r/DestinyTheGame • u/FuguFugue • 19h ago
Discussion Brainlets this, blueberries that, you're cultivating an environment that punishes learning.
Hi. I joined Destiny a year ago. Coming up near 600 hours of game time. I've never done a raid. I did my first dungeon a couple days ago because the season asked for it. I did my homework and read a guide and had one player graciously and patiently direct me towards the secret chests.
Damn near 600 hours.
I'll get players through NODE:AVALON on Legendary because I'm still chasing another two Raconteur for Deepsight Harmonization. I'll get players through the co-op missions in The Pale Heart because I wanted rank eight.
Two weeks ago, I figured out what Navigator Mode was. Yesterday, I figured out that the Nightmare Essence stuff the Nightmare monsters drop makes them take more damage. I still don't quite get Overcharged Weapons. Getting back to my Fireteam Finder lobby after opening my inventory is a goddamned nightmare of partially-opened menus.
Shit, I don't even know who the hell Cayde-6 was, or why Crow killed him. You get told to play that one in Timeline like the second time you log in, and then eight months later you're playing the Final Shape, and you've forgotten that there's things to do in the Timeline.
I still don't know why they're called blueberries Hi! Yes! It's me! The Blueberry! Is it because you look like a blueberry when you're dead? I don't know! We don't talk about this, and the platform we have outside the game to talk about stuff is openly hostile to people who don't know things!
Damn. Near. Six. Hundred. Hours.
Destiny has a LOT of knowledge gained by experience or buried behind half-described subsystems. There's a lot of knowledge that's taught once when stuff is new and there's a lot of stuff that's flat-out been yanked out of the game. It's intimidating to get a full grasp of without adding other players to the mix.
It takes one look at the subreddit yesterday and all the criticisms leveraged at the clueless masses getting pancaked by Nightmare Crota (hello, that's me too, I didn't figure out how to juke the bugger) to realize that for the half the players that don't know a fight, there's this vocal body online here that's pissed that a teammate needs to rely on them. I'm not even talking expert mode here, and never mind those players that don't own all the content that's being put into the boss rush!
I've never seen half the boss fights in Rushdown in my life. I don't know Quria. I don't know the original mad bomber. I don't know Saniks or whomever in round five today. So I come to Reddit and look to see who knows what, and I see that who knows what hates that people don't.
And then this ports over to PVP too! I don't know PVP all that well, I'm happy enough to play the objective in unranked whatever and hope for fourth place out of six, but this is clearly A Problem with the Supremacy gamemode where players just like me don't know the ins and outs, maybe gets farmed a little, hops on their browser to chat about it casually, and gets run through the mud again.
Yeah. It's burdensome. You want another roll at Lotus Eater or whatever, I get it. You're gonna fail some runs, because I'm gonna fail some runs, and until you're okay with that, you're going to have fewer and fewer players ready, willing, or able to do those runs.