Destiny 2: Cooperative Focus Missions Are The Poor Man's Dual Destiny

[Music] all right I'm back with another Destiny 2 video slowly working my way through all of the things from the expansion pretty much um this time I did The Cooperative Focus story missions which are required to get the microcosm heavy Trace rifle which is apparently extremely good at burning down subjugators and or possibly tormentors for some reason I I don't know if that's is that listed as like an intrinsic property I don't know anyway I just did it um with two readers Cosmic and duws who helped me go through it because you definitely need comms to do so not not only do you need like uh you know lfg matchmaking because it doesn't have native matchmaking but I I heard people doing this without comms But like after playing it like that would be deeply annoying so I don't know why why you would do that uh I I don't know how I feel about the is like it's fine they exist I guess it's just I didn't really find them more compelling than the base missions it just it sort of felt like they were just putting in you know little hindrances here and there that was like kind of really forced Co-op mechanics in a way that isn't fun I think like the the perfect example of awesome Co-op mechanics is you guessed it uh dual Destiny the Exotic Mission which is based around you know a Duo and like they built the entire thing around it where they didn't build the entire campaign around Duo mechanics so instead it's I mean you you can have three people in this but most of it is designed to like be able to be run with two people it's like you know cordinate coordinated shooting of two switches that happens many many times or it's coordinated uh attacking of the dude from scourge of the past with two sides and you know sometimes one person can go upstairs one person has to stay downstairs to do like different parts uh of a thing and then of course the infamous buff uh or debuff where it gets to times 10 and you just have to pass it to someone else it's just this sort of irritating ticking clock like I you know we've had stuff like this before but it's just like it's even just like running around like during traversal parts or like really normal combat Parts it's just something that's always just like itching at the back of your mind which is I don't find that terribly enjoyable it's just sort of like an annoyance the the last mission is the best the final mission of the game because they don't have that um that's not part of it at all the the first two missions the first mission has it like the whole time the second mission has it for pretty large chunks of it I just I didn't really find any mechanics here that I found terribly compelling um I would have almost rather just been fighting freaking champions in here is is annoying as they tend to be um at like a higher difficulty like this is I think it's a little higher of a difficulty than Legend maybe it's just maybe it's not and maybe that's just from fire team Health scaling or something because this was harder like you know chunkiness Wise than when I did it when I did Legend myself solo um and then past this like once you get microcosm I don't there's not really a reason to run these uh there's one a week you can run four a pinnacle so obviously that's going to be something some people want I think it's also a guaranteed red border I think it's also I got an Ascendant Shard I don't know if that's guaranteed but so they they did give you a reason to do maybe one of these a week I think it's only this three right I don't think there's like they didn't do it for all the missions um they probably could have just because you all you got to do is put in a couple scourge of the past guys and switches and a debuff um but uh past the Pinnacle past this initial Quest this just seems like something they're maybe just sort of experimenting with and and it's part of their you know apparent Focus in this expansion on more Cooperative content that requires coms and more involved coordination than just did someone bring anti-barrier did someone bring anti- overload to which the answer is often no um so you know we have the raid obviously but then we have the duo Mission designed solely around that which is sort of the the gatekeep for exotic class items but then we have this other exotic that's apparently very good I haven't used it yet but um you know against certain enemies that requires uh coordination in the same way I mean this this is certainly easier coordination than you know writing down clock numbers or debating what is a clock and what isn't a clock and and all that stuff it's very simple mechanics but um you know I I know that this is going to be an irritant for some solo players too whereas like I absolutely think like people just sort of like need to go through dual Destiny and like just get out of your comfort zone for that because it's such a good Mission like I can't really say that about these um this this seems like something that was concocted relatively quickly is sort of A New Concept for the campaign and one more reason to pay to play the campaign missions but like the rewards for the two that are not active are it's nothing like each chest is two enhancement cores and a world drop you're not even getting like I don't think you're even getting pale heart weapons from the normal ones at all you're only getting stuff like that from uh the featured one so there's literally no reason at all I I don't think to run um the other two a week I I I think there's a chance to get an exotic class item from those chests but no no one I was running with through all the chests got a single one so it doesn't seem like the chance is all that increased or something um so yeah I you know I'm not like against it existing I just don't really see the point and I probably am not going to run this again even for the Pinnacle like I don't care that much about the Pinnacle there's other places to get a pinnacle that are shorter missions these are long Miss missions and like you know they're even longer on Legend difficulty they're even longer with a fire team cuz of Health scaling they're even longer with these new mechanics cuz like if you screwed up a little bit like you can um you know die and there's light fading and stuff if you're run out of revive tokens like so I just I don't I don't think it's worth it um the gun itself I this is not a review of the gun you can watch one of the other 12 YouTubers that I'm sure I've already reviewed that gun uh I you know it seems very good against subjugators and whatever but in terms of the the grand scheme of the Exotics we've gotten I I I wonder if this is in the top tier or not um I know all the Exotics are pretty good this this expansion honestly the freaking 10 exotic perk sword and I love Cav and a lot of good stuff I feel like I like red death I use red death in this video um I don't even really know why but uh I feel like I'll probably like it one the Catalyst hits but it's okay and then of course I'm using the call and my my boy Hammerhead I don't know if this is the optimal load out I keep I kept forgetting I'm using the rocket chest and I didn't fire my Rockets enough I got to get used to like using that more often um so yeah so it's they're they're easy I don't think they're anything that are you know in terms if you're worried about like oh what if I screw up the coordination of like the raid or The Duality Mission like I get that but like this is such basic communication stuff it's like a countdown it's like shooting things counting down from three it is telling someone you're at a times 8 time 9 buff and they need to to take the debuff from you like it's it's extremely basic stuff so if you're worried about like oh I might scrip the mechanics or something like you don't have to worry about it so you could lfg this I would use a mic there's just it's going to be so annoying if you have to like emote or type in chat or I don't know just just just use a mic it's not a big deal um okay so yeah that's that's what I think of that it's obviously not a huge chunk of the expansion but I know some people are sort of wondering about that wondering if they're worthwhile and you know what they're kind of like and I'm not you know in an expansion where I really love pretty much everything I these are not that impressive to me so yeah anyway thanks for watching and I will talk to you soon take care

Channel: Paul Tassi

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Length: 8min 15sec (495 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 17 2024