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Joe Blackburn Profile picture
@joegoroth
Sep 5, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
There is a tester at Bungie that has the best method for teaching people raid encounters.

They tell people the one sentence description of the fight, then immediately pull.
“This fight we have to go into portals and destroy oracles then we kill the boss.” Okay go!
The first pull is almost always a wipe, but they’ve given everyone in the raid something incredibly valuable..... experience.
So now before the second pull, they can go into detail about the strategy. But the team has context, they can ask smart questions because they’ve seen what’s coming.
This willingness to give people the chance to fail almost always results in the team learning the fight much faster than raid leaders who just start off with a 20 minute monolithic explanation and then expect a flawless first attempt.

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May 26
The more I do it, the more I realize I don’t have any great advice about game development…but here’s a thing.

You’re right about your boss being an idiot.
So when you start making games people will warn you, that most of it is going to be bad. It’s the truth.
In the process of checking in changes to perforce you are going to make a lot of mistakes.
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Jan 31
Next month, The Final Shape will be hitting one of its most critical internal milestones: a ritual we call the End-to-End playtest.

This ritual has been a key part of development since Forsaken.
It’s multiple days of consecutive internal playtesting that not only generates incredibly valuable closing feedback on everything coming this summer, but also spiritually kicks off a shift towards bug fixing and polish work.
Heading into this milestone, I've gotten to play 100s of hours of The Final Shape, and what the world-class talent here at Bungie has created has quickly become of the things I'm most proud to have worked on throughout my career.
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Feb 22, 2023
It's me, Joe, your local Destiny 2 Game Director, wading into the waters of the internet to talk about increasing the base difficulty of the Vanguard Ops playlist.
This content specifically has unintentionally become less engaging compared to our Guardians' power over time over the last few seasons, and we want to course correct that in Lightfall.
While we still have a lot of reward tweaks planned throughout this whole year, when we ask Guardians to play Vanguard Ops for pinnacles or weekly challenges next season, we want to make sure that content has kept up with the player power increases over the years.
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Jan 14, 2023
New Twitter keeps showing me this. So I'm going to go through the list one by one here, and see if Destiny 2 has the trope.

We're pretty big now, so I'm guessing we hit at least 30. Yall can keep me honest.
pcgamer.com/50-sci-fi-game…
1. Floating rocks

Oh yeah. floating rocks rule.
2. Floating gas bag creatures ❌

No? right? We've certainly got a lot of floating creatures. But I feel like popping the ether on a dreg headshot gives you a little bit of this joy.
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Dec 7, 2022
I just wanted to step in and say: Heard loud and clear on the feedback with our current seasonal backbones. The team is excited to put some more creative risk in seasonal progressions, but there will be some time before the feedback catches up with the dev cycle. Preview:
Coming up next is Lightfall and Season 20. While Guardian Ranks and Neomuna destination pursuits are going to shake things up- on the seasonal pursuit side our major focus is reducing complexity and improving the synergy between your seasonal pursuits and the rest of the game.
Season 21 is at the halfway mark of development, and the team is currently looking at ways to differentiate progression aside from having a more novel activity setup in the works.
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Mar 1, 2022
The team's been playing a lot of Witch Queen. Wanted to give some quick updates on where our head is at with some week 1 reactions. [1/13]
First, aren't super happy with how unpredictable it can be to complete Report: Relic Data for the Evidence Board quest chain. [2/13]
We're still monitoring the time commitment for unlocking and upgrading crafted weapons, but the drop rates and unlock requirements for the Wellspring Throne World weapons are currently going to gate off too many players from being able to earn their exotic glaives. [3/13]
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