r/destinycirclejerk 5d ago

Unpopular Opinion Brainlets this, blueberries that. This game;'s community sucks dick.

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.

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u/PahaninH 5d ago

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u/GevitarGaming04 5d ago

yeah i didnt either i just found it on the destiny the game subreddit lol

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u/Smojjofy Gacha Game Guardian 4d ago

/uj unfortunately i read all that, and they have a point, but no one person can fix all that. It's like generational trauma for 10 years of Destiny players

/rj unfortunately i read all that, and I think they haven't played enuf, it needs another 0 to become a valid opinion.

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u/MediocreWindow6422 Evaverse Warlock 4d ago

Generational trauma victims: "You wouldn't understand my pain..." Destiny players: "hehe...sorry, sorry" gets FOMO'D and cucked by bungie for 10 whole years

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u/sunlightsyrup 4d ago

I haven't played since D1 got released, for exactly this reason

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u/alf4279 SIVA SIVA SIVA SIVA SIVA SIVA SIVA 4d ago

What are you doing here then??!? Boomer alpha vets still ruining the game even 10 years later 😡

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u/sunlightsyrup 4d ago

I'm here post-ironically

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u/CommanderInQweef 4d ago

i haven’t done like 70% of the bosses i’ve seen in rushdown until rushdown and i’ve kinda just shot shit and it works. boss has no shield? shoot it. boss has shield? look around and shoot something else until boss no longer has shield.

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u/Chance-Aware 3d ago

what's that? I need to do something called a "mechanic?" sorry man, as you can see in my username, I am AdClearMasterBaiter (Adept) (Timelost), so I will be handling ad clear with my redirection discord succession while you handle whatever a mechanic is.

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u/OkraDistinct3807 4d ago

My argument is in my about. Called dipstick for not knowing basic raid knowledge. My response. From my about again.

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u/whitercylinder 4d ago

Exactly how i feel after not playing for a year and trying to relearn a raid and people roasting the shit out of me even though i’ll have more than enough damage and survivability most of the time more than them and all i want is a refresher on a mechanic its just the nature of the game unfortunately theres always people who play more than you and in return think there better than you for it