This was a busy weekend, largely because I spent most of it not in Oklahoma. We opted to take a fall break trip down to Dallas, and in some ways it was a really awesome trip… but in other ways it was not. When we left town on Friday morning it was raining, and for the most part did not stop raining until some time over night. This made for a very cold and wet trip, combined with lots of moments when it was raining so hard that I could barely see the road ahead of me. This became more stressful when I was crammed between two lines of K-Rails and the two lanes of traffic felt super squeezed together. We made it there safely, but the trip took way longer than it normally would have given the circumstances. Under perfect conditions with zero stops, we can make it to Frisco where we were staying in the hotel in roughly 4 hours… we were not under perfect conditions, and we stopped constantly to roam around. Friday was largely spent meandering around hitting various places along the way.
This made for a very compact Sunday, trying to get everything that we normally have to do on a Sunday done as well as anything triggered by being out of the house for two days. This mean’t that most of my gameplay yesterday was in several fragmented chunks which largely involved running Headless Horseman in World of Warcraft on all of my tanks, and leveling in Destiny 2 as I had yet to hit the level cap nor really make much traction in the story. I am a little weird when it comes to approaching Destiny content in that I prefer to level up independent of the story, and then grind through the story knowing that anything that happens to drop will potentially fuel my later item level grind. I largely took this screenshot because occasionally I forget that I end up getting paired with local people through Bungie’s matching algorithm that factors connection quality above pretty much anything else. Notice the player GerthBrooks… which made me chuckle at first and then was a little disturbed by it. For the uninitiated, Garth Brooks is also an Oklahoman and while his girls were in High School literally lived in the same town as I do.
Another thing I found out this weekend is that Escalation Protocol is really damned good for leveling… as there were groups I managed to get in the same instance with that were farming the level 7 boss. This thing drops some shaders, but also a chest that requires some sort of key that I am going to have to figure out. Upon some quick googling it seems like I simply didn’t do much content in Warmind, and as a result don’t have any keys to open these things with. The truth is that I largely bounced hard after grinding up my second account worth of characters upon the PC release. I managed to stick it through until the Curse of Osiris expansion, but the repetitive nature of that content left me annoyed. I will admit however that so far Forsaken seems really cool, I picked up and did some more of the story last night.
My highest priority however is to sort out how to do the Festival of the Lost content before it disappears. I had enough of the cash shop second chance currency to pick up this sweet corrupted ship. Past that I hear there is a better version of the infinite forest that I need to check out, that has a chance of dropping what appears to be a really sweet auto rifle. I contemplated playing God of War, but with the fragmentation of my play time… I focused on something that I could drop in and out of quickly rather than something that would require my full attention for long periods of time. Depending on how tonight goes… will determine if I return to Destiny for Festival stuff, or play some Dad of War. Regardless I managed to hit 50 the new level cap and am at 500ish light, so now to finish the story and get geared again. The lack of weapon options are driving me insane right now… but it is forcing me to use combinations that I never would have before. I’ve been getting a lot of play out of sidearms since they game keeps dropping them for me.