Same for me. Will get it during the Black Friday season.

Possible interest, as RebeL LionS aren't exactly active anyhow.

But I will be one of those waiting a bit on this. My main curiosities and actual financial obligations lie elsewhere. Will be picking up Cuphead and Ghost of a Tale, as well as re-upping my Live this month. My grindy itch is and has been being scratched by Destiny's unintentional competition, so not on pins and needles of *having* to jump in right now like I was on the first.

Recommended power level for the raid is 260-280. I'm at 277 right now, so I'm good to go.

Game managed to top the sales charts in Japan for its debut although only sold 50k copies and 5k more than 2nd place Splatoon 2.

Around 45% lower than what Destiny 1 did for its PS4 launch in Japan (91,277).

https://www.destructoid.com/destiny-...s-460735.phtml

The Legend Himself is World First for the new raid. Knocked it out in 6 hours.

Trials of the Nine is pretty hardcore. Need a weapon with range, as there are lots of long sight lines.

Also, FUCK the Midas Multi Tool

Hunter's best friend. Get some boots with a speed perk, a few other doodads, unstoppable.

Oh, and the extra pop it puts out.

Me and Khuntry ran crucible last night and whatever streamlining they tried for the kiddies won't prevent the new team composition meta that's gonna explode in a few weeks once people figure the 'characters' Bungie made with each sub-class.

Hit level 20 and I don't know if I'm gonna finish campaign sense so much stuff opened up. When I get back home I dunno if I'll get this immediately since Marvel will be out that night. I'll see what Deadwingz thinks. Mull it over.

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After plauing trials for a week, I'm now owning on regular crucible. Shit is seriously next level.

Some slight Nightfall cheese to get max time (super helpful for us who need to get Rat King exotic *coughFiggycough*)

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And bungie will probably fix that in their next update.

Wish they would just ditch the timer. Turns what should be a fun challenge into a stressful one.

The timer gimmick was fun in that Black Spindle challenge but I can't imagine why they'd make that a Nightfall thing. So many odd decisions with this game.

I knew that if your clan beat the raid you'd get an engram, but I didn't know it contained actual raid gear. Logged on and got the full auto Scout Rifle exclusive to the raid. Thing is fucking sick.

Send me that clan invite figgy!

I can't the clan leader needs to invite. Maybe you can request to join. Lemme check.

Proper Top Blokes

That's the clan. Says it's open membership so you should be able to join up on bungie.net.

Amazon had this for 25 dollars so I bought it. Kind of skeptical since i heard it is my the best but figured it should be fun to play for a little bit at least.

I grabbed the digital deluxe edition with the expansions. But I'm going to wait until Curse of Osiris goes lives so I can really sink some time into it.............for about a month or so.

Osiris goes live on the 5th but bungie also announced a bunch of changes and new content coming in a free update on the 12th.

Fuck me so I need to buy that alrewady too.

Yeah. December/early January was when The Dark Below dropped. So the timing here sound about right.

Fired this up got to the Farm.

Anybody do the Curse of Osiris stuff yet? I hear the campaign is really quick.

Not even contemplating spending money until they fix PvP playlists.

New areas are pretty cool.

lol Bungie themselves admitted the new exotic tracer rifle is completely broken

Looks cool as fuck though. Want it.

Finished the campaign yesterday. Pretty good. Cool end boss. Also adds 3 adventures after that, as well Heroic versions of adventures.

Gonna Czech out the strikes tonight.

New exotic hunter arms kinda lame. Got Orpheus Rig combined with Nightstalker which is BEAST, but I don't really like the look of Rig, and I'm very much about style when it comes to Destiny

Mercury faction armor looks neat. Might try and get the set.

Damn, wish it was like the first one where you could just choose a specific strike. Random playlist kinda sucks.

Yeah that's a major issue for me in PvP. Strikes were always random tho.

Heroic strikes wereIn the first game, you could choose a strike on the mission map if you wanted to try it out.

You can preview the armor ornaments coming in the next faction rally and god damn, New Monarchy and Dead Orbits look really cool.

Future War Cult dull as ever. All their budget must have gone to that fancy room in the tower.

Sucks, as their stuff was so cool in the first game.

Yeah nobody did that, there was very little reason to do that. Aside from liking the set pieces that much.

Being able to choose individual Strikes at their rewarding Heroic difficulties would be the middle ground we need.

Ouch, looks like you're locked out of shit you used to be able to do and some weapons you used to be able to get unless you pay up for the DLC again? Fuck me, I was waiting to see if this bullshit would go on again.

Looks like it might be possible to refund the base game though:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheG...rchase_thanks/

That's actually how it's always kinda been. The new high end gear is often DLC and the an update tends to add new stuff to the endgame. You always had to spend money to keep up in power and activities.

This paid content thing is starting to hit hysteria levels. Not every DLC item is a cause worth rallying against, unless everybody actually wants to spend $90 on a game. I would, but most would not.

Yeah, it always has been, but locking people out of activities that were already doable (especially on PC which has only been out for a month and a half) should be unacceptable. They should make a compelling reason to buy the DLC rather than make people feel like they have to.

I wasn't mentioning new high level gear either. I was saying that certain previously obtainable gear is now not obtainable.

EDIT: Thought I had that part in my original post, but I didn't. Here it is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheG...ed_off_by_the/

So give people the shotgun, I guess.

Patrolling this time around is a bit confusing at first. But I'm starting to get it........again. Apparently I need to move heaven and earth to get a Sparrow.

Also wish there was a legend for those new symbols dotted around the map. I know one is for area loot chest. Don't know what the other is.

lol The vanilla game literally has less content if you don't buy the DLC.

It's like Activision saw everyone calling EA the worst publisher ever, and went "hold my beer"

Okay, started this up. Is there any active TPWW clans via Xbox?

Nah. You're gonna want to join a clan that has 40-50 members, so you can reap the benefits and get illuminous engrams every week, in addition to the level prks.

I've gotten a raid gun without even participating in the raid.

Alright. What is the best way to find a clan? Forums I am assuming.

https://www.bungie.net/en/ClanV2/MyClans

Could be wrong, but I think you can sign up to a clan right from that site.

0layed this for a few hours and am already level 11. Seems odd since the max level is 20 pre expac. Is this game super short?

The levels just regulate the gear you get. Lvl 20 is when the real game begins. From their you're basically trying to max out your light level, or at least getting to a place where you're good with your loadout for whatever you like to do in the end game, be it Trials or Raid or whatever.

Jesus Christ, Prometheus lens is crazy good.

Made it to Titan last night. Weird setting. Although this must be Bungie's vision of what it looks like on the surface.

There are areas deeper in that look pretty cool.

I made it their too last night. We are like twins!

I havnt fought any new enemies yet I don't think either. Feels odd. Figured there would be a whole new breed of enemies or a ton of new types for the current factions.

Every planet has lost sectors.

Fully aware.

Have you gotten to the Arcology?

Yep. Wrapped things up on Titan and jetted over to Nessus. Wrapped up the 2 missions there and on my way to Io.

Yeah don't expect that to last. Bungie is already on it's way to nerf it by...Tuesday I think. Whenever the next patch is anyways. I do love the fact that instead of just hording it, they gave it to Xur to sell to everyone.

Can't have an advantage if everyone's got your toy.

Beat story mode. Now, the real work/fun/grind begins.

Grabbed some Silver and bought a couple 5 packs on engrams. Got some sweet Sparrows and some other..........stuff.

Damn it. When I posted this, I thought they meant they were putting an in game codex into the game. Not the case. They say players can discover the lore in game, but it's no where near as encompassing as the grimoire.

As much as I hated how they were implemented, the cards themselves were great for lore nerds like me. I loved reading the little snippets on every boss enemy, and the little mini stories about various topics.

Gettin' lucky with the Bright Engrams.

Got an exotic ship and exotic ghost for in a couple yesterday. Ship got a lousy transmat effect, so gotta find a cooler one.

Almost ready to venture into the big bad world of Strikes.

Finished Curse of Osiris.

Man, what the hell happened there? Reviewers weren't lying when they said this was the worse add-on next to House of Wolves.

And I liked House of Wolves, even if all it did was add a new social space and the Prison.

Yeah, wouldn't recommend it.

Fucking strikes are just the campaign mission with different audio clips dubbed in. Same boss and everything. Lazy as fuck.

Holiday event starts tomorrow.

I'll jump back in and see if they improved upon it unlike years past.

Wait, vcan you only get dawning engrams by fucking buying them? Leveled up but it only gave me a regular bright engram.

Also, saw this post about grimoire cards and really identified with it

Wow totally can relate to that too.

I was so hyped for D2 as eventually D1 was a pretty decent game. However I stopped playing it 5 weeks ago and have only gone back the once to play laser tag. That shit was crazy dope.

Still hopeful they can sort out all the issues in this game but for the time being I will stick to Fortnite or even GTA

No. Dawning engrams through mayhem crucible and strikes, so far.

But yes, too, you can buy dawning engrams with silver.

So basically fixes and improvements that should have been there from the start.

Gotta start somewhere.

Least they're getting rid of that time limit bullshit on nightfalls. Not that I know enough people that still play this to do a nightfall but whatever.

Well that's nice. Makes all those trying to get the Rat King have an easier time.

Hotfix went into effect yesterday and Faction Rallies are back.

I can finally re-join Dead Orbit.

I remember seeing the ornaments for New Monarch armor and thinking they were really cool.

But to get them I'd have to play Destiny 2.

They pretty admitted that it'll be a year before the game gets back on it's feet.

New faction rally stuff seems cool. I like the risk/reward system of renown.

https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46917

New Monarchy gear looks incredible as usual, so they will probably win again. Hope last seasons armor and ornaments are also available as I missed out on a lot of it. Wish Future War Cult stuff was as cool as it was in destiny 1

nevermind, they bungled it yet again.

Previously you could join a different faction for each character on your account. Now you can only join one faction across all characters. That would be shitty by itself, but on top of that, there are exotic weapon catalysts exclusive to each faction.

They're doing this to make choosing a faction a "meaningful choice". However most people believe that's bullshit and they're only doing it so people will keep playing through til the September update so they can get all the faction stuff.


Personally, I'm not bothered that much by it, but I understand why others are up in arms about it, and I definitely think it was a bad decision on bungie's part. The best way to keep people playing your game is to add meaningful content that they enjoy participating in. Not by forcing them to grind by removing player freedom and choices.


I was excited about the upcoming Armor Sets and the possibilities involved, but now I'm not sure I have faith in bungie to deliver on it after this.



Anyway, I thought New Monarchy would win again, but since Dead Orbit has the Graviton Lance catalyst, it's definitely going to them.

Faction Rally is dumb.

fixed.

It could be such a good game. So nerve racking.

It's gotten better. We're playing a lot more. But there's a lot of head pounding things that still makes no sense.

Saw you guys on...its just hard for me to convince myself to get back into the grind, yknow? Especially when they seem really intent on recycling content.

Between me, you, and kalyx's crew we might have enough to do the raid.

Yeah we been wanting to tackle the vanilla raid at least.

We can at least get that Nightfall done.

But yeah, between Vanilla, Prestige, and the 2 Lairs, you can get around 10 or 11 pieces of powerful gear per week. That's how some people got to 380 within the first couple weeks of Warmind.

I'm not nearly as concerned with max light as I am getting my perks and attributes lined up the way I want.

I am.

Gotta get to max light so we can beat escalation protocol and get that sick armor set.

Just bought the Limited Edition with the pass for the 2 expansions, betting on 99% of the hate going on being over unnoticeable, negligible BS. I played the shit out of D1, the game I bought a PS4 for & was a super satisfying gaming experience. caaaaan't waaaaaaiiiiiiiiit

Its not a bad game mind it's just there's a lot of stuff they mishandled.

No, a lot of the complaints are extremely valid. There's a reason Bungie is busting their ass basically rebooting the game over time.

What bothers me is that its almost an exact repeat of D1 in terms of "learning from mistakes". Wasnt that one of the points of moving from D1 to D2?

Destiny 1 Year 3 not being basis for vanilla D2 can only be explained (imo) by the all good things added in D1 being from the live team (or B Team) while the main team took their tone deaf ideas into D2 - which had to be rebooted mid-production just like D1.

It's likely the live team and Vicarious Visions will have to save the game somemore. VV had creative and mechanical input in the Warmind dlc. But the main team is likely covering the big Sept dlc. I have little hope they learned anything.

So, is Warmind worth jumping back into?

Or should I just spend this free time catching up on my backlog?

I would advise waiting until the Sept expansion. Warmind has some cute lil tricks to inflate the grind you may or may not be cool with.

Nice.

Hoping they plan on catering to the solo players when that comes around.

Doubt it, but hoping.

https://kalyxtriad.wordpress.com/201...year-2-part-1/

I usually copy-paste a blog post here in the past but it's not quite as easy on a phone.

Talking a shit about the roadmap going forward.

Sept update is called "Forsaken", definitely involving the Awoken Queen.

$40 just for the basic expansion of Forsaken and up to $80 if you want all the bells and whistles.

Yeah, no thanks.

Some cool stuff I guess. Can't hide my disappoint in armor sets. Collecting them just to have them is something you can do already. Plenty of resources out there to help you track what you have and what you don't.

All they had to do was literally what every loot grind game does. Get 2 pieces of an armor set, you get an additional legendary level perk. Get the whole set, you get an exotic level perk. That's it. You don't even need that on all the games sets. Just the unique ones you get from tokens, raids, and EP. That would be enough to add a ton of incentive to go get these sets and would make player customization even deeper.

But no. Bungie has to bungie.

I'll likely get back on the grind after the next expansion like Kalyx said. Heard good things about it. Not gonna put in the effort now since I know Bungie will essentially void it with some change to the grind in the next update.