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Destiny |OT30| Long Live the King
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SwordStruck
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This has been around for a while now, since HoW I believe.
Sent!
xVaalbarAx
Member
And done. That was brutal.
Twilight Gap
Member
they definitely didn't do much to the shotguns. Felwinters is exactly the same to me
17 Seconds
Banned
it's an easy decision. it made everyone use the exact same weapons in crucible, and it ruined legendary drops in general because you only needed one of each archetype.
i don't think many people will be pissed.
Sentinalprimus
Member
So Zoba, what maps from the new set do you think will make it into Trials?
Sketch_Turntable
Member
Had my first Rift dunk. Feels good, man.
Dan is a great guy. Built some of the best Halo 3/ODST/Reach missions (New Alexandria was his baby) and the Vault of Glass. Dude is a legend in my book.
Continuing my romp through the campaign as a fledgling Warlock. There is a very strong sense of perpetual progress forward now, which was the case with the shipping game for your class progress. But it wasn't the case with the story, which often went sideways to a series of seemingly random, unconnected missions. Now, there's a feeling that story is advancing, which is impressive given Bungie didn't actually change the missions themselves.
The "quest glue" as I've come to call it has gone a long way. I enjoyed how Eris shows utter contempt for the Vanguard and considers them ignorant of the real threat right under their noses, once the World's Grave is found. You can see them building her character and relationship with the Vanguard early, as it's similar to her tone with them in the cinematic trailers we've seen for TTK.
Injecting the Dark Below missions and quest line at level 10 or so of player progress gave the Hive story line a greater sense of forward motion, and also the campaign some much needed mission variety. The shipping game's repeated siege encounters really do grate over time and having that broken up with the better designed TDB missions helps a lot. Looking forward to seeing where House of Wolves ends up in the story.
There's also a clear pattern of keeping two major story quest lines active at once, so you have the option of toggling between them at your leisure. It creates a feeling of the game always having multple paths forward, and that's setting aside the strikes that unlock, and the other side quests (patrols and subclass quests, etc.). The game simply feels big and busy now.
Given the ease with which the new bounties are completed, and the number you can pile up, I'm outpacing the recommended level for the story missions without trying to, running level 10 content as a level 12 and then 13 Warlock. My other characters used to do the heroic missions, playing 1-2 levels over my character, for a challenge and some bonus XP. I miss the challenge greatly.
I did notice something when completing these missions, though. Destiny now appears to scale the XP you get in them to your level. Where I was getting ~2k in XP per mission yesterday, one got me 1307 tonight. I'm guessing it's a function of relative level and possibly light to scale down the XP reward and so slow your leveling, to get you back on track with the mission pacing. A good method, but I'd still prefer to have the option of a harder mission setting.
All in all 2.0 has done wonders for the base game. Players stepping into it now are getting a vastly superior experience to what shipped last year. I'm still a bit awed with how Bungie went back and revised the old content. You can tell the criticisms form launch hit home, and they weren't satisfied to just build atop it. Really good stuff.
Continuing my romp through the campaign as a fledgling Warlock. There is a very strong sense of perpetual progress forward now, which was the case with the shipping game for your class progress. But it wasn't the case with the story, which often went sideways to a series of seemingly random, unconnected missions. Now, there's a feeling that story is advancing, which is impressive given Bungie didn't actually change the missions themselves.
The "quest glue" as I've come to call it has gone a long way. I enjoyed how Eris shows utter contempt for the Vanguard and considers them ignorant of the real threat right under their noses, once the World's Grave is found. You can see them building her character and relationship with the Vanguard early, as it's similar to her tone with them in the cinematic trailers we've seen for TTK.
Injecting the Dark Below missions and quest line at level 10 or so of player progress gave the Hive story line a greater sense of forward motion, and also the campaign some much needed mission variety. The shipping game's repeated siege encounters really do grate over time and having that broken up with the better designed TDB missions helps a lot. Looking forward to seeing where House of Wolves ends up in the story.
There's also a clear pattern of keeping two major story quest lines active at once, so you have the option of toggling between them at your leisure. It creates a feeling of the game always having multple paths forward, and that's setting aside the strikes that unlock, and the other side quests (patrols and subclass quests, etc.). The game simply feels big and busy now.
Given the ease with which the new bounties are completed, and the number you can pile up, I'm outpacing the recommended level for the story missions without trying to, running level 10 content as a level 12 and then 13 Warlock. My other characters used to do the heroic missions, playing 1-2 levels over my character, for a challenge and some bonus XP. I miss the challenge greatly.
I did notice something when completing these missions, though. Destiny now appears to scale the XP you get in them to your level. Where I was getting ~2k in XP per mission yesterday, one got me 1307 tonight. I'm guessing it's a function of relative level and possibly light to scale down the XP reward and so slow your leveling, to get you back on track with the mission pacing. A good method, but I'd still prefer to have the option of a harder mission setting.
All in all 2.0 has done wonders for the base game. Players stepping into it now are getting a vastly superior experience to what shipped last year. I'm still a bit awed with how Bungie went back and revised the old content. You can tell the criticisms form launch hit home, and they weren't satisfied to just build atop it. Really good stuff.
The Driver
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Wow some of these armsday protos are ass.
Twilight Gap
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Hard to say. I haven't played Drifter yet and don't have enough time on Dungeons or Crossroads, but I hope Sector 618 isn't one of them.
Sentinalprimus
Member
Yeah I really enjoyed both Dungeons and Vertigo, will be interesting to see which ones they put in.
Yeah. Pretty stupid idea to have any of these be Crucible related.
17 Seconds
Banned
do the armsday weapons reset weekly, or what?
Drifter is booty - but its got a nice amount of little aesthetic things like elevator music and zero grav bodies and ammo drops.
There's just no way to avoid the corridors. Its almost as bad as 618 imo
tearsintherain
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The two PVP ones are hilarious/sad, its funny being in a control game where 90% of the players are just focused on snipering each other and don't give a shit about objectives or win/lose. Since I'm right at the edge of crucible rep I have to quit out of the game before it ends so I don't roll the faction over.
Its too bad they didn't make the armsday stuff account wide instead of character, would help a little with burnout I think. While the PVE ones are fast and easy, the PVP ones take a while longer for sure. I think its gonna be like any other faction rep though, after the first or second week no one is gonna care that much to bother with it.
Be interesting to see what Xur is like this friday.
While we won't know for sure until tomorrow, it seems the design is such that they introduce new bounties every wed at 10am, and at the same time you will get packages (or buy them) with sufficient rank to deliver guaranteed, specific weapons. Sort of like the gift package you get from the POE vendor every week, but on wed's instead of tue. I can't imagine new gun bounties every day, that would be kinda insane since you'll get a rank every other day.
Slammin_Hammon
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I think so. The bungie app say his stock refreshes in like 148 hours or something.
Sentinalprimus
Member
Why? It's not like we don't use guns in crucible or anything, plus it gives the people who purely crucible a chance to earn some rep. They are not going to hand everything to you on a silver platter, kinda need to work for it.
darkistheway
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I hope the Foundries look at the test data and realize their weapons all suck.
Got my first 10 fusion rifle kills in the Crucible though! So there is that...
Got my first 10 fusion rifle kills in the Crucible though! So there is that...
And done.
https://www.bungie.net/en/Profile/Triumphs/2/4611686018428711052
Though I missed out on two expansions, being in Destiny at the beginning was quite a moment. The game definitely has gotten better after leaving for almost a year and returning. Perhaps the game is fun in bursts for me? I dunno. However, I've gotten what I wanted out of Year 1 and I look forward to raiding in Year 2.
https://www.bungie.net/en/Profile/Triumphs/2/4611686018428711052
Though I missed out on two expansions, being in Destiny at the beginning was quite a moment. The game definitely has gotten better after leaving for almost a year and returning. Perhaps the game is fun in bursts for me? I dunno. However, I've gotten what I wanted out of Year 1 and I look forward to raiding in Year 2.
I think that Sniper is only so bad because of the scope. It just.... doesn't act right and I'm not sure what it is. The weapon doing pitiful damage on top of that is just murder.
The Fusion Rifle is pretty legit. Really stable, and I like the projectile changeup as well.
Yah. I spent 2 control matches trading sniper shots with another dude, just trying to get to 10 kills. Every couple minutes, I'd run down and try to capture a point, but....
That fusion rifle. Such butt. I don't know you guys use that thing.
Mass Appeal
Member
So do we just hold on to the arms day weapons after we completed the objective for them?
Yep. You can keep them or shard them. Once you hit the kill requirement, you don't have to turn them in or anything. I think someone from Bungie said as much earlier today.
I destroyed the FR as soon as I got the 10 kills.
blue_phazon
Member
I posted this earlier, but I was wondering if this was the case for you too:
For anyone who decided to start a fresh character to experience the restructured story, did you get a quest for Shrine of Orynx or Summoning pits?
The questlines split a into Crotas stuff with DLC1 missions, and also into the distress call to Venus.
But Shrine of Orynx and Summoning pits appeared on my moon map even though they weren't given as quests.
Prior to this, every mission was questified
Stephen_drewz
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Couple of questions I can't find an answer to in the TTK mega wiki on reddit and I know GAF is really resourceful, hopefully someone here knows.
Has there been confirmation on when exactly the game will be live and playable next week? Keep finding conflicting information. If it hasn't been confirmed, will they even confirm it? Being a physical release I really hope its midnight.
I noticed armor parts were now just one generic type, rather then split across the classes. Will our current stock of parts convert to the new type?
Has it been confirmed whether there will be a similar upgrade currency like the shards?
Thanks, sorry if I am repeating questions.
Has there been confirmation on when exactly the game will be live and playable next week? Keep finding conflicting information. If it hasn't been confirmed, will they even confirm it? Being a physical release I really hope its midnight.
I noticed armor parts were now just one generic type, rather then split across the classes. Will our current stock of parts convert to the new type?
Has it been confirmed whether there will be a similar upgrade currency like the shards?
Thanks, sorry if I am repeating questions.
superNESjoe
Member
It isn't a physical release, the physical version is just base Destiny with DLC codes.
kehehe.
Sentinalprimus
Member
Launch: https://www.bungie.net/en/Help/Troubleshoot?oid=13492
Armour parts can converted next week. We are assuming 1:1
Legendary Marks seem to be how you upgrade stuff by infusing other weapons into it. There is a video somewhere, I';ll see if I can find it.
I have not done the Shrine of Oryx yet. Is the Summoning Pits the one with the shard of the Traveler in it? I did that one to wrap up tonight, and it was part of a quest line.
Great OP! Thanks for using my "year one memories" post!
So those ???????? beacon missions - what are the running theories? My buddy and I ran as many as we could. Tried them with Stranger's Rifles equipped. Hit at least one on each planet. Nothing new happened. Guessing any potential result from them is gated behind TTK?
Edit: Oh yeah, got a scooter race to tier 5. That appears to be the cap :/
Edit: Oh yeah, got a scooter race to tier 5. That appears to be the cap :/
To the people that don't like the armsday FR, do you guys use FRs much?
Have you used any of the year 1 FRs since 2.0?
I haven't tried Pocket Infinity yet, but Plan C is kinda meh right now outside of what its perks bring to the table. I still like my stability maxed Snakebite Surgeon but... that stability on the Armsday FR is way better than what it should be according to the stats.
Have you used any of the year 1 FRs since 2.0?
I haven't tried Pocket Infinity yet, but Plan C is kinda meh right now outside of what its perks bring to the table. I still like my stability maxed Snakebite Surgeon but... that stability on the Armsday FR is way better than what it should be according to the stats.
Sentinalprimus
Member
Going to hazard a guess and say that the shrine will be put into the TK story for new players if it isn't there. No idea for Phogoth thought they would have chucked that under the hive on the moon quests.
Stephen_drewz
Member
Thanks guys. 5pm local time for me then.
I will dig through the mega wiki again for infusing weapons/armour. Thanks!
I will dig through the mega wiki again for infusing weapons/armour. Thanks!
Jack Scofield
Member
Is there any reason to keep the Gunsmith's new weapons after maxing them out? Probably not, right? It's weird, though, I can't remember the last time I used a white-tiered weapon, haha.
Sentinalprimus
Member
Haven't played around with those yet. How do you trigger them?
blue_phazon
Member
Nope, it's the strike with the Giant Ogre. Hmm. Well Im gonna leave then alone for now and wait and see if they become quests
Did the same to me for Mars. I hadn't completed Exclusion Zone yet, but when 2.0 hit I had access to every mars mission. Tried running black garden for stranger's rifle, but no dice, until I completed the preceding missions.
Feels like RNG. They seem to occur based on a roll after every beacon, but it could be a timer or something obscure.
EL CUCO
Member
Pantheon pushed me unto a box as I was coming out of blink and firing a rocket. Rocketed my own face off. He doesn't deserve to have his name fixed
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Nope, both are terrible.
Sentinalprimus
Member
Any particular location seem to work more than others?
Slammin_Hammon
Member
I'm really liking Skorri's Revenge in crucible.
The Divide was pretty generous. Anecdotal though. Probably pure RNG.
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