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Freelance isn't the best way to play destiny, but it's an old game now. It's normal for active players in your circle of friends to fade out, so a lot more solo play happens than it used to. With D1 I could hop on any day of the week and get into an already built 6 man crucible team. My friends list has been slowly draining as D2 ages.. there's certainly people to play with, but it's not common to be able to drop in and Do Stuff, it's gotta be planned in advance. I feel like freelance is accepting the reality of the game now, it may not be the best fix but it is a fix.
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Freelance and regular not having differences is so disingenuous and flat out wrong you're not helping at all.
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May 11, 2022 01:19
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Thanks for the Exotic advice goons. Yeah, I'm probably messing up the various Engram names. The meta moves so fast in this game it's hard to keep up with the content. I mostly just like shooting aliens.
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May 11, 2022 01:23
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I have a clan I play with on occasion, but I actually like Destiny as a "single-serving friends" kind of experience. My long-term friendship needs don't really overlap with my gaming hobby, but I don't really need them to -- and my hours change around enough that it's pretty hard to schedule poo poo with others. But mostly, I like the LFG weirdos I run into. I remember running Vow last week with a guy who was squeezing in a game right before picking his wife up at the hospital, hope everything's okay for them still. I still remember the kid who suddenly said "oh poo poo mom alert" during VOG and we had to cover his oracles while you could still faintly hear him getting chewed out for some bullshit on his mic. I remember when a group I was with finally got through the vault in Last Wish and a dude was like, "time to crack open a cold one boys" and then two guys were like, "actually I'm an alcoholic and I just play destiny now lol" but then it turns out all six of us were smoking weed! That was a good one. I've had horror stories too, of course, and I'd be happy if I never heard lovely LFG opinions about women or ethnic groups ever again. But that has been rare in my experience.
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May 11, 2022 01:26
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I like having a base set of Destiny goons to play with, because I have absolutely zero IRL friends who play. My brother getting into the game is so loving sick, because Destiny is such a big part of my interest and hobbies and I can’t share it with anyone. Being able to joke around with Meiteron or NegNord and compare godrolls and transmogs with da homies is the reason Destiny feels more like a real world I like to spend time in
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May 11, 2022 01:29
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Bust Rodd posted:I like having a base set of Destiny goons to play with, because I have absolutely zero IRL friends who play. My brother getting into the game is so loving sick, because Destiny is such a big part of my interest and hobbies and I can’t share it with anyone. Being able to joke around with Meiteron or NegNord and compare godrolls and transmogs with da homies is the reason Destiny feels more like a real world I like to spend time in Yeah!!!! Busty Rodd gets it
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May 11, 2022 01:37
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On the flip side aside from a raid a week my gaming time is super sporadic and pick up and play so chances of people just happening to be around for the few matches or strikes I plan to do are slim so freelance is perfect for wanting to do something competitive without getting matched against a 3 stack. https://i.imgur.com/ZbqsqN1.mp4 From sunday in the kid pool. freelance and flawmore is perfect for bad players like me . Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 01:45 on May 11, 2022 |
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May 11, 2022 01:39
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:freelance is perfect for wanting to do something competitive without getting matched against a 3 stack. Man, I really do value hearing these alternative voices because my experience with Freelance is nothing but absolute blowouts all weekend long,  whereas I can solo drop into Normal Trials if I want to chill & know that most games will probably be 5:4 with lotsa Revives each round and 2-3 supers per player Happy Noodle Boy posted:From sunday in the kid pool. freelance and flawmore is perfect for bad players like me . I noticed this weekend that Flawless Dodgers were making a HUUUGE showing in Freelance. I had a teammate who was on a 33-game win streak, no flawless, but he was in the Flawless Pool with me in Freelance on Monday. Expect a word from Bungie this TWAB about an anti-Flawless Dodger system! I feel like that's one of the very last puzzle pieces before Trials ascends to a true 3rd pillar mode of Destiny (until Rift bumps it to #4)
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May 11, 2022 01:59
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Yeah dodging has been getting worse, I think. Thankfully I don’t think I ran into many of them. Then again I enjoy freelance from a very casual gaming point but I can see how it’s not for everyone. I’m more of a PVE player but between starting late and not having a lot of time, I’m going to go the entire season without being able to do grandmaster because I’m still not 1575. I might get lucky and get there… next week? I’m hoping next season sounds interesting because I’ll definitely invest a little more time then and do more of the poo poo I want to do rather than be stuck doing other poo poo.
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May 11, 2022 02:09
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The spoiler farm discussion bought up a nice memory, my first DSC clear on my warlock was pre-unlocking the sparrow and I only had the void power tree unlocked(or whatever default new light is), so I did the entire first section of DSC using the raid provided speeder. I did it because I needed to clear security to afford Anarchy lol My hunter and warlock only exist for the purposes of farming raid loot so all of their armor is just a random hodgepodge of the best raid armor for that class i've had drop. Is Templar still considered the fastest/most efficient farm method?
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May 11, 2022 02:28
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On second thought https://i.imgur.com/sycHA0P.gifv Let's NOT wipe
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I like to bring people to the Lighthouse for the first time!!! And it's really hard to find someone to carry when they can just launch Freelance & put a rubber band on the controller for tokens Might have to reach out on the Discord sometime. I'd like to at least get 3 wins for a weapon one of these days.
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May 11, 2022 08:35
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I queue solo for trials a lot while I still need the pinnacles, and getting to 3 wins isn't usually that big a deal. But last weekend's freelance queue did feel much, much tougher than usual. Especially with that map, where you have to be able to snap headshot with a sniper or you lose. Normally you just queue until you luck out and get matched with two good players who just want a 3rd for the numbers. The hardest thing about it is knuckling down and not taking getting steamrolled by the other team too personally. But last weekend the losses definitely fely harsher and a lot more common. Honestly the biggest issue with trials is that there's not more of a division between competitive groups, but then when Bungie tries to do that you end up with a ton of complaints about how bad the lag is, so there's no 'easy' fix for it. I feel like if there was a seperate kids pool for players who've broken their streak and can no longer go flawless (and just want to rank up with saint to get some non-adept weapons or the armour), that might help?
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I went solo flawless 4x last weekend (twice on hunter, once each on titan and warlock) but unless you are a 2.0+ k/d player with similarly skilled friends or get really really lucky with RNG freelance weekend means regular queue is to be avoided, especially after flawless pool is turned on. I like freelance occasionally but it absolutely pulls a lot of the 'normal' people out of the regular queue and leaves only the sweatlords. Like Chris said I just turned down most offers to play with a team because we were only winning maybe 25% of our matches. You will still occasionally run into someone in freelance who is some kind of 3.5 k/d freak but it's pretty rare, and most of them are farming people in the flawmore queue anyways.
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May 11, 2022 13:40
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Happy to help anyone go flawless once dad pool kicks in on Sundays.
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Bust Rodd posted:I like having a base set of Destiny goons to play with, because I have absolutely zero IRL friends who play. My brother getting into the game is so loving sick, because Destiny is such a big part of my interest and hobbies and I can’t share it with anyone. Being able to joke around with Meiteron or NegNord and compare godrolls and transmogs with da homies is the reason Destiny feels more like a real world I like to spend time in  Having the community is definitely the strongest draw for me for sure, I doubt I would have put nearly as much time into D2 without the solid, reliable host of cool people that are around to do Content when I'm around as well.
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May 11, 2022 21:21
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there's no reason for the laurel limit to be so low and to have basically no way to spend them faster than you earn them
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May 11, 2022 22:12
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YEESSSSSS got the Hawkmoon catalyst while doing Guardian Games stuff. Sorry Malfeasance, I went through Gambit Hell for you and you've been great, but it's time to bench you for a while.
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RBX posted:Freelance and regular not having differences is so disingenuous and flat out wrong you're not helping at all. Indeed. It's almost as if having a team you communicate and play with .. and not is some kind of fundamental difference!
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Whats with step 2 of what we survive? I def killed some people with Frontiers Cry and it shows 0 kills
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hnnnnnnnnnngh this is the most HYPE I've been in a good long while Rift, PvP Map, less gambit required, and 1 more Trials weekend per season 
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drat, you can't cheat Hawkmoon's Paracausal Shot by refilling the magazine with something like the Sealed Ahamkara's Grip's special effect. It gets cancelled out. Any other big conflicting things on Exotics or perks in general that I should be aware of?
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May 12, 2022 22:26
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There's still guardian games next week right? I wanna grab some of the outfits but itd be best to wait til I get paid again
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Bungie posted:Most importantly, entering any non-ritual activity has no effect [on your activity streak]. FINALLY THANK YOU
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https://twitter.com/destiny_thememe/status/1524927986411126785?t=Uje94hWY5H883O4XQiMB4w&s=19 GG email is apparently doing this to all warlocks.
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Apologies if this has been asked in the thread already since GG started but has anyone done the math as to how many medals have to be dropped to light the plat torch for medal turn ins? I've been doing a shitload and just barely cracked silver so far this week.
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RedneckwithGuns posted:Apologies if this has been asked in the thread already since GG started but has anyone done the math as to how many medals have to be dropped to light the plat torch for medal turn ins? I've been doing a shitload and just barely cracked silver so far this week. I don’t think anyone’s bothered since platinum medals are worth so much more than the others. You can pretty easily grind out “nightfall” cards in the GG training playlist; this week it’s about two strikes to fill a card plus whatever medals you earn from strike performance
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/destiny_thememe/status/1524927986411126785?t=Uje94hWY5H883O4XQiMB4w&s=19 mine showed 100% on warlock.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/destiny_thememe/status/1524927986411126785?t=Uje94hWY5H883O4XQiMB4w&s=19 Hunters are secretly winning because we switched the signs on the medal baskets.
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That is a nice Postmaster you've got there It would be a shame if https://i.imgur.com/WTJp3FE.gifv
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haveblue posted:I don’t think anyone’s bothered since platinum medals are worth so much more than the others. You can pretty easily grind out “nightfall” cards in the GG training playlist; this week it’s about two strikes to fill a card plus whatever medals you earn from strike performance It's something around 16 platinum medals to complete. I didn't track it obsessively but that's close.
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Just asking to confirm this, I did google and it seemed to be the case but want to make sure, Vox Obscura isn't going away when the season ends right? It'll be the next expansion? Just never got round to doing it and have been meaning to, just want to know if I need to actually pull my finger out and do it in the next week or not.
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thebardyspoon posted:Just asking to confirm this, I did google and it seemed to be the case but want to make sure, Vox Obscura isn't going away when the season ends right? It'll be the next expansion? Just never got round to doing it and have been meaning to, just want to know if I need to actually pull my finger out and do it in the next week or not. Right. The only reason to rush and do it next week is the Season of the Risen seal and title, which becomes unobtainable on the 24th.
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thebardyspoon posted:Just asking to confirm this, I did google and it seemed to be the case but want to make sure, Vox Obscura isn't going away when the season ends right? It'll be the next expansion? Just never got round to doing it and have been meaning to, just want to know if I need to actually pull my finger out and do it in the next week or not. Yes. Activities introduced by seasons currently last for the life of the expansion it's released in.
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Grinding away at legendary lost sectors trying to get this exotic chest I need for my titan build and man it just feels really bad to keep getting nothing over and over, particularly because soloing these fuckers is not easy and is frequently very frustrating!
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VanillaGorilla posted:Grinding away at legendary lost sectors trying to get this exotic chest I need for my titan build and man it just feels really bad to keep getting nothing over and over, particularly because soloing these fuckers is not easy and is frequently very frustrating! What class are you on? Bay of Drowned Wishes is a great one to farm since it only takes about ~4 minutes to clear with a good build. Are you high enough to do it on Master? For short ones like this it's worth it to do Master for the higher drop rate, but obviously don't do it if you're under 1575ish because it'll be slower than just speeding through Legends. Lean in to the Arc Burn for the +25% damage. You only have to break 1x void shield and you only have to kill 2 (or 3, if master) Overload champions, so run a Void subclass with Vortex Grenades and "Overload Grenades". A pulse or hand cannon to stun the Unstoppable, and ideally First In, Last Out (the arc slug) to absolutely MELT champions, and any Arc Heavy you like using! Don't run double primary, DO make sure to wear damage resist mods, and you'll be crushing this one in sub-5 minutes, guaranteed
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near the start of the season this guy made a post for recommended loadouts for every lost sector of the current season https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/tahbqu/the_best_loadout_for_every_legend_lost_sector/ hopefully he does it again for the next one, since I found this very helpful
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So I finally got The Title with Stats and One for All on it. Gotta say, it is pretty fun. I wish it had a master work in range or reload, but the stability feels OK. Will it replace my Funnelweb? Not sure about that, but it does feel good enough for me to think about it.
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I got a godroll Title and it has for sure replaced my Funnelwebs, of which I have 5-6 MWK’d.
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