postcyberpunk
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Is the highest level (with Light upgrades) 30?
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Destiny |OT3| Oh sweet a Legen- wait never mind, it's a rare.
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The Queen's event will be a strike, not a mission. Don't know if it will be new or just modified a'la nightfall/weekly heroic.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Uhh, only got yourself to blame there, lol.
I feel like the story issues can be waved off by "It's like an MMO!" However, if we're judging the game by MMO standards, there are a lot bigger issues than a non-existent plot.
MR BLACKMAGIK
Member
So what was the point of Bungie contemplating removing the Flawless Raider achievement when you can just play the raid on Normal? It will especially be a joke when people hit level 30 and you can play the level 26 mode.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Nah, that was an ending. It was an attempt at an "and the adventure continues" ending. They just hadn't earned it yet, so it feels really shallow.
A.D. Skinner
Member
That solves it then.
Hullo To U
Banned
Has anyone else had to delete a character?
I deleted one and now I only have 2 character slots (one with a character, one empty).
I deleted one and now I only have 2 character slots (one with a character, one empty).
CloudyTuba
Member
I definitely agree. An expansion you have to pay extra for does not quality as part of the main campaign. What you get for your $60 is the main campaign. The end of that is the end of the game.
Anything after that is literally what it's called. Expansions to the game.
I did early on. Dont worry, I think the third slot only shows up if youve used the first two already.
I got the same thing today. Blue cloak I already have. Trashed it.
Damnit Bungie stop having wine for breakfast.
Stallion Dan
Member
While I enjoy the competitive MP it has a lot of general non-class issues I hope they fix.
- Melee distance is silly, I find myself both hitting and receiving melee hits at silly distances.
- There is a constant delay between a killing blow and when players actually die, in this time it gives them a chance to hit you back and in close fights will often result in your death even though they should be dead.
- Shotgun + melee hit is too powerful and sucks all the fun out of close encounters.
- 1 Hit kills from pulse rifles at distance is also unbalanced.
Anyone agree with these criticisms?
- Melee distance is silly, I find myself both hitting and receiving melee hits at silly distances.
- There is a constant delay between a killing blow and when players actually die, in this time it gives them a chance to hit you back and in close fights will often result in your death even though they should be dead.
- Shotgun + melee hit is too powerful and sucks all the fun out of close encounters.
- 1 Hit kills from pulse rifles at distance is also unbalanced.
Anyone agree with these criticisms?
The Librarian
Banned
I'm glad I'm able to sit back and not worry about what level I'm gaining, especially when you need gear.
I enjoy the base game too much!
Edit: Plus maybe Bungie will have a patch out by time I get to your point, ha.
Soloing the Weekly Strike mission turned out to be much easier than I thought it would be. Turns out that it's not only the enemies who get greater arc damage, but we do too(if only I had known this on my first time through with friends). With my Arc Rocket Launcher I decimated the Devil Walker and Sepiks Prime, I also used my Arc Fusion rifle to take out the yellow barred non-boss enemies.
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
Yes I believe the hard cap is 30.
Despite not giving a flying fuck about the "story" throughout the entire game, nothing can prepare you for how awful that ending is. This game is fucking unfinished. This is gross incompetence.
what the fuck is this shit
how do you get this
how
what the fuck is this shit
how do you get this
how
postcyberpunk
Banned
Thx. Got a while to go...
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Level Required amount of Light to reach
Level 21 21 Light
Level 22 32 Light
Level 23 43 Light
Level 24 54 Light
Level 25 65 Light
Level 26 76 Light
Level 27 87 Light
Level 28 98 Light
Level 29 109 Light
Level 30 120 Light
Yup, I lol'd at the "ending".
It just seems unfinished. Like this is the alpha or something, story wise, and that they are planning on filling it all in with an actual story later.
And then the random chick you've talked to like twice gives you a weapon because you guys had gone through so much together.
lazybones18
Banned
Just got my first exotic bounty. Instead of talking to the Warlock Vanguard (since that one leads to the 25 K/D ratio), I decided to go with the Moon Strike bounty
Goodacre0081
Member
first exotic!
toweringinferno
Member
Don't know why I bother farming, must have farmed over 5 hours and I keep getting worse blues than I have and shitty greens.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Like I said before, taken by itself, it's a decent ending. The problem is that an ending like that needs to be earned, and Destiny definitely doesn't make you feel like you earned it. The whole thing just feels hollow, like the game is lying to itself about its story.
Crimson_Gold
Member
Where's the best place to farm
Admiral Woofington
Member
Finally bought my burning warlock class item and some legendary boots from the vanguard representative.
All I really need now is to wait till tuesday when the clock resets, get some more marks and buy the gloves. As to the helmet I'm hoping I can play enough PvP where I get an engram or a drop, because I really don't wanna have to grind out 100+ marks for one piece of equipment.
Then of course the piece of resistance for my Sunbro (keeping it completely themed)
don't have the above yet since the vendor didn't have it but I hope next week he does, if not I'll keep waiting as I really have no interest in other exotic armor. Exotic weapons I'd like to have the primary be one. I have 7 strange coins, might convince my friends tomorrow to try the weekly at level 24 so we can get another 3 strange coins, so when the week resets I only have to get another 3 strange coins to have enough for the chest.
All I really need now is to wait till tuesday when the clock resets, get some more marks and buy the gloves. As to the helmet I'm hoping I can play enough PvP where I get an engram or a drop, because I really don't wanna have to grind out 100+ marks for one piece of equipment.
Then of course the piece of resistance for my Sunbro (keeping it completely themed)
don't have the above yet since the vendor didn't have it but I hope next week he does, if not I'll keep waiting as I really have no interest in other exotic armor. Exotic weapons I'd like to have the primary be one. I have 7 strange coins, might convince my friends tomorrow to try the weekly at level 24 so we can get another 3 strange coins, so when the week resets I only have to get another 3 strange coins to have enough for the chest.
Dre_G_Writer
Member
Playing as the defender sub class, the titan REALLY started to shine with me. Inside that bubble shield, your practically invincible.
Even two captains entered my bubble shield and started meleeing the crap outta me, but the bubble shield gives the titan a double shield while inside the barrier that instantly refreshes itself, so my shield would be back to full before a second melee strike could happen. And meleeing a target grants you another shield.
As a close quarters titan, anything that enters the bubble is good as dead as thats a killing ground for the titan. Dont EVER enter a titans bubble in PVP, you will NOT WIN.
YUS!! FINALLY!!! I use my shotgun WAY more than my assault rifle so it would be good to have a shotgun as primary because the ammo drops are more frequent and cost less for primary weapons and also I am able to equip a sniper or plasma rifle.
Yup, def going to try to get this weapon.
if you're going to compare the game to any MMO, much less WOW, then the problems become more and more outlined. For starters, let's be clear, even vanilla WOW in the launch window (which I was playing around the clock after getting right on release day! I was like 21-22 years old at the time and all I did was sit around playing MMOs, and I was *hardcore* addicted to WOW for the first couple of years) had many, many, MANY times over more content and more stuff to do than this game has. It's funny to even compare them there was so much more stuff to do in launch WOW than in Destiny. Launch WOW had a sprawling persistent world, full of dungeons, hundreds of quests, towns, an economy, crafting, you name it.
Destiny is one small town (sectioned off between long loading screens) between 4 small zones that each have no exploration, nothing to find, and no npcs in them. You hit level 20 after a day or two (level cap in WOW, for the first time, took me weeks if I recall) and then there is absolutely nothing to do. You can't just sort of hang out in a persistent world, because there is no persistent world. Everything you do in Destiny is very deliberate due to the (IMO flawed) structure. You must pick a mission and launch it. At level 20, this means running the same handful of missions over and over with absolutely nothing else to do. If this was WOW and I somehow hit the level cap and did everything, I could still hang out and make my own fun. I could cause mischief on my PVP server by going to alliance towns. I could hang out in newbie zones and help newbies. I could craft. I could do anything.
Destiny parades as an MMO and you compared it to an MMO, but it's so, so bad at being one.
- In Destiny, you can't name your characters
- In Destiny, you can't change your hair or any other details after creation
- In Destiny, you can't trade with people
- In Destiny, you can't talk to people
- In Destiny, you can't craft anything
- In Destiny, there is no world PVP
- In Destiny, there is no world
- In Destiny, you can't view your character from an external camera during mission context other than during emotes, which forces you to put your weapon away so you can't actually see what you really look like
- In Destiny, there's no group dynamic or class cohesion. There's no need of or ability to combine classes to create strategies. There's really no such thing as a support class, there's no healing, there's not really any tanking (you can argue that Titans can perform this task, but honestly, it's not needed, strike bosses consist of just running around managing endless adds while dropping bullets into a sponge for 10 minutes). Every boss is basically the same with a new skin. Even in vanilla WOW, bosses took some degree of teamwork and strategy.
- Did I mention you can't name your characters?
Bungie simply doesn't "Get it" when it comes to being an MMO. They checked a few things off a list (hey, let's put in a silly dance emote) but so fundamentally missed the mark it's making my head spin the more I think about it. The game is a frankenstein's monster with incredible controls and graphicss, but no identity and, most significantly, a severe, severe lack of content and depth.
Go read the deep and compelling backstory lore at bungie.net!!! There are even more unnecessarily capitalized nouns available for your consumption in the second screen experience!!!
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
toweringinferno
Member
The nexus strike, there's a video about check it.
The Librarian
Banned
riskVSreward
Member
Anyone know if any titan grenades or melee do void damage?
super-famicom
Member
Move your cursor and hover over your level. A screen should pop up showing the numbers (ex- 1250/2000 XP). You can also do this to check your Vanguard/Crucible/Faction/Cryptarch/Light progress as well; just talk to the appropriate person and hover over the icon showing the progress.
KnightHart
Member
It bothers me how in PvP you can actually (but randomly) get good equip drops from playing a short 5 minute match where performance doesn't matter. And you can play an entire level 22 strike and get fuck all. I'm never going to get over this because it makes it seem as if you don't play PvP you're missing out on some good equips.
And I fucking hate the PvP because it has everything I hate about console shooters
And I fucking hate the PvP because it has everything I hate about console shooters
Poodlestrike
Banned
Anyone know if any titan grenades or melee do void damage?
Defender grenades.
The Librarian
Banned
lol how is it that you came to know so much more about this game than me?
My Exotic helmet has gone up in light twice. It started at 21 and is 25 now. And I still have a couple upgrades to go.
Jack Scofield
Member
Is there anything I need to do with the clans (Future War Cult, etc.) besides doing missions for them in Patrol mode? I feel like I'm missing something.
Destroying people in pvp with this hand cannon. It's like a mini sniper.
Step aside Auto Rifles there's a new sheriff in town.
Sill prefer my scout rifle...
Allez Phill
Banned
Absolutely well said.
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