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QUEST - Interference | DESTINY 2 [PC]
The weekly lore/pinnacle grind in the final season of Year 4.

I did not finally get around to doing this until mid August 2020, well after the announcement of Year 5/expansion delays were made, and the extension of Season 11... during the final, end of year Solstice event to be accurate. It had also been at least a full month, since I had even fired up the game.

As a one off run, this level was fun, varied... beautiful. In some ways it was another sad reminder of what once was. It is levels like this that remind you how good Destiny 2 can be.

What it takes to get here though, I cannot justify repeating. As a living, story progressing piece of game design, offering alterations each week in the tree and such, and a little bonus bit of new dialogue from Eris at the end... this is the exact same approach used for the weekly Ascendant bounties during the first few months of Forsaken... however the Ascendant challenges were clever, accessible, awesome, and 100% solo-able and could be given the speed run treatment if you had the skill.

This however requires that you first farm the Contact events that are 100% about firepower, not skill. If it were possible to solo those events, you would have to be on the bleeding edge of + Power ratings with the latest meta weapon exploits/advantages. And considering the event itself is basically a one sided, one-team-only Gambit match that is also setup to imitate Escalation Protocol from Mars... I do not see that being possible without using all out cheats... so no, not an option.

In short, the contact events are far from a casual little farm. It requires GRINDFEST repetitions to then "be allowed" to replay this mission each week.

I would have liked to have seen the evolution of that tree during the season had this been more accessible and skill focused as a living bit of content. Unfortunately the payoff was a single power item and a tiny bit of lore... I was right in judging that it would not be worth the amount of time invested, just like every other GRINDFEST bit of content from Year 4.

Even if you have a highly coordinated group of good, skilled, and equipped clan members to smash this out, I still cannot justify this kind of time sink when you take into consideration how many other things are in the game that need grinding to keep pushing your Power level up... then add the loot grinding for optimal gear rolls... it is out of control.

This is another very clever bit of game design, reduced to a long, drawn out re-grinder that can only be replayed by those with a gaming addiction, and NOTHING to do in the real world.

You will also notice the amount of lore I picked up at the end... clearly there was no need to grind this out every single week to catch those snippets of dialogue... this one run had the accumulated lore just sitting there waiting to be triggered. There may be another three or four bits of lore to hear... but this was a one time play through for me. I love the story, but... no.

NOTE: This is not a guide, these Destiny 2 vids are just me capturing some of the more memorable missions/activities/etc. As the game becomes more and more of a grindfest for MMO nerds that can waste all hours of the day, every day, grinding mindlessly... I can at least look back at this beautifully crafted world and be reminded of some really good gaming sessions, and the really good times outside of the game during those "good ole days."
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