Yet most of the time the reviewers don't know what they're talking about :whistle: :D
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Yet most of the time the reviewers don't know what they're talking about :whistle: :D
I'd agree with that. Sports games are a perfect example. You have to read them on a game by game basis and conclude for yourself. A lot of the reviews I've read for Destiny, though, are pretty much spot on...especially the Destructoid and Gamespot ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
The Crucible is unbalanced, plain and simple. You've only played 9 Crucible matches, so you probably haven't seen all the garbage that exists in the competitive modes. You also seem to like the vast majority of games you play regardless of problems, so you might like it anyway.
There's nothing wrong with that, but I'm not that way. I want something that is balanced and requires some amount of skill to be good at the game. Unfortunately, Destiny is neither of those things.
On another note, Xur is back for today and tomorrow selling Exotic armor/engrams. I bought an Exotic engram and got a really nice chest piece for my Titan, and then went ahead and got the Exotic helmet he was selling for Titans. You can only wear one at a time, but I'll probably switch back and forth between them. I should have enough reputation with the vendors by next week to buy a complete Legendary set, so I wont have to play the "find a legendary engram and get a blue item" game anymore.
Looking at the meta, there is definitely love and hate on the user score; which is 2-1 good to bad with the users. I haven't seen this many scores in a long time.
http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/...psfb6a08f3.png
They kind of screwed themselves over with how much they hyped this up. I think if they would have just done the normal advertising and Sony wouldn't have beaten it into the ground like it was some kind of exclusive, the expectations of people would have been tempered and this wouldn't be getting as much backlash.
I certainly tempered mine after the Alpha. It was pretty clear to me then that it wasn't going to be what everyone expected.
Still, though, as long as they support the game with content (which it appears they are going to), it's not too late for it to be saved. The Crucible needs MASSIVE work, though.
who is Xur and where is he located?Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Classic. :D :D :D
You’ve been stuck at level 23 so long I might start calling you Mr. Jordan.
— Legendary Engram (@legendaryengram) September 19, 2014
He accepts Strange Coins and Motes of Light as payment for Exotic gear(Exotic is the best kind of gear you can get in the game and can only wear 1 exotic piece of armor and 1 exotic weapon at once). He's at the Tower on the left hand side directly opposite of where you go to talk to the "speaker."Quote:
Originally Posted by oweb26
I got a Legendary package a few minutes ago for achieving Cryptarch rank 10, which came with 2 Legendary engrams. I nearly shit myself when the first one produced a Legendary helmet. I nearly fainted when the 2nd one also produced a Legendary item - a helmet. I then LOL'd when they I saw one was for the Warlock and the other for a Hunter - I'm a Titan. :D
That makes 3 Legendary items for my Hunter. He's going to be a proper bad ass when I get around to leveling him up.
Okay im blind im at the speaker and I have waled all at the bottome..what am I missing?
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I found him , damn he is hiding
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:D That is my new favorite Twitter account.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
Can we transfer items between multiple characters?Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Yeah, you can put them in your Stash in the Tower and then log in with the appropriate character and grab it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Escobar
When I'm decrypting your @legendaryengram pic.twitter.com/82U1UjdugH
— Master Rahool (@TheCryptarch) September 21, 2014
That's about right :D
I have been finding some legendary items though at least. I'm up to level 22 without too much grinding.
If you're only level 22, sounds like you're finding blue(rare), not purple(legendary). Legendary pieces have a ton of light and 2 of them would automatically jolt you up from 20 to 23.
I've gotten to the point where even though blue drops are pretty rare, they're all useless to me because I'm equipped with mostly Legendary gear already.
Also, :D @ what I witnessed last night. A 100% one hit kill fusion rifle even with full shield/health. Basically, anything medium range or in and you're getting one hit killed. It was a Legendary item but it's stats didn't look all that different from other fusion rifles, which are not always one hit kills, so I have no idea.
Yeah I meant rare. I have a Legendary rocket launcher, but that has nothing to do with level, but it's still badass.
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:sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
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Don't deny that you're turned on Matt.
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Just because you think that you can launch a lot of rockets doesn't mean mine is among them.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
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1 for 1 on getting Legendary item from Legendary engram. Should I retire while I am ahead?
Also, starting late tonight (early Tuesday):
An update to Destiny tomorrow will give players a slew of new Bounties made available through a temporary event called The Queen's Wrath.
The Queen, who you should remember from the Reef in the campaign (if you managed to trudge through it), is sending an emissary to the Tower who is "prepared to reward Guardians who extinguish enemies of the Reef." In last week's teaser, Bungie promised new Bounties and "challenging mission modes," but didn't get into any specifics. With The Queen's Wrath beginning tomorrow, we'll keep an eye out for any more details Bungie may share.
The Queen's Wrath begins tomorrow and will run through October 6. Successfully completing these new tasks will reward you with Legendary Gear (HA!) and Rare Gear (more likely).
Over the weekend, Destiny featured a Combined Arms playlist in the Crucible, giving PvP fans a taste of "all out war on a massive scale" with vehicular combat.
Link
:D :D :D
When Destiny’s Crucible Hands You a Team of Quitters, Only Dance Can Save You
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/09...-can-save-you/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=xo6MlIqQSR4
FYI, I love Skirmish. 3v3 with the ability and rewarding for revives was a lot of fun.
Damn. :fdown: :D
Bungie Is Shutting Down 'Destiny's' Loot Cave
Yeah, they have no problem fixing something like that in a timely manner. Meanwhile, all the actual problems like the unbalances in Crucible which have been present since the Alpha still aren't fixed. Makes sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
Looking for someone to do the raid with. lvl 27 Titan.
The loss of the cave was bad but they went even further by removing the ability to get shards out of Legendary items the Queen Wrath gives you. So if you get a repeat or unwanted weapon/armor, congrats on the waste of time. I have no issues finding purple stuff, it's anything starting with the word "ascendant" that is a PITA to find.
Well at least Xur will be around in a couple hours.
Well, I guess if you want one of the most overpowered guns in the game and have 23 strange coins, you can join in on the fun. Xur, the weekend vendor, is selling the Suros Regime Auto Rifle. Easily one of the most dominant guns you can get in the game, especially in the Crucible. I'd imagine that this would take an already massively unbalanced mode and make it even worse, so hopefully not too many people get it.
It would've been really nice for Legendary engrams to produce AT LEAST Legendary items at launch (so I didn't waste probably 25 Legendary engrams that turned into blue items), but at least that garbage is finally getting corrected.Quote:
The 1.0.2 patch will go live next week, and includes several changes to the Cryptarch and Engram experience. These changes guarantee that Engrams will always decode into items at or above the quality of an engram.
Only Engrams that drop after 1.0.2 are subject to this change.
Cryptarch Changes
Cayde-6 took the Cryptarch aside and showed him a sack of doorknobs. He decoded that mystery pretty quickly.
Legendary Engrams will always produce Legendary or better quality items, including Materials or Exotics
Rare Engrams will always produce Rare or better quality items
Rare engrams will have an increased chance to produce Legendary quality items
Activity Changes
Daily Heroics, Weekly Heroics, and Vanguard: Tiger Playlist activities will include Rare and Legendary Engrams in addition to their existing rewards
Item Changes
Ascendant materials have been promoted to Legendary to closer associate them with the gear they are used to upgrade
Legendary Engram items that exist in your inventory will be demoted to Rare quality when the patch goes live, so decode them while you can. But let’s be honest--even if you don’t, we all know they were blues already...
Also, very nice giving rewards of blue/purple engrams for completing weekly events. They're much more worthwhile now. Also, this should have been there from the start. Good rewards for completing objectives = people don't have to farm for shit.
Finally, LMAO @ them turning purple engrams people stashed in their inventory into blue ones. That is so ass backwards I don't even know where to begin. I wasn't doing this in the first place, but I know a lot of people were doing that in hopes they would eventually patch Legendary engrams to produce only Legendary or higher items (which they are), so those doing that are getting screwed.
Loot Cave 2: Not exactly a cave but it will do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTrVkfj97hQ
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Leave it to impatient fucks in this day and age to do nothing but go around from one grind zone to another instead of playing the fucking game the way it was meant to be played.
With as poorly as this game was designed, you kind of have to. Maybe not for weapon engrams, but for other materials.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Perfect example:
You need certain materials from the world to upgrade Legendary/Exotic items. Lots of them. To fully upgrade my Exotic Rifle, 72 Helium Filaments are needed(among other things, but that's the key one) and the absolutely only ways you can get them is by finding them laying on the ground or in chests on the moon. Therefore, quite literally the ONLY way in the game to get enough to upgrade that ONE weapon, is to farm chests.
Everyone is quick to defend Bungle, but they just don't realize how awfully designed so many mechanics of the game are.
Well, with reading this thread about how many problems there are with this game, I'm glad I never made it up to Gamestop to pick up my pre-order. Had to wait until that Friday for payday and by the time I got done with work and was able to finally just relax for the weekend on Saturday morning, I just never got around to going and picking it up. Probably a good thing at this rate with all these issues with the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
It's not as bad as Beatn is making it out to be. CDJ and I have put in a shit ton of time into the game and having a blast.
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I find it to be Borderlands 1.5 without the humor and a story that is horrible, not to mention having to go to a website to get more detail on the story with the ever annoying Grimoire cards. I am thankful for Destiny since Gearbox shit the bed by not putting the upcoming Borderlands game on XB1/PS4. What is fun is the gameplay. Just finished the Queens Order by myself and it is was extremely difficult, yet rewarding. Outside of getting a Legendary I already had and had to scrap it for nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
As for the farming, if you want to level up your character above 20 it is a necessary evil. The cave shooting works because you get a bunch of blue engrams, along with the occasion legendary engram that help you level up with the Cryptarch, which after each upgrade you get the possibility of more Legenday engrams. It also produces a bunch of coins which come in handy. He is the easiest to level up and get more rewards due to the farming.
There is a ton of stuff wrong with the game. They need more variety in the strikes, which is my big issue but as someone who has put in 50+ hours in the game, I got more than my moneys worth.
Story is weak. I'll agree there.
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You aren't even to the point where you're going to be seeing the issues besides from the garbage story. The garbage design kicks in after level 20 and after you've beaten the game. Or just play the Crucible - the garbage design is visible 24/7 in that mode.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
As Doughty said, if you want to level up past 20, you HAVE to farm. There's absolutely no way around it. You need to farm marks/rep with the Vanguard/Crucible Master/Factions in order to buy weapons/gear. To upgrade that Legendary/Exotic gear, you need to farm chests to find the materials needed (I'm talking a couple hours of farming AT LEAST just to fully level one item).
It's truly not well thought it. I should be given these things through regular game play, or better yet, not require materials at all for upgrades. However, with how it is now, you 100% NEED to farm to rank up past 20. You'll see once you get that high. There's truly no way around it and it's a poorly designed game because of it(and many other things).
I'm halfway to 25 right now.
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If you've got 1 exotic armor piece and the rest is Legendary, you're about to experience the poor design in regards to the ranking up system. Once you get the exotic + full legendary set, the only way to rank up is to farm for upgrade materials, something I'm not about to do, so I guess I'm stuck at 27. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
The game play itself is solid. It's just a pity the rest of the game pretty well sucks. Hopefully they get the stuff patched up. It reminds me an AWFUL lot like how Diablo 3 was at launch. They eventually listened - it'll be interesting to see if Bungie can do the same.
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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
I think Bungie is listening. it's not like the franchise is going to go away anytime soon. They have even made fun of themselves regarding the decisions they have made. It is after all a new IP. Give it some time. Once those expansion packs roll in my money is they pull a Borderlands and start raising the LvL cap.
The only thing holding me back from level 28 and possibly 29 are the lack of ascendent shards. I really wish there was a vendor that sold shards and materials for glimmer. ;)
Yeah, the shards are going to be a problem, because you can't farm those. As far as I know, they are completely random. I think you get some for dismantling Legendary/Exotic gear, so people may have to sacrifice stuff to upgrade the gear they like the most. I've currently got 28 and I know most of those is from doing exactly that.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
To fully upgrade my Suros Regime, I'm going to need 18 Ascendant Energy, which I have a whopping 5 of. :D
I do agree with what you said, though, and I'm going to give them time. I am just very disappointed with the end game and how awful the Crucible is.