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[Victrix]

Really wish sniper rifles just bypassed sheilds if you use the right element. So tired of headshots not doing jack or taking 3 or 4 hits.

Precision damage does penetrate shields if the damage is sufficient to break the shield, you'll get the bonus on the remainder.

What I usually do with snipers is body shot a few times to weaken the shield with easy hits, then aim for the head on the shot that will break the shield to do precision damage and possibly stagger the target.

 

[DizzyCaffeine]

There's farming, and then there's shooting into a cave with respawning level 5 enemies for end-game gear. I'm totally fine with farming strikes for loot. Shooting into a cave (or just standing there) is lame. Really lame.

Lol, that was me yesterday. I was a lowly level 8, just wandering around, when I noticed a bunch of post level 20 players standing on a rock shooting into a cave. So I joined them. It was fun in a repetitive sort of way, and I gained 2 levels.

 

[MaGlock]

Just got to 21 anyone online on X1 want to do some strikes?

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Has anyone on Bungies side commented at all regarding all of the backlash this game is receiving?

There was a real apologetic Weekly Update about how their statistics show people literally can't stop playing.

 

[The Shogun]

I can't stand that guy.

He actually seems like a good guy but I agree I can't stand his review style.

It seems like every time he reviews a game he's just looking for ways to tear it apart. A game should at the end of the day just be about having fun. That doesn't mean everyone has to like every game or review it well but his in general just seem to be looking for reasons to bash games and come across as overly cynical.

Met him a couple weeks back though and he seemed like a good guy in person.

 

[Tovarisc]

Has anyone on Bungies side commented at all regarding all of the backlash this game is receiving?

Does it count that in weekly update they said that PvP loot reward system is where they want it to be with no plans to change it any time soon?

 

[Carcetti]

Lol, that was me yesterday. I was a lowly level 8, just wandering around, when I noticed a bunch of post level 20 players standing on a rock shooting into a cave. So I joined them. It was fun in a repetitive sort of way, and I gained 2 levels.

I've gotten all my useful loot from that cave. I've dabbled in level 20+ strikes and Crucible and gotten nothing from them but the magic cave gave me Light+15 rares in all slots. Zero legendary emblems, though, from anywhere in the game, so I'm 100% rare and zero purple level 24.

 

[CreateNowSleepLater]

Agreed. I spend a few hours on missions, strikes, the tower, getting upgraded materials and whatnot but close out my day at the cave. I can spend a couple hours their easily. So satisfying and rewarding just headshotting enemies while talking to friends about my day. It's like therapy. Plus, every 30 minutes you get an event to do and once an hour the enemy turns on each other and it's all out mayhem for 10 minutes with wizards and knights running all over the place. Getting 3 legendary and enough blue to rank up Cryptarch from a 6 to a 12 last night doesn't hurt, either.

EDIT: Every time I rank up Cryptarch, the mailman gives me a couple purple engrams to decode. Icing on the cake.

I actually tried to play legit yesterday and for a full day I could not rank up once. There just isn't enough rewards consistently. A friend and I did the daily strike yesterday and neither of us got anything.

They really need matchmaking in those things.

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

Aw yeah finally got my exotic weapon bounty.

Went with the shotgun. I really don't like shotguns, but I accidentally dismantled my rare one I was using for PvP and only had this stupid green one so I went with that.

Bungie really needs to insert a method to lock certain weapons in your inventory from being accidentally dismantled. I see this happening too often to Gaffers (hasn't happened to me, thankfully, cause I'm super careful after hearing about others doing it).

 

[commish]

Has anyone on Bungies side commented at all regarding all of the backlash this game is receiving?

What's funny is that, even with all the "backlash" this game is getting, I have dozens of people playing the game on my friends list at any given time.

 

[RazorUK]

Anyone on GAF with a higher combat rating?

Here are my crucible stats:

I can't believe I've played that many games already, has really flown by.

 

[Finn of Ooo]

Anyone have any tips for sunsinger in pvp? Not sure which talents to take, I like the sticky grenade and the bolt grenade, I also like the aerial hover, but two grenades seems too strong to pass up.

 

[CouchMaster]

Nah, I've gotten blues from those.

Ah I thought there was some logic behind getting blues from legendaries, I guess not.

 

[Fixed1979]

This, I don't enjoy PvP in general and I can't rely on having my mates online to do strikes so a bit of mindless farming helps me and my friends get geared up in a relatively short time frame to play the more fun stuff. I wouldn't mind if every exotic was a raid/strike reward but the gear necessary to get to at least [i[try[/i] those activities was more readily available. It may 'only' take a few dozen rounds of PvP to get the gear but most of my friends don't have that time, ten mins grinding will often provide enough gear to at least boost by one light level.

Improve the rewards for structured activities and the grind cave will fade away.

I get what you're saying but I can't agree that that the cave shouldn't be fixed. Level 20+ should not be in a starting zone shooting level 3-5 mobs for end game gear. It's poor game design, brought on by the lack of loot from other end game sources. Don't get me wrong I'll continue to take advantage of it, but I can't imagine this not getting changed at some point, I'm honestly a little surprised it's still going.

I've gotten all my useful loot from that cave. I've dabbled in level 20+ strikes and Crucible and gotten nothing from them but the magic cave gave me Light+15 rares in all slots. Zero legendary emblems, though, from anywhere in the game, so I'm 100% rare and zero purple level 24.

It took me awhile to get anything but blues. I still haven't had anything but blues drop for me. But I saved enough rep and coins to get a legendary and an exotic through vendor purchases...this is the only thing I can count on.

 

[The Shogun]

Has anyone on Bungies side commented at all regarding all of the backlash this game is receiving?

Is there any evidence there is any mass consumer backlash though?

I haven't seen any at least. The stats seem to back up people are playing the game like crazy. On average last week people were playing 4 hours a day. Thats a pretty incredible statistic considering how many mass market consumers purchased the game.

 

[Kor of Memory]

It seems like half of the maps in PvP for Control require a team hold a particular spawn side in order to have 2x the level advantage, or maybe it's just the last few I played.

Not quite half, but enough of them that it's a problem.

These maps seem pretty even:
First Light
Twilight Gap
Rusted Lands
Bastion
Shores of Time


Blind Watch - You better hope you are spawning on the C side of the map. The A side is terrible.

Firebase Delphi - Spawn at a so you have multiple options to approach B with. Spawning at C makes you very predictable.

Exodus Blue - Spawn A side since B is right around the corner.

 

[Hoodbury]

I maxed out my crucible marks for the week, 100/100. Do you guys know when that restarts?

 

[JetBlackPanda]

Has anyone on Bungies side commented at all regarding all of the backlash this game is receiving?

lawl.

hardcore snobs that literally don't like anything and elite game journalists hardly counts as backlash.

I kid.

honestly though from Bungies POV they have millions of players that can't stop playing.

I maxed out my crucible marks for the week, 100/100. Do you guys know when that restarts?

Tues.

 

[Aressa]

No Max rank for Vanguard/Crucible/Faction?

 

[Abelian75]

I maxed out my crucible marks for the week, 100/100. Do you guys know when that restarts?

It'll reset tomorrow morning (not sure the exact time. Midnight PST perhaps?).

 

[EmmaWatsonButt]

Do you guys think Bungie is ever going to nerf the treasure cave?

It's pretty relaxing after several intense hours of shooting monsters.

There are other good places to farm. The place in Mars where the Vex and the Cabal are in open combat, for one. You take out the Vex from one side and then the Cabal spawn the other side, and so on. Got a legendary engram in the first 15 minutes I was there

 

[Rixxan]

Nice stats, mine took a nose dive after doing a lot of gimmicky shit for Daily and Exotic Bounties, but im sure everyone is in that same boat.

And no, its a great perk on a hand cannon with 6 round clip but its not amazing.

11 round clip though, but still think its questionable

ill probably experiment with it a bit at least

 

[EL CUCO]

Got 2 Adcended Energy off of a Legendary engram. Thank you, RNGesus.

Now if you could only give me some gear that I can actually use it on.

 

[Bizazedo]

Does it count that in weekly update they said that PvP loot reward system is where they want it to be with no plans to change it any time soon?

That's not what they said. They said it was working as they originally designed, but not that they wouldn't change it.

Which doesn't make it better, but the specific wording of it did seem to indicate it could change.

Not quite half, but enough of them that it's a problem.


Blind Watch - You better hope you are spawning on the C side of the map. The A side is terrible.

Firebase Delphi - Spawn at a so you have multiple options to approach B with. Spawning at C makes you very predictable.

Exodus Blue - Spawn A side since B is right around the corner.

I was furious last night. We spawned A side in Blind Watch. Naturally, this meant we were losing as it was a pretty even game / even players. We finally manage to cap B and C and lose A. As a result, we start winning!

....then some idiot on the team capped A. Naturally, this switched some of the spawns, so we lose B and lose the game.

Never cap A. Never cap A. Argh, the rage. Curse you Bungie for not allowing us to "educate" our fellow random players.

 

[Rixxan]

Here are my crucible stats:

I can't believe I've played that many games already, has really flown by.

great stats, whats your preferred gametype? loadout?

 

[d9b]

I can't stand that guy.

Why?

 

[hydruxo]

Why?

Not a fan of his whole loud and angry schtick. I'm sure he has some good insight but I can't watch his videos.

 

[Raven77]

lawl.

hardcore snobs that literally don't like anything and elite game journalists hardly counts as backlash.

I kid.

honestly though from Bungies POV they have millions of players that can't stop playing.



Tues.

Well it is their most poorly received game, I think? Also, people on here seem to complain endlessly about it but I know GAF doesn't represent gaming as a whole.

I personally am really enjoying playing this with my friends.

 

[BraXzy]

Well then well then well then. I went to sleep last night after doing a bit of farming, and just turned in my loot. I had lots of blues, one out of 20 or so turned into a Legendary. I also had a legendary helmet and chest engram. The chest piece turned into the Exotic Lucky Rasberry. It's not the one I wanted but I'm not going to complain about it, since it is for my class! Oh and then the helmet engram turned into the exotic helmet 'An Insurmountable front' for Titan. I now have both a PvP and PvE exotic for a Titan I still haven't made since last night I also got an exotic chest for it.

 

[Seil]

Yeah it needs to be viable to PvP too.

I just wish Hunters were better for PvE. If I was forming a raid team I think I'd take another titan or warlock over a hunter.

Hunters can do camo revives and blade dancer is good for add control, but can still be risky, but other than that they don't have the co-op incentives Defenders and Sunsingers have.

Golden Gun is nifty in the raid I feel. It's helpful in the portals for taking out mobs to help the relic holder out. And with the frequency of super charges in that fight, it's not bad for dealing with the suicide bombing harpies either.

Arc Blade is often a bad idea in high level content which makes me sad. Most things you'd want to use it on laugh off the attacks then smash your head in x.x

Edit: Also, defender shield popping on you when you go to fire a rocket is a terrible feeling =p That definitely needs to be communicated haha.

 

[Definity]

I just figured out I can hold the trigger down on the last word exotic hand cannon and the thing will keep firing. I fail at reading.

 

[spacebear]

Yeah it needs to be viable to PvP too.

I just wish Hunters were better for PvE. If I was forming a raid team I think I'd take another titan or warlock over a hunter.

Hunters can do camo revives and blade dancer is good for add control, but can still be risky, but other than that they don't have the co-op incentives Defenders and Sunsingers have.

You'd be surprised how useful having Gunslinger Hunters is when dealing with horde mode/control the point/portal objectives in VoG

 

[scarletham]

Last night I had a dream that I was farming relic iron

Nightmare? You decide

 

[Sleepy Buddha]

I'm aiming for an exotic scout.

That and The Last Word would make my day... no, week. But no luck so far.

As for the Chriptarch, anyone have any idea how much the level actually affects the results? I'm now at level 8 but I seem to keep getting disappointing stuff.

And aside from the bounties, what's the fastest way to raise my Vanguard rank? I'm still at the beginning of rank 2 and would like to get to 3 reasonably fast. 2500 rep is a lot of patrol missions...

 

[death4romabove22]

I've had 100% hit rate with legendary engrams that were given by postmaster as a reward for leveling up Cryptarch, by 100% I mean legendary item or coins or motes but never a blue or green. I find it kinda curious..

Did that happen after you max out the cryptarch if so what's the max I'm at 11 myself ?

 

[Jarate]

Does anyone wanna carry me through the weekly nightfall strike, im only level 25, but I need to do it to get Thorn?

PSN is MC_Giygas, im on ps4

 

[The Shogun]

Not a fan of his whole loud and angry schtick.

Im very interested to see his Witcher 3 review. CD Projekt Red payed him to be their presenter / demo Witcher 3 for us at the GameStop Conference and he literally waxed poetically how it would be the greatest game of all time. He actually said that on stage. Seemed very strange coming from him considering how negative he usually is.

But as I said the guy seemed very cool and down to earth in person. I'm just not a fan of how cynical his reviews tend to lean towards.

 

[commish]

I just figured out I can hold the trigger down on the last word exotic hand cannon and the thing will keep firing. I fail at reading.

I too didn't know this. And then I found out. It's awesome.

 

[jett]

Did you guys know this game has a cover mechanic? If you crouch behind something and then ADs you will pop out. Let go of aim and you take cover.

Why was there no real tutorial

what

 

[Daemul]

I maxed out my crucible marks for the week, 100/100. Do you guys know when that restarts?

Perfect timing, you only have to wait one day, since it resets tomorrow. Some of us have had to wait since Wednesday ;_;

 

[Victrix]

And aside from the bounties, what's the fastest way to raise my Vanguard rank? I'm still at the beginning of rank 2 and would like to get to 3 reasonably fast. 2500 rep is a lot of patrol missions...

Nightfall gives something like 500. Bounties give a bunch a day.

Otherwise do split farming patrol runs with a full fireteam, you can gain a lot of rep by chaining insta-completion of patrols while farming chests etc.

 

[Seil]

Does anyone wanna carry me through the weekly nightfall strike, im only level 25, but I need to do it to get Thorn?

PSN is MC_Giygas, im on ps4

You don't need Nightfall for Thorn. A special level 26 version of the summoning pits opens on the moon map for Thorn. It's also annoying and doesn't have the shinies that Nightfall gives you, but isn't as bad as nightfall technically lol.

 

[Trumpet909]

Does anyone wanna carry me through the weekly nightfall strike, im only level 25, but I need to do it to get Thorn?

PSN is MC_Giygas, im on ps4

Just a note it's not the weekly nightfall you need, but a special level 26 version you select when you pick the strike on the moon map. It's very doable at 25, just need patience on the phogoth part.

 

[Tovarisc]

That's not what they said. They said it was working as they originally designed, but not that they wouldn't change it.

Which doesn't make it better, but the specific wording of it did seem to indicate it could change.

PvP loot system seems to be same as it was in Beta, 100% RNG where your performance in the match / gamemode doesn't matter at all, and even then a lot of people complained about it. Also back then Bungie said how they are collecting data, hearing complaints and "adjusting system".

Apparently nothing has been done to it so I don't expect nothing to change.

You can cap flags like a pro and pull KDR of 3.0, but you still have same chance to get that Exotic weapon from match as "AFK" player hiding in some corner and touching sticks every 10 minutes.

 

[The Librarian]

That and The Last Word would make my day... no, week. But no luck so far.

As for the Chriptarch, anyone have any idea how much the level actually affects the results? I'm now at level 8 but I seem to keep getting disappointing stuff.

I don't think leveling affects your results; it's basically another way to get more stuff.

 

[Jarate]

You don't need Nightfall for Thorn. A special level 26 version of the summoning pits opens on the moon map for Thorn. It's also annoying and doesn't have the shinies that Nightfall gives you, but isn't as bad as nightfall technically lol.

Just a note it's not the weekly nightfall you need, but a special level 26 version you select when you pick the strike on the moon map. It's very doable at 25, just need patience on the phogoth part.

Anyone still want to carry me lol, thanks for the tips

 

[Zakalwe]

Can't play Crucible.

Nothing registers for about 1-2 seconds. No matter what I try with my connection I can't seem to fix it.

I occasionally get a solid connect, those times I get around 3-5 k/d. With the delay I get in the majority of games I'm say at sub 1 overall.

Trying to just play around for but It's too frustrating. Really wish I could play pvp properly.

Any network experts have any ideas please?

My Ip is set to a static dmz. Wired connection. I don't know what else to try. If I don't fix it I'll have to quit pvp for the sake of my sanity.

 

[GruntOfAction]

Can't play Crucible.

Nothing registers for about 1-2 seconds. No matter what I try with my connection I can't seem to fix it.

I occasionally get a solid connect, those times I get around 3-5 k/d. With the delay I get in the majority of games I'm say at sub 1 overall.

Trying to just play around for but It's too frustrating. Really wish I could play pvp properly.

Any network experts have any ideas please?

My Ip is set to a static dmz. Wired connection. I don't know what else to try. If I don't fix it I'll have to quit pvp for the sake of my sanity.

You actually get games without delays?

On a good day I will shoot someone and it will register a kill a half second later. I thought this was just how the game was designed.. :c

 

[death4romabove22]

Nightfall gives something like 500. Bounties give a bunch a day.

Otherwise do split farming patrol runs with a full fireteam, you can gain a lot of rep by chaining insta-completion of patrols while farming chests etc.

So how much rep would you get for farming iron and spirit bloom ?

 

[jett]

Nah, mine was pretty much right there until a few days ago, started to explore different guns and playstyles and it's hurt me a bit, still got a decent KD though

does anyone think this weapon is pvp worthy? that radar while ADS bonus seems legit

Handguns are all awful in PVP. Except The Last Word.

There really are only four viable weapon types: auto rifles, shotguns, fusion rifles and heavy machine gun. Sniper rifle I guess in Bastion/First Light, maybe. Handguns, Scouts and Pulse are just lol.

Rocket Launcher is meh to me due to the low amount of ammo you get. I almost always go on 5+ kill streaks when I get ammo for my HMG.