PrivateWHudson
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I'd guess it wasn't the same team. Probably the team that made the omnigal strike.
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Destiny |OT15| What Cheese May Come
- Thread starter Hawkian
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I'd guess it wasn't the same team. Probably the team that made the omnigal strike.
Ah! my math sucks because you did say 8 hours 3 hours ago.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Yeah I saw that happen often IMO yesterday. Perhaps he aggros on the swordbearer too much or lag ( as much as I HATE saying lag)
Will do, like I said I have no idea who will be available really at that time. But I still want to kill him, just because I know we can.
DrDrizzay101
Member
lol can't even blame time zones for that one! Ok, I'm gonna hop off now then but I'll be back later for a few runs.
Dr_LawyerCop
Member
I think I'll give HM Crota a shot with my regular raid crew, and if it doesn't happen I'll wait a few weeks. I got lucky and got both the pulse rifle (my first arc primary, since I never got fatebringer) and the AR, and then death singer blessed me with a gjallarhorn. I'd like the hand cannon or the scout rifle, but there's more than enough stuff for me to do in any given week than to kill myself trying to beat Crota. It certainly won't be something I try to do 3 times a week, even when the strategies are ironed out. I'd rather take that time and play ROC strikes, get better at crucible, and play the vault of glass.
yea, i'm blaming their anti-cheese patches for the new bugs.
Let me know if you guys pick a time. Pm on here would be better. I'm working from home but if I can Id like to get this done. We were too close and I think just playing for too long and got sloppy after wasting at least an hour on that lagfest
MagnetoWasRight
Member
Has Luke Smith been the lead raid designer the whole time?
Seems like the Crota design is an over-reaction to all the VoG cheese...
It's possible they will nerf the encounter say by turning the boomer knights back to red bars... they've done similar things before...
My girlfriend is on vacation from work all week so it'll be rough for me to get on until Monday. I'll try today
I maxed it out tonight. Had bounties saved up.
How should I test? I can make a quick clip
Lighthouse
Member
It's exactly like flashbangs or blinding bubbles, but the effect wears off quicker.
Best part, it works on Omnigul!
DrDrizzay101
Member
Definitely possible. Just makes it that much more of a tedious bore.
Dear Bungie: We want MECHANICAL COMPLEXITY. Please. Not boring ass damage scaling.
Of course ! Hunger of Crota is supposed to do much more damage to Hive Major, no way any other RL can do more damage !
Jinjo
Member
It's clear they didn't delay hard mode to counter cheeses/exploits. They delayed to counter all know good methods of killing Crota. Literally every part of the most used strats has a countermechanism now. That's not how you design a boss.
This kept happening to us yesterday and the Crota melee'ing us when his shield was down. We started Crota at 930 and by 1230 still hadn't beaten him. We ran with the same crew we always run with and still couldn't get it done. Took notes today and will implement some of these strats I've read about. Overall, everything up till crota seems pretty much the same just no revive.
I really want to see someone do it though.
gutterboy44
Member
Wow, I can't believe there isn't a confirmed Crux of Crota drop yet. That is crazy rare, or there is some variable we are missing. This must be Bungie's solution to everyone blasting through TDB and CE before releasing the hardmode. Well, we can't possibly design a game properly or have a meaningful progress system that isn't completely dependant on RNG, so let's just give one last ultimate "fuck you" RNG prize so even those with 3x 32 characters, HM raid clears with their eyes closed, still have to grind and grind and grind to get something that may not even turn out to be that great, despite us explicitly saying a goal in CE raid was to allow players to work toward progression with each additional play through of the raid.
I never played the Halo games growing up, but I am struggling to believe this is the same company that designed supposedly near-flawless, universally beloved games.
I never played the Halo games growing up, but I am struggling to believe this is the same company that designed supposedly near-flawless, universally beloved games.
Very improbable.
Wow, so a constant stream of bullets just keeps them confused? Every hit activates it or is it random?
From everything I've seen about the hard mode, it comes off as a really cynical effort from Bungie.
Spend a month (six weeks?) watching all the popular strategies develop the. Knock something up in an afternoon to negate them, make everyone under levelled and don 't bother to actually put any work in to it not glitching the fuck out 2 out of 3 times.
Spend a month (six weeks?) watching all the popular strategies develop the. Knock something up in an afternoon to negate them, make everyone under levelled and don 't bother to actually put any work in to it not glitching the fuck out 2 out of 3 times.
Exactly, Hide in the middle from ogres, let's put a gatekeeper there. Kill the boomers when the sword guy is at crota, let's have a wizard spawn, simply lazy design. At least VoG seem to have a little thought put into it, after the mess that is the Crota Raid I have much more respect for VoG.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
VoG is a better design. Crota HM is "hard" due to the glitches, bugs aka sword disappearing--> Almost a guaranteed autowipe, terrible lag people have been encountering, being forced to be under level,and more bullet sponges adds, "anti cheese" tactics such as the gatekeeper that will 1 shot you.
They probably did that... I think they also delayed it (1) because of the holiday and (2) to stretch out the content and keep people playing and (3) to give people a chance to get to 32 because you really should be 32.
Surprisingly the best primary of the bunch. I know sounds crazy. Totally caught me off guard. Great weapon.
That's OK because the Halo games weren't any of those things either. Marathon on the other hand....
gutterboy44
Member
Based on all of these, "Gjallarhorn is a must!" from those that have cleared HM, it sounds like Bungie really needs to buff the "extra damage to hive majors" perk on the CE weapons. What is the point of releasing all of these high level weapons with specific raid perks when vanilla non-raid weapons are far more effective during the raid?
Just tell the LFG pages that you have a good sniper even though it's not even maxed, lol
I'll join you, if you can wait 15 mins? Just on my way home!
Any chance you can throw up a video of it? I am hyped to max it now.
Byron Bluth
Banned
Got disconnected Dhruv and team. Give me a min
No problem. We need 3 more anyway.
Gjallahorn is the proof that nobody at Bungie got a clue about weapon balance, so I wouldn't hope anything.
Lighthouse
Member
Disorient always seems to happen within one magazine.
Not sure, most times the wizard goes down very quickly after being disoriented. Havent tested with multiple abyss defiants yet.
PrivateWHudson
Member
yep, ARs were too good and got nerfed TWICE and now they're shit. FRs and HCs are still untouched so there ya go.
noomi
Member
Hyunsai, will you be joining us tonight (4PM EST), saved a spot for you.
LollipoPReapeR
Member
Honestly is there any reason to even put myself through the bullshit known as Crota? Arc scout rifle I probably wouldn't use until nightfall and even then, I would probably prefer Fatebringer. A void handcannon which seems 'ok' but once again not better than fatebringer. Probably just AE in nightfalls anyway. Crux is the only one that kinda interests me and it seems super rare.... And even then, it produces a bullethose which are really not my favourite type anyway. It just seems it's not worth the effort
This morning, I said to myself that I'd like to give this game a break with all these failed attempts with Crota. Even the group I joined late last night to take down Aethon HM struggled to take it down.
But of course, I finally get an account with GAF. I'll give Crota a break for now.
My main goal is to find a Gjallarhorn, since it's necessary in any raid.
But of course, I finally get an account with GAF. I'll give Crota a break for now.
My main goal is to find a Gjallarhorn, since it's necessary in any raid.
Ok cool, what's your PSN?
Byron Bluth
Banned
I think Hunger of Crota is a good substitute...maybe because of the hive disruptor perk but holy shit, with the way everything is a bullet sponge from hallowed knights to the swordbearer I'm not surprised that people have the "Gjallarhorn or bust" mentality.
I finish work around 7PM East.
You can take someone else, no problem. Thanks for yesterday night, even if we didn't drop it, we left more experienced.
Good luck for tonight !
Me too! Except I'm at 2 abyss, 2 bridges, 2 deathsingers... 0 weapons (outside of a universal remote drop at deathsinger)
ALL shards and energy.
One run, EVERY SINGLE PERSON got the AR at the bridge but me lol