No problem, dude - glad you were able to get some good stuff! You did totally fine, not dying and being quick on the revive is a huge boost to the party.
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Destiny |OT23| This Train is Bound for Mercury
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jerry0wilson
Member
Invite sent thanks
geordiemp
Member
It does not work - it killed COD AW community - skill based match making with me as KD of 2 all games I got where people > 500 miles away... clan of 20 and we all left. COD lost many players.
I never got games with UK players at peak time on Ps4 ...and UK has massive install base.
That's why I play destiny - I just want games where I play and people are not lagging all over the map.
Skill based match making ONLY works if you have LOCAL DEDICATED SERVERS. COD AW is basically who is on the good side of LAG, and the lag is real in every single game as the game server searches for similar players from Greece, Poland, France, UK, Spain, Italy...and its SHIT.
Otherwise every game should be based on PING to the host, as primary, secondary and tertiary.
Otherwise at 30 FPS the game is CRAP for many players, the only ones that benefit are the people with the average KD.
And then the reverse boosting starts, get killed all week and then wreck in trials. That what happens in COD...
They started banning people for killing themselves. It was an epidemic.
Destiny did it right, its based on Connection for trials of OSIRIS.
and it should be. Games have to be local to be fair otherwise you spend you time shooting where players used to be, getting shot round corners...shudders at what COD has become. If it had local only match making I would still be playing...but COD is dead to me.
And what KD do you use to match with a party ? Will the KD 0.5 players want to play with a 3 KD player anymore....?
Split up friends by KD ? Just no. NO.
Destiny is a social game - I want to play with others I enjoy playing with, imagine if they said sorry you cant join us we are all KD 0.7 we don't want a good player to join us who gets to light house every week.
Definity reroll it - mine rolled with full auto. Holy out of ammo Batman
It was the first one I decided to get and it's, uh, fun but could be a lot better. Primarily the ricochet rounds are useless and would prefer them to actual home-in hard on enemies. As of now the ricochet rounds are pretty much not worth considering.
Sleepy Buddha
Member
I feel horrible that I have Witcher 3 Collectors sitting unopened and all I play is Destiny. Bungie please let me play other games
If Comet is truly as good as we expect, I will be very worried.
You should feel horrible, The Witcher 3 is the GOAT.
But seriously, the game is so, so, so excellent it deserves your undivided attention. And if your Destiny itch does not let you give it what it deserves, just scratch that itch until it does.
I'm dividing my time between both. Since this week we have IB besides the rest I do not feel I can give Witcher 3 the attention it deserves, so I'm taking a small break from it. It will be there, waiting to wrap me up in its all encompassing sweet embrace once more once I'm free from the evil clutches of endless grind for EL.
The one I just did was on the bank at the bottom of the road up to the Skywatch entrance. It was out in the open and the four of us there spotted it from far away. I imagine if there are any spawns inside the planes, they will be harder to spot.
You talked the same stuff yesterday/few days ago and I still can't take it seriously. You have a real damn grudge against CoD because of it.
I'm not saying don't consider connection but, like I said before, skill is priority. It should always be priority.
It hasn't.
Looks pretty bad
Kor of Memory
Member
I like pretty much everything you said here, but wanted to address this specific part.
If you have a team of 3, or a team of 6 in a game of Control or Clash. The current matchmaking system bases it's decisions off the player with the highest skill level.
If I'm an 85/100 skill player, and my wife is a 70/100 skill player. If we play together, she's going to find herself against people on my level more than her own. On average, when we play together she finds herself in 4th or 5th place on the end game leaderboard. However when she plays by herself, She's regularly in 1st or 2nd.
ethomaz
Banned
I can always help but no mic due work place
BroodShadow
Member
Need to do the NF x3 if anyone us down psn:broodshadow
"Excellent" - Mr. burns voice
What you can't tell from the stream is that the bullets are physically slow. You have to lead them super hard at even a mild distance.
Forerunner
Member
because it is
EXACTLY! The sample size required for proper skilled based MM needs to be huge to work nowadays. Halo 2 did it perfectly because it was unique on the market. Currently, consoles are saturated with shooters and the population drops within months. LoL and Dota are one of the few games that can truly implement a skill-based ranking system without detriment to the player.
Console games are better off with just connection based matchmaking. I want quick games that happen often. Fortunately Destiny is able to retain it's population, but that's not something that can be taken for granted and Bungie knows it.
Looks really bad
Damn, so it really is 1.2.0.2. A real patch! What could be inside!
I'm so exhausted... I feel a nap is in my future. But I am going to enjoy all the IB GAF stress relief this week.
Oh cool, Variks has the helm. So I can hit 34 on my Warlock with Voidfang, Praxic or Starfire Protocol...
It's actually really strong (even in PVP) but the slow bullets and useless perk hurt it a lot.
noomi
Member
It's the last weapon I chose from the elder cipher to get, could be fun, but not very useful it seems.
I've heard of some people having success in crucible however.
Another strength stat though from Variks. This makes me sad. I have the whole armor set but I can't wear it due to poo stats.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
I posted a pic few pages ago.
SteveO1683
Member
Thanks for the Hawkmoon and P&T!
First weapon I picked (only got one cipher so far) and it's pretty neat. Still needs some adjusting (that will never happen). I plan to get Lord of Wolves next.
Also I think the stat stuff on the armor is kind of smart. Makes you want to actually try the judgment's chances instead of just waiting for the game to give them to you via Variks.
And lots, lots of strength. I know you don't usually Destiny much on Tuesdays, but will you be playing IB today? I know it's in 2 hours so it's a bit early to start a train but I'd like to hop on right away with a team instead of starting solo.
Round 2 was pretty easy.
We got a spot open for PoE 32. We at round 3
Yeah, just jump in.I can always help but no mic due work
We got a spot open for PoE 32. We at round 3
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Anytime. Were they your first?
Raven Prime
Member
The problem with that is though that I've helped multiple people getting their trials rewards or go flawless, after going flawless myself first. I don't think that would work. Besides that would also probably mean that towards the end of the trials there would be a massive skill drop off, at least initially.
Is it the same as last weeks PoE 34? Kind of like how they bumped down Uuroks. I can't actually play, just curious.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
This is 3 weeks old.
Jinjo
Member
Complete agree with you two. I really enjoyed playing in a pretty much lag free environment. It added to my enjoyment with trials a whole lot. In multiplayer games I always notice heavily when I was being fucking over by slight lag. There is no worse thing in online gaming.
Um that's the may 15 update notes. Wrong link?
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Good luck on running out of things to do
HoW late did you stay up last night?
I cannot wait to dig into Witcher....at somepoint.
Meant it as in there is alot of great side quest, exploration, gear to collect. Plus I like to take my time, Nonetheless an amazing game that presents it self different from similar open world RPGs.
It would be a clearing house where going flawless would get easier and easier until the whole achievement feels empty and meaningless. No thanks. It would be really strange to lock players out of repeating content; this game only locks out loot. By Saturday all the good clans would be done. By Sunday all the above-average GAFers and Redactors. By Monday you'd have all-casual teams rocking their Auto Rifles and stuff going to Mercury. It'd defeat the whole purpose of the tournament.
It's hard and should stay hard and inaccessible to most of us because otherwise what's the point?
Don't mind one bit on my Warlock. Actually I wish I'd managed to get the pure strength robe last night to rock with my Claws of Ahamkara/Monte Carlo build. Will skip it on my other classes though... they're already 34 anyway.
Plenty of time to perfect the stat distributions on my build over time.
I'm getting the helms since I haven't ascended any of my other ones.
MrS
Banned
That's true, trains would pretty much have to stop, but on the flip side of that it would mean you're not going to have excellent players intentionally ruining the chances of lower skilled players. I was just putting the idea out there because I wanted to see what people who maybe aren't great at PVP would think of it.
Yep, it's all about having the nice connection. It's so annoying going against red bars where they either die 5 seconds late, or we die together.
I knew it would be amazing, but it seems like they really knocked it out of the park.
SteveO1683
Member
They weren't sadly. P&T maybe my 3rd or 4th and Hawkmoon my 5th or 6th. Still waiting for a gjallarhorn drop. Maybe from the three hard pulls I can be blessed with one.
Exotics were dropping at a high rate it seemed. I know I saw the two I got of course but someone pulled a red death and a mida during one of the times I was in as well.
Cool I'll go find it.
Here's a link to a YouTube vid for Mothyards chests as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QtSrdkoy7w