Destiny 2 - The Removal of Titan Skating

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These clips were pulled from my stream: http://www.twitch.tv/sliq111 I stream Tues-Thurs, 7pm-11pm EST. Follow me on Twitch & Twitter to be informed of when I stream: https://twitter.com/Sliq1337 ---------------------------------------------------- Music: "Seven Lives to Live" by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://www.twinmusicom.org/song/270/seven-lives-to-live Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org ---------------------------------------------------- 00:00 - Intro 01:10 - Intention vs. Quality 03:04 - Thematics / Agility vs. Speed 05:15 - Tanky and Fast: A Common Trope 07:06 - MMO Themes vs. RPG Themes 11:00 - Skating is not Imbalanced 16:48 - The "Git Gud" Balancing Theory 21:10 - The Necessity of a Skill Gap 24:06 - The Joy of Growth and Improvement 25:31 - Your Opinion Isn't Wrong ---------------------------------------------------- I really enjoy Titan skating as a mechanic. I find it a lot of fun to use, and I find it and immensely unique experience. I can definitely understand if you don't like the mechanic personally, but there are some reasons people dislike skating that I feel are personally asinine. Intent: Whether skating was intended or not has no bearing on it's quality as a mechanic. Plenty of great things have been made entirely on accident (wine, penicillin), and purposefully designed things have been pieces of shit (NO MAN'S SKY). Thematics: You're personally dislike of a tanky character being fast has no bearing on whether or not skating is a quality mechanic. Furthermore, I provide my own thematic take on the Destiny classes to show how skating could fit into the whole picture. Balance: Skating has never been imbalanced, and historically, Titans have not been the best class. And when they are the best class, it is not solely because of skating, but an amalgamation of ALL OF THEIR ABILITIES. Ergo, you can have Titan skating if you balance around it, and one element isn't the issue, it's a combination of ALL OF THEM. Game balance should be focused around the best players in the world. When you are a middle tier player, your struggles against specific tactics can be attributed not to the tactic itself being overpowered, but the presence of a disparate skill level between you and your opponent. That is not to say you can't balance around middle tier players, but when you do so you have to make sure the ramifications are not so great that they diminish the quality of the game at the highest level. The ability to grow as a player to reach higher levels of play is a very fun experience because growth and learning is fun. That is why you level up in RPG's and grow stronger. That is why you level up in DESTINY and grow stronger. If you corrode the quality of gameplay at the highest level, and inadvertently reduce the skill gap between average players and great players, you remove any incentive to try and reach that higher level of play. In the process, you create a competitive environment where the outcome is less decided by talent. This results in a far less rewarding PvP experience for all involved. Great players don't feel rewarded for their investment at getting good, and average players have no reason to aspire to be great since being great is unrewarding. ---------------------------------------------------- Ward of Noon T-Shirts: http://www.redbubble.com/people/sliq111/works/22434220-integumentum-de-ad-meridiem-noon SliqAim T-Shirts: www.springtee.com/sliqaim ---------------------------------------------------- Join my Discord server and chat with me and folks when I'm off stream: https://discord.gg/0v4lFfnqx7NR8fdv Join my fan clan, Ward of Noon! XBox: https://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Xbox/1186937 PS: https://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Playstation/1190071 Be sure to specify if you are on XBox or PS in order to get the clan tag!

Destiny 2 - The Removal of Titan Skating

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• published: 11 Jun 2017
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These clips were pulled from my stream: http://www.twitch.tv/sliq111 I stream Tues-Thurs, 7pm-11pm EST. Follow me on Twitch & Twitter to be informed of when I stream: https://twitter.com/Sliq1337 ---------------------------------------------------- Music: "Seven Lives to Live" by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://www.twinmusicom.org/song/270/seven-lives-to-live Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org ---------------------------------------------------- 00:00 - Intro 01:10 - Intention vs. Quality 03:04 - Thematics / Agility vs. Speed 05:15 - Tanky and Fast: A Common Trope 07:06 - MMO Themes vs. RPG Themes 11:00 - Skating is not Imbalanced 16:48 - The "Git Gud" Balancing Theory 21:10 - The Necessity of a Skill Gap 24:06 - The Joy of Growth and Improvement 25:31 - Your Opinion Isn't Wrong ---------------------------------------------------- I really enjoy Titan skating as a mechanic. I find it a lot of fun to use, and I find it and immensely unique experience. I can definitely understand if you don't like the mechanic personally, but there are some reasons people dislike skating that I feel are personally asinine. Intent: Whether skating was intended or not has no bearing on it's quality as a mechanic. Plenty of great things have been made entirely on accident (wine, penicillin), and purposefully designed things have been pieces of shit (NO MAN'S SKY). Thematics: You're personally dislike of a tanky character being fast has no bearing on whether or not skating is a quality mechanic. Furthermore, I provide my own thematic take on the Destiny classes to show how skating could fit into the whole picture. Balance: Skating has never been imbalanced, and historically, Titans have not been the best class. And when they are the best class, it is not solely because of skating, but an amalgamation of ALL OF THEIR ABILITIES. Ergo, you can have Titan skating if you balance around it, and one element isn't the issue, it's a combination of ALL OF THEM. Game balance should be focused around the best players in the world. When you are a middle tier player, your struggles against specific tactics can be attributed not to the tactic itself being overpowered, but the presence of a disparate skill level between you and your opponent. That is not to say you can't balance around middle tier players, but when you do so you have to make sure the ramifications are not so great that they diminish the quality of the game at the highest level. The ability to grow as a player to reach higher levels of play is a very fun experience because growth and learning is fun. That is why you level up in RPG's and grow stronger. That is why you level up in DESTINY and grow stronger. If you corrode the quality of gameplay at the highest level, and inadvertently reduce the skill gap between average players and great players, you remove any incentive to try and reach that higher level of play. In the process, you create a competitive environment where the outcome is less decided by talent. This results in a far less rewarding PvP experience for all involved. Great players don't feel rewarded for their investment at getting good, and average players have no reason to aspire to be great since being great is unrewarding. ---------------------------------------------------- Ward of Noon T-Shirts: http://www.redbubble.com/people/sliq111/works/22434220-integumentum-de-ad-meridiem-noon SliqAim T-Shirts: www.springtee.com/sliqaim ---------------------------------------------------- Join my Discord server and chat with me and folks when I'm off stream: https://discord.gg/0v4lFfnqx7NR8fdv Join my fan clan, Ward of Noon! XBox: https://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Xbox/1186937 PS: https://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Playstation/1190071 Be sure to specify if you are on XBox or PS in order to get the clan tag!