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Destiny 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Players in Bungie‘s first-person lootshooter Destiny 2<\/strong> are increasingly unhappy with how badly the transmog<\/strong> system has been handled.<\/p>\n

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Even when it was announced, players could identify that Destiny 2’s proposed transmog system was a convoluted, grindy mess<\/a>. Simply put, Armor Synthesis (as it’s formally known) is limited, obtuse, requires lots of grinding, and involves the Eververse in-game premium store in a significant way.<\/p>\n

Not ideal then. What’s worse is that dedicated Guardians have deciphered that the Synthstrand – the base tier of three transmog currencies – is apparently time-gated.<\/p>\n

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Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

The fact that there’s nothing you can do in-game to speed up the rate at which you earn Synthstrand was initially spotted by r\/RaidSecrets poster Alonie-homie<\/a> and verified by Eurogamer<\/a> and other reddit users.<\/p>\n

Further research from the community suggests that reaching the transmog cap will take you nearly seven days of in-game playtime. “This puts the total time to reach transmog cap on one character at 53 hours and 20 minutes or 6 days and 16 hours for three characters,” said I3igB<\/a> on reddit. They show their work, too, breaking down that number in detail over at the link – and that time is based on if you’re only hunting out tokens via being in combat, and ignoring all other in-game activities.<\/p>\n

Polygon<\/a> reckons that means 25 hours of playtime per outfit you want to synthesize. That’s not a good look (no pun intended), and it’s not gone down well with the community at large.<\/p>\n

What stings, in the eyes of the community<\/a>, is that you can pay to speed the whole process up and bypass the grind: a single Synthweave Template will cost you 300 Silver, and the bundle will run you 1,000 ($10).<\/p>\n

Players are arguing that Bungie has intentionally made the grind long and tedious to push players towards spending premium currency if they want to transmog.<\/p>\n

A cursory look<\/a> at any Destiny community<\/a> will show you there are calls for the developer to acknowledge this issue, and provide information on what it plans to do to address players’ chagrin going forward.<\/p>\n

The post Destiny 2’s transmog really is pretty bad<\/a> appeared first on VG247<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Players in Bungie‘s first-person lootshooter Destiny 2 are increasingly unhappy with how badly the transmog system has been handled. Even when it was announced, players could identify that Destiny 2’s proposed transmog system was a convoluted, grindy mess. Simply put, Armor Synthesis (as it’s formally known) is limited, obtuse, requires lots of grinding, and involves the Eververse in-game premium store in a significant way. Not ideal then. What’s worse is that dedicated Guardians have deciphered that the Synthstrand – the base tier of three transmog currencies – is apparently time-gated. Watch on YouTube The fact that there’s nothing you can do in-game to speed up the rate at which you earn Synthstrand was initially spotted by r\/RaidSecrets poster Alonie-homie and verified by Eurogamer and other reddit users. Further…<\/p>\n

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