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Destiny |OT3| Oh sweet a Legen- wait never mind, it's a rare.

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Mars is such a great place to wander around in and the enemies actually keep you on your toes on level 19-20.

How much of this game is actually gear dependant when you reach the end. It must be allot if you actually want to feel like you are making progress instead of being able to do raids and strikes with low level gear.
 

yLEFTy

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Started getting a lot of centipede errors the past few days.. Xbox set on the DMZ, NAT open.. I have no idea what's wrong. :(
Whenever that happens to me I just reboot my router/modem and it clears up the disconnects for a good while
 

todahawk

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I've already done the weekly and gotten strange coins, haven't done the heroic story though. FUCK, I really want to be able to complete Nightfall

shit, actually I did get the 3 coins. I did at at base difficulty though.

yeah, same here... I hit 26 this morning when I bought my exotic gauntlets from Xur but it's minimum 28 for Nightfall right?
 

nib95

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Yeah it's a nice helm for sure, but I play a defender titan so it's pretty much useless for me.

I already have a highly upgraded Legendary helmet, so I'm not going to bother with it. Holding out for the Exotic Chest Piece or Gauntlets instead.
 
Splitscreen would be impossible
Too much stuff going on at once

Yeah, it just makes me sad, considering Bungie basically perfected FPS splitscreen multiplayer with Halo (yes I remember the glory days of Goldeneye). For all of the power and technical wizardry of these new consoles the sacrifice is no more local multiplayer. It's just so....disappointing.
 
The stuff the exotic guy is selling today is lame. Anyone have any luck buying exotic engrams from him? I don't trust the RNG.

I did. Got this for my Hunter.

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If anyone is down to do the Daily Heroic Story on Level 28 Hard around 7pm EST tonight, add me on PS4.

Cosmos_Man

I'll be on from 7pm EST to ????am EST
 
Legendary can drop from blue spheres yeh.. I only ever see blue and green, just want to make sure I'm not missing some exotic one, I have yet to get any legendary gear doing strikes, patrols or pvp , lots of blues but no legends just yet.
 
Has there been any comment by Bungie regarding the lack of matchmaking in heroics? Lots of people complaining, but I haven't seen nor heard a peep out of them. Really hoping this gets 'fixed' in the near future.
 

todahawk

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Weird. Was using an AR and was doing pretty badly at pvp. K/d of 1-2 at best.

Switched to scout rifle and I'm going between 2-5. Incredible difference for me. I'm outrunning AR users far more consistently than I was using my Shingen.

Go figure.

might have to try that, i have a pretty nice rare scout rifle i've been neglecting. same with hand cannon.
 

Bizazedo

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I suppose that's true... though, I'm sure there's a way to fall somewhere in the middle on this.

Part of me wishes they'd take away awards in PvP. Sick and tired of people posting links of images of the lower placed guys getting loot and forgetting / not linking when it happens to the higher place guys.

The only exotic I've seen drop has been for a top 3 guy.
 
Legendary can drop from blue spheres yeh.. I only ever see blue and green, just want to make sure I'm not missing some exotic one, I have yet to get any legendary gear doing strikes, patrols or pvp , lots of blues but no legends just yet.

Blue spheres? I have only seen green one's so far. Is there something I am missing?
 
I will when I get a good one. My current pulse rifle has "radar persists on ads" and my scout makes people explode when I headshot kill them (not unlocked that perk yet, but I'm getting enough HS kills to know it will cause a lot of rage when I do). Both guns are really good for pvp, not found a HC that trumps them yet.



Definitely not.

Think about it: If you did this the players who you get to stomp on would play less and people would quit more halfway.

Also the rich would just get richer, and the power gap would widen.

Rewarding everyone with equal chance keeps things much more fair.


Ah, Communist gameplay. So the fact that the first world is Old Russia is not by chance.

But seriously, I agree with you here in video game land, but not in the real world.
 
If bungie wanted this to be a social game, at least for me, they should have at LEAST done one of these 3 things.

1. Make it so there was proximity chat with everyone that you can turn on and off, and make it so there was some kind of text chat in the tower so then I could just post "Guys i'm doing this mission if anyone wants to join" publicly instead of me having to message everyone individually.

2. Make it so there is an in game friends list with in game messaging (separate from the actual PSN/XBL messaging). I'd like to add a lot of the people I play with, but then I have to worry about that friends list filling up (i'm on PS3). Also, I hate trying to message people because the XMB takes FOREVER in game. If there was an in game feature for this kind of stuff, then it would make things so much more convenient.

3. Make it so clans actually mean something in game. Have a clan roster, clan matchmaking maybe, etc.
 

TheContact

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I will when I get a good one. My current pulse rifle has "radar persists on ads" and my scout makes people explode when I headshot kill them (not unlocked that perk yet, but I'm getting enough HS kills to know it will cause a lot of rage when I do). Both guns are really good for pvp, not found a HC that trumps them yet.



Definitely not.

Think about it: If you did this the players who you get to stomp on would play less and people would quit more halfway.

Also the rich would just get richer, and the power gap would widen.

Rewarding everyone with equal chance keeps things much more fair.

Plus it's not fair to those who get stuck on guard duty who never get to see as much action as those patrolling the map.
 

ethomaz

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Legendary can drop from blue spheres yeh.. I only ever see blue and green, just want to make sure I'm not missing some exotic one, I have yet to get any legendary gear doing strikes, patrols or pvp , lots of blues but no legends just yet.
You will never miss them because Purple and Blue engrams go to you post offices in the town even if you miss it on the planets.

The game itself saves all drops to you even if you don't see or take it.
 

TheContact

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Lol, I figured this out on my very first fight with him. Sometimes he won't even move as you shoot him. Better yet, the adds just sit there like if you're invisible. You don't even have to bother with them. It's hilarious.

What's the point of all that tho? That boss is only hard when a crap ton of mobs are trying to take you down at the same time the boss is blasting you with his lasers. Once the enemies are dead it's very hard to die to him unless you're standing out in the open asking to die
 

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TheGrue

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Anyone know what the benefit of doing a straight up level 20 story mission is? They show no rewards. The daily story and strike playlist and such show vanguard rewards, but story missions seem to offer no guaranteed benefit like that. Can anyone think of a good reason to do do those higher level story missions?
 
I'm sure Bungie has an employee "lurker" on this thread so they're seeing all of the complaints and praise and all of that.

They must also be drooling over the people who are calling this game "crack" and are saying "I hate this and this about the game, but I'll be on for 8 hours tonight because I HAVE to have that exotic auto rifle."

Bungie, you guys are sick. I hate you. But I'll also be playing your game for 8 hours tonight.
 
You will never miss them because Purple and Blue engrams go to you post offices in the town even if you miss it on the planets.

The game itself saves all drops to you even if you don't see or take it.

Wow I did not know that, I must be really unlucky, no purples yet, though I don't put in the insane hours others have in here, but still :( managed to scrape myself to level 21
 
I know this complaint is not new, but holy crap the shitty drops in Crucible are killing me. Slow bro gets a legendary for going 2 and 16, but I'm sitting at the of the pile with this sick ass new green gun.

I like that they're random, I just wish they weren't so random. Does that make any sense?

Like, it's great that all players have a chance for great loot. Just, increase that chance for the folks who kill stuff better.

I'm fine with the reward being based on participation rathern than contribution. It would be nice though if the MVP of each team got a reputation reward as a bonus.
 

Nafai1123

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Anyone know what the benefit of doing a straight up level 20 story mission is? They show no rewards. The daily story and strike playlist and such show vanguard rewards, but story missions seem to offer no guaranteed benefit like that. Can anyone think of a good reason to do do those higher level story missions?

XP and the hope of a decent drop I guess.
 

TheGrue

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XP and the hope of a decent drop I guess.

But you get a guaranteed vanguard drop with a strike playlist, so I guess I'm trying to figure out why I would do a 20 story mission over that? Would be cool if they had a large gain or something. Plus I get xp in the strike as well.
 

Victrix

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Wow I did not know that, I must be really unlucky, no purples yet, though I don't put in the insane hours others have in here, but still :( managed to scrape myself to level 21

Don't feel bad, not a single purple I have ever looted has given me anything I can use for my class.

Do strikes until you have full l20 gear (from the l24 strike), while doing that, work on your rep and marks for the week.

You get guaranteed legendaries at ranks 3+ with the factions, and you can buy all the legendaries you need at ranks 2/3 with every faction.

If you get awesome stuff from the cryptarch, great, but you don't have to rely on it to gear up.
 

ethomaz

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Wow I did not know that, I must be really unlucky, no purples yet, though I don't put in the insane hours others have in here, but still :( managed to scrape myself to level 21
I had two Purple only but I have fear to decrypt them :D

I got all my Legendary gears from Blue Engrams.
 
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