Bungie's Destiny

[01101010]

I fucking hate minotaurs.

Servitors are my favorite for weak spots. Their beholder-like eye is a big old bullseye.

Throw a grenade in there and watch what happens. 

Bonus if it is a magnetic grenade. 

Wizards I hate, but they are a 2 shot mob once the shield goes down. I hate/love the fact they can and do go hide to recharge their shields.

[kaid]

wizards are the most annoying for me because the others are not that mobile so have a harder time recharging shields but with the smoke bomb/teleport and overall mobility wizards are a lot harder to pin down. Plus side if one is stupid enough to get next to me my new shotty two shots them from full shields.

[Bunk]

Wizards generally fall to my Sniper - the key is anticipating where they are going to hide once the shield drops so you can flank quickly to finish. Minotaurs are vulnerable to, um, my Rocket Launcher. I just pull it out by default when I see them.

Servitors I hate. To the point that I'll snipe them cross map in to an area that has nothing to do with my mission.

[Yegolev]

I believe I completed the story last night.  I was going to have a rough time in the final fight, but my previously-underleveled friend jumped in, and he was level 20.  Together we finished up, and I put on the earpiece after the fight and heard "Looks like I just did the final story mission?"  Ho ho!

The best part was that once we finished, I reached level 21 and that really annoyed my jobless friend.  Turns out he didn't have any equipment with +Light.  He suggested that I was fucking with him when I said I found two armor pieces from engrams which had +Light, but that's understandable since I'm never the guy in the lead.  I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

This morning I found a better +Light piece in a chest on the moon.  Whee!

[Signe]

I have this for the 360 and I'm hating the load times and the fact that I have to sit through those pesky cut-scenes even if I've seen them already.  I do love the gun play, though, and that's keeping me playing. 

Also, there are 3 es in Wheee!.

[Yegolev]

How many os in `Whoops!`?

[Trippy]

I have this for the 360 and I'm hating the load times and the fact that I have to sit through those pesky cut-scenes even if I've seen them already.  I do love the gun play, though, and that's keeping me playing. 

Also, there are 3 es in Wheee!.

The loading times are horrific in this game and made a billion times worse with their stupid mission selection UI which has it's own extremely lengthy loading time. It's so bad that just loading a loading screen takes a long time and then you get to wait some more on the loading screen itself.

Fortunately once you are a map (which are quite large) everything is streamed in the background so you don't have to wait around for more stuff to load.

[Surlyboi]

Your hate, I can smell it. 

That said, I'm 23 now and my light only grows. As much as it pains me to say so, I'm assembling a group of my monkeys to tackle the Vault of Glass. After getting my ass handed to me last night on Venus, I'm pretty sureI know where it is. I just need the crew to crack it.

[Yegolev]

I've determined that the loading screen from orbit is a two-parter: first you sit there while connecting (or not) to a instance, then you fly during the map load.  I don't know what load times are like on other systems but they are long on PS4, dependent on one or two variables.  Descending to a map that you just left, is fortunately much quicker.

[Trippy]

Your hate, I can smell it.  

Heh. And just to rub salt into the wound you have to hold down a button and wait for an interminable length of time just for the privilege of starting to load another slow loading screen.

[Yegolev]

Yea, I am also mystified by that one.  Why do I need to hold down the button to leave the mission summary screen?  On the other hand, it's not a gamebreaker by any stretch.

[Rendakor]

It's not, but the game is suffering from death by a thousand cuts to me. The story sucks, you can't skip it, lots of long load times even PS4, generally bland loot, repetitive content, etc. etc. I played it really hardcore the first few days, but now I find myself picking up my Vita to play Nep Nep instead. I can't be arsed to finish the story, I'm over team-based PVP in general (and awful at it because thumbsticks), and grinding missions to get better gear just seems very unappealing. Destiny seems to only have the worst bits of MMOs and not nearly enough of the good bits.

[Paelos]

Is this the kind of thing that people here are saying might suck, but in reality it's selling like crazy and immensely popular?

[Trippy]

It's already being discounted 50% (and supposedly Best Buy will price match) so I would say it's probably not selling as well as anticipated.

http://findnsave.ajc.com/circular/BrandsMart-USA-Weekly-Ad/r10120/1/

[Rasix]

It broke preorder records or something, which means nothing.  It probably sold a ton of copies out side of that.  This pretty much means nothing as well: it's from Bungie (Halo hype) and the next gen systems don't really have a ton of other shit to buy (unless you need your Madden/FIFA fix).  It's gotten somewhat mixed reaction critically.  

The reception here may be due to a number of reasons: we're skewed toward PC, console shooters aren't typically popular here, Halo isn't particularly popular here, and the I imagine the next gen adoption rate here isn't stellar.

I wouldn't expect this to do great here although the people that I would expect to like it, do.  There's few people I would have bet $100 liking it, even if they were never shipped the game and instead opened their day one package to find a box filled with used condoms, scorpions, and expired lunch meat.

It's selling well (I assume) and extremely popular because there's no way it would be anything other than that.  

[Rendakor]

FPS are the dominant selling genre and have been for a while, so it's no surprise it's doing well. What will really tell is if there are still a ton of people playing after COD drops in November.

[Margalis]

It's gotten pretty bad reviews considering it was supposed to be the biggest PS4/XB1 property of all time. I can see why some people like it but it has large undeniable problems.

[Surlyboi]

Games Radar sez STFU.

While I agree with a decent chunk of the article, it starts to smell a lot like...



That said, I'm still enjoying the fuck out of it and stabbing that random asshole that only uses the fusion rifle in the face is infinitely satisfying.

[Velorath]

Your hate, I can smell it.  

Heh. And just to rub salt into the wound you have to hold down a button and wait for an interminable length of time just for the privilege of starting to load another slow loading screen.

There's a lot of baffling design decisions. The most recent one I ran into is that there is no matchmaking for the weekly Strike mission despite the fact that they are the same strike missions you normally do (which do have matchmaking). I knew they were doing this shit for the raids, but why cockblock me from getting the weekly rewards from a Strike I've done several times with random people already?

[Surlyboi]

Yeah, that's really bad. And what's worse is that you can sometimes get into a strike with two randoms who then decide to fuck off and farm spinmetal instead of doing the strike.

And apparently a group completed the raid already.

[Rendakor]

Yeah, that's really bad. And what's worse is that you can sometimes get into a strike with two randoms who then decide to fuck off and farm spinmetal instead of doing the strike.

And apparently a group completed the raid already.

Is that supposed to be surprising? I mean, Bungie pretended their content was hard but so has every other MMO dev only to see it roflstomped on launch day.

That Games Radar article was really stupid. "You can't review an MMO until it's patched in all the fun."

[Abelian75]

Eh, I watched some of the streams, and it looks pretty hard.  It took the first group all day to beat the normal mode, and I think most other people were still beating their heads against the first boss.  That's pretty much the difficulty they were claiming to be shooting for with the normal mode version.  I dunno, i thought it looked pretty cool.

[Yegolev]

Having spent time playing post-20 Destiny, I'll agree that there is another game there.  Is it a fun game?  So far it is, but let's see what I think in a week or two.

[Paelos]

That Games Radar article was really stupid. "You can't review an MMO until it's patched in all the fun."

IE - We know it probably isn't great, but we've been paid to write positive news, so we're going to shame you while we gather more intel on the positives.

[Yegolev]

I'm not sure that's the case because I feel like the shooting is far and away the strongest element.  The other parts would ideally provide stickiness, but like I was saying before, not sure how sticky it makes the entire experience.

I can say that the idea of grinding out reputation is looking a bit grim in the morning sunlight.

[jakonovski]

I don’t think either of our groups got any actual loot.

Some dudes were the first to beat the new Destiny raid.

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/the-group-who-conquered-destinys-first-raid/1100-5021/

[Yegolev]

Best place for loot continues to be chests in deserted offices and caves.

[Rendakor]

This game is really good.

I'm using a keyboard+mouse adapter on PS4 and rolling around with a handcannon and a sniper rifle.

You using XIM4?

No, a Cronus MAX - www.controllermax.com

My PC is right next to my PS4 so it just pipes that to the controls and does the translation.

Do you have the original version or the new version? The new is sold out like, everywhere but if the original works I might pull the trigger.

[Falconeer]

No loot from the hardest raid in the whole game? I can't believe this is happening in 2014. I also don't believe the article, I am pretty sure those folks where dying inside for the lack of loot.

[Fabricated]

Also I think the loot in PVP matches is completely random and not based on performance. So you can go into a PVP match, be the worst person on a team by a mile but still possibly have the loot gods hand you legendaries while the rest of the team gets dick.

[Druzil]

I've only been watching streams (so correct me if I'm wrong) but that's kind of misleading though, isn't it?  There's like 4-5 gear drops in the raid before the final boss and the final boss does drop a unique shader set which I'm sure people are going to want and materials which everyone is grinding for.   Do people really want best in slot drops that come from a specific boss?

[jakonovski]

I want a huge shower of loot out of every big boss encounter, that's the point of these games. Even Bungie was hyping about the awesome exotic weapons that change the game yadda yadda. But this current model sounds basically as exciting as launch D3.

[Trippy]

No it's much worse than launch D3 in terms of loot. Loot is horrible in this game in every way possible including how difficult it is to actually see loot drops when they happen (which is rarely).

[Paelos]

$500M and they fuck up loot. There's some irony.

[Surlyboi]

Fuck that noise. I looted a gun that fucking finds treasure the other day and it fell off some jabroni mob that just happened to have the bad luck of being in my way.

Loot is fucking awesome.