Even still... KF took over 7 hours.
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Destiny 2 |OT| Here We Go Again
- Thread starter JohnOfMars
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Even still... KF took over 7 hours.
except for... you know... this raid thing that came out just today. No biggie.
Quick Mustard
Member
Vire
Member
Sounds like they have not improved the raid experience for working family people and parents. 
I just don't have the time to sit for four hours straight anymore playing a game.
Couldn't we have some checkpoints or something after each boss? With no resets on progress and matchmaking?
Kind of sad now.
I just don't have the time to sit for four hours straight anymore playing a game.
Couldn't we have some checkpoints or something after each boss? With no resets on progress and matchmaking?
Kind of sad now.
Flying Toaster
Member
Dick Walls... Dick walls as far as the eye could see.
Darryl M R
Member
Get 'em tiger. It doesn't look like there are enough people to form a group now so the best thing is probably just join on another group.
Darryl M R
Member
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Our group totally disbanded after 2 hours despite making great progress.
Flying Toaster
Member
Sounds like they have not improved the raid experience for working family people and parents.
I just don't have the time to sit for four hours straight anymore playing a game.
Couldn't we have some checkpoints or something after each boss? With no resets on progress and matchmaking?
Kind of sad now.
Wait there are no checkpoints now?
Hispanic! At the Disco
Member
Sounds like they have not improved the raid experience for working family people and parents.
I just don't have the time to sit for four hours straight anymore playing a game.
Couldn't we have some checkpoints or something after each boss? With no resets on progress and matchmaking?
Kind of sad now.
Hasnt there always been a checkpoint after each section? Or do you mean for it not to reset on tuesdays as well?
ToyMachine228
Member
He's probably referring to loot. It's a little early to jump that gun. This is just normal mode. There's still Prestige difficulty and challenge modes to go.
3.5 hours for story? Teach me your ways
Vire
Member
Yeah I meant not to reset each week and we keep the checkpoint.
ExtinctionEvent
Banned
I said new...raid once a week is not new, nor enough.
Flying Toaster
Member
Hard mode always has the better loot... well almost always.
molnizzle
Member
eh, reset is crucial for the loot rotation.
tbh what attracts me to raids is how hardcore the experience is, I wouldn't dig it if they watered them down.
I watched a bit of streams and all I'll say is...damn this raid is going to look incredible on PC. It's beautiful as is on console, but the environments are really stellar.
Also very Warframe-ish, from what I saw on Twitch I'm not the only one to make that connection.
Now...if we can just get Bungie to borrow a bunch of other stuff from Warframe we'll be good
Also very Warframe-ish, from what I saw on Twitch I'm not the only one to make that connection.
Now...if we can just get Bungie to borrow a bunch of other stuff from Warframe we'll be good
Flying Toaster
Member
I think they should include something between a raid or a strike that has LFG attached to it. I understand that is generating more content but still it would be a good in between.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Sounds like they have not improved the raid experience for working family people and parents.
I just don't have the time to sit for four hours straight anymore playing a game.
Couldn't we have some checkpoints or something after each boss? With no resets on progress and matchmaking?
Kind of sad now.
That's par for the course for raids in general. Gotta plan ahead if you wanna play with a group and complete it.
Hey friends,
Looking for 2 more raiding buddies for a fresh, blind raid run at 5pm EST today (in 30 minutes). I have a fireteam of 4 right now who've all raided together and are nearly ready to go. We're very chill and looking to take this at our own pace, and aside from being 270+ no prior raid experience is necessary.
Gaf players are generally my favorite, so looking here first! If youre interested and can 100% commit to 5pm EST for as long as it takes (it'll probably be a while), please shoot me a message on psn (not here!) at psn: pantsmith letting me know.
Looking for 2 more raiding buddies for a fresh, blind raid run at 5pm EST today (in 30 minutes). I have a fireteam of 4 right now who've all raided together and are nearly ready to go. We're very chill and looking to take this at our own pace, and aside from being 270+ no prior raid experience is necessary.
Gaf players are generally my favorite, so looking here first! If youre interested and can 100% commit to 5pm EST for as long as it takes (it'll probably be a while), please shoot me a message on psn (not here!) at psn: pantsmith letting me know.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
It's interesting, for sure.
Wasn't it 10?
I also remember being disappointed that the subsequent Raids seemed to fall easier to the fireteams playing them.
Destiny Raid Designer has to be one of the hardest game jobs in the world IMO. There's a fine line in coming up with mechanics that are fun and not too punishing, and those that are terribly annoying and convoluted. Plus to keep it fresh you kinda of need to think up totally new mechanics out of the box, outside of the over arching set pieces. And there's probably and engine guy in the room telling you they "don't have any way to do that".
I do not envy those guys and gals.
Darryl M R
Member
Wait how do you blast through in 3.5 hours for the story? I'm on my Titan alt now and it is so slow. And it doesn't help that Titans move like boulders.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
So on the Giant Bombcast, Brad said something about saving some drops until you hit a certain level? What was he talking about? I'm starting the game today, haven't played Destiny since its first month.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
They should hire WoWs raid design team
I wanna see the complexity of say, Gul'Dans boss fight in Destiny.
Look for power leveling guides. But quick and dirty is to leave the Blue crest planet "quests" untill you're 265+ LL.
Cob32
Member
Don't complete any milestones that have "powerful gear" as a reward until you get to power level 265.
captscience
Member
Don't turn in any milestones that reward "Powerful gear" until you get to 265-275. If you do, no big deal. I'm in the 290's and did a lot of the leveling sub-optimally.
DorkLord54
Member
I wish I had the time right now to do the raid, but school comes first. Probably won't be able to do it until this weekend.
That's just if you are looking to minmax, otherwise it's no big deal, as they reset weekly.
Raids in any MMO get cleared faster and faster as the playerbase collectively figures out how to optimize the game
This even happened to WoW.
Keep in mind this is only needed if you are in a hurry to get to the max level. Even if you grab the rewards the second they are available it won't take you long to be raid ready.
Maybe, but being a FPS introduces it's own challenges. I would love to see healer / cast mechanics added to one at some point.
Maybe two guardians that hold Aegis' and have to keep a particle stream created by it pointed at third while three run add control to empower their attacker.
There's a lot of places they could go with cool mechanics that I felt D1 probably couldn't support, maybe maybe this game can if they thought to put the systems in the engine.
Smokey_Run
Member
Are they in the lead?
No idea, but they're ahead of Datto at least. There might be a non-streaming group ahead for all we know.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Anyone else having issues finding groups right now? Tried to do a strike and didn't find anyone. Now 8've been sitting at 1/8 for a crucible match for eternity.
I was just playing crucible and it was okay for me. Ps4.
Smokey_Run
Member
Very true. Should've clarified to say out of the top streamers.