There's no getting around the fact that Destiny 2 butchered the cosmetic shader system of the first game so that it could exploit the whole thing in the name of microtransactions, and as if we didn't hate the overhauled system enough already, we've just found out that it's wasted a combined 25 years of players' time.
Deleting shaders in Destiny 2 is an absolute chore. As a Reddit user points out, it takes one second or so to delete a single shader, and yes, you can only remove one of them at a time. When you've collected a huge number of unwanted shaders, you're usually sitting there for what seems like an eternity, although it is worth pointing out that Bungie is adding mass shader deletion in an upcoming patch. Thank god.
Anyway, the developer has rather comically revealed that 807,635,124 shaders have been deleted in Destiny 2 thus far. And according to Reddit, that adds up to 25.6 collective years. Over 25 years of deleting bloody shaders.
We know the joke is that Destiny loves wasting your time, but this is a bit on the nose isn't it?
[source reddit.com, via eurogamer.net]
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Haha great. To be honest I do kind of miss opening my inventory to scrap a load of junk. It was kind of cathartic.
The joke is on us, and that includes me.
To be fair I probably scrapped what.. 100? So 100 seconds. That's nothing versus the time I spent in orbit lol
@kyleforrester87 Time spent in orbit is relatively productive though, since you're waiting for the game to load.
But I get where you're coming from, I dread to think how many hours I've spent sitting looking at my ship fly through the same stretches of space.
@kyleforrester87 I'm so glad @ShogunRok replied to you, because as someone who isn't all too familiar with the game, ''spent in orbit'' made no sense to me lol.
@ShogunRok I agree the shader thing is borked, but a lot of games have arguably tedious inventory management that you just kind of have to embrace. Diablo, Pillars, Divinity, No Mans Sky spring to mind. Witcher 3's was a problem for me too, I know they patched that up.
Obviously, on an individual basis we're talking a fairly small amount of time per player spent deleting shaders (<10 minutes?).
But again, I agree the shaders in D2 are a bit of a disaster, relatively speaking.
@Octane basically a bunch of us on the forum used to get together on a Friday evening, take a bunch of mushrooms and spend the night in orbit. If we were lucky a few of us would have a legendary night. I think Ramsey and Noisy even once shared an exotic.
@shogunrok @kyleforrester87 well atleast in orbit loading in you can still access inventory and change loadouts, as such. So it's not completely wasted time loading in. I think that helps alot.
@jonny_aces that's true. It's like on old Commodore games you'd sometimes be able to play Space Invaders while your game was loading lol.
Just pretend you're popping bubble wrap when you're deleting shaders and you're there!
Bungie care not, they did not bother to fix this system until the upcoming September update, more than likely and this isn't said in jest, it will be broken.
@kyleforrester87 the true end game was deleting as many shaders as possible while in orbit, only a filthy casual would not know this
Destiny 2 is a waste of time so ya
At first I was reading that title and I was excited...I was like 'omg I can't believe that Push finally admitted that Destiny is crap'...but then it's only about the shader system
Destiny is mostly crap. Change my mind.
The best thing about Destiny 2 is not playing it
@ShogunRok @kyleforrester87 I delete my shaders only while I'm waiting in orbit
This comments section is brutal
Best part: This was only Season 3, not the first two.
@kyleforrester87
I wasted a week (604800 seconds) with this game thinking they listened to our collective complaints with the first game. I was wrong, and proceeded to delete the game installation. Sadly I own it digitally (like all of my games) and it sits like a constant reminded in my library telling me not to trust once great companies. Bungie has failed us.
What's a shader?
And how many shaders where the same with just 2 colours switched around I wonder shaders where pointless
Or the abridged version. Destiny 2 has wasted players time
Let's all be honest, Destiny 2 was made to get inside your wallet. Everything could had been on Destiny 1. But no that would be too easy. As many said, you're better off not playing it.
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