Didn't watch the video yet, but there's a perk that resets your knife cooldown when killing an enemy with it with a precision shot.
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Destiny |OT17| 17th inning stretch
- Thread starter Kor of Memory
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It's OK to use your Swordbreaker when your out of Ammo IMO.
I prefer to throw exotic shards at them. Apparently you can actually buy the vex off. The reason they have all these time gates on the planets is to help farm planetary materials. They were too lazy to log in and do the dailies every single day.
Johan Liebert
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So I guess Heart of Praxic Fire comes with a permanent erection nowadays?
I'd have one if I got HOPF.
AmateurHour212
Member
Watching these videos has actually made me want a NLB.
just run Crota. I see someone get that thing bout everytime we run it. It's weighted pretty high in there I think
gutterboy44
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The glimmer farming issue speaks to one of the largest problems with Destiny, there is limited content (which I can live with) that they then designed numerous systems and restrictions around to slow the player progression. Unfortunately, the major side effect of all of these retarding systems, is hindering player enjoyment, and as soon as players stop enjoying themselves, they are going to drop this game like a rock, regardless of the content offerings.
The glimmer drops are so terrible, and there are no game breaking things that are being restricted by glimmer, that justify its paltry distribution. All weapon and armor progress depends on at least 3 other currencies, so sitting on lots of glimmer won't break that. You can't buy any sort of good weapons with glimmer, and the good ones are all restricted with marks, rep and now commendations. The worst case scenario of being generous with glimmer is that people could buy ammo synth when they needed it, be less hesitant in buying ships and emblems, and *gasp* have one less barrier for them to level up gear after having been blessed by RNG and farming the 3 or 4 other damn currencies you need to do so.
Last night, I ran NF, Weekly, Daily, public event, and completed 7 bounties. I popped black wax, ether seeds, etc at every opportunity. I ended up with ~6,600 glimmer (I did not start from zero glimmer). That is ridiculous. That was a few hours of playing, high level content, and I got fuck all even when using all of the glimmer buff items + the grimoire bonus. I am exclusively at end game content Bungie, why are you still hell bent on denying me glimmer? I can only hold 25K anyway. You already have the restriction of > 3 levels below players unable to join level 30 content, make the fucking glimmer rain in Nightfalls and ROC strikes. Who is this hurting?
PrivateWHudson
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Remember this?
Is your Avatar on there?
WTF...The avatar I made for Nami is in there, but mine isn't. Fuck this shit...(flips table).
this gets me every damn time
- Remove 75% of the precursors from the Undying Mind strike. Good players know you can skip that stuff, and it makes so many people quit this strike
- Do something with the Omnigul strike. I don't even know what, but make it faster. It's annoying to solo, and again everyone quits when this strike starts.
- Remove the unecessary scan at the start of the Valus Ta'arc Strike. We know where to go.
- Let us remove all ghost dialogue holy shit I can't take it anymore
- Increase the reward amounts. When they changed the cryptarch, you got less XP from blues but they said the chances for a purple are higher. Well, I still get blues all the time and leveling the cryptarch almost never gives me anything useful. What's the point of leveling vanguard rank for a shard every level or cryptarch for actually nothing.
I usually do but have a strict rule to myself to only use NLB (and sometimes knives) when facing shielded and/or yellow bar enemies. I should have shotgun'd that Knight though.
Yes, it's working!
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
The Throwing Knife tree has an ability where if you Precision Hit with the throw, you get it back instantly
Also can double up on Throwing Knifes but have to give up either a Golden Gun/Reload perk
Monte Carlo + Throwing Knife (Double) = Eris Hunter Special Bounty done in less than 5 minutes on Rocketyard lol
Do know that you'll have to learn and use the reload cancel trick to be able to use it like this, though.
I legitimately like using it in Crucible. If the other exotics in TBD were just plain GOOD, it would get a pass as a weird shitty weapon that you can do well with if you're on your game. It's the most satisfying gun to kill someone with. I prefer using it on Cauldron. NLB+Secret Handshake+Against all Odds = I do alright..
That's their very own chests have been giving you them. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are the chosen one!
I don't even reload cancel in PVP with NLB except for the occasional sprint at the end of the animation, which I do with every gun. It's all about strafing and snapping into a headshot, taking cover if you miss, keeping distance, switching to shotgun when they get too close, etc. Or you just die because you opponent doesn't have to worry about any of that. You're playing a different game, NLB requires more mental energy.
Anyone who wants to try out NLB in Crucible needs to realize that a red dot appears on the enemy when they are targeted. If it is on their head pull the trigger and you win. Doesn't matter how much the gun is flinching. It's still hard to aim for sure, but you'll do a lot better if you know this one weird trick
I can't guarantee that was the final image the Cuphead made with everyones Avatar in it.
That image was called "ship23.jpg" and I don't know if it went up to "ship24.jpg" or "ship25.jpg" or higher...
BMO = GOAT
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If a team needs a sword runner, I'll be available for the next 30mins 
Thanks for the link I'll give it a listen while working lol.
Man I can run Crucible like all day and still be broke. I think after 10 mins in a Crucible match all we get is 250! At least that's what I get and I'm usually the top scorer (top 3) with positive K/Ds
On one hand, I understand why they try to gate the crap out of the game. Because they know once people hit endgame and get all of their stuff they will bounce. Esp with all these amazing games coming out (The Order, Bloodborne) and even BF Hardline might grab some pvpers.
How do you cancel the animation? Can you do it for all guns?
blazeuk
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If anyone runs CE NM at any point and doesn't mind carrying a level 27 through some of it (I can switch to either of my other characters if/when needed) send me an invite, must have that raid armour before I carry on any further.
Edit: Top of the page with such a request? Awful.
Edit: Top of the page with such a request? Awful.
After you fire you hit reload then immediately sprint forward one step and then you can fire again immediately. You can also just sprint to cancel the animation but then you still have to wait the same amount of time you would if you let the animation play.
Not sure about other guns. Maybe but most aren't as slow as NLB.
It only cancels the animation part of it, and not the actual reloading time, doesn't it?
If that's the case, I wouldn't use it personally: at least the animation is cool, so if you can't skip the time it takes before being allowed to shoot another shot, might as well leave it play. ^^
You just sprint when you see your gun is reloaded in your hud. Animation canceling was -almost- mandatory in Mass Effect 3 MP actually to get great dps with the shotguns since they reload so slow. I should cancel more in Destiny
Your gun is already reloaded; you are just waiting on the animation. You can see its reloaded by watching the HUD. doing the heavy ammo glitch you want to animation cancel your butt off so whole team not having to sit there and watch u shoot for 2mins
I've started doing it more and more, without realizing it.
I don't even need to look the HUD, I'm starting to get the different timings down in my head for the weapons I use the most. Still leaves me with bad surprises from time to time, though, where I messed up before and end up reloading my maching gun in front of a major...
Oh, yeah, I was asking about the "special" chamber reload animation of the NLB.Your gun is already reloaded; you are just waiting on the animation. You can see its reloaded by watching the HUD. doing the heavy ammo glitch you want to animation cancel your butt off so whole team not having to sit there and watch u shoot for 2mins
Knew the "sprint when HUD is ok" trick for regular weapons. ^^
The method I described above to Deku (reload + sprint) lets you fire right away as soon as you sprint a step. Just sprinting to cancel does what you describe, though.
Yeah, didn't know there were two methods to do it.
If there's a way to fire quicker, then yeah, by all means use it!
AmateurHour212
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The long-distance knife throw at 5:08 of that video is just stupid...
GuitarAtomik
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Oh that one? That guy doesn't work at Bungie, he's just been running huge Bungie fansites since the Marathon days.
xplicitone
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Just around to finally checking Xur out and wow Xur, that's pretty bad. I was sure to see the purple square this time.
Congrats to those that weren't able to get ice breaker the last time
Congrats to those that weren't able to get ice breaker the last time
Kor of Memory
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Throwing Knives are indeed amazing but don't count for melee kill bounties
It feels silly that those don't count towards a melee kill but a shoulder charge does. Especially since the shoulder charge can be used infinitely.
gutterboy44
Member
This is the weird thing though, a huge portion of the player base has exhausted all of Destiny's content, 1,000 times over, but we still really enjoy playing the game, because we get to play with friends.
The community is the glue that is still holding this mess of a game together. I feel like Bungie doesn't fully understand that. Getting Eris to Rank 4 slightly faster isn't going to cause me to sign off. Being able to buy a huge stash of heavy ammo synth won't make me turn off my PS4. Having no one to play with, that will make me bin this game forever, even if new, free DLC was dropping every other week.
Players aren't logging on every night and saying, " Oh man, I haven't done that story mission yet! There is still so much content to enjoy!" No, we come on to hang out, have fun and shoot the shit while we shoot shit. You made a great shooter Bungie, but most of the content is instantly forgettable. However, the people we repeat this same content with, over and over again, are what keep us coming back. All it takes is getting a few players here and there to stop playing this game, and groups start falling like a house of cards. I know for a fact if my close IRL friend stopped playing Destiny today, I would probably disappear from this community within a week. This is what worries me with all of these decisions Bungie keeps making to hinder players instead of empowering them. I have the stubbornness to endure, but if my core group of friends don't, than I am not going to bother to play this game alone.
My enjoyment is very much contingent on friends as well. Can't imagine playing this game without an active group.
Yeah, didn't know there were two methods to do it.
If there's a way to fire quicker, then yeah, by all means use it!
I struggle with this because it's an exploit that improves the rate of fire, whereas the point of doing these was to see if I could complete Daily missions using a slow
, bad
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
For a Hunter with no other Exotic, which is more valuable? Icebreaker or Crest of Alpha Lui.
Before Homeboyd comes in here and burns you at the stake for even asking this question...go with ICE BREAKER.
AmateurHour212
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You and I should start two-manning missions/strikess. You use NLB without the exploit and I'll use Red Death. No melees, no grenades, no other weapons.
And I'll also add vodka and
weed
Ice Breaker 100%. It's an excellent first exotic, worthy of the exotic slot in just about any context.
I would normally say to get an exotic armor piece first if you don't have one, but Ice Breaker is one of the few exceptions.
I say Icebreaker. It is one of the top two exotic weapons in the game. Your first exotic armor should be a helmet anyways IMO.
Agent_Tiro
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Ice breaker. I have crest and I've only ever wore it to level it up. Ice breaker is much more useful.
Ice Breaker.
Must have weapon, don't miss it.
Crest of Alpha Lupi is a nice exotic, but it only shines when playing in a group. And there are arguably better, or more versatile pieces of exotic armor for the Hunter.