We called it the Traveler, and its arrival changed us forever. Great cities were built on Mars and Venus; Mercury became a garden world. Human lifespan tripled. It was a time of miracles. We stared out at the galaxy and knew that it was our Destiny to walk in the light of other stars.
But the Traveler had an enemy. A Darkness - which had hunted it for eons, across the black gulfs of space, centuries after our Golden Age began. This Darkness... found us. And that was the end of everything.
That is, until Peter Dinklage found
you, Guardian!
Destiny: Penny Arcade G&T Saves the Universe and Everything in It is an online multiplayer action role-playing sci-fi-fantasy *deep breath* first-person shooter for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360 and the first title in a proposed 10-year, zillion-dollar franchise from Bungie and Activision. It’s MMO-like – think gear, skill trees, leveling up, and party play – with an emphasis on exploration and discovery.
The game is set in our own solar system, 700 years in the future, following a prosperous period of exploration and colonization ushered in by the arrival of the “Traveler,” a mysterious celestial body (pictured above). The Golden Age came to an abrupt end as a result of a momentous event called “the Collapse,” a calamity that wiped out human colonies everywhere, and as our story begins, humanity has retreated to the Last City on Earth, our shared home and the launching point for our journey back to the stars.
The Traveler watches over the Last City, and it is recruiting heroes from Earth to help protect our doomed planet, but the Darkness that hunts it is descending upon us. We must fight back against that Darkness, Guardians. We must suit up and set out - to the Moon and the planets beyond. We are humanity’s last hope.
So join up! Our clan is on both systems!
We've assembled a Bungie.net group - and within that group, a PlayStation clan and an Xbox clan - so that PA G&Ters can play together. We're Pax Arcadia, and we're currently making our way through endgame content and crushing the Crucible in six-man fireteams on a nightly basis!
Edit (9/10/14): Pax Arcadia has hit the 100-player cap on the PlayStation side (Xbox side still has openings). If you are on PS4 and are looking to join up, you need to request membership in Pax Arcadia II, but I would encourage everyone to also join regular Pax Arcadia, in case Bungie raises or removes the cap in the future. See instructions below.To join:
1. Send
@GMaster7 (on the PS side) or
@ObiFett (on the Xbox side) - or preferably, both - a PM, letting us know that you're applying.
2. Hit up the Bungie.net group for Pax Arcadia (
right here, at this link) and apply for membership, then hit up the group for Pax Arcadia II if you're on PS4 (
right here) and apply for membership.
3. Add yourself to the
Pax Arcadia Mega-Roster that we've created to keep track of membership. Use the tabs at the bottom to select your console, and put yourself at the bottom of your tab's list. We'll bump you up to your proper alphabetical placement once you're in the group.
4. When we get your PM and see that you're on the spreadsheet, we'll accept you to the
group(s). Then, you have to separately join your system's
clan - so click "
Set as PlayStation Clan" in Pax Arcadia II's banner if you're on PS3/PS4 or "
Set as Xbox Clan" in Pax Arcadia's banner if you're on 360/XB1 to officially add yourself to the clan roster. (Note: This only works after you've played the game on your system for the first time.)
5. Friend some PAers, hop online, and take to the skies in the name of Pax Arcadia!
Pax Arcadia Raid Finder
The Vault of Glass is waiting. If you are lvl 26+, it's your time to Become Legend. Join Pax Arcadia in conquering it again and again and again. Every week we will poll the members of Pax Arcadia in an effort to help everyone find a raid group and fill out groups that are missing members. If you want to raid, this is a great way to do it with fellow forumites/clanmates.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A GROUP:
Fill out this form. Note that it gives you a link to be able to change your information after you submit. Please keep that link so you can update any availability info if your schedule changes for that week. Once there are enough matches on the spreadsheet for your console,
@ObiFett will send you and your matches a group PM letting you know Pax Arcadia has found a group for you. We will only match groups that have at least a 4-hour availability overlap on two days of the week. If you don't hear from Obi, then there were not enough matches for your availability and console to form a Raid Team from Pax Arcadia. You can still look at the results page and form a partial group, if you want. If this happens, please let Obi know so he can update the spreadsheet.
IF YOU NEED MORE RAID FIRETEAM MEMBERS:
Use the availability results page to see who fits your group's schedule. Obi will do his best to keep the results page organized by console. If you find a member or form a group through the results page, please let him know so he can remove the names from the spreadsheet.
We will use the same form and results page each week; please keep your availability as current as possible if you're looking to take advantage of the Raid Finder. Every Monday, we will update the form, clear out the results spreadsheet, and make a post letting everyone know to fill out the form again. If you want to raid and don't have a group, make sure you fill out the form each week!
Misc. Codes and LinksPimp yourself out with these codes for emblems, shaders, and grimoire cards:
Redeem here:
http://www.bungie.net/en/User/coderedemption
YKA-RJG-MH9 (Grimoire: Warlock)
3DA-P4X-F6A (Grimoire: Titan)
MVD-4N3-NKH (Grimoire: Hunter)
TCN-HCD-TGY (Grimoire: Rixis)
HDX-ALM-V4K (Grimoire: Old Russia)
473-MXR-3X9 (Grimoire: Hive)
JMR-LFN-4A3 (Grimoire: Moon)
HC3-H44-DKC (Grimoire: Gjallorhorn)
69P-KRM-JJA (Grimoire: Duke MK.44)
69P-VCH-337 (Grimoire: The Tower)
69R-CKD-X7L (Grimoire: Ogre)
69R-DDD-FCP (Grimoire: Valley of the Kings, Mars)
69R-F99-AXG (Grimoire: The Fallen)
69R-VL7-J6A (Grimoire: Red Death)
69X-DJN-74V (Grimoire: The Cabal)
6A7-7NP-3X7 (Grimoire: The Devastated Coast)
6A9-DTG-YGN (Grimoire: Vex Minotaur)
7F9-767-F74 (Emblem: Sign of the Finite)
FJ9-LAM-67F (Emblem: Binding Focus)
JD7-4CM-HJG (Emblem: Illusion of Light)
JDT-NLC-JKM (Emblem: Ab Aeterno)
JNX-DMH-XLA (Emblem: Field of Light)
7CP-94V-LFP (Emblem: Lone Focus, Jagged Edge)
X4C-FGX-MX3 (Emblem: Note of Conquest)
X9F-GMA-H6D (Emblem: The Unimagined Plane)
N3L-XN6-PXF (Emblem: The Reflective Proof)
A7L-FYC-44X (Emblem: Flames of Forgotten Truth)
7MM-VPD-MHP (Shader: Double Banshee)
RXC-9XJ-4MH (Shader: Oracle 99)
Find Public Events with this nifty tracker:
http://destinypublicevents.comPlay dress-up with the Shader Previewer:
http://db.destinytracker.com/characterIf you can't seem to find a group in the thread, you can try:
http://www.destinylfg.netAnd finally, as always:
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I think this is true, but has nothing to do with their apparent power level, or lack thereof.
Any of the other supers, except the bubble, are one hit kills of hugely destructive potential or Sunsinger's tricksy tricks. The thing is - they are more or less instant. Blade dancer has a bunch of lead up time to that same kill (or set of kills on a bunch of enemies). So even though the result is the same, it feels different (and worse) to fail to knock them out of the super before they can wreck everybody's face. If the blade dancer super was their RT AOE thing scaled up to be like the titan fist of havoc, I think there'd be way fewer complaints.
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I hate that there's usually no way to escape a Blade Dancer once they see you. Could be halfway across the map, doesn't matter: they WILL catch you and gut you before it runs out.
Awesome, time to finish up those bounties!
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I agree. I think they are all pretty balanced. The Titan smash has a somewhat annoying invincibility frame, and can wipe out a whole team if they are bunched together (or they run through the after-effect shockwave). Warlocks Novabomb can also just as easily clear the room. It's only because the Blancer (my new term for Bladedancers) can chainkill across a bigger space people feel it is OP. The AoE move is just... okay, and the wave attack is better but super hard to aim. So basically the movement speed of Blancers, coupled with either invisibility or Blink, makes people furious.
Which makes me so, so happy.
If they are halfway across the map, just shoot them. You'll need to not miss / get headshots, but that's how you win most duels anyhow.
Every other super requires it to be activated at the right time, and will only ever get more than one kill if you save it for exactly the right moment. Saving supers is bad because it means you aren't generating a new super.
Arc Blade will get 2 kills if you activate it at when 2 players are in your general vicinity. I just played a game where a guy blade danced straight up to a pike shooting him head on with pike beamz, while I was rocketing him with an interceptor. He got the pike but didn't get me, even the he was able to arc into cover to avoid my rockets.
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My original thought was "Damn, Blade Dancer is OP, this is really dumb. Why would Bungie allow this?". Then the rational part of my mind told me to stop being dumb and remember that Voidwalker and Striker can both just decimate a grouped up enemy team. And like you said, I think that is the important part here. While I can kill an entire team with one special, if I only kill one person I only get that single kill with it where a Blade Dancer can kill that one person and then another because their special is still rolling.
Pretty much I think what frustrates me the most is I can entirely whiff my special while a Blade Dancer will probably always get at least a kill or two.
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Yeah, Blade Dancers love eating knife headshots or getting stuck with a grenade. Makes me feel kinda bad though.
It's so weird how frail we hunters are. Hell, everybody else seems to get shield boosts when they melee stuff... not us!
I'm only like level 21 but I am having fun shanking man in blade dancer pve
Have not really investigates pvp closely though
Looks like Bungie.net is up again, so I'll let in the pending requests. Then I'm coming online to run the daily (and hit the Crucible).
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In fact Titan Smash is about the only thing I dig about PVP*. I might go 1-10, but the moment that bar turns gold I become Death, Destroyer of Worlds.
*Okay, the time I Tiger Knee'd a Warlock in mid air just as he was about to super was pretty cool too but I couldn't pull that off again if I tried.
The self resurrect is my favorite part. People don't expect it, especially because you can delay it until their backs are turned. The other parts of radiance are solid too. It turns your melee into a 1 hit kill. It depends on your stats, but it's possible to get to the point where you can throw grenades non stop while in radiance. You can either throw out a lot of damage, or block off halls/doors for a long ass time.
The Inventive is a full-auto Shotgun with incredibly long range for a shotgun.
The Thorn is a Hand Cannon with near Scout Rifle level range that puts a DoT on targets (which also prevents shields from regening while active) and pierces through enemies.
The Bad Juju is a dirty Pulse Rifle.
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Last week it was self evident that titan striker was overpowered because they had options, they had tonnes of OHKs, they had shields, incredible grenades, twitch triggered massive super that goes through walls....
I don't think we've had long enough to determine what is overpowered. At least part of the problem is surprise and novelty.
Getting your punch back fast to get the fire shield is pretty clutch as well. I deck my sunsinger out with two grenades and all the discipline I can find so that when I pop my super I can just fill a room with glowing suns of death.
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The internet in general seems to hate them all. I think I'll go Thorn, because "why not".
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Once the DoT gets enabled it seems to wreck faces.
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Perhaps, but you have to use AB proactively. Using it reactively has you standing around like a chump getting mowed down in the middle of a room; damage resistance or no. That's a pretty significant difference. And the other classes have a few options that the old BD does not.
Basically this.
Sure, you might be able to kill with more flexibility with the arc blade, but you've also got a lot longer to be shut down (by another super, heavy weapons, grenades, sniper rifles, focused fire, double jumps etc...) it's pretty much the definition of higher risk, higher reward. And what are you going to do the rest of the time as a blade dancer? Hide? (Yes.)
That's how you know it's an mmo.
Arc Blade requires it to be activated at the right time. Both hunter specials are the most timing sensitive, because you cannot activate them in mid fight, as neither gives you shield regen, so you need to activate them 5 seconds, but hopefully not more than 10 seconds before you need them, as opposed to just Fisting midfight to turn a loss into a win. Fist is basically always worth two "kills" because you can use it as an "IWIN" button. I don't have a problem with that, but it just means you cannot beat a striker while their super is up barring extended range or radically outplaying them.
If you're losing to arc blades in a vehicle, you screwed up. Call me vain, but if me and a buddy were in two vehicles, against a lone guy with only melee attacks and we lost, I wouldn't complain on the internet, I'd make a blood pact to never tell anyone about it.
That said, videos incoming. No one has to take my word for it, I'll upload clips of both me completely shitting on arc bladers and screwing up myself and dying without doing a point of damage.
Also because the hardcore raiders have the best PVP gear because reasons.
I just kinda assumed at some point in the genre, there would be some guy who actually both wanted and knew how to make PVP an equally rewarding activity in terms of loot.
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I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Its perfectly usable right now though.