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Destiny |OT18| CA$H-4-CROTA
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Ruthless_Barbarian
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Wait, you can't load it up solo if your fireteam is set to closed?
Best option in that case is load in with 2 friends and then ask them to leave.
Nope like every other matchmade activity it looks for people before it starts regardless of your fireteam privacy settings.
Some people data mined the update and found that there's a social area for the Reef tucked away in all the code.
Wow, that's an imaginative name for it. I wonder how they came up with that.
Ran the daily after applying the patch. I'd gotten the 4th Horseman shotgun just a couple days ago from an engram so the timing was nice.
This is the first patch that will alter my play style significantly. My agility build Hunter, with Radiant Dance Machines equipped, was a terror with the shotgun. I closed distance with yellow bar knights and acolytes and just melted them with that thing. Having light switch on presented a nice risk/reward tilt to the built. Will be incorporating that build heavily into strikes.
While I haven't tried out pulse rifles since the patch, I've already decided my Warlock is tucking the Monte Carlo back in the vault, and pulling out the legendary pulse rifle I got from a Vanguard rank. It was starting to get a bit boring using an auto rifle, and the combination of the auto rifle nerf and pulse rifle buff is enough to tip me over to it. That suits my playstyle much more anyways.
Pretty great update, so far.
I know right? And check out that description: "Reef Social Space description". It's almost as if it's just a placeholder.
This is the first patch that will alter my play style significantly. My agility build Hunter, with Radiant Dance Machines equipped, was a terror with the shotgun. I closed distance with yellow bar knights and acolytes and just melted them with that thing. Having light switch on presented a nice risk/reward tilt to the built. Will be incorporating that build heavily into strikes.
While I haven't tried out pulse rifles since the patch, I've already decided my Warlock is tucking the Monte Carlo back in the vault, and pulling out the legendary pulse rifle I got from a Vanguard rank. It was starting to get a bit boring using an auto rifle, and the combination of the auto rifle nerf and pulse rifle buff is enough to tip me over to it. That suits my playstyle much more anyways.
Pretty great update, so far.
I know right? And check out that description: "Reef Social Space description". It's almost as if it's just a placeholder.
Dhruv_hanom
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Heh its no, somehow I find glimmer farmming very taxing
Twilight Gap
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it's likely place holder. one of the descriptions literally goes "insert description here" or something.
Damn, man. Get well soon.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Ah that's stupid. So even if you load in with 2 friends and they leave, some random player or players can be matched into your game?
Placeholder names generally aren't very clever.
Yeah. It's somewhat amusing seeing to all rendered in game with the placeholder text though. Usually you see data mined names in directory lists or folder names. Like the Xur leaks, seeing it all in game is rather novel.
Yeah it's handled like every other matchmade strike now.
Was the update actually a couple of gigs? The PS interface indicated it was over 2 gigs, but then Destiny applied a really small update when I got into the game. I'm wondering how much stuff they really added behind the scenes. Feels like a lot of groundwork is stating to be put down for the HoW expansion.
2.44GB even though everyone's download started at 2.40GB. Inside the game 11.xx mb patch.
Most of it was already in game. Re-use of animations, sounds, assets surely.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Anyone have a hard Crota CP for PS4?
DrDrizzay101
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Weird... the only other large patch was exactly 2.44 GB also, before TDB dropped.
I do, can load it up now (edit: installing the 11.34 MB update now...)
GlamFM
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I'm on in 10 mins for our weekly.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Xie muchos danke arigato xie.
i was just messing around with shotties at the deathsinger (Crota normal) with iRawr, firehawk, milkham, unknown, and kartik. Even on my 31 warlock with a 302 swordbreaker I was staying just out of their range and just wrecking their faces. On my hunter I had a 4th horseman that I hadn't touched, and I could 3 shot the yellow knights. The best part is when boomers put up their shields, you walk casually around the side and shoot them exactly in the face. It's outrageous. And not at all OP or unbalanced, you can easily get destroyed if you're not careful or get greedy.
some of the best writing in destiny though
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Yeah makes sense, I couldn't believe that 2.42GB was done in 5 minutes and the rest of the 20mb took the same time. Probably just added the changes to the previous patch file or something.
I have hard DS and normal Crota if you want either of the two.
edit: looks like Drizzay can hook you up with hm scrota
Great.
Anyone else for weekly? Rather a gaffer than a random
They have probably all the files necessary for patching the game "properly" on those 2.44GB. It seems they changed only 40mb of it this time. I surely remember downloading the 2.44GB a while ago. Meaning the download preparation is just making a checksum and downloading what was modified.
I can't wait to do some crazy Pvp starting today. I want to see those pulse rifles going mental.
xplicitone
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Decided to do a weekly strike via matchmaking. Got to spongebob, about 5% health left and my Vita died. I go to my ps4, turn on my TV and said I've been removed from game world. Wonder if that's because my Vita died? Damnit.
xplicitone
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That was my first time loading the game since update. Shotties are crazy now!
brianjones
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if theres one thing you can't hate about destiny its that bungie is pretty good at coming up with cool names for stuff
or at least i think so anyway
hoping "the arena" is a placeholder for the new raid lol
or at least i think so anyway
hoping "the arena" is a placeholder for the new raid lol
Ruthless_Barbarian
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This patch is 1.1.1, yet Destiny > information says 1.09?
In game it shows up as 1.1.1
In game it shows up as 1.1.1
Eva LAVANTE!
Hah, I discovered this exact thing to my great delight. I'm usually not in close enough proximity to flank a knight when their shield is up, but I just kind of sauntered around it and blew piece of him across the room. It was a thing I enjoyed doing.
I'm genuinely excited to have a couple new classes of weapons become viable.
Don't tell Sage, he'll nerf it!
Ruthless_Barbarian
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C'mon people get them coins!
DrDrizzay101
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Let's do this! No rando's allowed!
edit: also no mic for me but can't imagine that'll be an issue, haha
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Haha yes.
Oh man, reddit might be on to something.
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheG...sion_spoilers_vog_the_mystery_of_the_oracles/
They're trying to play tunes from the soundtrack using the tones of the oracles in VoG to see if anything unlocks based on some guy figuring out that if you kill the oracles in order it plays the director map menu music.
It seems Bungie have previous form for this sort of thing from Halo 2 and a secret skull unlocking if you played the soundtrack by jumping through rings that made tones.
This is intriguing.
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheG...sion_spoilers_vog_the_mystery_of_the_oracles/
They're trying to play tunes from the soundtrack using the tones of the oracles in VoG to see if anything unlocks based on some guy figuring out that if you kill the oracles in order it plays the director map menu music.
It seems Bungie have previous form for this sort of thing from Halo 2 and a secret skull unlocking if you played the soundtrack by jumping through rings that made tones.
This is intriguing.
If that's the final shipping name I'd be quite surprised. 90% certain it's just placeholder.
Halo 3, actually.
CouchMaster
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Brand new non-leveled Swordbreaker one-shotting lvl 30 yellow hobs in GK, see Bungie now why can't you do this for other weapons?
Soloing can also be fun. I know I love it.
Also, avoids some disappointment when the guy next to you gets the Horn and you get shards...
Valus is now the most easy strike to solo. You can't die, really.
Skip the first phase, then jump on the entrance roof of the second one and snipe the guards. When the tank falls down, jump to the rock just to your left: he will hover to your side and he can't see you from that far away, and will never shoot at you. Then it's time for that new armor piercing cheese against Valus and voila! Less than 40 enemies to kill to get it done.
That was a good read. Very interesting. I wonder if the Vex itself unlocks something in VOG.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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My void plug one fusion rifle already did that...not sure if it still would after the patch.
DrDrizzay101
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Call me crazy
but I kinda like Valus nowadays. I feel like his strike got a bad rap in the early days before BHam, etc. Except for his tiny pea brain crit spot it's a pretty fun strike/boss fight with a big open room to run around. GG Ruthless + Glam.
The core problem of Omni-janitor is the small environmental design, not just that it's a long strike.
you're crazy!
The core problem of Omni-janitor is the small environmental design, not just that it's a long strike.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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After omni, valus feels like a breath of fresh air. Easier and more enjoyable.
We finished that weekly in around 15-16 minutes.
Edit: 16:14 to be exact.
DrDrizzay101
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Oh, I've been down that rabbit hole tonight. My wife was showing me how weird that C lydian scale is, how the half steps are compressed compared to a typical scale like a C major. Gives the theme an eerie vibe since the scale doesn't resolve as you would typically expect.
I'm down to try that btw if anyone wants to, shouldn't take very long. Personally I'm not convinced about the "composer" destroying the specific oracles but definitely worth a shot.
Reptars Revenge
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Anybody doing anything?
Reptars Revenge
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Still God tier. Don't worry
Johan Liebert
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So post patch you no longer get ammo back when doing the heavy ammo glitch? Been doing this a couple of times and didn't have my ammo refilled. is it because of icebreaker?
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Worked for me, not sure why that's happening to you.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Shotguns and pulse rifles too OP. Bungie please nerf.
Seriously, one shooting minotaurs and fallen captains feels amazing!
Seriously, one shooting minotaurs and fallen captains feels amazing!
CouchMaster
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Fatebringer is timeless, don't worry about it.
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