Second Destiny Beta Thread of 'SMiLE! The Beta's back up! Welcome Everyone!'

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I'm kind of addicted to making Destiny gifs and I would like to share the odd one or two but they are fairly large (~20mb). Since I'm fairly new to posting here, is there a policy on gif use?
 
Just spent 2+ hours with a guy doing the Devil's Lair mission. There was another guy but he gave up. Me and jglegend or something fought off the waves for 1hour and another hour killing the goddamn leg tank thing and then finally a 30min+ fighting off the floating purple orb. An annoying but satisfying experience.

I need to buy this game.

That took me four tries. My first two we didn't get past the first wave. My third I lagged out. Fourth I rolled with two titans (myself a warlock) and we completed it with only a few deaths, no restarts. One of the most satisfying victories I've had in a multiplayer game.
 
Explored around in bed on my Vita last night. Worked wonderfully. Amazing that a network-intensive game such as this works so perfectly over remote play. There are some functions within the UI that are not useable on Vita yet but hopefully that is just because of the beta. Seems the stutter bug has been completely fixed because the framerate was a smooth 30fps last night. Anyone else agree about the stutter being gone?
 
Er, so I pre-ordered this and got my three codes. Gave two away and downloaded mine... to a flash drive. Load up the beta and I'm told the game doesn't run from am external drive (GG! on telling me that after the DL). So I delete it from the flash drive and go to re-download it to my HD... and there's no evidence of it in the 'my games' section. How to I re-download? Halp Gaf.
 
Takes all the fineesse in the world for me to overcome the narrow FoV and DS3. ;_;

Can't add learning a harder to use weapon on top, used to pc FoV and m&kb.

Auto rifle scrub for now. Apologies.
I was the very same when I started it after so many years of PC gaming. Couldnt hit anyone.

Ive gotten much better at it over the last few days.

I'm that guy that rushes to the purple ammo.

Don't judge me
And im the guy that kills you guys :P

Some people rush to it blindly and are easy kills
 
man pvp fucking sucks

who thought it was a good idea to bring your story weapons in. and all these different one hit attacks. i think ill stay with story and exploring
 
man pvp fucking sucks

who thought it was a good idea to bring your story weapons in. and all these different one hit attacks. i think ill stay with story and exploring

Standard PvP normalizes weapon damage.

Your equipment level, damage, etc. only matters in Iron Banner PvP.
 
man pvp fucking sucks

who thought it was a good idea to bring your story weapons in. and all these different one hit attacks. i think ill stay with story and exploring

I thought this at first. But then slowly started to learn how to play it and found it really enjoyable. Stick with it, it gets easier when you learn to use the radar and how to avoid special weapons/vehicles.
 
man pvp fucking sucks

who thought it was a good idea to bring your story weapons in. and all these different one hit attacks. i think ill stay with story and exploring
THE PvP is level and damage balanced. Only things that really matter are you weapons rate of fire and reload speeds as far as I know

Iron banner is where things change
 
Ugh i'm sick of fighting the devil walker in the devil's lair. 3 supers when the neck is exposed should just be enough to kill it. It's such a boring enemy to fight.
 
Behold! My new ride!
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i've wanted the black version but it's locked at lvl 15. :(

c'mon september!
 
man pvp fucking sucks

who thought it was a good idea to bring your story weapons in. and all these different one hit attacks. i think ill stay with story and exploring

I would say give it some time, are you level 8 yet?

I know for a firm fact, that I'm doing FAR better now that I'm L8 with some more skills under the belt.
 
So for those who have now had some time with the beta after it's come back up, noticed any changes or additions at all compared to prior to the maintenance period..?
 
Behold! My new ride!
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i've wanted the blac version but it's locked at lvl 15. :(

c'mon september!

I was drooling over that ship from the very beginning. Finally got the gray with yellow accents version.

Anyone feel the uncommon drops are better post maintenance? I'm starting to get a better variety of drops, and not just the same pulse rifle over and over again.
 
PvP with my warlock, I was lucky to have a 0.5 KD ratio prior to lvl 8. After that I was racking up multikills from my upgraded grenade and often killing two-to-three people before needing to reload. My last match I was something like 15 KD ratio. I should qualify this by admitting that I am pretty terrible at PvP in this game and I could plainly see that my increased ratio was not due to skill at all.

It reminds me a lot of WoW PvP in this respect. I hope it will be segmented in the same manner (lower levels and those with less upgrades are segregated from more powerful players). Either way I think it's a lot of fun, though I am favoring PvE a lot more.
 
Behold! My new ride!

i've wanted the black version but it's locked at lvl 15. :(

c'mon september!

Looks sweet. I still cannot figure out the reason for upgrading ships. I've also seen the level 15 one and wondered what the point would be. I'm guessing they'll give some kind of advantage in the full game.

I'm saving up all my glimmer for the last day of the Beta in case anything extra special becomes available for a limited time.
 
PvP with my warlock, I was lucky to have a 0.5 KD ratio prior to lvl 8. After that I was racking up multikills from my upgraded grenade and often killing two-to-three people before needing to reload. My last match I was something like 15 KD ratio. I should qualify this by admitting that I am pretty terrible at PvP in this game and I could plainly see that my increased ratio was not due to skill at all.

It reminds me a lot of WoW PvP in this respect. I hope it will be segmented in the same manner (lower levels and those with less upgrades are segregated from more powerful players). Either way I think it's a lot of fun, though I am favoring PvE a lot more.

I dunno dude... the classes are pretty balanced, all the supers are devastating when used right, and I reckon the other classes grenades are just as good, if not more useful.

I think you may be better than you think you are - 15 K/D is nothing to be squeaked at IMO.
 
Ugh i'm sick of fighting the devil walker in the devil's lair. 3 supers when the neck is exposed should just be enough to kill it. It's such a boring enemy to fight.

It takes forever. Such a grind. Felt good to beat but not that fun.
 
This game though..


The Titan class is pretty underpowered imo, whats up with that legendary amor, how do I get it? I guess I'll have to do the missions and test my luck?..
 
This game though..


The Titan class is pretty underpowered imo, whats up with that legendary amor, how do I get it? I guess I'll have to do the missions and test my luck?..

They require level 20. Beta's cap is level 8. Sorry, you gonna have to wait till the full game's release.
 
This game though..


The Titan class is pretty underpowered imo, whats up with that legendary amor, how do I get it? I guess I'll have to do the missions and test my luck?..

I feel the Titan will be uber once you get some of the later powers. We're stuck at the bottom.
 
Ugh i'm sick of fighting the devil walker in the devil's lair. 3 supers when the neck is exposed should just be enough to kill it. It's such a boring enemy to fight.

Supers don't even do all that much damage to it's exposed parts imo. I've always been thoroughly unimpressed by the damage output of the Golden Gun against the Walker and the strike boss.

3 shots from a sniper rifle to the weak area of a walker is upwards of 3700 damage. In my experience, Supers are best kept to personnel.
 
So, I tried the Titan in the alpha. In the first days of the beta I tried the Hunter.

Both are good.

Should I try the warlock? :D
 
THE PvP is level and damage balanced. Only things that really matter are you weapons rate of fire and reload speeds as far as I know

Iron banner is where things change

really ? because im getting one or two shotted every know and then and when im not someone is shooting me with a charged shot or a nova bomb
kill times are ridicilous as far as i can tell almost cod level

nova bomb is a guaranteed 1+ kill anyways is there a mode where abilities are not allowed ?

this game is not designed around mp at all.
 
I've had fun with Destiny but I'll be stopping now that I know enough. I don't want to waste time levelling up only to lose the progress if I buy the full game. I'd actually be more inclined to buy the full game if my progress carried over and trophies synced straight away.
 
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