WELCOME TO YEAR 3 OF DESTINY!
Lord Saladin (above), master of the Iron Banner, calls forth guardians to become Iron Lords and restore his fallen house once again. A bio-organic plague from the Golden Age has been unsealed in the wastes of Russia, the Wall has been breached. Journey into the Plaguelands and destroy SIVA, the forbidden nanotechnology before The Last City - and humanity along with it - are lost forever.
Or just get a bunch of sweet guns and shoot people in the Crucible. With the launch of custom matches, Destiny is joining MLG this year.
JOIN THE SLAENT CLAN HERE AND REPRESENT: https://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Detail/180028
For raids, strikes, PvP, Prison of Elders, getting you through a tough spot, or just hanging out.
LAUNCH TRAILER:
IS IT TOO LATE TO JOIN THIS GAME?
No! Hitting maximum level can reasonably be done in a week or two of playing through the story. From there it's all about finding your favourite loadout and questing for the perfect exotic/legendary loot combination that will unlock the full potential of your skill.
WHAT'S NEW?
Tons of stuff!
- Custom matches in PvP
- New story
- New social hub and areas
- New strike & raid
- New PvP maps & modes
- 20 new shaders
- New weapons & exotics
Badass new Iron Lord armour:
Ornaments that change how your gear & exotic weapons look:
Artifacts, a new armour item that grant you special perks like removing your super in exchange for an extra grenade & melee, keep radar active while aiming down sights, speeding up super charge time, or even switching PvE enemies to your side.
I PLAYED THIS GAME AT LAUNCH AND / HEARD FROM MY FRIEND THAT / IT'S GRINDY AND NO FUN.
Destiny's initial launch was plagued by problems with their dev tool chain and Bungie learning how to make an MMO which are outlined in glorious detail in this Kotaku article: http://kotaku.com/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731
But Activision had them sit down with Blizzard's Diablo 3 team, and Destiny underwent a similar rescue operation to that game. The result was that last year's Taken King expansion was far more player-friendly and just all around fun. You can good new gear pretty much every day.
CAN I PLAY THIS GAME SOLO?
Almost entirely. Raids and the absolute hardest difficulty mode for Prison of Elders & strikes will require you to bring a couple of friends. Anything else you can solo no problem, or the game will matchmake a fireteam for you.
IT SAYS MLG IN THE TITLE, YOU'RE FREAKING ME OUT. I DON'T DO FPS PVP STUFF.
No worries. You can play this game without ever touching the VS. mode, and vice versa. You'll be able to get top tier gear & hit max level no matter how you play. But the gunplay is so good that it's worth learning, and skill based matchmaking means you'll always be set up with people around your own skill level.
THIS GAME HAS SO MANY EXPANSIONS, WHAT DO I HAVE TO BUY?
Right now it looks like you have two choices - if you have everything up to The Taken King, then you can just buy the Rise of Iron expansion. Otherwise, you'll need to get Destiny: The Collection, which includes absolutely everything ever.
PC MASTER RACE?
Nope. No PS3/360 version this year either. PS4/Xbox One only, but since PS4 gets exclusive maps, strikes & exotic weapons, PS4 seems to be where most of the community is active.
WHAT CLASS SHOULD I PLAY?
Serious real honest answer: whatever you think is coolest. 99% of weapons can be used by any class, and the game is well balanced enough that any class is viable in any situation once you learn its ins & outs.
NO JUST TELL ME, WHAT DO I PICK?
Okay, fine. Defenders' super is a bubble shield that powers up your allies. Picking that class will make people happy to see you in any situation. This is the only really indispensable class for serious PvE missions because it lets you stand toe to toe with bosses & wail on them, instead of running for your life & dying a lot.
If you want to be a Warlock, then Sunsingers' super brings them back from the dead, meaning you can save your whole team from a raid/strike wipe - people always appreciate that too.
If it's Hunter, then Nightstalkers' super tethers enemies rendering them helpless, and killing them drops orbs that will power up your allies' supers. You can tether a bunch of little enemies to a boss and wipe everyone out in one go.
For PvP, the following classes have long-lasting offensive supers that will let you rack up tons of kills on opposing players:
Titan: Sunbreaker
Warlock: Stormcaller
Hunter: Bladedancer
But keep in mind that there are so many different ways to set up each class, so many styles of play, that it will take some experimentation to find what you really do best with.
I'M JUST GOING TO WAIT FOR DESTINY 2.
Okay, you do you. Just keep in mind that according to rumours it may not actually be on track for next fall. In the meantime, we're going to be all like:
By DY_nasty Go To Postda fuck is this update
I had to delete Dragon Age: Inquisition just to fit it in.
I felt nothing.
31 gb on psn lmao.
edit: NM its only a gig, just a hotfix to the big booty update from earlier this week
edit: NM its only a gig, just a hotfix to the big booty update from earlier this week
By DY_nasty Go To Post31 gb on psn lmao.
edit: NM its only a gig, just a hotfix to the big booty update from earlier this week
I got it in like 5-10 minutes last night. Get on & join me in Crucible so I can get this True Meaning of War bounty before it's gone forever.
If Lord of Wolves isn't the most fun exotic, I want to know what is. (Okay, maybe Super Good Advice).
I think 6 million people stayed up all night/took the day off work to get the new Gjallarhorn at the same time.
meanwhile, patch notes
https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/45265/7_Destiny-Rise-of-Iron
shit is real tho
https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/45265/7_Destiny-Rise-of-Iron
shit is real tho
Engrams
Fixed an issue where, after enough kills were accumulated, players would never see Uncommon item drops again
This resulted in players being starved of weapon and armor materials
LMAO
so apparently this only affected people who put in a gazillion hours on a character like me. holy fuck this is actually such a big deal. i was hording weapons parts like they were exotic shards on my hunter
Fixed an issue where, after enough kills were accumulated, players would never see Uncommon item drops again
This resulted in players being starved of weapon and armor materials
LMAO
so apparently this only affected people who put in a gazillion hours on a character like me. holy fuck this is actually such a big deal. i was hording weapons parts like they were exotic shards on my hunter
You can at least buy weapon parts from the Gunsmith. Armor parts on the other hand had me dismantling legendaries because I was so starved for upgrades.
Still waiting to sign back into the game...
Still waiting to sign back into the game...
By livefromkyoto Go To PostYou can at least buy weapons parts from the Gunsmith. Armor parts on the other hand had me dismantling legendaries because I was so starved for upgrades.the gunsmith selling weapons parts was a very recent thing (relatively speaking)
Still waiting to sign back into the game…
that *bug* had been affecting me since house of wolves dropped - prior to taken king
back when the gunsmith was still selling greens and blues for 1.5k, i was there on a daily basis. hungry.
I get up to #335 in the queue, aaaaaannndd then it tells my it can't connect to the servers & I get bumped to the back of the line.
I'm giving this shit 10 more minutes then I'm just gonna go play Zelda II.
I'm giving this shit 10 more minutes then I'm just gonna go play Zelda II.
Info From Bungo - Investigating Server Issues
People are being placed in a Queue. Seems as if the servers are rebooting and the queue is being used until enough server instances are spun up. Please remain calm.
lol
People are being placed in a Queue. Seems as if the servers are rebooting and the queue is being used until enough server instances are spun up. Please remain calm.
lol
Got kicked back to #214,290. And people were complaining that they didn't do a midnight launch, LOL. Can you imagine?
I don't know if signing on is going to happen any time soon.
I don't know if signing on is going to happen any time soon.
By DY_nasty Go To Postthe queue is probably a lie. servers probably got completely rebooted
Definitely did. I was logged in, and the first mission was available for me, I got the "what's new in Rise of Iron" screen then...oblivion the moment I needed to access the servers.
This is where the Wii U gamepad comes in handy.
was shook because I didn't preorder but I somehow got all that stuff anyway
played a few missions--these reskinned assets are somebullshit but i cant front im kinda hyped for new content finally
played a few missions--these reskinned assets are somebullshit but i cant front im kinda hyped for new content finally
wait damn the raid is coming this friday already
alright lets see if we can get 6 confirms for a friday or saturday raid otherwise ima search elsewhere
alright lets see if we can get 6 confirms for a friday or saturday raid otherwise ima search elsewhere
Gonna be on this later. Wasn't really on earlier. Someone else was playing it for the first time. Nothing like having somebody up late for you dealing with that mess.
By Dark PhaZe Go To Postwait damn the raid is coming this friday already
alright lets see if we can get 6 confirms for a friday or saturday raid otherwise ima search elsewhere
I'm in.
Finished the Rise of Iron quest line. It's real short but there's more to the game than it. Need to explore the plaguelands more and do more quests.
Fixed an issue where, after enough kills were accumulated, players would never see Uncommon item drops againSRSLY?! That explains so fucking much :facepalm:
Rare and Legendary Engrams will now attempt to give you rewards equal to or higher than your current LightPraise JFC. Was tired of receiving nothing but ~240 Light drops.
Fixed an issue where, after enough kills were accumulated, players would never see Uncommon item drops againI thought they just stopped dropping past a certain level. It was a bug!?
So I'm tired of the solo queue life on PC and picked this up to play with my brothers/irl friends.
Requested to join (or joined?) the slaent group if anyone wants to play
Requested to join (or joined?) the slaent group if anyone wants to play
Supremacy is awesome.
Finally a game mode that encourages people to move around and get kills instead of controlling areas for entire matches
Finally a game mode that encourages people to move around and get kills instead of controlling areas for entire matches
Got the dune marchers from a purple engram
Lord have mercy I'm going to ruin people with these and a MIDA
Lord have mercy I'm going to ruin people with these and a MIDA