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Destiny - The Taken King |OT| Time to Explain

Vire said:
Sure am glad I get to go back to Venus for the zillionth time in an area that looks identical to what came out when the game first launched.

As soon as I was getting excited for this DLC, I see this shit.
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It's a Playstation exclusive strike.

They have always been extremely simple and set in areas that are barely modified cause Bungie doesn't put much effort into stuff that is 1 year exclusive to 1 console.
 
I haven't played destiny in months. Will past characters scale? I have a level 28 Hunter and I don't really want to start from the beginnning. :P

Also has the game changed for the better? How is the content now?

Sold my oroginal copy and am buying the Legendary Edition.
 
Nothing1016 said:
I haven't played destiny in months. Will past characters scale? I have a level 28 Hunter and I don't really want to start from the beginnning. :P

Also has the game changed for the better? How is the content now?

Sold my oroginal copy and am buying the Legendary Edition.
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Just play the game, you will hit 40 by xp alone. Check the first post, a lot of changes
 
Klyka said:
It's a Playstation exclusive strike.

They have always been extremely simple and set in areas that are barely modified cause Bungie doesn't put much effort into stuff that is 1 year exclusive to 1 console.
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Looks like a rather fun strike to me, they added an objective which would be annoying to solo so team work is important and the boss has a trick to it instead of being a pure bullet sponge.

If the other included strikes in TTK are not this detailed i'm going to rage, and with how destiny has gone so far it's totally possible.
 
Whoops......so apparently not all emblems are in the emblem collection? I got rid of field of light and it's nowhere to be found?
 
Q: Am I still able to upgrade digitally from last-gen to current-gen for free?
A: No, the free digital upgrade is no longer valid.
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I enabled that upgrade last year, if I get a PS4, will I still be play download Destiny or not?

Q: Is an online subscription required to play Destiny?
A: An Xbox Live Gold and Playstation Plus membership are required to play Destiny on Xbox One and PS4, respectively. They are required for most activities on PS3 and Xbox 360 except STory and Patrol modes.
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Wait what? You need PS+ to play Destiny on PS3 now? If true, I guess this is truly over for me and Destiny then.
 
GhaleonEB said:
When vanilla Destiny shipped, you were blocked at level 29 unless you got a full set of raid gear. No boots, no level 30, RNGesus be blessed. Now:

10 item slots contribute to your light level (primary weapon, special weapon, heavy weapon, ghost shell, helm, armor, gauntlets, boots, class item, artifact). You won't be chasing one item to get over the light requirement - a good weapon might be what pushes you over. Or a helm. Or a ghost.

A large proportion of the weapons now drop from dedicated loot streams, and in particular quest lines. (For example, all swords come from quests, not RNG.) There are apparently a LOT of quests (most of the new achievements are for completing the high end quest lines). Any legendary weapon or armor item can be ascended via finding higher level gear for that slot, so you can pick what stuff to carry up to that level.

Legendary engrams are guaranteed from the weekly playlist; the Cryptarch sells them; faction packages guarantee a legendary item; the Gunsmith will sell weapons for order from a rotating stock via Armsday. Perhaps most crucially, RNG systems have been updated across the board to watch what you have, and don't, and tip toward what you don't have. This made a huge difference in the drop rates for Crota's End, and is said to have been tuned even further for TTK.

It's the same as the old system in that gear makes you more powerful. It's not the same as the old system in what makes you powerful, or how you get the gear. Bungie has been vocal about avoiding the walls people hit at level 29 in the vanilla game, and have redesigned the loot streams to avoid it with TTK. We'll see how effective it is, but on paper they really are not the same.
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Do you know if all of these systems and new items a part of this patch or is that coming on the 15th? I haven't been able to get a definitive answer yet, and I'm itching to remake my Warlock (I regret making a male Warlock), and it'd be nice to play around with some new weapons and gear instead of just the new questlines and Nolanbot.
 
Am I the only one noticing the graphical upgrade?

Textures look a lot better, added fx and some updated... better shading across the game...
 
as someone that plays on playstation, i hope the timed exclusivity stuff ends sooner than later.

It's really annoying since the exclusives can't show up as Nightfalls and the weapons can't be sold by Xur
 
also, it seems that the entire cast has been reworked, eris morn, the queen, the brother... everyone sounds different than I remember. Might be just me
 
EloquentM said:
A lot of people have been saying this in my circle of friends. Sounds like placebo to me
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I'm completely sure though, take a look at your guardian in the character screen, it has much more detail than before, specially the materials.

another example would be the grenade effects.
 
Facundo_Lopez said:
I'm completely sure though, take a look at your guardian in the character screen, it has much more detail than before, specially the materials.

another example would be the grenade effects.
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Have you been playing MGSV lately? I came back to Destiny and was like "Oh... yeah right, this this what you get when you scale down to 30 FPS."

How long has it been since you played Destiny? I'm like 99% sure they didn't change anything there.
 
Vire said:
Have you been playing MGSV lately? I came back to Destiny and was like "Oh... yeah right, this this what you get when you scale down to 30 FPS."

How long has it been since you played Destiny? I'm like 99% sure they didn't change anything there.
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I played it the day before the patch, I'll try to reach Luke and see if he can confirm it.
 
They definitely updated shaders, particle effects, sfx,etc.

They've been doing it with every expansion, really. Shining up the game as they go
 
Facundo_Lopez said:
I'm completely sure though, take a look at your guardian in the character screen, it has much more detail than before, specially the materials.

another example would be the grenade effects.
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I believe the animations are improved. When I had no cloack on my female hunter she had a very rigid walking animation (hip area). Now it seems MUCHHHH smoother.
 
FyreWulff said:
They definitely updated shaders, particle effects, sfx,etc.

They've been doing it with every expansion, really. Shining up the game as they go
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huh, I'd love to see a Digital Foundry comparison. The only thing that I possibly noticed was the void particles looking better.

Maybe he's right *shrug*
 
FyreWulff said:
as someone that plays on playstation, i hope the timed exclusivity stuff ends sooner than later.

It's really annoying since the exclusives can't show up as Nightfalls and the weapons can't be sold by Xur
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Yup, very much so.

That said, that looked like a good strike. Different pacing that usual, and actual mechanics in both the strike and the boss. Hope that's a sign of what's to come in the two we have not seen.
 
Vire said:
Have you been playing MGSV lately? I came back to Destiny and was like "Oh... yeah right, this this what you get when you scale down to 30 FPS."

How long has it been since you played Destiny? I'm like 99% sure they didn't change anything there.
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Kill a Cabal with a headshot, I'm 100% sure that much fx was not there before.
 
So I jumped back in but can someone remind me what i am doing wrong. I get no mission rewards and I haven't seen any green or purple drop yet. I have only been playing maybe 4 hours. But for some reason that seems dramatically off. Haven't got anything new. Bounties track though and can be cleared in the inventory which is awesome sauce.
 
Man PSN servers must be so backed up. This is the worst speeds I've ever gotten downloading games the last couple days. Saying 14 hours for update patch and the game install itself taken 6. And this is with a 80mbps connection.
 
MrCaliaztec said:
Man PSN servers must be so backed up. This is the worst speeds I've ever gotten downloading games the last couple days. Saying 14 hours for update patch and the game install itself taken 6. And this is with a 80mbps connection.
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apparently if you test your connection while it's downloading or pause and resume it while it's downloading, it'll speed up the connection.

probably just placebos however
 
Zoba said:
apparently if you test your connection while it's downloading or pause and resume it while it's downloading, it'll speed up the connection.

probably just placebos however
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Haha more then likely placebo but doing it just made Destiny Data go from 3 hours to 67 minutes, and made the update file go to 77 hours haha.
 
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