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Destiny |OT20| HoW Comes, No Raid?
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CouchMaster
Member
Yeah people complaining about CE raid not being good, how do you feel now?
Agent_Tiro
Member
Not seen any drop from majors as standard. I'm gonna guess that it'll be like the bulk of the raids and no exp / glimmer to be earned during it. To prevent people farming of course! So annoying.
Lost count of the amount of new names I'm seeing in here today. Normally I would be all for the new faces but it seems like drive by trolling.
As shitty as they're playing I do kinda feel bad for them. No pressure, right?
I love Destiny but I am really bummed out that there is no new raid
I love Destiny but I am really bummed out that there is no new raid
KINGofCRA5H
Member
I will say that it has a metric shit ton of potential, though.
Orochinagis
Member
Deejs face .....he is just pissed off
Phaethon0017
Member
So how do rewards work? I'm not trying to guage the difficulty because the presenters couldn't get past Restoration. I just think it's an odd choice to not give out rewards upon clearing rooms. Bungie has been good at dangling the carrots. Then again, it might have taken us 10mins to clear what I watched for a half hour.
LunaticPuma
dresses business casual
Amazing.
CE is still not good, and this is a significantly better activity that requires knowledge of weapons, loadouts, synergy, and combat effectiveness.
This expansion makes CE look like it was developed by Bungie's E team.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Hi Bungie. Patch in a new raid. Delete PoE. OK thx bye.
What are the drops and how many times a week can I get one per character (hope dies last)?
Fake EDIT: I'm reading "forced underleveling". You'd need NASA tech to measure the speed with which my adamantium-hard nerd-boner just went flaccid.
General_Zod
Banned
I'm fine with he no checkpoints or loot til the end.
But on this one they have played the same 2 rooms twice so far that isn't new content it's the same thing with different modifiers.
Just think you will have to do this 3 times with each character that's 15 cells but you won't be of which most will be the same.
It's just grinding in a new space.
The side arm looks really cool tho
But on this one they have played the same 2 rooms twice so far that isn't new content it's the same thing with different modifiers.
Just think you will have to do this 3 times with each character that's 15 cells but you won't be of which most will be the same.
It's just grinding in a new space.
The side arm looks really cool tho
Twilight Gap
Member
deej always looks pissed off if that's the case
robertlebrone
Member
Halo firefight didn't have loot and rewards beyond bragging rights attached to it. Correct me if I'm wrong. You get dropped there who cares? There is loot and gear attached to this mode so to be penalized if life happens or you get disconnected is garbage. I don't understand what people don't get about this?
BreezyLimbo
Banned
It probably wasn't intended to be that way to be honest. THe only reason saving checkpoints works week through week is not because it's intended by Bungie, but because someone can sit in the actual area while the reset timer ticks over, and wala they have a checkpoint.
I mean, do you really think Bungie wanted people to save Gorgon checkpoints so they can get 2 free chests of loot without even trying?
And in WoW, people can't *save* checkpoints if they want loot from a boss again without extending the lockout before a boss, meaning that they lose the possible loot they could grab from bosses already downed.
LollipoPReapeR
Member
Guys, it's fine. In a couple of months when they've gathered enough feedback they'll change a lot of things. I have a strong feeling the checkpoint system will be changed, and the rewards system. Someone already mentioned this but people are just going to farm the last checkpoint so you can get the rewards faster, instead of having to do the entire thing.
¯_(ツ_/¯
That's the problem. It should have this stuff AT launch. Like is anyone at Bungie capable of extrapolating community behaviour?
It's like amateur hour
Ok so 1 run of VoG HM ( from oracles) + 1 run Crota HM ( from DS) and I get:
Monte Carlo
Preadyth's Timepiece
Atheon's Epilogue
Vision of Confluence
Vex Mythoclast
Aspect of Glass
The last word
Word of Crota
Hard light
Hezen Vengeance
S13's Graverobber
With Mani, Nooblet, TiersofBlood, Rbson and everyday math.
Still no 4th Horseman. oh boy... Nemesis.
Monte Carlo
Preadyth's Timepiece
Atheon's Epilogue
Vision of Confluence
Vex Mythoclast
Aspect of Glass
The last word
Word of Crota
Hard light
Hezen Vengeance
S13's Graverobber
With Mani, Nooblet, TiersofBlood, Rbson and everyday math.
Still no 4th Horseman. oh boy... Nemesis.
Twilight Gap
Member
I really think this will be fun with friends. It's just that this isn't a great way to showcase it. I'm kind of excited about not haing to gather a group for raids with the chance of playing with unlikable or uncooperative people. I at least have two friends that play. There's a lot about this DLC I'm hyped for.
Orochinagis
Member
From the team that brough you Omnigul and Deathsinger boss encounter design
Is supposed to give you loot all after you clear all five rooms
LunaticPuma
dresses business casual
Are you playing the game to have fun or to just collect 1's & 0's?
All this needs is a scoring mechanic and leader boards. That will bring out the competitive spirit.
brianjones
Member
LoL.. deej is an activision hire confirmed
SlenderBeans
Member
At least this proves one thing.
This is why Raids don't have matchmaking.
This is why Raids don't have matchmaking.
I don't mean only checkpoint preservation week to week, I mean being able to play with my group through CE once, saving the DS CP, finishing Crota, then doing DS/Crota 2x more.
I'm sure they didn't intend the week-to-week CP keeping, but being able to go to orbit or quit and resume without wasting 50 minutes for 3 people is critical.
100% chance they fix this, or no one's going to play it.
Flying Toaster
Member
Honestly at the end of the day what is ultimately saving this game is the community. If you have friends to play with it is amazing.
No amount of black magic or animal sacrifice would save this game from the fans. Bungie and Activision hyped the shit out of Destiny. The starving masses are quite the lynch mob and and at the end of the day either you are happy or you are not.
I play the game soley because of DGAF. It has interesting mechanics but if you actually looked at the game for what it is... it is too ambitious in scope and each time an expansion is released it is already ridiculed and deemed not worthy before any of us play it.
No amount of black magic or animal sacrifice would save this game from the fans. Bungie and Activision hyped the shit out of Destiny. The starving masses are quite the lynch mob and and at the end of the day either you are happy or you are not.
I play the game soley because of DGAF. It has interesting mechanics but if you actually looked at the game for what it is... it is too ambitious in scope and each time an expansion is released it is already ridiculed and deemed not worthy before any of us play it.
Please do.
Oh good. One more try. Then actually talk about the mode, the loot, etc. Enough of the fail.
Orochinagis
Member
But this is not even a raid which is mind blowing.
BUTTS
A lot of "new" names are folks that put the game down after Crota and played Wait and See with HoW. The waiy I'm reading the feedback is that this gametype isn't providing enough "new" to bring the lapsed players back for any length of time. There's already several glaring issues with PoE folks have pointed out after watching for just over an hour.
Why no intermediary loot every x waves/rounds?
Lack of proper checkpoints make it a worse grind than raids.
Take the worst public event type (stop boss from getting to point x) and feature it in this mode.
Artificial difficulty (over leveled enemies) over interesting encounter design.
I can't comment on the rewards yet but I haven't had much reason to put faith in Bungie lately.
robertlebrone
Member
I'm playing it to do both and getting rewards for my time is why I continue to play this game. It's rewarding. You gonna sit there and tell me you play "just cuz"? Come on now.
JetBlackPanda
Member
the streams are cool (this one has been pretty bad) but I think they should release vidocs too.
Forerunner
Member
Please not one more time.
WheelHoss1
Member
Another I like is the 3-man teams. I feel like in the raids, weaker players can just hide behind stronger players, i.e. Kadey soloing Crota while 5 dudes sit back and wait to collect loot.
With teams of 3, everyone will have to hold it down, or the squad won't advance. Personally, I like the added pressure. Same with Trials of Osiris. Imagine the intensity of being the last man standing knowing it's all on you and everyone is watching?
With teams of 3, everyone will have to hold it down, or the squad won't advance. Personally, I like the added pressure. Same with Trials of Osiris. Imagine the intensity of being the last man standing knowing it's all on you and everyone is watching?
SlenderBeans
Member
Vidocs were one of my favorite things when Bungie was developing Halo.
Its happening
Orochinagis
Member
For real this time!.
LunaticPuma
dresses business casual
No, I play because I enjoy the combat and RPG elements within the shooter environment. I enjoy collecting loot because it modifies the combat. This game is significantly better with multiple exotics to play around with that alter gameplay such as Obsidian Mind, Helm of St. 14, Bad JuJu, Don't Touch Me, etc.
I play the game for the combat. I collect the gear to modify the combat.
Chronology
Member
Don't know if they've been posted yet, but IGN has some good PoE and strike gameplay up; might be a better time than the stream.
http://www.ign.com/videos/2015/05/06/destiny-the-prison-of-elders-broken-legion-mission
http://www.ign.com/videos/2015/05/06/destiny-the-prison-of-elders-broken-legion-mission
everyday math
Banned
Let's not get into "how you play the game". It's no win argument.
SlenderBeans
Member
What is this?!
Is this... strategy?
Nope. Nevermind.
Wait.
Nope. I stand corrected.
Is this... strategy?
Nope. Nevermind.
Wait.
Nope. I stand corrected.
Dylan Sexbang
Banned
I was really hoping for randomly generated content, with new bosses and new boss mechanics. Like progressing through a random prison cell block, the rooms switch up everytime and every few cells is a boss cell that has a unique boss with some gimmick like relics or templar teleporting or even liturgy. Add skulls as you progress through it until you get to the main big bad of the cellblock.
Not just firefight. Except it's not firefight, now it has objectives. But wait! Instead of getting different arenas like Halo Reach or ODST you play in the same goddamn arena.
I'll give it a go, but my expectations are beyond low and Destiny will go on the back burner until the next raid drops. And if I have to pay again for a singular raid, I don't know if I will come back.
Not just firefight. Except it's not firefight, now it has objectives. But wait! Instead of getting different arenas like Halo Reach or ODST you play in the same goddamn arena.
I'll give it a go, but my expectations are beyond low and Destiny will go on the back burner until the next raid drops. And if I have to pay again for a singular raid, I don't know if I will come back.
I enjoyed Crota's End. It has good mechanics, cheeses aside. VoG too. The raids are great! Templar is a little slow, oracles should be cut in half and the waves take a little long. But the raids so far are great and I can't believe we're getting another iteration of Firefight with worse AI than that of Halo.
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