BreezyLimbo
Banned
"Guardians you went out there and showed your opponents the ferocity! You guys played alotta hours and alotta matches and here's some stats wow way to go guys! Now enjoy some youtube videos."
That's gonna be today in a nutshell
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Destiny |OT39| Tainted Love
- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
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"Guardians you went out there and showed your opponents the ferocity! You guys played alotta hours and alotta matches and here's some stats wow way to go guys! Now enjoy some youtube videos."
That's gonna be today in a nutshell
igordennis
Member
That john post comparing Bungie's communication to Blizzard's depresses me. What this game could be ( ._.)
Pretty much what I'm expecting
That's pretty much what I expect every week. I learned a while ago not to expect much from the weekly update.
JohnOfMars
Banned
I thought about it...and if we had just got one revive in that salvage match we would have won
Those guys turned it up to 11 at the end.
I had the exact same thought as I was getting in bed. We went full chill! You should never go full chill.
And then neOak joined us next round and I said the meanest thing I've ever said to anyone in destiny: I called him "our blueberry."
In my defense, we'd been playing without a 3rd for 45 minutes and he had just joined. AND he was playing a level 32 titan with a blue sniper rifle.
All the same I'm so sorry, NeOak.
Kor of Memory
Member
Okay, asking seriously here.
Who wants to run a trails experiment with me tomorrow at Trials Launch?
I want to run a team of thorn users and see how well we can do.
Legitimately want to see if we can get to Mercury with Thorn.
Who's on board?
Who wants to run a trails experiment with me tomorrow at Trials Launch?
I want to run a team of thorn users and see how well we can do.
Legitimately want to see if we can get to Mercury with Thorn.
Who's on board?
BoBoThunder
Member
No need. I think we are all in that state. I like chill Destiny game time. I get a bit salty with Crucible only because I suck at PVP. But we're all here because we got love for the game. Let's hope Bungie can do something about this situation & give us some good content this year.
JohnOfMars
Banned
igordennis
Member
Oh god at the hate messages a team of 3 thorns will get D:
DrDrizzay101
Member
MillionStabs
Banned
Damn, really? Eh, I guess we'll figure something out.
Kor of Memory
Member
There is a Grimoire somewhere that talks about how Titan Helmets revert to their transparent state if the Titan's suit experiences a power loss.
Basically, most Destiny Helmets work like Iron Man on the inside.
There are so many "little" things bungie could do to keep Destiny fresh.
1. Rotate all vendor stock, or at a minimum have weapons and armor have new rolls every week.
2. New bounties every few weeks.
3. Add all strikes into both heroic and nightfall rotation.
4. Fix crucible drops in all modes.
5. Weigh year one maps equally to year two maps in the crucible playlists that make sense.
Some longer term stuff that could come in a bigger update.
1. Fix crucible matchmaking and make it like it was during HoW.
2. Private matches, don't even need to be custom, just let me play with who I want to.
3. More diverse patrol activities and new public events.
4. Get rid of random light drops, have gear drop at max light in appropriate activities.
5. Make infusion 100% and reduce number of weapon parts and armor materials needed.
6. Remove time gates on the special daily missions and quests. Enough time has passed, just let me start or resume them without having to wait for something.
All of the above doesn't require any new content creation in terms of new playable spaces, but would greatly add to player experience and quality of life.
1. Rotate all vendor stock, or at a minimum have weapons and armor have new rolls every week.
2. New bounties every few weeks.
3. Add all strikes into both heroic and nightfall rotation.
4. Fix crucible drops in all modes.
5. Weigh year one maps equally to year two maps in the crucible playlists that make sense.
Some longer term stuff that could come in a bigger update.
1. Fix crucible matchmaking and make it like it was during HoW.
2. Private matches, don't even need to be custom, just let me play with who I want to.
3. More diverse patrol activities and new public events.
4. Get rid of random light drops, have gear drop at max light in appropriate activities.
5. Make infusion 100% and reduce number of weapon parts and armor materials needed.
6. Remove time gates on the special daily missions and quests. Enough time has passed, just let me start or resume them without having to wait for something.
All of the above doesn't require any new content creation in terms of new playable spaces, but would greatly add to player experience and quality of life.
Kor of Memory
Member
I was on this task a year ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyThe...uggestion_we_need_more_bounties_not_when_the/
I'd be down unless you find a higher skilled player (realistically I might drag you down some). This being viable will depend a lot on the map though.
But yeah if you manage to team shoot consistently you get it done. A few Firebolts in the mix wouldn't hurt either.
NeOak
Member
Ze_Pershing
Member
Irony at its finest.
Kor of Memory
Member
The only map I can think of that would cause problems is Bannerfall, and that was recent enough for it to not be a problem.
Maybe Black Shield.
Just popping in (I've been lurking here, but not posting, especially substantively, for weeks) to weigh in on the Destiny/Division thing.
I think ocean nailed it:
I'm *expecting* Division to keep me occupied for ~8 weeks with significant, multi-hour sessions on my designated game night (Tuesday, thanks to Destiny's reset schedule), probably with some other sessions early on. This'll probably rank somewhere in ocean's ~40 hour range.
I *hope* it ends up being more than that. I also really hope the stuff planned for April-ish for Destiny, the fall expansion, D2 blow my socks off. I'd absolutely love to have the "problem" where I (and my pals) are torn about which game to play on "reset night".
I think ocean nailed it:
I'm *expecting* Division to keep me occupied for ~8 weeks with significant, multi-hour sessions on my designated game night (Tuesday, thanks to Destiny's reset schedule), probably with some other sessions early on. This'll probably rank somewhere in ocean's ~40 hour range.
I *hope* it ends up being more than that. I also really hope the stuff planned for April-ish for Destiny, the fall expansion, D2 blow my socks off. I'd absolutely love to have the "problem" where I (and my pals) are torn about which game to play on "reset night".
MagnetoWasRight
Member
I came in first place using Thorn for a match in the last Iron Banner. The DOT only does 2 damage.
Kor of Memory
Member
It's going to depend on your light level.
I was using it two weeks ago and I'm pretty sure I was getting 3s on the DoT.
mehrmantrout
Member
Anomaly would be pretty good for it
Kor of Memory
Member
Basically anything that isn't Sniper heavy.
No, but it does come up in the Elimination playlist if I'm not mistaken. I know I've played alot of 3v3 on it if nothing else.
Kor of Memory
Member
Pretty sure Bungie doesn't like the Overtime spawn on that map, as they can't seem to place it where it isn't extremely advantageous to one team.
mehrmantrout
Member
Nope and I doubt it ever would, B/C side has a massive advantage
darkistheway
Member
Never apologize, you are JohnOfMars, your posts aren't even close to salt
MagnetoWasRight
Member
Bungie hasn't shied away from other hugely unbalanced maps for Trials or bothered to acknowledge that flipping spawns every match would help a lot.
NeOak
Member
They should just give us a Destiny version of Lockout.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Now it just feels like Ubi is trolling Bungie with this content trailer https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=c_qUtFkdPEk
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Oh lord calling it Year One too
Ubi is going for the throat and I love it. Bungie step your fucking game up.
Kor of Memory
Member
This makes me go full forehead slap when I think about Burning Shrine.
A fully symmetrical map, fucked up by objective and initial spawn placement.
The map is near perfect symmetry, and yet they spawned teams into opposite corners, instead of opposite mid.
Just like putting A outside corner and C inside corner...
They should have done a full triangle with it, putting B between inside heavy and the top wall, and putting A and C at A and C Mid.
Basically, make A and C have line of sight with each other, but only if the rotating walls allow it. This would have made the fights much more dynamic.
Edit: Also, as far as symmetrical maps go, we've gotten quite a few since Vanilla launched with virtually none.
Pantheon
Vertigo
Bannerfall
Dungeons
Drifter
Burning Shrine
Cathedral
These are all virtually symmetrical maps. The only differences are really just ascetic, or very minor adjustment in sightlines and/or cover.
Near symmetrical maps include:
Frontier
Sector 618
Memento
Delphi
Crossroads
Cauldron
Asylum
Thieves Den
The visual road map at the end of the trailer is the icing on the cake. Bungie, the break is over!
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Yup. It's huge.
That's the thing. Everyone is saying, 'The Division is trying to be like Destiny'. Since day one, whether it's on Giant Bomb or other website, they've been calling it 'Destiny-like'. Squad based shooter with loot drops?
And Ubi is really stepping up their game and saying 'We're not Destiny, we're better. We have a plan. These 3 expansions will be our 'Year One' with monthly content drops and updates.' Bungie BETTER be looking at what they're doing. No excuses. They have the backing of Activision-Blizzard, one half which makes CoD on a yearly basis and the other half which deals with Diablo+WoW, so Bungie shouldn't be stumbling around like they're being led by the blind.
Bungie has resources. They have connections to people who know how to make the type of game they are trying to make. And Ubisoft, which AFAIK hasn't worked on a game like Division where it's an MMOish type loot game, is able to bring to the table more than Bungie did for Destiny their first year.
I don't like the Division. TPS doesn't interest me much, but if their package has something worth playing, I'll give it a shot. And so far, despite not liking Division, Ubisoft is giving me confidence that if I were to jump into Division, I would have loads of content upfront.
Ugh. Destiny makes me salty.
JohnOfMars
Banned
Turn up the heat!
2 free updates, detailed.
3 major expansions, detailed.
New features such as trading AND gear sets.
EsotericManiac
Banned
if I wasn't into the PVP hard like I am in Destiny, I'm sure I would have stopped a long time ago
i feel bad for the PVE only players
i feel bad for the PVE only players
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Turn up the heat!
2 free updates, detailed.
3 major expansions, detailed.
New features such as trading AND gear sets.
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But yeah Ubi is firing all cylinders. I don't like the company, but I gotta give em props
I'm excited to compare the games and the content once all the hype dies down and we know what were actually getting with the Division. I decided against buying the division on day 1, but I may buy it shortly after release once it is more clear what content I am actually getting with the game.
Turn up the heat!
2 free updates, detailed.
3 major expansions, detailed.
New features such as trading AND gear sets.
All this is great and all but what if you A
don't like the gunplay, B don't care for the setting and C don't like the end game??I applaud them for giving such a great road map and hope Bungie can follow suit but all that is meaningless to ME since I don't really care for the game.