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Destiny 2 |OT3| The Token King

Mindlog

Member
Might as well squeeze in a quick run. Can't mic and might be called off suddenly conditions apply.

A couple of people were asking for help with NF/Prestige. I may be running a bunch of them this weekend. Not sure how many before that. Still have to be confident with my Warlock/Titan run times. Hunter was always going to be my slowest and that's done.
It gets confusing down there, but once you spend a little time in the area it becomes easier. Also, all the dogs are on loop, so you can learn their patterns and it becomes easier. You only need a 36x stack to comfortably kill them, even 24x is most likely enough if you're high level.

Here's a great map!
I've cleared that encounter ~half dozen times and still get lost. Thanks for the map!
Anyone looking to do the Nightfall on PS4?
I am. Psnid pedrolumpy
If you are still looking send me an invite on PSN. Same as GAF.
 

GraveRobberX

Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
I'll run some wagons tonight. Nothing like running around in a wedding dress shooting people.

Congrats on getting married to Ghost Primus!, I'm guessing 15th time was the charm

Kadey Primus has a nice ring to it!


I'll be around, so come pick me up on your wagon
I'll bring Sunkist
 

Bold One

Member
Crucible needs to be re-worked. getting shot through corners is fucking infuriating - it makes getting out of encounters fucking impossible - exacerbated by the team shooting
 

vivftp

Member
Anyone doing a fresh raid? I'm helping a buddy out on his 287 Warlock by running the raid on his character. I've got over a dozen completions and 3 305 characters so I'm very experienced.

His PSN is TheGreatOneMP
 

JHall

Member
Crucible needs to be re-worked. getting shot through corners is fucking infuriating - it makes getting out of encounters fucking impossible - exacerbated by the team shooting

Don't you remember that giant write up about how their P2P hybrid servers will deliver the best possible game experience?
 
It’s incredible how incompetent people still are at control. This merry-go-round of bullshit is maddening. Cap two. Defend. Win. Move on.
 
2nd week in a row my Raid keys have disappeared from my inventory...

Is there a way to prevent this?

No, it's happened to multiple people in our group too. Finish the raid and then go back in to do chests and suddenly keys gone. No changing characters or anything.

Whatever you do, don't go to orbit. Take the paths through Leviathan and get the chests before boss. That's what we did this week and clan member who kept losing hers finally got to open chests and join the disappointment the rest of us have thanks to the glorious rewards.
 

Dalek

Member
I don’t think Bungie understands how fucking frustrating it is to constantly lose in Crucible. If I just just steamrolled by 4 stacks for 5 games in a row, I don’t take solace in the fact that I got some tokens out of it.

I can’t stand it.
 
I don’t think Bungie understands how fucking frustrating it is to constantly lose in Crucible. If I just just steamrolled by 4 stacks for 5 games in a row, I don’t take solace in the fact that I got some tokens out of it.

I can’t stand it.
The matchmaking seems non-existent to me beyond ‘best connection’. Playing solo Crucible is just about the least fun thing in gaming right now.
 
The matchmaking seems non-existent to me beyond ‘best connection’. Playing solo Crucible is just about the least fun thing in gaming right now.

The best thing I can say about solo play in Crucible is that it has made me a much better player, rather than getting comfortable with a team that can likely carry me. It's not uncommon now for me to break 3.0 or 4.0 efficiency with respectable objective contribution, rather than often barely breaking 1.0 and focusing entirely on objectives to have my impact.
 

Stillmatic

Member
Whatever you do, don't go to orbit. Take the paths through Leviathan and get the chests before boss. That's what we did this week and clan member who kept losing hers finally got to open chests and join the disappointment the rest of us have thanks to the glorious rewards.

Cheers! By the time we usually call a run it's late enough already, but yeah I think this is what I'll have to do until it's fixed. :/
 

Floody

Member
Vigilance Wings suck Trump balls in the crucible

It's somehow became my favourite PvP weapon. I love the thing, even if it's definitely got some massive flaws (don't use at close or very long ranges). But it's so good at just locking down certain areas and you can throw a elemental weapon to make up for 1 of it's flaws.
It's just fun to use to as it's pretty different to everything else.

Also, 2 of them together is actually disgustingly good.
 

Vic_Viper

Member
It’s incredible how incompetent people still are at control. This merry-go-round of bullshit is maddening. Cap two. Defend. Win. Move on.

What is factored into gaining your team points now in control? In Destiny 1 it was just capturing and holding that point and the points went up the longer you held it (I think thats how it worked anyway). How do you get points now in D2's control? It seems like kills are getting points along with capturing. Ive been in a bunch of games where we are for sure getting the control points more often than the other team but they are still winning.

Also, I cant stand playing control on that map with the jump point between A and B. Not the one with the jump boosts. If you control C and B on that map you can just carry the rest of the game and camp B or inbetween B and C. Its gotta be the only unbalanced map ive seen so far.

Got 3 more ID packages today and still not a single piece of the new IB themed armor. Kinda discourages me from continuing.
 

_Legacy_

Member
It’s incredible how incompetent people still are at control. This merry-go-round of bullshit is maddening. Cap two. Defend. Win. Move on.

This.

I really wonder the mindset of some people in the game, I see them running around and not capping free points. What game mode do they think it is?
 
This.

I really wonder the mindset of some people in the game, I see them running around and not capping free points. What game mode do they think it is?

They want kills because they is awesome. They are the ones that usually grab the power ammo and get killed before using it too.
 

Raven117

Member
It’s incredible how incompetent people still are at control. This merry-go-round of bullshit is maddening. Cap two. Defend. Win. Move on.
HA. When it's obvious that your team has no idea what they are doing, I have found that continuing. Capping points and keeping zone advantage is the only way to keep your team in the game.
 

Mindlog

Member
Any two interested in PS4 Prestige Nightfall soon?
I'll be on a Titan for the first time so not sure how that will go, but know what I am doing in a very general sense.
 
I'll give Crucible one thing. The network connections are better than D1. I still get shot around corners constantly and there are definitely a few games where people lag a bit, but not anywhere on the level of or as consistently as it happened in D1.

What is factored into gaining your team points now in control? In Destiny 1 it was just capturing and holding that point and the points went up the longer you held it (I think thats how it worked anyway). How do you get points now in D2's control? It seems like kills are getting points along with capturing. Ive been in a bunch of games where we are for sure getting the control points more often than the other team but they are still winning.

Also, I cant stand playing control on that map with the jump point between A and B. Not the one with the jump boosts. If you control C and B on that map you can just carry the rest of the game and camp B or inbetween B and C. Its gotta be the only unbalanced map ive seen so far.

Got 3 more ID packages today and still not a single piece of the new IB themed armor. Kinda discourages me from continuing.
The rules changed for D2. Now you get more points for kills based on how many points you're holding. Capping a point also gives you 1 point.

Also I find the Emperor map is pretty unbalanced for control. A side is way too close to B and it's entirely too easy to hold B down from that spawn.
 

FyreWulff

Member
I don’t think Bungie understands how fucking frustrating it is to constantly lose in Crucible. If I just just steamrolled by 4 stacks for 5 games in a row, I don’t take solace in the fact that I got some tokens out of it.

I can’t stand it.

A bunch of people yelled to go back to CoD style connection based matchmaking

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
What is factored into gaining your team points now in control? In Destiny 1 it was just capturing and holding that point and the points went up the longer you held it (I think thats how it worked anyway). How do you get points now in D2's control? It seems like kills are getting points along with capturing. Ive been in a bunch of games where we are for sure getting the control points more often than the other team but they are still winning.

Also, I cant stand playing control on that map with the jump point between A and B. Not the one with the jump boosts. If you control C and B on that map you can just carry the rest of the game and camp B or inbetween B and C. Its gotta be the only unbalanced map ive seen so far.

Got 3 more ID packages today and still not a single piece of the new IB themed armor. Kinda discourages me from continuing.

In D1 there were score ticks while holding points AND score modifiers for kills. So if you held points longer, you were getting higher ticks and getting modified kill points. It was still entirely possible to lose while holding 2 points the majority of the game if your team kept running off and dying to opponents enough.

In D2 they removed the point ticks but it still has score mulitpliers on kill. They did this to simplify the score totals. So even if you're trading points and holding points longer, you still need to get more kills than the opponents overall throughout the game. You can be up by 20, 30, or more points early on and if the opposing team goes on a killing tear, it's possible for them to catch up.

A well timed shift of them going from holding 1 capture point to 2 capture points and then a streak of kills can take them from behind to a sizable lead.
 

TsuWave

Member
the maps in this game are so bad. there's this one with the cabal jump lift things where zone A and C are on one side and B is on the other side (as in you have to go through the lift thing to catapult you to that side of the map), so bad. so so bad. i hate it so much.

the maps, the fact that its control, no end game iron banner rewards...everything just makes this such a chore. i'm constantly emptying clips at my teammates when i'm capping a zone to signal them to push forward and go protect the other zone because you don't need more that one person capping because unlike Destiny 1 that doesn't make the capping process faster but it seems like people just don't get it. similarly, they don't get that its capture AND HOLD. they just go around the map capping and capping and capping in a never ending musical chair game with the opposing team. shit is soul crushing.

so far i've gotten 2 pulse rifles, 2 fusion rifles, 3 sidearms, 2 hunter gauntlets, 2 titan gauntlets and 1 hunter helmet. rng repeat game serious. i'm gonna try and get one more piece or armor for my titan and i think i'm gonna call it quits
 

BLCKATK

Member
Hey if you guys got any room for Prestige I'd love to go along. PSN is Azys_. Just reply to my post or shoot me a PSN message, I'm pretty sure some of you have me.
 

Rehsa

Member
So, we would have three "Newbie" raids running this weekend to get more people the ability to experience them, but we need some help from the greater DGAF community. We need both Sherpa's to donate a few hours of time, as well as some newbs that want to learn the mechanics and how to communicate effectively to complete the raid!



Do we have 2 other Sherpas available in the DGAF community to lead the below newbs through the raid this Sunday?


Sunday Newb Raid:

Starts at 7:00pm bst sharp. (NA Folks: 2pm EST/11am PST)


Sherpas:
- Ruthless_Barbarian (need PSN/verification)
- ?

Newbs:
- Mazzbags
- Dark1421
- Hugstable
- Rehsa (PSN Moridhin)





Noob Raid 9pm EST/6pm PST Friday (10/13):

Sherpas:
- Palaniri
- NeoNightmare


Newbs:
- Japanmanx3
- LooneyLMD
- ArkkAngel007
-



Noob Raid 10pm EST/7pm PST Saturday (10/14):

Sherpas:
- Pandora012
- Wiesga01


Newbs:
- Badgerst
- Hunter8472
- ori0n378e
-



If you can help lead any of these and share your raid experience, please let me know! Hawkian can get everyone all the time, so this is for him as well, lol.

Also, if you want to be a newbie and learn the raid, post up and let me know and I will reserve a spot for you! Make sure you give me your PSN!


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Here is a great video to watch as pre-work for the raid. It will help if you have a base knowledge of what is to come. Trust me, it is still surprising to play through it yourself at full speed, lol.

https://youtu.be/OzkxpLkEkfE

I would be a noob, added myself to Sunday
 
the maps in this game are so bad. there's this one with the cabal jump lift things where zone A and C are on one side and B is on the other side (as in you have to go through the lift thing to catapult you to that side of the map), so bad. so so bad. i hate it so much.

the maps, the fact that its control, no end game iron banner rewards...everything just makes this such a chore. i'm constantly emptying clips at my teammates when i'm capping a zone to signal them to push forward and go protect the other zone because you don't need more that one person capping because unlike Destiny 1 that doesn't make the capping process faster but it seems like people just don't get it. similarly, they don't get that its capture AND HOLD. they just go around the map capping and capping and capping in a never ending musical chair game with the opposing team. shit is soul crushing.

so far i've gotten 2 pulse rifles, 2 fusion rifles, 3 sidearms, 2 hunter gauntlets, 2 titan gauntlets and 1 hunter helmet. rng repeat game serious. i'm gonna try and get one more piece or armor for my titan and i think i'm gonna call it quits

It doesn't help that the daily IB challenges want people to cap 5 in one match. That shouldn't be a problem in normal play, but I can see many just trying to knock those out asap.
 
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