Mazerunner posted:

important with Grasp is that getting 10 treasures refills your abilities- lets you use them for faster clears or for an emergency button.

congrats and good luck

Kith posted:

this is like the sixth or seventh time since season of plunder launched that i've had the game just poo poo itself at random and require reinstallation. there doesn't appear to be any consistent reason for it, either - sometimes it's in the middle of a fight, sometimes it's running around an empty room. utterly baffling.

https://i.imgur.com/MMdgXS7.mp4

Kith posted:

been on this screen for the better part of an hour. very cool

i originally thought that but the past three times it's happened have been on a SSD that's less than two months old with a fresh install (since i did not trust simply moving the files)

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]".

syntaxfunction posted:

Double post because the more I read into the post the more I feel this is a far lesser issue than thought.

To account for Surges and Overcharges they have increased enemy health and ability to be staggered. How much, we don't know. Could be 5%, could be 100%, no idea.

With the way Surges have been specified to work they increase the elemental damage of the SURGIN element. So if we're rolling Strand (all season) and Void then we're getting +25% damage to abilities of that element as well as weapons of that element.

It seems a little restrictive, until you add in Overcharged weapons. These explicitly do NOT stack with SURGIN. Overcharged weapons also give +25% damage. Kinetics receive the boost if your subclass is a SURGIN one. But that doesn't mean that you need to be SURGIN to get the Kinetic boost. This is because they have specified Overcharged weapons come from Artifact Champ weapons and activity selection.

Given we get roughly 6 artifact weapon archetypes each season (and I expect that to continue) then at least six archetypes are going to receive +25% damage increases, regardless of Kinetic or Energy and regardless of the element type. And again, this doesn't stack when you're SURGIN, so you're getting the boost from being a champ weapon OR from SUGARIN.

And then there's activity weapons. It could be one archetype, or two (as Dares has sometimes), so we're probably getting at least one additional archetype that gets a big boost.

Between all these as far as weapons go it will probably be difficult to not get a 25% buff to all weapon damage. The real pain is whether you get the boost to your ability damage based on whether your subclass is SARGIN or not.

And until we know how much health they're giving the enemies we don't know if it's even an issue.

PERMACAV 50 posted:

Hackan Slash posted:

I don't know why people want the spike/explosive light combo so much. GL impact/blast damage ratio scales with blast radius, explosive light sets maximum blast radius, so spike do the minimum possible damage

syntaxfunction posted:

Y'all realise Surges are in the game, right now? Like, in Nightfalls even. Warden of Nothing has Acute Solar Burn as a modifier right now. Like, I'm looking right at Master and Grandmasters and they both have Acute Solar Burn. So in Nightfalls and Grandmasters get +25% to all Solar damage, including if they run Solar as their subclass.

Why have I never heard people complain about this and mention how this forces you to run solar in Nightfalls and Grandmasters? Grandmasters are already -25 delta so this means literally everyone runs Solar because why would you do 25% less damage right? Literally no one has run this Nightfall not as Solar, right?

haveblue posted:

It's not so much about the difficulty as it is about the comms. Voice chat cannot be effectively policed to stop people from having a bad experience, there are too many intentional assholes, too many oblivious dipshits, and no way to automate discipline at scale. If there is voice chat, there must be someone with a kick button who can respond quickly, if only for the chilling social effect. Matchmade groups can't have a kick feature because there's no way to make that fair and untrollable. Therefore, matchmade groups cannot have voice.

Dungeons can be beaten without voice if everyone knows what they're doing, but three strangers learning a dungeon without voice, simultaneously, is not a reasonable ask and it would be irresponsible of Bungie to put a button in the director that dropped players into that situation. So dungeons cannot have automatic matchmaking

Same argument for raids, only more so, because you don't even have the option of skilled players going through the motions with no comms, most raid encounters cannot be done at all without callouts

RocketRaygun posted:

I don't think they could matchmake hard content like dungeons and raids. I was talking to a friend the other day who was dipping his toes back into Destiny, and talked about how he never would have figured out how to blow up the gunk in the Mars battleground after raising the towers if he wasn't shown how to do it. The game didn't explain anything, it just expected him to know. He was in a matchmade heist bg, and they all got stuck there for a bit.

Dungeons and Raids are that on steroids. The developers of this game trust you to figure it out, and if you can't, they trust other players to explain it to you. You have neither of those guaranteed in a matchmade raid or dungeon. You'd get so many people who either get carried or fail out... and a lot of people unhappy with either experience.

MarcusSA posted:

My complaint with those pop ups is I couldn’t find them again because I clicked too fast and wanted to go back and read what it said.

Pirate Jet posted:

I wish one of these characters would tell me what the loving Veil is!

Reiterpallasch posted:

the problem is that matching color wells gave 10% ability charge to everything, while subclass doohickies recharge only one ability and orbs of power recharge jack poo poo. also, bountiful wells is RIP and everything is slot-locked anyway, so in the old system you could pop 5 wells out of a grenade kill or whatever and now you can't.

PathAsc posted:

Stasis is loving dead, which makes me sad. They nerfed reserves on aeger by way of reserve mods being poo poo. Triple stack and I can't get max ammo on it. Ammo finder seems like it got nerfed and orb generation is super slow too now it seems. I think I'm done playing for the day after 2 hours. Feels extremely bad to play, and not because of the power level deficit, I can deal with that it's nothing new. But goddamn it feels tedious to play. Probably go back to maining void since resilience is poo poo and ability regen is just awful. Power fantasy means fantasizing about power, who knew!

Spanish Manlove posted:

The incursion activity has the same problem I've had with similar activities in patrol zones (escalation protocol, altars of sorrow) where no one else shows up so I'm trying to complete the thing by myself.

Pirate Jet posted:

This is why I’ve been side-eyeing all the talk Blackburn had about “bringing challenge back to Destiny” and all the demands from hardcore players that the game needed to be more difficult - anything much more difficult than Witch Queen’s legendary campaign brings us to gameplay that isn’t a power fantasy and isn’t fun. The day Grandmasters go back to the day where basically the only way to beat them is three Titans with Ursa Furiosa is the day I stop playing them. Right now they’ve overcorrected and Neomuna sucks rear end to do activities in because all my weapons feel like pea shooters even though I’m 1780. It’s not that I don’t like hard games, it’s that this particular kind of game design sucks and feels bad once you start ratcheting up the difficulty. This isn’t a platformer with airtight controls, it’s a flying space wizard shooter.