Destiny
Bungie dropped several articles about the future of Destiny today. I have not had a chance yet to read them all. See links below:
Paving the Way for New Frontiers
Developer Insight - Core Game: Activities
Today marks 10 years of Destiny. It's been a long bumpy ride but there's still nothing quite like this game out there. Here's to hoping Bungie can continue to deliver a good experience for players and its employees.
I hope that all the developers who still work on this game and those who worked on this game continue to have success in their careers. My hope is that Bungie (along with the rest of the industry) can stop treating people as expendable assets while still making the games they are passionate about.
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TL;DR:
- 8v8 Sparrow Control in Crucible Labs this weekend
- Xur will begin selling Exotic Class items OR and Exotic Cipher with Random Rolls for 41 strange coins with the update on Aug 20th.
- First week (Aug 23rd) will be Class Items but after that it's RNG.
- Aisha's Care will be back in Trials next week.
- Bungie is selling a skateboard deck.
Hey guys!
Since I recently re-entered the destiny addiction I took my sweet time completing all campaigns on my main and some odd quests/exotic quests/solstice farms/ etc. But since I've always loved switching between my main (warlock) and the alts, I thought about setting them up as quickly as possible - meaning, unlocking subclasses, fragments and other important stuff.
So far my plan is:
- skip the new light tutorial (playing it once suffices, in my opinion)
- choose a different subclass than the starting one from Ikora via the New Light Pack (whatever it's called, giving you access to a subclass and an exotic)
- unlocking the third light subclass via a quest
Then it moves on to:
- completing the first mission of witch queen for weapon crafting/getting red border weapons
- completing the campaign of Beyond Light for stasis (ouch, that's gonna stretch)
- completing the whole campaign of Lightfall for access to strand (OUCH, that's gonna stretch even more)
- completing (almost all of) The Final Shape for access to prismatics + 2 side quests for all the aspects/fragments
Did I miss anything crucial in this list? I'm not interested in unlocking trials at the moment - I'm not a big fan of PvP. If you have any tips on how to work through this list somewhat fast, I'm open for recommendations. Thanks! :)
Hey guys!
I was wondering what the more efficient/fun strats for farming the solstice bounties would be, since I generally find Bonfire Bash okayish (it's my first solstice since 2019, I think), but it does get tiresome after 10 rounds.
Since the 5 and 15 alloy bounties can technically be completed everywhere, I was wondering if I could farm up enough leaves to just play strikes/gambit or even blind well/whatever other public stuff with a lot of supers exists? I'm not super knowledgeable since I've only come back to destiny recently, so any tips would be appreciated! :D
- kotaku.com Bungie Hit By Layoffs And Massive Restructuring Despite Success Of Destiny 2: The Final Shape
The renowned studio is becoming more embedded within Sony and spinning off one of its teams
Not a good look for Bungie or Sony. Bungie management needs to go but at this point I feel like that will lead to a full takeover by Sony who aren't any better.
EDIT: I keep getting redirected to The Root when I try to scroll on this link. I think it's an issue with the site.
EDIT 2: Another article about those who were laid off: https://kotaku.com/bungie-ceo-layoffs-locked-account-destiny-pete-parsons-1851610118
Pete Parsons is a fucking coward.
Hey guys!
For a bit more context:
I played A LOT of Destiny a couple years ago, up until the forsaken DLC (and a teeny tiny bit of the annual pass, wasn't really my cup of tea). I dropped the game hard due to bungie sunsetting content - something I entirely despise (and still do to this day). Gotta fuel my gaming addiction tho and after playing some similar games recently, I got the old itch again...
I used to be a pretty casual-PvE player, only raid I completed was the Last Wish. I enjoyed the story missions and just grinding on strikes/nightfalls, sometimes I even enjoyed gambit (shocker, I know) and just vibing in patrol and doing public events. Getting gear and exotics, upgrading them, completing bounties, etc.
Is this all still feasible at the moment? Will I miss out on epic stuff if I wait on buying the latest dlc (what I know of Prisma does sound pretty cool) or the episodes (like hell I'm gonna shell out 50€ for 3 episodes of content that could disappear in a year)?
Also, any general tips, suggestions or other insights, stuff to focus on when starting completely new characters (which is my current plan, I could import my old chars, but not sure yet).
If nothing else: what are your favorite builds? Meta and off-meta suggestions welcome, I like experimenting with stuff. :D
TL;DR: see title
Just wanted to get some friendly conversation going :)
TL;DR:
- Crucible Updates Coming in August:
- Map weighting towards newer and more popular maps
- Lobby balancing changes
- Updated quitter system
- Nerf to Threaded Specter and Swarm grenades (PVP only)
- Trials Passage of Persistence doesn't take away wins when in a 3-stack
- Comp Clash score to win decreased
- Better spawn logic on Collision
- Tribute removed from Iron Banner
- Increased rewards for all Crucible
- Spawns on bigger maps have been pushed closer together.
- There's a lot of detail about all the Crucible changes if you want to go read more.
- Exotic Class item Drop Rates
- Increasing chances while in Pale Heart to a stacking bonus until a drop happens.
- Random Pale heart chests drop rate decreased to encourage Overthrow participation. (Probably also to prevent AFK farming with Macros.)
- Weekly challenge to Dual Destiny for a double drop per Character.
- More tuning to come in the future. Team is aware of the negativity around farming these.
- Brave Weapon Attunement returning at Zavala
- Crucible Updates Coming in August:
Alt: A "know the difference" meme. On the left is a sniper rifle from the videogame Destiny 2 called Cloudstrike. On the right is a Windows bluescreen labeled with Crowdstrike.
Personally, last wish will always have a special place in my heart, climbing the spire to kill a dragon will never not be cool. Least favorite I think would have to be garden, despite how pretty it is.
TL:DR: This TWID is all about IRL community related stuff you can participate in to get emblems and other swag. I am personally not very interested in that kind of stuff but check it out if you are as some of it looks pretty cool and goes to good causes.
Hi folks, what sorts of things have you been doing on destiny lately? What are you finding fun?
I thought the new campaign was good, but I'm increasingly finding it difficult to put time into Destiny post campaign. The gunplay is still great but ... the game has felt repetitive and little frustrations like ambiguity about how you get the new exotic class items just really are getting on my nerves. I spent probably 4 hours today redoing the same overthrow and feeling to get the wizards to spawn.
I don't mean for this to be a negative post, but yeah; what do you enjoy about Destiny the most in 2024? Anyone here having similar feelings about the game?