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Destiny |OT23| This Train is Bound for Mercury
- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
- Start date
whew boys, we got that done just in the nick of time it seems, well done.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Weasel in the middle of Crota
There is no help for us. Bungie, pls.
BlindMonkey
Member
Destiny Servers are not available.
Guess it's patch time.
Guess it's patch time.
The Keeper of the Pack perk works wonders, but I don't think it breaks anything. It's all been sold by Xur so anyone who wants it has it (Titan was on sale this weekend actually), and though it's nice I don't think it fundamentally breaks the mode.
Every Guardian running that means one less Armamentarium to double-nade your ass, or one less Voidfang to constantly spam tracking nades etc. It's a big tradeoff.
I am definitely with you with this post. Not all loot is created equal and nobody "deserves" to get everything in this game. If it's a PvP mode that demands perfection/excellent PvP skills, then only those who have that should get it.
Just like how I think only good raiding parties deserve to finish the raids and get loot that way and so on.
I think a healthy degree of tier-ing in loot and diversity among players is necessary.
Noisepurge
Member
4 hours downtime?
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Kicked. Patch time.
@DeeJ_BNG: Yep. We did it again. Patch Notes soon, friends.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
How long are we expecting?
rasengan1337
Member
oooo, can i join for a run?
Goodacre0081
Member
is the game going to be down for a bit or do they usually come back fairly quickly?
noomi
Member
The problem is the massive amounts of people getting carried through. We played a guy yesterday who was unbelievable and took us down all by himself, the rest of his team was sub 1 K/D and we lost in 5 straight rounds. Until they prevent this kind of behavior the fact of getting to Mercury doesn't really mean anything. We played a team of three exotics a little later and wiped the floor with them and I've never gotten past 6 wins without help from GAF. The mode only demands one member of a team be perfect, not the whole team.
More than revival speed I am bothered by the revival radius. You could kill someone on the other end of the hallway in pantheon and they could get revived from like a mile away from a corner. That plus the very short revival countdown for first kill. It barely affects anything if a team is defending because the attacking team can just wait the 5 seconds out and still continue to push..but now with a shield !
noomi
Member
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Another mothyards chest location
Would Bobby Kotick accept a check for some weapon parts
neoism
Member
I have that other one with luck in the chamber explosive rounds and firefly....
. can't seem yo get anything that good for my shadow X......I reaaalllllly wish they would let us chose the sights..
and just reroll the abilities.silver.tongue
Member
Yeah, I don't mind revival speed or even timer, but the radius is anoying.
jerry0wilson
Member
Thanks again! Looks like we barely made it haha
If we do it certainly! I'm wanting to do it around 8:30 Eastern...
xplicitone
Member
I second this. I know it can change things but I think there should be 2 modes, ranked (like halo where you earn points and have a level and can move down for losses) and the current ToO system that's just random.
For the people that want to be ranked to get matched against more appropriate skilled players, they'll have that option. I thought it worked fairly well in halo. I would typically fluctuate between 2 levels until I got better and was able to move up.
Of course designing that to be as even as possible is a challenge and determining the loot system and whatnot.
EL CUCO
Member
-Fixed a bug where Skolas PoE was Void burn.
*now Lightswitch
yeah but all that variety will be gone in ToO. Instead everyone will just run +revive gear (at least 2 members, while the 3rd gets to choose something else)
Add to that- most players will just run Thorn, Hawkmoon, & Vex all we will see is eveyrone using the same weapons and gear. [edit: I forgot to add The Last Word, so at least we do see 4 different primary weapons]
I am sure ToO is great fun for those that love that sort of thing. But myself I think its not fun to kill someone and they just get revived. I want people to stay dead.
I don't understand why it's called Elimination mode myself. Since people can get revived.
Anyway, I've given up on this game every having pvp where I want it. I still do it but its very casual these days. Mostly only to finish bounties
Inb4 Fate of All Fools gets patched in.
neoism
Member
yeah BUNGLE PLS.......
let us buy or exchange for weapon parts.... I have like 1200 sapphire wire they're useless...
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xplicitone
Member
Oh Void For Skolas.
OK I might actually attempt that then especially since I didn't play PoE more than 1x last week.
OK I might actually attempt that then especially since I didn't play PoE more than 1x last week.
I guess I'm buying a whole crap load of red bull now.
Server side updates. Hopefully they can better detect and ban lag cheaters.
Poker Face
Member
wtf.
guess we'll get an announcement at E3 and be able to enter codes leading up to the release?
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Souldestroyer Reborn
Banned
What's the big deal about the ToO weapons anyway? Are they not just 365's like everything else?
Is the armour capped at 42 light too?
Don't get me wrong I'd love a new void primary for the burns due to AE being shit but apart from that....
Is the armour capped at 42 light too?
Don't get me wrong I'd love a new void primary for the burns due to AE being shit but apart from that....
squidhands
Member
oh no, more outside xp boosting shit like Halo 4. barf
We're gonna do it three times, should be real easy with an ascended Praedyth's and a Corrective Measure.
MightyKAC
Member
Let it be known to all gaffers present that Atone1382 is the MOTHER FUCKING MAN!!
Not only did this guy swoop in like a goddamn super hero when 2 other guys joined in but had to bail on us at the end of the Lv. 32 PoE (it's all good though since like happens and stuff), not only was his INVALUABLE knowledge and experience the ONLY thing that saved hours of work from going down the drain. This guy was able to carry our newbie asses through all this JUUUUUST before the patch hit and booted us out.
This dude right here is a bonafied hero and I'll internet fight ANYONE who says different!!
Love you Atone <3
noomi
Member
I rotated them and re-uploaded. I didn't like how much screen space they took up vertically.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Will red bull damage my plumbing when I pour a box of it down the toity?
I think I don't have any problem with the Trials matchmaking. Of course you're gonna get hard matchups and get trounced sometimes, but I did feel notably less lag than standard Crucible and the level of competition was mostly satisfying throughout except when bumping into extra sweaty sweaties, and there's nothing to be done about that.
These are the only changes I think I'd ask of Trials:
These are the only changes I think I'd ask of Trials:
- Switch spawns each round. The maps are simply not balanced enough to entertain the concept of an equitable matchup when spawning in the same point the entire match. It's bad enough (but counterable) on the modes with respawning- a good push and you flip the spawns and the beginning of the match no longer matters. But no so in trials. Was talking this over with Hudson and Rasengan yesterday, and it's not exactly that one side is always the more advantageous of the two on every map, but just that they're not the same. One team might have the advantage over another due to composition on one side versus the other; if so, they just retain this advantage through the entire match even though it's a first-to-5 situation. Swapping spawns would at least eliminate this variable, which would make matches more interesting to me.
- No more heavy round, or at least a longer (30 second) delay on the heavy spawn. Really just breaks up the flow of a match and they only feel satisfying to me if the round is ended before any heavies are fired.
- No more Pantheon. It's funny, I have a lot of trouble imagining how Trials will play out on any individual map but this one is just a bad call for it. The huge exposed sniper lanes en route to mid paired with atrocious sightlines for aggressive play everywhere else make it just a terrible environment for elimination with revives. Burning Shrine was many times better. I found this all very interesting because I really really like Pantheon in Rumble, wherein you can always find yourself being attacked from any angle and there's rarely anywhere to "safely" snipe from. So I came into it very open-minded, but it's just an awful fit.
Johan Liebert
Member
neoism
Member
Another mothyards chest location
they really should make the beam taller and purple and not yellow gold.... I miss this one....:/ not like I would have gotten a key anyway.... smh.
milkham
Member
its the only non-rng way to get new elemental primaries. skolas has a chance to drop one of the fallen primaries but ToO seems to give one everytime you get to mercury
and you wont get things like a arc hand cannon that does bonus damage to shanks..
LunaticPuma
dresses business casual
The funny thing about the ToO top tier rewards is they're just elemental varients of guns you can get from packages which have perks focused on PvP and are not re-rollable. In other words, the only good thing about the Mercury chest guns for PvE is the elemental burn, but you probably wouldn't use the gun anyway since the perks are not good for PvE. If you want the gun for PvP, you'll do just as well with the non-elemental version.
After the initial awe of Mercury wears off, the gun loot is really not that much better than PoE.
After the initial awe of Mercury wears off, the gun loot is really not that much better than PoE.