Destiny General Discussion Thread

I agree with the majority of the good vs bad points on the last few posts, but another thing that hasn't really been mentioned is strikes.

I ran hundreds of strikes in D1 but in D2 id be amazed (apart from nightfall) if ive even run 6 !

For a start they take a lot longer to complete and are very hard to 1 or 2 man plus the rewards are bad for the amount of time/effort that needs to be put in.

Also the fact that you can run 4 or more public events in the same amount of time AND get more loot negates the need to run the strikes anymore.

The importance of strikes/the raid seems to have been diminished massively weather by design or a misjudgement, but to me its a mistake.

Im sure most of the probelms will be resolved with updates/patches but again it seems like to me anyways that its all over too quickly.

Will i continue to play D2, yes most definetly.
Will i put as much effort/time as i did in D1, no not with the current game as it is.

Ive had fun with it and glad i got it, but will probably go back to Zelda and maybe pick up a ps4 to try Horizon and put 2-3 hours a week in D2 for the time being.

Full blue screen crash, it was happening before then a patch came along and fixed it and then another patch came along and ****ed it up again and that is where it is now, never from activities and mainly on flying back to the tower.

SeanHarty wrote: »

I had an issue the other day where I could hear I had landed at the tower but the screen stayed black.

I couldn't open my map but could after I opened my inventory first, had to fly to another planet and come back to load in.

also at release I was crashing a lot (5 or 6 times in one night) but since then the game in a whole has been running pretty well!

I wasn't in your party was I? I've been known to kill dudeeile's frame rates.

Is it just me or is that nightfall significantly harder than previous ones?

Finally my D1 warlock is ugly as sin, with his Devouring Maw helmet, Theosyion Vibrissae Gauntlets, Omnigul bond, and rocking the 'does not bow' auto , 'Dark blade's spite' fusion, 'barons ambition' heavy and the joyride shell.

Have to say, echo chamber was a great strike, not to beat a dead horse, but its a shame were were locked out of that one for a long time.

Random drop.

syboit wrote: »

RNG...

Went to my old farming spot last night 'the last tomb' dropped around 40 3oc's and got 4 exotics all armour

My farming spot is the black garden mission. 3 Ultras, return to orbit, rinse and repeat.

cavemeister wrote: »

My farming spot is the black garden mission. 3 Ultras, return to orbit, rinse and repeat.

can you not kill 2 and then get killed by the third, and restart the mission ?

I like the last tomb one as it gives you the axe to use to kill the bosses, can have the 2 killed and restart the encounter within 2-3 mins.

Becoming burned out from this game already. The news that IB won't have power advantages enabled, no IB rank or bounties, and the prestige raid won't have any mechanical differences doesn't help.

The only positive thing I can see regarding IB is that it's a fixed game-mode, so you'll be able to play without the chances of Supremacy looming over you.

Very unenthused by the whole thing though

AdamD wrote: »

Light level should never be relevant in PvP. Why should you get an advantage for being a higher level?

It's literally part of the lore of IB

http://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/iron-banner

Lord Saladin, once Shaxx's mentor, runs the Iron Banner tournaments to strip Crucible weaklings of their illusions and prepare them for a battle with no concept of fair play. The Iron Banner tests a Guardian and the Guardian's gear in a definitive, relentless mock war

Not that D1 lore or grimoire matters any more... It's all been removed from bungie.net

Guess I can level up my titan now, or possibly finally do the raid.

gimli2112 wrote: »

you've some nerve flouting that 305 Mida...... A MIDA

Well i do have others but mida pairs a lot better with salt than the others.

Was certainly a destiny 1 fan, had plenty of gripes with the game but always found myself coming back even after plenty of long spells away. A big part of destiny 1 for me was pvp, it was super solid and fun to play solo. 6v6 madness nothing like a close game going down to last second and it was quite and often occurrence. Raided once with a couple lads from here and it was hands down the most fun I had, strikes were hit and miss but was such a long list of em by destiny 1s end you could kill a good few hours in the strike playlist.

Going from destiny 1 to destiny 2 just feels like such a step backwards. We had a plethora of content whether you liked it or not and now here we are again with a fairly meager amount of content. Sure the campaign had a "cinematic" experience but it never interested me, we lose our powers and an hour later we have them back I mean really?!
I just can't believe how little they introduced, I appreciate the new planets yes and that's there more to patrols. But we still have the same 3 classes, and only 3 new subclasses, and arcstrider ain't far away from what blade dancer was. I enjoy the new weapons set up although I don't think I've used a sniper or shotgun yet now they are bundled in with rocket and grenade launchers. They've really went from one extreme to the others with exotics too, I'm not even 240 on my titan and I've a heap of exotics already, legendarys easy to get too, I appreciate it's not as much of a grind anymore but exotics really have lost the meaning of the word. And why can't we buy off vendors anymore and it's just another rng loot drop? I've been waiting on a pair of gloves and a helmet for ages, I've chest pieces and boots aplenty though.
No new enemy types either? And the taken are still knocking about? I didn't follow the buildup to release and knew little about the content before I started playing so not sure if it was public knowledge the taken were returning but I audibly groaned when they first popped up. Fcuk them most annoying enemies by far, I see there is a new enemy type (I assume) teased in the final scene after you beat the campaign, are they popping up in dlc or is this a ludicrously early set up for destiny 3?
And pvp, where do I start? Talk about a strip back when they should be building on it. 4 v 4? Who asked for that? Keep you tactical team based pvp to trials and what not, but there's no way the general pvp playing public wanted this introduced. It's slow paced, supers take way too long to regenerate I mean you get them once on the last quarter of the game. 2 play lists too, fcuk off. I can see it now in the trailer for the first dlc "YOU ASKED, WE LISTENED 6V6 PVP IS COMING BACK ALONG WITH YOUR FAVOURITE DESTINY ONE GAME TYPES" giving the illusion they are adding new content when it's a simple flick of a switch for them more than likely.
Destiny honestly feels at times to me like some sort of social experiment to see how little they can release initially and sell the rest in dlc and keep fans loyal. It looks once again I'll continue to have a love hate relationship with this series but at this moment I've no urge to play much more. I've got once character to 240 and feel like ive done the majority of it.
Lastly, another lame ass character creation screen!!!

ItsHoggie wrote: »

Sure wasn't the European Dead Zone and the Cabal Raid meant to be in the original Destiny 1? It's not surprising me that D2 isn't that much of a step up.

I remember seeing concept art for edz when destiny released. Very cliche thing to say but it feels like destiny 1.5, it's just dlc to me.

Also can anyone tell me was there any dialogue or anything about the new tower? I just remember bearing the campaign and then I spawned into the new tower out of nowhere?.