[quote]I have, for about 99.999% of this game, ran solo. And I have enjoyed the vast majority of it. Recently, I reconnected with an old friend & started playing in a group. The difference is night & day. Helping each other thru different campaigns & adventures has illuminated me as to how easy/hard the game is depending on what's being played. Campaign stuff became a cake walk. Stuff that would take me 25-30 minutes was getting busted in 10.. And the craic is unlimited. Loads of laughs when the NF wipes or we ruck each other with grenades near exploder enemies. I'll always be that lone Hunter in my heart, but good Xol.. wiping with a team is way more fun that getting slapped as a solo. It's almost a different game. I'll still indulge my solo wandering but I'm more likely to call on folks for the craic & banter, not jus to get stuff done. Beers & Sav... 🫡 If ya can.. find some folks. It's such a difference.[/quote] That sounds great! Glad that you you're able to enjoy the best of both worlds. See you in orbit Guardian!

I'm docking you 2 points for using Irish slang, and 1 point for having fun. That's 3 strikes and you're out, bud.

OP: you’ve just described the essence of the D1 experience. Everything changed after the infamous Sunset debacle…👈 Moving on… Nowadays, Discord is the way to hook-up with other likeminded Guardians. Personally, this old tortoise finds the whole Discord experience to be too overwhelming and way too ‘noisy’ and ‘busy’…😵‍💫 I do appreciate the great bunch of Guardians that frequent the place, though! I found the right sort of help recently to complete the final mission for Microcosm…after fruitless attempts via FTF…even though my team set up post on FTF stated very clearly ‘mic required’…not one player did or would bother to do so…hence the constant wipes and frustration. 👈👈 The other thing that was most noticeable was the flood of players that still need to get that mission, and the other 2x missions included, yet they just simply refused to use a mic, or other form of comms, to get it done!? Caveat: given my location (Far East) - languages abound, and that might well have been a contributory factor. 🤔 That is all. Ease Springs! 🫡

Games are always better with friends, it's the one thing keeping me on destiny.

I'd love to play with other people but there are two main problems. For a couple of days every week I'm going to be completely MIA, due to work. Makes it tough to keep up and run things together - because when I finally have time to play - four days later - they've probably played through things already. The second issue is that Destiny has seemingly gone out of its way to make people not organically connect. It took about a week to filll up a friendlist in the Halo games - because everyone was shooting the -blam!- and used mics. I've literally never heard anyone use a mic in Destiny - and I'm not putting that on the players, I pin it on Bungie for not bringing those tools to the game from start or encouraging it. Hell, you can barely get a text chat reply in this game, with how programmed players have been to just sticking to themselves. And sure, you can go off-game to look for friends but at that point you really have to want it, you never know who you end up with and it's basically online dating for lonely people The point should be to encounter other players in-game, realize that you share a vibe and connect.

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Apart from final shape, I find the game very boring as a solo, I started the game playing with friends, they don’t play anymore so I just play with strangers