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Destiny |OT3| Oh sweet a Legen- wait never mind, it's a rare.

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Mechanized

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Is the Bladedancer Arc Blade special viable at all in harder difficulties? Seems like an easy way to die. Was doing a Heroic last night and sweet Jesus. I would not tempt fate trying to melee a Shank.
 
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Klyka

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Someone give me tips to play PvP with a controller please.

It's been since CoD4 since the last time I played a shooter competitively on a console.
 
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What do the bonuses on your Legend page on the Destiny app mean? How do I know what to do to unlock them? I have some I've almost completed.
 
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names2hard4you

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Klyka said:
Someone give me tips to play PvP with a controller please.

It's been since CoD4 since the last time I played a shooter competitively on a console.
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Start by playing on a lower sensitivity, play around in PvE, use a sniper and learn to get accurate shots with it. Slowly, slowly it'll all come together.
 
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Pretty funny; the last strike I was going to do this morning, I got another legendary engram. I've gone through like four or five before that with no luck, but this time I finally got a purple pulse rifle. Pretty cool, since I was already using a pulse rifle so it was a raw upgrade.

Decrypting it pushed my Cryptarch to rank 8, and the mail reward gave me another legendary engram for primary. That one turned into an exotic scout rifle called the MIDA Multi-Tool:

http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/2/4611686018433271414/2305843009215731158#gear

I don't have the time to unlock much for it this morning, but the bonuses sound nice - radar visible while ADS, increased movement speed and hair trigger (which I am not sure will actually do since it already does not require a full trigger press to fire).
 
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Uthred said:
If the strike playlist is the best way to get marks they need to give more than 2 or 3
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It's not, but it should be. That's what makes it so bizarre.

If you want marks / rep, the strikelist is probably the worst way to go about it. It's just another on the heap of baffling decisions Bungie made. It's like the dude who did the Patrol Missions / material turn in / Public Events was not the same guy who decided the awards for Strikelists.

The level 18 Strike on Strikelist should give 5 marks + 25 to 50 rep and everything else should ramp up accordingly. It's ridiculous that it scales so badly, especially when you consider people who get fucked by RNG and need gear.
 
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I got the exotic bounty for the Depleted Hand Cannon. It wanted me to do a strike. OK. Next it wanted 500 hive souls. Done. Now it wants 500 guardians from the crucible killed only with void damage. Seriously. It's a hand cannon. It's not even a good weapon type! :(
 
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backflip10019

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Cynn said:
I got the exotic bounty for the Depleted Hand Cannon. It wanted me to do a strike. OK. Next it wanted 500 hive souls. Done. Now it wants 500 guardians from the crucible killed only with void damage. Seriously. It's a hand cannon. It's not ever a good weapon type! :(
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Holy shit that last request is insane.
 
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PrivateWHudson

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On the subject of loot drops, could we just be doing it wrong? There are a bunch of Grimoir cards that give bonuses, could we just be overlooking one that increases purple engrams? Maybe some are more lucky than others because that grabbed a dead ghost that gives a great engram bonus.

I think that would be great, abd really add depth, but crucible loot drops would have to be nerfed to balance things out.
 
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Cuphead

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vogelkacke said:
hehe it was a leg pulse rifle
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BenjaminBirdie said:
Damn, man! Watching your enthusiasm for the game wane has been like seeing Robert DeNiro's love of acting disappear. Your posts now are like the commercial for Limitless lol

Feels sad, man.

Oh, well, see you in Horizon!
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taxi-driver-movie-robert-de-niro_200s.gif
 
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Diablohead said:
I'm not going to defend anyone here but those comments are not that great.

SM64 had you constantly progressing up to the end, every visit to a stage usually varied enough to get each star and yes you do repeat things and run around the same areas a lot, that's not the bad bit here.

Destiny has you reach the 'end' and then expect you to replay what you have already completed, just on a harder mode where enemies have more hit points, there is less variation and no branching paths in missions to mix things up.

Having little story in a game like SM64 for a basic plot works a lot better then trying to have an epic story told in a handful of broken pieces with no real resolve.
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Yeah, they're obviously different games, and I think SM64 is outstanding in almost every way and a substantially better overall package, but the point remains, these are primarily action games. You can't concede their brilliance in that regard with a couple of sentences and then proceed to roast the game on its dressings.
 
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I wish either the level scaling were slower, or the level requirements on the moon higher. When I was playing at the right level for the missions, the game was a decent challenge. I did one session of patrol missions on Old Russia and it put me over the recommended level for all of the moon missions. I didn't die once as I went through them solo. Some close calls and a few crazy moments, but for the most part I seldom feel in danger. The giant Knight at the end of the moon missions took around 10 sniper rounds to kill.
 
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Cynn said:
I got the exotic bounty for the Depleted Hand Cannon. It wanted me to do a strike. OK. Next it wanted 500 hive souls. Done. Now it wants 500 guardians from the crucible killed only with void damage. Seriously. It's a hand cannon. It's not even a good weapon type! :(
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Holy shit thats stupid and I use Hand Cannons! The best weapons type btw. :p
 
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psylah

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Loving the game, multiplayer and vanguard strikes at 20+. I do agree that the story is devoid of anything with any meaning.

I have a question though, I'm at 24 and I only have 2 subclasses. Is there a third? How do I unlock it? There is space for a third...
 
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Shiera Seastar

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MADGAME said:
The Destiny companion app. Download it now! (IOS)



Agreed, but if you them both fully upgraded I believe you will find they are very close in stats, one edging out the other in either range or stability. Even your fully upgraded Shingen has less attack than the Hushwind in the pic, and the Huswind isn't fully upgraded.

My point was the Hushwind is a legit alternative to the Shingen, and it is.
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Yeah, you're right. And really, it would be shit if one gun was so much better than all the others, anyway. Guns are always balanced with trade-offs in online shooters. And for me personally, stability is just more important than range.
 
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GhaleonEB said:
I wish either the level scaling were slower, or the level requirements on the moon higher. When I was playing at the right level for the missions, the game was a decent challenge. I did one session of patrol missions on Old Russia and it put me over the recommended level for all of the moon missions. I didn't die once as I went through them solo. Some close calls and a few crazy moments, but for the most part I seldom feel in danger. The giant Knight at the end of the moon missions took around 10 sniper rounds to kill.
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At the start of the game I played some crucible matches while leveling to grind out some bounties just for fun really and it put me 2 levels over every zone until the end of the game.
 
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The Lamonster said:
Are motes of light only spent on cosmetic items?
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That's all I've seen. I wish I'd gotten fewer motes and more strange coins; I picked up my 13th just as the exotic merchant left the Tower.

GhaleonEB said:
I wish either the level scaling were slower, or the level requirements on the moon higher. When I was playing at the right level for the missions, the game was a decent challenge. I did one session of patrol missions on Old Russia and it put me over the recommended level for all of the moon missions. I didn't die once as I went through them solo. Some close calls and a few crazy moments, but for the most part I seldom feel in danger. The giant Knight at the end of the moon missions took around 10 sniper rounds to kill.
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On launch night I pounded my head against the screen trying to beat the shard encounter when I was a few levels below it. This game really gives the player the agency to make things too hard and too easy without exactly understanding how or why.
 
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psylah said:
I have a question though, I'm at 24 and I only have 2 subclasses. Is there a third? How do I unlock it? There is space for a third...
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Probably a later addition/expansion. It seems like every class should have a subclass for each element type Arc/Void/Light but so far everyone only has 2.
 
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I've put a little over 22 hours into this so far and I have to say I love it. I mean I spent an hour late last night just walking around on Mars popping off head shots with the Hawkmoon. So satisfying. I do hope Bungie patches in some changes and keeps updating it to keep from alienating the player base as I can see myself playing this for a while.
 
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Cynn said:
I got the exotic bounty for the Depleted Hand Cannon. It wanted me to do a strike. OK. Next it wanted 500 hive souls. Done. Now it wants 500 guardians from the crucible killed only with void damage. Seriously. It's a hand cannon. It's not even a good weapon type! :(
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That last request...Holy shit.

E: Exotic bounty or not, that's just silly.
 
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VE3TRO said:
WTF. I'm on Mars taking out the Goliath on Strike and I used my sniper and the damage which popped up said 26,000. That can't be right?
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When you get the shot that pops its weak spot, it shows crazy high damage. I noticed it when shooting the tank on Devils Lair (earth strike) and getting the shot which opens up its engine or whatever.
 
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Myoclonic Jerk said:
Planet Venus. Here I come.

I wana finish the game today!
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I've hit 20 with my hunter and only have a few story missions left on Mars. After that I'm going to delete my level 11 titan and start over I accidentally made a female and played with my buddies on launch.

Salvage is awesome.

And weird enough I prefer control to normal TDM.
 
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Deku Tree

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Is there any web site that does a decent job of explaining the whole story in Destiny? I just finished the game and the story doesn't really make any sense to me.
 
Jinjo

Jinjo

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Cynn said:
I got the exotic bounty for the Depleted Hand Cannon. It wanted me to do a strike. OK. Next it wanted 500 hive souls. Done. Now it wants 500 guardians from the crucible killed only with void damage. Seriously. It's a hand cannon. It's not even a good weapon type! :(
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I have the same. As a Titan.... :-|

THankfully, it's not 500 kills, but "only"100, as each void kill nets you +5 to the counter. Deaths count for -2 though. So if you get a 1.0 void K/D ratio it'll take you about 150 kills to get there.

I've heard here on GAF that the next objective is a lv26 strike too...
 
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