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Destiny 2 Review Now Censorshipped
4 Oct, 2019 @ 4:18am - Coe✔️[Quality Control]
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Coeco/recommended/1085660
ALL links which were composed of imgur screenshots from the game, a youtube link and the pastebin extension of the review has been removed with no notification or reason given to me whatsoever from Steam & Valve.
Here's the entire review with all the links for y'all to try and tell me what's breaking the rules:
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A profound disappointment and a technological trainwreck describes Destiny 2 pretty well. Activision funding, Bungie developers, over two years since release and this is STILL a multi-layered mess of a sh*t sandwich. I've now played this game on 4 different occassions with 3 different rigs and it is nothing but an astonishment on just how brutally mismanaged this game is along with how little love has actually been put into polishing this title.
Want to know the how's and why's? Read on.
1. Pay To Win
Much to my surprise after the initial wave of controversies in 2017 and them now subsequently going F2P as a "fresh start" opportunity, Bungie has decided to only partially restructure how they are giving out very tangible, hard advantages to people who spend money into the game. This time around, it is now present in the Season Pass where right from the get-go at level one, you'll be getting an exotic weapon, armor and more: https://i.imgur.com/g5WX7SE.png
And beyond that, it is a consistent, generous shower of legendary engrams, upgrade components, stacks of currency, legendary armor pieces and even exotic engrams: https://i.imgur.com/kHgjVbz.png - While this is an improvement of what was before, there is still a distinct p2w element even if some of it is locked behind playing the game.. And now i am not mentioning the PAY-WALLED DLC ABILITIES: https://i.imgur.com/ErHHPei.png
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2. Demolished Redesign
Following the re-release here on Steam, Bungie threw a bunch of stuff into the dumpster with nothing to replace this and nowhere is this more obvious than the beginning of the game. You're squeezed through a stupidly short tutorial and then you're given a swift kick to the rear out into the open world, being given the "power level" of 750. Having forgotten most of what i previously experienced, me as a REOCCURING player had the following questions pop up into my head "What the f*ck am i doing? What am i supposed to be doing? What's the story again? Who are these guys i'm shooting? Where the hell am i?" and the list goes on.
Turns out they completely ripped out the entire starting campaign instead of adding a "skip" button and hid it behind a singular, seemingly random NPC that you have to go talk to if you want some actual backstory or context to your situation.. And there is no incentive for you to do this actual campaign besides information as they didn't bother adding any sort of reward to completing it. What the actual f*ck have you been smoking, Bungie? NEW STOREFRONT. NEW PLAYERS. RETURNING PLAYERS WITH NO MEMORY.
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3. Bungie's Modus Operandi
Remember when Bungie went out of their way to implement a system where your progression would be strangled to a complete halt in the most deceptive way possible by showing you false numbers and other shady shìt? Yeah, that happened and was a thing for a very long time before users started getting wise by looking at things under a microscope and subsequently calling them out on it once it was discovered.. Which they only then removed to avoid backlash.
This kind of backwaters snake-oil bullsh*t is something i have absolutely ZERO tolerance for. It is blatant fraud which they spent time, money and effort to put into the game instead of doing any of the plethora other possible options to slow player progression - if they so wished for it. "BUT IT'S REMOVED NOW!!!" I hear you saying. Maybe so, but what OTHER things are they doing? What has it been replaced with? Which similar things are they planning? We'll never know because they have now openly been exposed to be a set of developers (and now publishers) with zero transparency or even goodwill towards their user base.
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4. Technical Trainwreck
This is the big one that i'm gonna have to break up into sub-categories. Destiny 2 is a game in severe need of system reworks all the way from the ground up and unfortunately, it's never going to get this much needed love as they already have a lifespan plan for the game while also working in-house on another project.
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A) Servers & Networking: Despite having done very extensive testing on their servers during their time on battlenet, the launch of the game (12h~ lockdown + emergency maintenance) and subsequent days afterwards (now) have some serious stability problems which to my knowledge after some testing of my own is currently the cause of a lot of people's crashes while also greatly increasing certain loading times.
B) Client Performance: It's garbage almost across the entire board. The game runs poorly de-facto with there being little to no evidence that there's been actual optimization efforts at all outside the tutorial. Lowering the options have absolutely minimal impacts with some settings being locked to medium or higher. MANY people with extremely high-end PC's are struggling to run the game at all. Stable 4K is currently considered impossible by most enthusiasts.
Consistency is non-existent - Me and other people can have stable 120+ FPS in some zones & maps just to chug down to below 30 in others, even if it's the same level of combat intensity. Loading times are at a state borderlining equal to GTA V's release. The game is at a bloated 82'ish GB size with consoles reporting a 60+ GB increase for shadowkeep alone. The game faces HEAVY mouse-lag problems if the polling rate exceeds 500 (ton of gaming mice, if not most, have a standard of 1000). Inputs suffer from significant ghosting which becomes particularly crippling if you use things like burst rifles and the list just goes on.
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5. Design Idiocy
This will be perhaps the more opinionated section of this review but i'm gonna provide examples and hopefully you'll see what i mean.
A) Enemy Scaling: Ever thought it was a bit weird how enemies never seem to get any weaker as you get stronger through better gear? That's because they get stronger if you do.. Which means that the entire RPG element of this game is completely fake & fabricated. You're doing repetitive tasks like a monkey to push your arbritrary number up and get rewarded by random gear pieces and a new map unlocking every now and then if you've been real good, depending on how much XP you have accumulated. If you take a second to look at this system from afar, it is the most pointless, deceptive, patethic waste of time and effort on the planet.
B) Difficulty: Destiny 2 isn't difficult. At all. This has a number of factors as to why this is, but the most prominent one is that it's a console port. PC Players besides their superior looks, genes, muscles and sexual prowess also have a benefit of using a vastly superior control scheme (especially for a shooter) which leads to an already easy casual game becoming a complete snore-fest.
This is all due to the AI being grossly simple and incompetent. Going into this game several times with ignorance, I was never at any point remotely surprised by anything any enemy did. Ever. On-top of this, you also have the funny situation where there is still aimbot in the game on things like melee attacks - which you can spam, reducing the already tiny punishments of failure like not managing your ammo. Death has no consequence either as you can spawn in as little as 3 seconds afterwards.. But they ALSO added a patch buffing next to all PvE weapon damages across the board sometimes as much as 50% in the 2.5.2.3 update. Comparing Destiny 2's difficulty to most other games makes it a joke.
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6. Story
It's complete irredeemable trash. Just watch this basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqyco2NYBOs
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These are the more prominent things i could fit into this review with Steam's text limits. If you want to read up even more examples and the continuation on this review as to why this game sucks with a personal "pet peeves" list of mine, you can do so here:
https://pastebin.com/bxxvpy0H
ALL links which were composed of imgur screenshots from the game, a youtube link and the pastebin extension of the review has been removed with no notification or reason given to me whatsoever from Steam & Valve.
Here's the entire review with all the links for y'all to try and tell me what's breaking the rules:
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
A profound disappointment and a technological trainwreck describes Destiny 2 pretty well. Activision funding, Bungie developers, over two years since release and this is STILL a multi-layered mess of a sh*t sandwich. I've now played this game on 4 different occassions with 3 different rigs and it is nothing but an astonishment on just how brutally mismanaged this game is along with how little love has actually been put into polishing this title.
Want to know the how's and why's? Read on.
Sins of Destiny 2
1. Pay To Win
Much to my surprise after the initial wave of controversies in 2017 and them now subsequently going F2P as a "fresh start" opportunity, Bungie has decided to only partially restructure how they are giving out very tangible, hard advantages to people who spend money into the game. This time around, it is now present in the Season Pass where right from the get-go at level one, you'll be getting an exotic weapon, armor and more: https://i.imgur.com/g5WX7SE.png
And beyond that, it is a consistent, generous shower of legendary engrams, upgrade components, stacks of currency, legendary armor pieces and even exotic engrams: https://i.imgur.com/kHgjVbz.png - While this is an improvement of what was before, there is still a distinct p2w element even if some of it is locked behind playing the game.. And now i am not mentioning the PAY-WALLED DLC ABILITIES: https://i.imgur.com/ErHHPei.png
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2. Demolished Redesign
Following the re-release here on Steam, Bungie threw a bunch of stuff into the dumpster with nothing to replace this and nowhere is this more obvious than the beginning of the game. You're squeezed through a stupidly short tutorial and then you're given a swift kick to the rear out into the open world, being given the "power level" of 750. Having forgotten most of what i previously experienced, me as a REOCCURING player had the following questions pop up into my head "What the f*ck am i doing? What am i supposed to be doing? What's the story again? Who are these guys i'm shooting? Where the hell am i?" and the list goes on.
Turns out they completely ripped out the entire starting campaign instead of adding a "skip" button and hid it behind a singular, seemingly random NPC that you have to go talk to if you want some actual backstory or context to your situation.. And there is no incentive for you to do this actual campaign besides information as they didn't bother adding any sort of reward to completing it. What the actual f*ck have you been smoking, Bungie? NEW STOREFRONT. NEW PLAYERS. RETURNING PLAYERS WITH NO MEMORY.
-------
3. Bungie's Modus Operandi
Remember when Bungie went out of their way to implement a system where your progression would be strangled to a complete halt in the most deceptive way possible by showing you false numbers and other shady shìt? Yeah, that happened and was a thing for a very long time before users started getting wise by looking at things under a microscope and subsequently calling them out on it once it was discovered.. Which they only then removed to avoid backlash.
This kind of backwaters snake-oil bullsh*t is something i have absolutely ZERO tolerance for. It is blatant fraud which they spent time, money and effort to put into the game instead of doing any of the plethora other possible options to slow player progression - if they so wished for it. "BUT IT'S REMOVED NOW!!!" I hear you saying. Maybe so, but what OTHER things are they doing? What has it been replaced with? Which similar things are they planning? We'll never know because they have now openly been exposed to be a set of developers (and now publishers) with zero transparency or even goodwill towards their user base.
-------
4. Technical Trainwreck
This is the big one that i'm gonna have to break up into sub-categories. Destiny 2 is a game in severe need of system reworks all the way from the ground up and unfortunately, it's never going to get this much needed love as they already have a lifespan plan for the game while also working in-house on another project.
-------
A) Servers & Networking: Despite having done very extensive testing on their servers during their time on battlenet, the launch of the game (12h~ lockdown + emergency maintenance) and subsequent days afterwards (now) have some serious stability problems which to my knowledge after some testing of my own is currently the cause of a lot of people's crashes while also greatly increasing certain loading times.
B) Client Performance: It's garbage almost across the entire board. The game runs poorly de-facto with there being little to no evidence that there's been actual optimization efforts at all outside the tutorial. Lowering the options have absolutely minimal impacts with some settings being locked to medium or higher. MANY people with extremely high-end PC's are struggling to run the game at all. Stable 4K is currently considered impossible by most enthusiasts.
Consistency is non-existent - Me and other people can have stable 120+ FPS in some zones & maps just to chug down to below 30 in others, even if it's the same level of combat intensity. Loading times are at a state borderlining equal to GTA V's release. The game is at a bloated 82'ish GB size with consoles reporting a 60+ GB increase for shadowkeep alone. The game faces HEAVY mouse-lag problems if the polling rate exceeds 500 (ton of gaming mice, if not most, have a standard of 1000). Inputs suffer from significant ghosting which becomes particularly crippling if you use things like burst rifles and the list just goes on.
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5. Design Idiocy
This will be perhaps the more opinionated section of this review but i'm gonna provide examples and hopefully you'll see what i mean.
A) Enemy Scaling: Ever thought it was a bit weird how enemies never seem to get any weaker as you get stronger through better gear? That's because they get stronger if you do.. Which means that the entire RPG element of this game is completely fake & fabricated. You're doing repetitive tasks like a monkey to push your arbritrary number up and get rewarded by random gear pieces and a new map unlocking every now and then if you've been real good, depending on how much XP you have accumulated. If you take a second to look at this system from afar, it is the most pointless, deceptive, patethic waste of time and effort on the planet.
B) Difficulty: Destiny 2 isn't difficult. At all. This has a number of factors as to why this is, but the most prominent one is that it's a console port. PC Players besides their superior looks, genes, muscles and sexual prowess also have a benefit of using a vastly superior control scheme (especially for a shooter) which leads to an already easy casual game becoming a complete snore-fest.
This is all due to the AI being grossly simple and incompetent. Going into this game several times with ignorance, I was never at any point remotely surprised by anything any enemy did. Ever. On-top of this, you also have the funny situation where there is still aimbot in the game on things like melee attacks - which you can spam, reducing the already tiny punishments of failure like not managing your ammo. Death has no consequence either as you can spawn in as little as 3 seconds afterwards.. But they ALSO added a patch buffing next to all PvE weapon damages across the board sometimes as much as 50% in the 2.5.2.3 update. Comparing Destiny 2's difficulty to most other games makes it a joke.
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6. Story
It's complete irredeemable trash. Just watch this basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqyco2NYBOs
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These are the more prominent things i could fit into this review with Steam's text limits. If you want to read up even more examples and the continuation on this review as to why this game sucks with a personal "pet peeves" list of mine, you can do so here:
https://pastebin.com/bxxvpy0H
Destiny 2 Review Now Available
3 Oct, 2019 @ 5:59am - Coe✔️[Quality Control]
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Coeco/recommended/1085660/
I blasted into that text limit pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ quickly.
I blasted into that text limit pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ quickly.
325€+ Savings In Ongoing Humble Bundle
4 Aug, 2019 @ 3:46pm - Coe✔️[Quality Control]
Most notably is Crusader Kings 2 which Paradox "Cancer" Interactive currently values on Steam to be 40€ for the base game and another additional 300€+ in DLC's for a 7 YEAR OLD GAME.
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/crusader-kings-2-bundle
There's also another bunch of ♥♥♥♥ but most of them are doing simultaneous sales here on Steam.
https://www.humblebundle.com/
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/crusader-kings-2-bundle
There's also another bunch of ♥♥♥♥ but most of them are doing simultaneous sales here on Steam.
https://www.humblebundle.com/
Steam: Introducing Machine Learning Recommendations!
12 Jul, 2019 @ 12:38am - Coe✔️[Quality Control]
What do i get?
https://i.imgur.com/mFOD2w0.png
A ♥♥♥♥♥♥, dysfunctional battle royale game that's riddled with spyware (when i don't play battle royale games, AT ALL) and a literal scam turd of a game, renamed 10 times to try and confuse people, published by none other than the scam artist: Sergey Titov. Rightfully having a sub 50% user review rating.
https://store.steampowered.com/labs/
Imagine how much time, money, effort and technology Valve are wasting on puking out garbage like this instead of reintroducing submission standards for titles and/or hiring some actual people to delete all the scam trash..
And for anyone wondering, the leading formula they seem to be using for this "machine learning" is mostly game (and genre) tags which are generic as ♥♥♥♥ and leads to the most hilarious, unrelated ♥♥♥♥ recommendations. Here's what I've played:
https://i.imgur.com/qD7PuoT.png
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https://everythingvalve.wordpress.com/
https://i.imgur.com/mFOD2w0.png
A ♥♥♥♥♥♥, dysfunctional battle royale game that's riddled with spyware (when i don't play battle royale games, AT ALL) and a literal scam turd of a game, renamed 10 times to try and confuse people, published by none other than the scam artist: Sergey Titov. Rightfully having a sub 50% user review rating.
https://store.steampowered.com/labs/
Imagine how much time, money, effort and technology Valve are wasting on puking out garbage like this instead of reintroducing submission standards for titles and/or hiring some actual people to delete all the scam trash..
And for anyone wondering, the leading formula they seem to be using for this "machine learning" is mostly game (and genre) tags which are generic as ♥♥♥♥ and leads to the most hilarious, unrelated ♥♥♥♥ recommendations. Here's what I've played:
https://i.imgur.com/qD7PuoT.png
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https://everythingvalve.wordpress.com/
It's okay guys..
23 Jun, 2019 @ 8:16am - Coe✔️[Quality Control]
Lootboxes don't actually exist. They're called 'Surprise Mechanics', just like Kinder Eggs!
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-06-22-this-week-parliament-gave-a-squirming-ea-and-epic-a-kicking
Clearly, I've been a dumbass all this time thinking these chance-based roulette what-are-you-gonna-get game mechanics were actually gambling.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-06-22-this-week-parliament-gave-a-squirming-ea-and-epic-a-kicking
Clearly, I've been a dumbass all this time thinking these chance-based roulette what-are-you-gonna-get game mechanics were actually gambling.
Massive Mordhau Banwave
21 May, 2019 @ 9:46am - Coe✔️[Quality Control]
UPDATE: Apparently it's the first ban wave for "third party cheats" with a whopping 2000-3000+ people hit - even though a ♥♥♥♥ bunch of streamers have also been affected? Entire situation smells like ass.
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There's currently an ongoing, HUGE amount of players getting manual game bans by the developer.
https://i.imgur.com/w8ISkJO.png
As of right now, i got no idea what's going on but my theories are either a compromised game developer account and/or the developers are mass perma-banning people for profanity in chat.
Regardless, if you own the game and don't want a permanent game ban on your profile, you may want to consider manually deleting the game off your Steam via Steam Support.
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There's currently an ongoing, HUGE amount of players getting manual game bans by the developer.
https://i.imgur.com/w8ISkJO.png
As of right now, i got no idea what's going on but my theories are either a compromised game developer account and/or the developers are mass perma-banning people for profanity in chat.
Regardless, if you own the game and don't want a permanent game ban on your profile, you may want to consider manually deleting the game off your Steam via Steam Support.
How quaint..
13 May, 2019 @ 11:17pm - Coe✔️[Quality Control]
Rage 2 is using Denuvo
13 May, 2019 @ 8:03am - Coe✔️[Quality Control]
This sorta slipped under the radar when i initially wrote the review thanks to ID & Bethesda going out of their way to not post a timely EULA before release (I wonder why..)
It's been updated now but thought i'd make an announcement as well.
It's been updated now but thought i'd make an announcement as well.
Valve Found Guilty Breaking The Law.. Again.
6 Apr, 2019 @ 1:16am - Coe✔️[Quality Control]
For those of you that remember, Valve (and their associated platform, Steam) was put under investigation by the European Union in 2013 for conducting illegal geo-blocking practices in their store-front. I don't blame anyone who don't remember this specific instance as they have been getting bombarded the last century due to their continued extremely greedy, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ behavior.
Today came the verdict, however.. And they're guilty as sin:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18296527/european-commission-valve-antitrust-objections-games-price
Their response after they initially denied it?.. Well..
"I-IT WAS ONLY BEING DONE IN ABOUT 3% OF OUR GLOBAL MONOPOLY STORE!.. A-AND OUR OWN PERSONAL GAMES WASN'T A PART OF IT!"
Valve's pathethic, child-themed tandrum response to getting caught with their pants down has to be the funniest ♥♥♥♥ I've seen so far in 2019.
Today came the verdict, however.. And they're guilty as sin:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18296527/european-commission-valve-antitrust-objections-games-price
Their response after they initially denied it?.. Well..
"I-IT WAS ONLY BEING DONE IN ABOUT 3% OF OUR GLOBAL MONOPOLY STORE!.. A-AND OUR OWN PERSONAL GAMES WASN'T A PART OF IT!"
Valve's pathethic, child-themed tandrum response to getting caught with their pants down has to be the funniest ♥♥♥♥ I've seen so far in 2019.
Steam Now Officially Censorshipping Reviews
15 Mar, 2019 @ 5:32pm - Coe✔️[Quality Control]
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1808664240333155775
&
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DenuvoGames#announcements/detail/1806413264814539312
It started out straight enough. A warning on a store page indicating that the developer &/ publisher had recently ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up big-time and had gotten user reviews to represent this. Now? They're just gonna go ahead and remove &/ hide those... Because that's what the developers have complained about being treated "unfairly". :)
Like i've said in this group multiple times and in other places like:
https://everythingvalve.wordpress.com/
Valve is slowly but surely losing touch with reality and this is just another nail in the coffin for me
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To quickly remove this (currently optional) cancerous pile of ♥♥♥♥, do the following:
> Click your avatar&/name at the top right.
> Account Details
> Preferences
> Scroll down and click "Edit Preferences" here: https://i.imgur.com/x44HeZz.png
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It sure feels strange having to jump through a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of hoops and profile preferential ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in order to now (and in the future) see the actual user review score for a game. Let's hope Valve will stop smoking whatever toilet crack they're doing right now and cease this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ censorship before it gets out of hand.
&
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DenuvoGames#announcements/detail/1806413264814539312
It started out straight enough. A warning on a store page indicating that the developer &/ publisher had recently ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up big-time and had gotten user reviews to represent this. Now? They're just gonna go ahead and remove &/ hide those... Because that's what the developers have complained about being treated "unfairly". :)
Like i've said in this group multiple times and in other places like:
https://everythingvalve.wordpress.com/
Valve is slowly but surely losing touch with reality and this is just another nail in the coffin for me
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To quickly remove this (currently optional) cancerous pile of ♥♥♥♥, do the following:
> Click your avatar&/name at the top right.
> Account Details
> Preferences
> Scroll down and click "Edit Preferences" here: https://i.imgur.com/x44HeZz.png
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It sure feels strange having to jump through a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of hoops and profile preferential ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in order to now (and in the future) see the actual user review score for a game. Let's hope Valve will stop smoking whatever toilet crack they're doing right now and cease this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ censorship before it gets out of hand.