Official Destiny Alpha Withdrawal Thread
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CookieWithMatt
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I must have put at least 12-13 hours into the alpha over the course of two days. Loved it! Though, I always knew Bungie would deliver 
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Rolled a Warlock, got that to level 8, before re-rolling a hunter and max-leveling that. I think I prefer the hunter, even though it's special seems a bit weaker compared to the Lock. That double jump! With the Warlock, I'd constantly throw myself off with that floating jump.
Any confirmation yet on the max level cap? I've heard level 20 being thrown around, which I really hope isn't the case. 40-50 would be a good cap.
.Rolled a Warlock, got that to level 8, before re-rolling a hunter and max-leveling that. I think I prefer the hunter, even though it's special seems a bit weaker compared to the Lock. That double jump! With the Warlock, I'd constantly throw myself off with that floating jump.
Any confirmation yet on the max level cap? I've heard level 20 being thrown around, which I really hope isn't the case. 40-50 would be a good cap.
Twilight Gap
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So what was everyone's playtime? Since Friday afternoon, I accumulated ~17 hours of playtime across 32 games. I don't think that counts idle time or time in menus either, so I'd probably put it somewhere over 20 hours.
Going to agree with patriotpaine on this one. I've spent more time on the alpha in this short time than I have on any one game for well over a year. It did start feeling a bit repetitive, but only because a character wipe was inevitable. If it transferred to the beta, I knew of several things I could have occupied my time with for another day or two to keep ranking my character up. I upgraded the attack on my weapons literally two minutes before they shut the servers off.
So much to do in this game. And the best part is, I don't need to wait for friends to be online to do it. The way it's blending SP and MP gameplay just fits so well for when I simply want to hop on and shoot things hassle free.
Going to agree with patriotpaine on this one. I've spent more time on the alpha in this short time than I have on any one game for well over a year. It did start feeling a bit repetitive, but only because a character wipe was inevitable. If it transferred to the beta, I knew of several things I could have occupied my time with for another day or two to keep ranking my character up. I upgraded the attack on my weapons literally two minutes before they shut the servers off.
So much to do in this game. And the best part is, I don't need to wait for friends to be online to do it. The way it's blending SP and MP gameplay just fits so well for when I simply want to hop on and shoot things hassle free.
ReadingRambo
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Been worried about the level cap also. 20 seems too low.
Raven Prime
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But it isn't 20.
Source? I need this to be true.
Jest Chillin
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super-famicom
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I've been playing since Thursday, around 2:30PM PST, and finished my last session around 10:00PM on Sunday evening. In that timeframe, I played around 23 hours or so, both story missions and Crucible. The beta and retail release will ruin my life.
Took this clip of the last two multi-player games I played. Went 28-1 then 32 and 3 I believe.
http://www.twitch.tv/namtox/c/4478940
http://www.twitch.tv/namtox/c/4478940
bigboss370
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Jest Chillin
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Aside from the cool death animations, I didn't notice anything really off the bat. But whenever elemental modifiers are used in a game it typically means that things will be weak or strong against specific types.
Which would lead into more loot gathering and leveling of various weapons to have a full and well prepared arsenal.
yea it feels good to go from game to game without having to change disc. all those free ps+ games showed me that.
thanks, ill check in gamestop or walmart and from there ill decide if i preorder the game there or buy a 60$ psn card and preorder trough the PSN store
Raven Prime
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https://alpha.bungie.net/7_lv20-is-not-the-cap-3-video-links/en/Forum/Post?id=27024
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Or you can just check this video at 0:15 and see a player with level 33 http://youtu.be/vLavru3CpCM?t=14s
Oni Link 666
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It's just as worth playing alone as WoW, Monster Hunter, or anything like that. You can do a lot on your own, but you're not going to get the best loot on your own. Destiny also has the campaign, which could be as good as a Halo campaign and that would be worth playing, even by yourself.
I'm missing it already despite the limited content. The only issue I really had was MP balance since the people with the better weapons had huge advantages going against lower level players. Hell, I was shocked by some of the level 8 weapons people had and it made me feel really unlucky despite all the exploring and farming I did.
super-famicom
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My guess is robot-type enemies will be weak to arc damage, those Hive thralls (the ones that rush you and melee, might not be thrall) will be weak to fire. Then there's also Void damage, maybe Void or another ammo type would help take down shields faster? If the ammo types played a role in the alpha, I didn't notice it (outside of the Crucible, where my fire shotgun and fusion rifle destroyed dudes)
The Auxiliary
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I was so busy this last week that I didn't even get to redeem my code.
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My dad and sister played the hell out of it, however, and are both extra annoyed by the loss of the alpha.
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My dad and sister played the hell out of it, however, and are both extra annoyed by the loss of the alpha.
bigboss370
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I couldn't help myself ;__;
Thanks, mate. I didn't mean to seem aggressive, just wanted to know. Glad to learn this, I was concerned. Must mean there are a lot of options then.
Raven Prime
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No problem and you didn't seem aggressive to me at all. It's solid practice to make people back up their claims.
Twilight Gap
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Why not? Does it lock better gear behind multiplayer-only stuff? Or does the loot table change depending on player count?
Oni Link 666
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Ooh ok. Makes sense. Didn't know this had raids.
Bad internet/location.
I don't mind playing with others if the net code can cover for me though but I wanted to know if I'll have a fun time even if it didn't.
Lucent
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I couldn't help myself ;__;
Geez. I think I only got 7 hours total between two characters. Played the warlock for 10 minutes. lol. A lot of that time was searching and hoping to find some new content, but there was nothing. Too many areas with ?? enemies that could wreck you. I didn't play any Crucible at all, but I don't really like PvP.
mcz117chief
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Bloody hell what were you doing in that alpha for over 35 hours ?
Anyway, here is mine. I actually went from "must buy" to "not so sure about bying".
Anyway, here is mine. I actually went from "must buy" to "not so sure about bying".
Was watching the E 2013 demo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIp7vZuYzoA
Anyone else wish they had kept the Halo style radar? Not a fan of the current one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIp7vZuYzoA
Anyone else wish they had kept the Halo style radar? Not a fan of the current one.
Oni Link 666
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Bloody hell what were you doing in that alpha for over 35 hours ?
Anyway, here is mine. I actually went from "must buy" to "not so sure about bying".
How do I get this info?
Fighting a world boss one time I noticed that the little flying robots protecting it were protected by a fire shield. My fire rifle was doing next to nothing against them. I switched to another type of ammo and they died much faster.
Anyone that hasn't checked out the video with Jason Jones explaining what Destiny is should watch it. Even if you watched it prior to the Alpha, because now after having seen how the game works I got so much more from that 7 minute video than I did the first time.
The current one seems deliberately intended to not be precise. Which would maybe be fine, except that the game also has horrible directional audio, garbled damage response arrows, and a 72-degree FoV. Directional feedback in general sucks.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Bloody hell what were you doing in that alpha for over 35 hours ?
Anyway, here is mine. I actually went from "must buy" to "not so sure about bying".
More like not so sure if you played Crucible, which is freaking amazing.
Oni Link 666
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Thanks.
mcz117chief
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Yeah, I didn't. I read here that your gear from the world is used in the multiplayer, I am not a big fan of massively unbalanced competitive multiplayer.
Bloody hell what were you doing in that alpha for over 35 hours ?
Anyway, here is mine. I actually went from "must buy" to "not so sure about bying".
For me it was 17 hours, which is about 11 more hours than I spent playing the incredibly mediocre Second Son. Playing a game like Destiny really illustrates that some devs work on a completely different level than other ones.
As for what I was doing in those 17 hours, apparently I played 5 rounds in the crucible, did 19 strikes, played the mission mode 3 times and killed 2950 enemies, with 178 kills being my record in one strike. I imagine I spent a good hour or two exploring the Tower and trying on the high level armor to see how it looked.
Perhaps you shouldn't jump to conclusions then, because while weapons carry over their damage (at least in the available game mode for the alpha) is normalized to keep their power balanced.
Compared to complaints about the general flow of gunplay in the MP, imbalance hardly even registers. The game tries to keep things somewhat reasonable by equalizing the main powerfulness stats.
1)Same as I. In MMOs I play as tank and like to take the hits for the team. Wish Titan had a cape though ^_*
2. Exo, Gundam anyone ^_^
mcz117chief
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TwoDurans
"Never said I wasn't a hypocrite."
Let's see dem Crucible stats, y'all.
CrackaF3tt
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I was getting pretty addicted to the very limited pvp. This game will consume me even though Halo 2 HD will be out after. I've been waiting for a game like this and even more so that's it's Bungie game. Beta can't come soon enough. I hope they add a no hud toggle cause this game looks send. Here are links to a few of my pvp montages that I enjoyed making.
Destiny Alpha "Orbit": http://youtu.be/RwzVdQdzqnE
Destiny Alpha "The Moon": http://youtu.be/JJuKuKGGzAY
Destiny Alpha "I Got This": http://youtu.be/ed4ueX4zUBY
Destiny Alpha PS4 PvP Match: http://youtu.be/-233OIAtaeA
Destiny Alpha "Orbit": http://youtu.be/RwzVdQdzqnE
Destiny Alpha "The Moon": http://youtu.be/JJuKuKGGzAY
Destiny Alpha "I Got This": http://youtu.be/ed4ueX4zUBY
Destiny Alpha PS4 PvP Match: http://youtu.be/-233OIAtaeA