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[Destiny] D2 Beta: July 18 for PS4 Preorders; July 19 for XB1; Open Beta July 21-25!

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  • BillyIdleBillyIdle What does "katana" mean? It means "Japanese sword."Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    BillyIdle wrote: »
    Al_wat wrote: »
    Even with ps4 exclusives i still really want to go PC

    I think i could live with missing out on one strike, one pvp map and one gun.....

    Ive still not fully decided though

    Don't you dare leave me.

    Also I played Destiny 2 at E3 and did the strike they have been showing.

    It felt good fam.

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  • AuburnTigerAuburnTiger Registered User regular
    Destiny should branch out like Halo with comics, e-novellas and novels. Some of the Halo extended universe stuff has been fantastic.

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  • DodgeBlanDodgeBlan PSN: dodgeblanRegistered User regular
    Peen wrote: »
    Mass effect had an insane amount of text in the game, it's totally doable.

    And regardless of game mode, if your team gets roflstomped in kd you don't like it and if you're stomping it's fun as shit.

    It is certainly doable but knowing what we do about Bungies design philosophy I'm confident they aren't going to be dumping reams of text into the game. It's going to be very streamlined

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  • ElementWrathElementWrath Perplexingly Soft MichiganRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Its zone control though, K/d's are meaningless?

    Still feels bad to throw oneself into the woodchipper.

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  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    Fawst wrote: »
    Re: the kotaku Vanilla Destiny expose

    The reality of game development is that a TON of ideas and concepts are created during development that get dumped or discarded through scope changes, changes in focus or direction, people leaving and systems needing to be inherited. Games get reset. Things get restarted. Its not uncommon at all.

    The thing thats abnormal is that they apparently had to do it so close to their launch such that you can still see the major scars and narrative seams where things have been stitched back together. The Darkness and the Stranger were clearly victims of that. It may have been that at some point they knew what the Darkness was but with the reshuffle, the old explanation no longer made any sense. So I don't think its that they never had anything with the Darkness solved and they were just flying by the seat of their pants the whole time... but that the huge narrative reshuffle poked over several of the bottom layers of a massive house of cards and suddenly some of the roof tops had nothing to support em.

    OK, I will allow for the idea that "at some point in time, someone knew what the Darkness was supposed to be." But when they shuttled everything, they never came up with a replacement, clearly. And they still don't have one. So they may as well have never had a plan in the first place, really. What matters is that their canon is incomplete. It's just a bummer is all. Like I said, I'm not mad; I'm disappointed.

    I still think that The Books of Sorrow is some of the best fiction I've ever read "in" a video game. I think the ideas behind some of the content is astoundingly cool. That they couldn't figure out a way to handle the Darkness, and that they may just abandon the Stranger is ... it's kind of unforgivable. Closure would be welcome. Don't even worry about it threading the story to come, but don't just drop it.

    Luke Smith said in that interview they have a narrative reason for The Darkness now and that it WOULD return, just that it won't be a part of the plot for vanilla D2.

    It's just at the bottom of the interview so no one got to that part before raging on reddit.

    9 times out of 10, I'll read the source myself before commenting. My daughter is feeling off so I didn't this time. That's what I get! =)

    Still annoyed about the Stranger, though.

  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Peen wrote: »
    Mass effect had an insane amount of text in the game, it's totally doable.

    And regardless of game mode, if your team gets roflstomped in kd you don't like it and if you're stomping it's fun as shit.

    I have to disagree. killing easy prey is just boring. :\

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    Peen wrote: »
    Mass effect had an insane amount of text in the game, it's totally doable.

    And regardless of game mode, if your team gets roflstomped in kd you don't like it and if you're stomping it's fun as shit.

    I have to disagree. killing easy prey is just boring. :\
    I gets boring if you're only ever fighting easy fights, but when more difficult fights are the norm, having a really good match feels pretty great.

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    Peen wrote: »
    Mass effect had an insane amount of text in the game, it's totally doable.

    And regardless of game mode, if your team gets roflstomped in kd you don't like it and if you're stomping it's fun as shit.

    I have to disagree. killing easy prey is just boring. :\

    Counterpoint: naaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

  • squall99xsquall99x Registered User regular
    I feel the Exo-Stranger comment was a little tone deaf (as there is tons of questions in the background of her story, who called her, where/when is she from etc) but it could be referring to that particular arc (the come, give exposition, leave arc) as opposed to all of the questions we have surrounding her. With that being said the comments about Destiny being issue "zero" reads to me more in the line of the initial game introduced a bunch of themes and plot threads and now in subsequent games we will be following some of those. Some more than others depending on the game/dlc, but that most of them would continue in some form. In this particular game we are getting the Cabal, the least fleshed out enemy concept from the original, and probably a bit of some other threads through DLC. I fully expect it to alternate focus from here on out for the life of the franchise.

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  • mosssnackmosssnack Yeah right, man, Bishop should go! Good idea!Registered User regular
    Having a sick match and shredding folks feels pretty good even if most of them were easy prey. It's a nice little dopamine drip. Unless you're the #1 baddest mother fucker on the planet, matches like that aren't going to be a constant. So it really doesn't get a chance to get super boring. Especially considering there isn't a list of dedicated servers to pick from and hang around the ones with bad players like you could do with some older games.

    Though, always having sweaty and tough matches are nice for improving and learning. But! That shit is stressful and gets tiring real quick. Your body is no shit producing cortisol and sometimes even pumping adrenaline. Wears you out and stops being fun if that's all you're seeing.

    I guess what I'm saying is, in my opinion, is that you don't need to just win once in a while. You need to win well in order to reset that stress.

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  • VagabondVagabond Sans Gravitas Glimmer Mafia DonRegistered User regular
    edited June 2017
    I'm pretty sure this theory about the Exo Stranger (she's Elsie Bray, uploaded into an Exo, working with the FWC) is correct. If so, this may be why Luke Smith thinks they wrapped it up well? Even though this theory isn't widely known and isn't officially confirmed.

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    A huge criticism was most of the interesting story/lore bits being stuck in these cards, and so with the sequel they're apparently moving the lore to be organically learned through the game, and now they're getting shit for that too?

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  • VagabondVagabond Sans Gravitas Glimmer Mafia DonRegistered User regular
    A huge criticism was most of the interesting story/lore bits being stuck in these cards, and so with the sequel they're apparently moving the lore to be organically learned through the game, and now they're getting shit for that too?

    Read the thread. Not even the whole thing. Just the last few pages.

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  • Zombie GandhiZombie Gandhi Registered User regular
    Did they legit confirm there is no Grimoire/Codex/way to read a bunch of lore either in-game or on the web/app in D2? While I read the stuff that said "we don't want the old style of Grimoire, we want this lore in game" I wasn't sure it was fully confirmed they just killed their primary lore delivery mechanism and didn't replace it with an in-game version.

    Because yeah then we're going to get significantly less lore and worldbuilding and that makes me sad.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Well we know from screens there is an in game lore device to read. Someone had a screen grab on the menu to read it.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • KhraulKhraul Registered User regular
    Been reading through the last 10 pages of thread (because I haven't been online much lately)...

    At this point I'm not worrying about plot and lore until I see what they deliver... I won't be surprised if they flat out scrap a lot of the Vanilla storyline stuff (exo stranger, etc). It's so disjointed that it's almost too little foundation to build off of.

    If they were smart they'd use some of the grimoire content to flesh out new storylines. The stories from the grimoire (Dredgen Yor, et al) are so rich already, I can't imagine they wouldn't use SOME of it as a basis for plot development.

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    Vagabond wrote: »
    A huge criticism was most of the interesting story/lore bits being stuck in these cards, and so with the sequel they're apparently moving the lore to be organically learned through the game, and now they're getting shit for that too?

    Read the thread. Not even the whole thing. Just the last few pages.

    Thanks. Insightful.

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  • EriktheVikingGamerEriktheVikingGamer Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    About how long does WotM normally take to complete? @skyknyt has a game listed for 11am ps4 side and I got to work at 2pm and I don't wanna pull a join and bail if it'll end up taking too long. (I live like, two minutes from work so I basically have the full three hours)

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    If you know what you're​ doing, an hour tops. If you don't, who knows?

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    About how long does WotM normally take to complete? @skyknyt has a game listed for 11am ps4 side and I got to work at 2pm and I don't wanna pull a join and bail if it'll end up taking too long. (I live like, two minutes from work so I basically have the full three hours)
    I think three hours will probably be enough.

  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    Depending on team coordination, Aksis Challenge mode could be 3 hours all by itself

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  • KhraulKhraul Registered User regular
    Also, re: console vs PC...

    I recently got my PC back up and running after months of attempting to fix a difficult to diagnose hardware issue.

    Having it up and running (hopefully for good) I played some DOOM, having bought it ages ago, and the lack of rumble felt really weird. I've gotten so used to playing shooters with a ps4 controller it just didn't feel right with a mouse/keyboard. There wasn't enough feedback when I took damage.

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  • skyknytskyknyt Registered User, ClubPA regular
    cB557 wrote: »
    About how long does WotM normally take to complete? @skyknyt has a game listed for 11am ps4 side and I got to work at 2pm and I don't wanna pull a join and bail if it'll end up taking too long. (I live like, two minutes from work so I basically have the full three hours)
    I think three hours will probably be enough.

    I HOPE it will be enough :bigfrown:

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  • EriktheVikingGamerEriktheVikingGamer Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    The only raid I've actually been able to run was original release King's Fall. That's the only raid knowledge that I really have and that took about two and a half hours to run if I recall correctly so I just wanna make sure. :P :)

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  • LuarithaeLuarithae Registered User regular
    Huggles wrote: »
    Didn't early concept art have Destiny in a high fantasy setting?

    E: also @Wassermelone: PC. Joiiiiin meeee. Damnit Bunj I'm also going to be buying your damn game twice aren't I :|

    Totally jumping on the "no one asked you wagon" but since I have blizzard balance I'll be getting me the PC version too. The bad news is that most likely my pc at home can't handle it.

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  • SirialisSirialis of the Halite Throne. Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    Burning Eye and lagswitchers are like PETA and bullshit.

    Always together.

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  • skyknytskyknyt Registered User, ClubPA regular
    skyknyt wrote: »
    cB557 wrote: »
    About how long does WotM normally take to complete? @skyknyt has a game listed for 11am ps4 side and I got to work at 2pm and I don't wanna pull a join and bail if it'll end up taking too long. (I live like, two minutes from work so I basically have the full three hours)
    I think three hours will probably be enough.

    I HOPE it will be enough :bigfrown:

    Apologies Erik, I don't think we have the folks to run the raid this morning. It looks like there's another raid later on today you can try with though.

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  • EriktheVikingGamerEriktheVikingGamer Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    skyknyt wrote: »
    skyknyt wrote: »
    cB557 wrote: »
    About how long does WotM normally take to complete? @skyknyt has a game listed for 11am ps4 side and I got to work at 2pm and I don't wanna pull a join and bail if it'll end up taking too long. (I live like, two minutes from work so I basically have the full three hours)
    I think three hours will probably be enough.

    I HOPE it will be enough :bigfrown:

    Apologies Erik, I don't think we have the folks to run the raid this morning. It looks like there's another raid later on today you can try with though.

    It's cool. :)


    EDIT: Both raids for today collapsed so I posted a raid for tomorrow at 3PM if anyone wants PS4 side. :)

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  • LuarithaeLuarithae Registered User regular
    I fucked up and realised I've been in the wrong 100 group which explains why I never see any of the games going on T_T

    Who do I poke here for the proper group approval?

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  • LuarithaeLuarithae Registered User regular
    Also if anyone wants to do a nightfall or something with me I'd appreciate it

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    Trials these days is like rubbing ghost peppers in your eyes

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    I'm going to be on around 11 tonight, I'd be way into some Trials if anyone's interested.

  • ElementWrathElementWrath Perplexingly Soft MichiganRegistered User regular
    Trials these days is like rubbing ghost peppers in your eyes

    There's actually two peppers hotter than that. :>

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    Still need two more for the raid at six.
    Luarithae wrote: »
    Also if anyone wants to do a nightfall or something with me I'd appreciate it
    You on xbone?

  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    Good grief, should have refreshed the page before Jay's post.

    Trials is bad but I want the loots, it's the only stuff I don't have!

    Although @ElementWrath tonight would be good for PoE also...

  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    cB557 wrote: »
    Still need two more for the raid at six.
    Luarithae wrote: »
    Also if anyone wants to do a nightfall or something with me I'd appreciate it
    You on xbone?

    no, Luar is on ps4. I think this is one of the few onlys place where the majority of Destiny players are on the Xbox vs the PS4 :P

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    Peen wrote: »
    Good grief, should have refreshed the page before Jay's post.

    Trials is bad but I want the loots, it's the only stuff I don't have!

    Although ~ElementWrath tonight would be good for PoE also...
    I'd be up for either.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    We got to 4 wins (so 2 wins with boons) and lost once, decided to try to push on anyway...

    Faced a carry with rank #70 and #246 in Trials respectively on Xbone.

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  • CelianCelian Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    Luarithae wrote: »
    I fucked up and realised I've been in the wrong 100 group which explains why I never see any of the games going on T_T

    Who do I poke here for the proper group approval?

    I got you covered.

    Also, about your PC not being able to handle it. Since you pre-ordered, you can test it out in August with the beta and you'll have a good idea of what to expect and if you need to upgrade or not. :)

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  • SirialisSirialis of the Halite Throne. Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    We got to 4 wins (so 2 wins with boons) and lost once, decided to try to push on anyway...

    Faced a carry with rank #70 and #246 in Trials respectively on Xbone.

    At least we didnt do too bad against them, we lost 3-5 I think? I even had positive K/D ratio at the end of it... By a hair.

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