Genre: Shooter, First-Person Shooter
Developer: Bungie Software
Publisher: Activision
ESRB Rating: Teen
Release Date: out now
April Activities Update will be available to all Destiny: The Taken King players beginning 04.12.16.
The battered remnants of the Reef are mopping up the lingering Taken forces throughout the system. The worst have been captured by the Awoken and await judgement in the Prison of Elders, but a pretender to Oryx’s vacant throne has escaped Variks’ vengeful grasp. Hunt the dark beast down before he grows too powerful and reap the rewards that await you.
NEW CHALLENGES
New challenges will demand greater power. Increase your Light Level to 335 in the April Update.
- New Quest Featuring the Blighted Chalice Strike
The Taken King is dead. Yet still his armies claw at our worlds. Even as you lead the assault on the Dreadnaught, a powerful would-be Taken Prince fled for safety of the shadows. Hunt him down before he grows too powerful.
- Taken Strike: Winter’s Run
A cell from the Prison of Elders! The Taken now corrupt this territory where the Fallen House of Winter once attempted to raise a powerful Archon Priest. Fight your way to the cell. Stop the Taken surge.
NEW & UPDATED REWARDS
Both Chroma and Taken-themed gear can be found in Sterling Treasures. Three Sterling Treasures can be obtained each week by visiting the Postmaster after each weekly reset, successfully completing one Level 40 Prison of Elders activity, and completing one match in the featured Weekly Crucible Playlist. Additional Sterling Treasures can also be purchased via Tess Everis in the Eververse Trading Company store.
Chroma is a new feature that can be applied to select sets of gear and weapons to further customize your Guardian.
Destiny: The Taken King is the third expansion of Destiny, which was first released in 2014. The Taken King is also the greatest expansion ever presented by Destiny, especially when compared to The Dark Below and House of Wolves, two previous expansions. In addition to so much new content that is so interesting, The Taken King marks the beginning of the second year of the game Destiny, or in the game called Year 2. So many new features offered in the expansion, you will feel like getting a new game using the old gameplay known, especially when you are a fan of this game.
Welcoming the release of this expansion as well, Bungie as the developer sums it all up in a package called Legendary Edition. In the package, you will find all the content in a relatively economical price. Because, when you purchase the content separately, you need to pay about 300 to 400 thousand more. However, the drawback is the size of the files you need to Download from the Internet. At least you need to prepare about 18 GB both on PS4 and XBOX One as well as on the Internet connection.
All the new content you can find in this expansion is worth the fight. Starting from a new story to a variety of interesting activities you can find in it. So also with a myriad of new combat gear that you can use. The Taken King also opens a new gear slot that you can use in combat, such as new weapon types and new attack skills. Various new additions in the gameplay will definitely change the way you play and at the same time provide a new experience to play Destiny.
Oryx Revenge, King of the Taken Forces
The story on The Taken King began long before the expansion itself was released in September. If you had time to play the first expansion, The Dark Below, then you must have met the leader of the Hive forces called Crota. Hive is a horrible-shaped Darkness creature based on the Moon. After Crota was defeated by a Raid event that required a slick collaboration between six Guardians, Hive's plan to attack the Earth was broken. Unfortunately, the story does not end there.
Apparently, Crota is the son of the king of Taken forces named Oryx. Unlike Hive, Taken is Oryx's special forces with a very dangerous mysterious ability. Through the power of Oryx capable of manipulating the dimensions, all living things can be drawn into another dimension and returned to this world into a new creature, named Taken. Taken is very much on Oryx's will and the king's aim is only one; attacked Earth to avenge him against the Guardian who had killed his son, in other words he wanted to kill you!
Oryx builds his troops so easily. All the factions that have been your enemies transformed into Taken with much more powerful power. That's why when Taken appears in the middle of your journey, all factions will try to fight Taken. So do not be surprised if you see your enemy fighting each other fiercely. However, in the end Taken will defeat it all and then concentrate on you! Against Taken alone proved to be not an easy thing to do.
The story in this expansion still follows the tradition of Destiny before. What you find in a variety of cutscene and dialogue covers only the surface. Through a variety of unlock named Grimoire that can be obtained through various conditions, you can open the official website on bungie.net and find a much deeper story. Each Grimoire will reveal the stories behind what you find in the game, and often you can find surprising secrets.
Destiny is a First Person Shooter game that combines a variety of skills into the characters you play. As if you are playing an Action RPG game but using a gameplay shooter. The number of combat gear that you can find in the game is also not less many kinds with RPG Action. This is what makes the players so comfortable to continue playing a variety of Strike (similar to Dungeon in RPG Online) and Raid that require cooperation between 6 players. Because, level is not so meaningful in this game; the gear you use is much more important.
The importance of skill in gameplay that emphasizes teamwork is not just a figment. Before this expansion is released, players can use one of two skills called Subclass which is divided into three Class (Titan, Hunter, and Warlock). Each Subclass has its own usability when used in Fireteam, a designation for a group of players or Party. Examples of such Subclasses may, for example, be used to survive, attack individually, attack in large areas, or as supporters that strengthen other players' skill attacks.
The Taken King introduces a new Subclass for each Class that exists today. Basically, all Subclasses have the same properties, ie as wide area attacks. However, you can also find skill that requires quite a technique, like that of Hunter. Through the Nightstalker Subclass, Hunter will use arrows made of Void energy to give different effects, depending on which direction the arrows are released. When he is fired to the enemy, it will be a deadly attack. However, if he is released to the ground near the enemy, he will bind the enemy so they can not move!
Another with the Warlock's Titan and Stormcaller Sunbreaker. Sunbreaker will call a fire hammer that can be thrown at the enemy repeatedly until the energy runs out. Whenever exposed to an enemy, he can add an HP Titan so he is getting harder to beat. While Stormcaller can issue a lightning attack on a large area and his attack will grab onto other enemies around him. Just by looking at the nature of this new Subclass is instantly seen so many possibilities that can occur when playing in the team later.
Cap Level and New Weapon Type
The expansion of The Taken King obviously increases the difficulty higher when compared with previous expansion. That's why the Level Cap or Level limit is also upgraded to 40. However, the main strength of your character or Guardian is not the level, but the Light it has. Light Magnitude previously increased after you go through the maximum level in lieu of level increase is also influenced by the gear used. Now, Light will always increase when you use a stronger gear even though the level is not yet maximum.
Big Light is apparently affect the bonus attacks and defense you have. However, the effect is not just up to it. In this great expansion, Light when you open an unidentified gear, or in this game called Engram, will affect the gear that will later be obtained. Usually it will produce gear with a scale of attack or defense equivalent to or greater with the average value of Light. So also with the gear dropped by the enemy that you are fighting.
It is very clear that the gear you use will greatly affect the power of the Guardian you play. That's why in this latest expansion you can find new types of interesting weapons, namely Sidearm and Sword. Sidearm is a pistol-shaped weapon used in Special Weapon slots. Unlike the Hand Cannon used in the Primary Weapon slot, Sidearm has more bullets and higher attack speed. The weapons introduced in the expansion of the House of Wolves are increasingly enlarged in the expansion collection of The Taken King.
While Sword is a sword used on Heavy Weapon slot. This short-range weapon has such a high attack power and can easily penetrate the enemy's defenses. Surprisingly, you need Heavy Weapon's ammunition to use this weapon. However, seeing the potential of this weapon, it seems that the limitation is applied to balance the use of this weapon, especially when fighting in PVP mode (player against player); modes that limit the occurrence of Special and Heavy Weapon munitions over time. Nevertheless, Sword in the hands of experienced teams and used at the right time can kill enemy bosses very quickly.
Sometimes, you find a Legendary or Exotic gear that skill in it you like or it may be cool. In the previous expansion, you are forced to give up to be replaced with a more powerful gear. No longer; on this expansion you will find a very interesting new feature, namely Infuse. This feature is useful for strengthening your Legendary or Exotic gear by "eating" other gear with higher value! That means you can continue to use the gear you like and the value of the Light will continue to grow as long as you are able to feed it!
However, Infuse is not cheap. In addition he needs a lot of materials, including rare materials such as Mote of Light, Exotic Shards, and Legendary Marks. In addition, he also needs another gear to eat; gear with higher value, same type, and some other conditions. The advantage is that the infused gear will increase its value by 80% of the gear value difference given infusion and eaten. For example, you infuse a gear worth 200 with a gear worth 210. The difference is 10 and 80% of 10 is 8. Then, your gear will change from 200 to 208!
The addition of attack and defense values is not limited to strengthening the Light feature via Infuse only. You can also find some changes to the old gear, such as the value of defense on Ghost and accessories that previously was just a mere sweetener. In addition, you will also get a new slot for Artifact that can be obtained after reaching level 40. The Artifact in addition to having a great defense value, it is also able to increase the value of Intelligence, Strength, and Discipline; points that sequentially affect the cooldown time for Super attacks, melee, and grenades.
Another new feature that enliven The Taken King is the emergence of new venues for Strike, Raid, and PVP. As for Oryx itself, it has a new area to explore named Dreadnought. This great super-fighter ship holds so many secrets and most of it is useful to get a new, large-powered Exotic gear. In addition, every secret will open more Grimoire and automatically give you a bigger chance to know the secret behind Oryx power.
At the Tower, the Guardian's main headquarters, there can also be found interesting new features. Now you can find and buy a variety of Exotic gear, emblems, shaders for coloring gear, Sparrow (ground vehicle), and Ship ever purchased or found. Through the display boards are plastered in several locations, all the objects that have been found can be easily obtained. Its usefulness is to make it easier for you to use certain objects in other characters without having to move them between characters through storage or Vault.
The last feature that is not less interesting is Emotes. Through the feature, you can use pre-set gestures in the D-pad button to show the expression. Emotes can be purchased using Silver, a special currency that can only be increased in amount by buying it in the Store alias using real money or Rupiah. When you buy The Taken King Expansion, your Silver balance automatically gets added, so you can buy cheap expression. Starting from the expression of clapping hands, dancing, encouraging, saluting, to show the disappointment can be found in the Emotes store.
What Do We Expect from Destiny 2? destiny taken king
Destiny is always a matter of cooperative multiplayer. Apart from the various shortcomings. If your Fireteam all buy a Destiny 2 or a new expansion pack in the future, then it is likely that you will also be tempted to do the same.
Although still a rumor, news of the Destiny 2 development plan left a mixed feeling in our heads. On the one hand knowing that Destiny is still going to show up and its story develops giving happiness. But on the other hand sometimes developers "Get too greedy" with the success of their game. The worst thing is all that has been fought with our colleagues through several hundred hours of play together dumped into the trash because the developers decided Destiny 2 will not use data from Destiny at this time. It's not impossible that this happens, especially when the game uses a new engine.
In our opinion, the greatest strength of Destiny itself is in Fireteam aka friends who accompany you to play. When you play alone, then this game feels bland. When associated with Destiny 2, regardless of rumors about the cost of subscriptions or purchases of objects through the Premium Store, such as Silver on The Taken King, as long as a loyal friend in Destiny comes to Destiny 2, it is likely that we will return entrusted loyalty to the game the new.
Destiny: The Taken King is an expansion that is quite expensive but comparable in content. Not only are you spoiled with so much new content and enhanced gameplay, the challenges that can be found in this expansion are also increasing dramatically. Players who still survive the old Destiny will unfortunately feel depressed, as many of the features are limited there. As if you were forced to buy this expansion in order to get back the game you've purchased.
Advantages
- New story
- Lots of new gear
- Enemy difficulty increases
- Gear can be upgraded
- Subclass and new weapon types
- Many new areas
- Many secrets to discover
Deficiency
- Download Size is huge
- Some of the old locations, including expansions 1 and 2, are unattractive to follow for giving weak gear gifts (Year 1)
- Forcing the owner of Destiny to purchase the expansion of The Taken King due to the abundance of features in the vanilla game
Suitable for gamers: Likes Destiny, shooter with RPG spice, and action games
Not suitable for gamers: Do not have much free time
Do not look to the future with blind eyes. The past is very useful as a windshield rather than the future.
