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7/18/2017 9:52:35 PM
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An interesting observation about D2 Beta Reviews

So I've read all the reviews and opinions on the D2 Beta so far; I've spotted an interesting trend in the opinions from the ones that are saying it's great and are loving it. All of these Bungie defenders have sub 5000 Grimoire, No "From the beginning" node unlocked on Y3 MoT and have 1000 Hours or less gameplay time. You will say Grimoire doesn't mean shit, but it's an uncanny trend that I've spotted. Any D1 Alpha/Beta Vets with 5500+ Grimoire and 3000 Hours logged have anything good to say about this D2 Beta? I'm curious...

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  • Edited by bnetflustercluck: 7/19/2017 6:49:19 AM
    Beta player. Day 1 too. Max Grimoire. Over 6,500 hours played. After feeling somewhat apprehensive about the changes to PVP, I will say after a few matches my opinion changed for the good. Not to say there haven't been a few moments where I have cursed the demo/beta, but those were mostly down to either being matched in a team of random headless chickens against a stacked team of 3 or 4, or a glitch or two here and there - putting 5 Nightshade bursts into a hunter with little damage being taken only for them to find cover and 2 tap me through a column - definitely some latency issues. Other than that I enjoyed my 5 matches, consistently scoring between 1.5-5.0 on the Efficiency rating. I haven't really played enough yet to form a full opinion to the weapon changes, although I do quite like what they've done with armour stats, looking forward to putting a bit more time in. The Homecoming mission was cool. I was pleasantly impressed with the visuals and the majority of gunfights with the Red Lezzers. Seeing Shaxx open the door for me was probably my favourite bit though, something poetic about that. The Inverted Spire was my kind of strike tbh, although there felt like a bit too much space between good busy battles. A few experiences of teleporting enemies, particularly those Psions. Overall it was fun for me, probably could do with quicker super charge for the main game PVE though. I did feel like busy gunfights felt a tad clumsy now and then in both PVE and PVP, but I'm going to put that down to our available weapons being the equivalent of greens and blues in D1 and therefore aren't quite the legendary calibre regarding stats and perks just yet as we are only playing the Beta as level 20 guardians. It did however feel in PVP that some weapons were ripping me to shreds with lightning quick ttk's yet others felt like you/they could tank multiple clips and survive. The Beta meta is here already, dun dun DUN!!! Haha As for the revamped UI, I like the appearance but the roster being in a separate menu is a bit daft. Hopefully they re-jig that by September because it wasn't broken and certainly did not require "fixing"! So, from being super sceptical, I am now feeling a bit better about D2. Just hoping that there is so much more than D1 regarding content and variety of. 7/10 thus far.

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