Destiny 2: The Final Shape's Pale Heart Post-Campaign Content Is Also Really Good

[Music] all right I am back with another Destiny 2 video uh obviously these are going to be coming Fast and Furious given the launch of the final shape this week I did my uh full video well almost full video review of The Campaign yesterday uh we are obviously here before the raid and before the final mission but we have what about seven campaign missions to get through very good very good campaign um I would say it's it's the best of series had you can go watch that um on my channel yesterday but today I want to get into some post game stuff uh because that is a a really big also very good so far uh part of the expansion obviously talking about the post game is going to get into spoiler territory uh that may be obvious but just want to make that clear um this is a combination of what I would consider solid story elements and then interesting kind of mechanics mini games exploration that Bungie has done with the pale heart I am very appreciative that this uh Zone feels really fleshed out and like they really put a lot of work into kind of learning lessons from Neptune from the throne world and making it the best destination I think we've had um I don't know if it's necessarily the biggest but like everyone's like oh it do One landing point it does not have one Landing point it has at least three Landing points I don't know if we can unlock uh any more later there are three kind of main zones we have like a three quadrant map which is not unusual but there are like really really deep tunnels and you know winding places you can go here as you you've seen a lot of those in the campaign and you will see new ones as you kind of run around the map doing other stuff in the pale heart um this is first of all way better than Neptune I I never want to go to Neptune again I think it it sounded like a good idea in theory to make all the Neptune Patrol stuff like 10 above power or whatever so everything swords in practice that sucks and you never want to go there and just slog through a bunch of you know enemies like that the Lost sectors same thing like that was not a good idea and it's not a particularly interesting Zone at Baseline um it had the you know the really big escalation protocol uh type events and then occas the giant spawn six minitar one but I instead really like what the pale heart is doing with overthrow which are um this idea that every Zone essentially always is being taken over by some enemy faction uh in the first Zone it's Hive in the second Zone it's I think taken I'm pretty sure in the third zone is mostly dread and taken I can't remember exactly but the point is there are four stages and it it's like you know an escalation protocol progression thing except it's like doing things in the zone gets you you know points toward a total and so something like opening a chest or you know that gives you 25 points and killing an enemy is like one or two points each or a major five points but you don't you're not just going around like farming little pockets of enemies the main thing is that you will do these like uhoh May barking on something mini uh solo events that um are are sort of public events but a lot of them they're kind of smaller in scale you don't have to turn them heroic you just have to finish them and then as you progress through the different levels they get progressively harder uh there's at least some amount of controversy about whether or not it's a good thing that this is a solo instance um there is there is no one else on this map uh I do not miss that I think it is perfectly enjoyable to play this Zone as a solo experience I just don't miss other players coming around either you know making things too easy I guess if like you have three or four players clearing one of these um you know these these sort of public events things or boss things like I can see how you would just burn every burn through everything to the point where uh it's not fun and uh there is there is a matchmaking option for overthrow in one zone maybe it rotates I haven't done that I don't know if it's harder but there is at least the option for that if that's something you did want to do with a team um there is a lot of expiration stuff one of the the biggest exploration things uh is the fact that the Prismatic the rest of the Prismatic um aspects and fragments that you did not find in the campaign are scattered around the map some you may run into randomly sorry little edit cuz eeve is barking at something unknown uh a ghost I don't know um anyway the Prismatic uh aspects and fragments that are hidden I think are really cool because a lot of them are hidden behind like little puzzle mechanics and um we've seen these in other patrol zones but like the rewards for those are like a legendary or like something like glimmer like nothing very significant when it comes to solving things like this and as opposed to this where it's like you're literally hunting down pieces to assemble a subass for SW stasis and strand that was a kind of annoying grind where strand was essentially just killing things with strand to get currency and stasis had obviously the most annoying quests in history to you know unlock it over a Time gated period of time um this is a lot better than that and it's going to take a little while to find all these but I I really enjoy this aspect of it uh in terms of the actual missions for postgame stuff I also think they've done a really good job here there is uh a mission so it's kind of a long Mission chain that alternates between a savathun set of missions and a cad and Crow set of missions um I was wondering where savathun was during this entire campaign because she's been such a significant figure uh in Destiny history um she is instead the focus of one of these post campaign missions and obviously is going to be a big Focus going forward her story is mainly sparring with Mara and they're doing the whole two queens thing and trying to maneuver each other her savon's current story ends I don't think there's another part of missing yet uh with essentially like she tricked us into doing something to help her surprise surprise um I do wish we had a little bit more from her in in the base campaign just given how important she is we've obviously not seen zeu a wrath anywhere I have to believe that zebu wrath is probably coming up um in one of the episodes we know there's a hive episode but it doesn't seem like anything with zebu is going to happen here uh after the destruction of the witness which is no doubt going to happen and you know she's got to forge her own way here and figure out something uh the most compelling mission is certainly the Cade and Crow stuff where it's this really long really pretty long chain about where you're trying to find uh where there's been like a dark ether Heist and and um you track down who did it and it's Crow working with Cade which is you know fun at Baseline considering their history um and then this is It's a significant Mission like it culminates in an actual like CG cut scene like one from the campaign of crow and Cade baning together to fight scbs and um uh an Abomination and the scre Mission I heard from someone a Bungie that Joe Blackburn directive was I want to see the most screes we've ever seen in one area so that's how that mission um came about and then it ends with Cade saying that Crow should be the new Hunter Vanguard uh this has been something we have been building for building to since Crow came back this was always kind of the theory that this would happen and I think after this years long journey he has certainly earned it I think he was really good in this campaign especially he says he'll think about it I guess he's taken Vanguard cloak or something they talk about the Vanguard dare and Kate's like well technically Aldrin should should win the Vanguard dare and so I guess technically that's Crow um so that that was a really cool Quest I was like a little choked up it was like very emotional considering how you know significant this moment is and how many years it's been in the making I you know honestly probably one of the longest building story lines of real significance in the entire expansion so far so I was very um impressed with that and so that's been good there are other sort of uh aside missions there's one about like there's one directed mission where you get a couple ects and fragments and supers um for prismatic where one is through mythrax where you're taking revenge on a fallen that killed his mother except it's sort of just like a zombie version and then there is uh a really good side mission with kidle where she's trying to boost zala's like morale after losing his light and she's like come on you [ __ ] get out here and fight and she's uh still flirting with him which is great um I lik that in one of the early post campaign things of I was like okay aora can you teach me how to use stasis no no hesitation no hesitation he's just like I need some powers back please uh and we know Osiris you know knows strand now so this is sort of the catch with people losing their ghosts it's weird though because if you learn stasis and strand you have you know quote Powers again but you still can't be resurrected because you don't have a ghost like that's kind of a unique situation and so far you know Cyrus is really the only character that we know of that is no ghost oh wait ays too right yeah ays um you can wield the stuff but if they die I think they're still dead uh that was I really like the kle stuff all the dialogue has been great you can go you know into some of the depths that you've seen before in the campaign and there's new dialogue you can find there um there uh is you know there's a bunch of exotic stuff like this exotic sniper was tied to the Cade Quest there is this really cool Special ammo exotic sword that has like eight variants that all channeled different exotic powers and that sword does more damage while Transcendent so it's kind of based around that very fun who knows if it's meta but it's it's fun uh there you need to do like some harder Cooperative campaign missions or something to unlock that heavy Trace rifle which it's telling me I'm underpowered for this so I and I think you require a lot of communication so I might have to get some like actual friends to do that with I haven't tried that yet I thought I was just too low of power cuz it's like recommended 2005 or something I don't know and I'm like 1970 I I've heard people clearing it a pretty low so it's probably not that big of a deal um I am currently doing missions that I would say are like probably the least good missions where there's this new NPC ment when when Miken got revealed at like the end of the campaign it was almost like a jump scare I'm like ah who the hell is this like a brand new NPC we never get brand new NPCs really um but her job is is reuniting uh loss injured ghosts um bringing them back these are kind of long windy missions where you got to like follow a traveler bird around and then um find a ghost in like a lost sector corner and then you got to overthrow an entire region and then you go and you do this like little uh Mini Mission the Mini Mission part is actually fun cuz there's like some actual mechanics there's one where it's like you're entirely using a sword there is a brutal one that has about uh it's called The Moth infested cave and let me tell you there are a lot of moths investing that cave um I think I died more in that Mini Mission than I did in any campaign mission um sort of maybe the last boss uh so that was very intense um I think I had like two of those lefts and then I'm going to probably just try and hunt down the rest of the Prismatic stuff for my warlock then I will move on to beating the campaign with Titan and Hunter I'm probably just going to blow through it on normal I the only thing you get is the um legendary or the Exotic choice at the end you you get the you know the power armor set or whatever but you don't need that now because you're sharing power drops with your main character so I just want to complete the story and start building out Prismatic for them too um that's kind of the main priority and I don't really care to slog through some of those very very long encounters again like very did very glad I did legendary the first time but like I don't really feel the need to do that two more times just for quote unquote the challenge I just sort of want to um get moving on those those other builds uh Prismatic again I'm still it's great it is I I just am am am not really great at strategizing with it yet I'm using an oomancy build but not with turrets I just like um using the freeze combined with I have a demolitionist uh strand rocket sidearm that is giving me grenades back all the time I have I'm running three of the whatever they're called the wild card deck weapons because you get bonuses um for super generation and then there's an an element or uh whatever it's called a mod in the seasonal artifact where you get another bonus I think it's like an explosion or something and the more weapons you're using the bigger the explosion is on kill like again like I know you should use exotic but like it's it's fun I'm just kind of messing around with um these weapons I like I have the healing um Auto rifle which sort of has like tracking bullets I feels like if Oso was a um assault rifle uh since I haven't played any with you know other people cont content I haven't like shot people with the healing bullets but um that see it just seems like a weird concept to me but I guess we'll see how it works in practice so far I really like those guns um I've gotten some good roles except of course my excitement is tempered by crafting and none of the roles matter and I'm just looking for red borders as ever um I've gotten a few of the episodic um engrams so I turn those in to try and get my beloved breach light which did not work I got a bunch of uh patron of lost causes which I do like but got any good roles for that he there's like a seasonal Quest and it's just like check back next week after we beat the witness when the season starts the end like that's the whole thing so we can't really go into that um in the guardian rank system it says we need to rank up with fail safe so uh it's a failsafe season we are returning to fails safe I'm wondering if after seven years it's the same uh voiceover actor and I guess we'll find out I'm I'm very impressed with this so far I think this is the best zone They they've done in terms of how it feels to kind of do things in it you know I I don't think we're going to be farming this forever like there's there's even more stuff I didn't even mention like the wayfinder or the Pathfinder system within there is good that's how you get more rolls with the sword um the uh ability to get these like little Buffs that you find and you can activate like during the course of the day like oh if you slide you leave a trail of fire behind you and like random cool stuff like that uh the one I have that's the most fun is I don't know if it's on kill or on Precision kill or something it has a chance to drop a random Elemental pickup so like I'm like I you know I have a solar super but I'm spawning ionic traces and void breaches and especially uh Tangles where you spawn that and then you just blow them up even though you have you know you're not even using a strand weapon so I really like that one it's pretty fun and it makes like a little confetti noise when those pop up so it's it's kind of goofy so yeah I I I'm really enjoying the postgame stuff um obviously like all things you're kind of going to run out of stuff to do eventually and we're going to just switch into seasonal stuff but for now getting all the Prismatic stuff like finishing all the the current quest lines we have that is going to take a good amount of time which you know I I this doesn't you don't need to grind this one zone forever but this seems like um we'll have a lot of opportunities to revisit this lot in the future wherever Destiny goes next I don't imagine they're just deleting all the destinations and starting over so I'm sure we will be back here you know I it's safe to say that like the traveler itself may not exist in its current form after the end of the campaign but I don't think they're just going to Nuke this destination like after you know so obviously we're still going to be in the pale heart after the events of final shape are over so even if it's dead or something we'll still be in there oh and I really like the old tower being the base camp that's just a nice little touch there okay so yeah more Relentless positivity but I think it deserves it so I'm also making this audio uh as the servers are still down for this maintenance period so now I'm going to log off and try to capture some Patrol overthrow whatever footage uh ghost hunting for this so anyway thanks for watching and I'll talk to you soon take care

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Published: Thu Jun 06 2024