By DY_nasty Go To PostWe can just rename this one tbhI'm down with that.
An expansion on an existing topic if you will
By DY_nasty Go To PostWe can just rename this one tbh
An expansion on an existing topic if you will
Delicious.
“The Darkness” has been scrubbed from the game, a decision game director Luke Smith admits is because Bungie didn’t know what it even was supposed to be. In its place is a real villain: the Red Legion’s Dominus Ghaul, a militaristic Cabal leader intent on stealing the Traveler’s power.I didn't realize they completely dropped the "Darkness" shit in D2 lol
Jesus
I'm in much better place lore wise after watching that 1.5 video yesterday. The darkness was literally the driving force behind everything. Every invasion. End of Golden Age etc, and they're just going to can it? Well damn. I sort of feel like I did with Lost. I binged that over Netflix to get caught up, but if I would have spent years watching that show, I would've been pissed. 3 years of Destiny and them dropping major story items because they said fuk it is kind of incredible.
I'm in much better place lore wise after watching that 1.5 video yesterday. The darkness was literally the driving force behind everything. Every invasion. End of Golden Age etc, and they're just going to can it? Well damn. I sort of feel like I did with Lost. I binged that over Netflix to get caught up, but if I would have spent years watching that show, I would've been pissed. 3 years of Destiny and them dropping major story items because they said fuk it is kind of incredible.
There's no way the darkness was completely scrapped from the universe. My understanding is they just avoided it as the main plot line of the story for D2. I'm sure we'll get an expansion involving the darkness at some point. They need time to figure things out on that end.
I bet we see the Darkness come back in an expansion.
These seemingly small quality of life improvements make a big difference. As Bungie’s social lead M.E. Chung told me back in May, probably the single largest driver force in the game’s development was the mantra “making it easier to find the fun.” Based on my time with the game, I can say Bungie did just that. There’s a ton of stuff to do at any given point, and huge annoyances in the first game have been removed to make that stuff easy to find: the lucrative public events now have timers telling you when they’ll appear, you can now fast travel from place to place on a planet, you’re auto-enrolled into daily bounties (now called challenges), and your inventory space is large and much more manageable.Ayeeee
Watching KingGothalion go through a bit of the story mode and there are regular cutscenes depicting characters other than yourself. And story is explained in them! We modern now!
Do Titans have a spec that give them something other than the Captain America shield?
Because I hate it.
Because I hate it.
By data Go To PostDo Titans have a spec that give them something other than the Captain America shield?Yeah. Even the demo had them with the electric fist spec. I assume they will get a fire spec to toss hammers like in the previous game.
Because I hate it.
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Just saw the ending. Yeah, they actually explain things. Looks like a Halo campaign more than a Destiny campaign, exposition-wise.
I will be headed to Gamestop and getting the game in a hour or so. My Pro Bundle may not come in until tomorrow or Thurs because of the storm, so they let me buy the game and will take it back for a full refund and apply it to the bundle whenever it comes. Traded in my XB1S and did that, and put the rest towards the system.
line was extra long. bungie got them another one.
now the worst part about retail copies, waiting for these patches and installs.
now the worst part about retail copies, waiting for these patches and installs.
Welp. Servers are at capacity. Says I will join in the order I connected, but who knows if that's reliable. At least the hold music is ok?
When do you get that message? I'm at the main mission (the beta section), chose my character and all of that already. Is it before you choose your character?
By Smokey Go To PostWhen do you get that message? I'm at the main mission (the beta section), chose my character and all of that already. Is it before you choose your character?It's literally the first thing you see when starting up the game. So, yeah, before you choose your character.
By reilo Go To PostIt happened on launch of D1. They did a good job booting up more severs and increasing capacity.Cool. Well, I'm in now, regardless.
after the first 2 hours iono
The decision to completely take away the fun--for this story of all things--please. I thought I'd be fine starting from scratch again but this shit is a chore. It's late and that's 80% of the reason but I literally fell asleep while in the patrol area. Like--I might as well have been playing destiny 1.
my concern level is really high right now
The decision to completely take away the fun--for this story of all things--please. I thought I'd be fine starting from scratch again but this shit is a chore. It's late and that's 80% of the reason but I literally fell asleep while in the patrol area. Like--I might as well have been playing destiny 1.
my concern level is really high right now
I'm liking it. But I didn't play the original all that much for 3 years either. Getting Halo vibes from the story.
By Bold 2 in One Go To PostAvoid Youtube at all cost.yeah i ain't fuckin with it.
Seriously…
seen some videos of pvp tho and lawd im hurt i can't feast on day 1 n00bs like i need to be
its terrible
strip me of all my powers--sure, fine, great if I knew that I'd build it up to be even better than it was, but we already know the classes are all fucking nerfed, so i'm basically grinding through this story to a point worse than where I was at in destiny 1
the cabal story stuff is cool--everything involving guardians/earth is eyeroll inducing...like, the entirety of the human race in destiny 1 was a handfull of fuckbois at the tower jumping off the edge and being resurrected in 5 seconds--who's dumb fucking idea was it to gimp the player in service to this story?
this was just not the right direction for this shit
strip me of all my powers--sure, fine, great if I knew that I'd build it up to be even better than it was, but we already know the classes are all fucking nerfed, so i'm basically grinding through this story to a point worse than where I was at in destiny 1
the cabal story stuff is cool--everything involving guardians/earth is eyeroll inducing...like, the entirety of the human race in destiny 1 was a handfull of fuckbois at the tower jumping off the edge and being resurrected in 5 seconds--who's dumb fucking idea was it to gimp the player in service to this story?
this was just not the right direction for this shit
By DY_nasty Go To Postphaze you been end game too long breh lol
nobody who end gamed destiny is gonna put on "traditional garb gauntlets level 10" and see the light level bar fill up a millimeter without wincing
like...this whole grind again? i expected it, but you aint even got any bait to speak of on the hook. Like---gimme something new. The same jumps? The same classes? Nigga grind for the same fucking classes?
It's everything I expected (Destiny 1) to be. It feels more like a reboot than a sequel. Gotta poopsock your way to end game and then it'll feel like something different hopefully.
Music is great graphics are great story is a serviceable B-movie lite sci fi romp
Music is great graphics are great story is a serviceable B-movie lite sci fi romp
Sounding good boys (or at least sounding like everything I would reasonably want it to be, even though I suspect it won't exceed any expectations at this stage). Keep beta testing for Laboured.
By Dark PhaZe Go To Postbasically strikes on hard mode
Better rewards presumably?
By DY_nasty Go To Poststep your powerleveling upBasically. Or hardcore characters in hack n' slash games.
mmo expansion playbook
By Jay Whatever Go To PostI'm surprised they're not letting people import their characters from the previous game.You import your character's looks. And there is some storybook thing in the beginning that goes over what you accomplished on that character.
In the first hour of single-player, they introduced the hero and villain, the motivations for them both, and the conflict between them. Storytelling!
I don't even care about starting from scratch
my problem is starting from scratch knowing that I'm going to be a gimped version of what I was from destiny 1
FORWARD, always forward, never backwards.
that "updated" striker class is a fucking insult
my problem is starting from scratch knowing that I'm going to be a gimped version of what I was from destiny 1
FORWARD, always forward, never backwards.
that "updated" striker class is a fucking insult
Is this the first sequel you've played that removed all your progress and changed up your favorite class?
Like, fuck. At least they kept the same classes. Most games like this wouldn't even do that except for maybe two or three out of fifteen.
Like, fuck. At least they kept the same classes. Most games like this wouldn't even do that except for maybe two or three out of fifteen.
*sigh*
My problem is the classes I'm grinding to get back are the same except gimped in many cases
grinding for gimped striker is completely unappealing--grinding for gimped voidwalker is completely unappealing
basically--they were lazy as fuck with these classes in many cases
My problem is the classes I'm grinding to get back are the same except gimped in many cases
grinding for gimped striker is completely unappealing--grinding for gimped voidwalker is completely unappealing
basically--they were lazy as fuck with these classes in many cases
Yeah, they changed them but their themesand general (not exact!) playstyle still exist.
Now look at every sequel to any looter or mmo game ever.
Now look at every sequel to any looter or mmo game ever.
By Dark PhaZe Go To PostI don't even care about starting from scratch
my problem is starting from scratch knowing that I'm going to be a gimped version of what I was from destiny 1
FORWARD, always forward, never backwards.
that "updated" striker class is a fucking insult
But I'm confused. You acting like this is new news? They been said from day 1, you starting from ground floor. Unless it just hit you when you saw that armor number back in the teens vs hundreds from destiny 1.
By Smokey Go To PostBut I'm confused. You acting like this is new news? They been said from day 1, you starting from ground floor. Unless it just hit you when you saw that armor number back in the teens vs hundreds from destiny 1.No, I think he's more concerned about the changes to the classes themselves than needing to grind gear again. Some classes (maybe all?) have gotten nerfs when compared to the previous game.