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Sep 5, 2017 07:26
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Sep 5, 2017 07:31
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Legs Benedict posted:bounties were bad Just like your posting
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Sep 5, 2017 07:31
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bounties were actually awful in the span of time before motes could be consumed for experience because they were just about the only way to level up your weapons/armor and they were generally loving terrible.
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Sep 5, 2017 07:33
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limaCAT posted:Just like your posting counterpoint: my posting is good, unlike bounties which to be clear are fine conceptually. daily/weekly repeatable tasks that you can use for rep/occasionally gear are fine and bog standard for an MMO, but destiny's implementation coupled with the general scarcity of content made them bad. game was a lot better when i stopped worrying about completing them all the dang time
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Sep 5, 2017 07:41
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the later bounties were really good. getting nightfall-quality rewards from pvp and the ability to get guaranteed legendaries of a certain type by using them in pvp was good design.
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Sep 5, 2017 07:43
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Applied two 2 chill 2 serious as BongQuixote. I need to just sever my internet connection and play Pillars of eternity until it comes out. Only played destiny on other peoples consoles and never wanted to buy console for a single game.
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Sep 5, 2017 07:43
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A 50S RAYGUN posted:the later bounties were really good. getting nightfall-quality rewards from pvp and the ability to get guaranteed legendaries of a certain type by using them in pvp was good design. yeah fair. i had mostly stopped doing them by that point but it was definitely a big improvement
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Sep 5, 2017 07:45
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i think i stopped doing the dumbass bounty master bounties after like, the dark below. they'd give you a pittance in xp, i don't even remember them giving faction rep, and i don't think it was until way later that they would give planetary mats for completion (if this ever even happened, maybe i dreamt it)
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Sep 5, 2017 07:52
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Legs Benedict posted:counterpoint: my posting is good, unlike bounties A 50S RAYGUN posted:the later bounties were really good. getting nightfall-quality rewards from pvp and the ability to get guaranteed legendaries of a certain type by using them in pvp was good design. Yeah like everything in Destiny the vanilla implementation was awful and not very rewarding and generally bad, but the later expansion stuff did some really fun rewarding things that gave you reasons to gently caress around in patrol space or do specific pvp stuff.
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Sep 5, 2017 07:53
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:Destiny 2 PC uses battle.net so it'll be per region only. EU can't play with US, etc. You can but you have to exit the game, select EU region and vice versa, and launch Destiny 2 again. It's super annoying and doesn't make any sense.
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Sep 5, 2017 10:01
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:Destiny 2 PC uses battle.net so it'll be per region only. EU can't play with US, etc. This could be a bless in disguise has one problem of Destiny pvp is that Bungie like score based matchmaking a bit too much. So the better you are, the more you have to wait for a game, and the laggier are the other players. By forcing players in the same region, you cap how far it can do the matchmaking. Could result on a better pvp for most players. Is kind of weird. A external limitation, the game is not really build to have that limitation before. Maybe the game just ignore it once you are login?
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Sep 5, 2017 10:10
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I said come in! posted:You can but you have to exit the game, select EU region and vice versa, and launch Destiny 2 again. It's super annoying and doesn't make any sense. But as said in that post you can't play with multiple continents in the same fireteam though. I did that a lot in D1 with goons. We could work around it by everyone selecting the same continent. 
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Sep 5, 2017 11:02
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I made this for us PC players. https://imgur.com/EEB6Nik
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Sep 5, 2017 16:02
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fromoutofnowhere posted:I made this for us PC players. This truly captures my feelings today.
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Sep 5, 2017 16:32
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I'm the dad because I bought both
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Sep 5, 2017 17:07
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FAUXTON posted:I'm the dad because I bought both My friend who only plays things on PS4, purchased a PS4 Pro and offered me his old regular PS4 and a TV if I wanted to play on PS4 with him. I declined since I already pre-purchased it for PC and am sure I won't have the time or inclination to play on both platforms. I also suck even worse at FPS games with a controller (I am not amazing with kb/m but I used to be pretty good back in the day, so maybe I can re-learn! I've never been good at controllers)
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Sep 5, 2017 17:21
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http://i.imgur.com/4vAdD8z.gifv
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Sep 5, 2017 19:37
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The game looks awesome as hell using super wide res across 3 screens 
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Sep 5, 2017 19:47
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I'm doing both PS4 and pc. PS4 will be for primarily pve, PC for pvp.
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Sep 5, 2017 19:51
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:But as said in that post you can't play with multiple continents in the same fireteam though. I did that a lot in D1 with goons. Why would the result be any different? Its not like you guys didn't have to connect to each other in D1.
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Sep 5, 2017 20:17
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pretty jealous of you double dippers at this point
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Sep 5, 2017 21:22
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https://twitter.com/PCGamesN/status/905086480133083136 This wasn't the case with the first Destiny, was it?
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Sep 5, 2017 22:13
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Dackel posted:https://twitter.com/PCGamesN/status/905086480133083136 No, but it's also not really a big deal. You'll get thousands of those same items just by playing the game, leveling up and completing objectives.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:16
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you could buy gear in Destiny 1 but the bonuses were different and not as pronounced as they may be here. otoh, you can earn all of that stuff through playing the game anyway and the "gameplay bonus" stuff is all single use consumables that get erased when you use a new one
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Sep 5, 2017 22:16
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Dackel posted:https://twitter.com/PCGamesN/status/905086480133083136 For fucks sake it's a £45 game with regular dlc that's effectively mandatory
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Sep 5, 2017 22:16
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Dackel posted:https://twitter.com/PCGamesN/status/905086480133083136 No. That's loving ridiculous. Regardless how how minor an impact it has it's disgusting. Especially as we didn't know about it until now.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:26
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At least you have time to cancel your pre orders
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Sep 5, 2017 22:29
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It's the exact same model used in D1. Stuff found in those loot boxes are effectively useless until you pump gear found only by playing into them to even make them wearable. Yes it toes the line a bit it isn't nearly a big deal as it seems. Calm the gently caress down you sissies. Maker Of Shoes fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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Sep 5, 2017 22:29
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Dackel posted:https://twitter.com/PCGamesN/status/905086480133083136 At launch, no, but after a few expansions they did add a Real Money Store into the game, mostly cosmetic, but it would let you buy loot boxes too. That said, the things you got from the boxes are still things you can earn for free, so its not like an outright advantage. Its just paying to save time, which is pretty common in RPGs. Steve2911 posted:No. That's loving ridiculous. Silver store was in D1 Thirsty Dog posted:For fucks sake it's a £45 game with regular dlc that's effectively mandatory Destiny 1 was basically a $200 videogame. Thing is for most people World of Warcraft is like a $1000 videogame. So...  up to you if its worth it
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Sep 5, 2017 22:30
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Yeah but if you've spent $1,000 on WoW, chances are you've gotten literally thousands of hours of play time. The loot box advantage is a disgusting practice that sucks, but the only really losers are the guys who drop money on poo poo and then in a month everyone has the same end game raiding gear anyways so their advantage is extremely temporary.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:36
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Maker Of Shoes posted:It's the exact same model used in D1. Stuff found in those loot boxes are effectively useless until you pump gear found only by playing into them to even make them wearable.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:49
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Maker Of Shoes posted:It's the exact same model used in D1. Stuff found in those loot boxes are effectively useless until you pump gear found only by playing into them to even make them wearable. It's money grabbing bullshit for a game that's going to make a zillion dollars
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Sep 5, 2017 22:54
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the people defending this are also okay with giving microsoft/sony money to access their games online, makes u think
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Sep 5, 2017 22:55
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Thirsty Dog posted:It's money grabbing bullshit for a game that's going to make a zillion dollars That money grabbing bullshit is how they make a zillion dollars.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:56
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I've only seen videos and stuff and haven't played at all but Cayde-6 feels entirely like 'Malcom Reynolds, but a robot' That's not such a bad thing, Fillion has a talent for that. Also : Can someone explain power levels and Engrams and poo poo to me. From what I understand the game goes from level 0 to level 20, and beyond that you have to upgrade your power level. Is this basically like hitting max level in in WoW and then working on increasing your item level until you reach some maximum? How do Engrams fit into this? Everyone talks about 'finding a gun that feels good to you' but won't you just be replacing that gun once you get one with higher numbers?
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Sep 5, 2017 22:57
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xzzy posted:That money grabbing bullshit is how they make a zillion dollars. No, selling an insanely popular game at a high price and getting people to shell out for regular expensive DLC is how they make a zillion dollars. I can understand people begrudgingly accepting it but sneering at people who think it's a bit poo poo is some proper Stockholm syndrome stuff
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Sep 5, 2017 22:59
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khy posted:Also : Can someone explain power levels and Engrams and poo poo to me. From what I understand the game goes from level 0 to level 20, and beyond that you have to upgrade your power level. Is this basically like hitting max level in in WoW and then working on increasing your item level until you reach some maximum? How do Engrams fit into this? Everyone talks about 'finding a gun that feels good to you' but won't you just be replacing that gun once you get one with higher numbers? Yep you've mostly got it. Levels are experience levels like any RPG. Power level is ilevel like any MMORPG, its your gear level. By equipping better stuff your light level instantly goes up. Its just a way to gate / balance players based on their loot, since at endgame loot is all that matters, everybody hits the level cap. Engrams are random dropped gear, aka unidentified items like diablo. Weapons and armor can have their light level boosted by "infusing" higher light level gear into them of the same type. So if you get a gun you love with some decent light level, then you get a higher light level gun but you hate how it feels, its bad because you want to equip the new gun to increase your ilevel / light level but you don't like the new gun. So you melt the new gun down, which increases the level of your favorite gun. Note that doing this isn't a 100% power transfer, so you end up having to burn a few higher level things to get your favorite thing to match. Which gives you a reason to grind out all kinds of gear that you don't necessarily even want.
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Sep 5, 2017 23:03
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Also while guns have random (sorta, it drops based on your current level so you slowly go up) level and random affixes, the base gun platforms are the same. So a shotgun that is really slow and does high damage will always be slow and do high damage even if you get 4 of that same shotgun name / design to drop. But each one will have varying light level and different affixes. So sometimes you find a favorite gun and then you keep an eye out for another of the same to drop with better stuff. This isn't all just pure random RNG either, there's many reputation / vendor systems so that you can purchase specific gear with tokens or currency, which lets you save up and buy when there's something specific you want that you know you'll like.
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Sep 5, 2017 23:06
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Thirsty Dog posted:No, selling an insanely popular game at a high price and getting people to shell out for regular expensive DLC is how they make a zillion dollars. I don't like the practice but if want to have the thread devolve into a bunch of doomsday prophets screeching that its straight P2W when in actuality its effect on players that choose not to participate in the model is real close to 0 be my guest
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Sep 5, 2017 23:08
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