You mean A side? Because holding B/C was a guaranteed win.
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Destiny 2 |OT3| The Token King
- Thread starter JohnOfMars
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You mean A side? Because holding B/C was a guaranteed win.
Time to take a break?
MurkyZebra2417
Member
Anyone up for nightfall prestige in 30-40 minutes? Power level 301 here.
Cornbread78
Member
Yeah, someday...
Yeah, you should get to 270ish
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In other news, the IB Warlock helmet is pretty badass, esp with that Xeno shader
but connection based matchmaking is better for the community. /s
you mention them chasing the super casual crowd, which is only half true. They disabled PL for all pvp stuff, but then they took away skill based matchmaking which in turn shunned the casual crowd away.
hopefully IB is somewhat a breath of fresh air.
Cornbread78
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MythicReclaimer
Member
You do realize this is the same as every other vendor in the game and the Token system as a whole, right? I mean at the end of Destiny you at least had a say in what you were getting with Legendary Marks meaning you could buy whatever you wanted (Arms, Legs, Helmet, etc and any particular weapon type you wanted). Now you have no choice but to hope you get what you wanted/needed which is pure garbage.
It is clear to me the Token system was implemented late as a replacement to the familiar "buy what you want/need" with Legendary Shards (formerly Marks) to add a RNG feature to a game that featured a minuscule amount of gear/weapons in hopes of creating some longevity.
Had someone like that in Trials the other day. He was just standing in the open too. Nothing we could do to kill him. We just left after 2 rounds of it.
Sketch_Turntable
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First IB game as a solo player: got rolled by a full clan.
Second game as a solo player: Got placed with all other solo players and had the best score.
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Second game as a solo player: Got placed with all other solo players and had the best score.
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_/¯Irishonion
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The token system is fine for patrol zones, but making it for everything is well...just kinda lazy.
After helping me finish the raid on Sunday, I did the Arms Dealer exotic strike with a few Giant Bomb Community folks. I think it took us 4 or 5 tries to get it down before we finally finished it with literally 0 on the clock. It was crazy! I actually like the shotgun more than I thought I would, even with only 1 round in it.
HawksWinStanley
Member
I just hate Control in D2. Especially when I'm with randoms. The spawning is just so awful.
Yes, you are correct. Which is why it's such a shit map.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
First IB game as a solo player: got rolled by a full clan.
Second game as a solo player: Got placed with all other solo players and had the best score.
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That's IB for you
Only thing is comebacks are hella rare
In Control you could do it 6 vs 6
In 4 v 4, good luck getting just to equal the score if the get an early 10-15 point lead
Then you have to grab all 3 flags and hold for 30 secs to gain a momentum shift
Also hilarious some Teams running Double or Triple Titan and using Tower Barricade @B constantly to block a swap
Tactics at winning IB, Bubble Trains is now Build That Wall!, Trump Favors this tactic.
now go run the raid x2 more times so you can use it at its final form c:
not sure, don't think so though. The only reason it feels better is because the player pool is larger and you stand more of a chance.
Ah man. I loved it even despite the imbalance. Refreshing to have some open sight lines instead of the corridor-fests most other maps were.
Pandora012
Member
There's another quest, this time for completing the prestige raid.
Running it twice this weekend to get the tokens lol. All there is left is to wait for the prestige mode of the raid
when it finally comes out in two years
MrS
Banned
GIT GUD
Hah, not sure how much Destiny 1 PvP you played, since one of the most major complaints of the community for all of TTK and RoI was that they wanted SBMM removed, and for things to be CBMM instead. Right now Quickplay is CBMM and Competitive is SBMM, not sure what IB is. But nearly everyone in D1 was of the opinion that laggy matches are no fun for anyone involved, and not worth it to swap to SBMM.
I think honestly the main thing should be that a clan group of 4 should never go up against a group of randoms, at the very least there should be a group of 2 on the other team.
I actually personally find I much prefer control, but that's cause there are objectives that force people to move around the map, instead of team shooting a lane with MIDA. The only game mode where I can actually use an "in your face" playstyle with flanking effectively and often win my 2v1s and 3v1s.
Going by my friends list, he's not the only one.
People are hanging the game up. This isn't the FPS MMO/RPG Bungie promised in 2013. D1 was kinda that, but they doubled down on generic FPS here in their long term design and end game. They're losing people where even D1 couldn't, the dedicated base.
This laser focus on Toxicity and PvP balance... Meanwhile they forgot to make something exceptional with long term replayabilty.
Hunter-Zero
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Is not that bad, i played maybe... 40 minutes? this morning and had enough tokens for one engram and filled half the bar for the next one, got the fusion at 300 and one Tarantula at 305, and finished the Call to Arms milestone too
Wow, so not only is the Season 1 milestone a bunch of worthless nonsense that isn't very rewarding, but it is account wide so you can only do it once per account. At least that means I can turn in all the packages on my highest power level character instead of doing 10 per toon for worthless gear that at least comes at higher power level?
The vast majority of your tokens come from doing the challenges and daily milestone (15 plus 6 I think? so of your 1.5 turnins 1 entire bar was just from challenges/daily), so once you get that done it drops to being VERY unrewarding. Takes 4 wins or 10 (lol) losses to get one engram.
Oh another fun Saladin quote:
"ready for a battle with no limits?", sure, except for the limit of none of my gear counting anymore hah.
The vast majority of your tokens come from doing the challenges and daily milestone (15 plus 6 I think? so of your 1.5 turnins 1 entire bar was just from challenges/daily), so once you get that done it drops to being VERY unrewarding. Takes 4 wins or 10 (lol) losses to get one engram.
Oh another fun Saladin quote:
"ready for a battle with no limits?", sure, except for the limit of none of my gear counting anymore hah.
40 minutes for one engram is way tooooo long. We should get loot every 2 matches, AT LEAST.
Dthomp
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1200 hours of D1 actually, maybe that's not HARDCORE enough for you, but i have no problem admitting I am an average player at best. SBMM is a need for players of lesser skill, and I am running into a ton of lag in your precious teamshootfest. Don't assume players didn't play a game because they have different opinions then you.
MythicReclaimer
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I imagine if you're already 305 PL the Iron Banner engrams will cycle from 295-300 PL just like the other vendors?
SBMM is garbage. Nothing more to it.
All 4 of mine where 300. opened one a few hours earlier too.
I might have got lucky though.
MythicReclaimer
Member
Welp, time to find out...
Irishonion
Member
How's this prestige nightfall? Finally hit 290 last week, should be able to get a bit higher to attempt one, just want a trophy!
Teasing_Pink
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Opened two, both 300.
cucuchu
Member
I scrolled through the last few pages and did not see an answer so figure I would ask:
Does anyone know if the there is a cap to the amount of IB packages you can receive for the week where you receive weapons/armor, as is the case with the factions? If so, is the cap shared amongst all your characters or is the cap per character?
Does anyone know if the there is a cap to the amount of IB packages you can receive for the week where you receive weapons/armor, as is the case with the factions? If so, is the cap shared amongst all your characters or is the cap per character?
Pandora012
Member
Nope, thought I was done when I got the last of my emperor seals, but noooo something else came up.
MythicReclaimer
Member
Just wait until you get rewarded with the generic "Additional Rewards" from the Iron Banner loot pool.
Yep. SBMM would look at my KDR/assists from running in a fireteam and think I could carry a team. Then I'd go on 10-20 game losing streaks matched up with horrible horrible blueberries.
It's no different now, but at least every now and then I get put randomly on a ok team. Much more often than SBMM.
So how is IB? I hear good things.
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I read 10 somewhere. So 10 engrams per character.
MythicReclaimer
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It seems if you're already 305 PL the Iron Banner engrams drop 300 PL gear/weapons so at least there's that.
Man so defensive. No one was talking about your precious hours played or skill or anything, just that you seemed to miss the entire opinion of the PvP community during Y2 and Y3. Though if you're running in to more lag in D2 than in D1 I don't know what to say, you either have a bad connection or really good luck in D1.
These aren't my opinions, these are the communities opinions from D1, that games in Y2 and Y3 were laggy, SBMM was a mistake. There was a huge stupid toxic uprising of people posting on forums telling devs to kill themselves over SBMM in RoI, it was embarrassing. But still the general consensus is that SBMM is bad. Not everyone wants a sweaty match every single time.
To reiterate, I don't care either way. I am fine with SBMM or CBMM, I never had any issue with either. I was just pointing out the communities opinion in D1, but I guess you thought I spit on your ancestors grave and called your mom a ho or something?
what you don't enjoy spawning in front of that roaming fist of havoc titan that smashed you 3 seconds ago?
EL CUCO
Member
I'm cancelling the expansion pass till they get their stuff sorted out. Game isnt fun atm
Anything less than this is disrespecting my time.