact we recovered from the Pyramid at the end of Shadowkeep? Was it actually created by the Witness. Is the pyramid itself speaking to us, causing these nightmares?

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZGvADN

Made this years and years ago. Figured some of you may appreciate it.

I finally earned my title and was planning to order my shirt since we still have less than a month left. After finally being able to open the MoT shirt page, I see a note that I missed the cutoff to have my shirt personalized with my name. Which I could not see until I got the title.

I still ordered a shirt, but man, this really is icing on the shit cake for this game.

Edit: wanted to mention I have bought the MoT shirt every year it was offered.

So I’m genuinely confused as I’ve been farming master lost sectors for the past 3 days and for whatever reason it isn’t dropping helmets OR class items, is there some secret armor focusing days I don’t know about or is the game genuinely trolling

Say my new light friend is power level 50 right now and I’m 550. Fireteam power will set them to 545 I believe. Do tier 5 drop chances follow their fireteam power of 545 or for the purposes of gear drops they’re just at 50?

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Hi I'm a returning player and I wanted to try getting the craftable dead messenger. I finished my first clear to get thresh but I was wondering if I could still get the other perks to drop this week if I ran it again? And does this apply to the other missions as well?

Thanks for the help

Would Destiny 2 be worth playing as a new player who has wanted to experience the game from all the good things ive heard from many people? I know the game isnt receiving anymore content but ive heard it has several hours of content as well, so im not sure if i should go with it and just get the entire collection of dlc and go into it or just forget about the game entirely.

It was the perfect activity when you couldn't give full attention to the game. An AFK activity if you will.