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[Destiny] Ours is the Light that illuminates the Dark Below! Hard Mode Crota's End awaits!
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Definitely. Crota feels like a chore for drops rather than an enjoyable experience.
At least VoG has some nice interludes between frantic encounters. Crota is all go-go-go.
Well, also eliminate all the Atheon bugs.
It is pretty sweet
I feel like I'm betraying the magic school bus though.
The engram turned into a better set of Don't Touch Me.
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Then another team decided to give it a go as well, only to realise that none of us could remember the path for the Gorgon maze.
Ultimately we split into multiple teams to figure out where to go. VoG Normal is pretty fun to do to farm exotics though
No, that would be an insane and, frankly, stupid thing to do that none of us would settle for.
It's in the app.
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God dammit Bungie what are you even doing with this game
or is this a sign that I need help
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A lot of the VOG lore is in-game, through the descriptions of all the raid weapons and armor. The Titan armor essentially tells the summary of the fall of Kabr. But yes, grimoire cards as well.
Edit: Also you can draw conclusions from the actual VOG mechanics. The oracles mark you for negation, which is then processed by the Templar. The reward for denying/killing the oracles in the timelost places that Atheon throws you into is called "Guardians make their own fate".
I think that when you sit down, and think about mechanics, there is a lot that falls into place. You are thrown with the relic into the past or future. Atheon fears the relic so much that he attempts to hide it in the dark corners of time. But your light is bound to the relic, and it pulls you with it into the past and future, so it can be carried again into battle, and so Kabr can be avenged by his legacy.
The biggest problem I have with HM Crota is that the lost light of Eris's fireteam embodied in the Chalice serves the same purpose as the Relic in CE, it is a beacon that makes the impossible possible. Removing it from HM is a failure to adhere to Bungie's own lore.
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There is quite a bit though, as I said the titan gear is essentially the plot summary of Kabr. The Hunter and Warlock armor sets give flavor to the base storyline. It didn't state that it explained everything, but that there was a lot of lore from the flavor text of the items.
I will not disagree that the Grimoire cards contain the bulk of the VOG lore, which is regrettable.
...If I speak again, I am not Kabr.
Like Eris' transformation and the fact that you kill crota's soul in the real world and then some other version of him in the raid dimension. But it never really gets expanded on or explained other than to make the Hive more guitar shreddingly evil.
Also I equipped Hunger of Crota for the first time yesterday. I didn't think it would be possible to be embarrassed for a rocket launcher but here we are.
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Buried in the quest text somewhere is that Crota is not complete. I never took the time to observe, but supposedly he is only corporeal beneath the neck. His head is not solid, gaseous, probably as a reference to him being incomplete due to the events of the Wakening.
Crota apparently would've been killed by Eris' fireteam but the hive were able to safeguard away his soul and render him unkillable, so he just mopped them up. We had to take out his soul to be able to kill him in his whatever dimension.
The only real hole is why the hive would be trying to wake him up at all, but I suppose going soulless puts you to sleep pretty quickly.
Just like Eris' fireteam, the Raid team is blinded, swarmed, and panicked from the get go. It's very easy to lose one of your level 32 guys (so proud of their power up until that moment) right at one of the first Lanterns. Your Light is malfunctioning, you can't revive, your special moves are hampered. In the second phase, you begin stealing your enemies' power to press forward (like Eris stealing the Hive eye). The third phase is dangerous, but understandable, power will win through. Perhaps your confidence is coming back. We're going to take back the Moon guys! Suddenly... Crota. Your Light begins to fail completely, and any fatal mistake from anyone in the Team brings the Hive's power to its maximum (just like how Crota used a captured Ghost to MURDER other Guardians). Just when you think you're bringing things back, Crota behaves unexpectedly, moving in a way you weren't aware he could, shrugging off damage like a no selling wrestler, or suddenly using his strongest power even when you HAVEN'T made any mistakes. Anyone mocking Eris' Fireteam after this experience is just lacking in self awareness.
From a gameplay standpoint however, I don't love it. It feels more random and more punishing, not finely tuned enough for how hard they've made it. It's garbage imo to force repeats on the team so quickly (any key death can force you instantly to replay the whole section), but then Heavy Ammo drops are completely random (the team has lost BOTH the ammo they've used AND the ammo STOLEN from them by the bug), so you can have not enough to finish. If you spent all your cash buying synths coming in, you'll be set for a number of failures, but those won't run you too too long. And since the Raids (bizarrely imo) prevent you from earning cash, you'll have to go out and earn money separate from your attempts to buy the resources to try again.
It's the difference between making a Hard version with more tricky encounters and making a Hard version that's the same, except you do less damage, the enemies do more, and any mistake means you start over. Bungie's temptation to reuse every single asset from the core game without making anything more is getting pretty egregious by this point. My grapes will be SLIGHTLY less sour once my Fireteam finally breaks through the wall and beats the Douche, but even then we'll just have to go right back to it the next week without any real advantage gained from the experience.
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On the other hand, the visuals in Crota are way better than VoG. The raid start is awesome on the moon, and way better than VoG. Spelunking was fun, but the Crota skybox's on the final fight and bridge are amazing, and I do like the artistry of running into the light after the abyss to enter Crota's dimension.
VoG is this palpable feeling of space. Everything is dramatically huge and expansive, and the architecture matches that feeling perfectly somehow.
I absolutely think VoG is artistically superior to Crota. It just has such a superior sense of wonder and exploration that I totally didn't get out of Crota at all. Crota is just bleak and sorta boring.
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