Anyone playing this on PS4 yet? My copy came in last night and I messed around with it for a little bit. I basically just went into missions solo and joined up with random people. In Borderlands people had to join your game to play with you. This could be friends or strangers from matchmaking. Destiny is a little different. I would just travel to the planet a mission takes place on and see that there are people off in different directions fighting enemies and running around. If you see someone going to the same place as you it's likely that they are doing the same mission. You can interact with them and choose to join up as a fire team.
You have to do the opening sequence solo but after that you can join with anyone. I didn't have a ton of time to play last night but I did 2 missions with strangers and 1 solo after the opening sequence. The first time someone came up to me and asked me to join their fire team and the second time I saw someone the same level as me and asked him to join my fire team. Both guys were using the mics and pretty cool. It wasn't my typical online gaming experience with strangers where its full of screaming and insults.
The typical mission structure seems to be an MMO style world where random people will sometimes be trying to kill the same enemies as you whether you join up with them or not. Then the end of the mission always has an instanced section where just you and your fire team are there and you no longer see anyone else. This is usually a boss fight or a huge onslaught of rushing enemies. When this happens respawning is restricted. As long as at least 1 person is still in the fight you can respawn but if everyone is down at the same time you have to go back to your previous checkpoint. This makes things a lot harder when you try to play solo.
Another difference between this and Borderlands is that the loot isn't shared. Both people see their own version of the loot box so it doesn't have the Borderlands effect of having to get to the loot first or you don't get anything. That being said, the loot is much more scarce here. It's not just popping out of every 3 or 4 enemies you kill and there aren't loot boxes all over the place. I think I have played 4 missions and only found 2 loot boxes so far. You are given random loot for completing pretty much every mission but the loot drive doesn't feel as addicting as it does in Borderlands and Diablo.
Anyways, I'm having an okay time playing with random people I jump in with but it would obviously be more fun if I had a group of friends playing. Anyone else here have this for PS4? I plan on playing tonight and over the weekend if anyone wants to try teaming up. I think I'm around level 3 or 4 right now if that matters.
I would also be up for some Diablo 3 co-op. Me and Stimpson have been talking about getting together but we haven't been on at the same time so far.
