Destiny 2 Beta Has Been "Amazingly Helpful," Bungie Says

Played it for 20 mins then uninstalled it. Plays just like D1

Mixed reviews on the BETA, myself. I enjoyed the first mission everything feels different from the first destiny; which is good in my book. However, the matchmaking for PvP is quite terrible. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt right now. Maybe they don't have the players to balance teams well, but when the other team has 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 as their kdr's and the best someone managed to get on your team was 1.0 it really not a very fun experience (and I did the "low intensity" Quickplay). One thing I really don't like about PvP is that they reduced team sizes to 4 players, I really like the chaos of 6v6 teams on the first destiny.

I also wanted to add a tidbit about the guns. They're fun to use and I like the new addition of the sub-machine gun. However, having 2 categories of guns that are essentially the same only one uses kinetic damage while the other uses elemental damage is a waste of a category. Especially when the heavy or power category that's called now has all of the more unique weapons in it. I really liked how D1 had their weapon system where you got a primary (auto, pulse, HC, or scout), special (sniper, shotty, or fusion), and Heavy (swords, machine-guns, and launchers); there was more of a variety of weapons you got to use with this system. It seems like you're wasting a weapon category just to add elemental damage to the guns in the primary slot.

Tried out the campaign mission today. Feels like the first one, but the visuals have received a boost (likely as there is no PS3 & 360 versions this time to port down to), with better textures, lighting and reflections. I went from not really being that interested in picking up Destiny 2 to seriously considering it now. However I feel like they should give players of the first game (and all it's additional DLC) some way to find their old Guardian's corpse or something even just to loot the gear since unlike other MMO's our character doesn't carry over to the new game.

The double edged sword that Bungie is playing with, pretending that this "BETA" is anything more than a stress test teaser, is conveying the wrong message to long time fans. Making people doubt the quality of your product, to give you a chance to say "WE FIXED EVERYTHING YOU GUYS COMPLAINED ABOUT, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INPUT, SEE YOU AT LAUNCH!!!" is currently in backfire stage.

They should have been more truthful with their audience, told them that it was a limited access stress test, and that if they want more INSIDE INFORMATION first-hand, to download the stress test build, and see for yourself, what youtubers have been privy to for the last 3 months.

Seriously, Luke can be funny when what he say is scripted by someone that is funny, but when he tries to make a joke, he fails miserably. He should not be allowed to talk, PERIOD.

This beta is just incredible. It's polished, looks outstanding, plays great, and makes me SO excited for September. Bungie is making all the right moves with this sequel so far.

the BETA is Amazing. The game is running smoothly and we can see that it will be a much bigger game. Already finish the strike 4 times and I just can't wait to play the full game. 4 vs 4 is also a nice evolution from the first game, matchs are fast, intense and really fun. Keep the good work, see you September 6th !

what i think is funny is they some how piss off their fan base that would keep buying the game. you rarly see that happen

Loving the beta, already pre ordered my Collector edition at Gamestop, can't wait.

Not a significant change from D1 but still enjoyable. Of course they have made some changes (so they say) to multiplayer strike teams and so forth but still very familiar to D1. I already pre-ordered the game and will be spending hours playing it in the future.

It isn't a beta it is a game demo. As a demo it was alright but nothing special. Got the general gist of the story etc, not much seems to have changed overall. Intrigued by the ending, we going to have perma death now? I doubt it. Looks nice, plays OK, just more Destiny which is fine. I like Destiny. But a stretch to call this a beta with next to no content. Don't know why they bothered to be honest.

6 out of 10. Would uninstall again.

There isn't many games like destiny. If you destroy Destiny, you might destroy the genre and developers won't make games like destiny and it would be only games like call of duty overwatch and battlefield. Destiny is a shared world. If you like sharing your games with other people in an AAA first person shooter experience than destiny is great.

I can't help hut feel like Bungie could've been so much more somebody else's hands, Activision have been the devil over the past decade or so...

Is the Open live today or tomorrow? Can't even remember...

I thought Destiny 2 's beta was Destiny 1, it damn well had better been helpful.

I can't see the level of the AI or bossed is this normal destiny 1 you could see their level while fighting them.

Now they just need to fix the weapon system and the movement physics and they're good to go.

Did they just high-five themselves as a marketing tactic? Aka, "don't pat yourselves on the back TOO hard, since we can't help but notice you haven't said what your returning player counts are..."