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Do pass exclusive exotics like quicksilver get made available eventually?
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Mar 22, 2023 21:47
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Seriously, gently caress whoever is responsible for the state of lost sectors right now. I painstakingly worked my way up to the last boss of legend Thrilladrome- which is a giant health sponge that just sits and hovers in mid air, and I just had to sit there and die while it timed out because I didn’t bring a sniper, because it didn’t work within the parameters of the very set build I had to construct just to get that far. That’s before I even get to the part where the strand melee for Titan wings the camera around like a spastic rear end in a top hat, which makes the really “amazing” platforming in that last stretch just impossible in my last ditch efforts to kill the boss. This poo poo is painfully unfun, the fact that they haven’t said poo poo about it says that they like it that way, and I guess that’s great. Whatever they’re designing isn’t a fun video game, that’s for sure, and they’re welcome to it. And the best part is that I know if I had somehow pulled it off, I would have gotten some loving glimmer for my trouble. VanillaGorilla fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Mar 22, 2023 |
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Mar 22, 2023 21:53
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Lost Sectors are loving dumb right now. In general I really like where the game is at but nah, lost sectors are pretty loving bad. I saw someone mention that they should be adding maps to Gambit and Crucible instead of updating Strikes and, while I 100% agree new maps is good, I wanna remind people that the vast, vast majority of players don't touch PvP. In previous seasons it was 10-15% of the player base on average. I'm not saying to ignore those modes, but the reality is PvE is the bread and butter, and Strikes are a huge part of that. A random player is not doing Grandmaster Nightfalls. Number wise I don't think most players touch any content that isn't match made. I would love more maps for those modes, and some life injected to Gambit (somehow) cause I love that mode (somehow). But relatively speaking, yeah, the base Vanguard Ops playlist is more important, and if I were a dev it's what I'd prefer to invest my money and effort into.
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Mar 22, 2023 22:03
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Thrilladrome boss in particular just seems like it's specifically designed to be a pain in the rear end
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Mar 22, 2023 22:06
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Two losses allowed on a Mercy passage seems like a major change to Trials.
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Mar 22, 2023 22:11
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Flawless!* (*mostly)
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Mar 22, 2023 22:13
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Do pass exclusive exotics like quicksilver get made available eventually? Quicksilver was a preorder exotic not a season pass one. pass exotics go to the kiosk in the tower between the vaults when the next expansion drops. No idea when exactly preorder ones start dropping after the campaign, maybe later this year if they aren’t already?
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Mar 22, 2023 22:23
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syntaxfunction posted:I wanna remind people that the vast, vast majority of players don't touch PvP. In previous seasons it was 10-15% of the player base on average. Source? For any of this? The live trackers typically show far more people in Control than in Strikes playlist. About 75% of Daily Sessions involve at least one PvP activity each daily session. Does it feel like Vanguard Ops Playlist has been receiving money or effort? This reminds me of the 'Only 5% of players Raid' statistic that people would throw out in the past. Is any of this based on anything?
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Mar 22, 2023 22:31
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:
literally yes? it's been getting seasonal battlegrounds which are mini (or maxi) strikes, they revamped two old strikes this season and they're doing more meanwhile pvp got no new maps in sk or bl, one in wq, and one next season for lf it's not quite as fridged as gambit since they're actually updating playlists and meta, but the lack of even just a map per season is painful as hell is you're dumb enough to be a destiny pvp fan (it's me, I'm that dumb)
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Mar 22, 2023 22:38
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Didn’t PvP get a new map in Shadowkeep? I’m pretty sure it was literally mentioned in the trailer? Also, https://twitter.com/destinybulletn/status/1638641334742564864?s=46&t=DT925tMY54SwGEv9vbPHUw
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Mar 22, 2023 22:39
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miss those days when PVP was 50% of destiny
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Mar 22, 2023 22:40
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haveblue posted:https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/lightfall-crucible-update Best part of this article: "Outside of some real noisiness in the lower skill brackets (there are fewer lower-skill but heavy PvP players), the average lines up well with the target and what we want to see. You might also notice a few strange dots: medium-to-low skill, but all the way up in the Ascendant or Adept ranks. We were super happy these players called themselves out to us, as we immediately knew there was either a serious bug, or something very fishy was going on. We’ve investigated their individual match history and issued permanent bans for win trading."
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Mar 22, 2023 22:42
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PERMACAV 50 posted:Didn’t PvP get a new map in Shadowkeep? I’m pretty sure it was literally mentioned in the trailer? I think you're right, fragment? I'm just really salty because I wanted Europa, Braytech and Neomuna pvp maps  Scarlet hive would have been another obvious one for SK, and how cool would seasonal maps have been for poo poo like splicer (... which we're getting now) and plunder
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Mar 22, 2023 22:44
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Still no Europa or Neptune PvP map. Also Bungie bringing back countdown but not supremacy is a major fail.
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Mar 22, 2023 22:53
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Verdugo posted:"We’ve investigated their individual match history and issued permanent bans for win trading."
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Mar 22, 2023 22:58
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Source? For any of this? I get it from a leak discord, don't worry, they have a 50% rate of being correct. If you check warmind.io (it's a three hour snapshot) there are indeed 25% of people in Iron Banner. And that's good, I like Iron Banner. It also is a special event so 25% is a reasonable amount. Crucible itself is 2% but ya know, that's pretty alright. 21% of people are doing story stuff, 20% are doing Nightfalls, 7% raids, 6% Vanguard Ops, etc etc. 75% of people doing one match doesn't mean that the mode occupies 75% of player time. In fact, I will concede that apparently Nightfalls are *way* more popular than I expected if I'm honest. So right now, with Iron Banner (and Trials was actually around 35%, because of Immortal I'd guess) the population in PvP is around 25%. So yeah, it's based on data from warmind.io (Charlemagne) which is generally pretty reputable. PvP definitely seems to be more popular, and that's good, but it is not nearly as filled as the whole rest of the game. Edit: Hey look I even took a screenshot for your reassurance.  I think the real takeaway is that a lot of people just do open world patrols and story missions. Also keep in mind the numbers these last two weeks are gonna be biased due to Trials and Iron Banner and won't represent the typical player engagement levels 
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Mar 22, 2023 23:04
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people want number go up with least brain action
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Mar 22, 2023 23:10
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I didn't read the essay but the image is loud and clear - PvP is King  Thank you!!
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Mar 22, 2023 23:23
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I didn't read the essay but the image is loud and clear - PvP is King lol you asked for a source and then ignored it because like 150 words is an essay. I didn't even say I thought PvP was bad (in fact I said the opposite). You're a special kind of guy.
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Mar 22, 2023 23:27
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the expansions and seasons contain barely any pvp content but it's controversial to some people that pvp is not a major focus for most players lol
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Mar 22, 2023 23:38
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are people just not playing these Defiant Battlegrounds? two times in a row I load into one with only one other person that it just afking... they're already hard even non-Legend so this is kinda bumming me out of it
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Mar 22, 2023 23:38
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I don't think it's even fair to compare the two. I get that they are an Exotic Engram icon on the map that gives a pinnacle each week, but apart from that you may as well be comparing Glimmer Extraction to Spire of the Watcher! Mostly agreed, particularly on the point that Avalon borders on a dungeon minus the loot. Though, I'd say Seraph wasn't that far off from Presage. Also, Presage even had some replayability in the form of the story progressing week to week like Avalon did. (I realize it's not in the game at the moment but nor is Seraph) I just feel like I never pull out Dead Messenger despite being a fan of wave frames because it doesn't really feel like it earns the exotic slot, and lack of autoloading makes me find it clunky to use for the way I use breach loaders in general. Vexcalibur feels like it might have some uses in wacky void survivability builds, but I'll admit I probably wont use it over legendaries very often either.
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Mar 22, 2023 23:39
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syntaxfunction posted:lol you asked for a source and then ignored it because like 150 words is an essay. I didn't even say I thought PvP was bad (in fact I said the opposite). You're a special kind of guy. Nah dogg there was just too much Data Massaging. First it was '15% play no pvp' then there's a jpeg showing 49% playing pvp, and then there's all this muck about how The Number is inflated by iron banner today and trials yesterday etc. Sometimes you just gotta let the numbers tell the story! I don't think either of us has said anything about PvP being Bad.
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Mar 22, 2023 23:40
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Nah dogg there was just too much Data Massaging. First it was '15% play no pvp' then there's a jpeg showing 49% playing pvp, and then there's all this muck about how The Number is inflated by iron banner today and trials yesterday etc. Sometimes you just gotta let the numbers tell the story! is this a bit?
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Mar 22, 2023 23:41
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Okay, only 2% of people played Crucible. The actual PvP mode, not the special event. So only 2% of people care about the standard PvP content in the game. That's the numbers. Edit: I get PvP is super important to you, but geez. I like Gambit so imagine how I felt when I found out only 3% of people play that. More than Crucible at least.
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Mar 22, 2023 23:43
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Do pass exclusive exotics like quicksilver get made available eventually? Osteo Striga was made available for people who didn’t get the Deluxe Edition of The Witch Queen in Season of the Haunted, so my guess is Quicksilver Storm will be available for the general public with Season of the Deep.
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Mar 22, 2023 23:53
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syntaxfunction posted:Okay, only 2% of people played Crucible. The actual PvP mode, not the special event. My poster in Christ I appreciate the opportunity to learn more about you, and to hear what modes cause you to feel which feelings, but we appear to be having two, parallel conversations. To me it does not seem reasonable to exclude Iron Banner when you're tallying up the PvP Population. It really feels like a PvP Mode, to me. Also I'm fairly certain it literally replaces Quickplay when it's around.
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Mar 23, 2023 00:07
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frajaq posted:are people just not playing these Defiant Battlegrounds? two times in a row I load into one with only one other person that it just afking... they're already hard even non-Legend so this is kinda bumming me out of it It's double vanguard ranks this week so that might be a factor
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Mar 23, 2023 00:11
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FlapYoJacks posted:Still no Europa or Neptune PvP map. Also Bungie bringing back countdown but not supremacy is a major fail. I really liked supremacy. It gave everyone something to do while playing clash.
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Mar 23, 2023 00:14
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Pirate Jet posted:Osteo Striga was made available for people who didn’t get the Deluxe Edition of The Witch Queen in Season of the Haunted, so my guess is Quicksilver Storm will be available for the general public with Season of the Deep. It's already at the exotic kiosk for me but I had preordered lightfall. i can see it being released to the public. another thing about the exotic kiosk. i never realized there were two. more. screens. for legacy gear. so all the extra ritual weapon skins that i missed since hunt can be bought. between that and using season pass pass to pick up a mess of old gear (that wound up putting my other two chars at around 1800 light level) today has been a good destiny day. now to ruin it by trying to play hard content on my warlock. Verdugo fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Mar 23, 2023 00:17
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neutral milf hotel posted:It's double vanguard ranks this week so that might be a factor Even if other playlists are more popular, you shouldn't be alone or down a player in a matchmade activity unless there are like, single-digit numbers of players in the queue. I'd guess it's a networking issue. On consoles I know there is a bug where sometimes you are straight up ghosted to the spirit world and you get put in your own Tower, strike, pvp match etc no matter how long you sit in orbit. A hard-reboot usually fixes it, but I don't know if PC has the same potential issues and fixes.
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Mar 23, 2023 00:27
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Turkey Farts posted:I really liked supremacy. It gave everyone something to do while playing clash. Yeah my perfect world would have a single node for Control - 40% Supremacy - 15% Zone Control - 15% Rift - 15% Clash - 15% I don't mind the existence of Alternate Sandbox Modes like Momentum Control, Mayhem, and Scorched, but they definitely shouldn't be mixed into the same hopper as Normal Crucible
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Mar 23, 2023 00:31
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syntaxfunction posted:Okay, only 2% of people played Crucible. The actual PvP mode, not the special event. 27% of the population was playing PvP at that time. 48% of people who logged in during a two-day window played at least some PvP. There is probably some increased interest this week due to IB, although that may be more pronounced as we get into the Friday-Monday period where you aren't time-locked on the IB challenges. IMO, most of the population plays PvP at least sometimes, but also most aren't PvP-focused; for me, I usually only engage with it when there's something beyond just doing it for its own sake to get out of it. So I spammed Mayhem matches to rank up my rep so I could get the ritual weapon, this week I'll be doing a bunch of Momentum Control to work on the MIDA catalyst and weekly challenge, and IB for pinnacles and title gilding, then ignore PvP until it's double-rep for Trials.
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Mar 23, 2023 00:35
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:My poster in Christ I appreciate the opportunity to learn more about you, and to hear what modes cause you to feel which feelings, but we appear to be having two, parallel conversations. Ok so 27% of people are in pvp, on the first week of a new activity with new loot to earn, and 73% of the player base is not
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Mar 23, 2023 00:35
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Gadzuko posted:I imagine that new players must exist in a constant state of utter confusion at this point, I doubt Titan coming back would make much difference tbh. Imagine logging in to Destiny for the first time ever and the Lightfall cutscene plays lol I’m barely hanging on and I only missed the last year
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Mar 23, 2023 00:36
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Pirate Jet posted:Osteo Striga was made available for people who didn’t get the Deluxe Edition of The Witch Queen in Season of the Haunted, so my guess is Quicksilver Storm will be available for the general public with Season of the Deep. Oh rad, I only just realised I could get Osteo Striga and I've been having a blast melting adds with necro/striga/strand
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Mar 23, 2023 00:37
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:
Yeah, this happened to me last week on PC. I thought I'd run the solo mode script and forgotten. Had to restart to fix it.
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Mar 23, 2023 00:38
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I don't mind the existence of Alternate Sandbox Modes like Momentum Control, Mayhem, and Scorched, but they definitely shouldn't be mixed into the same hopper as Normal Crucible Good news, those are the modes specifically called out as being moved to the brand new Fun Crucible playlist in today's post
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Mar 23, 2023 01:15
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Finally got through the legend lost sector, and Abeyant Leaps with a decent roll dropped so I’m never doing that poo poo again.
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Gadzuko posted:Ok so 27% of people are in pvp, on the first week of a new activity with new loot to earn, and 73% of the player base is not Wouldn't it be a little bit more accurate to say, 'PvP is currently the most popular and populated mode in the game' ? The way you phrased it makes it look like you're saying PvP Players Are The Minority
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