Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-25548717-20150520101434/@comment-25548717-20150523093632

Firstly, many thanks for the thoughtful response, it is much appreciated.

I guess there are two points to make here. Firstly, I don't have a particularly good internet connection where I live. Lag is pretty bad and, whilst I am paying for what is technically a broadband service, it's likely marginal compared with what most people get these days. I can still play destiny, but I suspect lag/latency might be a factor in why I am so unsuccessful in cooperative or PvP moders. Secondly, I have a minor physical disability that results in poor motor control of muscles, leading to poor eye-hand coordination. Believe it or not, I actually play computer games as a way of training myself and improving this [and it's very helpful].

Put the two things together and it makes PvP an unpleasant experience of, "Let's go! ... Dead... Let's go! ... Dead..." and so on.

Now, your other question, what am I trying to do that requires L34? Well, I have got completely stuck on several of the quests. For example, in "Ritual of the Forsaken", I am supposed to take an Urn to the World's Grave. I can get to the main chamber and I can trigger the part where the Hive spawn, but am dead within seconds. I've lost count of the number of times I've tried this quest. In the chamber itself, if you stand on the pedestal and face the centre of the room, there is the main entrance at your 2 o'clock and a second at your 10 o'clock. At your 11 o'clock there are 2 "plinths"... I have found my best success occurs if I just jump on to the plinth and fight from there... but even if I do that I only survive for the first wave, because the moment the second wave of acolytes and Knights start to emerge, I'm toast. In other levels I've figured out places from which to hide and fight, but not this quest.

So to get round this my approach has previously been to level up as far as I can, then go back and do it again. It means a lot of grind, of course, but it has worked up to this point.

What Bungie appear to have done now is force me to participate in things at which I stand little or no change in order to upgrade my gear and level up. It's looking as though I won't be able to level up, which means that the rest of the game becomes blocked for me: I will be unlikely to able to proceed further than this point.

In an ideal world, Bungie would have set the rules of the game engine to allow players like me to slowly get to where we need to be if we're willing to put in "the grind". I was able to do that and get my Titan and Warlock to Level 31 and my Hunter to Level 30, which is as far as I can take them without Raid Gear. If there was a way that I could continue to progress, then I'd be willing to try it. But this and a combination of enforced PSN+ might make that unrealistic.

Then again, the postman has literally just delivered me a copy of "Project Cars: Unlimited Edition", and I have a Logitech G27 and one of these

http://www.playseat.com/shop/eu/uk/promo-europa/playseat-wrc-logitech-g27-gearshift-holder-pro.html

so all is not lost!

Thanks again for your response.