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[BenjaminBirdie]

This vetoed stream is confusing. What are the actual loot colors? It looks like he has

LOOT COLOR SPOILERS?

Spoiler

Exotic/Yellow
White
Navy Blue
Neon Blue

WTFFFF?????

Is his stream fucked up?

 

[MandrakeUK]

My Body is Ready!



Commence Operation Massive Organ Failures!

LOL

 

[Kyoufu]

was there matchmaking for story missions in D1? I feel like there wasn't...

No and the worst part was the higher Light Level daily missions which had no matchmaking either. That shit was a bore to go through solo. At least co-op would have made them a little bit fun.

 

[silver.tongue]

Give me one good reason why Story missions shouldn't have optional matchmaking?

Because the game is more fun with a fireteam. It's a fucking co-op game.

Get a friend to do them with you.. lol

 

[JetBlackPanda]

This vetoed stream is confusing. What are the actual loot colors? It looks like he has

LOOT COLOR SPOILERS?

Spoiler

Exotic/Yellow
White
Navy Blue
Neon Blue

WTFFFF?????

Is his stream fucked up?

I haven't checked out his stream BUT some people are color blind and change the settings for it. Others do it just because it makes things stick out better.

thats my guess. D1 did this too.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Voice chat is disabled by default with random players though, so I'm not following.

It is bullshit that story missions don't have optional matchmaking.

Pairing people of similar level across a large number of campaign missions is probably very problematic. Public spaces and the social spaces are all wide-open matchmaking (one location, mingled player levels) while Crucible and Strikes are lots of people concentrated into a small number of playlists.

So the story missions are 1) content designed for one player, 2) will be gone through quickly and not revisited much as players progress (making for a shallow player pool) and 3) have players scattered across a ton of different missions.

You'll have long matchmaking times, and get players well above or below your level with crappy connections.

I'd like to see optional matchmaking for something like a weekly hopper of Heroic story missions, but it makes sense they are not there for the base campaign.

This vetoed stream is confusing. What are the actual loot colors? It looks like he has

LOOT COLOR SPOILERS?

Spoiler

Exotic/Yellow
White
Navy Blue
Neon Blue

WTFFFF?????

Is his stream fucked up?

There are the same 3-4 colorblind settings as in Destiny 1. I use the Red/Blue colorblind mode, which apparently looks funky to others.

 

[Bsigg12]

To those with the game, how much of the silly tone in the trailers is present? I get that vanilla was a bit too self serious, but a lot of the pre-release media has been very goofy and "meta" / breaking the fourth wall.

The characters in Destiny should never use the word loot, nor care about it in the same way the player does.

Once I get through the initial missions that were in the beta I'll let you know

 

[commish]

They are easy enough to do solo? You dont want randos ruining the experience by running ahead, jumping cutscenes, staying afk and preventing wipes?

I mean.. randos being randos..

What's weird is that matchmaking was near the top of complaints about Destiny 1 - it was complained about A LOT. I mean... years of complaints.

Yet no one ever asked for matchmaking for story missions. They are easy missions you knock off just to move the story along.

 

[Cornbread78]

Pairing people of similar level across a large number of campaign missions is probably very problematic. Public spaces and the social spaces are all wide-open matchmaking (one location, mingled player levels) while Crucible and Strikes are lots of people concentrated into a small number of playlists.

So the story missions are 1) content designed for one player, 2) will be gone through quickly and not revisited much as players progress (making for a shallow player pool) and 3 have players scattered across a ton of different missions.

You'll have long matchmaking times, and get players well above or below your level with crappy connections.

I'd like to see optional matchmaking for something like a weekly hopper of Heroic story missions, but it makes sense they are not there for the base campaign.

Much better explanation then I could have churned out, lol.

 

[Ecto311]

How hard is it to get that first achievement? Always like to get an achievement on the release date but don't know if I want to get the game - hour drive home - install - then get any of it done. Might have to wait till tomorrow.

 

[MaKTaiL]

The animation for killing the hive with headshots is incredibly bad compared to Destiny 1, what the hell?

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

I haven't checked out his stream BUT some people are color blind and change the settings for it. Others do it just because it makes things stick out better.

thats my guess. D1 did this too.

Ah that makes total sense.

You know Luke Smith is color blind! True story!

 

[BobJustBob]

Campaign missions are meant to be played solo.

Campaign missions are meant to be played with 1-3 players, because you can play them with 1-3 players. There is no excuse for strikes to have matchmaking and not regular story missions.

 

[Ferny]

What's weird is that matchmaking was near the top of complaints about Destiny 1 - it was complained about A LOT. I mean... years of complaints.

Yet no one ever asked for matchmaking for story missions. They are easy missions you knock off just to move the story along.

Yeah, I never felt it was not doable solo. Def more fun with a friend there, but with randoms it could be problematic.

 

[MandrakeUK]

The intro is pretty good.

Oh shit the intro is really fucking cool

LOL I take it some shit went down while you was watching the intro to type it like that

 

[Out 1]

- Same character creator.

Well, this is disappointing. I guess I'll carry over my hunter then.

 

[Pinkman_ABQ]

Should be under the clan menu > manage members I believe

yeah, it's working on the desktop as well as the app.

On the app, just click your banner on the top right, then click Roster, then click on the member's name that you want to promote/kick and voila'

Works on the website for sure, haven't tried on the app.

Much appreciated!

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Campaign missions are meant to be played with 1-3 players, because you can play them with 1-3 players. There is no excuse for strikes to have matchmaking and not regular story missions.

Not that it invalidates it, but didn't we have this exact same convo when D1 came out?

 

[oti]

Launched.
Carried over my Titan.
I'm ready.

 

[Kyoufu]

What's weird is that matchmaking was near the top of complaints about Destiny 1 - it was complained about A LOT. I mean... years of complaints.

Yet no one ever asked for matchmaking for story missions. They are easy missions you knock off just to move the story along.

Googling it for 5 seconds reveals a lot of complaints.

I bet you were defending the lack of any sort of matching for raid content as well.

It's not about the missions being difficult, it's about the game being more fun with other players.

 

[commish]

Campaign missions are meant to be played with 1-3 players, because you can play them with 1-3 players. There is no excuse for strikes to have matchmaking and not regular story missions.

That logic.

You can play a raid with 1 person. Are raids meant to be played and finished with 1 person?

Googling it for 5 seconds reveals a lot of complaints.

I bet you were defending the lack of any sort of matching for raid content as well.

I'm pretty sure I bitched about the lack of matchmaking for raids more than the rest combined. I said that there's no reason for not including it, at least making it optional.

Bitching about no matchmaking for ... story missions.... is bitching just to bitch. If you want to talk about heroic dailies, sure, but normal story missions? That's just a waste of resources.

 

[Deku Tree]

Campaign missions are meant to be played with 1-3 players, because you can play them with 1-3 players. There is no excuse for strikes to have matchmaking and not regular story missions.

1) Story missions are designed to be very doable solo.

2) Everything that has MM requires PS+ or XBL Gold. If regular story missions had MM it would require an online subscription. Bungie chose not to force it.

You can say they should have put it in as an option, but they decided not to for their own design reasons.

You may not like the excuse, but there is one.

 

[TheCanisDirus]

That logic.

You can play a raid with 1 person. Are raids meant to be played and finished with 1 person?



I'm pretty sure I bitched about the lack of matchmaking for raids more than the rest combined. I said that there's no reason for not including it, at least making it optional.

Bitching about no matchmaking for ... story missions.... is bitching just to bitch. If you want to talk about heroic dailies, sure, but normal story missions? That's just a waste of resources.

How the hell do you start a raid with one person? lol

 

[Gragen]

Campaign missions are meant to be played with 1-3 players, because you can play them with 1-3 players. There is no excuse for strikes to have matchmaking and not regular story missions.

Was there an option to turn off match making on match made activities? Not that I'm aware of.

That probably has something to do with it.

 

[Kyoufu]

2) Everything that has MM requires PS+ or XBL Gold. If regular story missions had MM it would require an online subscription. Bungie chose not to force it.

This is likely the reason why there's no matchmaking for Story. They don't want to lock out non-PS+ users out of what is supposed to be the story campaign.

As much as I disliked The Division, at least that game did the matchmaking right.

 

[commish]

How the hell do you start a raid with one person? lol

Not being a smartass, but have you played Destiny before? You can pick the raid and start it yourself whenever you want. You don't need anyone else.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Not being a smartass, but have you played Destiny before? You can pick the raid and start it yourself whenever you want. You don't need anyone else.

Nobody tell him that Crotas raid was soloable.

 

[CREMSteve]

Not being a smartass, but have you played Destiny before? You can pick the raid and start it yourself whenever you want. You don't need anyone else.

I spent many an hour soloing in The Dark Below.

 

[The Hamburglar]

How are people already playing this. I see people on my friends list already playing. New Zealand store?

 

[commish]

How are people already playing this. I see people on my friends list already playing. New Zealand store?

If you have physical copy, I think you can start now.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

The environments are really freaking pretty.

 

[Truant]

Fuck it, I double dipped. At least the image quality will be decent on my Pro.

 

[The Hamburglar]

If you have physical copy, I think you can start now.

Ah well can't complain. Game and the 2 'expansions'for £34.

 

[Cornbread78]

How are people already playing this. I see people on my friends list already playing. New Zealand store?

If you have physical copy, I think you can start now.

Yup, the servers opened with the NZ launch.

Get to work Hamburgler! (join the Discord chat as well, lol)

 

[Foofaraw]

Welp, broke down and ordered one day shipping from Amazon. Now I get to figure out what kind of Guardian I want to make.

 

[Captain Smirk]

Damn could have been playing this in just over 4 hours time but instead gonna be waiting till probably tea time tomorrow for Amazon delivery. Still 14 quid difference is ridiculous

 

[katsubento]

How the hell do you start a raid with one person? lol

You're new here eh? You can start a Raid all by yourself. Finishing it is another story.

 

[SpiceMelange]

Didn't you see the mobs' level next to their life bar in Destiny 1? I don't see any in the streams

 

[JWiLL]

Fuck it, I double dipped. At least the image quality will be decent on my Pro.

This is where I'm at. I already have the PC version ready...but the wait is tough.

I also didn't actually pay for the PC version (free with my GTX1080) so I'm really tempted to double dip. The downside is I don't have PS+ anymore either since I only PC game...so all in it would be over $100 (CAD) for something I won't touch in 48 days.

...then again I played D1 for over 2000 hours and want to see those memory screens.

God damn it. I'm going to end up doing it.

Curse this disposable income.

 

[hitme]

PC version is in October?

My new build can wait then.

 

[Smiley90]

How are people already playing this. I see people on my friends list already playing. New Zealand store?

If you have a physical disc you can already play, too. Some stores might've delivered or sold early.

 

[TheCanisDirus]

Not being a smartass, but have you played Destiny before? You can pick the raid and start it yourself whenever you want. You don't need anyone else.

Raids are not single player. Yes, you can initiate them solo. Yes, a handful have solo'd stuff... but they're not single player.

You're new here eh? You can start a Raid all by yourself. Finishing it is another story.

Yes, we all know that. SMH I should have rephrased.

 

[Eria]

Damn I'm waching some streams and the game looks so good... can't wait to play!

 

[JWiLL]

PC version is in October?

My new build can wait then.

Your avi is inspiring me to resist the double dip.

Thanks, Hank Scorpio.

I need that Warframe open world expansion to actually come out on time to help with the wait.

 

[RebornYeti]

I'm debating on whether or not I want to get Destiny 2 on Xbox One, and then double dip for PC when it releases. If you could transfer characters between platforms, I think this decision would be a no-brainer.

 

[Raven117]

I need that Warframe open world expansion to actually come out on time to help with the wait.

I know this is a destiny thread, but I want to see what this is like as well. Warframe is criminally underrated.

 

[BradWardFight]

Is the Legendary sword worth getting digital deluxe?

 

[noomi]

I'm debating on whether or not I want to get Destiny 2 on Xbox One, and then double dip for PC when it releases. If you could transfer characters between platforms, I think this decision would be a no-brainer.

My hope as well, but the ultimate solution would be cross-saves

 

[Kyne]

every existing argument aside, I am actually pretty annoyed that the character creation is the same as D1.

like, it's bugging me much more than microtransactions ever will.

Is the Legendary sword worth getting digital deluxe?

you tell me.

(if you're asking about stats, no idea)

 

[Chittagong]

Just post in this thread and join our discord (link in quoted OP), there will be many players looking to team up and play together

The addiction will settle in once that first piece of gear drops hehe

Just play the campaign first. If you like PvP try that out too. Also you can join the discord channel linked in the OP. GAF has a huge and very friendly global community of people playing Destiny 2. With a little effort it is pretty easy to find groups to play with.

Awesome, will try all those, thanks for the suggestions!