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Ran 3 hard mode raids today... so worn out...
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Destiny - Discussion Thread
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Godmachine
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But if we use 343 we might get a more than half baked game like broken saves and zero working multiplayer!
At least we know 343 will actually fix the problems. They have to otherwise its tarnishing the franchise. Bungie can simply throw its own shit around with little care , they've got a locked contract for a decade.
I think 343 will iron out Halo : MCC and it will be put on sale and people will jump right in. Meanwhile Destiny will have its new 3 missions for SP and a raid and one instance for dungeon runs to hold it over until Fall of next year (rumored).
People I know still say Halo MCC is broken. At least Bungie can do multiplayer right. I've lost all faith in 343 for such a lackluster launch and glad I got a refund. The same with drive club developers, just dead in the water. Not going to give a developer a free pass if the game is more known for its multiplayer and its broken.
I am inclined to give 343 a pass on the whole MCC thing as they only developed one of the games yet are charged with making all 4 play nicely. I don't know enough of the technical details to being to judge just how much of a challenge that is.
on topic, anyone know what todays update will be about, there is nothing on their webpage about it, other than it will be happening
on topic, anyone know what todays update will be about, there is nothing on their webpage about it, other than it will be happening
Not sure on the update, but I still find it stupid that Bungie is waiting until a week before DLC launch before they buff up the exotics that suck. This was probably part of their plan all along, to get people back to playing the game who have left.
Really stupid how they can throw down the nerf bat without testing, yet are so slow to buff anything back to relevance. Don't forget the bugs that they introduce! Vault of Glass would be a 1 hour avg run on hard mode if it weren't for the buggy boss fight sometimes, lol.
http://www.bungie.net/7_Bungie-Weekly-Update---12012014/en/News/News?aid=12433
Destiny patch notes are live!
Destiny patch notes are live!
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Not bad fixes though I am a bit annoyed about Templar not being able to be forced off his platform. That sucks dick.
I've never NOT pushed Templar off, I guess I get to learn something new tonight. In other news, since everyone always loves to bash the RNG, it actually showed me a little bit of love last night. I got an exotic Plan C Fusion Rifle last night from a strike. Of course, I had JUST finished upgrading my legendary fusion rifle, but oh well. I still don't have Icebreaker, so it can fill my exotic weapon slot for now.
0ptional
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I'm excited to teach the fight again and actually have fun with the fight and the raid, with all the cheese it was just a chore to get to Atheon for pathetic rewards.
I am still however grateful for running hard mode 3x on Sunday before the patch/reset.
I am still however grateful for running hard mode 3x on Sunday before the patch/reset.
The Templar fight was fun last night. It took MAYBE a bit longer than pushing him off, but it isn't a hard fight. I got my raid boots last night, so that should get me to 29. I have exotic helm, raid chest and now raid boots, just need gloves. I may just hit 30, but level cap increases to 32 next week, so I will be playing catch up it seems.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/12/03/stare-into-the-dark-below-new-details-on-the-destiny-expansion.aspx?PostPageIndex=1
Some sneak peak into The Dark Below DLC.
I don't even know anymore. Bungie is really pissing me off with their RETARDED decision making. Seriously. Everything they are doing is just to limit player progress due to their lack of content.
Some sneak peak into The Dark Below DLC.
I don't even know anymore. Bungie is really pissing me off with their RETARDED decision making. Seriously. Everything they are doing is just to limit player progress due to their lack of content.
Trading up exotics that everyone has already upgraded just to lose all progress on them (Seriously, the reason exotics are good are due to their perks); IT TAKES TIME!.
Using up materials this week after the patch just to find out you've wasted them for nothing because you should have let them stay at default and use just one exotic shard to upgrade your weapon.
Just remember this. If you have a maxed out weapon you require 3 Exotic shards total to max it again. Whereas you could have left it at default damage and upgraded with only 2 exotic shards.
Plus all the wasted telemetries (Costing strange coins) which could have been saved for some exotic shards.
Had we been notified of this in advance (Like this latest exotic patch) people wouldn't have wasted their mats for nothing.
Now, I used up all my marks and I still have several hundred of each material, but its still STUPID that Bungie is doing this just to prolong a game that has a severe lack of content (Yes it's repetitive, I enjoy it but lets call a spade a spade). Crucible is a redeeming feature of Destiny due to its tight gunplay but this is definitely put in place to increase "gameplay" due to lack of content.
Also, raid gear has its own upgrade materials essentially making ascendant shards useless if you want to save up your shards to upgrade the new raid gear.
Oh, and now you need crucible/vanguard radiant tokens in addition to your marks to buy new legendary gear. Crucible/Vanguard radiant tokens only come from levelling up your faction. Another way Bungie has introduced to "stunt" progressing the game too quickly.. which is obviously due to lack of content.
Hard raid isn't released until January... why? Because they know there will be world firsts within 24 hours of it releasing also another way to limit progressing too quickly in this game.
While I do enjoy the game, I can still be a huge critic regarding the state of the game.
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It is still in grave need of patching but I was able to play SP without issues.
343 and the Driveclub developer couldn't be farther apart in their approaches to fixing their games though. Driveclub will forever be broken as they will have to move along to whatever is next. 343 has the "stain" of their launch until its brought into proper form because its a headlining franchise unlike Driveclub.
Destiny in my mind is even worse than broke because Bungie refuses to see how its lacking in content and in greater need of a stronger story line are serious issues. Bungie had to be "told" that chat functionality was important for team work based gaming as well which is just straight up lame. Destiny won't ever be "fixed" frankly since its an MMO (well a poor mans version) and they are prone to being treated poorly. At least Halo : MCC will eventually be fixed into the state it should have launched.
Both are ultimately excuses though , neither should have been launched in their broken states. A game doesn't have to be broken in terms of its access to be considered "broken" to begin with. I had little to no connection issues with Destiny but I do feel regret for buying the $89 version with DLC that I won't ever play. Something I won't do again even for such a well respected developer.
I do agree with you, and I do have many complains of what Bungie has been doing with my post just above yours.
This teaches me to just go into something all gungho and expect something great. I still have fun with it don't get me wrong, but I do understand not everyone is having fun -- although quite a few still play it.
Well, I put aside Dragon Age : Inquisition to come back to Destiny personally. Mainly the pressure to get to 30 before the level cap increase I guess. I am going to be 29, still lacking raid gloves. I got my raid boots this week and levelled them up last night. I did like the part about the RNG being kinder to players based on what gear has dropped for them in the past - seems like a step in the right direction at least. I STILL haven't done VOG on hard yet - maybe next week.
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And yet they still refuse to add matchmaking for the raid
on the verge of getting this. Worth the full price? as a pc gamer, will i be disappointed? I usually buy console games when they have no pc counterpart, but i tend to go for fps games on pc. Recently got a ps4 with the gta5/last of us bundle and they are both good games (i had them on ps3 already but dont mind re-playing them on ps4 with the better resolution).
Dam it, last night I broke down and bought the exotic shard to upgrade my helm with, then this morning read the update notes about how I will need to do it again to get the new shiny 2.0 helm and then a third time to upgrade it. I really wish they had match making for the weekly's, nightfall's and raid. I am not strong enough to run them solo and my play times are too erratic to coordinate with friends. The endgame has very little love for the solo gamer sometimes
I got my moneys worth, but it's hard to say. People either love or hate this game and it doesn't really open up until level 26+. Even then you will be replaying the same set of content week to week. If you like grindy, repetitive, loot based games that have great co-op content then it is worth a buy. If you play solo a lot then it can get tiring quickly and you probably won't make it to the good end-game stuff (Raids, Nightfall, Iron Banner).
The DLC is going to change things up though, but I'm not sure if it will make progression any quicker. Some parts will be less grindy, some more so and it's hard to say right now what the end result will be.
Well, I spent yesterday getting my level 14 hunter alt levelled up. I had a bank full of legendaries and an exotic chest waiting for him to hit 20. I went from 14 Sunday morning to 26 by Sunday evening. I can now run VOG twice, although my new lvl 26 will still be pretty squishy. I guess technically I could run normal and hard on my 29 warlock as well.
I resorted to using the Destiny Companion app and searching for an XB1 group. Once I found one, I looked for folks looking for more people to raid/strike with, or posted my class/lvl and LFG for VOG normal or whatever. Every raid I've done was a PUG found this way. Some are more painful than others to get done, but we usually finish the raid. I would imagine there is an active PS4 group on there as well to help you out.
I'll add you when I get home, my PSN is Basstek. I play with a couple of guys and we are all in our thirties.
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So how is the new expansion. I see people are already punching through the raid. DAMMIT!
I own the digital guardian edition of Destiny and I feel for the non-DLC owners. This is just scummy IMO. If I didn't own the DLC already I would have stopped playing this game.
How can you lock out old content (from what I'm reading?) Just to force people to buy the DLC?
This is worse than EA.
The new DLC strike was added to the weekly & nightfall rotation. Therefore, anytime the strike is the weekly (such as this week), vanilla users will not be able to participate. However, the following weeks, when it's vanilla strikes, they can play, no problem.
I think Bungie has been rather generous allowing non-dlc users to grab the new DLC based armor and weapons from vendors and higher level exotics.
I think Bungie has been rather generous allowing non-dlc users to grab the new DLC based armor and weapons from vendors and higher level exotics.
Also... since I'm not home to check it out myself.. only the new level 26 strike playlist provides engrams for completion. What the hell? (Again, I own the expansion pass). That's just plain stupid.
By them increasing levels of difficulty for dailies and weeklies/nightfalls to level 30 from 28 and not increasing bonus rewards.. this is just another way for Bungie to limit progress.
That is just plain dumb, IMO.
By them increasing levels of difficulty for dailies and weeklies/nightfalls to level 30 from 28 and not increasing bonus rewards.. this is just another way for Bungie to limit progress.
That is just plain dumb, IMO.
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Bungies Idea of DLC is content on the disk already
That could be a bug though, we will have to wait and see. Daily public event rewards were missing until the patch today due to a bug. They have a pretty bad track record of breaking stuff unintentionally with updates.
With vendor gear being light 33, everyone can buy their way to 31 now so the higher difficulty on the weekly content isn't much of a setback.
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opps wrong thread
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Ars posted a review of the new DLC, The Dark Below.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/12/the-dark-below-dlc-highlights-the-worst-parts-of-destiny/
Spoiler: They enjoyed the new raid and one of the new strikes (apparently the PS exclusive strike is pretty light on content), but criticize some of the new weapon mechanics and how the expansion treats vanilla Destiny players.
There's a good quote at the end of the review which I feel summarizes my concerns about Destiny and its future:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/12/the-dark-below-dlc-highlights-the-worst-parts-of-destiny/
Spoiler: They enjoyed the new raid and one of the new strikes (apparently the PS exclusive strike is pretty light on content), but criticize some of the new weapon mechanics and how the expansion treats vanilla Destiny players.
There's a good quote at the end of the review which I feel summarizes my concerns about Destiny and its future:
Has anybody with the game on Xbox one had it refuse to launch and had to reinstall it? Had to do this on my sons Xbox one twice in a week now thank god I have 100mb internet and no cap. Haven't had this happen on my Xbox one. Ever other game no issues.
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Bungie trying to kill its game and burn players who don't opt-in for DLC.
Fuck this game.
Fuck this game.
I have had it happen twice since launch, as has my friend. its annoying as hell since it takes like a damn hour to get it fixed