Looks like fun! I already regret making the hard drive space, I can’t believe I’m missing out on such important and amazing seasonal content.

How’s that thing with the Almighty going? Nothing? Still too busy playing catch with Rasputin?

There was no need for and /s tag, and it's glorious! I mean, it may get lost in the future, but right now...

Perfection.

Speaking of shotguns, I guess this is as good a time as any to say this—I know everyone's going to say it's irrational or selfish; or that I should just do it too; or that not a single person here has ever run into this problem or how much fun it is for them(making them the problem)m but I want to get it off my chest anyway—I paid for a first-person shooter with RPG elements and interesting story, not a fucking Slip-N-Slide. Sliding in this game needs a cooldown....SO goddamn bad.

How’s that thing with the Almighty going? Nothing? Still too busy playing catch with Rasputin?

I decide to do the Vostok mission thing, poked around and such. It was over pretty quickly. I saw the next step appear, which was Shotgun Telemetry. I said out loud "Lemme guess, you have to get a thousand shotgun kills in Cru—" Quest page pulls up, and there it is, at 0%. I decide to check Braytech to see what the exact number would be needed.

And I shit you not.

This game, I swear...

Players are reporting on Reddit that if you have “the Lie” quest active on one of your characters, that character will not be able to manually open the moon bunker doors, meaning you can’t clear the bunker. You’ll need to switch to a character who does not have the quest active in their pursuits.

I thought I'd read that someone tried abandoning the quest, and they STILL couldn't enter - so you need a character that never even picked up the quest, not just one that doesn't have the quest active.

Bugs suck, plain and simple. I think I can speak for most anyone at Bungie when I say that it hurts to see stuff like this ship. We absolutely want to build amazing experiences from beginning to end, but things just don't fly the right way sometimes.

We're working on improvements internally. We definitely see the bugs shipping and how they're impacting the experience. This isn't a matter of test specifically, mind you. I have to applaud our folks on the amount of bugs that don't ship. This one in particular, we're even having issues reproducing it internally. Sometimes it's tools, sometimes it's timelines, sometimes it's random things we could never have caught in our limited amount of dev time.

Thank you for your service [person who completed the most public events @ 583] in helping to get the community step done. Hope to get things back on track quickly.

[~dmg04]

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I played a dozen or so of these events. Not one was completed, for a number of blueberry reasons, but also because NUMBERS! If you don't have a large group it's irrelevant. This of course takes something that's already burned out, and pushes it face first into the dirt.

Ugh.

Is there no exotic perk on the Lie? It's just a really really good shotgun? Reminds me of MIDA and that sniper from TTK that made the nyooom sound.

I actually kinda like most of the exotics that are just "hey this isnt weird or unique or gimmicky, its just the perfect version of this gun so you only get one".

It isn’t an exotic, just a legendary. The big deal about it is the combination of perks that it comes with make it look, on paper, like the ultimate PvP shotgun. It even comes with “Shot Package”, a perk that was so good in D1 that they ended up removing it from the game. We’ll see how it actually plays soon enough, but everyone is expecting it to be a beast in the crucible.

You should try Apex again, Nevin. It’s in the best state it’s ever been right now (unless you’re a Pathfinder main, but hey, we manage).

It truly is amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever played a game that hits the same way as Apex. Literally every time I play the game I am astounded by how good it is, I notice one more thing that shows how thoughtful they are when it comes to balance and how the game feels to play.

It's also one of those games where the weapon balancing feels great. They don't just nerf the popular meta, they retool it and the weapons around it. They cycle weapon hop-ups, they shift power weapons into the normal sandbox, and buff solid weapons into power weapons. It genuinely feels refreshing to experiment every season. I never thought I'd see the day where I'm dumping a Flatline to be able to run with a Mozambique.

I’m not sure any game can match the intensity of something like the game we had last night, where every time we turned around we faced down a new squad. We won that game, and it was incredible. Apex is the rare game where we could have died at any point during that match and it would have still felt good, been just as compelling an experience. We died within two minutes of dropping how many times last night? And it was never frustrating. Every single match is different, and every death feels like learning something. There is no equivalent to the other team running a super train on you for three minutes straight and not being able to do anything about it, at least not that I’m aware of. Even getting third-partied, which the thing I see the most complaints about, never feels frustrating to me. It always feels like a lesson in awareness, and it’s nearly always preventable by smart play.

Whether you die 10 seconds in (lol dropping Salvage), 15 minutes in, or you just barely miss those final shots that would have won the game, it never feels like there was a balance/fairness issue. You always had a solution available, even if that solution was "Do not engage in a gunfight with your fists" (which, honestly, isn't always a bad decision). Losing in Apex pretty much always feels deserved, and you can always check the damage report to understand exactly why you lost an engagement, and learn from it.

I truly think Apex is one of the best multiplayer games ever made. I understand why folks don’t like it with the looting phase and sometimes slow ramp into the action, but I have never played anything that feels quite as tense (in a good way). They haven’t always got it right with the monetization, but I think they’re in a good spot with that right now, for the most part (I still think $18 for weapon skins is silly, though).

Check out these clips!

Repositioning on an enemy has never felt so satisfying:

A Finisher that I would have gladly paid real money for:

My teammate bringing his fists to an entire squad:

When they bringing that 9-round mag Mozambique back?

A Caustic in an enclosed space is a scary thing:

Sammy clipping through the Supply Ship and taking on a Duo in a home invasion horror flick:

And finally, this three-way fight/rescue operation that highlights the neat ebb and flow of encounters that play out regularly in the game.

Unfortunately I ran out of online storage for the game where 7 of my 11 kills were with the Mozambique. Should have some footage later.