The Librarian
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The Vex are soooo much fun to fight.
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Destiny |OT3| Oh sweet a Legen- wait never mind, it's a rare.
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You can just run around with a void shotgun + void rocket launcher/machine gun. Wouldn't take that long tbh, if you enjoy the crucible that is
everyday math
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Rare shingen-e being sold at gunsmith
I've been getting at least one from him for a while now. Last couple of levels I actually got 2 legendary engrams from him. Wait you get a package from him when you level him up with 3 engrams. Legendary engrams arent available for sale if that's what you mean.
The Librarian
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Thanks for the heads up, will check out now.
unknownstranger
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Teleporting enemies with shields are so bullshit. Was doing the daily mission but kept dying because they spam teleport whenever I start shooting them and run away whenever their shield goes down. Right when I was about to finally finish the mission I get fucking dc'd. Only decent thing to come out of that is I got a few small upgrades. I also got my first legendary from a rare pattern earlier.
I meant to purchase from him, not to bring to him to decrypt -- I think I misunderstood you. I want to know at what Cryptarch level do Legendary or even Exotic engrams become available to buy.
I know in the beta people were leveling him up to like 15 to 20 and able to buy amazing stuff.
Trickster
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Nowhere in that video does he tell "mmo people" to not have too high expectations for the game.
His reasoning in that video for not calling Destiny an mmo, boils down to other things like not wanting people to think it will have an subscription or that it isn't a shooter.
I think defending Destinys overall lack of content, with the excuse that "b-but bungie doesn't call it an mmo", is just plain dumb. Destiny is structured like an mmo, and as such people are going to compare it to games that it resemble, regardless of what Bungie wants to label it as.
Twilight Gap
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cosigned. best enemy by a mile. everything about them is chillingly intimidating and i love their theme music
Admiral Woofington
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I played with another guy who had a warlock with a legendary helmet.
How are you guys getting these legendary helmets? I assume PvP because strikes haven't dropped anything useful for me. Ever. Besides engrams to level up my character I guess.
How are you guys getting these legendary helmets? I assume PvP because strikes haven't dropped anything useful for me. Ever. Besides engrams to level up my character I guess.
Jinjo
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This. So fucking much. Bungie loves their fucking grind, that's for fucking sure. The loot and the differences in loot is fucking abyssmal too.
Yup, their Venus debut is great. It's like fighting an army of Terminators. Play on a Hard for the full effect.
The Librarian
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Jigoku SR3 upgrade "Luck in the Chamber - one random bullet in the magazine causes considerable bonus damage."
Killer!
Killer!
Stallion Dan
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6.3 GB including any patches.
NullPointer
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Hobgoblins and their huddle-down immunity and the big heavy gunner things with the rotating shields make them bottom of the heap for me, but their teleport makes for a nice twist.
I love sprawling fights with the Cabal though. They feel the most Halo to me, in the sense that their various roles mesh really well together and keep you on your toes.
Got to lvl 26 this morning.
Admiral Snackbar
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^ This. I'm having a good time dicking around with robros. Loot and progression happens naturally.
UpDownLeftRight
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You can just run around with a void shotgun + void rocket launcher/machine gun. Wouldn't take that long tbh, if you enjoy the crucible that is
I do actually like the MP in this game but yeah, way too much grinding involved in this bounty and it would really get on my nerves if I didn't enjoy all the game modes. I could probably get the points with that method pretty easily but having just heard that there's two more steps after this I'm just gonna wipe it from my list. If I'm gonna grind this hard for a weapon it's gotta be one that I plan on using.
The Librarian
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That's the mission that made me come here and say that, ha. Their introduction is rather well done. It's just wave after wave in this cool setting. They react/flinch when you shoot them, you can shoot off their heads and they can keep going, and they explode when you hit 'em in the chest.
Trickster
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You basically need to get legendary gear to have hopes of getting above 25. And you will need to upgrade the armor pieces if you want to be able to go higher than 27.
Thanks for the heads up. Shingen-C is great for PvP and some were saying the Shingen-E is even better. Time to test...
ffejeromdiks
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It's definitely a game that can only benefit from updates, like how now two years later Diablo 3 is a substantially better game than it was at launch, night and day. Bungie has already cemented time after time that they are dedicated to years worth of content to this game, I don't think they'll disappoint with the right expectations.
Shiera Seastar
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Haha. Jesus. Wtf, bungie. Getting the cryptarch to that level and then trolling you with the reward is just pure bullshit. It's so hard to believe this was an actual design decision by actual developers trying to create a fun and satisfying game and not just a simple bug.
Admiral Woofington
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Their gigantic T3 robots still scare me a bit if they're major/generals.
What in the everloving fuck. N I N E???
one-two punch to hobgoblins before they shield is so satisfying.
Cabal are my favorite to fight though.
having a quick dinner and walkin the dog and then I'll be on probably for many hours if anyone wants to group up. dunno if wallach is around but I know he wanted to do the weekly strike if another is up for that as well.
postcyberpunk
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Goddammit... I just logged out. And I checked every place in the Tower but the Gunsmith. :facepalm
Upgrades count, stats are normalized. I think...
Yea, the Minotaurs are a real bitch to fight on Hard. They have shields and keep teleporting up to your face just to punch you,
Mick Stagger
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Thanks dude.
Yeah, I don't get it.
Half way to 10 lol.
I've been super lucky with drops as of late...
Icyflamez96
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Nah I'll bite.
First of all, Destiny is structured a lot like an MMORPG. Planetside 2 is an MMO, and it's structured nothing like Destiny.
The only qualification of a game being an MMO is the massive player count, which Destiny doesn't have.
Perfect Cha0s
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Even as someone who is really enjoying the game, I really agree with the bolded. I get a big impression that somewhere along the way, Bungie scrapped big parts of the project and started over, trying to salvage what they could.
Many of the story missions consist of the same thing. Typically some variation of "Go from A to B, hold Square for Peter Dinklage, kill waves of enemies." The story itself is completely devoid of character development, and you end the plot knowing little more than when you began. "I'm starting to detect a pattern." Me too, Pete. Me too.
I mean, a total of six strikes, which are basically just phased overworld areas, aside from the end boss area? And all six bosses, aside from Dust Palace, are the exact same thing: shoot the boss if he isn't looking at you, while enemies spawn in at certain intervals.
The vanguard playlist seems majorly screwed up; your rewards for doing a 20 playlist should propel you directly to the 22 playlist and so on, but it seems like most of the time your rewards are just sidegrades, leaving you much better off to go PvP, where you end up getting the highest level items right from the get-go.
I dunno. I love the game, but there are a number of parts that make me go "...Bungie did this?" It just seems like they would know better.
I had a few ideas for what I think would make the game play a bit better:
- Proximity chat needs to be added. Make it a toggle.
- PvP teams need chat. Make it a toggle
- Inviting to a fireteam needs to be simple. Maybe R3 -> D-pad up to invite, with D-pad up to accept and D-pad down to decline.
- Engrams should never ever ever drop items below their advertised rarity. Greens turning to blues and blues turning to purples is fun. Purples turning to blues is not.
- Public events need to occur more often.
- Players per world needs to be increased.
- Let me open the Directory without going to Orbit.
- Add another level of defense upgrade to level 20-24 gear, so we can boost the light on gear higher. Right now I'm stuck at 24 until I grind out rep (which is so goddamn slow. Jesus), or get lucky and find legendaries. That really sucks when the supposed crown jewel, The Vault of Glass, requires 25 to even enter, and suggests 26 for completion.
I'm hoping they jump on making tweaks, because even small things would help out tremendously.
Admiral Woofington
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ffejeromdiks
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You can't be serious.
"If we were to say that this is an MMO, people who are used to pure MMO's, y'know the purest sense of the word might come to Destiny and say...this is not an MMO"..."We want to make sure that we're not selling someone an experience that we can't live up to"
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