Destiny General Discussion 2.0

Kimbot · 18-12-2017 12:35pm

SeanHarty wrote: »

If only there was someway to know which ones you have and which you don't, like I dunno a kiosk?? I know its a mad idea :pac:

The Destiny app shows you in collections whats missing etc :P

Angron · 18-12-2017 12:39pm

jonnycivic wrote: »

The Destiny app shows you in collections whats missing etc :P

So it does. So yeah, missing the three guns I mentioned (need to do Arms Dealer for Legend of Acrius), have all Titan exotic armour, missing a couple of the armour pieces for Hunter and Warlock.

cavemeister · 18-12-2017 1:47pm

Angron wrote: »

I think all I'm missing at this point is Legend of Acrius, Crimson, and The Colony. Might be missing some of the armour pieces, but I don't really keep track of those ones.

I'm missing the Rat King - Saw the hoops you need to jump through to get it and thought it would be too much of a pain in the @ss to be bothered.

Is it decent?

Angron · 18-12-2017 2:32pm

cavemeister wrote: »

I'm missing the Rat King - Saw the hoops you need to jump through to get it and thought it would be too much of a pain in the @ss to be bothered.

Is it decent?

Not really. On its own it's not as good as other exotics, I've never run it with a team though. Everyone just prefers to use other guns in my experience.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 18-12-2017 2:46pm

SeanHarty wrote: »

Chimp I really think we should both get Sea of Thieves so when we attack someone's both we I can just scream "Chimp AHOY!"

I've bought games for less content (No Mans Sky, Destiny 2 :pac:)!

SeanHarty · 18-12-2017 3:10pm

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

I've bought games for less content (No Mans Sky, Destiny 2 :pac:)!

Just think of how happy it'll make me to be able to shout that and it actually make sense!

My name is URL · 18-12-2017 7:40pm

Fall of Osiris web-comic is out for anyone that can be arsed reading it

https://comics.bungie.net/

wexdevil · 19-12-2017 4:45am

My name is URL wrote: »

Fall of Osiris web-comic is out for anyone that can be arsed reading it

https://comics.bungie.net/

There's also a code for an ingame emblem

(XFVKHPN97 for the lazy, redeem on bungie.net )

Mitch Connor · 19-12-2017 9:29am

I GOT MY JADE RABBIT BACK!

Its not as good as it used to be.... BUT I GOT MY JADE RABBIT BACK!

SeanHarty · 19-12-2017 9:39am

Mitch Connor wrote: »

I GOT MY JADE RABBIT BACK!

Its not as good as it used to be.... BUT I GOT MY JADE RABBIT BACK!

Never had one

Finished off the raid lair last night! Pretty good addition to the game!

PetKing · 19-12-2017 9:59am

wexdevil wrote:

(XFVKHPN97 for the lazy, redeem on bungie.net )

Or the Destiny app (redirects you to the Bungie page online)

Tazzimus · 19-12-2017 10:01am

My name is URL wrote: »

Fall of Osiris web-comic is out for anyone that can be arsed reading it

https://comics.bungie.net/

Saint-14 seems like a bit of a sap in that.
I was expecting him to be Shaxx only MOAR awesome.

jcd5971 · 20-12-2017 12:40pm

Tazzimus wrote:

Saint-14 seems like a bit of a sap in that. I was expecting him to be Shaxx only MOAR awesome.

I disliked the comic a lot.
The speaker was made some generic antagonist and Saint 14 a sycophant.

Kinda missed the whole destiny feel in my opinion.

On a better note all 3 characters 335 now

Tazzimus · 20-12-2017 8:20pm

I would actually play this..
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/12/20/a-theoretical-destiny-2-fix-traitor-among-us-dlc/#b59c7d348f8c

nevelator · 21-12-2017 1:04am

Played a few games of Mayhem as a Nightstalker, great craic. Getting between 12-15 tethers per game. See radar ping an enemy around a corner, throw smoke to lure, wait for super, fire tether, profit.

Tazzimus · 21-12-2017 9:20am

I was just throwing Nova bombs out door ways or in the general direction of enemies and letting it find it's own way.

I'd fling one, leg it the other direction and about ten seconds later I'd get a kill pop up on screen.

Nightstalkers and Golden Gunners are a pain in that mode. Went up against 3 Nightstalkers and a Golden Gun, got rekt.

Good fun though

SeanHarty · 21-12-2017 9:59am

Tazzimus wrote: »

I would actually play this..
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/12/20/a-theoretical-destiny-2-fix-traitor-among-us-dlc/#b59c7d348f8c

its so sad that a company spending millions on a game cant come up with a story line as good as that would have been...

OptimusTractor · 21-12-2017 11:29am

Tazzimus wrote: »

I would actually play this..
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/12/20/a-theoretical-destiny-2-fix-traitor-among-us-dlc/#b59c7d348f8c

Interesting in that there's a scannable in the new Tower which clearly states that Hawthorne and her crowd have been stealing from the vanguard.

PetKing · 21-12-2017 11:40am

nevelator wrote:

Played a few games of Mayhem as a Nightstalker, great craic. Getting between 12-15 tethers per game. See radar ping an enemy around a corner, throw smoke to lure, wait for super, fire tether, profit.

Tazzimus wrote:

I was just throwing Nova bombs out door ways or in the general direction of enemies and letting it find it's own way.

Tazzimus wrote:

Nightstalkers and Golden Gunners are a pain in that mode. Went up against 3 Nightstalkers and a Golden Gun, got rekt.

Supers feel like they fill faster than D1, while grenades don't?

Tazzimus · 21-12-2017 11:50am

OptimusTractor wrote: »

Interesting in that there's a scannable in the new Tower which clearly states that Hawthorne and her crowd have been stealing from the vanguard.

Where's that?
there's loads of ones dotted around the place for the Speaker, Eris, Banshee etc

OptimusTractor · 21-12-2017 2:33pm

Tazzimus wrote: »

Where's that?
there's loads of ones dotted around the place for the Speaker, Eris, Banshee etc

I'll do a video tutorial when I get home.

PetKing · 21-12-2017 6:18pm

OptimusTractor wrote:

I'll do a video tutorial when I get home.

Tune in to Twitch live at 8pm when Optimus saunters around the Tower pointing at stuff!

OptimusTractor · 21-12-2017 6:19pm

OptimusTractor wrote: »

I'll do a video tutorial when I get home.

I'll let you find out what it says.

syboit · 21-12-2017 7:37pm

OptimusTractor wrote: »

Interesting in that there's a scannable in the new Tower which clearly states that Hawthorne and her crowd have been stealing from the vanguard.

Once I landed in the EDZ by the church, and the radio chatter in the background was about hawthorne and their gang, talking about looking out for themselves.

Nice if these are seeds for some future story.

This video has all the lore from the scans aswell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP-UlnhntWc

cavemeister · 22-12-2017 12:59pm

Guys,

My Clan has died a death, I think I am the only active person out of the 100+ members!!

Looking to jump ship. Would there be any decent clans willing to take me in?
XBOX One
35+
Main focus is PVE but am okay in PVP also.

Cheers

OptimusTractor · 22-12-2017 2:17pm

PetKing wrote: »

Tune in to Twitch live at 8pm when Optimus saunters around the Tower pointing at stuff!

Mynameisbyf will be joining me Christmas Eve to tell us about super secret hidden Tower stuff.

See you starside Guardians.

My name is URL · 22-12-2017 4:35pm

Jesus.. D2 + Expansion Pass is down to $31.99 in US GameStop

https://www.gamestop.com/ps4/games/destiny-2-expansion-pass-playstation-network/156556

syboit · 23-12-2017 11:46am

cavemeister wrote: »

Guys,

My Clan has died a death, I think I am the only active person out of the 100+ members!!

Looking to jump ship. Would there be any decent clans willing to take me in?
XBOX One
35+
Main focus is PVE but am okay in PVP also.

Cheers

Are you in the boards clan ? I'm still plugging 15k into those clan numbers every week. Always a few on and still making the 100k a week.

Dcully · 24-12-2017 5:50pm

Uninstalled ! game is pants, thankfully I didn't buy DLC either, played it with friends account and was bored to tears.
Bungie your in a sad sad state right now.

Mitch Connor · 24-12-2017 6:10pm

Dcully wrote: »

Uninstalled ! game is pants, thankfully I didn't buy DLC either, played it with friends account and was bored to tears.
Bungie your in a sad sad state right now.

Oh well.

I'm still enjoying it, despite the many flaws.

jcd5971 · 25-12-2017 12:16am

Dcully wrote:

Uninstalled ! game is pants, thankfully I didn't buy DLC either, played it with friends account and was bored to tears. Bungie your in a sad sad state right now.

Ah **** they're finished now.

bugs · 25-12-2017 12:23am

Dcully wrote: »

Uninstalled ! game is pants, thankfully I didn't buy DLC either, played it with friends account and was bored to tears.
Bungie your in a sad sad state right now.

It's a pity, the PC port plays so well but the game has died a quick death. I doubt they'll get anyone to come back to it.

Dcully · 25-12-2017 11:45am

bugs wrote: »

It's a pity, the PC port plays so well but the game has died a quick death. I doubt they'll get anyone to come back to it.

Yeah it is a superb port.Maybe they can turn it around I certainly hooe so.

cavemeister · 02-01-2018 11:36am

I'm really enjoying the verses collection.. I like the grind!!
Only 1 more left and I have the full weapon set.

I suspect there will be a raft of changes coming this new year - There has to be, investor return on investment will demand it

ChrisMcCauley · 03-01-2018 11:46am

Started my seventh character yesterday (3 on PS4 already and replacing duplicate Titan on PC). The game always starts well but it's let down badly by the end game. The verses and master works are small steps in the right direction. That Perfect Paradox quest line was very D1 too.

OptimusTractor · 03-01-2018 12:37pm

ChrisMcCauley wrote: »

Started my seventh character yesterday (3 on PS4 already and replacing duplicate Titan on PC). The game always starts well but it's let down badly by the end game. The verses and master works are small steps in the right direction. That Perfect Paradox quest line was very D1 too.

Don't mind me asking if end game is such a let down why replace a character?

ChrisMcCauley · 03-01-2018 12:46pm

I'm replacing a second Titan with a first Hunter. Don't normally like Hunters but just for completeness ...
Also, the grind for a new character is fine, it's just when you hit 330-335 it gets boring. The raid isn't my cup of tea so having completed it once I didn't bother going back. The raid layer is fun though and more like D1

Tazzimus · 03-01-2018 12:47pm

I only left it with two characters on the PS4, doubt I'll make a hunter unless it's just for the achievement.

ChrisMcCauley · 03-01-2018 12:52pm

Exactly, just for the "Achievement Unlocked"

Mitch Connor · 03-01-2018 12:58pm

i have all three characaters and have fun playing each of them each week, but i've not put the time into running the raid multiple times a week to get it done on each like I would have done with D1 - though i think that is down to a general lack of raid runs. I'd probably run them more if the groups were there. Meh, not too bothered about it.

Like Striker Titan, liked solar titan in mayhem.
Like Solar, Arc and Void Hunter for different things. Throwing up tethers every few seconds with orphious rig is amazing. Acr strider with the chest piece last an age and is great for ad clearing. Golden gun is infuriating cause my reactions and aiming aren't good enough.... ALSO WHY CAN A HAMMER TITAN ONE HIT ME BUT MY GOLDEN GUN ONLY DOES 80% TO HIM!?

Not played Warlock as much, Voidlock with Devour and that punching glove exotic, great fun. Arc Buddies, great. Solar.... i dunno. Not a fan of Solarlock.

gimli2112 · 03-01-2018 1:03pm

ChrisMcCauley wrote: »

I'm replacing a second Titan with a first Hunter. Don't normally like Hunters but just for completeness ...
Also, the grind for a new character is fine, it's just when you hit 330-335 it gets boring. The raid isn't my cup of tea so having completed it once I didn't bother going back. The raid layer is fun though and more like D1

What's the story with going from 330-335? I haven't been back since the DLC and if this bit is dull I may wait until the next DLC comes out and skip this step all together.

jcd5971 · 03-01-2018 1:07pm

gimli2112 wrote:

What's the story with going from 330-335? I haven't been back since the DLC and if this bit is dull I may wait until the next DLC comes out and skip this step all together.

Ah its not bad gimli just a bit grindy.
Trials drop gear upto 335
And so do both raids
And exotics
Not sure about nightfall.

Sure if you wanna do a raid let us know we run a few a week nÃ³ bother squeezing you in, especially after all the gear you dropped wonder in division ðŸ˜€

ChrisMcCauley · 03-01-2018 1:52pm

There's nothing particularly bad going from 330 to 335, it's just that by then you've done everything there is to do. Masterworks helps with the boredom as do the CoO weapons grind (Perfect Paradox was a nice surprise) but the lack of new quest lines and no real rolls on anything really detracts from the end game.

jcd5971 · 03-01-2018 3:38pm

Playing the division again has soured me a bit on D2.

end game has so many builds and specs to grind for and weapons to get the perfect rolls, and then the div tech to upgrade them.

D2 has no end game grind and its the real problem.

unfortunatley all internet seems to be focusing on eververse..... just dont buy the ****e and they`ll get the damn message.

ChrisMcCauley · 03-01-2018 3:46pm

The hardcore of my Destiny Clan (many since Year 1) are switching to The Division. Eververse doesn't bother me, I'm never going to buy anything there because I don't care about the visual appearance of my character, ship etc. As you say, it's the lack of an end-game that annoys me as well as the general dumbing-down to attract casuals that has wrecked the game.

cavemeister · 03-01-2018 4:13pm

ChrisMcCauley wrote: »

The hardcore of my Destiny Clan (many since Year 1) are switching to The Division. Eververse doesn't bother me, I'm never going to buy anything there because I don't care about the visual appearance of my character, ship etc. As you say, it's the lack of an end-game that annoys me as well as the general dumbing-down to attract casuals that has wrecked the game.

And the sad thing is, the casuals being what they are, casuals, have already left the game and moved on. All that's left are the hardcore Destiny fans and they are rightly feeling p!$$ed off!

At the end of the day.. it's all about the cash.

Take a look at the 2017 Q3 financial results from Activision. D2 is a big callout!

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ACTI/5813398754x0x962445/E4416B6E-5AA6-4A33-B757-059791E39179/ATVI_Q3_2017_Press_Release.pdf

murphyebass · 04-01-2018 12:37pm

The problem with destiny 2 is the lack of reward.

Get your bright engrams each week and stop. Why both playing another strike when the likelihood is you'll get nothing decent from it.

I remember playing strikes and Nightfalls in D1 loads because there was a chance you'd get something decent.

I don't know I think I might have burnt out of Destiny in general.

Playing Gran Turismo and a few other games at the moment. Maybe I'll come back to D2 but right now it nearly feels like a chore of a game. The grind isn't fun.

SolvableKnave · 04-01-2018 12:50pm

Bungo never learnt from their D1 mistakes:

It appears, that in a shockingly similar situation to D1, D2's development was REBOOTED early 2016.
Reddit Link

Also, Bungie looking for a new Head of Narrative Development
Reddit Link
Recruitment Site Job Listing

murphyebass · 04-01-2018 1:05pm

its hard to make a case/argument as to why they didn't get this one right from day one. They knew the issues, they had the feedback from millions of fans but still managed to make it an average game.

I know it's one of those things everyone says but seriously Activision just like EA or Ubisoft have a lot to answer for.

I already boycott all EA and Ubisoft titles. Looks like Activision could be next,.

That said Bungie aren't the Bungie I remember from Halo 2 and 3 unfortunately so maybe I and others just need to let go.

Mitch Connor · 04-01-2018 1:30pm

I would LOVE to see what the game was looking like and the design goals being aimed at before the reboot. I don't expect we every will know - but it would be super interesting if the original design goals would have been better than what we got.

As for the post above - I am becoming less and less angry at Activision, as it is looking more and more that the blame is squarely on Bungie for decisions they made all on their own.

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