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If you do all the other neomuna content you unlock strand almost by accident. Stasis didn't work like that
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Pirate Jet posted:I would really like to know why Bungie has not only declined to alleviate the grind needed to fully unlock Stasis but then make it arguably worse to fully unlock Strand. Like, what’s their argument there
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Mar 8, 2023 21:15
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I feel like getting to the point where you could start using Stasis on alts was 100% more annoying then Strand, and as annoying as fragments not being account wide is, I'm willing to bet getting all classes to a point where they have shackle grenade, 2 aspects and 4 fragments unlocked is far quicker then it was to do something similar in Stasis. e: Even putting aside the originally planned time gating for Strand, wasn't Stasis limited to 2 fragment unlocks each week? Oxyclean fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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Mar 8, 2023 21:21
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haveblue posted:If you do all the other neomuna content you unlock strand almost by accident. Stasis didn't work like that Yeah that's a big difference. Stasis was pulling teeth. Strand is "just play game".
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Mar 8, 2023 21:22
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Beating the Campaign takes 3 hours, instantly unlocks Strand and gives you 500 Strandbucks, which is enough to buy Aspect #1 - 150bucks Aspect #2 - 150bucks Fragment #1 - 200bucks Compared to Stasis where you had a suckass post-campaign mission for each aspect and a timegated suckbutt grind for each and every Fragment They gotta stop making you pay so much glimmer at Ikora on every character each time they add new V/A/S stuff though lol
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Mar 8, 2023 21:25
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:So reddit has figured out why artifact mods & especially the volatile rounds & champion stun mods are so finicky. i knew it. i loving knew it. i called this way back when they originally pruned orb generation from masterworks - they made a bunch of noise about how much more they'd be able to do with weapons because of it, immediately forgot the original problem, and now have once again rammed into the same limitation. either institutional knowledge was lost or bungie's design team lacks effective management.
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Mar 8, 2023 21:30
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Another really, really weird decision that they need to undo is massacring top-slot Stasis (and Strand) weapons If you don't know, kinetic weapons do 10% (primaries) or 15% (specials) more damage compared to a top-slot stasis or strand weapon. The idea is that stasis & strand have build synergy, but in game there aren't currently many tradeoffs that justify it. Headstone? Hatchling? Unraveling Rounds? I'd take a built-in 10%/15% damage boost + the ability to run powerful perks like Vorpal over those any day of the week. Stasis & Strand weapons need to have an inherent benefit (not requiring you to get a specific Weapon Perk) if they're going to have an inherent penalty to damage. Even when Strand Surge is active, you're better off running Strand subclass with Kinetic weapons so you get the Surge bonus, and the 10%/15% boost It's hilarious that completing the catalyst for Quicksilver will reduce its damage 10% (Exception - Riptide with Chill Clip could do ZERO weapon damage and still be top tier because that is insanely good utility) GoGoGadgetChris fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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Mar 8, 2023 21:53
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headstone's pretty nice on ability centric stasis builds because of fragment of shards, but if you're doing that these days you should probably just use the new exotic bow
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Mar 8, 2023 22:00
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:It's hilarious that completing the catalyst for Quicksilver will reduce its damage 10% Quicksilver is weird because I prefer it doing slightly less damage, since that gives more chances for mini-missiles to land and get my grenade stack to 3 faster, which then just lets me kill everything in sight.
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Mar 8, 2023 22:37
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Kith posted:either institutional knowledge was lost or bungie's design team lacks effective management. Kind of feels like one of those happens because of the other.
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I have basically not seen any Neomuna red border weapons outside of the ones they give you, but as far as seasonal stuff I have half the patterns done because the amount of engrams and rewards they throw at you is bonkers, and satisfying. Also interestingly I keep randomly getting rewarding 64+ stat armour with the keys, which is pretty dang neat. And then if you focus an engram it has a chance of giving you another key. The seasonal stuff is pretty dang fantastic, both rewards and content. Also I got all the Strandments for my Hunter (my only character) by accident. I just had the meditations pile up without realising. I've also been enjoying Hero Nightfalls. You can tell when people are actually playing versus trying to speed run for rewards, because speed runners add 10 minutes to completion times lol. Gonna try the Legend Nightfalls soon, looking forward to getting my face stomped in. The rewards work for me because a) it's the lowest Nightfall difficulty, and b) I go through so many prisms and cores goddamn, I just love masterworking stuff without worrying about hoarding. Also c) just seeing a bunch of stuff pop up makes my brain tingle in a good way.
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This is more of a technical question than anything else really but I have kind of a lovely setup right now - I play on GeForce Now because I don't have a game capable PC or console anymore and the cloud service is surprisingly reliable; unfortunately because of this I don't think Discord's enhanced presence API or whatever it's called really jives with Steam - I have no idea what people see as my status in Discord when I'm playing D2, and I don't seem to have any context buttons available in Discord itself to join someone else's fireteam through the hook (I'm guessing because the discord app is running in my local browser while Steam/D2 are running on a windows box out in the cloud somewhere), which ultimately is all a bunch of preamble to explain why I'm asking this question: How do I join a specific player in-game if I know their bungie ID?
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Another really, really weird decision that they need to undo is massacring top-slot Stasis (and Strand) weapons i think it's fine, stasis/strand weapons tend to have access to some pretty good perks (especially our lord and savior Riptide). they tend to rely on those perks a bit, but i don't think that's the worst thing ever - it's not like it matters in PVP, and it's also not the first time that a weapon has relied on its perks to be viable over other choices.
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Reiterpallasch posted:
Oh thank god, I was wracking myself with anxiety over asking for a carry through something then not knowing how to join my benefactor lmao
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Mar 8, 2023 23:44
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Beating the Campaign takes 3 hours, instantly unlocks Strand and gives you 500 Strandbucks, which is enough to buy Is glimmer supposed to be an issue? I don't know what I can spend glimmer on, I came back a week before LF launched and bought all the fragments and grenades and now I've been glimmer capped for the past week. Is there a sink I'm missing aside from repeatable bounties?
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Glimmer not really. You'll probably spend a tonne of it focusing stuff and whatnot, but it's not exactly a problem to re-up. Just more annoying than anything, because the total sum cost of fragments and all that is more than the glimmer cap, which means doing multiple runs just to get it all. Annoying and I don't really know why glimmer exists honestly, but not the end of the world.
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Gadzuko posted:Is glimmer supposed to be an issue? I don't know what I can spend glimmer on, I came back a week before LF launched and bought all the fragments and grenades and now I've been glimmer capped for the past week. Is there a sink I'm missing aside from repeatable bounties? I've been spending entirely on the new frags for each class and then upgrade mods  Other than that there isn't much to spend it on.
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syntaxfunction posted:Also interestingly I keep randomly getting rewarding 64+ stat armour with the keys, which is pretty dang neat. According to a comment a little upthread, using a key guarantees either high stat armour or a red frame weapon. Which makes the whole loop pretty rewarding.
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Gadzuko posted:Is glimmer supposed to be an issue? I don't know what I can spend glimmer on, I came back a week before LF launched and bought all the fragments and grenades and now I've been glimmer capped for the past week. Is there a sink I'm missing aside from repeatable bounties? Don't forget the year 1 shader bundle in the eververse archive, that costs glimmer and gives you some nice options for barbie dressup. DO NOT buy glimmer off Rahool, it is a trap, you need the things you trade it for and he will only spend it on Magic the Gathering cards. E: unless you have planetary materials kicking round your onventory, you can trade those in.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:You can spend glimmer on upgrade modules, exotics from the Monument to Lost Lights, bounties and shaders from ada, focussing engrams at various vendors and crafting guns at the relic. If you still have too much glimmer, buy some enhancement prisms, turn them into ascendant shards and then use the shards to masterwork your armour. Yeah, when I'm in dire need of glimmer I go gently caress about on Europa with Ager to acquire bluebells to trade for programmable money so that snarky shitlord can import space skooma or whatever
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Bobby Deluxe posted:E: unless you have planetary materials kicking round your onventory, you can trade those in. To add to this, once you’ve bought all the Europa Stuff (Variks chores, done all the hunts, etc) there isn’t a drat thing to spend Herealways Pieces on except if you want to farm a gun or do one of the hunts on a week when it’s not on the director. Unlike strand bucks, however, you’ll continue to accumulate them from headshots and stasis kills on Europa so they’ll be a good source of emergency glimmer. I’ve been dumping them into Rahool for as long as he’s been buying them and I only just got under 2,000. e:f;b
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Just got kicked off the servers in the middle of the Brakion fight and now it says it's too busy to log me back in, lol. Vex got me 
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Just got kicked off the servers in the middle of the Brakion fight and now it says it's too busy to log me back in, lol. Vex got me Incredible Kojima energy
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Just got kicked off the servers in the middle of the Brakion fight and now it says it's too busy to log me back in, lol. Vex got me "No downtime expected" https://twitter.com/BungieHelp/status/1633617237872623616?cxt=HHwWgIDSpZ-O46stAAAA
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Lol. If you are gonna do load testing in production and have lovely infrastructure then you probably should think about some sort of cross session persistent checkpoints. Fucks sake.
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Just got kicked on the last boss for that 13 step exotic quest and now can’t sign in. GOTY.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:You can spend glimmer on upgrade modules, exotics from the Monument to Lost Lights, bounties and shaders from ada, focussing engrams at various vendors and crafting guns at the relic. If you still have too much glimmer, buy some enhancement prisms, turn them into ascendant shards and then use the shards to masterwork your armour. Thanks, I did not know about the y1 bundle. I have been buying prisms and modules but the limiting factor there is cores, which I have also been buying but those are limited per day.
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RocketRaygun posted:"No downtime expected" Servers are going to melt friday lol
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There is no way they are going to leave this in the game like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSR1S3t9-Ec
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Okay I generally don't do lore questions in this thread, but how did we go from not being able to find Neomuna or detect it at all to crashing into it in Mission 1. Is that how we found it? I"m kind of confused
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muike posted:Okay I generally don't do lore questions in this thread, but how did we go from not being able to find Neomuna or detect it at all to crashing into it in Mission 1. Is that how we found it? I"m kind of confused Raputin did find it. It was presented in snippets post heists and in the epilogue but it basically confirmed its existence, and the Veil, by the end of Seraph.
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muike posted:Okay I generally don't do lore questions in this thread, but how did we go from not being able to find Neomuna or detect it at all to crashing into it in Mission 1. Is that how we found it? I"m kind of confused We stole a ride on a cabal ship that was given the location from the Witness who sensed it after trying to interact with the Traveler. Mesadoram posted:There is no way they are going to leave this in the game like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSR1S3t9-Ec I thought the mod system was horribly nerfed and we were underpowered? Wasn't that the whole thing for a while here?
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I'm an absolute lore hog, so I'm pretty surprised I missed any explanation here.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Raputin did find it. It was presented in snippets post heists and in the epilogue but it basically confirmed its existence, and the Veil, by the end of Seraph. Yeah, the shortest answer is that its existence was gradually revealed to us over the course of season 19, then the witness magically sensed where it was and dispatched Calus there, and we followed Calus, so all those gradual reveals didn’t really contribute to the process after all
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syntaxfunction posted:I thought the mod system was horribly nerfed and we were underpowered? Wasn't that the whole thing for a while here? I admire what you're going for here, but IMHO people can think the mod system sucks, while also thinking that Exotic Gear (subject of the video) is powerful
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wasn't someone yesterday saying the vexcaliber was trash? lol
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Gadzuko posted:Thanks, I did not know about the y1 bundle. I have been buying prisms and modules but the limiting factor there is cores, which I have also been buying but those are limited per day. Do not give your legendary shards to Rahool, you need those. muike posted:I'm an absolute lore hog, so I'm pretty surprised I missed any explanation here. After the season finale mission, someone mentions in the post-heist dialogue that Rasputin gave him a ton of info to sift through and that he's close to finding it. As far as I can tell the Witness worked out seperately that the veil was there and sent Calus to get it, Osiris follows him, and we follow Osiris, so I'm not sure if Osiris ever actually worked out where Nefele was. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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I mean, it just goes to show that the destiny community really doesn't think for itself very well. The mod system changed, and a lot of the old good builds got gutted. People fired from the hip there (my old build sucks waaah the system is trash) and now that youtubers are releasing builds they are like "okay things are broken this is overpowered". Bungie isn't going to nerf some of these strong builds. They made the game way harder for the singular purpose of adding broken poo poo like this.
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syntaxfunction posted:I thought the mod system was horribly nerfed and we were underpowered? Wasn't that the whole thing for a while here? I don't think anyone was saying that the new mods were underpowered, but that the system lost a ton of the granularity, depth, and flexibility that it used to have. Just because the new system is worse doesn't mean that it's weaker.
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