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Everything You Need To Know About Destiny 2’s New Armor System
On a livestream Wednesday afternoon, Bungie showed off its forthcoming overhaul of Destiny 2’s armor system that will come when the Shadowkeep expansion arrives October 1. It’s a pretty thorough rework of how armor works in the game—and while it’s sorely needed, it might make Destiny even more of a grind depending on how it’s implemented in the final release. Here’s a summary of what we found...
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Lawsoneer
Aug 15, 2019 at 04:00
Looks neat. Can’t wait. One question:
Which class is the “Rogue”?
darthviper107
Aug 15, 2019 at 04:05
The classes don’t really have roles, it’s just more about which one you think looks better and what some of the abilities you like more. So there isn’t a rogue like class that has stealth
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‘Dad Builds’ Are Making Lazy Gaming OK, And I Love That
It has come to my attention that some of you have introduced a new term into the video game lexicon, one that describes a phenomenon of great interest to me and the public at large. I am talking, of course, of Dad Builds.
What is a Dad Build? Why, it is any character that uses the Dad Loadout when selecting what weapons and armor to equip in Destiny 2, a video game where players soar through...
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nopenopenopenopenopenope
Aug 10, 2019
I thought Hanzo mains were supposed to be cancerous assholes who can’t hit the wide side of the barn?
HOJUX
Aug 10, 2019
Yeah I don’t think the Hanzo main fits this criteria at all. That’s a different, sadder person.
Shawn Spencer
Aug 10, 2019
There's no better dad pick than Soldier 76 in Overwatch
Cayde-6's Unloaded Dice
Aug 10, 2019
Any Dad Build in D2 MUST include Thunderlord. 1) It’s easy to obtain (the quest is relatively simple, and very little grind) 2) Can clear the room of low-level PvE enemies in 1 mag or less 3) has the fastest time-to-kill of any machine gun in PvP
For PvP, Blast Furnace is the best primary, since it’s easier to obtain than Bygones. ———————
That said, I do remember PC Gamer claimed that Huckelberry, Loaded Question, and Wendigo GL3 was also a “Dad Build.” Wendigo GL3. The grenade launcher that requires getting ONE THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED GRENADE LAUNCHER KILLS IN PLAYLIST STRIKES.
The one where the recommended shortcut was “1) Keep trying to load in to the “The Corrupted” strike, 2) run over to the The Blind Well while in the strike, 3) Spend 4 hours grinding grenade launcher kills in The Blind Well” SMDH
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I look at Dad Builds and I think of the “ ” in Halo 2 , or in Overwatch —people who found an acces sible way to play a game that let them feel competitive but not cheap, a way that then became so popular that hardcore fans started to be annoyed by it.
See also, CoD4's Noob Tube
Destiny 2 Players Can't Decide What This Weird Cat Statue Means
Last week, Destiny 2’s Solstice of Heroes event began, bringing with it a new activity set in a new area: the European Aerial Zone . Ever since, players have been scouring it for potential hidden lore or secret areas that could be tucked away somewhere in its many floating rocks and abandoned buildings. So far, all that players have found is a cat statue.
This week, one of the most popular...
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TimeIsABigBallofWibblyWobblyTimeyWimey...Stuff.
Aug 08, 2019
Eva Levante: “Our warlocks built this mind palace for you to revel in-”
Guardian: “but what about this cat statue”
“What?”
“The statue of the cat. The cat . why did you put this in here. Are you hiding an exotic weapon? Are you fulfilling Riven’s wishes!? WHO DO YOU WORK FOR!?”
“...it..it...it’s just a statue of a cat!”
“DON’T LIE TO ME, DARKNESS INCARNATE !”
Rzmmdx Leetuber
Aug 08, 2019
Ancient Egyptians were aliens.
QED.
blue-haired_lawyer
Aug 08, 2019
I keep telling everyone, the Pyramids are landing pads. Landing p ads!
Rzmmdx Leetuber
Aug 08, 2019
Me thinks the Pyramids were Borg cubes that crash landed.
Destiny 2 Players Are Having Fun Punching Raid Bosses To Death
Destiny 2’s raid boss fights are supposed to be brutal, drawn-out affairs. They take a while to complete even for stronger players. Over the weekend, though, Destiny players discovered a character build that can be used to kill any raid boss with just a few punches.
The build is by Gladd, who we’ve...
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Markerlight
Aug 05, 2019
And by reporting it, Bungie will eliminate it shortly. Because we need more jumping bullshit puzzles as "difficulty"
Ghando
Aug 06, 2019
If this were Blizzard and WoW, sure. Bungie rarely fixes bugs unless they’re so bad they really can’t let it go.
Shadow
Aug 06, 2019
This is something that should be patched, given that it is only possible with a glitch. Not to mention that bungie has known about this for a short while now
cwatz
Aug 05, 2019
“Destiny 2 players are having fun” Theres a sentence I never thought id see .
PsychoNun (Is actually a dude)
Aug 05, 2019
As a former Destiny player, I agree
I Brain You
Aug 06, 2019
When did you quit playing? I quit in last year, in May.
Destiny 2: Shadowkeep Delayed Two Weeks
There are some big changes coming to Destiny 2 with its next expansion, Shadowkeep, and those changes are going to take a little more time to get here. Today, Bungie announced that Shadowkeep and the new, free-to-play version of Destiny 2, New Light, are being delayed from September 17 to October 1.
“Being independent means that the future of Destiny 2 is entirely on our team,” the developers...
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Kyuzo
Aug 02, 2019
Gimme that sweet cross-save so I can transition to PC.
Agathia
Aug 02, 2019
I feel you, I got the game for free when it was given one year ago, and instantly bought Forsaken because it was so much fun to play on PC rather than on PS4. So much smoother, visually and gameplay wise, it’s great!
drkarate098
Aug 02, 2019
I feel like this has to be a move to widen the gap between them and borderlands 3. After Overwatch essentially killed battleborne by releasing within its window, Im sure Bungie would want to learn the lesson Gearbox did.
InfiniteDemonMachine
Aug 02, 2019
Most definitely .
Destiny 2's Solstice Event Is Back And Better Than Last Year's Grind
The Solstice of Heroes has just begun in Destiny 2. It’s the return of last year’s in-game event where you think back on how swell your time playing Destiny 2 has been as you play more Destiny 2. Much like the first Solstice of Heroes, which was held around this time last year, this one serves as a last hurrah before a big expansion—Shadowkeep in this case—a chance to earn some sweet...
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Kyuzo
Jul 31, 2019
Destiny 2 is good.
Odorimasenka
Jul 31, 2019
Meh. I used to be in a clan with buddies from work. We did raids on Saturdays and played quite a lot. The best was when the released vanilla Destiny 2 for free, as that got some other co-workers into it, who then bought the expansion.
When the year pass came out, the majority of us declined to buy and decided to wait and see how it all turned out. (1 guy did though)
None of us have regretted the decision or gone back to the game.
He is constantly on every night grinding for this or grinding for that, while the rest of us can enjoy some games of this together and then get off to enjoy other games as well.
So while I agree Destiny 2 is good, it just seems so empty at the same time. Like spending my life eating French fries only and deciding not to eat anything else, because those fries keep on coming.
Techtological
Jul 31, 2019
Every time I go a few days without playing Destiny, Bungie releases something new that puts me on another bender. Not a single month has passed that I haven’t played Destiny 2 since it released. It’s wild.
ThisNameIsAnAlias
Jul 31, 2019
I am really enjoying D2, BUT I hate the way Bungie\Activision\whomever is to blame put all matchmaking, LFG, fireteam searching, and clan searching OUTSIDE OF THE EFFING GAME.
You know what I hate with the heat of 1000 supernovas? Having to unlock my phone, open a half-assed app, then scroll through hundreds of fireteam listings with no good way to filter to what you want. You literally have to scroll through hundreds of listings visually hoping that someone listed what you want to do in a meaningful way.
The rest of the game is so good, but this part is pure shit. For a game the touts itself as an FPS MMO, it is seriously lacking in the MMO department. The fact that I have to alt+tab out of the freaking game or use some other device like a phone or tablet rages me to no end.
I get why it’s likely this way, most likely has to do with strict requirements from XBOX\PS to protect against abuses in chatrooms for younger audiences and rather than deal with that crap they just opted to not do it at all in game and have the functionality represented somewhere else to sidestep the requirements, BUT I HATES IT.
IMHO it is the single worst thing about D2. If they’d just transition that stuff to in-game and add small things like filtering fireteam search lists by activity, it’d make D2 like 1000000000000x better.
Constant Colors
Jul 31, 2019
TBF (I’m being heavily derisive here) they’ve been avoiding the term “MMO” from the outset.
I think that’s the excuse they’ve been giving themselves to half ass every aspect of the game having to do with connecting with other players.
Tresceneti
Jul 31, 2019
No, they actually dropped the "MMO" term back in June, it's exactly what they want now.
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Destiny 2's Solstice Of Heroes Rewards Will Get Upgraded When September's Expansion Hits
The annual Solstice of Heroes event returns on July 30 to wind down year two of Destiny 2 ahead of September’s big Shadowkeep update. In preparation for that expansion, players who complete Solstice activities will receive new armor sets that will automatically get updated with the armor overhaul coming to the game in September.
The Solstice will revolve around a new three-player combat ritual...
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HarvesterZERO
Jul 25, 2019
If I bought Destiny at launch on Blizzard, but haven’t played it since, what do I need to buy to be considered “up-to-date”. Would it be wiser to just wait for the next expansion before diving back in? Mostly solo play, don’t mind some grinding for drops.
gamebrain89
Jul 25, 2019
Forsaken will get you everything but the annual pass content, which is separate . In september everything but Shadowkeep will become free to play with New Light becoming the base version of the game. If you want to see the Forsaken stuff before September, go with that. Otherwise, feel free to wait till New Light drops to check everything out.
Masiaka
Jul 25, 2019
Destiny plans on making much of it’s existing content free to play, however they’ve already mentioned that Forsaken, Black Forge, and other content will likely be sold ala carte afterwards. If you’ve made it past the Red War, I would personally buy forsaken for the Dreaming City. It’s amazing. Otherwise, you may want to hang out until Sept so you don’t go paying for more content than you will play.
Cayde-6's Unloaded Dice
Jul 25, 2019
Not a fan of the Warlock helmet, but hopefully this new Solstice of Heroes thing will be more like the Verdant/Haunted Forest than last year’s “r eplay mission on very high difficulty” Hunters definitely have the best armor set. Of course, the other downside is that they’ve got this event overlapping with the Tribute Hall for a full month. I was already not sure if I could even get close to completing that, but having to split attentions between two different grinds...
gamebrain89
Jul 25, 2019
Tribute Hall is not a time limited event. Feel free to take your time with it, it’s not going away.
Cayde-6's Unloaded Dice
Jul 25, 2019
The M oments of Triumph are limited to August 27th.
Destiny Players Are Getting Fed Up With A Ridiculous Grenade Launcher Quest
For months, hardcore Destiny 2 players have been trying to scale their way up to a seemingly impossible mountaintop. The Mountaintop, in fact… because that’s the name of a Legendary grenade launcher in Destiny 2 that many players have coveted for a long time. It is, as its name implies, incredibly labor-intensive to get, with no real work-arounds other than to just buckle down and do the...
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archronos
Jul 23, 2019
Honestly the Glory points portion is the easiest step, the real problem is that the kill requirements for this gun are too steep.
It requires something like 300+ multi-kills is near impossible to do in regular Crucible, since it basically requires you to get lucky and hit enemies that happen to be grouped closely together. The regular non-Power GL’s dont really have the splash radius to consistently get multi-kills, and the Power GL’s give you just enough ammo where you can get 4 shots off with a single brick of heavy ammo.
epicamans
Jul 23, 2019
It was one of the pinnacle weapons from last season and the main reason people want it now is because it’s part of the meta for raids and such for damage dealing the bosses. Grenade launchers recently got a 50% buff to damage to make them more viable so now a straight firing, spike grenades grenade launcher in a Luna W ell is godly.
I Play Destiny As A Warlock But Now Think I Should Be A Titan
As far back as I can remember, I, like Ray Liotta, have always wanted to be a Warlock. My daddy was a Warlock. His daddy was a Warlock. Warlockin’ is in my blood, I thought as I started up Destiny for the first time in 2014. When Destiny 2 was released three years later, I stuck to what I knew. I stayed a...
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abracadaniel
Jul 19, 2019
I’ve been stubborn and stuck with hunter despite everyone else’s supers being so much more cool and amazing. I just... I like my triple jumps and magic treasure finding radar.
You got guys throwing red explosions, another guy throwing purple explosions, and I get to shoot a disco ball on the ground that puts kid leashes on guys so I can hurt them a little bit more.
At the very least, I gotta rely more on my ability to shoot things in the face, so it's good practice?
OrtizDupri
Jul 20, 2019
I will never give up my Orpheus Rigs and hitting that perfect tether to capture 100 thrall and blast them all at once (cough Escalation Protocol, or see also Scorn at the end of The Hollowed Lair).
That said, the new sneaky invisible whatever it’s called power on the hunter is a BLAST to use, just flipping and cutting around the battlefield, especially in PvP.
MaseTheDoggie
Jul 20, 2019
Which supers are so much m or e cool and amazing than the hunters?! I’d argue they have the most diverse, best pool of supe rs to choose from! They have great roaming supers with arc staff and nightblade supers, solid shut down ability with any solar tree super , and shares the top-tier PvE utility super(alongside Well of Radiance) with the tether. Hunters hit all the bases.
simonmagus111
Jul 19, 2019
I don’t really have a main anymore. I have all 3 leveled up, and I rotate between them. I love all my children!
And for people who feel tired at even the thought of leveling up the other two: it’s so much easier than you fear. Once you have one character max level, your next two already have your existing high level weapons greatly speeding up the process. If you do more difficult end game stuff, being flexible about the character you can use makes you far more valuable as an ally
Xavus
Jul 20, 2019
Actually, high level weapons have just that: a level requirement. So it’s not as easy as you make it sound HOWEVER, there is a white rarity submachinegun that you can pull from collections with your max level character that does not have a level requirement .
Kromehound
Jul 20, 2019
Horror Story, the Halloween auto rifle, is a 600 light level weapon with no level requirement as well.
Sometimes It's Nice To Stop Mid-Game And Watch The Players Around You
Yesterday I logged on to Destiny 2 for the first time in a very long while, intent on clearing out a chunk of the massive to-do list my character had accrued since this summer’s Season of Opulence update began. One of my many bounties and challenges involved killing a bunch of Fallen enemies on the game’s...
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spad13
Jul 17, 2019
Sometimes I think about getting back into Destiny 2, but the urge is never strong enough than the burnout I feel from the loot treadmill.
Destiny 2’s Latest Exploit Lets You Farm Materials By Doing Nothing
For the entire five-year span of Destiny’s existence as a series, players have been looking for ways to exploit it. Any old Destiny head will speak fondly of the days we had Loot Caves and cheesed bosses without shame. In the pantheon of cheap Destiny exploits, the latest Destiny 2 scheme for scoring loads of materials might take the cake for the amount of effort it requires, which is about...
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OldManLight
Jul 17, 2019
i always feel like these exploits that circumvent gameplay should be canaries in the coal mines of “why are players not wanting to do this thing that we’ve designed? ” for game developers.
Sean Bond
Jul 17, 2019
I agree, but it’s almost impossible to create an activity fun and rewarding enough that players won’t take the easy way out when given the chance.
Sean Bond
Jul 17, 2019
This is the inevitable end product of grind for grind’s sake. I’m not specifically criticizing Bungie/Destiny for this (since it’s a very common thing, and I know that some players actively like it), but players will always take whatever shortcuts are available to them, especially if the end result is something like this (a great exotic weapon).
I don’t really know how to fix this other than to make the non-exploit ways to get materials (or to do whatever grind players are being asked to do) more fun and rewarding. People will probably still cheese, but the numbers will decrease in proportion to how rewarding/fun the solution is.
(and Bad Juju rules, btw)
Streamer Raises Almost $1 Million For Charity In Just Four Hours
GuardianCon, which began a few years back as a small Destiny con and has since grown into an all-weekend show held in July in Orlando, also runs a week-long charity stream. Which has just raised over $3 million for a children’s hospital in Memphis.
As Forbes report, the stream operated in four-hour blocks, with streamers, teams and even some companies taking part. Bungie, for example, raised...
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Darkhouse999
Jun 24, 2019
This serves as a good yearly reminder that people who game, can do good when we try. Hopefully one day, it will not need to be a yearly reminder and instead a daily act. Big props to everyone involved with Guardian Con, from streamers to those that donated , and to those attending this years event in Florida.
RozoDru
Jun 24, 2019
Gamers are generous. Hell check out SGDQ in less than 12 hours they’ve already raised over 110k. and they still got a whole week to go.
Manabi
Jun 24, 2019
There’s far more than one single reminder that gamers can do good. There’s a l s Awesome Games Done Quick every January; Summer Games Done Quick every June; and Child’s Play that accepts donations all year long, but is most noticeable around Christmas (due to lots of groups doing donation drives then). That’s just three I know of off-hand, there’s probably l o t s more.
I t is nice to be able to point all tho s e o u t t o i d i o t s claiming gamers never do anything good , b u t i t rarely helps c h a n g e p e o p l e ’ s m i n d s . P e ople latch onto g a m e r s a s a b o o g e y m a n t h at’ s con v e n i e n t to b l a m e , n o t o u t o f r a t i o n a l i t y .
Doktah Doktah
Jun 24, 2019
MEANWHILE AT THE HALL OF VARIOUS NEWS OUTLETS
“Video Games don’t do anything good!”
Lenny Valentin
Jun 24, 2019
Careful there . You might inadvertently summon up the ghost of Jack Thompson... :P
Manabi
Jun 24, 2019
Good news: He’s not dead, so no ghost. Bad news: He’s still an asshole.
L o o k s l i k e h e l a r g e l y v a n i s h e d f r o m the public eye since getting permanently disbarred in Florida i n 2 08 (which is a v e ry r a r e punishment from the bar) . H e d i d f ile a la w s u i t a g a i n s t F a c e b o o k o v e r p e o p l e m a k i n g m e a n p o s t i n g s a b o ut him in 2009, but dropped it a f t e r a f e w m o n t h s a n d hasn’ t m ade any headlines since.
The Perfect Squad Size Is 3 People
If you were paying attention to this week’s E3 announcements and also care about co-operative games, you might have noticed something: There are a lot of three-player co-op games.Rainbow Six Quarantine , the new Escape mode for Gears 5 , even Battletoads . To this I say: It’s about damn time. Three people is the perfect squad size, and I am tired of games that want me to find a fourth.
The...
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Dejinho
Jun 15, 2019
Incorrect - the perfect squad size is however many friends you can play with at that specific time , and more games should have adjustable difficulties based on your numbers.
pillbinge
Jun 15, 2019
And here I was thinking I would never be someone to utter anything close to “gamers are entitled”.
Also, what a stupid approach anyway since designing an encounter takes a lot of critical thought. S imply raising numbers based on a player value, which can easily be skewed depending on factors (Borderlands never required a second person for anything), makes most games worse.
Hammy
Jun 16, 2019
Dang bud, with that condescending attitude , do you not like it cause you don’t have any friends? Definitely not the type that people want to hang around with.
Borderlands never required a second person for anything because it had variable difficulty. Which is good, because some people don’t have friends to play Borderlands with at that exact moment in time. Borderlands isn’t too difficult to begin with, I could only imagine how easy it would be if they didn’t have variable difficulty.
What i s the difference between raising numbers based on player count and raising numbers based on difficulty selection? 99% of hard modes in games are just "Player HP lower, Enemy HP higher" anyway, why not translate that to multiple people?
Keyan Reid
Jun 15, 2019
Shit, I’m just glad to see so much emphasis on co-op this year. Seems like for a while there developers couldn’t be bothered to even muster up a single player campaign, let alone a co-op one. This is a welcome change in that regard.
And Destiny already codified the value of a 3 man team to me years ago. Something just works really well about Strikes, sending 3 guys in to crush a mission. I’m here for this.
Formedras
Jun 19, 2019
Could use more couch co-op, though.
Destiny 2's Next Year Will Depend On How Players Like This One
It’s safe to say Destiny 3 won’t be coming next year, but what about a new expansion? Or new seasons? On this bonus E3 episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, we ask the people behind Destiny about that and a whole lot more. (Apologies for the background noise—I had to use backup audio!)
I sat down with Destiny creative chiefs Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy for about an hour to probe them about...
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Keyan Reid
Jun 12, 2019
The seasons stuff seems extremely polarizing.
I’m in team “Thanks, I hate it” but every time it comes up there are folks rushing to tell me this is the best Destiny 2 has ever been.
Agree to disagree there.
I’m here for the Taken King , Rise of Iron, and Forsaken style expansions. They can miss me with the seasons though. There’s other games I’d much rather be playing than Destiny: Infinite Grind.
CrashingEchelon
Jun 12, 2019
I feel like I wasted money on the pass for Forsaken, definitely wasn’t worth it. But I am interested in Shadowkeep, so we’ll see how that goes.
Cayde-6's Unloaded Dice
Jun 12, 2019
I’d disagree. This is purely my personal opinion, but it’s nice to have added stuff every so often to get me back. If they didn’t add the seasons, I wouldn’t really have a reason to return once I hit level cap since I don’t regularly have the time to grind raids. Adding the new end-game activities that each take around 15-20 minutes per run keeps me playing. I get that for the most part it isn’t new plot, new strikes, or new worlds, but that stuff takes much more time to develop.
Sean Bond
Jun 12, 2019
I have to say, I’m starting to feel like they’re getting what people want. There have been some controversies (nerfs, the economy of upgrades in the game, etc), but it feels like they’re at least trying to make decent compromises now. And I think the fact that they’re waiting on the reception of Shadowkeep is a good thing, because in the past the players have accused Bungie of just going ahead with what they want, playerbase be damned.
I think it’s natural that people will still prefer D1, but speaking personally, this is the most comfortable and interesting I’ve ever found the series. And if new blood comes in via the F2P model, I can see this really talking off.
OMGrunItsOJ
Jun 12, 2019
I couldn’t disagree more. If you polled 1000 hardcore players on if they want the big new expansion to be going back to the moon or somewhere new, I doubt the vast majority would say “I want to go back! I haven’t spent enough time at the moon.”
archronos
Jun 12, 2019
Honestly the complaints about the nerf are the product of uninformed masses that don’t know what they want.
The things that got nerfs deserved to get nerf due to how overpowered they were.
I honestly feel bad about Bungie because no matter which part of the playerbase they try and satisfy, there will always be some vocal group that complains about the changes.
Sources: Sony Agreed To Destiny 2 Cross-Save Just Yesterday
Today, Bungie announced that Destiny 2 will be getting cross-save across all platforms, allowing players to transfer progression between Google Stadia, Xbox, PC, and PS4. But for the past few weeks, sources say, Bungie didn’t think that last one would happen. In fact, it came together at the last possible minute: One day before the announcement.
Yesterday, Kotaku reported that PS4 cross-save...
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rezzyk
Jun 07, 2019
Does anyone else feel like Sony is starting to get that late PS2-era arrogance back again? I know they had a great generation with PS4, but the PS3 era humbled them, which is what led to PS4 being successful. It seems like they haven’t learned much.
chaos2992
Jun 07, 2019
the ps3 was a lowpoint for them, but it sure didnt humble them. if anything, it made them more spiteful. the moment they gained the upper hand again sony and their fans became insufferable.
KEYSTONEBAD
Jun 07, 2019
If they weren’t budging on any of their bullshit, then maybe I’d agree. They are making concessions when pushed though. Fortnite finally got cross-play, and now Destiny 2 will get cross-save with other platforms. They’re definitely abusing their position as market leader whenever the opportunity arises (it’s ridiculous I have to pay for PS+ to get cloud saves), but I think we’re still a long way out from the hubris of “Buy our $599 console with no quality games, shit online service, and by the way our controller doesn’t have force feedback”.
Kythlyn
Jun 07, 2019
Cross-save is great and all and is appreciated, but cross-play it is not. Dauntless is really pushing cross-play forward, and I’m hoping Destiny 2 and many other games will follow their example.
The Legend of Vincent Tremblay
Jun 07, 2019
I think this will open the door for cross-play down the road, but they’re not ready to announce it yet . Cross-progression and eliminating platform-locked content is the first step. They still have to ensure that keyboard/mouse and controller support is uniform across all of their supported platforms (thank Stadia for making that table stakes now) , then they can change their server instancing from platform-based to control-based.
ben2theedge
Jun 07, 2019
Cross-save might bridge the gap at least. The tricky thing is that Destiny is a FPS with a high level of mobility and fast movement, so the difference in experience between gamepad and mouse/keyboard will be exacerbated even compared to other shooters.
Bungie Outlines The Future Of Destiny 2: Cross-Save, No Exclusives, Free-To-Play Base Game
Bungie today went in-depth on the future of Destiny 2, delivering a heartfelt video presentation in which franchise bosses Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy talked about their Activision-free vision: a Destiny 2 that’s continually updated and playable just about anywhere.
Smith and Noseworthy said that one of their goals was to embrace the “MMO” aspects of Destiny 2, bolstering the game’s social...
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Arden
Jun 07, 2019
So I read that correctly and cross-save/ transfer *is* happening for PS4? Like, move from console to PC?
Blake
Jun 07, 2019
I don't believe it's a transfer. It's being able to save your characters to an account and access it on any device thats playing Destiny 2.
Arden
Jun 07, 2019
If that’s the case, it will effectively be the same thing, right? If I downloaded Destiny on my PC it should load up and connect to my PS4 characters
Ruenin
Jun 07, 2019
I won’t be preordering a goddamned thing from Bungie, especially for Destiny. Not after CoO, not after Season of the Joker.
Crazynuts
Jun 07, 2019
Too late.
Constant Colors
Jun 07, 2019
“ Big changes” form Bungie have inevitably meant the old “one step forward, two steps back” dance.
I’ve learned to live with their relative incompetence, but yeah, definitely always a good idea to take the wait and see approach with them.
Sources: Destiny 2 Is Coming To Google Stadia, Getting Cross-Save
You’ll soon be able to transfer your Destiny 2 progress between multiple platforms: Xbox, PC, and the streaming service Google Stadia, on which the popular loot shooter will launch this fall. PlayStation 4 remains up in the air.
Right now, switching from console to PC for Destiny 2 means starting from scratch, as there’s no way to transfer your characters or progress. But this morning,...
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Murph
Jun 05, 2019
The best part of Destiny is the shooting and I can’t wait to experience that with 5 0+ ms of latency.
OldManLight
Jun 05, 2019
i played a bit with stadia during the alpha earlier this year and that was my though too. It’s one thing to have a 3rd person action game with some aiming at times , it’s another thing to have a first person game whose camera is probably the most important input for the player under that same latency. it works but yeah i don’t know if FPS games will feel good on it. I just think about the time i played games on a really old gen wireless mouse with lots of latency. That’s what i suspect this might be with an unstable connection.
fueledbyapathy
Jun 05, 2019
If you can’t play with 50+ ms latency, it might not be your internet connection holding you back.
OldManLight
Jun 05, 2019
Google is out there doing the things they need to do to make streaming games potentially catch on and while it sounds very cool to not need to build a PC or purchase hundreds of dollars worth of hardware every few years to play games, it’s also slightly terrifying. I was on a plane yesterday and my daughter and son had claimed my 3DS and switch i had packed leaving me with just my phone in airplane mode to play games. almost none of them worked without internet and that got me thinking of Google and Stadia...so yeah, that’s where i’m at.
Realnoize42
Jun 06, 2019
It IS terrifying. Not only from an “always online” perspective, but also from the fact that Google being a company living on selling your data, one has to question what are they getting from such a tech. I mean, Google’s already tracking whatever they can about us through our phones and tablets and Chrome, and smart speakers & appliances , now they’re going to track our in-game behavior as well? Just thikning about all th e metrics they can potentially gain about us, about how we react in different situation, and then append this to our profile without any of us knowing about it kind of makes me uneasy. Sure, some will call me a tinfoil-hat wearer, but the truth is if we’d tell all we know about what Google, Amazon, Facebook have on us to people living 25 years ago, they’ll be thinking 1984 was actually a prophecy and that we’re all living under Big Brother’s eye now.
But yeah, about the “connectivity” aspect.... We won’t be able to own anything in the future. On Stadia, as far as I know, it’s for Google to decide what I can and can’t play. A game available today might not be there tomorrow, or in 5 years. Also, the internet is FAR from being at a point where it has become commonplace everywhere, at a level fast enough to allow this. I mean, there are place not even 30min away from big cities that don’t even have cable and still need to either resort to phone line internet or Satellite....
OldManLight
Jun 06, 2019
yeah, the part about the saturation of broadband is probably the biggest hurdle i see to this type of service gaining mass market appeal. but i also see crews laying fiber cable every day all over the place so who knows how long that will be the case.
Destiny's New Menagerie Is One Of The Game's Coolest Activities Yet
A new season launched in Destiny 2 today, and with it came a brand new activity that ranks up with some of the best things the series has done: Menagerie, a gauntlet of light puzzles and tough encounters.
Like everything else in Destiny, Menagerie is all about shooting aliens, but it’s not your average horde mode. It feels more like a miniature raid, with a variety of interesting (and...
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BaddArt
Jun 05, 2019
I fell off as the annual pass stuff started. Is it worth coming back to?
Honestly, as someone who was playing Destiny since The Dark Below, I got really fed up with the RNG grind. I liked Luke Smith’s ethos going into D2 about how they wanted the game to be something you could enjoy and then put on a shelf and come back to as new content came out.
There were things I liked about Foresaken, but it completely abandoned that mission statement. It felt like they just put roulette wheel on top of roulette wheel ( that you had to grind to even get to) , because the subreddit demanded it.
Yeah, everyone loves the weekly powerful engrams. I think it’s great in theory, but I can’t tell you how many weeks my power level range was maxed out with one piece of gear holding me back and not getting a single piece of that gear in any of my weeklies.
It just kind of felt like they’d abandoned the regular and casual player to cater to the smallest subset of the hardest, hardcore. I wasn’t even a casual player, I was putting 20+ hours a week into that damn thing for years and it just got to be too much.
Menagerie sounds like a step in a direction I can get behind. Where I can put a little bit of time in and selectively increase my chances of getting a piece of gear I want or need.
omeanizot
Jun 05, 2019
It’s funny that you’re main turn off is the fact that you can’t be selective about which powerful drops you can get when the whole point of Black Armory was letting you choose which specific weapon type you want a powerful drop for. When they were holding the R evelry event, they had a bounty for each armor piece so you can get a full set of powerful gear to collect/infuse. Gambit Prime/reckoning bounties give you a guaranteed powerful headgear. Even the power surge bounties were setup so that you can have an item for each slot so you get a guaranteed 640 power level (which I guess would be 690 now). I can’t say for sure that the Annual Pass was worth it for me because it’s not like we got a new planet/area out of it (and I don’t have time or the patience for raids) but overall the quality of life changes have been welcome. I’d disagree with your assessment that they’ve been ignoring regular/casual players because most of the new activities are pretty accessible (they included matchmaking for Forges, Reckoning, and the Menagerie) and the power surge bounties make sure of that. Even the new exotics are quest based so if you don’t like the RNG grind, you can stick with regular Grind lol.
Constant Colors
Jun 05, 2019
It’s still entirely possible to get randomly held back by a gear slot not dropping.
They’ve introduced ways to mitigate that with weapons but not armor (unless this new season has a way to get specific armor drops that I haven’t managed to run into yet (so far it looks like menagerie will let you choo se weapon types, I haven’t seen anything specific to armor (I like nested pare ntheses) ) ).
That said, Destiny started out as an RNG grind kinda game. T he base didn’t like the changes D2 brought and the new people didn’t stick around, so it got reverted. It’s always going to be grindy to an extent. If that’s not your bag. It’s probably not something you’re going to want to return to.
Cayde-6's Unloaded Dice
Jun 05, 2019
How long did your Menagerie run-throughs take? Hoping I can get a shot at doing this today instead of waiting
InvadingDuck | Zachary D Long
Jun 05, 2019
My first play through took somewhere between 30-45minutes. But that was going in totally blind and being completely underleveled/undergeared. I'm sure a more seasoned team could complete it in 15-20 minutes.
Doctor Black is In
Jun 06, 2019
I went in with a +1 blind but the rest were matchmade. One guy helped us figure out but for the most part we moved fairly quickly through zones. All the mechanics were familiar so it wasn’t difficult to figure out, main holdback was power level. I think we finished in about 25 mins?
Destiny 2 Leak Reveals Shadowkeep Expansion, Set On The Moon
A spanking hot new leak has revealed the next Destiny 2 expansion, and it’s set in the place from which wizards come. Shadowkeep, which will take Destiny players back to the moon, will go live this fall.
Bungie plans to officially reveal Shadowkeep during a livestream on Thursday afternoon, but word has leaked out today thanks to dataminers digging through the PC files in today’s big Destiny 2...
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Arnheim
Jun 04, 2019
...that expansion came from the moon!
cleverburnername
Jun 04, 2019
Came for this...
Tony Snark
Jun 05, 2019
Shut it down, ladies and gentlemen; we're done here.
Frosty
Jun 05, 2019
I fell so far behind in D2 after Forsaken dropped. I didn’t pick up the Annual Pass, and never reached the cap of Forsaken because I grew tired of that grind. Maybe this will pull me back. Though I’m dreading having to get all the way to whatever the cap is now. Destiny is still one of my favorite games, despite my various issues here and there.
Tony Snark
Jun 05, 2019
It’s at 750, but the latest season will give you the ability to get up to 690...once you finish Forsaken, that is.
Frosty
Jun 05, 2019
Finish Forsaken as in reach the cap, or finish the story? Because I’ve already finished the story and all that. I just never got to its cap.