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Destiny 2 |OT| Here We Go Again
- Thread starter JohnOfMars
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Too much grinding and not enough sleep. I have to admit, I got a little snappy myself last night during a Rat King run in the Nightfall.
Then when I just resigned myself to it not happening and relaxing, bam 5:20 on the clock and boss kill.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Sure but in the meantime we have to scour forums hoping to find a group if you don't have a group of friends with 4+ hours spare at the same time which is virtually impossible.
Having to do this just for a hope at trying the new content on launch day is just silly. I guess I can wait until everyone else already has the gear and hope this guided games thing doesn't land me in a match with 5 friends who all expect me to play like a god and then bitch if I cant.
I'd much rather try it and watch people drop out than sit here spamming lfg all night.
I'm down for that. Make whatever requirements. Just allow people to actually try would be a good start.
Got it! Looks like we're almost good to go. Room for one more. Anyone down to raid tonight at 9pm PDT?
Skeletron, 280 Titan, PSN: Traxus12
Branaghs, 270 Warlock PSN: Branaghs
Dodecagon, 282 Titan PSN: free_the_slaves
JTran2003, 272 Warlock PSN: JTran2003
Kard8p3, 285 Warlock PSN: Kard8p3
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GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Bypass everything bruh
No reason to kill trash, I did that on my Titan and Hunter main campaign back to back
You can literally run past everything, if you are decked out and level 20 and PL 200+
Shit last 2 missions, I think I only fought 3 encounters and the boss... LoL
BreezyLimbo
Banned
SEE
GOTHALIONS GROUP CALLED IT A CYCLE
PHASES TO A CYCLE
HA
I WAS RIGHT
EVERYONE WHO ARGUED WITH ME YEARS AGO WAS WRONG
GOTHALIONS GROUP CALLED IT A CYCLE
PHASES TO A CYCLE
HA
I WAS RIGHT
EVERYONE WHO ARGUED WITH ME YEARS AGO WAS WRONG
SmartWaffles
Member
Scout: Call to Serve, Nameless Midnight, MIDA
Hand Cannon: Better Devils, Sunshot
Pulse: Nightshade, Disrespectful Stare
Auto: Scathlocke, Uriel's Gift (personal favorite since I don't have the former yet)
SMG: no idea, all of them feels awful without a legendary stability mod
Hispanic! At the Disco
Member
I've been told the Auto Rifle, Origin Story, is is pretty good as well
I have Call To Serve and Nameless Midnight, and I can't decide which I prefer.
Nameless Midnight just tears everything apart. It's not even funny, I can't see how I will want to use MIDA in PVE when I attain it...
But aesthetically, Call To Serve looks more my style...
I swear by these guns: Philippis-B and its variants. They are GREAT.
loki 16
Member
It's not true.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
You do have to unlock the door to where your checkpoint is again though.
davidsaurus
Member
Anyone want to try raid? We are UK, so won't be going super late. Probably 12.30am-1.00am BST. Add dav1dsaurus on PSN.
Mister Megative
Banned
Disrespectful Stare seems rather unremarkable? Or maybe I'm thinking of something different.
joshlpaige
Neo Member
If any of you are still experiencing the error ce-34878-0, I just spoke to two reps on Sony's end and they both suggest I send in the console for troubleshooting. It may be hyperbolic at this point, but without any other knowledge the popular opinion is that it is a hardware problem. Unless Activision and Sony fix the issue with a patch, we might actually have to get replacement machines. I'm a day-one owner and don't really want to buy a new console just for one game.
Your progress is still saved, but its just done differently.
Regarding how it works:
The raid is set up to where you go back to the starting room after every puzzle / encounter.
It's more or less exactly as I figured it would be, more Destiny. Not all together a bad thing, as the game play loop is as addictive as ever, but I can already feel the dread of replaying these story missions.
Speaking of story, I feel Bungie has no idea where to take this narrative. The story is so segmented and tacked together by these one off cinematics, that it's just as disjointed as vanilla. I didn't expect anything Oscar worthy, or even Last of Us quality, but from their talk, you would have thought they really thought it through, and had something worthy. The chatter back and forth between your Ghost and Failsafe is pretty horrible. In general, the writing is inconsistent, sophomoric and an afterthought.
Enjoying the game play loop enough to continue on. Just another missed opportunity I feel. Hopefully the raid is amazing.
Speaking of story, I feel Bungie has no idea where to take this narrative. The story is so segmented and tacked together by these one off cinematics, that it's just as disjointed as vanilla. I didn't expect anything Oscar worthy, or even Last of Us quality, but from their talk, you would have thought they really thought it through, and had something worthy. The chatter back and forth between your Ghost and Failsafe is pretty horrible. In general, the writing is inconsistent, sophomoric and an afterthought.
Enjoying the game play loop enough to continue on. Just another missed opportunity I feel. Hopefully the raid is amazing.
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
Hope this is the raid that finally makes some people realise that matchmaking with randoms without mics, with no guarantee as to whether they know any of the mechanics, would be a terrible idea. Wouldn't have worked before, but this raids requirement for communication is on another level.
Raiding for 30 minutes?
BreezyLimbo
Banned
The ๖ۜBronx;248882951 said:
Oh sure they could've made a boss that has one person read a sequence of 3 numbers to someone who can't read them
but that undermines the fact that raids can be challenging whilst not requiring that type of communication.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
Is the raid down yet?
davidsaurus
Member
For like 2 hours! Did I get BST wrong?
SirMossyBloke
Member
Holy shit, just got Sweet Business. It's a God damned mini gun.
the_prime_mover
Member
Hmm... for auto I have been using Origin Story and Jiangshi. Jiangshi seems to be pretty much identical to Uriel but I find it handles better. In PVP both of these are like lasers and they are very good at range.
Does it still only apply for the fireteam leader?
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
I'm not saying an encounter can't be challenging without requiring communication, I'm saying I've always doubted the legitimacy of people suggesting that the raids in Destiny could have been a positive experience with random people, with no microphones, of which only half or less know the mechanics of the encounters.
This raid only exemplifies that.
MIDA mini-tool; when combined with the MIDA multi-tool it (well, both of them) are beastly.
Doesnt look like it. Lots of teams seem to be at the end though.
I think these guys are the furthest. https://www.twitch.tv/slayerage
Sweet, so we just need one more. 6 Hours to go! be sure to finish up them milestones if you have the time pre-raid! I'll be on at 5pm PDT if anyone needs help running anything. I'll try and watch the raid highlights from streamers when I get home from work too.
Happy hunting.
This doesn't make any sense. I'm at what feels like the midpoint of the campaign or so, but it's the tightest narrative since TTK and far more expansive. I understand where I am and why, how I relate to the other characters, what their goals are, who the villain is and their motivation, and the plans we're forming to combat him.
Literally none of that applied to the first game, which had no story for most of its duration, though TTK added some framing text to a few of the missions to string one together. The only narrative thread begins when we go to the Reef for the first time and kick off a handful of missions to get into the Black Garden. None of the other missions in the game are tied to that thread, they are paired together or stand-alone, devoid of context outside of the opening narration. Go through the campaign right now and a large hunk of the original missions aren't even tied into quests, they just unlock as optional side missions, discrete from the story they tried to cobble together when TTK released.
Destiny 1 had a premise, Destiny 2 is telling a story.
Our group got to the
before calling it a night. Continuing tomorrow.
Pleasure Garden
The Pleasure Garden seems very doable but one side is definitely easier than the others to run the orbs. I could basically do my side from memory and there is a safe spot with view on all the points, allowing me to solo that left side without need for direction from above. Right side we run into a lot of trouble because the different geometry there makes it hard for the one on the ground to spot things. We'll get there tomorrow~
Agreed.
The missions in Destiny 1 never felt like the tied into an overarching narrative at all, but rather felt like disjoint snippets of this universe they wanted to show you.
Say what you will about the simplicity of the story in Destiny 2 (or the absurdity of the bad guy's plan), the main missions all tie together along one narrative beat. Everything you do relates to the initial call to action... Ghaul showed up, took your space orb, your loot, and your light...and that of your friends too. Oh and he wants to rule the universe. What are you going to do about it?
Destiny 1: hi! I'm your space Ghost! I woke you up from eons of death. Let's have fun adventures you won't understand. No I don't have time to explain...hey look at this Black Garden!
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Any groups need any members looking to start in a couple hours or so? 281 Warlock
BattleMonkey
Member
It's sad that we are applauding the fact that they told a simple straight narrative like this. Destiny 1 was awful, the bar was super low.
johnFkennedy
Member
Why is there no introduction to the raid? Like why is no one in the tower or on Nessus asking about the giant planet eating ship in the sky?
mistuhcahlos
Member
This is how my son plays. I'm having him level up my titan
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Why is raid psoiler
Emperor Calus a robot. Why in the lore is he a robot. Does it even make a sense?