Bobby Deluxe posted:

It's weird from a ludonarrative perspective as well - every time over the last 2 years you jumped off behind The Big Giant Head, you got instakilled from fall damage, except now you can jump down there because reasons.

If they do remove falling damage it'll make the situation with long-looking drops even weirder. Some long falls instakill you. Some long falls (like the pre-gorgon drop in VoG) don't, because they were designed for you to use your doublejump. Some will now presumably be designed for you to fall and take no damage. You have no way of knowing which is which.

Kith posted:

it's also getting reduced in power so "it's strong now and that's why it needs to be nerfed with a cost increase" doesn't really fly

Smoove posted:

Any Steam/Destiny gurus that may know a workaround for this. (when you uninstall on steam with cross play it takes it off console too it seems?)
Trying to find what is going on with online fixes and just had to download again on Xbox.

For whatever reason uninstalling both Steam and D2 it keeps pausing the update. Nothing I’ve found online has worked short of going into BIOS settings and playing with those.

Interestingly enough, other stuff on steam loads fine like AimBot though it likes to freeze up too, maybe time to put the rig down and replace it? I’m just massively confused on how it was running so good but now it’s trash.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Champ discussions are weird because you can spend as much time as you like carefully wording why they aren't fun, are fundamentally a cockblock, force you to use specific guns in the game who's reward structure is 'give you loads of different guns,' and specific ones are even less fun than others (looking at you overload captains and shield servitors); and you still get a bunch of weird little guys coming out of the woodwork to go "ah no they're easy to deal with, you just need to [all the things you just said weren't fun]".

abraham linksys posted:

i do sometimes think people underestimate the ability of people to complete objectives when the game is clear enough about them. ff14 has a matchmaking pool of like 60+ instances that all have slightly different stuff going on and everything is role-based and yet i feel like i can count on one hand the number of times ive had to straight up abandon a dungeon because someone wasn't doing their poo poo

that said: destiny dungeons/raids i think could never really be matchmaking friendly because of how necessary voice chat and callouts are; that's not how ff14 instances work outside of endgame. you definitely have to play a role and nail your mechanics but you do not have to do any real communication. i do think experimenting with harder matchmade content is great, though - i convinced a friend to come play the witch queen free weekend and plunk down ten bucks for seraph and he was super impressed at the heist battlegrounds, it's really the missing "heroic" difficulty in a lot of ways

ponzicar posted:

I've never played Destiny 1, but I get the impression that it was filled to the brim with grindy rng based bullshit and that people's fondness for it is a form of Stockholm syndrome.

Meiteron posted:

I want a raid encounter that forces someone to 1v1 a Tormentor for a mechanic, I'd take that job every single time.

abraham linksys posted:

easier when you are owned by a publisher who puts at least two support studios on the game

maybe Sony will throw someone at final shape but they're not really a support studio kind of company like activision or Ubisoft

victrix posted:

nope, not only is there no real need, they've stated they're not increasing the power cap this year afaik, so once you cap out you don't need to think about it until the final parallelogram comes out

Oxyclean posted:

Kith posted:

its ok to have things be a tolerable difficulty once in a while. like dsc.

Oxyclean posted:

Nez did not feel like the cakewalk he was made out to be, but we maybe didn't have the best damage strategy and there might be a few mechanics kinks to still work out.

MJeff posted:

Lol wait what's this about getting his community to spam somebody

Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:

Funnily enough every time it’s not like that and things are made accessible or to not require you play Destiny exclusively, the usual suspects (streamers, YouTubers, Redditors who import their opinions wholesale from the former) pitch a fit

Spanish Manlove posted:

You guys are really dumb. The issue was that contest mode, a thing made to be a challenge, wasn't a challenge. That's it. That's all they're complaining about.

Waroduce posted:

I have thoughts i'll fart into the wind about the raid but Master mode has a weapons surge and the presence of champions which mean you just roll an aeons or 2 and heavy everything to death. I unironically believe that you'll get through master maining just a MG and be fine. Enemies also do NOT have more health and are NOT harder to stun so it will be much easier than contest which is.....dissapointing.

I also agree with everything datto said so

Pirate Jet posted:

gently caress you too.

If this means Bungie has to reconsider the mutators on Master then fine - the central point is that having an aspirational challenge that players only have a day or two to actually do is an inherently stupid idea. Even several streamers have admitted they hate the grind race in the first week and a half of an expansion to be able to compete in contest mode. If they want to put themselves through it for bragging rights on how fast they can do the raid after launch, be my guest, but it shouldn’t be a requirement to ever be able to do it. This isn’t even getting into how the placement race is already its own kind of challenge.

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

I have no idea how good they were but the black armoury stuff had some of the coolest design in the game imo

Kith posted:

solo master campaign missions are such a loving slog, christ almighty

shoutout to the insanely aggressive and nearly immortal wyverns that can one-shot you through 100 res and double void resist

additional shoutout to the even more aggressive and even more durable boss wyvern that attacks twice as fast

tertiary shoutout to the boss hydra that spams void explosions like it's going out of loving style, all of which one-shot you

last but not least, all three champion types being present, plus tormentors, drastically restricting your loadout more than match game + champs ever did

god tormentors suck so fuckin bad

Roctavian posted:

New shader in the bright dust shop today just doesn't resemble its icon at all, and I know that's a theme with shaders but this is completely giving up on a visual language.

Hackan Slash posted:

Definitely wait for a sale, that content isn't going anywhere. I don't think there's a "complete" legacy pack, there's one that gives forsaken/shadowkeep/beyond light and then stand alone witch queen. There's also the thirtieth anniversary, and last seasons dungeon pass.

Imo witch queen has the way better campaign, but the other pack has way more items and another subclass.

The dungeon pass is a fun 10 dollar buy if you can find someone to go through it with you, same with thirtieth. But for solo play it's not a great idea.

haveblue posted:

None of D2 Stadia's data was actually hosted on Stadia, it was all the same Bungie-controlled backend servers as the other platforms. They depended on the platforms to do authentication that proves the user controlled that platform account and therefore should be allowed to access the corresponding game account. Cross-save just let you override that so you could route your PSN login to a character you had created through Stadia if you could prove you controlled both accounts. With the Stadia service shut down, there's no longer any way to prove you control the Stadia character, so you can't log into it or re-establish the cross-save override. So yes, the Stadia characters most likely still exist, just in a dead database that users have no path to

I went looking to see if Bungie had ever announced a plan to rescue Stadia characters by allowing some way to reassign them to other platforms, but they don't seem to have ever made any announcement about that. Even aside from the technical obstacles, there's probably a major risk of mistakes or intentional account theft there, and if it's not something the database was originally intended to do it may involve a significant amount of work and/or downtime to pull it off

neutral milf hotel posted:

Problem is you can't really move characters to other platforms. You just link them together

Dark_Swordmaster posted:

Is 80 hours post Lightfall too much to refund it?

SmallpoxJenkins posted:

Let's not pretend there wasn't an era where everyone was loving off the second they loaded into Exodus Crash, for like a year or however long it was.

FlapYoJacks posted:

Windows 11 gets a security fix – but it has broken some PC games

TLDR: Bungie has been too lazy to update BattlEye, and now it's broken with the latest version of Windows 10 and 11.

FlapYoJacks posted:

EVERY DAY I WAKE UP AND PALM SLAM A COCK AND BALLS INTO YOUR FACE

DancingShade posted:

One of the factors in banning players in any online game is how much hard currency they spend. Maybe Sir VAC-ban-a-lot open his/her wallet a lot and the back end just lets them pass.