Destiny 2 Console Thread: Just eat his ass you bitch

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Kilometers Davis: Jul 9, 2007; They begin again

Vintersorg posted:

Destiny needs to embrace its pulpy scifi roots more.

They really should, it's the best thing about Destiny. I want to see some Moebius poo poo asap

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:10

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 22:10

Waffle House: Oct 27, 2004; You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.

Maker Of Shoes posted:

Autorifle
Pulse Rifle
Sidearm
Sniper
Hunter Cloak
2 stack of 2 different Trials shaders
Standard emblem, flawless emblem

Flawless on our first card.

N O I C E if you get a chance later post pics, I haven't seen the AR, Pulse, or Cloak, the emblems, or the shaders.

Kilometers Davis posted:

They really should, it's the best thing about Destiny. I want to see some Moebius poo poo asap

I'm not sure how literal you're being, :v:

but The Spire definitely gave me some good ol' HighFrenchSciFi feels:

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:10

Waffle House: Oct 27, 2004; You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.

edit: whoops, too excited, doublepost

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:12

Maker Of Shoes: Sep 4, 2006; AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

The spire (including mega space flawless man) feels decidedly less epic than the Lighthouse. The 'sink into the butthole' entry was a little....uh, well that was a thing.

Waffle House posted:

N O I C E if you get a chance later post pics, I haven't seen the AR, Pulse, or Cloak, the emblems, or the shaders.

Sure. I edited my post, forgot I got the helmet too. The helmet is actually pretty choice looking

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:14

GoGoGadgetChris: Mar 18, 2010; i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

That's not a lady?!

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:19

Zedsdeadbaby: Jun 14, 2008; You have been called out, in the ways of old.

Raid spoilers/lovely opinion time

I ran the raid today, did it from start to finish. I really enjoyed it, but I think if the Destiny raids were sorted into tiers, Leviathan would be somewhere near the bottom.

It's extremely technically polished, the developers have clearly put thousands of man hours into making it. But I think that was part of the problem. The encounters are overly complex and finicky in the small details. A clear example of the finicky, unforgiving aspect is the gauntlet - on some tries a couple of players both shot the same arrow together, and didn't adjust in time to make them go green, so it was a wipe. We had to spend a couple of tries drilling each player - shootest the highest/lowest possible arrow on your quarter, or it's a wipe if you both shoot the same arrow. We had dozens of wipes or so - but when we drilled all the extra tiny details down we all agreed it was in fact the easiest encounter of the lot, but you literally can't gently caress up not even one little thing. That's a general theme in this raid and for me personally it's a little excessive. Think of all the choreography and constant radio comms of Kingsfall, and then double the intensity. I was mentally exhausted by the end of it.

If one guy messes up, it's extremely hard to recover from it. Most of the time it's a wipe. The over reliance on puzzle fights along with the sole boss fight makes it a little disappointing. I loved the boss fights of Kingsfall and WOTM. There's nothing thrilling like the GO GO GO! damage phase on bosses where everyone's just unleashing hell on the bad guy. Calus was very satisfying on this front at least. Hopefully the next raid will have more boss fights.

It will obviously get easier as players get more familiar with it, but if Bungie's stated aim was to make raids more approachable and 'casual', they failed abysmally. Guided games will not help for poo poo. For the rest of us tryhards who raid every week - it's good stuff.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:21

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Shout out to my Bone Brothers for making Rat Kings Crew happen, also for letting me find out you can forcibly insert yourself i to other peoples fireteams.

Take that privacy

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:34

Maker Of Shoes: Sep 4, 2006; AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

That's not a lady?!

Trials announcer lady wants the d

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:34

GoGoGadgetChris: Mar 18, 2010; i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

Maker Of Shoes posted:

Trials announcer lady wants the d

(D)own payment on my next flawless run?!

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:34

Sancho: Jul 18, 2003

actionjackson posted:

Anyone else get tone patrol? Seems similar to nameless midnight but it's elemental.

I just got it but I think I like my manonman better

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:36

Mazerunner: Apr 22, 2010; Good Hunter, what... what is this post?

Mithross posted:

Cayde's taken king journal specifically says he was flesh and bone once, that he had a heart beat. It's also meant to be slightly unreliable, but that's a pretty big fact and probably is beyond the scope of "slightly unreliable"

Which is bungie for "we are pretty sure we want this to be canon but we aren't 100% sure we won't change our minds in 3 years"

there's also some stuff about Cayde talking to his son(?) about how this is his only option, he needs the money or something

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:37

Calaveron: Aug 7, 2006

Have they said which race the first expansion is going to focus on

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:49

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

Calaveron posted:

Have they said which race the first expansion is going to focus on

It's themed around Osiris so probably the Vex

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:50

GoGoGadgetChris: Mar 18, 2010; i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

There's a lot of Vex Mystery going on, including a reference to Exos being able to tap into the Vex Network.

I don't have time to explain who might be coming back.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:51

Mithross: Apr 27, 2011; Intelligent and bright, they explored a world that was new and strange to them. They liked it, they thought - a whole world just for them! They were dimly aware that a God had created them, was watching them; they called out to him, thanking him in a chittering language, before running off.

Calaveron posted:

Have they said which race the first expansion is going to focus on

The Vex, I think. There's an adventure on Nessus where you get a little greeting from Osiris through the Vex network, and the next expansion is called Curse of Osiris

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:52

thebardyspoon: Jun 30, 2005

Zedsdeadbaby posted:

Raid spoilers/lovely opinion time

Yeah I agree with most of this, sometimes it's not even a mistake that fucks you, there's like weird physics poo poo and stuff that will just wipe you. I'm dreading the inevitable time that happens near the end of Calus.

Calaveron posted:

Have they said which race the first expansion is going to focus on

The Vex probably, it's all about Osiris, Ikora and the "Infinite Forest". They haven't had much focus since being the main bad guys of the initial Destiny 1 story so it makes sense to swing back round to them.

thebardyspoon fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Sep 16, 2017

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:52

Mithross: Apr 27, 2011; Intelligent and bright, they explored a world that was new and strange to them. They liked it, they thought - a whole world just for them! They were dimly aware that a God had created them, was watching them; they called out to him, thanking him in a chittering language, before running off.

That adventure is worth doing, actually. It's got some interesting information. It implies that the Vex actually like/accept Ghosts and it's just Guardians they object to.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:56

GoGoGadgetChris: Mar 18, 2010; i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

They tell the Ghost to ditch the guardian and "Come home"

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:59

Ugly In The Morning: Jul 1, 2010; Pillbug

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

There's a lot of Vex Mystery going on, including a reference to Exos being able to tap into the Vex Network.

I don't have time to explain who might be coming back.

There's a mention that they're not all robot, either, so with their love of time travel fuckery I'm expecting them to be humans/exos from the bad future where humanity took a bargain with the darkness instead of being visited by the traveller

# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:59

RBA Starblade: Apr 28, 2008; Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

When's the next time Trials will come around? I want the cheevo but can't do the pvp this weekend.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:01

Zedsdeadbaby: Jun 14, 2008; You have been called out, in the ways of old.

RBA Starblade posted:

When's the next time Trials will come around? I want the cheevo but can't do the pvp this weekend.

I think it's every weekend (Friday-Monday) like the original trials.

This is the schedule for the game's first month.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:04

Funkmaster General: Sep 13, 2008; Hey, man, I distinctly remember this being an episode of Spongebob.

Zedsdeadbaby posted:

A clear example of the finicky, unforgiving aspect is the gauntlet - on some tries a couple on players both shot the same arrow together, and didn't adjust in time to make them go green, so it was a wipe. We had to spend a couple of tries drilling each player - shootest the highest/lowest possible arrow on your quarter, or it's a wipe if you both shoot the same arrow.

It isn't a wipe if the arrows go red. The player in the tunnel can still move ahead, he just doesn't get his buff reupped. Just keep going if it goes red. You can afford to gently caress up one or even two gates per side each rotation, as long as you don't gently caress up twice in a row, and the guy inside gets to the next gate quickly.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:05

Loving Leader: Sep 17, 2004; HOT PIE COMIN THROUGH

We're running through the raid on our third characters tonight. Only 4 of us have a third, so we will need two more... Message me on PSN: BaxterFied if you want in. We will start "around" 9EST.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:05

RBA Starblade: Apr 28, 2008; Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Zedsdeadbaby posted:

I think it's every weekend (Friday-Monday) like the original trials.

Oh cool, I'll just do it next week then.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:05

Mazerunner: Apr 22, 2010; Good Hunter, what... what is this post?

Ugly In The Morning posted:

There's a mention that they're not all robot, either, so with their love of time travel fuckery I'm expecting them to be humans/exos from the bad future where humanity took a bargain with the darkness instead of being visited by the traveller

the vex are literally the white milk goop, like millions upon billions of tiny microscopic organisms that pilot robot shells around

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:05

Emron: Aug 2, 2005

actionjackson posted:

Anyone else get tone patrol? Seems similar to nameless midnight but it's elemental.

I've been using mine nonstop. It's great in crucible too.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:08

Zedsdeadbaby: Jun 14, 2008; You have been called out, in the ways of old.

Tone Patrol is seriously pretty great, I love the dragonfly perk on it.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:12

JorgeHWB: Jan 15, 2016; Aww, ugly duckling...
bawk-bawk

Maker Of Shoes posted:

Trials announcer lady wants the d

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

(D)own payment on my next flawless run?!

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:14

pulp rag: Feb 25, 2013; AGDQ 2018 Awful Block Survivor

I ended up snagging a random Curtain Call, and it has become my "gently caress this poo poo" button.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:14

RBA Starblade: Apr 28, 2008; Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

50 smg kills while airborne? God drat it. At least the mini-tool can help for that.

How's the Tarantula? A "Linear fusion rifle" sounds pretty good.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:14

PathAsc: Nov 15, 2011; Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Some Zero posted:

You can just change the element type for some glimmer with mods.

I know, but I want to just have them all with +5 on them. Aim high etc.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:15

Ugly In The Morning: Jul 1, 2010; Pillbug

Mazerunner posted:

the vex are literally the white milk goop, like millions upon billions of tiny microscopic organisms that pilot robot shells around

Yeah, I get that, I'm saying that with the foreshadowing that exos used to be human, and the semi-organic nature of the vex as well, I'm totally expecting that white milk good to be human minds from way in the future after accepting one of the darkness' immortality deals like the Hive did.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:16

Zedsdeadbaby: Jun 14, 2008; You have been called out, in the ways of old.

RBA Starblade posted:

50 smg kills while airborne? God drat it. At least the mini-tool can help for that.

How's the Tarantula? A "Linear fusion rifle" sounds pretty good.

Linear fusion rifles are really great, hard to come by a high level one though.

The mini tool quest isn't as bad as it sounds. You can just jump and shoot until you land again. It's surprisingly easy and quick. Kill the dregs at the Exodus Black fast travel point.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:20

Kilometers Davis: Jul 9, 2007; They begin again

Waffle House posted:

I'm not sure how literal you're being, but The Spire definitely gave me some good ol' HighFrenchSciFi feels:

Nah I'm dead serious, I love bizarre weirdo scifi

That's super cool, it's a shame I'm too bad to ever see it in my own game.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:21

pulp rag: Feb 25, 2013; AGDQ 2018 Awful Block Survivor

Also, just joined the thread. I gotta post my PSN tag to be accepted into [KINK] or nah?

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:22

Calaveron: Aug 7, 2006

Why come Ashen Mir doesn't kill himself and regenerate into a guy with two regular awoken arms instead of being a guy who sucks with one gimpy vex arm

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:23

Coldforge: Oct 29, 2002; I knew it would be bad.
I didn't know it would be so stupid.

Calaveron posted:

Why come Ashen Mir doesn't kill himself and regenerate into a guy with two regular awoken arms instead of being a guy who sucks with one gimpy vex arm

Because he's the worst character in Destiny 2.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:29

Funkmaster General: Sep 13, 2008; Hey, man, I distinctly remember this being an episode of Spongebob.

Calaveron posted:

Why come Ashen Mir doesn't kill himself and regenerate into a guy with two regular awoken arms instead of being a guy who sucks with one gimpy vex arm

He isn't a gaurdian. He doesn't have a ghost.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:30

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!

Calaveron posted:

Why come Ashen Mir doesn't kill himself and regenerate into a guy with two regular awoken arms instead of being a guy who sucks with one gimpy vex arm

because he's obsessed with the Vex and his experience in Pyramidion left him with a uniqueness that gives him insight into the object of his obsession??

Funkmaster General posted:

He isn't a gaurdian. He doesn't have a ghost.

Yes he is, and he does

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:31

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 22:10

Coldforge: Oct 29, 2002; I knew it would be bad.
I didn't know it would be so stupid.

Funkmaster General posted:

He isn't a gaurdian. He doesn't have a ghost.

He talks about going with his fireteam to the Pyramidium and having to resurrect multiple times :shrug:

# ? Sep 16, 2017 21:31

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