☁☂☁ OFFICIAL DESTINY 2 THREAD ☁☂☁ "Spot sold to Morton's: When it rains it pours"

**Vikingblood666** · 10-08-2018, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by blank98

I jumped to Warframe when Destiny 2 turned out to be complete dog ****. According to steam I've played for 354 hours. I got through all the planets, all the missions, acquired probably 60% of the Warframes by getting all the parts, never bought a Warframe with Plat. I spent around $80cdn on Platinuim which I dont regret. Originality I told myself id stop at 80 as that's the price for a new game as well as supporting Digital Extreams. THe game is free to play and honestly they are very fair imo on the whole f2p model. I began to realize although the gameplay is fun, not as fun as Destiny imo. It just gets out of the control with all the grinding you have to do to get certain weapons or Warframes and it consumes your life and I knew it would just never end, It was honestly bad for my health I think. So I just stopped completely and luckily went back to Destiny 2 when Warmind came out and I knew that the game was heading in the right direction. NOw that Forsaken is out the game imo is the best its ever been. Bungie has managed to completely turn the game around.

i know these feels. Warframe honestly makes me wanna spend $ for convenience dangerous for me.

**rdwire88** · 10-09-2018, 03:07 AM

Originally Posted by cncman

that's called not playing objectives

I did play the objective lol. I got just as many captures as everyone else..

**armyr0b** · 10-09-2018, 07:42 AM

BRO's...i need help. i finally hit 501 light and lvl 50. everything that drops is a 500. How do i upgrade all my gear?

**Milamber** · 10-10-2018, 05:22 AM

just play normally till you hit 540 light which is the soft cap for blue gear, dont wast your time infusing yet you are going to need those cores for down the road.

after that only powerful engrams, prime engrams and exotics will drop higher + occasionally t4 blind well and the raid.

**cncman** · 10-10-2018, 08:22 AM

Weeklies and dailies provide a LOT of powerful engrams. you'll probably find a prime every day too

Its slow but not. Idk

**VoxExMachina** · 10-11-2018, 08:59 PM

Finally hit 600 on all 3 characters. The grind is real.

Also...

**cncman** · 10-12-2018, 08:11 AM

^^ mirin dedication. I was killed by a 598 while iron banner was on, no idea how it was possible

**poonpounder311** · 10-13-2018, 03:48 PM

For those of you that don’t raid this is a legit way to get 1 chest every week. After getting it down your first time it takes maybe 5-10 min. You can do it on all 3 characters. I got an auto rifle a Titan helm and a warlock glove this week. I haven’t tried doing the second chest.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rwqhz-j9g8

This shows a different way to jump to the bridge. I think it’s faster and easier for all 3 classes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ghdniCCFg0

**metallicide** · 10-15-2018, 09:52 AM

two 600s checking in. Still no 1k voices yet... and no year 2 exotics... my rng is crap

**TBO1313** · 10-22-2018, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by metallicide

two 600s checking in. Still no 1k voices yet... and no year 2 exotics... my rng is crap

The only one I've gotten is Lord of Wolves. Hardly anyone in my clan has any. A couple of people have gotten the Cerberus +1 and one guy has the 2 tailed fox but thats it. I don't think anyone has gotten any of the armors

**cncman** · 10-23-2018, 08:25 AM

lol tried to do all the weeklies monday night. with IB and the festival and the stupid gambit weekly it took all night and I didn't finish

**doofusdave** · 10-24-2018, 01:44 PM

Anyone grind Festival of the Lost enough to get Horror Story? Wondering if it is actually worth the grind.

**Drufeus** · 10-25-2018, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by doofusdave

Anyone grind Festival of the Lost enough to get Horror Story? Wondering if it is actually worth the grind.

Easy grind and decent auto rifle.

**Bcider** · 10-25-2018, 08:55 PM

Got my Not Forgotten. Feels like 1,000 pounds have been lifted off my shoulders.

**Suzubrah** · 10-29-2018, 06:03 AM

Originally Posted by Bcider

Got my Not Forgotten. Feels like 1,000 pounds have been lifted off my shoulders.

How long did it take you?
I couldn't even be arsed with Luna's Howl at the moment, looking at what you need to do for it... I enjoy occasional PVP, but it's mostly a sweatfest even in QP at the moment.. the amount of 6-man-stacks I've face there is astounding.. Luckily I'm in and out in 5 matches for the weekly, and a match or 2 a day for the Prime and some bounties..

I do enjoy Gambit for some odd reason though.. Looking at all the flak that it's been getting on the bungie forums, you'd think it's completely f*cked..

Also, to anyone struggling to gain light-levels around 530's, get that FotL Horror-Story auto-rifle.. it's 600 and MW'd, meaning that you're legendary drops are likely to increase a little bit as well.
Prime engrams will for sure, so will the powerful rewards. The rifle itself ain't that bad either for PvE.

**cncman** · 10-29-2018, 07:26 AM

Originally Posted by Bcider

Got my Not Forgotten. Feels like 1,000 pounds have been lifted off my shoulders.

lol id never go for 200 headshot final blows in competetive

**TBO1313** · 11-13-2018, 12:18 PM

Anybody pick up Thunderlord yet?

**bstudhero** · 11-13-2018, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by TBO1313

Anybody pick up Thunderlord yet?

Don't think I even knew it was back lol. Quest I assume?

Any XbOne brahs trying to get in on that Luna grind?
I need some better pvp pals than my poverty friends.

**TBO1313** · 11-14-2018, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by bstudhero

Don't think I even knew it was back lol. Quest I assume?

Any XbOne brahs trying to get in on that Luna grind?
I need some better pvp pals than my poverty friends.

Sorry I'm a PS4 bro. Yeah its a quest that you get from Amanda. It will be gone after the 27th and it is completely OP. I used it for about an hour last night and it melted everything

**bstudhero** · 11-21-2018, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by TBO1313

Sorry I'm a PS4 bro. Yeah its a quest that you get from Amanda. It will be gone after the 27th and it is completely OP. I used it for about an hour last night and it melted everything

At you suggestion I got that thunderlord and geez...absolute monster.

**ZBlacktt** · 01-10-2019, 01:20 PM

First post of the year, lol. Anyhow, not sure who's dropping who here.

https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/De...hXpPUVe0pFqg9I

**IronILLinois** · 01-10-2019, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by ZBlacktt

First post of the year, lol. Anyhow, not sure who's dropping who here.

https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/De...hXpPUVe0pFqg9I

finally. Activision has got to go.

**VoxExMachina** · 01-10-2019, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by ZBlacktt

First post of the year, lol. Anyhow, not sure who's dropping who here.

https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/De...hXpPUVe0pFqg9I

Interesting....

I can't say that I feel this is guaranteed to be better, but feels like a step-in the right direction. Probably too many cooks in the kitchen over there at the moment.

**TBO1313** · 01-10-2019, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by ZBlacktt

First post of the year, lol. Anyhow, not sure who's dropping who here.

https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/De...hXpPUVe0pFqg9I

The original deal was for 10 years and 4 games with a major DLC in between each main game release. Activision probably got tired of bungie falling behind the deadlines. Maybe Bungie wants to build on D2 to make it a real MMO or D3 is going in a completely different direction with more RPG elements (like has been rumored) and Activision wants no part of that.

Edit: Just thought about something. Maybe Activision wanted them to gear the game to a younger crowd more willing to pay for microtransactions than the older playerbase that Destiny currently has. This would make sense considering how childish a lot of the dialog was in vanilla D2 and Curse of Osiris. Since Warmind and especially Foresaken they seem to have matured the story lines a lot and maybe Activision doesn't agree with that direction

**cncman** · 01-11-2019, 08:05 AM

this game is good now. Play it all the time like my TTK days. Activision leaving will keep me on board probably.
new content every month keeps the thing alive

**ZBlacktt** · 01-11-2019, 01:22 PM

Trying to get all 3 to 650 now.

**ZBlacktt** · 02-25-2019, 09:07 PM

D2 news

Even With Anthem’s Release, Destiny Continues to Reign as the King of Looter Shooters

Touted as the “next big thing” from esteemed developer BioWare, Anthem was all set to be one of the most anticipated and hyped up game releases of 2019. It featured an online multiplayer shared world system, and looked to have a similar end game grind loop to other MMO-like games such as Warframe and Destiny.

Even with the prestige of the BioWare name, however, Anthem hasn’t delivered, at least not at launch. And in failing to do so, it swivels the spotlight onto how absolutely incredible of a feat it has been for Destiny to remain relevant throughout the past four+ years.

Since 2014, the Destiny franchise has gone through several ups and downs. We’ve also seen the release of online looter shooter games like The Division, Fallout 76, and now Anthem, all games which were perceived as potential Destiny-killers.

Even so, Destiny has continued to prevail, precisely because despite its many missteps, Bungie still managed to nail down all of its cornerstones and fundamentals from day one. Which isn’t something you can say for Anthem.

As a game that was released four years after the original Destiny, BioWare should’ve been able to learn from Bungie’s mistakes and crafted a compelling looter game that was firing from all cylinders. And yet, it’s astounding to see the game so flawed in so many basic ways that you wouldn’t have expected.

At launch, Anthem’s basic menu systems are a complete, clunky catastrophe. The simple act of accessing your inventory while in the open world is straight up impossible, and when you’re in Fort Tarsis, you’re forced to walk to a certain spot, press a button, and sit through a loading screen to see it.

The act of changing your weapon loadout in Anthem is also straight up not something you can do in the open world. And again, you can only do it in Fort Tarsis, where you must walk to the Forge, press a button, and sit through a loading screen.

If the core appeal of Anthem is supposed to be the prospect of getting better loot as you progress, then the game utterly fails at indicating to you the items you’ve acquired during a mission. And that’s not even to mention the fact that actually getting to your loot after you’ve completed a mission is an unnecessarily long process.

At its very core, Bungie understands the importance of accessibility in a game like Destiny. Because your guns and armor are the very bones of the game, Bungie understands that players are going to want to have easy access to their collection at all times.

Compared to Anthem’s non-existent inventory system, Destiny allows players to take a limited number of weapons and gear pieces with them. Menu-ing is done with a simple tap of a button, and re-equipping your stuff is just a matter of hovering over the relevant slots and swapping out whatever you want, whenever you want, even in combat.

Perhaps more important is the fact that Destiny disguises its loading screens well by giving players the ability to do all the menu-ing and inventory spring cleaning while loading into the instance.

Anthem’s problem wasn’t its load times because, let’s be frank, Destiny 2 also has some pretty disgusting load times even today, as I wait to join a Strike in progress. The problem with Anthem was being forced to sit through generic and boring load screens for even the most basic things, and not being able to do anything while waiting.

When you access the Forge in Fort Tarsis to, I don’t know, change the color of your Javelin or something, you go through a load screen. When you go to the Launch Bay to meet other players hanging around the Fort, you go through a load screen. There are load screens for everything in Anthem.

Destiny gets around this issue by keeping players grounded in the game world while sitting in orbit, watching as ally ships join your matchmaking queue. If you don’t like that, you can use the time to dismantle your unwanted gear, check your current bounties and Milestones, check the map for ongoing Public Events, or spy your teammates’ equipment.

In Anthem, you just wait.

And we haven’t even gotten into the meat of the gameplay yet: the endgame grind. At the moment, Anthem’s endgame consists of chest farming and repeating Stronghold missions. Outside of that, there isn’t really anything else you can jump into. There’s no PvP to speak of, no Exotic quest equivalents to chase down.

By no means am I saying that Destiny is the perfect looter shooter game, but comparing Destiny to its direct competitors, you can’t deny that this game has its ducks mostly in a row.

Destiny 2 launched with several problems and even took a few steps backwards from the peak that was Rise of Iron, but the important content was there. There were a good number of Strikes to farm, there was the weekly Nightfall, there were a plethora of Adventures and Heroic Public Events to check out. And if none of that appealed to you, there was the Crucible.

A week later, there was a Raid to play in Destiny 2. Give it a bit more time, and the faction rally started, along with Iron Banner and Trials of the Nine. And we haven’t even talked about how fundamentally awesome Destiny’s basic shooting gunplay is, and how even that can be enough to keep the most casual players coming back every now and again.

BioWare has laid out a whole roadmap of planned features coming to Anthem soon, but the truth is, this game isn’t going to become a “Destiny-killer” anytime soon. It’s obvious that Anthem has yet to reach its true potential, and there’s still a chance it could eventually become a very good looter shooter game that might give Destiny a run for its money, but who knows if, or when that’s going to happen?

The fact of the matter is that Anthem was released as a bit of an unfinished and incomplete game. And in a market where companies have had time to study all of Destiny’s unfortunate missteps and lowest lows, that shouldn’t have happened at all.

Anthem needs to step it up, or Destiny’s just going to continue stealing all its players back once the novelty of the “next big thing” has worn off.

**USADave85** · 02-25-2019, 11:34 PM

Played D1 for 2 weeks at launch and got bored...came back around TTK and played the **** out of it with my buddies/GF.

Played D2 for a week at launch and got bored/was turned off by some of the changes from D1.

After playing Anthem the past few days, I got a craving for Destiny. Giving D2 another shot tomorrow. Going in dry.

**.aeterna** · 02-26-2019, 05:59 AM

got my Luna's on PC, solo queued all the way.

Next season...will try for Not Forgotten. Chit is rough though, especially when someone rage quits on your team

**ZBlacktt** · 02-26-2019, 10:10 AM

Raid along - just starting. Live stream at Bungie.

https://www.twitch.tv/bungie?fbclid=...RkeBW76zK64qA0

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