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[Gammacide]

Anyone raiding now or looking to or have a Gorgon checkpoint?

 

[darthbob]

Schroedinger would contend that you can.
And can't.

 

[Seventy_X_Seven]

Someone already brought this up, but Bungie said all exotics have their intrinsic perk unlocked right away, but then in the case of Sleeper Stimulant it also has the exotic perk (ricochet up to 5 times) at the end. So what if all these year 1 exotics are getting updated so their unique perk becomes the intrinsic and then a brand new exotic perk at the end for them all.

Happy thoughts guys, happy thoughts

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

The Final Word.

Isn't there a solar version of Thunderlord?

Maybe it's a variant of TLW.

I think it's more of a Solar machinie. There's clearly a Thunderlord on that screen already.

I think they might have just changed the icon. They've done that with Exotoes before.

 

[noomi]

The Final Word.

Isn't there a solar version of Thunderlord?

Maybe it's a variant of TLW.

One of the trailers showed a weapons which looked like a solar version of the thunderlord... the firelord

 

[ErnieMcCracken]

Need one for NF! Join on me.

FR sent.

 

[kiguel182]

Starting up nightfall x3. Join up on Slammin_hammon.

Thanks for the NF! Clean and simple.

 

[sikkinixx]

Is it normal during the strike rotations to get the same one twice in a row? I got dust palace twice in a row during three different play sessions. Super annoying (even if it's the easiest one)

 

[Robdraggoo]

You'll be able to buy those separately for...$20.

wait, there are exotics tied to a collectors edition? what?

 

[Subtervotion]

Looks like a black Suros to me. In fact all those icons are 'remixed' versions of old year 1 exotics.

 

[HTVfanatic]

Anyone looking to do NF? PSN: HTVfanatic

 

[E92 M3]

The First Word? The Last Laugh?

The Tooken Word - that's it.

 

[SeanR1221]

I'm confused? So are a bunch of year 2 exotics just going to be year 1 exotics slightly updated?

 

[EloquentM]

Looks like a black Suros to me. In fact all those icons are 'remixed' versions of old year 1 exotics.

Telling y'all exotics bout to go super saiyan 2

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

One could make another case that if Bungie didn't know what they were doing there's no way the game could have sustained 7 total human days of my playtime.

Probably a lot of cases out there, I guess.

If it was all part of the plan we wouldn't be going through the "solution of the season" roller coaster. First it was the xur process then that got scrapped, then we got etheric light and that lasted for a summer, and now we get whatever this is.

I wonder what Winter/Spring 2016 will bring.

 

[stb]

Hmm maybe just an icon change but why? Why now?

The logical reason is because they need to make new icons for the new stuff, and old icons may not "go" with the new ones for some reason (e.g. the "new" TLW icon is contrastier than the old one).

But I think the real reason is to make people hunt pixels and speculate.

Schroedinger would contend that you can.
And can't.

*slow clap*

 

[phen0m24]

Have we met? Nice to meet you.

I believe I met you in line one time, we were kinda hoping for a Twix.

 

[Robdraggoo]

The Final Word.

Isn't there a solar version of Thunderlord?

Maybe it's a variant of TLW.

hey, my wife has that!

badum cha!

 

[Subtervotion]

Telling y'all exotics bout to go super saiyan 2

And we have the solar Thunderlord.

 

[Darknyss09]

34 PoE anyone?

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Looks like a black Suros to me. In fact all those icons are 'remixed' versions of old year 1 exotics.

holy shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhNIT

cannot
cannot
cannot
wait

 

[Hawkian]

One could make the case that if Bungie knew what they were doing from the start then we'd be able to play with all of our weapons and armors forever.

Okay, one could make the case that if Bungie "knew what they were doing from the start" they would have just introduced new tiers with each expansion that obsoleted all previous gear including Exotics and never allowed anything to be upgraded. That route has certainly worked for plenty of games.

Why would anyone make either of these cases? The game is better for having been sculpted by feedback. The notion that Bungie ever intended or desired that all of your weapons and armor should be usable "forever" is pretty extreme and hard to take seriously. It's not that kind of game. But Exotics are special and I am personally glad that an upgrade path has been offered; I even preferred the nonsense ReXurbishing reset approach over nothing.

 

[DjRalford]

I anticipate the announcement that marks won't be convertible/all faction rep will be reset with TTK so that everybody can't have awesome legendary armor

Spoiler

ghost shells

on day 1.

That's just evil.

Best not be, I have every faction teetering on level up ready for TTK.

 

[Deku Tree]

34 PoE anyone?

I'll join you.

 

[X-Frame]

One of the trailers showed a weapons which looked like a solar version of the thunderlord... the firelord

New solar machinegun is now "Zuko".

 

[EloquentM]

And we have the solar Thunderlord.

Just gotta figure out which exotic is gonna get degraded into yamcha.

 

[EroticSushi]

lol

Why did you have to be so far Slammin

 

[DjRalford]

New solar machinegun is now "Zuko".

Gjallarlord, tracking bullets that split into tracking bullets.

BELIEVE

 

[darthbob]

Gjallarlord, tracking bullets that split into tracking bullets.

BELIEVE

Gets nerfed in a week.

 

[SeanR1221]

I think I'm gonna do it.

I'm gonna make my warlock now. I already have an exotic helm. I can get to level 20 in 6 hours of pvp. Buy an armor item from the reef and then run a couple dragon strikes or raids for the rest

Boosting to level 25 with TTK isn't that great tbh

 

[Slammin_Hammon]

lol

Why did you have to be so far Slammin

I was moving gear lol ;(

 

[Shito]

Looks like a black Suros to me. In fact all those icons are 'remixed' versions of old year 1 exotics.

Yeah, happy to see I'm not the only one to see this.
To quote myself from a little bit earlier in the thread:

Ok, so: it says "blueprints", so my guess is this is a screen where you can forge exotic weapons, provided you have the "recipe" and the materials.
The golden chunk probably means you don't have the "recipe" for this item yet.
Notice how the only greyed-out items are the ones that are not in the "year 1 primary list": this probably means that you need to have a year 1 exotic to forge its year 2 equivalent.
The auto-rifle with the funky icon on top of the list is probably the Suros skin for year 2.

If that's the case, that's a reaaally good idea to make us work for our year 2 exotic again: refresh them and change them a little bit!

 

[Darknyss09]

I'll join you.

ok cool. Running through the daily rq. Feel free to join.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Looks like a black Suros to me. In fact all those icons are 'remixed' versions of old year 1 exotics.

New skin doesn't explain why the other weapons look the same though. I think I spotted bad juju and hawkmoon.

 

[JayHayabusa]

Need one more for NF. join on jayforone

 

[PedroLumpy]

New solar machinegun is now "Zuko".

The flavor text writes itself.

 

[stb]

The "golden chunks" on the exotics collection screen looking like yellow engrams is interesting.

 

[Shito]

New skin doesn't explain why the other weapons look the same though. I think I spotted bad juju and hawkmoon.

The other icons also show some small variations compared to the year 1 ones.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Okay, one could make the case that if Bungie "knew what they were doing from the start" they would have just introduced new tiers with each expansion that obsoleted all previous gear including Exotics and never allowed anything to be upgraded. That route has certainly worked for plenty of games.

Why would anyone make either of these cases? The game is better for having been sculpted by feedback. The notion that Bungie ever intended or desired that all of your weapons and armor should be usable "forever" is pretty extreme and hard to take seriously. It's not that kind of game. But Exotics are special and I am personally glad that an upgrade path has been offered; I even preferred the nonsense ReXurbishing reset approach over nothing.

Much more eloquent than I was. Thank you, that's exactly my point.

 

[Subtervotion]

Yeah, happy to see I'm not the only one to see this.
To quote myself from a little bit earlier in the thread:


If that's the case, that's a reaaally good idea to make us work for our year 2 exotic again: refresh them and change them a little bit!

I'm glad I have some spare exotics now. Although I deleted some of my dupes.

New skin doesn't explain why the other weapons look the same though. I think I spotted bad juju and hawkmoon.

Yeah, The Last Word looks noticeably different but the others look almost identical.

 

[HTVfanatic]

Need one more for NF. join on jayforone

Sent Friend Request

 

[E92 M3]

Seems like they are just updating all of the weapon images for year 2. I like that a lot.


Bungie always had great artists.

 

[Gammacide]

I'll join you.

Joining you guys if you don't mind.

 

[EloquentM]

Seems like they are just updating all of the weapon images for year 2. I like that a lot.


Bungie always had great artists.

If that was the case suros wouldn't be black. I still think it's a bit more complex than art style changing.

 

[xVaalbarAx]

Can it be 1pm tomorrow already?

 

[TheTylerDurden]

I'm glad I have some spare exotics now. Although I deleted some of my dupes.



Yeah, The Last Word looks noticeably different but the others look almost identical.

I've asked a couple of people now, and no one is answering.

WHY do people want dupes of exotics now all of a sudden? What did I miss where this is a good thing?

Please explain?

 

[Rollo Tomasi]

wait, there are exotics tied to a collectors edition? what?

Exotic class items, yes. But you can now buy them and the exclusive emotes and shaders for $20 separately.

 

[Kalamari]

What if they revamped the Tower for year 2? The gunsmith could look like an actual gunsmith in a strip mall with barred doors and windows, the postmaster would always have a huge line to go though, and the Cryptarch would work in a Law Office of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Yeah, The Last Word looks noticeably different but the others look almost identical.

Really? It's missing the inlay, but the long rounded rectangle next to the little circle above the chamber is like 100% identical.

 

[rNilla]