Lostconfused
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He got 3xAscendant mats too
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Destiny's "Raids" Thread: "Vault of Glass" is OPEN
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He got 3xAscendant mats too
ethomaz
Banned
The rewards just shows at the result screen or when you get back to the menu... what he get ingame is just the boss drops.
Revolutionary
Member
There's also the roll at the results screen.
In MMOs, you don't get saved to a raid instance until you kill a boss. Assuming Bungie knew what they're doing, they'll make it like this too.
It is just that each individual boss attempt goes incredibly fast. There isn't any corpse running or pre-fight buffing or trash to get in the way of them throwing themselves at the boss over and over again. Just a 5 second respawn timer once everyone is dead.
General_Frags
Member
Re Skins.
ethomaz
Banned
Yeap... the results screens shows 2 rewards but if you got more it shows right when you get back to the menu again.... a lot of mission I got three or more rewards and it just showed at the menu while the results showed the last 2.
pokeystaples
Banned
Titan brethren or ssistren, we are never useless. Watching the streams I realized...they need us more than we need them.
Messofanego
Banned
If MMO-type raids are this draining, I'm glad I never got into these games. I might watch or read about EVE Online, but would not want to play it.
EVE Online has raids?
Lostconfused
Member
Only for the people crazy enough to do it first.
Once people develop simple, clear, easy to follow strategies it gets a lot easier.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
The truly eye-opening thing for me is that I never knew how many people out of were so unfamiliar with MMO style games but still bought this game.
Ever since WoW, it's not like these games were niche anymore.
If it was easy everyone would become legend.
Ever since WoW, it's not like these games were niche anymore.
If it was easy everyone would become legend.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
Yeah I've watched a bit, enough to get that. Still though, that's a lot of dying lol. I didn't mean cheesy in terms of boss design, BTW, I meant it more in I wonder if the players that beat it used a cheesy weakness in the revive system to exploit it a bit and throw themselves at it too constantly, and that's why they were able to beat what appears to be a difficult boss so quickly. I mean, Destiny wouldn't be the first MMO/ORPG where a 'Raid 1st' wasn't beaten exactly at intended, and then the devs fix 1 small that to fix the 'difficulty'. Again, I don't know, was just asking based on that death stat because it's so high.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Man. Have been watching the raids all day. That boss everyone is stuck on is something. I really can't wait to get in there with folks and give it a god.
ethomaz
Banned
JetBlackPanda
Member
Freudian slip
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Well , that was the advertising campaign and on the back of the box.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Trying to apply MMORPG end-game sensibilities to a somewhat clunky shooter with little to no healer roles was a moronic game design approach to even consider.
The amount of stupid splash damage one-hitters in the game is just counter-intuitive to any sort of "plotted" play. Too much random and too much luck involved and you just get a timesink and nothing else.
Basically I guess the Bungie team all got addicted to WoW (We know Luke Smith did at least, and he was on design with this?), wanted to try and force its sensibilities into an FPS, and have failed across the board.
The amount of stupid splash damage one-hitters in the game is just counter-intuitive to any sort of "plotted" play. Too much random and too much luck involved and you just get a timesink and nothing else.
Basically I guess the Bungie team all got addicted to WoW (We know Luke Smith did at least, and he was on design with this?), wanted to try and force its sensibilities into an FPS, and have failed across the board.
ethomaz
Banned
That is why the game stay giving me non-legend drops
I'm not at the legend level.FunkyPajamas
Member
I think so. The guys posted "Altheon is down" and a few minutes later the screenshot for Raid completion. So I guess yeah.
ethomaz
Banned
Revolutionary
Member
Seems their damage buff w the dome can come in handy on the last boss, if it's possible to stack the offensive buffs.
Addicted to the wrong parts of WoW (IMO), trying to recreate vanilla experiences nearly a decade later without much of the quality of life stuff that improved it over time.
i was watching a little bit last night, think it was streamerhouse
they were killing boss named templar, guy has a shield that needs to be broken every so often, spawns oracles that have to be killed asap (something bad happens if not killed quickly i assume). one member on the team has a relic, seems like that guy is pretty important
the guy whose POV i was watching kept dying in stupid ways, like i think he died a few times when he shot his rocket right as the boss put the trapshield thing on him, blowing himself up. he also bladedanced off a ledge trying to kill an oracle
looks exciting to me and seems to be a departure from the rest of the game from what i've seen
(i've never played the game in any form)
they were killing boss named templar, guy has a shield that needs to be broken every so often, spawns oracles that have to be killed asap (something bad happens if not killed quickly i assume). one member on the team has a relic, seems like that guy is pretty important
the guy whose POV i was watching kept dying in stupid ways, like i think he died a few times when he shot his rocket right as the boss put the trapshield thing on him, blowing himself up. he also bladedanced off a ledge trying to kill an oracle
looks exciting to me and seems to be a departure from the rest of the game from what i've seen
(i've never played the game in any form)
ShinMaruku
Member
MMOs are very small and very insual. But they live inside their own bubble. But this not a MMO and fie on Bungie for trying to copt the good parts and not thinking the negatives that come with that label too.
Messofanego
Banned
My mom is overhearing this and she's like "he's on Venus and he's blind? What is all this?!"
HAHA
HAHA
Gear probably wasn't fully optimized and players didn't know what to expect. This will naturally get easier over time.
Anyway this is probably the most exciting feature of Destiny so far. I actually didn't know they were doing a Raid mission until today. Seems pretty difficult too.
Anyway this is probably the most exciting feature of Destiny so far. I actually didn't know they were doing a Raid mission until today. Seems pretty difficult too.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
You still have to work for it =p
That is why the game stay giving me non-legend drops
*pat pat*
It could have worked if they put more thought into developing the classes, but their specialty is FPS, so it's an FPS first. Which then leads to problems of the bullet sponge bosses, endless trash waves, and everyone dying in one hit.
But even then this was an opportunity to try something different from traditional MMO boss fights...
RedHotChimiChanga
Banned
sandkiller
Member
Congratulations to @PrimeGuardHQ for completing the Raid. Now, try it on hard tier. http://bit.ly/1qZv2Fp
9:17 PM - 16 Sep 2014
9:17 PM - 16 Sep 2014
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
Great Raid OT, loving your positive vibe.
Good times ahead, I'm nearly Level 26 people!!!
Good times ahead, I'm nearly Level 26 people!!!
I'm just sans the 6 light levels of gear at the moment, engrams pls.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
That's why I mentioned WoW- at the height of it's popularity it had over 10 million players, these days it's still siting on 7 million some ten years later and those aren't niche numbers. The genre may be niche but I had thought WoW would have given it quite the exposure.
I'm sure Bungie knew about the negatives with the MMO label, that's why they tried so hard not to call it that.
GodParticle
Member
OMG, that triplewrecktv stream is too intense
blazinglazers
Member
Oh god on the tripleWREKTV stream they got Altheon down to 10%… and then wiped.
Loving this.
Loving this.
ShinMaruku
Member
The MMO market is 45% wow that is niche. That ain't huge. Out of how much first world consumers it has maybe 5- 6 million? Not very large.
CitizenCope
Member
This game is so intriguing. No interest in buying it yet I've had 3 streams running all day at work following people trying to beat this Raid.
Raven77
Member
True, and if you're skilled enough and play enough, you can become just that...
Now that sounds like MMO End Game Raids.
3rdamention
Member
It is really fun brother! I just went to do a mission on the Moon (I am not very far into the game) and I was playing Solo. Minute I started a mission, some dude was right there dancing around, I sent him a request to join my FireTeam, boom, we did it together.
Now he is on my friends list. It really is a good game to meet new people and play. You are always getting thrown into games with random people. Plus, you can meet a lot of people at the tower while gearing up ready to go on Missions.
is that good?
Sounds pretty shitty considering they should've gotten armor or weapons.