Pretty sure the 'Darkness' was written out as a collective evil.

Yeah, but it’s still something. Possibly those triangle ships.

Also, Ophidia Spathe + Play With Fire perk equals this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8pjVnV1pPcY

Bungie ain't fucking around

https://www.bungie.net/pubassets/pkg...&av=3132316039

God damn Thorn.

Update 1.36 installing, Season of Opulence is underway

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Yeah yeah. New raid, we're free from Activision, blah blah.

Ain't going back anytime soon.

Dude, we're goin' back to the fuckin' mooooon

This has just made my day, preordering at the earliest possible opportunity :love:

Maybe bungie will let you buy this one, Kalyx.

Nah I'm holding out for Destiny 3. Jumping back in at year 3 would be a hard sell to my usual buds.

- Original goth Eris Morn is the lead character of the new expansion. Getting out of retirement and will fight baddies on the Moon.

- Expansion is smaller than Forsaken, more similar to Rise of Iron (also a Year 3 expansion).

- Old bosses return on the moon.

- Moon is twice as large as old moon. Old areas will return, including the Dark Below.

- Armor function and progression reworked.

- F2P Destiny 2 version includes everything of Year 1.

- Instead of Annual Pass, Bungie will pursue Battle Pass style purchased seasons.

- Cross Saves; across XB1, PS4, and PC. Sony had to have their arm twisted.

- Sony exclusive content will be no more after honoring Year 2 exclusivity.

- Bungie intends for this updated version of the Moon to be more dreadful and horror themed.

- Players will be able to slot armor perks from one armor set into another set they like; based on aesthetics.

- Bungie teased a new artifact system that offers new perks, with the highest tier of these perks being "close to that of an exotic".

- New kill animations have been added for each character. Titans get a powerful punch, Hunters perform a flurry of dagger strikes, and Warlocks do a force push.

FUCK YES @ slotting armor perks. I’ve got so many badass looking Y1 armor sets that are pretty useless without the random rolls introduced in Y2.

Also, annual pass isn’t going away. They’ve changed it so you can buy each piece of it separately.

This MIGHT bring me back. I dunno.

I’ll probably jump back in now since I have the annual pass and Oppulance just dropped. Skipped the last one because I just don’t give a shit about Gambit.

Recently Eververse is said to have dropped RNG and you just get exactly what you want.

That’s nice I guess. I mean there was always stuff available to buy with bright dust which is easy to come buy.

Eververse never really bothered me because it’s such a small portion of the loot pool.

Tried out the Menagerie. Might be one of the most fun activities in the game's history.

It's basically a mini raid. You and 5 others go from encounter to encounter, each with it's own mechanics. None of them are as complex as a raid encounter and you can get by without communication, but playing with randoms is still gonna be rough.

Gonna want a nightstalker with Orpheus Rig, cause there are ads fucking everywhere, all the time. And they're fucking strong.

Definitely feel like this is a game mode made for people who don't raid but still want that experience. Having done a few raids now, I totally get why they don't do matchmaking for them, as it would be a shit show, and a waste of most people's time. This seems like a good compromise.

Sounds like they possibly want this type of content to be a gateway to raid content. Something to get your feet wet, so to speak. And then if you like it, you start raiding for real.

New details on finishing moves

* Just like other games the move is activated by hitting a promp when the enemy is at a health threshold.

* Finishing move costs super energy to use (they are still deciding on how much)

* There will be mods to add extra benefits to using finishing moves such as making the enemy drop ammo packs for the whole team.

* At launch players can only have one finisher equipped but post launch bungie plans to add a multi finisher system and even a optional randomise system.

Fucking cool.

Hall of Triumphs is gonna keep me pretty busy through the next month. I'mma get that Bad Juju.

Moon looks fucking good.

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Solstice of Heroes event goes the whole month. Adds a new mode called Aerial Dead Zone which is kind of like the EDZ but floating in the sky. Uses assets from that area but the layout is completely original. Point of the mode is to find and kill mini bosses before the main boss shows up. The more mini bosses you kill, the more chests you get after killing the boss.

Also adds a new set of armor.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/6iKH...7/Solstice.gif

Nice.

* Shadowkeep and New Light delayed until 10/1/2019
* Moments of Triumph extended until 9/17/2019
* Another Iron Banner 9/17/2019
* New raid race for world first is Saturday 10/5/2019
* Cross save is coming before Shadowkeep, but no date listed, just "later this summer)

That right there validates breaking up with Activision. They'd never allow that.

Was thinking the exact same thing. I was skeptical of how much of an impact the split would make when it was announced, but Bungie has been killing it ever since.

Highlights from the Armor 2.0 livestream

-Gunsmith will have the Legendary Solstice of Heroes armor set when Shadowkeep releases.

-Intelligence, Discipline, and Strength stats being introduced. They will scale from 1-100.

-Every 10 units will unlock a tier that gives you a base percentage increase to speed, movement speed, damage resistance, and ability cooldowns.

-Ghost and Sparrow will display on the equip screen.

-Glimmer cap raised to 250,000 from 100,000.

-Exotic items are all converted over to armor 2.0.

-Exotics in the Collection can be pulled out with Armor 2.0 as a fixed roll.

-Randomized perks on armor are gone. Replaced with three mod sockets.

-Every piece of armor has an Energy limit and mods now have an Energy cost. You cannot exceed your armor’s Energy limit.

-Energy limit can be upgraded 10 tiers.

-Armor mods no longer consume and will persist forever once obtained.

-Ascendant Shards return, used as an upgrade material for armor.

-Upgrade materials can be obtained throughout multiple activities.

-Master-worked armor gives +2 to all stats.

-Ammo finders broken up, now tied to specific weapon archetypes (Scout Rifles, Snipers, etc).

-Major and Minor damage resistance mods.

-Mods must be acquired to use them. They come from the Gunsmith, Gunsmith packages, world engrams, Pinnacle engrams (Iron Banner, Raid, etc).

-Appearance tab for every armor piece.

-Exotics will always be recognizable.

-Solstice of Heroes armor glows will come with Armor 2.0 if you’ve unlocked them.

-Not all mods will stack.

-Energy types for armor (Arc, Void, Solar) determine what mods can be slotted into that piece of armor.

-Void subclasses updated.

-Bottom tree Nightstalker focuses on invisibility and Smoke Bomb synergy.

-Pre-Armor 2.0 can still be used, modified, and Masterworked

-Old mods can be dismantled into Mod Components which are used to purchase new Armor 2.0 mods.

-Ammo will now drop with a special glow to indicate your ammo-focused mods are working.

-All Legendary Armor in the game will drop with Armor 2.0, regardless of where they come from.

-Classes, not level number, now display over Guardian’s heads.

-Weapons of Light buff returns via Ward of Dawn!

All good changes, but I know it's gonna be hell getting the mods I want.

It's hell.

The servers are down. I want to try out Destiny 2 on Stadia.

Dunno what's going on.

Also good luck with that.

Cross platform and such now. I'm easy to find.

I've always been easy to find. Just look for the Hunter in hilariously Neo-Pop shader.

Figures you're a Hunter.

I'm also a Yeet Titan but yeah I main Blade Barrage Hunter.

We'll dance soon.

These niggas doing seasonals.

Seasonal what?

Seasonal seasons.

The overly long Astral arena thing is a seasonal activity, helps you get the newer, targeted gear. Every season has some kind of mode like that.

Oh, well yeah.

Did you mean the blueberries you're paired with suck at it?

Not sure how you could suck at Astral alignment. It's one of the most self explanatory activities they've made.

It's a bit long tho.

Almost as long as Sundial. With the same stages too. It's fun but yeah, sometimes the Blueberries aren't the best at it.

Izanagi Burden catalyst just dropped from iron banner. 500 kills to activate it. Oof.

Catalyst that just want kills are not bad. Go to the Moon and just loiter about with the public Knightmare Hunts. I go there to wipe away weapon bounties quick. Tons of enemies all the time on that part of the Moon.

Slogged through Iron banner at 1305 for the pinnacles and faceless hunter mask. Ended up getting the last enhancement prism I needed to get an ascendant shard. Now I gotta decide which past exotic to buy. Leaning heavily towards Sleeper.

Sleeper's not so hot anymore but that could be community hysterics again.

It wasn't hot anymore, but with this seasons mods it's shredding again.

Seasonal mods are kinda tacky but I need to grind a legendary lost sector to get these exotic gauntlets.

Heard the Prophecy weapons are pretty good. We should team up soon to take it on.

I haven't done any of the dungeons yet. I have been curious and never looked at playthroughs as to not spoil myself. We could team up, maybe bring that Drave with us. Battlefield beta is in two days so I'll be mostly consumed by that this week, fair warning.

yeah we stepped into a hive dungeon a few nights ago and lol'd through a lil bit of it before going "WTF". It was MASSIVE with no real good indicator of what to do.


There was this lil white circle it looks like someone was supposed to stand in, but nothing worked.

I was FINALLY able to get a ticket in with a MS Engineer for the shit I've been experiencing lately. They told me on the phone it was something to do with the "live service" on my account. Great.... wonderful.




You know..... angry old man shaking fist at cloud might actually make sense in the future when our data is stuck there without a reliable way to retrieve it.

Ok, definitely want to do dungeons now.

Any takers?

Gotta log back on to see if I still have the shit I was playing through or not. I don't recall buying Witch Queen......




I might tho. The new expansion looks incredible.




You talking strikes or raids?

Raids would be cool but you need 6 for that. Dungeons are like lite raids with 3 people. I think I recall you and I trying one, but there were mechanics we couldnt figure out right from the start.

OOOh yeah, the undead place. Ill hop on today and see whats up

Did someone say....dungos? Still need to complete Duality at some point.

Also what made you come back Fignuts?

I'll be on. The campaign can be done co-op, and you can do it on legendary if you want to level up faster.

People saying witch queen was their best campaign yet, combined with my love of the hive lore. That and just the general itch to come back and shoot aliens in the face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYKLdj7J7_Q

Then you probably haven't seen this video eh? Byf does a wonderful job summing up everything Hive up to Witch Queen.

I'm down. Not ready yet cause I'm still playing catch up. Need to do some dungeons for exotics when the time comes.

Did Shadowkeep stuff. Currently splitting between Forsaken and Beyond Light. Haven't played Pirates yet.

Actually enjoying crucible a lot more, now that they added skill based matchmaking. Reeeaaallly enjoying the Le Monarque + Hand Cannon combo. Its very good but not S tier so I don't feel as dirty as when I used Lord of Wolves.

I did buy Witch Queen yesterday :D


Only done the intro and one other mission, just met the ghost dude.

Play Witch Queen campaign on legendary, btw. Stopped halfway to do target grinding for builds.

I never thought I'd have as much fun on any other Titan as I did on Yeet. Then I got Loreley's. Holy crap I only die when I'm not paying attention to where my sunspots are.

Play Witch Queen on hard. You'll die.

Already done that. I don't. Voidlock go boom.

That was some hard shit for sure. I was just along for the ride while you melted shit.


Sorry for the quick exit. My kids have their friends over all weekend, had to go tend to them for a bit.

Oh yeah...... whats the top light level now??


Not sure how, but I was given a set of shit that is 1540..... seems like if that's tops without going to raids, then I ruined things for myself. Still not sure how I got that stuff.


SO much new stuff in the game. Gotta start paying attention to stats on armor, never used to.

You're in a good spot right now at 1540. I'm at 1550. Power caps out at 1580. But you gotta do your raids, nigthfalls, dungeons, and whatever else offers pinnacle gear as rewards to get there.

Yeah.... this shit was given to me at the beginning of Witch Queen. Was like a 200 point light jump from when I last played.

Soft cap is 1540, powerful cap is 1570, and hard cap is 1580. Though your overall light level can be even higher with the artifact bonus.

You can melt too. Given time to build.

Destiny is the most build craft happy it's ever been. But if you've been gone you missed out on a lot of armor mods and weapon rolls that help with builds. Or get lucky. Figs was just collecting exotics on our playthru.

Since I got back in, hero nightfalls have been handing out exotic catalysts like candy as well. I even got two at once.

Jumped in a public event on Europa and a exotic engram dropped from a dreg.

I was like "Damn. That's new."

Got 3 new chest exotics from the legend lost sector today. Burn was the same as sheilds which is rare, and it was an easy sector too. The one with all the robot buddies.

I gotta re-read or watch a video on how that works. Tried it yesterday and that first shielded enemy kicked my ass. I thought I had the right weapons on to knock down the shield. But nothing.

That enemy was a champion. Having the right element for sheilds isnt enough. You also need the right seasonal mods on your arms. It was an overload champion so you needed an overload mod and the appropriate weapon which this season is a bow or machine gun.

If you have a Le Monarch or a Thunderlord, they have perks on them which means you don't have to have those mods equipped. Which, like has been said, makes building so very very fun.

Currently been having fun as an Arc Strider again. Gathering Storm has to be the most fun Super ever. And this is coming from a Blade Barrage main.

Iron Banner will be tomorrow. It's no longer based on light level and the reward structure is different. Also rep gain is double for PvP so if you grind Shaxx's reward pass go for it.

I think Wish Ender was the bow that got anti champion intrinsic.

wat




Is there a "guide" for this shit?

Examine any exotic you have and some have been updated to have one of the champion mods built in. Bungie adds them to some old exotics every season.

Champion mods have either box, square, or circle symbols and mission screens tell you which Champs you'll deal with.

Champions can be killed without mods, but it takes a combo of super, heavy ammo weapons, buffs, a lot of resources. Champion mods are annoying but you'll need them.

I can explain it better next time play. You probably wont encounter them much with the content you have right now. Unless you bought the season pass.

I figured it out. I didn't have the mods slotted into the armor/gun.

I thought when I just unlocked it, it was just an automatic thing.

Still learning here.

Yep. Gotta slap on mods to your armor in order for it to do anything. It's annoying but...is what it is.

Finished Beyond Light and joined the Dark Side. I don't know how the Titans and Warlocks made out, but the Hunter stasis is kinda lame at the moment. Hopefully when the 2nd action rolls around it's better. But I'll stick with it for a bit and build it up.

Probably stay on Europa for a bit and do some collecting. Seems like the easiest of the bunch to fill out the triumphs page. Then I'll move on to Nessus and see what's up there.

Nessus is pretty much irrelevant.

Save for the fact it's the site of the third expedition arena. The most action it's gotten since....Season of Arrivals? Whichever season gave us Caitil, Zavala's girlfriend.

Zavala's girl is dead. He hasn't had a sandwich in like 300yrs.

Hence why Bungie gave us the Empress of the Cabal as Zavala's new girlfriend.

She definitly wants his gjallerhorn.