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stev posted:So I just started playing through Forsaken since I skipped it when it was a thing, and the quality of the storytelling is such a huge contrast. There's an actual plot, with characters and drama! I know the base game's campaign had that too but it makes Shadowkeep and Beyond Light look pathetic in comparison. Did Bungie's storytelling talent leave when they lost Activision's money? Hahahaha. Ahaahahhaa lmao
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stev posted:Did Bungie's storytelling talent leave when they lost Activision's money? They lost the support studios they used to work with, and started a major project of overhauling/refactoring/removing old content. The latter was a huge success, as much of what they've done in the last few seasons are clearly built on that, but it did eat resources. Also, Forsaken suffers from the same problem that all of the Destiny campaigns used to have - no room for the story to breathe because it was six hours and done. Imagine what they could have done with Forsaken if they were doing something closer to the current seasonal stories, with story progression spaced out over weeks. Kenlon fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Sep 2, 2021 |
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Sep 2, 2021 23:40
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yeah I was honestly a bit surprised to see them hyping up the campaign for WQ so much I realize they kind of have to, but main story campaigns have traditionally been the realm of 'done day one, maybe done on alts, ignored for the rest of time', which is just such a colossal waste of resources and dev time
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Sep 2, 2021 23:57
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Kenlon posted:They lost the support studios they used to work with, and started a major project of overhauling/refactoring/removing old content. The latter was a huge success, as much of what they've done in the last few seasons are clearly built on that, but it did eat resources. The tangled shore campaign was definitely like that, but the Dreaming City storyline had a lot more room to breathe and was far better for that reason.
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victrix posted:yeah I was honestly a bit surprised to see them hyping up the campaign for WQ so much quote:PC Gamer: It was mentioned in the reveal stream that Bungie wants The Witch Queen's campaign to be comparable to Halo, Titanfall 2 and the modern Doom games. What's being done differently? So they know that the campaigns are too short and are trying something out I guess
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:You already have access to previous season storylines as far back as season of the hunt and aren’t required to do them in any order. The season of the hunt intro mission is on the moon. Unless you have the beyond light deluxe edition, you can’t do previous seasons’ special exotic missions (harbinger and presage) So it turns out you need to own the seasons to play through the stories - you can only play the opening mission if you don't own it. And you can't buy previous seasons individually to play through the stories, you need the Deluxe edition that comes with them all. And you can't just upgrade your existing copy of game to the Deluxe edition, you need to buy it separately for sixty entire British pounds.  I guess Bungie doesn't want my money.
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Sep 3, 2021 00:17
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Hopefully when they're referencing Doom they aren't talking about a cutscene in the first five minutes where you chop a boss' head off and toss it on the floor because as cool as that was, that's not much of a game. Instead let us blow a hole in the side of a planet and dive in to it to murderize Savathun.
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Looking for a good kinetic pulse in my vault and I realise I have no idea what I'm looking for. Is Time Worn Spire still good? NTTE? Cold Denial?
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stev posted:So it turns out you need to own the seasons to play through the stories - you can only play the opening mission if you don't own it. And you can't buy previous seasons individually to play through the stories, you need the Deluxe edition that comes with them all. And you can't just upgrade your existing copy of game to the Deluxe edition, you need to buy it separately for sixty entire British pounds. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1438630/Destiny_2_Beyond_Light_Deluxe_Edition_Upgrade/ 
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Eej posted:So they know that the campaigns are too short and are trying something out I guess that's Good I really like this Blackburn dude quite a bit
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Looking for a good kinetic pulse in my vault and I realise I have no idea what I'm looking for. Is Time Worn Spire still good? NTTE? Cold Denial? Messenger, Vigilance Wing, NTTE, Sacred Provenance
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Looking for a good kinetic pulse in my vault and I realise I have no idea what I'm looking for. Is Time Worn Spire still good? NTTE? Cold Denial? I don't know how people can just talk about gun names and ask whether they're good since the main difference is what set of perks are available for them to randomly roll... if you have a copy of the 'best' legendary gun in a category but with a useless roll then your god legendary is just as good/bad as any other random legendary pulse or even a blue gun from the same subcategory. Except pinnacles which are really just exotics in disguise and are a dumb confusing system. If they just wanted to make exotics-but-they-don't-eat-your-exotic-slot they should have made a new rarity
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Eej posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1438630/Destiny_2_Beyond_Light_Deluxe_Edition_Upgrade/ Thanks! All the links in-game and on the store page just point to the regular deluxe edition.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:I don't know how people can just talk about gun names and ask whether they're good since the main difference is what set of perks are available for them to randomly roll... if you have a copy of the 'best' legendary gun in a category but with a useless roll then your god legendary is just as good/bad as any other random legendary pulse or even a blue gun from the same subcategory.
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Probably a dumb question but if I buy the super duper edition of Witch Queen it says I get 4 seasons of Destiny. Are they future seasons or the past four?
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Seams posted:Probably a dumb question but if I buy the super duper edition of Witch Queen it says I get 4 seasons of Destiny. Are they future seasons or the past four? It should be the future expansions, the "year" of seasons for the Witch Queen Expansion.
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Forsaken's storytelling really benefitted from the simple Outlaw Getting Revenge scope. Easy to get in, tell a story, get out All of year 3 and 4 has been "big spooky evil poo poo is coming! Soon!!! We promise!!!!!!!" and so they can't progress it at all until they have something huge to drop on us
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Pyronic posted:It should be the future expansions, the "year" of seasons for the Witch Queen Expansion. Sweet. That’s what I figured but it’s always good to double-check haha.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Looking for a good kinetic pulse in my vault and I realise I have no idea what I'm looking for. Is Time Worn Spire still good? NTTE? Cold Denial? Hailing Confusion from Eurpoa is pretty great if you're into Adaptives. Time Worn Spire from Iron Banner is a Rapid Fire that absolutely rips, but good luck getting it from the bloated drop pool. Kith fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Sep 3, 2021 |
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where do I get a chinese clone of Blast Furnace nowadays and can I get any resources out of old masterwork guns that bungo threw in the sunset trashcan? I know they're still usable in crucible but that doesn't help for pve spec weapons
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:where do I get a chinese clone of Blast Furnace nowadays Garden of Salvation raid drop called Sacred Prophecy. https://www.light.gg/db/items/2408405461/sacred-provenance/ IIRC you get 7 enhancement cores back when sharding a masterworked item. Kesper North fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Sep 3, 2021 |
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Kith posted:Hailing Confusion from Eurpoa is pretty great if you're into Adaptives. The Forward Path from Iron Banner is a Rapid Fire that absolutely rips, but good luck getting it from the bloated drop pool. Forward path is an adaptive AR. Time worn spire is the rapid fire pulse.
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Kesper North posted:Garden of Salvation raid drop called Sacred Prophecy. Not sure if you can even get them anymore, as I think that raid was sunset? it was not
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Kesper North posted:Garden of Salvation raid drop called Sacred Prophecy. Sacred Provenance
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So, I'm starting to have second thoughts. I think Explosive Light is a good perk and I think the community wisdom that it's bad is off the mark. How I thought it worked was you had to 6 orbs of power to charge it up for a full damage 15% shot. But it turns out each individual rocket uses a charge of explosive light. You get the full benefit from 1. Which is actually really good. Not only is it easy to get and generate orbs of light but the fact it stacks 6 times means you're generally going to get a full magazine use out of it. I think that Vorpal is obviously better on bosses because you don't have to do anything, and Lasting Impression is likewise something you don't have to do anything with. But Ascendency is a really solid rocket launcher that comes with great perks and intrinsic tracking. The fact explosive light gets full benefit from each individual charge makes it much better in my opinion. It takes more setup than vorpal or lasting impression but it's also easy to obtain and use and you get the full benefit against every enemy in the game instantly.
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Bunker E15 with void burn & shields is today's legendary. Equip Le Monarque and overload, barrier & a primary AR, casually walk your way through the sector. I cannot stress enough how today is probably the lowest bar to entry you're going to get on a Lost sector.
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Mazerunner posted:it was not Chappy posted:Sacred Provenance this is my brain when i can't get my adhd meds. fFFFFfUCK
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Chappy posted:Forward path is an adaptive AR. Yes, that. Thank you. I get them mixed up because they look similar to me. And for that matter, I use them similarly.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Bunker E15 with void burn & shields is today's legendary. Made good use of this one in the past, it's on helms today (got another 12 hours from this post) and I was missing some, so thanks for the heads up & loadout. I still hate overloads. Feels pretty lame that you let off them for a second and they basically heal to full.
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Oxyclean posted:I still hate overloads. Feels pretty lame that you let off them for a second and they basically heal to full. With Monarque's poison though, as soon as they're vulnerable the poison 'tick' will stun them and you don't have to focus on them like you usually do. I recorded a video for anyone who's daunted by it, today's combo is very doable even if you die twice and forget that your AR is only there to pop bubbles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRKHzwH9jo8
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I’ve been able to solo most lost sectors on Legend but that one a couple of days ago on the moon was hosed. I wish the game had saveable loadouts so I could just switch all my gear and/or mods at the push of a button.
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Is it just me or is iron banner weirdly a lot more difficult than crucible normally? I also keep getting people with what appears to be battle pass level 100 in my matches, which is insane given how long it's been out, and extremely angry ragers. Normal crucible isn't anything like this I also actually see "xxx has joined team chat" for once.
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for overloads you also want to keep hitting them with your anti-overload weapon during the 'white chain' period, after they were stunned but before they become vulnerable to being stunned again. This stops them from regenerating health. I think it might also stop captains and minotaurs from teleporting but I might be wrong. So you go: stun -> burst damage -> back to overload -> stun again also for barriers doing damage to their shield stops the health regen, even if you don't break it. So even if you know you can't break it, kind of feathering some damage onto them still puts you out ahead.
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Biowarfare posted:Is it just me or is iron banner weirdly a lot more difficult than crucible normally? I also keep getting people with what appears to be battle pass level 100 in my matches, which is insane given how long it's been out, and extremely angry ragers. Normal crucible isn't anything like this It is not just sweaty right now, it's loving AWFUL. And I think maybe lots of people are hauling out cheats for a last hurrah. Another poster I was talking to earlier agreed, it doesn't look like Battleye is doing much yet.
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Biowarfare posted:
I’ve had my team chat set to on since I’ve started playing again and I’ve not heard a single person across any hundred matches Ive played lol.
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BattleEye is only in logging mode right now, they said they'll turn on the auto bans Eventually iirc
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I know I’ve said this before but I wish as someone coming back / new they laid out the mission timelines better. If you were a new player the story is an absolute mess because there isn’t a real way to see what actually comes first.
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I really like Savathun. Her plots and manupulations are so transparently obvious that I expect her to put on a fake moustache & top hat then walk in spinning a silver cane after arriving via hot air balloon. What I'm saying is I'd rather be friendly with her than the Vanguard & co because clearly we've been working with complete idiots this whole time. Can't wait for Durandal to warp in system and kidnap us for fun adventures in the wider universe.
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