Rise of iron release date full#

Right now IвЂ™m really enjoying the need to be tactical and hit hard and fast in every single encounter if I want to survive. Bar snipers (Vandals, Hobgoblins) and boomer types (Knights, Minotaurs) most standard enemies pre-Rise of Iron would just spray wildly, so you took more damage running into projectiles than by standing still and letting them zing past you medium range was the safest place to be at any time. Much of this has to do with the new Splicer variant enemies, which alone of all of Destiny's factions are near-universally equipped with decent aim. Destiny's gunplay has always been excellent but in Rise of Iron Bungie has made some subtle balance changes that make using the highly-textured arsenal feel much more dangerous, while still offering the chance to achieve a beautiful flow of actions. Luckily, practically nobody cares about Destiny's narrative except me and there's so much more going on in this expansion which is well worth celebrating. But at this stage I almost don't want these ever to pay off because as mysteries they're terrific, but if the story of the Iron Lords is any indication Bungie's not good at rewarding our curiosity. Will they bear fruit? Maybe - we're still waiting on whatever happened with Eris at the end of The Taken King to make sense, after all. As ever, Bungie skirts around those aspects of its lore that we find most interesting, throwing out some little hooks for probable Rasputin and Clovis Bray storylines. The most interesting stuff is buried in the Grimoire, and usually hinted at rather than made explicit. Nobody's ever like, 'These non-interactive crates must be stopped! Quickly, Guardian!' because that would be ridiculous - right?Дestiny has always struggled to hit a balance of show and tell and Rise of Iron is no exception. It just sits there in great looping tentacles, as menacing as any other static set dressing - which is to say, not at all. Saladin never stops bleating about how SIVA must be stopped and how the Splicers can't control it, suggesting an escalating threat, but the effects of SIVA on the landscape of Old Russia are completely static from start to finish. It's hard to take SIVA seriously as a threat when we never see it do anything except in the final Rise of Iron story mission. The story also suffers from the lack of an antagonist, which is a step backwards from the Skolas and Oryx sequences. They certainly can't match the chemistry of Variks and Petra in House of Wolves, or Cayde-6, Eris and Zavala in The Taken King.

Saladin is far less intriguing than he was as a masked event vendor, and the other NPCs (bar Iron Banner's Efrideet, who has the advantage of introducing some brand new lore concepts) are dull as old milk. The storyline never really moves beyond 'shoot the big bad'. And it tells us more about the Iron Lords, because that's something people wanted to know.ДЄpart from the set pieces, which are good fun, the story sequence also demonstrates that Bungie should never listen to us ever again: Rise of Iron's story missions aren't that great. There are lots of grand set pieces in interesting environments, since people asked for less follow-the-waypoint-to-the-boss-fight mission design. It's straight forward, since a lot of people struggled to follow past storylines.

It's short, since many people barely bother with story content. The main story sequence in Rise of Iron demonstrates Bungie has been listening to feedback. Second major expansion to Destiny after September 2015's The Taken King. This is the new connected games-as-service future, see - but today let's talk about what we've got so far.

Rise of iron release date full#

Has Bungie finally nailed it? Is it time for the jaded to return to the fold?Дestiny: Rise of Iron isn't really 'finished' yet there's a calendar chock full of events and shiny, shiny new loot to assess before we can say, however many months later it is, that we Had A Good Time. Destiny: Rise of Iron has had two weeks to prove itself to the community.