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Destiny 2’s new event does not have the oomph this season needsGuardian Games are a disappointment
Guardian Games are a disappointment
Last night saw the start of the Guardian Games inDestiny 2, a new three-way competition between Hunters, Titans, and Warlocks to,in Bungie’s words, “test your skills in a series of daily class challenges” and ultimately “prove that your class reigns supreme”. In reality, the competition is just another set of bounties in a game already too focused on bounties. Guardian Games is a bust, and not at all what this disappointing season needs. However! Yesterday’s patch did at least fix some frustrating issues, including putting seasonal mod slots on some old armour and adding more Pinnacle rewards.
The Guardian Games will run until May 11, so that’s three weeks to decide who’s best. Unsurprisingly, Destiny’s squillion Hunters have taken a strong early lead. Eva Levente has decorated the Tower with a strong Olympics-y look, which is nice, and taking part can get you new prizes. Natty new Ghost shells come emblazoned with statues of the emblematic class animals, and a quest leads to a new exotic machinegun: a honking great Cabal minigun named the Heir Apparent.
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Last night I went to the Tower, admired the decorations, picked up a load of Guardian Games bounties, looked at my heaving quest log, sighed, then closed Destiny and played another game instead. I will return and get Heir Apparent but do not care about the ‘competition’.
A grind-off event is a real let-down in a season that’s already a bit whatever. Rasputin’sSeraphTowers and Bunkers lost their novelty before even the second Bunker opened, let alone the third. The Warmind Cells are a fun toy but take real investment to become marginally better at killing enemies who largely aren’t difficult anyway. Trials Of Osiris is a horror of a PvP mode where strong players abuse matchmaking to farm weaker players for weapon tokens. And the plot about stopping a miles-long spaceship from crashing into Earth feels so non-urgent that we’re pausing to celebrate the Spaceolympics. Now along comes a bounty-grinding event with no new activity and meagre rewards, yet plenty of new themed cosmetics in the ever-disappointing Eververse microtransaction store.
While I don’t expect every event to be as fun as the Solstice Of Heroes with itsparkour battles in the European Aerial Zone, Season Of The Worthy needed a big boost - and this is not it.
Still, yesterday’sUpdate 2.8.1brought some good stuff. A lot of the welcome changes are only fixing past mistakes but hell, I’m glad to see them anyway. Let’s see what we have…
Bungie have acknowledged thatDestiny 2’s current season model is bustedbut we still have another whole season to go after this before we should expect to see changes as a result of this realisation. I’ve just stopped playing as much rather than risk burnout, and that’s fine but it is a shame. Fingers crossed for some exciting plot twists later this season. So far its all slow build-up revealed in minor ways.
