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Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


NTTE is extremely useful for PVE, especially on a boss like Sepiks where half the hitbox is a big crit spot. You never have to reload or stop firing.

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Tei
Feb 19, 2011

Menstrual Show posted:

the fact that so many exotics are flat-out useless is a pretty egregious error and I really hope they don't make the same mistake in D2.

Who know. They learned the wrong lessons, but many times developers "forget" what they experienced and they start from different roots.

Bungie seems to have this idea of "weapons must feel good" that is the right idea, is a theme that is hard to combine with a RPG style.

CautionaryOstrich
Mar 20, 2009
Pillbug
Is the PvP community on PS4 still active from a goon standpoint? Reminded myself of how trash Halo 5's multi was last night, but it did remind me of how much I enjoyed Destiny's. Former Lighthouse visitor with random publords. :smugdon:

sunday at work
Apr 6, 2011

"Man is the animal that thinks something is wrong."
The problem with the RPG thing is that a two handed sword in an RPG does some white damage but mostly carries stats that increase the power of your class abilities whereas the guns in an FPS are entirely functional. The current perk setup can make one gun objectively better than another.

The guns feel good because of the underlying game engine but the random performance perks are a huge part of what drives the loot grind and so probably won't change.

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


RE: PS4: I'm around a lot, and many other goons are as well. A mere week or so ago we were able to organize a pickup Vault run in fairly short order.

Try the Private Game Servers Destiny thread for greatest success, it's fairly responsive.

Emron
Aug 2, 2005

Waffle House posted:

NTTE is extremely useful for PVE

Is it, though?

Floppychop
Mar 30, 2012

Is it still best to wait until the weekend to cash in Iron Banner bounties?

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

Floppychop posted:

Is it still best to wait until the weekend to cash in Iron Banner bounties?

No. Hand them in the moment they are completed.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Bad Juju is better than NTTE in every conceivable way.


NTTE is pretty fun though. It just needs some tweaks.

hiddenriverninja
May 10, 2013

life is locomotion
keep moving
trust that you'll find your way

xzzy posted:

Bad Juju is better than NTTE in every conceivable way.


NTTE is pretty fun though. It just needs some tweaks.

Maybe if it restored a little bit of super, melee and grenade energy when you deal precision damage.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Juju owns for everything except some boss fights but I usually run the wotm machine gun for pve anyway and it owns.

CheeseFactory
May 12, 2009

MAYBE A DINGO ATE YOUR K/D

A Buff Gay Dude posted:

This is correct. All are cool and good.

TBH tho the true alpha dog of y3 lmgs is an unending deluge with rifled and surplus, and either CB or linear comp (cb + smooth is most pro)

Yeah i got a surplus cb and sb (i think?) one of these and its good. But i do like my dread and jolders more

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene

CheeseFactory posted:

Yeah i got a surplus cb and sb (i think?) one of these and its good. But i do like my dread and jolders more

Rifled has 50 range lol

Alteisen
Jun 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

BlindSite posted:

Juju owns for everything except some boss fights but I usually run the wotm machine gun for pve anyway and it owns.

WOTM HMG is probs my fave HMG, wanna get one in every element.

GoGoGadgetChris
Mar 18, 2010

i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog
People like that thing? Consensus used to be "trash it the second you get it"

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Nah the if materia was always recognized as one of the best wrath guns. For PVE at least, don't think it works well in crucible. You can mag dump into a boss for a very, very long time with it.

GoGoGadgetChris
Mar 18, 2010

i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog
That "Datto" guy proved that it was literally one of the worst Heavy weapons to use on Aksis, didn't he?

Alteisen
Jun 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Yep, Zhalo+If Materia=Allen from Metal Slug

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

https://twitter.com/1337_5CR4BBL3/status/862126019058249728

https://twitter.com/1337_5CR4BBL3/status/862125666451558402

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

That "Datto" guy proved that it was literally one of the worst Heavy weapons to use on Aksis, didn't he?

Who gives a poo poo, it's by far the most enjoyable machine gun to mag dump into a boss.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Aksis isn't the only boss in the game, and he does seem to be the only one with the quirk that lets other weapons do so much damage.

bushwookie19
Apr 2, 2015

This is why we bring sleeper into mayhem clash

http://i.imgur.com/LN5RwAR.gifv

SmallpoxJenkins
Jul 9, 2012


http://i.imgur.com/yDkCLar.gifv

Alteisen
Jun 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Neat got my icebreaker finally.

cvnvcnv
Mar 17, 2013

__________________
Mayhem??? Eww.

http://i.imgur.com/M0QQOMD.gifv

http://i.imgur.com/Lf2TpQY.gifv

the good fax machine
Feb 26, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo

Alteisen posted:

Neat got my icebreaker finally.

Same, but replace icebreaker with NLB ornament

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!
mayhem is good fun. bring a sleeper. zap nerds out of their super

the good fax machine
Feb 26, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
gently caress
http://i.imgur.com/WfUBdAA.gifv

A
http://i.imgur.com/0trGDXG.gifv

GOLDEN
http://i.imgur.com/ePh7wbN.gifv

GUUUUUUN
http://i.imgur.com/ypf0hKU.gifv

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!
those are some pro as gently caress sticks

texaholic
Sep 16, 2007

Well it's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

That "Datto" guy proved that it was literally one of the worst Heavy weapons to use on Aksis, didn't he?

It has terrible range, if you can get close to a boss it does pretty well.

Has anyone tried it on golgoroth? You should be able to use extended mag over braced frame.

Differo Cathedra
Oct 9, 2012

To be honest it was 4AM when I started making the gif and even I don't know what it's supposed to be about by the time I finished it an hour and a few GIS searches later :effort:


tbf if materia was compared to stuff like black spindle, sleeper stimulant, and dark drinker so its bad in the other weapons are better way and not that it sucks.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

You can just dump a full mag of if matera and switch to spindle. Repeat for the next phase and you're done. Works fine on atheon and askis, works fine for any strike boss too.

I've never been on the bottom damage wise crankin that strat.

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!
tfw you save a bro like a bad rear end and he records it

http://i.imgur.com/aJSAbrv.gifv

Angry Walrus
Aug 31, 2013

Quinn it
to
Win it.
Did Bungie turn off SBMM for Iron Banner this time around? I'm getting crazy high k/d in these matches but half the players are going wildly negative and I'm not sure how you do that when your super's up every minute or so.

The Meat Dimension
Mar 29, 2010

Gravy Boat 2k
Nah after a bunch of matches I started hitting some long wait times

Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.

xzzy posted:

Hmm yes teabagging as an enemy walks in front of my tripmine would be a pretty good gif. That is my goal for the week.

You should be using the menacing emote as they walk into your tripmines.

Menstrual Show
Jun 3, 2004

I have a feeling they didn't stress test mayhem ib or something because every match had mystery bullshit lag and visual glitching last night (big sample size of 4 matches).

Anyhow, loadout was golden gun, double tripmines, high impact scout for killing other golden guns out of their supers, sidearm for whatever else.

I couldn't throw stickies fast enough. What a dumb mode. The most fun for me is that I could just hide in a well trafficked corner with stickies surrounding me and date the other team to try and flush me out. Almost always had GG for when they'd try it with other roaming supers. Was a decent gimmick

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

NLB and thorn are legit options too. Only downside is it means you can't use sleeper.

Basically guns don't matter, use whatever makes you happy.

Astoundingly Ugly Baby
Mar 22, 2006

"...crying bitch cave bitch boy."
- Anonymous Facebook user
When you finish a match and go back to orbit where it resets the matchmaking and says "we're breaking up those teams to find a better match" or whatever, is that where it moves you into a higher/lower skill bracket?

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haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Astoundingly Ugly Baby posted:

When you finish a match and go back to orbit where it resets the matchmaking and says "we're breaking up those teams to find a better match" or whatever, is that where it moves you into a higher/lower skill bracket?

That's when the spread in the game was too high (but not high enough to trigger mercy). Your skill gets changed after every match and Bungie doesn't seem to use brackets.

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