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Discussion in 'Gaming Forum' started by daphins, Jul 25, 2014.

  1. daphins

    daphins A-Style

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  2. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    I've done the earth and moon strikes, just not the playlist strikes, which are level 18, 20, 22, 24.
     
  3. daphins

    daphins A-Style

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  4. Dol-Fan Dupree

    Dol-Fan Dupree Tank? Who is Tank? I am Guy Incognito.

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    I am enjoying the game so far.
     
  5. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Haven't tried them yet either, waiting for friends to catch up (they're all 15-17, I'm at 20.)
     
  6. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    I'm halfway through 19, but my wife is still at 18. So we'll do them once she hits 20 as well.

    I'm guessing you're playing on PSN?
     
  7. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    huh? No i have a PSN account (doesn't everyone?)... I just don't have the PSP for every online feature. Anyway, did some reading and you don't need PSP to play Destiny but you do for most of the MP features. Apparently, like Watch Dogs, there is some stuff where players can join you.
     
  8. daphins

    daphins A-Style

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    Yeah, meant PSP. IM not sue what all is available without PSP. There's no real "single player" mode. You run around levels by yourself, but you can run into online players, group up, and encounter random encounters.


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  9. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Yah mon, sorry. I'd hang out with you on XBL if I had it :\
     
  10. BicketyBam

    BicketyBam No Fist Pumps Allowed

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    I hope they add onto the story, because the campaign was short and the story was non existent. I love the game play, but I am disappointed with the story.
     
  11. 305

    305 Brawndo Club Member

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    Get off my lawn.
    First expansion comes out in December.
     
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  12. MonstBlitz

    MonstBlitz Nobody's Fart Catcher

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    I couldn't agree more. I don't like this trend of games that are so focused on the online aspect that they completely forget about any semblance of a story. It's a better story than Titanfall, but I guess Green Eggs and Ham is a more robust story than Titanfall.
     
  13. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    I didn't have a problem with the story. I do have a problem with needing to go to bungie.net or look on the app to read the grimoire cards though.
     
  14. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Feeling the grind now. Doing level 24 strike playlist for strange coins and motes of light and of course, I can't seem to get any of them. I've logged so many hours into this game and have seen one purple engram. I want to sink my motes of light into Xur's exotic helmet engram but don't know if I'll have enough by the end of the weekend, and even if I do its about a 33% chance the helmet is for Warlock. The strike playlist is flawed, in my opinion, I've done it countless times and I always get The Devils Lair or Winters Run. Its tiring doing these same two strikes over and over but I'm at the mercy of the playlist because I need vanguard marks to get vanguard armor. Wish Bungie would implement a system where you don't run the same strike twice in a row. I need to take a break and will when Shadow of Mordor comes out.
     
  15. BicketyBam

    BicketyBam No Fist Pumps Allowed

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    The patch they released yesterday has people flipping out. Apparently a lot of high level players were doing the Queen objectives in order to get the armor, which they then in turn disassembled for the ascendant shards. They are needed to upgrade legendary armor. The patch ended that and people are irate. Additionally there was some sort of exploit that involved shooting into a cave for hours as it produced legendary engrams. That's gone too. They also balanced the auto rifles and shotguns.



    The game is definitely grindy at this point.
     
  16. Desides

    Desides Well-Known Member

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    I'm curious what you guys think of Angry Joe's review...

    [video=youtube;gzopWRXK_r4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzopWRXK_r4[/video]
     
  17. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    If you want strange coins, the weekly strike is the one to do.


    I just got a 13th strain coin from a blue class mark engram, allowing me to get the Titan chest armor from Xur. :yes:
     
  18. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    The only one of those things that might be worthy of anger is the queen's wrath change. However, with how easy it is to get legendary loot from those missions I can understand why bungie changed it. I never had the chance to exploit it, myself.
     
  19. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    I stopped as soon as he brought up $500 million dollar budget. :rolleyes:


    His intro music was cool though.
     
  20. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    I'm alright with those patches, its just sad that the damage is already done. I never exploited the cave because I felt it was too cheap, and the ascendant materials should be harder to get then running the Queen's missions (some of them take a grand total of 10 minutes to do) and breaking down the rewards. Legendary items in MMOs are supposed to be hard to get and I understand Bungie wanting to make the upgrades of legendaries and exotics time-involving, because it should be. People want special things that they don't have put any time or effort into, but the loot system is still flawed. People should be grinding bosses for special loot but the way it's set up now is any enemy from the lowest level Dreg and up can drop incredibly awesome stuff. Did Bungie not think people were going to exploit that? There should be higher rates (not anything ridiculous) on yellow mobs and lower yields on the run-of-the-mill mobs. Just my opinion.
     
  21. Desides

    Desides Well-Known Member

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    I think you should continue. Yeah, the $500 million budget point is stupid.
     
  22. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Should have watched that before posting. Agree with him 100%. Never had such a love/hate for a game.
     
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  23. Deerless Dice

    Deerless Dice Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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  24. BicketyBam

    BicketyBam No Fist Pumps Allowed

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    I didn't know either of those exploits existed until it was already patched. What bothers me is that the legendary engrams I've received rarely produce a legendary item.
     
  25. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    Update 1.02 will fix that. All engrams after that will produce loot equal to or better than the rarity of the engram.
     
  26. BicketyBam

    BicketyBam No Fist Pumps Allowed

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    Can one of you guys explain the difference between void damage, solar damage, arc damage, and kinetic damage? I'm guessing each works better on certain type of enemies....?
     
  27. Firesole

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    I can't explain the difference, but I know for sure that they do work better on certain types of mobs. They may also work better depending on your characters class. For example I have a blade dancer that has arc blade abilities, so I would assume that an arc damage weapon would be best for me
     
  28. Deerless Dice

    Deerless Dice Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    They're elemental damage types. They correspond to shields that you run into on higher difficulty levels. Like on the Queen's Wrath Kill Orders, if you run into Wizards they have Solar shield that is immune to everything but Solar. If you don't have the appropriate type you're only hope of killing them is to use a Super. The weekly heroic strike also has a mission modifier that increases damage from that specific element.
     
  29. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    And boy, you should really be paying attention to that. I did a weekly heroic strike or daily the other day that had Solar Burn as one of the mission perks, used a solar-element pulse rifle, and beat it swiftly. You can almost ignore the shield elements of the enemies themselves and just exclusively use a weapon that capitalizes on the burn of the strike and do more than fine.
     
  30. 305

    305 Brawndo Club Member

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    Get off my lawn.
    So I've succumb to the grinding. I may pick it up and play it for a few minutes out of the day now, but no more multiple hour adventures. It's become monotonous for the time being. I'm guessing it will be one of those games that I'll put on the shelf for a while, and down the road I'll get an itch to pick it back up and enjoy the updates and added content for a little longer. Back to sports...
     
  31. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Dat Mordor.
     
  32. VanDolPhan

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    Luckily I'm holding out so far on playing it until closer to it's first expansion. Last of Us Multiplayer has me hooked (never thought I'd spend 5 minutes with it) and I still got Infamous Second Son sitting there plus the freebies from PSN + to check out.
     
  33. daphins

    daphins A-Style

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    PS4 is in for repairs. Got disc-eject issue and random power-off's. Irritating.

    Still love this game though. I know a lot of people are frustrated, but I find it highly addicting. It's the first shooter I can remember in a long time that can be downright hard. I love the coop, live events, and strikes. Slightly irritated as I haven't had an opportunity to get a team together for a raid yet.

    I haven't even put more than 2 hours into the crucible at this point. Just running raids and the main story line.

    I get some people's gripes, but I think this should be viewed as a new way of playing games. I'm hoping the story gets on track, but overall the game is a blast, and Bungie is supporting it well enough to keep it fresh until it gets off the ground.
     
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    305 Brawndo Club Member

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    Get off my lawn.

    I will give them that... they released a solid game with few issues. They deserve credit for that and not throwing it out to the wolves early for a quick buck. I'm still supprised there isn't some kind of hidden legendary Master Chief armor set somewhere in the game lol
     
  35. Tone_E

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    [video=youtube;imk85cmyFO0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imk85cmyFO0[/video]

    My favorite game is BF4 so I'm familiar with all these these issues and the frustrations involved. But, it is a big time problem as it was/is in BF4 and I would hold Bungie way more accountable since they don't have 64 players, individual bullet dynamics (yes, every single bullet in BF4 is an object and simulated for velocity, drop, etc), destructible environments, etc. Destiny is not nearly the same scale as BF4 and shouldn't have these issues IMO.
     
  36. 305

    305 Brawndo Club Member

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    Get off my lawn.
    Honestly havent had too many issues with it... Have I noticed it? Yes. Has it been ridiculous? Not really. Nothing like Halo laggers haha
     
  37. daphins

    daphins A-Style

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    Can't watch the video. What's the deal? Been smooth sailing for me.
     
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    305 Brawndo Club Member

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    Get off my lawn.
    Just talking about delayed deaths, false effects (shooting through walls), etc

    I take Destiny for what it is... a next gen Halo opened up a bit. It isn't ground breaking, but its a solid online FPS. I think the biggest downfall for me is the fact I don't have the biggest online group of friends nor the time to put into it.
     
  39. texanphinatic

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    Can someone on the One play with someone on the 360? Need some help with legendary bounty heroic strikes, but I don't know anyone still playing on ye olde' 360.
     
  40. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    No cross platform play.
     

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