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Destiny Alpha Thread: Impressions from the wild [Code Begging=ban]
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Thanks. Couldnt remember excatly and I'm not on at the moment
SPACECADET
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i don't know if it is the same trouble i had but yesterday it wouldn't connect to the server so i logged out of my account on ps4, and logged back in. then i tried and got in no problem.
that strike mission is so damn fun, i can't wait to play more of them and story missions... and just exploring new places in general.
i played the strike mission today on legend and it actually wasn't that bad. didn't feel a whole lot different from brave. still, felt good when me and my teammates beat it.
The Librarian
Banned
Looks like somebody didn't level up before he/she went on the strike.
Karsticles
Member
Have you done it on Legend difficulty? It is really slow going.
everyday math
Banned
I personally found it easy. Have good gear, lvl 8, a good strike team and you'll rock it.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Here is my current wep.
The added flame damage is nice. Able to take out the bosses pretty well with this.
The added flame damage is nice. Able to take out the bosses pretty well with this.
bigboss370
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nah, i've done it on legend. not slow at all.
Chased some poor bastard around a rock for a full minute and a half on the moon PvP map in the tank. I was going to stop since I couldn't catch him and then I was like..
Why? I'm in a tank. He can do NOTHING to me if I know where he is.
Chase continued, eventually got him.
If the PvE damage on the weapons don't affect PvP, that's great...but stats like Impact seem,
And I can't find a new rifle that's not level 9 or higher
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Why? I'm in a tank. He can do NOTHING to me if I know where he is.
Chase continued, eventually got him.
If the PvE damage on the weapons don't affect PvP, that's great...but stats like Impact seem,
And I can't find a new rifle that's not level 9 or higher
.The Librarian
Banned
Yup! Completed it in less than half hour. Walker took about ten. Sepiks around the same time?
Incandenza
Banned
Played the Strike mission with 3 level-8's and the bosses didn't take ungodly long this time. The more I play this game the more I like it. I just hopped into a random strike team and ended up having a great time. Hopefully I'll be able to get in some more PvP matches tomorrow before things wrap up.
at 15 I know Titans get a drop-shield as well.
Really enjoying the game, but the UI bothers me a lot. Not the design itself, which I think is beyond amazing... but the actual usability. Having to move a cursor around the screen isn't the most optimal option.
It gets worse when you have to select the next place to travel to, and after you hit the location then you have to press a button on the other side of the screen.. on PC this would work easily, on PS4 it's just an extra meaningless step. Hopefully they do something about this because otherwise I LOVE the game (otherwise I wouldn't have 2 Destiny shirts either...).
It gets worse when you have to select the next place to travel to, and after you hit the location then you have to press a button on the other side of the screen.. on PC this would work easily, on PS4 it's just an extra meaningless step. Hopefully they do something about this because otherwise I LOVE the game (otherwise I wouldn't have 2 Destiny shirts either...).
Others might have stronger but both my primary have 106 for attack stat. My scout rifle was from an encrypted engram and my auto rifle/assault rifle was in the shop.
Both started at 96 and I applied an upgrade to get them to 106.
I got into one of the monster closets yesterday afternoon. It's the building at the top of the hill. There are a couple crates by an entrance with 2 fallen vandals and a fallen captain. They spawn in the room straight in from the entrance. I sat in the room and watched them appear out of thin air over and over again, as I killed them. They couldn't see me in the room until I would start shooting. I spent 5-10 minutes there farming ammo and XP before getting bored. It doesn't work for me anymore, so I assume it was a simple bug. Still pretty funny though. If it was the full game, I'd probably have just stayed there until I reached lvl 20.
I was playing the cosmodrome today and a random csme and flagged me over. He took me along this narrow ledge underneath a railing that I thought looked at nothing but a skybox. Turns out there's a lvl ?? Hive Knight sitting there. My 81 auto rifle and 96 fusion rifle did zero damage. My big, honking machine gun was doing 1hp of damage per bullet. I was all thanks but no thanks and dipped. PEACE.
I was playing the cosmodrome today and a random csme and flagged me over. He took me along this narrow ledge underneath a railing that I thought looked at nothing but a skybox. Turns out there's a lvl ?? Hive Knight sitting there. My 81 auto rifle and 96 fusion rifle did zero damage. My big, honking machine gun was doing 1hp of damage per bullet. I was all thanks but no thanks and dipped. PEACE.
No dice. And the support site basically says tough luck if trying again doesn't work lol. Dunno what's up. Connection's fine otherwise, PSN is working fine, just Destiny not letting me in all of a sudden x.x
disastermouse
Banned
Seriously - how the hell do you upgrade weapons in this game???
SDCowboy
Member
You use it and then upgrade it like your character upgrade.
Well it is in the name of the gun type. Just like auto rifles are all auto. lol
Nyteshade517
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The green (uncommon) and higher weapons have skills that can be upgraded just like your character. When you're on the character menu press triangle to go to a weapon's "Details" screen to see it.
everyday math
Banned
Use your weapon and then go to your menu. Take your cursor over the weapon and press triangle. Proceed to upgrade. Only green and up upgrade.
bigboss370
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anyone find out what this is?
everyday math
Banned
They start fighting in a huge battle. It's pretty crazy.
anyone find out what this is?
chrominance
Member
Played this for a few hours this afternoon. I'm almost up to level 6 but haven't done the Strike mission yet, just the story mission and a bunch of random quests. The bad news is the quests aren't particularly compelling, and there's not enough stuff running from quest to quest to keep you occupied. I know Luke Smith said something about the exploration stuff being a lower-intensity activity, and that you (hopefully!) won't be forced to do exploration out of a lack of content when the game launches for real, but right now there are periodic stretches where you're just walking somewhere or picking off one or two low-level stragglers. The story mission wasn't bad, but there wasn't much meat to it either--basically felt like a string of smaller quests, but with Peter Dinklage talking at you occasionally.
The good news is that the game feels pretty good, and I say this as someone who spends most of his time playing shooters on PC instead of console. The level scaling on enemies is kind of ridiculous. When I first started the alpha, I ran into a pack of level 8 enemies and it took ten minutes to finally kill them all because they were such bullet sponges. But the actual fighting during that encounter was surprisingly fun. Enemies actively dodge and try to get behind you, and often I'd try to surprise an enemy coming around a corner only to find they'd anticipated me and gone behind me instead, so that was neat. (I guess this is the sort of thing people said about Halo, too, but I guess I never played at a high enough difficulty to see it.)
I like the feel of the guns, though so far they're pretty standard fare so it's not like Bungie's doing anything incredibly novel yet. Old Russia looks amazing--the skybox in particular is gorgeous. And I think Bungie's done a decent job of integrating multiplayer into the game without making it overbearing--something that's currently a pet peeve of mine thanks to Watch Dogs. You never have to stop what you're doing because some online player wants to get into your game, which is fantastic. The gentle nudge the game gives you via public events and such was nice, too, allowing me to jump into an "attack the mining bases" encounter with some other random dude without so much as a matchmaking screen.
It's all very MMO-ey, but so far Destiny hasn't given me the theme-park stench I usually get off MMOs like The Old Republic or Star Trek Online or Warhammer (the only other traditional MMOs I've tried). There's no lining up to talk to the starter NPC to get the quest to shoot the level 1 rat to get your 40 XP, but I can't tell if that's an intentional decision on Bungie's part (if so, KEEP IT) or just because the alpha population is relatively low. The one time I did get that theme-park feeling was returning to the Tower and finding swarms of people talking to all the vendors, which is not my favourite thing but I guess at least gave the city a feeling of being populated. The first time I went to the Tower, there was no one, and I was left to wonder why the last city of humanity was this gleaming, utopian wonder scrubbed almost completely of, well, humanity.
In the end, I'm shocked to say that I'm actually looking forward to this game a little now. If you'd told me a couple of months ago that I'd be saying that, I'd have called you crazy.
The good news is that the game feels pretty good, and I say this as someone who spends most of his time playing shooters on PC instead of console. The level scaling on enemies is kind of ridiculous. When I first started the alpha, I ran into a pack of level 8 enemies and it took ten minutes to finally kill them all because they were such bullet sponges. But the actual fighting during that encounter was surprisingly fun. Enemies actively dodge and try to get behind you, and often I'd try to surprise an enemy coming around a corner only to find they'd anticipated me and gone behind me instead, so that was neat. (I guess this is the sort of thing people said about Halo, too, but I guess I never played at a high enough difficulty to see it.)
I like the feel of the guns, though so far they're pretty standard fare so it's not like Bungie's doing anything incredibly novel yet. Old Russia looks amazing--the skybox in particular is gorgeous. And I think Bungie's done a decent job of integrating multiplayer into the game without making it overbearing--something that's currently a pet peeve of mine thanks to Watch Dogs. You never have to stop what you're doing because some online player wants to get into your game, which is fantastic. The gentle nudge the game gives you via public events and such was nice, too, allowing me to jump into an "attack the mining bases" encounter with some other random dude without so much as a matchmaking screen.
It's all very MMO-ey, but so far Destiny hasn't given me the theme-park stench I usually get off MMOs like The Old Republic or Star Trek Online or Warhammer (the only other traditional MMOs I've tried). There's no lining up to talk to the starter NPC to get the quest to shoot the level 1 rat to get your 40 XP, but I can't tell if that's an intentional decision on Bungie's part (if so, KEEP IT) or just because the alpha population is relatively low. The one time I did get that theme-park feeling was returning to the Tower and finding swarms of people talking to all the vendors, which is not my favourite thing but I guess at least gave the city a feeling of being populated. The first time I went to the Tower, there was no one, and I was left to wonder why the last city of humanity was this gleaming, utopian wonder scrubbed almost completely of, well, humanity.
In the end, I'm shocked to say that I'm actually looking forward to this game a little now. If you'd told me a couple of months ago that I'd be saying that, I'd have called you crazy.
anyone find out what this is?
Real World: Old Russia
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
How do you get to the car graveyard?
There is an entrance to the right of the starting area when you first drop in. There isn't anything there, unfortunately.
has anyone found any level 8 rare items? All my blues end up being 9+
Ingueferroque
Banned
I have no more FPS complaints, did something change? It's a smooth 30fps for me now.. the game clicked for me, and I'm so looking forward to beta. Had an incredible time with it today.
I found some heavy weapon ammo, and was able to fire my RPG once.
I found some heavy weapon ammo, and was able to fire my RPG once.
I'm pretty sure it's based on use.
I've seen it as well. Its insane. I tried participating but there were so many people I eventually had to run away. People just keep on coming out. It was kind of cool to see though.
unempLLOYD
Member
Nothing wrong with my controller, im just used to playing in higher sensitivity.
cod, battlefield
Nyteshade517
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GBlUCUJkNI
This is a video that another GAF user posted on how to get to it. It was more than a few pages back so I can't find it. Again. this is not my video and I'm just linking to it because it answers what you asked.
The Librarian
Banned
You guys are making me supremely jealous. I gave up trying to witness it.
Viruz
Member
Just played again tonight between two worldcup games. Killed the spider with two strangers on PSN, reviving each other. I'm not a FPS/MMO pro (far from it) but all I can say is "what a game!!!". I hope I can get in the BETA without preorder since the price 70 here, but for sure sure I'll be here day one. There is so different to do. I didn't saw any bug, the game is smooth.
DAY ONE.
DAY ONE.
Ingueferroque
Banned
I'm streaming here: http://www.twitch.tv/ingueferroque
Also, please add me Destiny Gaf! I'm ingueferroque on PSN.
Also, please add me Destiny Gaf! I'm ingueferroque on PSN.
I've only watched Twitch streams of the alpha, but I cannot wait to get my hands on this game now. It's funny that not long ago everyone was complaining about how bad a job Bungie was doing of explaining the game, because it's clear now that they knew it would just easier to let people play it pre-release and stream it. Whether or not it was intentional, this alpha has proven to me that things like Twitch and Youtube are so much more effective for advertising multiplayer games than traditional means. What's the point of trying to get people to understand Destiny when they can understand it immediately by playing an early build for free or watching someone else do so?
EL CUCO
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