Destiny [PS3,X360,PS4,XO]

[Nisaaru]

I dislike PvP in general so playing it is more pain than entertainment but when the map changes all the time it's impossible for me to develop some comfort to it in a reasonable timeframe. Unless of course you play it all the time but for that you have to enjoy PvP in the first place. Chicken&Egg

Still have 4 exotic bounties pending because I haven't touched PvP again for months.

 

[Nisaaru]

@nightshade
yeah the map rotation in crucible is messed up. too many times with the same map in a row

btw for PvE, if you are bored, you can skip most of the encounters and checkpoints. Same reward, quicker play.

even the super long stuff like Omingul strike and Undead Mind have sections that can be skipped

Which parts at Omnigul do you skip? I've only seen some people running up the hill and skipping over everything once while I had to wade through all the crap alone... Is the 2nd part with the snipers+tomb ships skippable?

 

[orangpelupa]

sniper and tomb ship is not skipable but you can run through to the building where you will go eventually. This makes the enemy confused (you are not supposed to be there, the enemy expect you to be inside Skywatch room).

Then the next part is skipable,, no need to fight Fake-Omingul, no need to fight the mini-Phogoth. Just skip through to the last omingul room. It will despawn enemy outside and force omingul to spawn in last room.

Spam Gjallarhorn and done
(or play hide-and-seek using boxes right in the platform, its quite safe although very close to omingul).

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Ladies and Gentlemen, after 1.5 days and 2 nights of Destiny grind, I present to you: The ICE BREAKER :

All thanks to HarshadB, my friend who took me through with my new character.

I got three coins from my original Warlock:
1 from Public event,
1 from Mars chest
1 from ROC strike.

Then made a new character,levelled him up fast via help and got:

1 coin from Draksis.
1 from Chest on Mars.

Mission effin' accomplished ! After joking about buying something else now that I have the coins or ending up buying something else cos we were so sleepy, we bought the Icebreaker and then tried our best to beat the crap out of Xur(by sliding into him repeatedly) for making us go through all the pain !

Then took the rifle for a spin, and boy it makes you feel stupid for pressing square after every few shots ! And the damn thing can clear out enemies accross the map ! I was so happily urprisedto find that the auto regen ammo isn't a perk for which I will have to grind for but its there as is !

Good grind, good buy, also made me famous in the whole Destiny group of friends for the golden boy who dreamt of IB and given the RNG's cruelty, finally did it ! Thanx all for the encouragement, given that a lot was dependent on luck, I frankly woudln't have done it if so many people weren't rooting for me !

 

[orangpelupa]

time to break the ice
congrats Renegade!!!

 

[RenegadeRocks]

And guess what, my friend who helped me out, he was rewarded by Destiny in the most majestic way possible. The gun he was lusting after since Destiny launched, the Vec Mythocast, when I bought the IB, he found the Vex lying with the Postmaster as a Lost Item . He actually went speechless !!! He has multiple copies of almost all guns but Vex was something that eluded him and here it was just lying there with the Postmaster . Guess good deeds come around

 

[orangpelupa]

Go-... Ehem!.. Destiny works in mysterious ways

 

[-tkf-]

It indeed does, except for missions where you are confined in a small area and have to kill aggressive enemies like Thralls that approach you or enemies that move a lot like Stealth Vandals you can pretty much solo most of the strikes and story missions at high level alone.


Edit: I think after 2 days worth of game time (no raids yet) I am officially starting to burn out on the game a little. I find it tedious to play through the same missions over and over again in the same way but with slight modifiers (Heroic, Nightfall and Roc are the only modifiers that even matter anymore). I'll start with raids next week and I have no doubt I will have some incredible fun with it ! But the story and strike missions, I am done with them. The PvP is fun but it's not Halo (won't equate it to COD as that game does what it does better than any game out there) and honestly speaking it is a bit unbalanced with the supers Arc Blade and Fist of Havoc (especially with Obsidian Mind and a team of friends can just decimate the other team if they build their gameplay around maximizing orb usage).

It also gets annoying when despite having 14 maps, I am playing the same map 4 times back to back and the 5th game happens to be on a map that I played before the repetition cycle started. I have reached level 3 in Iron Banner, half way through level 2 in Crucible...meaning I've played Crucible quite a bit. Despite this I've yet to play on Bastion or First light even once !! Last time I played First Light was in the Beta. I've only had ONE game in Asylum and Skyshock. Majority of the matches have been in Blind Watch, Firebase Delphi, Shores of time and Twilight Gap (in descending order of frequency). Like seriously Wtf? I can't be the only one who's been experiencing this weirdness in map rotation in this game right ?

You played a lot lately, Destiny is imho not capable of sustaining to much activity, maybe that is why i still enjoy it there is to little to do really. The playlist is to low lvl, how come there is no lvl 30 or lvl 31 in the rotation, i would much rather do those than hunt random events for shards or energy. And why it the daily not optional a strike thing. With the next expansion so far away the game is going to hurt, and i think there will be a healthy loss of subscriptions, ehmm dlc purchases after the next weak dlc.

 

[nightshade]

I went into an argument with my friends when I said Destiny has fantastic and addictive gunplay but is content starved. They were like "No man look how much time we've spent playing, I've never played a game this much" or "There's so much to do with new weapons, armours, daily/weekly missions and stuff like Iron Banner", or how the game has three different classes with "completely different" play style, or how the game's AI is so varied that it keeps things difficult even at level 32 (this threw me off a bit, and I couldn't really explain it to him that he wasn't talking about AI )

I just told them they were equating replayability with the use of modifiers as content and that the game lacked actual content in terms of numbers, you could play the game for an unlimited amount of time but that would not mean it has unlimited content. Then one guy ended up reducing the argument to, "well there is nothing else to a shooter than the shooting gameplay, everything else you see is just a variation, say in COD it's just a variation of shooting each other."

It was really difficult to argue in party chat when three people are barraging you with their unified opinion, one of them never even played online games much and this is the first online game he's ever played seriously. I got told that I haven't played raid yet and hence I should hold my opinion, while the guy I mentioned previous hasn't played any raid either yet the others were fine with his view on the game because he agreed with them that the game is flawless and the only issue with it is the lack of good story. It just seems to me like they've never played a loot based game, much less a loot based shooter before, if they did then they'd see how much worse Destiny is in rewarding players because what you do does not matter that much when it comes to finding loots. I doubt anyone of them even touched Borderlands because of it's cel shaded style.

I dislike PvP in general so playing it is more pain than entertainment but when the map changes all the time it's impossible for me to develop some comfort to it in a reasonable timeframe. Unless of course you play it all the time but for that you have to enjoy PvP in the first place. Chicken&Egg

Still have 4 exotic bounties pending because I haven't touched PvP again for months.

It's not difficult to learn 14 maps (11 when the game came out) but I guess if you avoid PvP considerably then it might be tough, with that said the map rotation in Destiny is kind of annoying indeed. Back in the days they used to have games with 20+ maps at release (Basically any game by Epic will have a boatload of maps)

And guess what, my friend who helped me out, he was rewarded by Destiny in the most majestic way possible. The gun he was lusting after since Destiny launched, the Vec Mythocast, when I bought the IB, he found the Vex lying with the Postmaster as a Lost Item . He actually went speechless !!! He has multiple copies of almost all guns but Vex was something that eluded him and here it was just lying there with the Postmaster . Guess good deeds come around

So it postmaster > Master Rahool ?

 

[orangpelupa]

@nightshade are they did not played Halo series? From what i remember,Halo Reach and Halo 4 is much more content rich than Destiny.
as for the gameplay, do they have not played Titanfall and Battlefield? those games have more varied gameplay elements and modes compared to destiny.

the weird thing is, why bungie decided to delete "Forge" on destiny. With user generated content that did not give any progression (just like Raid) or limit the progression to "forge faction", destiny will have lots of new contents from junk to awesome without the help of Bungie.

 

[nightshade]

Well only one of them has played Halo and still plays Halo, the others never did. The only shooter they've played is COD.

And yes it's strange to not have something like customisable lobbies or Forge, especially considering you have maps with different time of day in Destiny, you'd have something great with Forge and actual limitless content with many different user created raids and strikes...that would have been amazing !

 

[NRP]

Congrats Renegade! I'm glad your quest was successful. Enjoy this awesome weapon.

 

[nightshade]

The stun lock with this weapon is just something else, especially when everyone in your fire team is using it together to continuously lock a boss

 

[djskribbles]

Beat crota as the sword guy for the first time. Running the sword/relic in the raids makes them more fun. That said, I'll only be the sword guy if I have to. But I'm starting to run the relic in VoG a lot more now.

Also finally got something that I actually wanted from the nightfall... I got heart of the praxic fire (exotic chest for warlock). The best looking warlock chest piece IMO (much better than the raid one).

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Man, doing the Old Raid feels so much more fun than th enew one. We did the Atheon's fight on hard last night, had fun but I got two of the same helmet. I would have been ecstatic earlier but the helmet is now useless after DLC brought higher light helmets at Vanguard.
I would love to get the Fate Bringer from the old raid, but Bungie needs to make it rewarding again and not fade into oblivion, considering its still more fun and exciting than the new one. Raids should remain relevant and special, no matter what new content is released. Its the blood of Destiny. They should add the new rewards to old raids , up the difficulty if required.

 

[-tkf-]

Man, doing the Old Raid feels so much more fun than th enew one. We did the Atheon's fight on hard last night, had fun but I got two of the same helmet. I would have been ecstatic earlier but the helmet is now useless after DLC brought higher light helmets at Vanguard.
I would love to get the Fate Bringer from the old raid, but Bungie needs to make it rewarding again and not fade into oblivion, considering its still more fun and exciting than the new one. Raids should remain relevant and special, no matter what new content is released. Its the blood of Destiny. They should add the new rewards to old raids , up the difficulty if required.

Could 3 x 31 do the old raid?

 

[orangpelupa]

@tkf 3x31 will need super luck to complete VoG because most of the time Atheon teleported 3 people. Very rare it only teleport 1 or 2.

wihout people outside Past/Future dimension, its instant death.

 

[Strange]

Could 3 x 31 do the old raid?

Used to be possible because Atheon teleports ~ half of the people. Now he teleports 3 regardless of the team size I think.

 

[nightshade]

I wonder why is there no matchmaking for Heroic and Nightfall strike ? (Their reasoning for Raid not having any was stupid as it was)
And why is Nightfall in Vanguard playlist if it doesn't have matchmaking ? :S

 

[orangpelupa]

@nightshade
vanguard playlist does not have nightfall. If it does, then the game bugged?

about no matchmaking for Heroic and Nightfall strike... thats how bungie meant to be played and i think its a weird decision. Btw i have not done the weekly strike, its a phogoth. its a loooong strike although not hard with cheese.