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Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!
ill give him props for being creative at least

https://i.imgur.com/dChg7lh.gifv

:lol::lol:

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Legs Benedict
Jul 14, 2002

You can either follow me to our bedroom or bend over that control throne because I haven't been this turned on in FOREVER!

MrBond posted:

I love how it's completely random whether or not a given expansion will have paid for more voice acting lines from either your guardian or the ghost. Some of these videos are ridiculous without any response from your character.

its not random at all. here i will solve basically all future questions for you: your guardian will never speak and you won't hear the ghost speak at length until next september at the earliest

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

bungie give us ghost voice packs from eververse, like call of duty did with snoop dogg

CheeseFactory
May 12, 2009

MAYBE A DINGO ATE YOUR K/D
I'll have a Trump ghost

CheeseFactory
May 12, 2009

MAYBE A DINGO ATE YOUR K/D
Jumped on. Did a raid. 600 to 601. Yay. Logged off.

PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Maker Of Shoes posted:

finallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy



Welcome, brother

THE BIG DOG DADDY
Oct 16, 2013

Rasheed was, with Aliases, the top 7 PvPers in Bone Krew.


No one talks about this.
Are prime engrams dropping at +8-10 still or have they been reverted to +1-2 like every other current powerful?

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

THE BIG DOG DADDY posted:

Are prime engrams dropping at +8-10 still or have they been reverted to +1-2 like every other current powerful?

My first prime as a post-BA 600 was 606, so... neither?

I'm 601 after doing the heroic adventure, the big wanted guy, and the one prime engram. Like Reddit says, it really sucks that it feels like nothing in the game has changed.

Tei
Feb 19, 2011

Updated game to check the new stuff.

New location, in the tower?

Cool looking character, cool area.

Check NPC. Then.. BAM. He ask for the annual pass.

I don't have enough money in my account at the moment.

Check twitch: streamers are sweating a tough encounter.
Check reddit. Uh. Oh.
Check the goon forum. Uh. Oh.
Checking my character: Uh Oh. I am like level 586.

Uh. Oh.

texaholic
Sep 16, 2007

Well it's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
Banged out 3 "powerful" engrams got 2 helms and a primary at 602. I don't mind grinding LL but they need increase to soft cap to 615/620, grinding heroic Red War story missions for +1/+2 LL so I can play the new content is disappointing but I still have fun shooting dudes. I enjoy the end game but I don't have time to grind like others do. Hopefully The Dawning has some 650 LL item/items(like Horror Story) to make this whole thing a little easier. The people who can grind 3 prime engrams every day are gonna blow through the new content regardless.

THE BIG DOG DADDY
Oct 16, 2013

Rasheed was, with Aliases, the top 7 PvPers in Bone Krew.


No one talks about this.
Destiny 2 Lack Armory Console Thread: Uh. Oh.

Emron
Aug 2, 2005

THE BIG DOG DADDY posted:

Are prime engrams dropping at +8-10 still or have they been reverted to +1-2 like every other current powerful?

My first two were both 610, sorry about your luck

DO IT TO IT
Mar 3, 2008

I know "mon" means man, but I don't think "Och" means anything.

The 1 prime engram I got yesterday was +5. The rest of the powerful rewards I got were +2. That said, I haven't done any of the Dreaming City stuff yet and I think that gives better increases than the flashpoint, etc.

e: Are the pinnacle guns powerful? If so, how much do they give? I'm close to getting several.

cvnvcnv
Mar 17, 2013

__________________
So, thoughts. I could easily chime and rhyme with everything everyone else is saying but after some rumination I think the folly here isn't all it's being blown up as and can be boiled down into two missteps.

1. LL increase should have started with the new season, last week.

There's no getting around this. There would be absolutely nothing wrong right now if this had happened. Retarded it didn't.

2. Bungie should have established and reiterated that Black Armory (and ostensibly all Annual Pass content to come) is an Endgame release. That what lies within is the goal, not the starting point.

I can understand not revealing this for reasons, but it stands that Bungie could and should have handled informing us in a better manner. Like always.



Not a good look this week but I think the butthurt will subside once people get a Forge clear.

THE BIG DOG DADDY
Oct 16, 2013

Rasheed was, with Aliases, the top 7 PvPers in Bone Krew.


No one talks about this.

Emron posted:

My first two were both 610, sorry about your luck

I haven't played since last week, I'm just asking for reference

Emron
Aug 2, 2005

This definitely is going to be a heavy grind, fur real. I saved turning in my loaded question quest until yesterday, then did the gambit weekly milestone, the gambit weekly bounty, the ikora thing, the daily heroic, the daily crucible thing, and all the weekly DC stuff except the 8 bounties thing. I logged off at 607 if I put on all my highest stuff.

I also got an exotic drop...of Suros regime. Still at 9/10 forsaken exotics.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

DO IT TO IT posted:

I haven't done any of the Dreaming City stuff yet and I think that gives better increases than the flashpoint, etc.

Bring a fireteam into the well because matchmaking is broken right now (you always get stuck in an empty instance).

Emron
Aug 2, 2005

xzzy posted:

Bring a fireteam into the well because matchmaking is broken right now (you always get stuck in an empty instance).

You're on Xbox, right? I did what I always do, the old CoO "walk in from the entrance of the temple" thing, and walked into a group that knocked out two heroics in a row. I think I got lucky because a lot of people were having issues with matchmaking, but it IS possible to get a group. Doing it with a fireteam is absolutely going to be you're best bet.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Emron posted:

You're on Xbox, right? I did what I always do, the old CoO "walk in from the entrance of the temple" thing, and walked into a group that knocked out two heroics in a row. I think I got lucky because a lot of people were having issues with matchmaking, but it IS possible to get a group. Doing it with a fireteam is absolutely going to be you're best bet.

I always walk from the stairs into the instance. Did it like 15 times while I was doing bounties before I said gently caress this poo poo and logged off for the night.

I also soloed two tier 1's and no one ever joined.

(yes, xbox, but a reddit post suggests it's happening on both consoles)

Emron
Aug 2, 2005

xzzy posted:

I always walk from the stairs into the instance. Did it like 15 times while I was doing bounties before I said gently caress this poo poo and logged off for the night.

I also soloed two tier 1's and no one ever joined.

(yes, xbox, but a reddit post suggests it's happening on both consoles)

That loving sucks, dude. I wonder what they did to gently caress with it.

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene
Lolover t

CheeseFactory posted:

Jumped on. Did a raid. 600 to 601. Yay. Logged off.

lol over in the PCthread everything is good because you can get the new content you paid for done at 605 if you’ve got an ursa titan and everyone uses whisper out of a well

Because my complaint is that I’m just not good enough to accomplish this and not that this is Bungie being incredibly stupid

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

A Buff Gay Dude posted:

lol over in the PCthread everything is good because you can get the new content you paid for done at 605 if you’ve got an ursa titan and everyone uses whisper out of a well

Because my complaint is that I’m just not good enough to accomplish this and not that this is Bungie being incredibly stupid

Yesterday I felt like I was taking crazy pills in that thread

Also had people in clan chat saying it was "easy" but it sounds like that's only the case if you've gotten up to 610 already and also you have a Shards of Galanor Hunter.

"it's easy just get luckier exotic drops nerd"

moist turtleneck
Jul 17, 2003

Represent.



Dinosaur Gum
Yeah nobody is saying we want all the content day one it's just all us normal people were expecting to be able to succeed at mission #2 of the dlc

It's gonna turn out they put the forges in the wrong order or some poo poo

Honest Thief
Jan 11, 2009
I recently got into this because the base game was free on psn+, but should I just get the expansion even if I don't plan to go hardcore on it?

DO IT TO IT
Mar 3, 2008

I know "mon" means man, but I don't think "Och" means anything.

xzzy posted:

Bring a fireteam into the well because matchmaking is broken right now (you always get stuck in an empty instance).

Man what the hell lol

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Honest Thief posted:

I recently got into this because the base game was free on psn+, but should I just get the expansion even if I don't plan to go hardcore on it?

If you're really enjoying the game, yes. The expansion increases the level cap to 50 and adds a new single-player story, two new zones, and a good variety of endgame stuff for various levels of "hardcore"-ness. For reference, you can hit the maximum power level without ever raiding, if you're curious how hardcore you need to be to get enjoyment out of the endgame.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

moist turtleneck posted:

Yeah nobody is saying we want all the content day one it's just all us normal people were expecting to be able to succeed at mission #2 of the dlc

It's gonna turn out they put the forges in the wrong order or some poo poo

Yeah it was insanely dumb to pop up a unique unavoidable UI widget telling you to do a thing and then a) have that thing lead directly to an activity that's literally impossible to complete unless you break off and do a bunch of other stuff for many days and b) fill the new vendor with items you can't claim until you finish said impossible activity.

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



This is a huge mistake and I hope they fix it soon. The first goddamn forge should not be gated.

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

The various posts about how it's actually easy both here and on Reddit aren't helping matters because they're all like

"Yeah you can totally do it if you're good at the game*

*by which we mean everyone has their Whisper Catalysts, you have exactly the right class and subclass spread in your three-player fireteam, and you have some really good Y2 exotics that let you chain super-powerful supers"

Like there's one super-upvoted post on Reddit right now going like, you can totally do this underleveled, here let me tell you how: <proceeds to describe a strategy that basically requires two Y2 exotics to be realistic>

And I'm sure it is easy if you roll in there with a Geomag Warlock who also has Phoenix Protocol in his back pocket for when it's Well time, an Ursa Furiosa Titan, and a Shards of Galanor Hunter. I bet it's not tough at all if you're chaining mob-disintegrating supers like crazy and spitting out orbs everywhere.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Someone post on LFG for a forge group requiring every member to have gjallarhorn.

cvnvcnv
Mar 17, 2013

__________________

Harrow posted:

*by which we mean everyone has their Whisper Catalysts

This is easy and not a thing to complain about.

The Y2 Exotics tho? Oof. This is real and now a glaring issue as opposed to a pet peeve.

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene

cvnvcnv posted:

This is easy and not a thing to complain about.

The Y2 Exotics tho? Oof. This is real and now a glaring issue as opposed to a pet peeve.

I’m on the fence here. It’s not hard to get but you had to do a non match made mission that’s rng gated and then spend 3 weeks doing it over and over.

I have it but it shouldn’t be required to do the first bit of content in a dlc during the first week it’s out.

And if you don’t have it, well, it’s gonna take you a few weeks so we are back at the actual problem here.

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

cvnvcnv posted:

This is easy and not a thing to complain about.

Yeah, it's mostly just that it's something that takes time and you can't really just do it on command. Veterans all have it I'm sure, but I'm sure plenty of players who started with Forsaken don't. (IKELOS SG being so good at boss DPS and Thunderlord coming out also made it less critical to get, I'd guess.)

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
The best suggestion I've seen so far is that the power cap should have been raised last week to coincide with the beginning of season 5. Had they done this, there would be plenty of 615 poopsockers and 605-610 casuals running around.

And yeah saying "it's easy if you have literally all of the endgame quest gear and you and several friends won the RNG a bunch of times" does not help.

haveblue fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Dec 5, 2018

THE BIG DOG DADDY
Oct 16, 2013

Rasheed was, with Aliases, the top 7 PvPers in Bone Krew.


No one talks about this.
I think they should have made a few things accessible day one like

Forge 1 at 600 that goes up to 620 light for the boss
Some new vendor stuff to look at
An exotic quest starts

And make it so all powerful gear drops at 600 minimum for people who aren't 600 yet so they can play catch up easier and give them a reason to want to get blacked army. Seems like a no-brainer with no downsides to the hardcore players and it brings more people who were mad about the last grind back.

JackGeneric
Apr 23, 2008

[Witty observation]
I took a break from D2 with my highest character at 559. I figured I'd come back and catch up with my 600 friends when this dropped. Except not only do 600 players have to do the completely unchanged Forsaken grind to get a reasonable power level for the new content, but I have to do it for much longer because, if I'm reading things correctly, they only raised the soft cap to 550. That is intensely discouraging.

JackGeneric fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Dec 5, 2018

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene

THE BIG DOG DADDY posted:

I think they should have made a few things accessible day one like

Forge 1 at 600 that goes up to 620 light for the boss
Some new vendor stuff to look at
An exotic quest starts

And make it so all powerful gear drops at 600 minimum for people who aren't 600 yet so they can play catch up easier and give them a reason to want to get blacked army. Seems like a no-brainer with no downsides to the hardcore players and it brings more people who were mad about the last grind back.

Sounds like game socialism, and furthermore

Hulk Krogan
Mar 25, 2005



...it's good as hell?

cvnvcnv
Mar 17, 2013

__________________

A Buff Gay Dude posted:

And if you don’t have it, well, it’s gonna take you a few weeks so we are back at the actual problem here.

I cede this point fully, but must insist that Exotic quests and sure-fire ways to improve Exotics being ignored is quite dumb. If there's a thing and it's within skill or tolerance level, do it asap. (Hell, Worldline Zero Catalyst dropped for me late last week and already I've knocked out the 40% that's been available. Remember that sword? Lol)

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cvnvcnv
Mar 17, 2013

__________________

THE BIG DOG DADDY posted:

An exotic quest starts

There is one tho.

E: lmao I mean you can't advance it if you can't even beat a Forge but still

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