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Destiny 2: "Last Call" Teaser, full trailer March 30 10AM PT / 6PM BST
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everyday math
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Specials/heavy are legendaries. Yeah I believe(I don't remember really) that they might be still legendaries. Because they didn't update KF and WoM raids to elemental.
AusRoachman
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I think that is a good solution, more special events, time gathing was a pain,but if they opened up unique quests each week to win a gun i think its a great solution to not require grinding.
Something i always wanted in destiny, was a unique enemy/boss dropping randomly in a world every week to try and win an exotic reward. Kind of like a once a week public event , only alot more challenging.
With the amount of staff they had, creating unique weekly guns/enemies should have been easy, but i think there tech limitations would not allow it that easily.
Hopefully with destiny 2 , its easier to randomly drop ina new chest , a new enemy, a new reward every week.
I agree that the method to acquire Black Spindle actually felt rewarding. Definitely the best example in the game. They should definitely do more of that.
Orthogonal
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everyday math
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Every raid will have that one person.
I loved the loot cave. There was something relaxing about it after a long day in the office. ;p
Maybe it'll contain in-game footage of new hubs, enemies etc like the Destiny PS4 announcement trailer.
They're advertising it on TV so it needs to be good.
Agreed. Black Spindle wasn't like the Gjallarhorn or Khvostov quest were you just got a pat on your head like you were a dog.
-ImaginaryInsider
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The good thing about Destiny getting sequels is there is so much asset creation 2-3 games in, they should have a pretty big library of older loot to recycle or modify to use as a baseline, while still adding new stuff in.
everyday math
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I'm all for exotic quests, but I refuse to do anything like the sword quests ever again.
It's your typical squishy hunter.Every raid will have that one person.
Dhruv_hanom
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Every raid will have that one person.
That reminds me of doing oryx for the first time with you and twilight, every time on the platforms "I got this" but nope " I don't got this"
everyday math
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I think an elegant solution to making Xur relevant is for him to not be the one that delivers the exotics, but he should assist in getting them. Increasing drop-rates or something with buff items. I just think purchasing all your exotics off of an NPC is really lame. I like the quest exotics though.
Also just to address your point on the openness of the world, with Rise of Iron Patrol is better than ever. You see a lot more people moving around and doing the patrols,and the environment has more stuff shoved in the little nooks and crannies. Public Events are still fun and active.
Man, this forthcoming trailer has me feeling so nostalgic for Year 1, for the good and the silly.......
there was Dinklebot, purple engrams decoding into blues, the thirst for ascendent energy, dead ghost hunting, Chatterwhite AGAIN, bouncing back to orbit on a whip in Nightfall, five (or was it six?) bounty slots, plain white ghost shells (unless you had the one and only skin from the CE), the jumping puzzle in VoG and then waiting at the bottom for the drunk guy who couldn't do it, spinmetal and glimmer farming, dance parties on the roof of the vendor kiosk in the tower......
I love this game.
there was Dinklebot, purple engrams decoding into blues, the thirst for ascendent energy, dead ghost hunting, Chatterwhite AGAIN, bouncing back to orbit on a whip in Nightfall, five (or was it six?) bounty slots, plain white ghost shells (unless you had the one and only skin from the CE), the jumping puzzle in VoG and then waiting at the bottom for the drunk guy who couldn't do it, spinmetal and glimmer farming, dance parties on the roof of the vendor kiosk in the tower......
I love this game.
Er, source?
Jest Chillin
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No. You want a loot game. I said it back during the launch era, and I'll say it again now. Destiny is not designed to be a loot game. This was never supposed to be Borderlands-esque and to demand it should be is to demand the game change it's design genre.
It's always been intended to be more in-line with MMO style loot. But I'm going to echo an idea that (I think) Everyday Math stated earlier today in one of these threads. Switch the amount of Blue Quality items with the amount of Legendary. Less unique Blues, more unique Legendaries. Have certain Legendaries be unique to specific Heroic Strike. Others specific to Crucible. Then you Tier the Legendaries. Strikes/Crucible/Vendor/Faction stuff Tier .5 to Raid/Trials/IB stuff being Tier 1 (Or T1 and T2, whatever).
Exotics are in a good spot with one weapon, one armor. Have those Exotics tied to Raid/Trials/IB at a lower drop rate than the Legendaries. Tie yet more Exotics to quest lines. Give each faction a unique look, not just paint scheme.
Finally, you give every Legendary the ability to be Infused. So you can keep your Tier .5 look if you want.
For changing play, keep that to the Classes and their elements but add more variety for builds. Healing (probably nades), Hard Area Denial that does no damage, Speed boost (movement or atk rate), etc... And that's where you get your varied playstyles.
It depends on the situation but blind matchmaking is likely not the way to go for Raids. Imagine King's Fall with all randoms who aren't using their mics?
It would need to have some specifics behind it such as "game must detect mic" or "must be ___ light level." But either way, there absolutely must be an in-game group creator/finder. Easy to access, directly in orbit.
As for the Nightfall, absolutely. There is no reasonable argument against it.
Destiny 2 needs in-game LFG for Raids and Trials. And optional matchmaking for every single other activity. Anything less would be unacceptable.
Breakfast at Noon
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What time is this in the UK?
GasProblem
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I never played Destiny because I got my PS4 kind of late and felt like I was behind already. But recently downloaded the demo and really enjoyed it. Just running around the first area, shooting at stuff, helping other people take this robot beetle down, getting some loot. Excited to be there at the start of Destiny 2.
6pm lad.
Breakfast at Noon
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Never to late for Destiny, you do not have to do the raids and dungeons are piss easy even with randoms in matchmaking
Cheers mate.
GlamFM
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You can still jump in! New people are joining all the time. And from my experience, the community is really welcoming and helpful. It's honestly worth it. Destiny is good fun.
There should be at least two options for raids. Match making and in game LFG system. I mean hell, you could set filters in the match making system to where people have to have a mic, have to be a certain LL, and allow gear preview/stats before joining your fireteam. I don't think everyone saying matchmaking shouldn't exist at all aren't really thinking about these options. In my time playing Destiny since launch and all of the raids I can't tell you how many times LFG was a bigger shit show than if there were contingencies like I mentioned in place. I met some cool people in the past few years and I hope to meet more. I dread all the elitists though 
Neolombax
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I just realized that's like 1am tomorrow for me...sigh...guess I'm playing ME:A until late tonight...
wasn't terribly big on Destiny but this is creeping up to be my most anticipated game of the year. mainly because this go around will be on PC (yay i don't need to subscribe to PS+ just for one game anymore)
just hope they can iron out as most issues as possible... i really hate Day 1ing MMO loot games
just hope they can iron out as most issues as possible... i really hate Day 1ing MMO loot games
Neolombax
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There should be at least two options for raids. Match making and in game LFG system. I mean hell, you could set filters in the match making system to where people have to have a mic, have to be a certain LL, and allow gear preview/stats before joining your fireteam. I don't think everyone saying matchmaking shouldn't exist at all aren't really thinking about these options. In my time playing Destiny since launch and all of the raids I can't tell you how many times LFG was a bigger shit show than if there were contingencies like I mentioned in place. I met some cool people in the past few years and I hope to meet more. I dread all the elitists though
I was once in the "Destiny 2 should have matchmaking options" camp...I thought if strikes could work with matchmaking, why not raids? I can tell you now raids require so much coordination, its better to have a mic and maybe its best played with friends and not randoms. I hope Bungie has an elegant solution to this with Destiny 2. People like me who most of the time play solo but don't want to miss out on some of the best PVE contents, and at the same time find it hard to get a group on LFG due to no mics, time commitment issues, etc etc.
I agree about the coordination but I mentioned that in my post. I don't think MM should be in as a replacement for the current system, I just think there should be both options and with MM have those filters in place to block out those with no mics, or too low of gear/stats, etc. I don't see how it's really all that different from LFG with the exception of having to go on a third party website, you can have a similar UI and setup in game. The only person I had to play Destiny 1 with for the most part is my fiancee and I think a lot of people are in a similar boat. Some of my best friends IRL hated Destiny
Laurel_McFang
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biggest concern is still if Activision's Led Zeppelin direction, which Cayde-6 is definitely an example of, will take out the good old fashioned awesome writing that made the Halo games good. Taken King was nice, but not quite Halo level fiction. geez this trailer hits really soon.
everyday math
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This game isn't Halo. What's wrong with LED zeppelin? Those live action trailers were basically just meant to represent people having fun playing the game.
Cayde is awesome btw and was a highlight of TTK.
This sentence doesn't make any sense.
everyday math
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I think he's trying to say he doesn't like his attitude and that the live action trailer had that same tone going for them..I think.
Yeah, it still doesn't make sense. Haha.
What is a "Led Zeppelin direction?" And how is that Cayde?
Why is he referring to it as "Activision's?"
And... what?
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if the "reveal trailer" was a traditional Bungie ViDoc with some off-screen gameplay plus Devs talking about the future of the franchise.
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I'll take anything
Neolombax
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This had better not be it. A CG trailer is fine, but a ViDoc?!!
They did it for D1, The Taken King and Rise of Iron. Not sure about The Dark Below and House of Wolves. There's always some sort of 1 minute "teaser" trailer + Bungie ViDoc.
Maybe this time they can do things differently, but I would expect a ViDoc to drop soon tho.
The Vidocs are usually pretty well done and I'd much prefer that to a CGI trailer.
Laurel_McFang
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Actually I am pro-Cayde6. Really I found the teaser amusing and i think he provides some levity to what is a rather long winded game. It gets rather tiring doing epic stuff a lot, but doing fun frivolous stuff is cool. Hence the Zep direction from Activision I think is a good idea. Have fun with your friends: play Destiny. I just think that the Halo games managed to nail an ambient quiet and somewhat tragic form of storytelling that also should be present in Destiny. Patrols should be all Cayde random chaos. Story time should really fluctuate between comedy and the more epic story missions Bungie is so good at creating. I'm not against frivolity even Halo had moments, I'm just concerned on if one of Bungie's strengths is being traded in for a fan favorite in totality. It's nice that Destiny has a fool, but it needs an Arbiter too.
Bungie's ViDocs are great.
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