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Destiny |OT38| The 0.04% of the 4%
- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
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Darryl M R
Member
Finally started caring about min-maxing my gear. Just need some more legendary marks so I can buy an int/disp helmet and I will have tier 5 int/disp for my Bladedancer build.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
Not bad at all.
Well, it was dirty in Year 1 with one bullet headshots. It was OP but the Handcannon nerf made it fire blanks.It's still a beast on smaller maps. Since I mostly use shotgun as special, it's no good to me anymore on more open ones.
As a y1 Xbox player I never got to experience it in it's full glory, but I still loved it from 2.0 to the latest nerf. Don't know why Bungie hates it so
I haven't really noticed that yet. I use it more to find out.
Kor of Memory
Member
What few games I played involved less lag as a whole, but were still rather sweaty.
Winners and losers were like 200-800 points in difference all but 1 game.
Winners and losers were like 200-800 points in difference all but 1 game.
mehrmantrout
Member
I've got my Warlock perfect T5 Int/Disc for Trials, T5 Disc/Str for general stuff and T5 Int/Str for Stormcaller, They've all got double sniper and +Armour as well
Zoso Achilles
Member
I can't wait
MrChowderClams
Member
I've got my Warlock perfect T5 Int/Disc for Trials, T5 Disc/Str for general stuff and T5 Int/Str for Stormcaller, They've all got double sniper and +Armour as well
You guys and your perfectly rolled items T_T LEAVE SOME FOR THE REST OF US
j0hnny_385
Member
It's been great for this DGAF train. Noticable imorovement. TLW registers nicely.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Reveal is a strong word, maybe like SBMM they'll "share" it with us.
Unusually have the Netduma set to my default 9500km. From the centre (GMT of course) this allows to play with friends in America, but disallows Australia.
If I've had laggy games where 3 or more on the FT are teleporting I drop this down to Europe only.
First test was loading the tower, everyone was within 700km. All pings under 100.
First game with duma up I go in solo. One red bar in Egypt, ping circa 150 but not teleporting, just hit registration delay... All other players ok, most in uk/europe, a few in USA (but good pings).
Second game, all green. No bad hit reg.
Tower, all within 500km.
If I've had laggy games where 3 or more on the FT are teleporting I drop this down to Europe only.
First test was loading the tower, everyone was within 700km. All pings under 100.
First game with duma up I go in solo. One red bar in Egypt, ping circa 150 but not teleporting, just hit registration delay... All other players ok, most in uk/europe, a few in USA (but good pings).
Second game, all green. No bad hit reg.
Tower, all within 500km.
Darryl M R
Member
Blade dancer with T5 Int/Disp is fun since I throw on the perk that gets me my melee in 5 seconds (for things that are not Trials).
I refuse to wear the raid helmets in PVP. They're just too fucking ugly. Stat roll be damned.
TheAquaticApe
Member
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Yup, GG everyone. At the beginning we had 4500 points and they had 0 points..
First time I'm wearing it in pvp because Graviton refuses to roll with disc/str.
DrDrizzay101
Member
Yeah, Dis/Str is not possible on Graviton. Pretty annoying considering NStalker is probably the best class to have max D/S but them's the breaks.
The Warlock one is great at advertising your head to 1000 yard stares.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
According to the armory it can but I wasted 100 armor mats trying to get it, no luck :/
Adding int/dis/str to ghosts and class items was the stupidest decision ever.
Not to single you out, but I've seen a few posts like this lately and wanted to take a moment to discourage this kind of thing. Fine to say something straight up sucks and use creative language to do so, but saying something is "actually cancer" (as an example) is really ugly. It's needlessly insulting and draws a comparison we don't need drawn. (As an aside, my wife's best friend just found out she actually has advanced stage cancer, spread to her spine. I assure you it's worse than long respawns.)
Please try to keep things more constructive.
Midshipman
Member
Has anyone thought of just letting a team score 4 rifts for a mercy for 5 quick medallions and then actually playing on the 6th game? Seems like it would be super easy to do.
LifEndz
Member
Yikes. I don't like the sound of that. Should be on around 7pm tonight. Hopefully this is a ymmv type of thing.
this is a really weird post to read after playing Halo with skill based matchmaking that people wanted turned up even more for the past 12 years..
i guess people just want to pubstomp these days
Dunno. Personally, I think pure CBMM would cause runaway playlist bleed.
LifEndz
Member
Sounds fine in theory, but if you get randoms it could take forever as they seem to think its a game of Clash with some weird object occasionally spawning mid map.
It's also not fun for newer or less skilled players to constantly get spawn trapped, and head glitched, and shade step animation cancelled, and domed when running through sniper lanes by tryhards who play all day long.
ReignofSparrows
Member
After a few more games - it's still sweaty as fuck, and it's still laggy. I guess it seems relatively better in terms of lag, but that's saying very, very little and not anywhere close to conclusive at this point. I don't think it's acceptable to see teleporting players every few matches, but I think many people have lowered their standards.
It looks like players closest to the mean seem happiest with the supposed changes. It's possible that Bungie tightened the screws on the connection side of things without significantly altering the SBMM given a large enough pool of players, but I remain pretty skeptical. Either way, it looks to be disappointing from the standpoint of anyone who thought CBMM would be an improvement in a zero sum sense with respect to SBMM.
It looks like players closest to the mean seem happiest with the supposed changes. It's possible that Bungie tightened the screws on the connection side of things without significantly altering the SBMM given a large enough pool of players, but I remain pretty skeptical. Either way, it looks to be disappointing from the standpoint of anyone who thought CBMM would be an improvement in a zero sum sense with respect to SBMM.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
IB working as intended - came in last, got the boots on my first game after rank 2.
JohnOfMars
Banned
Eh. It's not about pubstomping for me, it's about casual vs try hard. With CBMM there's less pressure. I might do well this time and get stomped the next. With SBMM, every match is sweaty.
I'm a Halo veteran, and played a lot of MP, but I never played ranked. And that's what Destiny has been like for the last 2 months. Ranked, tense, nervewracking play, every match.
You were still playing ranked, you just couldn't see the rank. That's all Halo did to make social playlists.
LifEndz
Member
I wonder why the cloak and dagger with whatever metric they're using to determine one's skill rating. Why not have a rank assigned ala Rainbow six seige. Would be kinda cool to see the opposing team is say, gold 2. Then again I guess that would create problems with people only lfg'ing with platinum level players.
j2theizzay
Member
Anyone trying to do CM HM Oryx or have the checkpoint to share?
Kor of Memory
Member
Man, one thing I've definitely noticed about Rift Iron banner is the game length.
Finishing games with less than 1:00 on the clock seems pretty common place, which means I feel like I'm getting in barely 4 games an hour.
Finishing games with less than 1:00 on the clock seems pretty common place, which means I feel like I'm getting in barely 4 games an hour.
Destiny is a casual game and the designer himself said the purpose of the crucible was to relax and have fun.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Solo mm is definitely not fun, getting matched with sweaty teams oh boy
JohnOfMars
Banned
I know there was still SBMM, but it was never as sweaty as the Crucible has been for me lately. It really feels like an actual Crucible these days.
Zoso Achilles
Member
No, according the the armory, it cannot. When you look at an item's stats in the armory, if one stat has a higher range than the others, it means that item will always roll with that stat.