So the new season dropped a couple of days ago...took about 2 hours before the community was "foaming at the mouth" pissed. LMAO I dropped in yesterday to play for a bit and you get 2 quick intro missions to the season which are about 5 minutes long each. Then, IMMEDIATELY, you are right back to grinding bounties. I will say that I do like the way they have structured the Rasputin Bunker bounties though as you can do complete all of them (or at least most of them) in PvE or PvP, so that's pretty cool.
The new UI is pretty good and they have cleaned it up quite a bit. They did some serious work on the Quests tab and now it's all categorized and makes a lot more sense. I tried to do one of the "Legendary Lost Sectors" and on Day 1 of the season it's a fucking Power Level 1000 activity with Champions...I was getting 1-shotted by fucking Dregs. haha Since we had to get a new artifact my Power Level is back to 960, so being 40 levels low is tough. And unfortunately this season for Champions you'll be using hand cannons, sidearms, SMG's, and Auto Rifles for everything....god damnit!
I did a few rounds of the new PvE activity and it was OK, but not really very fun. It's basically a mix between a Black Armory Forge and Escalation Protocol; you start the event, control a zone for a short time, and then throw balls at a small target. To finish it off there's 2 champions and everything is on a timer. It's a 980 Power Level event so the first few times I did it with some randoms (no matchmaking...just have to hope people are there) we only got to about 70% completion before time ran out.
The new exotic for the season, Tommy's Matchbook, is an auto rifle which "overheats" as you use it causing more damage, but also cause burn damage to yourself. You can hip-fire to lessen the damage you take, so it's kind of strange. I used it for a bit and didn't really care for it, but we'll see what happens. Lots of glitches have been found already; the big one is for whatever reason the Whisper of the Worm and Zero Hour (heroic version only as I think) have some kind of power level issue, so you can roll into those missions and do 10K+ damage to everything via melee. LMAO
This season feels VERY dry and boring pretty much immediately. I got 5 levels on the Season Pass and just turned the game off...wasn't captivated to keep on running bounties to level up the Rasputin Bunker...just felt so stale. I don't know why but I was really hoping for more than just bounties for the next couple of months. Anyways, the Quality of Life stuff and is pretty good, and Trials starts this Friday, so maybe that will be enough to draw people in. For what it's worth people noticed today on Steam that Destiny 2 has some new methods for anti-cheating which would 100% prevent DDOS and supposedly network manipulation. I saw a post explaining it but most of it went over my head.