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Welcome to Destiny THE GAME IS FREE TO PLAY ON STEAM https://store.steampowered.com/app/1085660/Destiny_2/ I DONT WANT TO READ I JUST WANT TO PLAY Get the heck into a clan or at least join one (or multiple) discords for this game. This game is extremely difficult to learn on your own, because Bungie doesn't tell you how stuff works. Join one of the goon discords for this game. Seriously, you will not regret it. Also, we all use discord because the social features in this game kinda suck. Serious Overchill: https://www.discord.gg/srsoc (Destiny chat takes place in the #d2- channels. READ THE PINS) Marvelous Pro Elite Gaming Society: https://discord.gg/kV2HaFf European Goon Squad: https://discord.gg/RY47zzn Multi platform Destiny Goons: https://discord.gg/BsVpZ3Y Mix and Mingle with these groups. Each discord has their own clan (or clans, since there is a 100 person limit for ingame clans), but we all play together as one big happy goony family. RETURNING TO THE GAME? READ THIS RIGHT HERE Destiny 2: Beyond Light is the newest expansion! It was going to be Destiny 3, but they decided to just make it Destiny 2. It takes place on the frozen moon of Europa and you are finally fighting the Darkness. And using the Darkness. Really, we still have no idea what is going on but the story is moving forward. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: If you haven't played since Destiny 2 was on Battle.net, all your poo poo was deleted back in December. You're starting fresh on Steam! "I've just come back and all the planets are gone!": Yep. Bungie went and 'vaulted' a bunch of destinations. They've said they'll be back, but we'll see when. They did add Europa and Cosmodrome though. Come play the expansion with us! Beyond Light features a lot of new content, new subclasses with the STASIS element (Ice powers!). A new campaign, story, raid, two planets, strikes, return of D1 favorites, some awesome new exotics... It's a meaty expansion. Seriously, Check out the new classes: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/Destiny/BeyondLight/stasis Titan, Behemoth: https://youtu.be/nrbF7MWJ8JA Hunter, Revenant: https://youtu.be/gS5jlS8aAcM Warlock, Shadebinder: https://youtu.be/Mcwyz09Q--o Also, the Exo Stranger is back. Maybe she has time to explain now. I'M BRAND NEW AND JUST DOWNLOADED. WHAT DO I DO? First of all, if you are new, Welcome! Destiny 2 is MMO Looter Shooter made by Bungie. The game has great shooter gunplay, but the MMO features could be better. The game is Free To Play. There is a bunch of stuff you can do as a free player (it's most of the game actually), but some stuff you cannot do. The game is split into Expansions, which contain a lions share of the content, and Seasons, which are $10 and often only have a small paid part. Despite the game being Free To Play, it's generally a good idea to buy the latest expansion (in this case, Beyond Light). A majority of the playerbase will be doing the stuff in that expansion, and if you enjoy the game the expansions are always worth buying. The Free Stuff: Access to every planet (Destination) Every Strike in the playlist Full access to every PvP mode and map. Full access to Gambit (a pvpve mode) The Cosmodrome Campaign A good 70% of the current season The Not Free Stuff: Europa Campaign (Beyond Light) Moon Campaign (Shadowkeep) Tangled Shore Campaign (Forsaken) Raids (BL, Skeep, Forsaken) Assorted Exotic Weapons (BL, Skeep, Forsaken) IF YOU ARE NEW, PLAY THE INTRO CAMPAIGN Bungie has traditionally been extremely garbage at introducing new players to this game. The new campaign is [much better/the same/even more garbage], but it's important to play through to understand this game's systems. Once you've done that (or even before you've done that), Join one or more of the Destiny discords above. What are the classes? In Destiny 2, you can pick from 3 different types of space wizards. They are: Titan The Muscle Wizard. Titans are the wall. They are the shield. They are the fist. Basically, Titans are all about hitting things. They are your space marine archtype, as much as that exists in this game. Most of your defensive abilities are around creating barriers for your team, and offensive abilities are about hitting your opponents with a variety of objects like your fist, your shoulder, your entire body, or a hammer. Warlock The Float Wizard. They are smart. They have a lot of tools. They fly. Basically, Warlocks are the utility and ability focused class. Every subclass does a lot of stuff, from everything to a support build to "I literally fly" build. You can place down a well that keeps everyone alive, or throw a massive ball of death energy at someone. Or a gigantic kamehameha. Hunter The Knife Wizard. They are shady. They are quick. They dodge away from committments. Basically, Hunters are your sneaky scout class. They are all about moving quickly, stealthily, and then hitting hard once they are in position. Their abilities range from super stealthy stabby runny, to one massive single shot flaming pistol. They can throw knives and smoke bombs, or blind someone with a slap. art credit: https://twitter.com/elesirart What the gently caress is going on with the story of this game Basically, a giant machine god came to our solar system and started terraforming planets. It was a ball, because this game is about, at it's core, balls. Then a bunch of non-ball machine gods showed up and blew everything up. In it's dying breath, the good ball gave us all super powers. Now we are super powered space wizards fighting for a ball against a bunch of pyramids. There is a lot more to the lore of the game (It's actually pretty good!), but it's hard to get into. Bungie has made the lore more accessable in game, but the best place to find it is on the website Ishtar Collective. https://twitter.com/merrittk/status/1191038151923556352?s=21 What can you do in this game? This game is a constant generator for crazy, silly, and hilariously fun things. The physics in this game have barely improved from Halo 1. The enemies occasionally do absurd things. Death is cheap, so you die in the most hilarious and crazy ways. You are a loving space wizard, and you have magical powers in additon to just shooting things. The game has a very vibrant community that has an extremely love/hate relationship with the game, but it's fundamentally fun! Here are some snippets of stuff that we do in this game: https://i.imgur.com/qGPCZoB.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/mo4Ebps.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/ShLtny5.mp4 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/343995630290599936/764565284026581032/ABM.mp4 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/343995630290599936/719713242728890388/wizard-goes-to-the-moon.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/uY5fail.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/BeiIms5.mp4 Drawn by our very own brian...? (https://twitter.com/rainbowfission) Helpful Resources Destiny is really bad at explaining it's mechanics, so we've collected a useful array of helpful bits of information for how stuff works. Look forward to seeing you in game guardian! RocketRaygun fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jul 22, 2021 |
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Confirm Deny?
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I'm so ready to drop in the cold zone! For anyone that's coming back this weekend before BL drops, do the Traveller's Chosen quest if you can! Great gun and a fun quest to send off the sunsetting content.
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Gonna gently caress Europa in Bungie's Destiny 2: BLight
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Ding. DING. Ding! DING! Fallen! On the horizon!
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Game bad. Still playing it.
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I can't believe you would go posting smooth drifter like this. How could you spread this evil.
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THATS HOW YOU DO THE DREAMING ITY HEROIC EVENT GOD DAMNIT Other than that, good OP, OP.
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please remember to include the http://www.fightinglion.club in the OP, OP. Thanks
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xzzy posted:Game bad. Remember everyone, Clovis Bray eats pigs made of himself.
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quote:I'm a year out of date what's up with this and do they go with the good plan to crash things into the triangle
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Obligatum VII posted:I can't believe you would go posting smooth drifter like this. How could you spread this evil. It can only be defeated by unsmooth Zavala RBA Starblade posted:I'm a year out of date what's up with this and do they go with the good plan to crash things into the triangle We don't know and God I hope
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RBA Starblade posted:I'm a year out of date what's up with this and do they go with the good plan to crash things into the triangle It's new! We'll find out in the next season.
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Obligatum VII posted:I can't believe you would go posting smooth drifter like this. How could you spread this evil. The op has been struck by... a smooth drifter.
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I played a ton of Shadowkeep and then didn't play at all in 2020. Are all my guns like retired or whatever now?
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Drop it, rock it, down the room, shake it, quake it, space KABOOM! https://i.imgur.com/qGPCZoB.mp4
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MMF Freeway posted:I played a ton of Shadowkeep and then didn't play at all in 2020. Are all my guns like retired or whatever now? Sorta. They're gonna get bumped to 1050 on tuesday but everything you own sans exotics wont go higher than that, so no good for high end PvE or Trials. They can still be used in crucible and gambit fine.
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Not pictured: separate chart dedicated to how much of a loser Nokris is because he can't even do sword logic right.
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Mostly still a newb here - are the warlock legs on Xur this week any good? Promethium Spur I think? I do like running around doing random open world stuff, and the effect seems like it could be useful there, but it only proccing during Daybreak usually just means most stuff is dead anyway. Maybe it’s for harder content like bosses with adds?
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Guardians in four days: https://i.imgur.com/G3WHt27.mp4
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Anno posted:Mostly still a newb here - are the warlock legs on Xur this week any good? Promethium Spur I think? I do like running around doing random open world stuff, and the effect seems like it could be useful there, but it only proccing during Daybreak usually just means most stuff is dead anyway. Maybe it’s for harder content like bosses with adds? I use 'em. I like them quite a bit actually. But I also think that dawnblade is so good it doesn't need exotics to help it, so i just kinda enjoy doing goofy poo poo for everyone. EDIT: I also fixed the gifs in the OP, which weren't embedding correctly. More funny poo poo.
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So long, Infinite Forest https://i.imgur.com/GmBMH6A.mp4
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RocketRaygun posted:It's new! We'll find out in the next season. Oh boy! I did some Deepest Lore reading looking around and wow they're actually doing things with the plot finally lol, maybe I'll step back in. I never did a raid in 2 besides Leviathan though
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Oh, yeah. It may have been missed with the closing of the last thread, but the BL ARG is going right now and it's dropping some real lore. Origins of the Exos and waaaaay more. We're in for a ride on this expac.
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It was the best of games, it was the worst of games
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RocketRaygun posted:Useful Destiny Resources: Self quote, because I made the posting sin of actually using the reserved post for something.
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Maybe it's the beer talking, Sweeper Bot, but you got a butt that won't quit. Has anyone confirmed when the pre-BLight event goes live?
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RocketRaygun posted:Oh, yeah. It may have been missed with the closing of the last thread, but the BL ARG is going right now and it's dropping some real lore. Origins of the Exos and waaaaay more. Read my more lore. My mlore
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Its gooooood. write more clovis bray. He's a character I absolutely love to hate.
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General Battuta posted:Read my more lore. My mlore There's someone who gets corrupted by Vex juice and starts seeing an invisible woman, who's trying to get them to give the Vex darkness stuff.
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Do I come back for freezing balls? Decisions decisions.
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we are going Beyond Balls
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Oof I have like 3 days to go pop all them eyeballs. Anyone gonna be on late tonight (say 11Eastern?)
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Yeah. That's about one of the core timezones. If you need to get a Prophecy group together hit up the overchill discord's lfg channel.
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please do not post beardless drifter
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hey guys i havent played since shadowkeep season 1, is this going to be good
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just learned the person who wrote the new CE lore is the same as the Book of Sorrows. Amazing stuff through and through goon!
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behold, my old lore post, maybe I'll do one for the chilly fallen and pyramids. I'd also like to find my explanation of vault of glass from the very first d1 thread for when that ocmes backMazerunner posted:thing is there's not really an easy "here's the deal" type info dump. it's all different stories kind of dark souls style
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