DENTISTY i mean DESTINY

Anybody playing the alpha of this game, which is by Bungie and is coming out in september or something and is like Halo and Mass Effect and Diablo and Borderlands all baked into a very time-consuming pie? Because I am and

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DENTISTRY

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i396/Kat_Blasius/David-after-Dentist.jpg

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-07-21-five-talking-points-from-the-weekends-destiny-beta

This looks pretty cool imo

Yeah it helps that there's almost nothing else out this year but I'm definitely looking forward to DENSITY.

I pre-ordered and got a beta key but have to wait til Wednesday to download and play. At least I'll have the weekend.

Beta is open for the next day or so, just played the first 30 mins, seems...fine.

the demo (sorry, "beta") is kinda fun. i wonder if there will be more to do in the full game, questwise, or if it go-here-shoot-this forever.

Picked this up and played a chunk last night. Feels like Borderlands, with a Mass Effect skin and a WoW hub. Only played story missions so far though, suspect it's going to open up more when I get into the less standard stuff.

The free-upgrade-to-next-gen convinced me to buy it on PS3, but I have a very short PSN friend list compared to my XBX list so if anyone's on this add me, I'm Jimodo.

I keep forgetting this isn't coming out for PC :(

this is a str8 multiplayer right? like, if you want to single player it you are still fucking around in the online world a la WoW, there is no offline campaign or w/e?

I dunno, I'm playing completely solo so far and yeah, it's easy enough to ignore anyone else in there and just get on with what I want to get on with. It feels like it might be silently funnelling me into my own instances, so on a specific level the open areas have other players running around too, but then when I get into the lead up to a boss area or whatever, it's just me (plus I guess anyone else I had in my party if I wanted to do that). But it's too soon to be sure really, I'll report back when I'm deeper in I guess.

at least in the beta, i think the zones were it reset on death were instances.

i didn't love the beta tbh but i am interested to hear if there is more content/story/non-shooting stuff to do.

thanks jim, pls do

is this good, is it skyrim in spacefuture

is it worth buying a ps4 for? (should i just buy the 360 version?)

I dunno yet, but I just bought a PS4 for it.

(Well, not really, but it's the first game for the PS4 that I actually want to play.)

just watched footage of the tutorial beginning. the tyrion voicework is lolterrible

also looks like halo. not interested!

MMORPG halo?!

should I move my PS4 out of the guest bedroom for this game?

if you do, tell me if it's worth buying a PS4 to play it

+1

The long commercial I saw for this had graphics that were so good that, at one point, I thought it had switched to a live-action+CGI blockbuster movie-style trailer rather than game cutscenes

this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZyQK6kUdWQ

hahahahahahahahaha um... yes

DJP - get it for ps3 and upgrade later.

XD

I think I'm onboard with this game? I'm lvl 12 or so. It sure is incredibly beautiful, and the mechanics are great. But there's something that feels really weird about playing something that feels like an MMORPG and gives you really nothing much to do except shoot aliens (or shoot each other). There seems to be no exploration, almost no loot, and no sidequests that aren't about shooting aliens. I like shooting aliens and I like RPGs, but it feels a little like a forced marriage or something. I'm sure for people who were really into Halo's online MP it's like heaven on earth, but for me it feels more like if COD insisted you play through singleplayer to level up and get access to better guns and equipment in multiplayer.

Maybe it really opens up in the later levels, but for right now it feels a little weird. For the amount of time you're liable to put into an MMORPG you don't really want to be listening to screeching aliens and a thumping techno soundtrack ALL THE TIME. Also Peter Dinklage turns in some really really surprisingly bad voiceacting, and you hear a LOT of him. It's like the whole thing was a cold read.

ugh that does not sound interesting to me at all. i was hoping for something more like borderlands. all loot all the time.

+1

For the amount of time you're liable to put into an MMORPG you don't really want to be listening to screeching aliens and a thumping techno soundtrack ALL THE TIME.

maybe I'm overrating the thumping techno soundtrack but on first blush this sounds like it might be awesome

although really I think I'm imagining Borderlands 2 with a thumping techno soundtrack

The enemy character design is the thing that's most like Borderlands 2 (which is a weird thing to be most like Borderlands). It's kind of like Borderlands 2 with no sense of humour and 95% less loot. (Whereas what you want is Borderlands 2 with 95% less sense of humour.)

Pretty sure I can get into the groove of this game, don't get me wrong. I think it's one of these deep geek things that don't open up until you get the story mode out of the way and go into endless deep grind mode. I can get down with that. The boss battles are really nice and hard too. Like 30 minutes long and if you die the boss's health regens, which I guess means it'll be harder/more boring to endlessly grind bosses to farm loot the way people do in Diablo etc.

btw the soundtrack is really good but it's super intense and sometimes it's enough already

I love the humor of Borderlands 2. I want more, not less.

Played my first PvP tonight and it was no fun at all.

ugh this sounds really really disappointing

this game isn't reviewing too well huh

all right then, time for me to start playing Borderlands 2 while listening to various Wipeout soundtracks

This game is pretty bad, but I'm glad I have a PS4 now.

Comparing this game to Borderlands is incorrect. Borderlands has a story, a sense of humor, loot. This has basically none of those so far.

The gameplay isn't bad but it's also the same thing over and over again, with nothing to break it up except walking.

Maybe it'll get better, but it doesn't sound like it will from what people are saying.

The menus are nice.

The first time it asked me to press gray rectangle to go into orbit I didn't realize the touch screen is also a button, so I spent ages trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.

Borderlands has a story, a sense of humor, loot.

This has loot, kinda. At first it's just "finish a mission, here's a new gun" which doesn't really count but I did a strike this afternoon and some of the sub bosses in there were dropping what seemed to be fairly random items, some of which were rare/enchanted/etc. Strike was pretty good fun actually, random matchmaking for fairly hard co-op missions worked out well.

But yeah, main reason it reminded me of borderlands was that it has various distinct levels (rather than one big open world), each spread over a fairly wide area, which you can tackle relatively non-linearly. Borderlands is the only other fps I've played which has that but I rarely play fps these days so maybe that's a lot more common now.

It definitely feels like Borderlands in that sense, yeah.

looking at the Destiny reddit suggests to me that in fact this game does turn into a totally different, dungeon-crawling type action rpg-styled game after you beat the story and get to level 20. Possibly it's premature to judge based on the story mode if this is one of these games where the story mode is basically a really long training level. Funny when you read a forum about tedious loot farming and that's what gets you excited for a game. (farming doesn't even seem possible right now)

eg: "A few tips for you guys trying this -- when you have killed 1,250 Vex Goblins, the grimoire card says it doubles the effect of using the consumable (same for 500 hobgoblins, 1000 dregs, and 750? vandals) so if you've gotten those cards you can double your glimore gains by using Blue Polyphage (for Vex) or Ether Seeds (for Fallen). Not sure if this also increases the likelihood of item drops. Additionally, getting 2500 kills on Venus will double the materials picked up from Spirit Whatevers so after getting your 2500 kills go back and pick up some of that stuff."

this makes NO SENSE based on the game i've played so far

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/destiny/

^pretty much exactly this happened to me today, had to quit mid strike because I couldn't put off the school run any longer.

yeah. I guess this sort of thing is normal in mmorpgs? all those poopsocking stories.

however that is really only an issue on the team-based strike missions, that playing them you're signing up for several hours with no pause button. Everything else, including the bounties where you're not allowed to die, you can just quit and pick up at the quit-point. All the story missions drop you back at the last checkpoint when you go back into them--I think you can have a few "saved" missions going at once, even. I noticed that by accident. I don't know why they don't make it clearer.

I stand, throwing my arms in the air. “Who is this for? Whose life does this fit into?” I ask.

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Had a really fun multiplayer experience last night.

People have mentioned that the game doesn't start until level 20, but actually level 20 is a soft level cap. Once you get there, you can only improve your level by getting better loot and upgrading it, so advancing becomes even more loot-dependent than you might guess initially.

I'm into this game, but I still can't get over how little loot there is, considering that the entire game after the soft level cap (took me 12-14 hrs to get to lvl 20) is a loot grind. You grind out the dumb currencies you need to buy legendary armour, then you grind up the armour, then you do it again, forever. I don't have any legendaries yet and probably won't even become eligible to buy some for a week or more of schlepping through playlists.

The gameplay is really fun, so the whole enterprise probably won't become a big drag anytime too soon, but you compare it to Diablo or Borderlands and there doesn't seem to be enough incremental progression to really hook you. The differences between the weapons and armour sets aren't much, or aren't obvious, and functionally speaking it can be hours of gameplay in between meaningful loot drops/purchases. Who needs that? Not to mention that the weapons and armour all level up, so switching from a maxed-out weapon or piece of armour to a new, "better" one usually means a slight stat/function REDUCTION. So improving your shit doesn't really feel fun at all, or at least not with any of the immediacy that makes these games worth playing. The way Destiny is set up it literally feels like WORK to make real progress. "Just two more hours and I can afford that new pair of gloves I've had my eye on..."

i was reading about that first raid they just released, looks interesting. just not rly into the time-consuming thing of mmorpgs. lol @ poopsock

I sort of like that the loot is harder to come by. In Borderlands I constantly was throwing away stuff that I just got, but in this game there is a real benefit to sticking with a particular gun or piece of armor. And when you outgrow it you can still put it in the vault for your other characters. And yeah, your non-upgraded stuff won't be as good initially, it's true.

"other characters," god forbid

I'm up to level 21 now. This article is verrrry otm

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/destiny-mayve-fixed-loot-cave-game-still-broken

I'm just behind you, few light points away from 21. Even though the story was guff I do feel like a big chunk of my motivation vanished when I got to the end of it. Does seem like it's grind-only from here on, and so far it's still fun grind but I don't know how long I'll stay interested.

OK I am about done with this game. It's just too punishing and time-consuming to make progress after level 20. A game like Diablo or Borderlands, you get better equipment based on RNG-based drops or beating increasingly-difficult bosses or some combination of both. There's always this feeling of incremental progress. In this game, I GUESS the progress is incremental, but, god, the increments!

I like to use the handgun as a primary weapon, and there's this very good legendary handgun I see people using. So after god knows how long accomplishing NOTHING grinding toward the legendary armour that you can't progress without, the RNG dropped me what I thought was this handgun. Yay! But no, it's a fucking quest to get the handgun wherein I have to spend 5 hours farming kills on a specific planet, AND THEN have to get 500 kills with a .75 r/d USING A SPECIFIC KIND OF DAMAGE ONLY, AND I HAVE ONLY ONE WEAPON THAT DEALS THIS KIND OF DAMAGE AND IT SUCKS, and THEN apparently beat some insanely difficult level that is not even possible to beat except in a party and the level doesn't offer auto matchmaking. For a casual player that's like 20 hours of grinding which counts toward nothing whatsoever in the game EXCEPT this weapon, and how good could this weapon possibly be and I'm fucking sorry but forget it man later for this.

When I turned it off I started playing Diablo and got three legendaries that impact the gameplay hugely in the first 10 minutes.

That's 500 kills with a .75 r/d in PvP, I should add. That's like a mandatory 10 hours in PvP, so you can progress toward a weapon that is useless in PvP because the auto-rifle is so OP.

yeah thus far i have not been blown away by this aside from the technical accomplishment (i'm a v casual player tho and only at level 7)

esp since i've played a couple hours of BL2 in the last week with a buddy at home and was like oh damn this is fun

You want Destiny to be like Borderlands but the fact is it's much more like WoW (I gather, never having played WoW). A slow-o-o-o-ow grind, which actually feels more like real-life drudgery than true action RPGs do. Action RPGs make me feel like a Skinner rat pursuing endlessly larger cheese morsels, whereas MMORPGs are more like having a paper route or selling magazine subscriptions, inching ever closer to the air rifle you're saving for.

the lack of matchmaking alone seems ill-conceived

Action RPGs make me feel like a Skinner rat pursuing endlessly larger cheese morsels, whereas MMORPGs are more like having a paper route or selling magazine subscriptions, inching ever closer to the air rifle you're saving for.

― antexit, Tuesday, October 14, 2014 3:51 PM

lol this is awesome

why did i buy this

Was just about to ask if I should buy this

its not bad, v pretty but dull and god dinklage stfu

i feel like i got my money's worth out of it even tho i dropped it as soon as i hit the level cap, however i am notoriously bad with money

I put a lot of time into this, but once the expansion pack more or less ended my ability to progress further without spending any more money on the game, there was no reason to continue.

I've never had the opportunity to do a raid (level 26) because I don't want to join a guild and add a shitload of random Destiny fans to my friend list. Until raids have matchmaking built in there's not much else you can do to progress at that level other than playing the same stuff you've played over and over again with a few added gameplay wrinkles.

this game fucking blows

DENTISTRY

im lvl 17, still not hating or loving it but playing w/ friends has been fun. they rly need to let you skip cutscenes

allow me to me reiterate:

this game fucking blows

I like it *shrug*

i don't mess with either fps or multiplayer games very often so it fills that gap for me i guess

yeah i can't do gun games unless they're sci-fi or deeply absurd

the problem for me is that the mechanics are sublime, which makes the appalling story, paucity of content and endless grind all the more disappointing

I wish more games had barely any story and great mechanics. Personal preference I guess.

I mean don't get me wrong this game is a B at best. The content/grind issues are undeniable. But the maps are good, the gameplay is good ... when you start getting exotics/legendaries in the 20s even the grind seems moderately worth it. I love all the weird currencies and materials. I love Xur.

And considering how many games these days are broken on day one, I will take a game that works great but needs more content over a game with lots of content that doesn't work. The early levels have way more stuff in them now than they did on day 1. If they keep adding stuff, they have a pretty solid foundation to build on.

i am unexpectedly enjoying the end game stuff despite the story/dialogue/content. at 26 now and considering the dlc. i suppose i'd have to join a clan to get fully hooked in. i can't even buy stuff from xur yet but i like talking to him

Did you buy the expansion?

not yet, i was holding out to level higher first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYzQl4xeKuw

i was holding out to level higher first

From what I understand that's the wrong way to do it, you'll end up working to upgrade gear which will then be superseded by expansion-only equipment, which you'll need to upgrade all over again. So if you're going to play the expansion (which I'm not) then I get the impression it's best to jump on it sooner rather than later.

i think that only applies to exotics which i don't have yet (the dlc resets any exotic upgrades to the new upgrade system(?!?)). from the start you're upgrading things that will soon be garbage anyway. also the expansion can't even be touched until you're 24 or higher. i grabbed it last night as i'm nearing 28 ;]

i fully understand the hate and frustration with the game which makes my enjoyment of it all the more unexplainable

i fully understand the enjoyment of the game which makes my hate and frustration with it all the more unexplainable

we're a mobius strip

i think that only applies to exotics which i don't have yet (the dlc resets any exotic upgrades to the new upgrade system(?!?)). from the start you're upgrading things that will soon be garbage anyway. also the expansion can't even be touched until you're 24 or higher. i grabbed it last night as i'm nearing 28

I didn't get the dlc but did get the new exotics system. I think it was just part of a recent update.

What system are you playing on, amon? I should probably at least take a stab at the vault of glass sometime but I have refused to do any work on finding a guild for some reason.

I used all my old upgraded weapons on my second playthrough :[

ps4. i was going to start another class and keep old stuff to transfer but always ended up discarding everything cuz the inventory gets full quick. i accidentally tried vault of glass w/ a 2 people last night and we got nowhere

i'm not sure if i'll ever play this game but it's one of the best thread titles on ILX

Played some of this at my friends' yesterday, and it was really fun! Looked amazing too, it's crazy something looks like this good hardware almost 10 years old.

*fart*

all of you are probably wondering, how's that awesome new destiny dlc? well it added several new story missions. cool, new stuff to look at, right?!?!... no they take place in the same areas as the other story missions you've run through thousands of times but, this time you run through them backwards! moral: don't buy this shitty game.

lol. i am tempted often to get this, as it's been dropping to around $20 for the base game. better off to wait for the inevitable GOTY?

the new modes are at least a departure from before and they've removed some of the grindy gear leveling aspects (no more ascendant mats required to get your gear to max) which i think is a step in the right dir. also been having trouble deciding if the game is any fun lately so it's a mixed bag

new modes also don't do matchmaking afaik so the game kinda requires you to have 2+ friends who also play / rely on the lfg websites

also first dlc seems now to have been a waste of $20 once the second one was released, not sure you need it for any endgame purpose

the base level team of 3 vs hordes mode has matchmaking and was kinda fun but a random "teammate" (read: massive prick) rushed in at the end to get the loot which started a timer making me miss out. bungie giveth, bungie puncheth ur balls

ugh. maybe i'll stick to single player Borderlands

But also you can't play four-player co-op in this game except for raids, and raids are six player. So you have to have three players or six players. It's sort of maddening.

so the big big update is out in a month - just in time for me to have bought a PS4 and to buy this as a package containing the game and all the expansions for £40. thanks for beta testing this everyone xxxx

anyone getting into the taken king? the 2.0 update made some very solid changes (weapon rebalancing, expanded bounty slots and the ability to turn in bounties anywhere, consolidation of upgrade materials, etc.) and the new content in dlc 3 sounds pretty solid from what i've read so far today.

i'm still pretty much hopelessly stuck on this game, but still can't be certain i'd recommend it to a stranger (i've pushed it on friends but that's mostly so i have others to run content with). raids are still tons of fun (imo) and 2.0 revitalized pvp to an extent but until i get a chance to delve deeper i can't say for sure it's worth the scratch.

I kind of loved the demo and do plan to pick this up when I've set aside enough $ for a PS4 (it's finally hit the point where it's worth it for me), but that's going to be December at the absolute earliest. I do kind of worry about community for this kind of multiplayer-based game- didn't it have a really perceptible dropoff in player base for a while?

not to mention... there are going to be more expansion packs, aren't there? hence the lack of "complete edition" moniker on the new SKU.

I just got this for PS4. Anyone starting recently that want to co-op?

same actually! might want to once i get to those big raids... if you're UK based my username is jamiesummerz

Yeah I bought TTK in the end, it's very generous in its "Go new places! Do new things! Have this cool stuff for free!" first hour or two, though the instant obsolescence of ALL year one stuff (including exotics, which are now outclassed by second tier year 2 equipment) definitely stings. I hadn't even finished levelling my gjallerhorn.

I'm up for raiding in theory, feel free to add me (jimodo).

its pretty good so far. i think old outclassed stuff can be infused for higher stats but i don't totally understand how it works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsmZ1Qu7x34

dude gonna get maced

a couple hrs into TTK now, and i haven't yet been able to bring myself to destroy all my year one legendaries yet (hopscotch pilgrim, i barely knew ye) even though i'm currently wearing almost all blue/green drops that significantly outclass the old stuff.

i'm enjoying the new story, and am psyched to try out heroic strikes, nightfall, and the new raid *hopefully* within the next week or so.

for new folks - i recommend against d3st1nylfg unless it's absolutely necessary (i have had several really negative experiences with randoms picked up for groups from there) but strongly suggest you check out the 100. the ability to schedule when you want to run a task is definitely nice for folks with jobs and lives outside of destiny, and i've found the caliber of person who populates this site is GENERALLY higher than the alternatives. multiplayer is really the key to this game, so finding a group to roll with is invaluable.

also, feel free to add me should you so desire. i'm at psn: vrilr0. i am primarily concerned w/ getting into the new endgame content but i love the old raids and PoE etc. as well

feel like I'm probably too low to help you (27? 28? i think?) but I am curious about the new content. I've still never done a raid.

never seen that the100 thing b4, interesting

never done vog and when i did scrota's end i pretty much took a backseat as the others cheesed thru it for their 200th time. that was "fun"

only done crota once (need to do it a few more times on HM to upgrade my husk of the pit) but vog is my jam. i suck at it but the mechanics for the final boss are really cool and anxiety inducing.

bungie hid a few dead ghosts in crota's end so it seems like that raid might have a place in y2 but i'm not sure about vog and this makes me sad since i think it's the best thing they've done in this game so far

feel like I'm probably too low to help you (27? 28? i think?) but I am curious about the new content. I've still never done a raid.

― polyphonic, Wednesday, September 16, 2015 1:41 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think the target is roughly 240 light to hit at least start hitting the endgame targets (possibly more for some things) but i am guessing some of the older stuff, like poe and y1 raids, might have lower threshholds.

in the earlier days, people started hitting vog at 27 or 28, i wonder what, if anything, they've done to normalize the new system with that old expectation.

so any idea why i can't pick up any more vanguard bounties even though i'm only holding 5?

just hit 40

This game's pretty bloody great at the moment. Hope it lasts.

I'm evening enjoying (and getting better at) PvP.

Evening? Even.

also just made 40, hit me up PSN name is BLIFIL

i tried the new raid on saturday. took 2-3 hours to make it to the first boss and ultimately had to abandon the fireteam to rejoin the world. i think the group i was with was maybe under-geared or possibly unfamiliar with raid dynamics because we kept dying during seemingly straightforward procedural steps. (also the platforming stage took at least half an hour to get everybody across.)

i probably won't return to it before i lose my checkpoint tonight at 2am, but am interested to see more of the raid and get some of that more of that sweet sweet gear. i did make it out with a 303 light ghost shell which was awesome, and a full 20 point improvement over the one i went in with.

psn: vrilr0, feel free to add me for whatever

also for the newly 40 folks, make sure you run the dreadnought patrol mission so you can get access to the 36 & heroic strike playlists. these are your bread and butter for raising your light level. after 3-5 1-2 hr sessions you should be at or near 290 which i think is basically the bottom light level at which it's possible to succeed in the raid (and thus it is possible to succeed at any of the other content).

i have 2 chars at 40, but only one has broken 290. i would stick with the vanguard strikes and skip the heroic past the 5 needed unless youre a masochist. rewards are pretty much the same at 36 and the 41 versions can be needlessly punishing. instead do court of oryx, you can get a lot of loot quick there

Strikes with randoms are pretty painful at the moment, the number of people out there who don't have a clue what they're doing seems to have boomed, I end up effectively soloing most of them these days.

mercifully, 36 strikes are manageable even when carrying dead weight in random match made games

got to around ~250 light gear so far, mostly by doing strikes (finding the 36 strikes - like u said - so easy you can even have one person drop out and still finish no sweat) mixed w some crucible which - despite the fact that i'm not the biggest mp fps gamer by far - i'm finding very satisfying. the strikes are all good... the first time. esp that hive nest one w/ the pitch black final boss encounter is so tedious. hate it.

The fact they're using legendary marks to strongly encourage people who don't normally play crucible to play it is making crucible a lot more fun for people (like me) who don't normally play it because there's a greatly increased chance you'll be up against other people who don't normally play it and might even manage to get a few kills in. Even came out of a few rift wins as mvp last week.

Think I'm on 286 light now? Got a lucky 300 light machine gun drop which didn't hurt.

re: crucible - i'm looking forward to the return of iron banner and trials of osiris (both pvp modes allow for gear/level advantages instead of re-scaling everything to a common damage/defense level as is done in vanilla crucible) to see how the new expansion affects the mechanics. trials was an exercise in futility for anyone who wasn't 1. a dead-eye sniper and 2. decked out with a specifically curated arsenal of fully ascended legendaries/exotics. the armor from trials was the best aesthetically, in my opinion, in the pre-TTK era so i'm interested to see what the new stuff looks like when it becomes available. (additionally i hope they bring PoE back into the fold with a new loot table / vendor rewards setup, since i actually used to enjoy this game mode.)

iron banner has always been a mix of fun and frustration, and i seriously hope they re-calibrate the rewards (like giving 300 light gear as options for participation for ex) as opposed to pre-TTK when the armor, the weapons were always pretty solid especially when bungie fucked up and gave final round on the spear, required ascension materials to make useful.

have had an awesome time with the Taken King legendary edition since starting a few weeks back.

feeling pretty badass right now if i do say so myself, and still not done any of the 3 expansion stories/raids etc: https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/Gear/2/4611686018451451954/2305843009334564101

pretty dope robe. i really dig the vaguely malicious-catholic-bishop vibe you get on some of the warlock gear

i've read that you get bonus drops for every strike you do in a row. anyone know if the same thing applies to crucible? also - i've been decoding my blue engrams to bring up my light level - should i save my purple engrams for when i'm around 290, or just decode them now?

i think just decode as you go - but if you have mulitple ones at a time, during your visit make sure for every one you decode, you then equip it right away before decoding another one...
every bit of higher light = better shit decoded

i don't think any such buff yet exists for the crucible.

and i just decoded everything as it dropped to keep my light level moving upward as fast as possible. i've heard some people argue that you should save any exotic engrams that drop for you north of 290 or 295 because once you hit 300 light, exotic engrams can decode 310 light items. i probably don't have the willpower to do this but i can see the logic in it.

jamie why do you have green stuff at this point. does that color become relevant again?

its because in some categories i'm still getting more greens drop with higher attack than i am other colours
also because some are just enjoyable to use in crucible!

got my first exotic drop today off some rando story mission ultra, finally cracked 260, off to heroic strikes tonight who wants in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JK8oJhy5Ys

its frustrating in places, and the lack of matchmaking on certain things is mega irritating (prison of elders above level 28), but by god this game is so fucking addictive and enjoyable.

now to do that first raid...

third week running i tried the new raid and my grp could only make it to the first boss. plus side - im becoming expert at the first three or four steps

hoping to take another stab tonight but it may not happen.

also iron banner and trials start this week. prepare for frustration!

had to put this down after i spent saturday chasing the exotic sword. why do i want an exotic sword.

great game tho

ugh yeah im on the "collect materials & get ability kills" step and after an hr last night i wanted to tear my eyes out.

i only want the sword bc i think it will put me at 300 light at which pt i can start decoding exotic engrams again. im not sure there's much use for it outside boosting ones light level

is there an ilx raid group

im doing the 5 heroic strikes on a 2nd char and theres one that is just a huge pain in the ass from the get go. i think its called saber, its got a defend the warsat thing at the start that was just endless wipes til i gave up

xp not to my knowledge but there could be. are you in the ps4 community thing?

Also yes saber is the worst. it was the nightfall a week or so back and i think a lot of people cheesed it. there's a spot where you can ride your sparrow at just the right angle and fall through the map to spawn under the warsat which allows you to stay in range for transmission and out of range for enemies, thus negating the danger of that encounter

ha i heard about that glitch. in fact i think i saw a teammate fly by me towards the cave and disappear so i guess thats what that was

how do i join the ps4 thing? seems like it doesn't allow you to search for groups. ive got multiple psn accounts but this is my destiny one
https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/Gear/2/4611686018445780957/2305843009270125795

jesus there is a shit ton of quests when you finish the main story of The Taken King! a bit overwhelming.

anyway, finally had some helpful dudes help me through first raid (VOG) last night - and after probably pissing them off for 20 minutes failing to do some simple jumps, scored a gjallarhorn :D
fun times.

This is pretty woah, if anyone missed it:

http://kotaku.com/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731

Martin O'Donnel wins lawsuit v bungie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WCj0ISBbCI

enjoying halloween

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trials of Osiris is fucking nuts.

way more fun with new bounties, you are pretty much guaranteed some trials loot which was super hard to get in y1

still need a 7 win card to get the full auto scout. got to 6 earlier before we lost it earlier

obviously most matchmade teams would be shitty in this, but its still a bitch that you cant even have the fun of taking part without a fireteam

yeah one of the big hurdles to the best content in this game is working w randoms in fireteams matchmade from the various sources. i'd be down to get a fireteam of ilxors to try out trials next time if anybody is interested. i'm no dead-eye but we could at least move through some of the bounty steps.

Got sleeper simulant AND black spindle tonight, feel like this might be a good time to put it down for a couple of months though and get back into some backlog.

http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/steph-currys-destiny-warriors-exotic-weapon-keeps-firing-20151113

Destiny®: The Taken King - Legendary Edition

^^^this is on deal on the UK store. do you need destiny retail disc to run this?

also I don't really get destiny. does it have a campaign mode and is it any good? or do you need to play online to get the best out of it? and is the online competitive or is it co-op?

Yeah that's the whole thing. It has a campaign. It's not great when you're playing through the year one bits but gets a lot more fun later. You need to be online all the time to play it. There's some pvp but you can choose to ignore it if you like, mostly it's co-op.

I got Taken King and it has its hooks in me again. It sucks that I spent all that time leveling up Level 20 weapons and armor last time around, though. If I had known that I'd never have spent a dime with that fool Xur.

I miss Dinklage!

This worth picking up now?

I can totally understand people's beef with how badly this launched, how much they ended up paying for the DLCs as they came out, and what a sometimes irritating journey its been to get where it is now... but having come on board with The Taken King, i can't say i've ever played a game as much as this or had such enjoyable multiplayer experiences...even back when I was a 16 year old and had a shit ton of free time.

so, i would say, if you don't mind it possibly sucking up a lot of your spare time, then yes definitely. the satisfaction of clearing the Kings Fall raid for the first time was amazing.

i would recommend www.the100.io for finding a decent group to do any multiplayer stuff with. there are some amazingly kind and very patient sherpas out there who will deal with your rubbishness to help you out on some of the harder end game pieces

I'm 265 light if anyone needs an extra on ps4. psn: josephcotten.

cool. It's getting cheap now and I'm looking for games to spend too much time on.

yeah I've seen Taking King legendary edition in CEX for about £15-20 so its really good value now considering you get the original story campaign, house of wolves + dark below campaigns, the big new taken king campaign which also triggers off a ton of additional quests and missions + all the PVP modes and events

psn: jamiesummerz
at about 311 light now, only things i've yet to do are kings fall hard mode and Trials Of Osiris lighthouse... one of those almost definitely won't be happening

I've not picked it up since the SRL stuff was happening around christmas, the valentine's day business didn't tempt me back but I'm sure the next significant content drop will. I'm 305 light at this point and I think I read they're upping the level cap again pretty soon? So that killed any motivation to battle up towards 320 now, when I can no doubt breeze past it if I just hold off a few weeks/months.

i don't really care about 320 at all, but it definitely helps to keep you a bit more competitive on iron banner/trials/doing the raids to be at least somewhere near that upper level. Crimson Doubles was surprisingly fun, and after some whiners didn't get the ghost shells to drop they ended up giving everyone who did the quest a 320 ghost, so was worth a quick go.

Right, sequel unlocks tonight, who else is jumping back into this?

waiting for pc. october! wtf

I'm just behind you, few light points away from 21. Even though the story was guff I do feel like a big chunk of my motivation vanished when I got to the end of it. Does seem like it's grind-only from here on, and so far it's still fun grind but I don't know how long I'll stay interested.

― JimD, Friday, 3 October 2014 12:11 Bookmark

hahahaha and here were are 3 fucking years later and I'm still playing and getting hype about the new one.

clever way for bungie to market a new expansion

reviews are saying that the setting/story is less impressionistic and nonsensical this time around, which kinda puts me off. the dinklage gibberish was half the appeal.

rip dinkbot ;_;

maybe I don't understand what a sequel is. i keep seeing people call this a new expansion or new dlc.

there's a completely new story much better than anything in D1 or its expansions.
there are hundreds of new guns and armour pieces.
there are 4 new planets/areas which are much bigger, far more active than anything in D1.
there is a shit ton of extra missions on every planet.
almost every system of the grind is improved.
it look a ton better.

what else would it need to constitute "sequel-ness"?

Yeah hard to fathom, especially when you can move from one Far Cry or Just Cause to another and hardly see any change, and nobody takes issue with that.

I mean I guess if you're one of the people who played D1 for the story missions only, then did the same for D2, then you could perhaps argue there's more recycled bad guys and/or cabal ship interiors than you'd expect? But as soon as you even scratch the surface pretty much everything else has changed to some extent. The new patrol areas especially, they're lovely this time round.

and they're just so so full of things happening - its almost non stop compared to the pretty barren landscapes of D1. i keep planning on clearing side missions on each planet and get sidetracked by public events / exploring / high value enemies etc.

blind raid attempt happening tonight!

How did that go? Don't think anyone in my group has had a crack at it yet but I'm not ready for it anyway, baby + destiny don't mix so well so I've only got up to about 240 so far.

fuck me its a challenging one. its also the most wildly different raid tone-wise they've ever done. I mean seriously very weird conceptually, with a huge mazelike space underneath it all which has lots of interesting hidden parts. Checkpoints work differently and it's much more mechanics/puzzle based than just being boss after boss DPS checks. Rewards seem less generous than before but you do earn specific Rep tokens which you can use once you complete the raid once.

We got stuck on the third part and had to sleep - brains too fuzzy and rushing things leading to wipes. That third part is very difficult and will lead to meltdowns - its the prime example of why matchmaking for destiny raids is generally an awful idea. I know people laugh at that idea given WOW etc do it, but there is so much split second communication and concentration needed from all 6 of you on certain parts that if a team doesn't meld together properly.

Blind raid for destiny continues to be one of the funnest things in gaming, even when its a struggle.

sorry that should be 'if a team doesn't meld together properly you will NOT get through it'

4 hour session last night and we still couldn't beat Calus in our second try. after doing them once we breezed through all the challenges – but Calus is fucking impossible.

Hi friends.

I bought Destiny 2 at launch, played it for one night, and then never touched it again.

Finally gave it a fair chance a couple nights ago--have sunk in maybe 7-10 hours since then. Really enjoying it. Anyone still playing? Anyone have any tips for new players?

The game has changed a lot since I was playing it (pre-Forsaken). Sounds like the progression system is completely different.

https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-beginners-guide/

Alright, I'm roughly 30-35 hours into playing.

It's almost impossible to figure out the weapon/armor system on your own, and even reading tutorials isn't that helpful. I've hit softcap, but someone basically told me not to mess around with the upgrade system until I get closer to 950.

However, the game is fucking great and so much fun to play. The gunplay is good, hanging with the boys on Discord and grinding powerful rewards is great, and the grind itself feels satisfying. The environments are captivating and beautiful. I'm happy I took the plunge.