Make certain you read the comments by Jason Schreier. Interesting stuff.
Not really. That's pretty standard stuff. If they can get away with it, people (companies, individuals, whatever) will always try and get ahead of the story to control the narrative. That's like basic PR.
Huge difference in how they find out. You catch wind of it because you notice them nosing around? Fair play and all that. When asked for direct comment? Spinning the journo out while you rush to beat them to press is a dick move and how you end up with five minute response windows. It was a short sighted and ultimately self destructive move for a PR rep.
Which is the distilled essence of Bungie's PR strategy.
There really isn't a difference. It may be a "dick move" but it's also pretty normal. Most of the time the issue is not having enough time to prepare a response before the story breaks. But if you can, you try to.
It's neither short-sighted nor self-destructive. As this exact situation demonstrates. Because it worked. Bungie controlled the narrative. They shaped how people viewed Eververse and they made it an announcement rather then a leak. They nailed the PR there and Jason Schreier's entire comment in that thread is him complaining about them doing that. They beat him on the spin.
I mean, abusing a journalist's courtesy heads-up and request for comment to beat said journalist to a story is a quick way to ensure you never get that courtesy in the future. It's burning a bridge. The proper way to do it is to write a statement and provide it to the journalist.
Sure, but it depends on if it's a worth it. I'd say in this case, yeah, it was very clearly worth it.
Before you said "...it's also pretty normal" and "It's neither short-sighted nor self-destructive"
Now you are saying "Sure" and "in this case, yeah, it was very clearly worth it"
Can you take a less ambiguous position on this subject so that people who debate your points don't end up feeling like they got bait-and-switched?
Is it a perfectly normal occurrence that happens all the time and is to be expected? Or is it a case-by-case decision that needs to be weighed against the damaged relationships?
There's nothing ambiguous about what I'm saying, so I've no idea wtf your issue is. None of the things I've said are inconsistent with each other.
It is not short-sighted or self-destructive or unusual to try and get in front of a potentially damaging story and shape the narrative. Bungie illustrated that exact thing with this issue, where they preempted an early leak of their microtransaction system. Can this kind of thing burn bridges? Maybe. It can be worth the risk of that happening though. Especially in the video game industry where "journalism" is laughable at the best of times. Which we again see right here because ... nothing came of it.
There is nothing interesting or notable about Schreir's story in that thread. He's just gripping.
You're arguing against a point no one is making or has made. Of course of company wants to get ahead of a bad story, that much is obvious. It is, however, short-sighted to abuse journalistic courtesy to achieve this aim. And that is, in fact, unusual. If Bungie learned on their own that a story was coming out and was able to get their own story out ahead of it, then that's a great PR coup. As far as the "nothing came of it" line, well Jason Schreier did publish a book which included a pretty scathing behind-the-scenes look at what went on with Destiny. And he continues to publish pieces critical of Bungie and the problems that plague Destiny 2. Bungie has been forced to deal with a lot of really bad PR, especially recently. If they respected journalistic courtesy more, they might have been able to provide statements to spin these in a favorable direction, but I haven't seen that happen.
Except not.
The very first post of this tree calls specific attention to his post. So yeah, someone did and is making the claim that this matters. I replied pointing out it doesn't. It's nothing. "Bungie stepped up their release of info about their microtransaction system by like 3 days to control the narrative!". Oh no!
Secondly, I'm pretty sure this incident had zero effect on whether or not Schreier was gonna write that book or what it contained. And Bungie's PR issues right now have nothing to do with this incident either. It's not like, say, the XP throttling coming out happened because Bungie annoyed Schreier. There's zero connection here.
Which all leads back to the point that this was neither short-sighted nor self-destructive. They managed to put a good face on Eververse and nothing came of annoying Schreier doing it.
Make certain you read the comments by Jason Schreier. Interesting stuff.
Not really. That's pretty standard stuff. If they can get away with it, people (companies, individuals, whatever) will always try and get ahead of the story to control the narrative. That's like basic PR.
Huge difference in how they find out. You catch wind of it because you notice them nosing around? Fair play and all that. When asked for direct comment? Spinning the journo out while you rush to beat them to press is a dick move and how you end up with five minute response windows. It was a short sighted and ultimately self destructive move for a PR rep.
Which is the distilled essence of Bungie's PR strategy.
There really isn't a difference. It may be a "dick move" but it's also pretty normal. Most of the time the issue is not having enough time to prepare a response before the story breaks. But if you can, you try to.
It's neither short-sighted nor self-destructive. As this exact situation demonstrates. Because it worked. Bungie controlled the narrative. They shaped how people viewed Eververse and they made it an announcement rather then a leak. They nailed the PR there and Jason Schreier's entire comment in that thread is him complaining about them doing that. They beat him on the spin.
I mean, abusing a journalist's courtesy heads-up and request for comment to beat said journalist to a story is a quick way to ensure you never get that courtesy in the future. It's burning a bridge. The proper way to do it is to write a statement and provide it to the journalist.
Sure, but it depends on if it's a worth it. I'd say in this case, yeah, it was very clearly worth it.
Before you said "...it's also pretty normal" and "It's neither short-sighted nor self-destructive"
Now you are saying "Sure" and "in this case, yeah, it was very clearly worth it"
Can you take a less ambiguous position on this subject so that people who debate your points don't end up feeling like they got bait-and-switched?
Is it a perfectly normal occurrence that happens all the time and is to be expected? Or is it a case-by-case decision that needs to be weighed against the damaged relationships?
There's nothing ambiguous about what I'm saying, so I've no idea wtf your issue is. None of the things I've said are inconsistent with each other.
It is not short-sighted or self-destructive or unusual to try and get in front of a potentially damaging story and shape the narrative. Bungie illustrated that exact thing with this issue, where they preempted an early leak of their microtransaction system. Can this kind of thing burn bridges? Maybe. It can be worth the risk of that happening though. Especially in the video game industry where "journalism" is laughable at the best of times. Which we again see right here because ... nothing came of it.
There is nothing interesting or notable about Schreir's story in that thread. He's just gripping.
You're arguing against a point no one is making or has made. Of course of company wants to get ahead of a bad story, that much is obvious. It is, however, short-sighted to abuse journalistic courtesy to achieve this aim. And that is, in fact, unusual. If Bungie learned on their own that a story was coming out and was able to get their own story out ahead of it, then that's a great PR coup. As far as the "nothing came of it" line, well Jason Schreier did publish a book which included a pretty scathing behind-the-scenes look at what went on with Destiny. And he continues to publish pieces critical of Bungie and the problems that plague Destiny 2. Bungie has been forced to deal with a lot of really bad PR, especially recently. If they respected journalistic courtesy more, they might have been able to provide statements to spin these in a favorable direction, but I haven't seen that happen.
Except not.
The very first post of this tree calls specific attention to his post. So yeah, someone did and is making the claim that this matters. I replied pointing out it doesn't. It's nothing. "Bungie stepped up their release of info about their microtransaction system by like 3 days to control the narrative!". Oh no!
Secondly, I'm pretty sure this incident had zero effect on whether or not Schreier was gonna write that book or what it contained. And Bungie's PR issues right now have nothing to do with this incident either. It's not like, say, the XP throttling coming out happened because Bungie annoyed Schreier. There's zero connection here.
Which all leads back to the point that this was neither short-sighted nor self-destructive. They managed to put a good face on Eververse and nothing came of annoying Schreier doing it.
I just think this whole tree here could have been avoided if someone just stopped and realized that "interesting" is a subjective concept.
It's interesting.
“I used to draw, hard to admit that I used to draw...”
Make certain you read the comments by Jason Schreier. Interesting stuff.
Not really. That's pretty standard stuff. If they can get away with it, people (companies, individuals, whatever) will always try and get ahead of the story to control the narrative. That's like basic PR.
Huge difference in how they find out. You catch wind of it because you notice them nosing around? Fair play and all that. When asked for direct comment? Spinning the journo out while you rush to beat them to press is a dick move and how you end up with five minute response windows. It was a short sighted and ultimately self destructive move for a PR rep.
Which is the distilled essence of Bungie's PR strategy.
There really isn't a difference. It may be a "dick move" but it's also pretty normal. Most of the time the issue is not having enough time to prepare a response before the story breaks. But if you can, you try to.
It's neither short-sighted nor self-destructive. As this exact situation demonstrates. Because it worked. Bungie controlled the narrative. They shaped how people viewed Eververse and they made it an announcement rather then a leak. They nailed the PR there and Jason Schreier's entire comment in that thread is him complaining about them doing that. They beat him on the spin.
I mean, abusing a journalist's courtesy heads-up and request for comment to beat said journalist to a story is a quick way to ensure you never get that courtesy in the future. It's burning a bridge. The proper way to do it is to write a statement and provide it to the journalist.
Sure, but it depends on if it's a worth it. I'd say in this case, yeah, it was very clearly worth it.
Before you said "...it's also pretty normal" and "It's neither short-sighted nor self-destructive"
Now you are saying "Sure" and "in this case, yeah, it was very clearly worth it"
Can you take a less ambiguous position on this subject so that people who debate your points don't end up feeling like they got bait-and-switched?
Is it a perfectly normal occurrence that happens all the time and is to be expected? Or is it a case-by-case decision that needs to be weighed against the damaged relationships?
There's nothing ambiguous about what I'm saying, so I've no idea wtf your issue is. None of the things I've said are inconsistent with each other.
It is not short-sighted or self-destructive or unusual to try and get in front of a potentially damaging story and shape the narrative. Bungie illustrated that exact thing with this issue, where they preempted an early leak of their microtransaction system. Can this kind of thing burn bridges? Maybe. It can be worth the risk of that happening though. Especially in the video game industry where "journalism" is laughable at the best of times. Which we again see right here because ... nothing came of it.
There is nothing interesting or notable about Schreir's story in that thread. He's just gripping.
You're arguing against a point no one is making or has made. Of course of company wants to get ahead of a bad story, that much is obvious. It is, however, short-sighted to abuse journalistic courtesy to achieve this aim. And that is, in fact, unusual. If Bungie learned on their own that a story was coming out and was able to get their own story out ahead of it, then that's a great PR coup. As far as the "nothing came of it" line, well Jason Schreier did publish a book which included a pretty scathing behind-the-scenes look at what went on with Destiny. And he continues to publish pieces critical of Bungie and the problems that plague Destiny 2. Bungie has been forced to deal with a lot of really bad PR, especially recently. If they respected journalistic courtesy more, they might have been able to provide statements to spin these in a favorable direction, but I haven't seen that happen.
Except not.
The very first post of this tree calls specific attention to his post. So yeah, someone did and is making the claim that this matters. I replied pointing out it doesn't. It's nothing. "Bungie stepped up their release of info about their microtransaction system by like 3 days to control the narrative!". Oh no!
Secondly, I'm pretty sure this incident had zero effect on whether or not Schreier was gonna write that book or what it contained. And Bungie's PR issues right now have nothing to do with this incident either. It's not like, say, the XP throttling coming out happened because Bungie annoyed Schreier. There's zero connection here.
Which all leads back to the point that this was neither short-sighted nor self-destructive. They managed to put a good face on Eververse and nothing came of annoying Schreier doing it.
I don't think this is gonna go anywhere. My apologies for wasting your time.
I am trying really hard to like Crimson. I was super excited when I got it.
And I think it may suck?
It hits like a wet paper bag. Its beaten out in midrange by autorifles, short range by sidearms and SMGs.
I really was looking forward to not using Better Devils, finally. Is there something I'm missing?
It's not a hand cannon, it's a pulse rifle that looks like a hand cannon. Pulse rifles aren't in a good place in PVP, ergo...
I can stack up kills like driftwood with Relentless, the Trials pulse rifle. Same with VW. Pulse in and of itself isn't a dealbreaker.
Fair enough. The difference is probably, as you noted, engagement range. You'd probably lose out to autos and SMGs even with VW if you were in Crimson's effective range.
So the reddit hivemind got all uppity about 3oC returns and exotic drop rates this week... in response bungo looked at it to see if there was an issue.
Reponse below:
Hey all,
Throughout the weekend, we’ve been monitoring player feedback concerning the recently added Three of Coins consumable offered by Xûr. We’d like to give clarification on the functionality of this item:
When players use a Three of Coins consumable, this provides a 50% increase to the base chance of being rewarded an Exotic Engram upon activity completion. Using this consumable does not guarantee an Exotic reward upon completing a set number of activities – but rather increased chances upon each activity completion.
Note: We have found that Heroic Strikes do not currently grant higher chances for Exotics when using Three of Coins consumables, compared to Vanguard Strikes. We’re looking to address this with a future Hotfix, expected in early 2018.
We will continue to monitor and forward feedback concerning this feature throughout the holiday season. Keep it coming!
Later this week, we’ll have notes from the development team on additional feedback items that we’re looking to address in the future. Stay tuned.
Cheers,
-dmg04
My schedule lately is not at all conducive to being on at the same time as most PA players and it's got me really struggling to find a reason to play at all presently.
I want to like Destiny 2 as much as I liked Destiny 1, which I could solo play endlessly if need be, but... just... meh...
They totally work, except for the thing we just introduced and you need to do bunches of for stupid paradox reasons, also we are totally not saying anything about base exotic drop chances ever.
So the reddit hivemind got all uppity about 3oC returns and exotic drop rates this week... in response bungo looked at it to see if there was an issue.
Reponse below:
Hey all,
Throughout the weekend, we’ve been monitoring player feedback concerning the recently added Three of Coins consumable offered by Xûr. We’d like to give clarification on the functionality of this item:
When players use a Three of Coins consumable, this provides a 50% increase to the base chance of being rewarded an Exotic Engram upon activity completion. Using this consumable does not guarantee an Exotic reward upon completing a set number of activities – but rather increased chances upon each activity completion.
Note: We have found that Heroic Strikes do not currently grant higher chances for Exotics when using Three of Coins consumables, compared to Vanguard Strikes. We’re looking to address this with a future Hotfix, expected in early 2018.
We will continue to monitor and forward feedback concerning this feature throughout the holiday season. Keep it coming!
Later this week, we’ll have notes from the development team on additional feedback items that we’re looking to address in the future. Stay tuned.
Cheers,
-dmg04
IT's basically exactly what I expected and what a lot of people in those reddit threads kept saying: it's an increase to a small chance to get an exotic, so you are not necessarily gonna notice the difference without a large sample size.
Hell, 50% increase is a lot larger then I expected. But it's still a small flat percentage increase because the chance is likely quite small since the patch.
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So. Regarding Osiris's "heresy".....
It basically boils down to, "Bros. These Vex bros are real bad, bros. We should bro up and take those bros down, bros." That, um...doesn't really strike me as a controversial platform.
I guess there's the whole "Traveler might not be as benevolent as we think" aspect, but my sense from the D1 Grimoire is that that isn't exactly a fringe opinion. Osiris certainly isn't the only one to have suggested it.
They totally work, except for the thing we just introduced and you need to do bunches of for stupid paradox reasons, also we are totally not saying anything about base exotic drop chances ever.
Well, they probably aren't gonna give you the base percentage, no. But aren't "not saying anything about base exotic drop chances" because they told us they lowered it:
Legendary and Exotic Engram drop rates have been adjusted down for Public Events, and up for Strike and Crucible playlist activities
The thing that is really burning me about this comic is that Osiris' followers are regurgitating his research as what is essentially a shitty internet advertisement or tabloid headline. It really undercuts the seriousness of his work, and somehow they AREN'T SEEING THAT.
Think: This one esoteric Warlock is disrupting the 1 billion gimmer light industry.
Prevent existential despair with this one weird tip (it really works!).
SCANDAL: What does the speaker really mean? The cold, hard, terrifying truth behind the lies!
Also, it makes the speaker seem - despite already seeming totally useless - even more useless than he was made to be by D2 campaign. You're telling me the last remnants of humanity elevated some random jackoff to the status of supreme leader when he doesn't actually speak for the traveler at all? He's Jesus without the connection to God.
Oh my...the Speaker is a Jesus allegory.
He even got crucified. I fucking solved it boys, I did it.
What does that make Saint-14?
This is so stupid. Stop ruining your own lore Bungle.
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Just you wait, soon Eververse will sell "Interesting Lore"
The Speaker is just the dumbest Destiny character though, a glorified class item salesman that does not matter one iota, even his death falls completely flat.
The thing that is really burning me about this comic is that Osiris' followers are regurgitating his research as what is essentially a shitty internet advertisement or tabloid headline. It really undercuts the seriousness of his work, and somehow they AREN'T SEEING THAT.
Think: This one esoteric Warlock is disrupting the 1 billion gimmer light industry.
Prevent existential despair with this one weird tip (it really works!).
SCANDAL: What does the speaker really mean? The cold, hard, terrifying truth behind the lies!
Also, it makes the speaker seem - despite already seeming totally useless - even more useless than he was made to be by D2 campaign. You're telling me the last remnants of humanity elevated some random jackoff to the status of supreme leader when he doesn't actually speak for the traveler at all? He's Jesus without the connection to God.
Oh my...the Speaker is a Jesus allegory.
He even got crucified. I fucking solved it boys, I did it.
What does that make Saint-14?
This is so stupid. Stop ruining your own lore Bungle.
I don't see the problem is with the revelation that The Speaker doesn't actually speak to the Traveler. It was kind of ambiguous before, but it's certainly interesting to know and makes the Traveler's intentions even more of a mystery. And his elevation to leadership isn't strange at all. He's a spiritual leader. This kind of thing happens all the time.
So the reddit hivemind got all uppity about 3oC returns and exotic drop rates this week... in response bungo looked at it to see if there was an issue.
Reponse below:
Hey all,
Throughout the weekend, we’ve been monitoring player feedback concerning the recently added Three of Coins consumable offered by Xûr. We’d like to give clarification on the functionality of this item:
When players use a Three of Coins consumable, this provides a 50% increase to the base chance of being rewarded an Exotic Engram upon activity completion. Using this consumable does not guarantee an Exotic reward upon completing a set number of activities – but rather increased chances upon each activity completion.
Note: We have found that Heroic Strikes do not currently grant higher chances for Exotics when using Three of Coins consumables, compared to Vanguard Strikes. We’re looking to address this with a future Hotfix, expected in early 2018.
We will continue to monitor and forward feedback concerning this feature throughout the holiday season. Keep it coming!
Later this week, we’ll have notes from the development team on additional feedback items that we’re looking to address in the future. Stay tuned.
Cheers,
-dmg04
So the reddit hivemind got all uppity about 3oC returns and exotic drop rates this week... in response bungo looked at it to see if there was an issue.
Reponse below:
Hey all,
Throughout the weekend, we’ve been monitoring player feedback concerning the recently added Three of Coins consumable offered by Xûr. We’d like to give clarification on the functionality of this item:
When players use a Three of Coins consumable, this provides a 50% increase to the base chance of being rewarded an Exotic Engram upon activity completion. Using this consumable does not guarantee an Exotic reward upon completing a set number of activities – but rather increased chances upon each activity completion.
Note: We have found that Heroic Strikes do not currently grant higher chances for Exotics when using Three of Coins consumables, compared to Vanguard Strikes. We’re looking to address this with a future Hotfix, expected in early 2018.
We will continue to monitor and forward feedback concerning this feature throughout the holiday season. Keep it coming!
Later this week, we’ll have notes from the development team on additional feedback items that we’re looking to address in the future. Stay tuned.
Cheers,
-dmg04
So the reddit hivemind got all uppity about 3oC returns and exotic drop rates this week... in response bungo looked at it to see if there was an issue.
Reponse below:
Hey all,
Throughout the weekend, we’ve been monitoring player feedback concerning the recently added Three of Coins consumable offered by Xûr. We’d like to give clarification on the functionality of this item:
When players use a Three of Coins consumable, this provides a 50% increase to the base chance of being rewarded an Exotic Engram upon activity completion. Using this consumable does not guarantee an Exotic reward upon completing a set number of activities – but rather increased chances upon each activity completion.
Note: We have found that Heroic Strikes do not currently grant higher chances for Exotics when using Three of Coins consumables, compared to Vanguard Strikes. We’re looking to address this with a future Hotfix, expected in early 2018.
We will continue to monitor and forward feedback concerning this feature throughout the holiday season. Keep it coming!
Later this week, we’ll have notes from the development team on additional feedback items that we’re looking to address in the future. Stay tuned.
Cheers,
-dmg04
why do they not just fucking say +50% chance on the god damn item, uggggggggh
I dunno but it's starting to seem like they don't do even cursory QA.
It seems like Bungie is a company made up of extremely talented artists and designers who are being told what to do by incompetent leads and managers.
Like having Michelangelo being told what to do by Todd who runs electronics at walmart.
I feel bad for the people who actually make this game, because the decisions being made by the people whose job it is to make more money are fucking up what should be an amazing game.
how does this shit keep happening
also why do they not just fucking say +50% chance on the god damn item, uggggggggh
Because it's not a straight +50% chance. it's an additional 50% of your base chance. If base chance is 3%, using a 3oC will increase your chance to 4.5%.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For clarity: I'm all in favor of much more detailed tooltips than Bungo currently gives us.
I thought the comic was fine. It's a comic, I kinda feel like hamfisted is part of the territory. I feel like reading it that way was a nightmare and if they could just upload them in jpg panels that I can zoom in on and scroll around that'd be great, thanks.
So since I didn't usually run strikes before the Heroic playlist, I didn't realise until today that you could get a Drake tank in the Arms Dealer strike.
It was pretty damn fun.
Best moment was trying to squeeze the tank through the corridors after I'd dealt with the goliath tanks to try and get it into the final boss area. It didn't work, but me and @squall99x were laughing our heads off while I tried.
I thought the comic was fine. It's a comic, I kinda feel like hamfisted is part of the territory. I feel like reading it that way was a nightmare and if they could just upload them in jpg panels that I can zoom in on and scroll around that'd be great, thanks.
Yeah, I was going to include that I think that's just the nature of the comic medium, but didn't want to come off as offensive or dismissive to any diehard comic readers
And I mean it is possible to have a more nuanced and well written comic, they exist
But it's whatever, I would've preferred some Books of Sorrow style thing instead, I mean you already have the items that could unlock the story right in the game, the Prophecies, but of course the Grimoire doesn't exist so it's all just wishful thinking of what could've been
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Except not.
The very first post of this tree calls specific attention to his post. So yeah, someone did and is making the claim that this matters. I replied pointing out it doesn't. It's nothing. "Bungie stepped up their release of info about their microtransaction system by like 3 days to control the narrative!". Oh no!
Secondly, I'm pretty sure this incident had zero effect on whether or not Schreier was gonna write that book or what it contained. And Bungie's PR issues right now have nothing to do with this incident either. It's not like, say, the XP throttling coming out happened because Bungie annoyed Schreier. There's zero connection here.
Which all leads back to the point that this was neither short-sighted nor self-destructive. They managed to put a good face on Eververse and nothing came of annoying Schreier doing it.
I just think this whole tree here could have been avoided if someone just stopped and realized that "interesting" is a subjective concept.
It's interesting.
I don't think this is gonna go anywhere. My apologies for wasting your time.
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And I think it may suck?
It hits like a wet paper bag. Its beaten out in midrange by autorifles, short range by sidearms and SMGs.
I really was looking forward to not using Better Devils, finally. Is there something I'm missing?
It's not a hand cannon, it's a pulse rifle that looks like a hand cannon. Pulse rifles aren't in a good place in PVP, ergo...
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I can stack up kills like driftwood with Relentless, the Trials pulse rifle. Same with VW. Pulse in and of itself isn't a dealbreaker.
Are you talking pvp or pve?
It seems not great for pvp
I enjoy it for clearing out red and orange bars in pve. It’s useful for hectic pve situations
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Fair enough. The difference is probably, as you noted, engagement range. You'd probably lose out to autos and SMGs even with VW if you were in Crimson's effective range.
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I was the same way.
On paper, those abilities looked like they would be perfect for Crucible.
But he's right, it just doesn't have the punch or the ease of use for Crucible. You just get outgunned.
Have you seen him? Now you have
I think it may have potential.
Same archetype as Last Hope but has Headseeker (body shots increase damage of crits) instead of Zen Moment.
Only had the chance to try it out in PvE so far, but I like it a lot.
Yeah having to click buttons to get sub sections of the comic was an ass decision.
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Reponse below:
Hey all,
Throughout the weekend, we’ve been monitoring player feedback concerning the recently added Three of Coins consumable offered by Xûr. We’d like to give clarification on the functionality of this item:
When players use a Three of Coins consumable, this provides a 50% increase to the base chance of being rewarded an Exotic Engram upon activity completion. Using this consumable does not guarantee an Exotic reward upon completing a set number of activities – but rather increased chances upon each activity completion.
Note: We have found that Heroic Strikes do not currently grant higher chances for Exotics when using Three of Coins consumables, compared to Vanguard Strikes. We’re looking to address this with a future Hotfix, expected in early 2018.
We will continue to monitor and forward feedback concerning this feature throughout the holiday season. Keep it coming!
Later this week, we’ll have notes from the development team on additional feedback items that we’re looking to address in the future. Stay tuned.
Cheers,
-dmg04
https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/240599985
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
My schedule lately is not at all conducive to being on at the same time as most PA players and it's got me really struggling to find a reason to play at all presently.
I want to like Destiny 2 as much as I liked Destiny 1, which I could solo play endlessly if need be, but... just... meh...
Kinda has me super bummed.
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It's also just...bad
Have you seen him? Now you have
IT's basically exactly what I expected and what a lot of people in those reddit threads kept saying: it's an increase to a small chance to get an exotic, so you are not necessarily gonna notice the difference without a large sample size.
Hell, 50% increase is a lot larger then I expected. But it's still a small flat percentage increase because the chance is likely quite small since the patch.
I guess there's the whole "Traveler might not be as benevolent as we think" aspect, but my sense from the D1 Grimoire is that that isn't exactly a fringe opinion. Osiris certainly isn't the only one to have suggested it.
Well, they probably aren't gonna give you the base percentage, no. But aren't "not saying anything about base exotic drop chances" because they told us they lowered it: https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/Update/46536
Which is more likely what people are noticing and getting cranky about.
Think: This one esoteric Warlock is disrupting the 1 billion gimmer light industry.
Prevent existential despair with this one weird tip (it really works!).
SCANDAL: What does the speaker really mean? The cold, hard, terrifying truth behind the lies!
Also, it makes the speaker seem - despite already seeming totally useless - even more useless than he was made to be by D2 campaign. You're telling me the last remnants of humanity elevated some random jackoff to the status of supreme leader when he doesn't actually speak for the traveler at all? He's Jesus without the connection to God.
Oh my...the Speaker is a Jesus allegory.
He even got crucified. I fucking solved it boys, I did it.
What does that make Saint-14?
This is so stupid. Stop ruining your own lore Bungle.
Have you seen him? Now you have
The Speaker is just the dumbest Destiny character though, a glorified class item salesman that does not matter one iota, even his death falls completely flat.
Im really enjoying using the hand cannon 'Nature of the Beast' in PVE
It pretty much has 0 recoil. And the minor minor minor recoil it has its entirely verticle. It just feels really nice to use
I don't see the problem is with the revelation that The Speaker doesn't actually speak to the Traveler. It was kind of ambiguous before, but it's certainly interesting to know and makes the Traveler's intentions even more of a mystery. And his elevation to leadership isn't strange at all. He's a spiritual leader. This kind of thing happens all the time.
how does this shit keep happening
also
why do they not just fucking say +50% chance on the god damn item, uggggggggh
I dunno but it's starting to seem like they don't do even cursory QA.
It seems like Bungie is a company made up of extremely talented artists and designers who are being told what to do by incompetent leads and managers.
Like having Michelangelo being told what to do by Todd who runs electronics at walmart.
I feel bad for the people who actually make this game, because the decisions being made by the people whose job it is to make more money are fucking up what should be an amazing game.
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That is yellow
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PSN - Razide6
I totally loved the Osiris is the best and everyone loved him so much he became a religion, the comic.
pleasepaypreacher.net
edit - also shouldn't Osiris' Vexed out ship not exist yet???
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Because it's not a straight +50% chance. it's an additional 50% of your base chance. If base chance is 3%, using a 3oC will increase your chance to 4.5%.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For clarity: I'm all in favor of much more detailed tooltips than Bungo currently gives us.
It was pretty damn fun.
Best moment was trying to squeeze the tank through the corridors after I'd dealt with the goliath tanks to try and get it into the final boss area. It didn't work, but me and @squall99x were laughing our heads off while I tried.
Looked something like this:
Yeah, I was going to include that I think that's just the nature of the comic medium, but didn't want to come off as offensive or dismissive to any diehard comic readers
And I mean it is possible to have a more nuanced and well written comic, they exist
But it's whatever, I would've preferred some Books of Sorrow style thing instead, I mean you already have the items that could unlock the story right in the game, the Prophecies, but of course the Grimoire doesn't exist so it's all just wishful thinking of what could've been
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Clearly they took the wrong message from when people were complaining about "never being able to see" the Lighthouse or Flawless Emblem.
Take that nerds!
Any must-have rewards from the missions I should be on the lookout for?
Positive Outlook, auto rifle. It is one of a choice of three items you will be offered.