Yeah, Bungie isn't rotating farily.
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Yeah, Bungie isn't rotating farily.
I got the digital guardian edition, so "i'm fine", but you guys have my deepest sympathy.
Has this ever been done before? Punishing customers for not buying DLC?
Abusive_Red
Banned
Omg the sword is so much fun once you start getting the hang of it. I like how he turns around after I knife him in the ace like "da fuck?" lol.
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Haha, we can try the other way too. Might as well try as many strategies as possible to find the one that works best for the group.
Well, it's either rolling the dice twice or rolling two dice at once. Assuming each single loot drop is indeed independent of the others, which we don't know.
Anyway, doesn't matter. I just got your invite - I'll join in two minutes.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
I mean, it's Activision, after all... I'd be shocked if it were intentional on Bungie's part
Orthogonal
Member
They are going to get stale reeaaallly fast by alternating every damn day.
blue_phazon
Member
So after all the praise, I got For The People from the crucible quartermaster.
Uhhh...it's sorta weak
Uhhh...it's sorta weak
No solid primaries though?I miss my TDYK
The crucible hand cannon TFWPKY 1969 looks okay stats wise, certainly better than TDYD.
I'm debating beginning the grind for it.
Yeah. Past Halo games.
They were multiple matchmaking playlists you could not access without the DLC.
Other games handled this by simply kicking you out when a DLC map came up in the rotation.
scarletham
Member
He's old school and he ditches tonight
Pretty much every MMO, ever. Destiny is an MMO-light style game.
It sucks, but it's just the nature of a shared world games. Unfortunately, if people want to keep playing in these types of games, purchasing the updates is required.
I don't think it's going to send the right signal
That's completely valid and I definitely understand what you mean better now.
These are universally awful examples :-/ I'm sorry guys, but you must know this.
I'm conceding right up from that I don't have a good example myself, but I think any potential game to put in the same box, for absolute starters, needs to be a shooter... it'd also be hard to consider any game that didn't have a core competitive component too.
Destiny and Guild Wars 2 have almost nothing whatsoever in common. :-/
1.21Gigawatts
Banned
Can I still get the necrochasm from the sword knight in the fist of crota mission?
Seems to be the popular place for it. I wonder how often Crota will drop his Crux in hard mode.
Orthogonal
Member
This may be unprecedented. DLC will of course lock out unpaying customers, but it never has locked out people from normal activities from pre-dlc. Multiplayer games notriously split playerbases with new map-packs, but non-buyers still get to play the same as always. Single player games offer new missions/area's, but non-buyers continue to play as normal.
It's much better with all the stability upgrades. Field scout makes it really useful in PVE too.
~340 kills, or 10 wipes.
gutterboy44
Member
Thanks, I feared it would be a crucible vendor weapon. Shit, have no crucible rep and I don't like PvP much. I do have some exotic bounties in progress though. Maybe I can combine all of their PvP sections into one binge.
Yup an Eris bounty.
Invited u to join the chat party. U on?
You have to look at the rate of fire and clip size; it's why they can compete or surpass higher impact ones.
Add stability upgrades and you're good to go.
Ever heard of how good Shingen-E was/is in PVP? These new auto rifles have a similar set up of RoF/Impact, but with Legendary qualities.
Orthogonal
Member
At least we can use it to grind rank a little faster. The mission bounties are 100 rep.
I bought it so that I could have a 331 hand cannon to hold me over until I got a solid upgrade.
It's fairly decent. The range and stability leave a lot to be desired.
If you have rank 3 FWC, the new chance is the best vendor hand cannon. It has the same impact as Hawkmoon and comes with Field Scout, which gives it 13 rounds.
Your best bet if you are considering grinding for marks, is to play Iron Banner and get a Timur's Lash. Best impact in the game and you can reroll it until you get great perks.
Yeah Eris has one. Stomped it pretty hard this go around compared to the last time I had to solo that one for the daily thanks to Black Hammer and Truth.
IXIKelsonIXI
Member
I understand that it is a bummer not being able to do some content some days, and maybe this is a controversial opinion, but what do people expect?
If you aren't purchasing the DLC and expanding your available activities, what are you playing the game for? I'm genuinely curious, not trying to be snarky. Unless you are really only interested in Crucible. I don't understand the draw to PvE if it isn't to tackle the end game content (the new raid). Acquiring more gear, leveling up, getting more powerful...for what?
By not purchasing the DLC, you are accepting that you do not get to access certain content. That is true all the time, not just when a daily activity happens to require it. They should have a system in place to rotate in a non-DLC piece of content for those who opt out, but I am not surprised that they choose not to and you probably shouldn't be either.
I guess I don't understand why you would keep playing the game if you didn't want to keep getting more things to do. If it is because you can't afford it, that's totally understandable.
If it's on principle of not supporting DLC, that's okay, but you are accepting that you don't get to do some stuff. That frustration is only going to continue to build, especially when the next one hits and there are twice as many things you can't do.
I'll only do cheese solo for the fun of it or cheese crota (if i could get it to work) to practice sword combos and get numbers to compare what changes what. like if stats matter, if raid gear matters, if class matters, if quicker melee matters, etc.
Edit: Lol, nvm. Grimoire just didnt unlock the eyes heart and will of crota, nor the badass knight in the public event area, nor omnigul.
Darknyss09
Member
Omfg finally! After 4+ hours this damn thing drops
sure. knight and crystal...
And you must know that the closest thing we have to Destiny are games that it riffs its systems from.
The need to be a shooter isn't required, imo. The core gamplay is built around systems that games like Diablo, Wow, Warframe all share in many ways.
It depends which aspects you're comparing, but say the overall experience in Destiny is about loot acquisition and character progression.
We could compare the actual shooting to Halo, for example, but what about the mmorpg style systems?
Quality of mission design, enemy encounters, how the various systems have been implemented etc... are universal anyway. We can compare these things across any genre.
You can legitimately compare Destkny's quality of loot acquisition, character progression, NPC interaction, story, raid content and how it's delivered to the player, strikes (dungeons), etc... to WoW (again, obviously bearing in mind the length of development each game has had).
Lightning Grenade >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pulse Grenade in Crucible.
You just said standing in one place, occasionally holding down two buttons at a time, is fun.
I agree with that part. It feels very adversarial with Bungie right now.
It probably won't. But, it feels adversarial / meta now. They make it hard, it gets broken. When I saw the new cheese with disconnects on Crota I LOL'd for a good amount of time.I don't think it's going to send the right signal
Part of that is just due to how many breaking glitches appear so quickly. It's astonishing.
Bungie either fabricated that, it was changed last minute or we might get a surprise in hard mode.
there's also the assumed actual form of him on the hive home world that he is transferring his "soul" from.
IXIKelsonIXI
Member
Well, uhhh....
We fought his soul in The Wakening. Wouldn't be surprised if that is what they were alluding to.
Haha, I have a 1 hour and 30 minute commute each way, it's brutal any time I want to stay late. No Destiny for me tonight.
Darknyss09
Member
Double-dip during reset
Johan Liebert
Member
another case of miscommunication it seems. apparently they meant the crystal we fight in the last DLC mission.
Orthogonal
Member
Some people may have used the nightly reset dup method? I don't know.
Abusive_Red
Banned
Nice.
I love lore. Is that from grimoire cards?
Exactly. People who are playing during the reset can do the Eris bounties twice. Kind of unfair for those of us in a time zone and with a life schedule that doesn't allow us to participate in this cheese. You have to be logged into destiny during the reset then the new bounties pop up and you do them and then you log off and log back on and then they pop up again and you get to do them twice.
grimlock33
Member
I'll jump back in. Picking up at Crota or fresh?
were u just running the fist of crota mission up until you kill the Blade of Crota and the restarted it?