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That's underselling the Kohm, too - it's a neat design that ramps up the number of pellets per shot (and the fire speed) over the first few shells, for a shotgun that encourages sustained fire. Hm. Could go reacquaint myself with my Warframe arsenal and see what's "cool ideas that would work in Destiny's design space".
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SkyeAuroline posted:Hm. Could go reacquaint myself with my Warframe arsenal and see what's "cool ideas that would work in Destiny's design space". So whereas in Warframe you can have a gun like the Amprex or Arca Plasmor, where you point it in a direction and everything is instantly stripped of its damage resistence and then mulched into a fine paste, that kind of stuff would be drat near impossible to balance for Crucible. In WF it doesn't matter because you're on the same team as the person shooting it, you all benefit. One of the things you can ge away with is AoE effects and effects that spread to other enemies on kill like Dragonfly, since you're unlikely to come across players clustering together, and if you do they kind of deserve whatever they get.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 05:55 |
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Picked up the hand cannon from Xur and wow it's fun as hell.Bobby Deluxe posted:Part of the problem is that Destiny is insistent on maintaining the same experience between PvP and PvE. Funny enough, the Arca Plasmor is one of the first things I'd go to as a Destiny gun - "slug shotgun" with a much larger hitbox in exchange for other drawbacks (maybe the original-AP thing of "no headshots", in this case no precision shots?). Kuva Quartakk would also sit right at the top of my list since "different fire mode on aim" is an established exotic mechanic.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 07:09 |
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This season pass is going so quickly - I hope there is some more story style stuff coming as I really enjoy lore in games and the levels of sass coming from Crow towards Saladin is great. I just finished Disco Elysium so now I need something else to help scratch a deep story itch. Suggestions very welcome.
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ClydeFrog posted:Suggestions very welcome.
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ClydeFrog posted:This season pass is going so quickly - I hope there is some more story style stuff coming as I really enjoy lore in games and the levels of sass coming from Crow towards Saladin is great. I just finished Disco Elysium so now I need something else to help scratch a deep story itch. Suggestions very welcome. Story in Destiny is somewhat like story in Dark Souls: the stuff playing out on screen is by far the least interesting part of the overall story. It doesn't help that the writing for base D2 was rather cringey and there are still bits and pieces of that floating about.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 17:39 |
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ClydeFrog posted:Suggestions very welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mbDXvDNqTU
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ClydeFrog posted:This season pass is going so quickly - I hope there is some more story style stuff coming as I really enjoy lore in games and the levels of sass coming from Crow towards Saladin is great. I just finished Disco Elysium so now I need something else to help scratch a deep story itch. Suggestions very welcome. Cyberpunk 2077 is good for 100+ hours of solid storycraft. Also Baldur’s Gate 3 if you’re into swords. Edit: I almost forgot The Outer Worlds. Very cool and good storytelling.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 17:58 |
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ClydeFrog posted:This season pass is going so quickly - I hope there is some more story style stuff coming as I really enjoy lore in games and the levels of sass coming from Crow towards Saladin is great. I just finished Disco Elysium so now I need something else to help scratch a deep story itch. Suggestions very welcome. Do the Presage mission to get Dead Man's Tale and then be impatient and read all the datamined lore at once: https://www.ishtar-collective.net/categories/book-captains-log
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 19:22 |
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XBenedict posted:Cyberpunk 2077 is good for 100+ hours of solid storycraft. Also Baldur’s Gate 3 if you’re into swords. I was going to criticize you for recommending a buggy mess of a game that released before it was ready, but this is the destiny thread, so, glass houses and what not. ClydeFrog posted:This season pass is going so quickly - I hope there is some more story style stuff coming as I really enjoy lore in games and the levels of sass coming from Crow towards Saladin is great. I just finished Disco Elysium so now I need something else to help scratch a deep story itch. Suggestions very welcome.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 19:34 |
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ClydeFrog posted:This season pass is going so quickly - I hope there is some more story style stuff coming as I really enjoy lore in games and the levels of sass coming from Crow towards Saladin is great. I just finished Disco Elysium so now I need something else to help scratch a deep story itch. Suggestions very welcome. Pretty much anything from Supergiant is a solid bet. Bastion, Transistor, and HADES are all absolutely stellar games with amazing stories.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 19:35 |
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This thread:
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 19:55 |
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McLarenF1 posted:This thread: Business as usual. Anywhere worth checking for what exotics are "good"? Building up a collection and I like using most all of them, but still figuring out what to sink time into chasing catalysts/etc for.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 19:59 |
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All things are a mix of good and bad hth
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 20:02 |
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Fair enough. So far I'm enjoying:
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 20:25 |
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SkyeAuroline posted:Business as usual. Trinity Ghoul gets the 'most improved' award once you slap the catalyst on it.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 20:35 |
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SkyeAuroline posted:Probably hate something that's secretly great and love something that's secretly terrible, but that's okay! not as much
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 20:38 |
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Kith posted:not as much I mostly play mid solar Titan, top solar Hunter, and one of the void warlock trees (don't remember which, haven't played since new season) for context. Dune and Wormgod both didn't seem to work with the thrown hammer, though maybe the former has been fixed? Wardcliff for PVP makes sense, and since I mostly do Gambit for PVP it pulls nice double duty for clearing groups; I've just been disappointed in its performance against single large targets in PVE and that's what I'd use rockets for normally. Got a very good Falling Guillotine roll that's been sitting in that slot to let me use exotics elsewhere. Insight's appreciated!
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 20:46 |
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Sunbracers' time to shine is using top tree in strikes with either grenadier or brawler active, obviously best with solar singe. Nuking whole encounters from above with a field of giant solar spheres is extremely satisfying, and if done right you'll still have your grenade and melee abilities fully charged once you're done. Top tree dawnblade's melee is extremely useful in general, and aerial kills will refund a huge chunk of energy.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 20:53 |
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Wormgod has always worked with the hammer, that's where all those clips of people just doming entire teams with the same hammer come from.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 20:58 |
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Good to know, I'll have to revisit it once I've got more time to spread around my characters. Nerve/muscle issues in my hands have been getting worse so I only get an hour or two a day to sink in now, I've been almost exclusively playing the Titan since she's highest LL with most of my exotic stockpile. also because the armor just keeps getting weirder for her while the other two can't get a consistent look
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 20:59 |
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Paracelsus posted:Sunbracers' time to shine is using top tree in strikes with either grenadier or brawler active, obviously best with solar singe. Nuking whole encounters from above with a field of giant solar spheres is extremely satisfying, and if done right you'll still have your grenade and melee abilities fully charged once you're done. Top tree dawnblade's melee is extremely useful in general, and aerial kills will refund a huge chunk of energy. you don't even need brawler or grenadier. It's my go-to for gambit matches, you can clear groups insanely quickly, and with ashes to assets (x2) you can get super up crazy fast. It does fall apart if you get paired with actually good teammates who scoop the kills, or the mob composition is all beefy boys who don't die to grenades though
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 21:24 |
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the moral of the story is that exotic equipment is a land of contrasts
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 21:49 |
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Mazerunner posted:you don't even need brawler or grenadier. It's my go-to for gambit matches, you can clear groups insanely quickly, and with ashes to assets (x2) you can get super up crazy fast. Or worse, beefy boys who don't die to the first melee attack. One of the annoying parts of Gambit is how many of the enemies are beefy enough that add clear strategies can't fire off.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 21:49 |
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Mazerunner posted:you don't even need brawler or grenadier. It's my go-to for gambit matches, you can clear groups insanely quickly, and with ashes to assets (x2) you can get super up crazy fast. I did have a serendipitous moment where a 3-stack I was paired with saw what I was doing and let me get my grenade chain going. Ended that match with 77 combatants killed, and we won handily.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 22:37 |
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Oof, the pvp population numbers are down about 50% compared to 2nd season of year 3
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 23:04 |
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Oof, the pvp population numbers are down about 50% compared to 2nd season of year 3 For PC specifically, or including consoles? PC has a way bigger hacking problem.
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# ? Feb 21, 2021 00:13 |
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Oof, the pvp population numbers are down about 50% compared to 2nd season of year 3 What are you using for historical comparison? I know Warmind.io has the 'current activity snapshot' and steamdb.io can show historical data for concurrent user, but it'd be cool to look for activity-specific trends over time.
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# ? Feb 21, 2021 00:39 |
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Discospawn posted:But I bet the Gambit & Strike population have exploded in comparison! I'd rather mess around in gambit and fire off Truth a bunch of times than go into crucible to do those, even though it probably takes longer
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# ? Feb 21, 2021 00:41 |
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Discospawn posted:I like the absurdity of PvP players abandoning Crucible as they try to farm god rolls on the activity-specific weapons. Roman posted:recent quest steps have been "kill x guardians" instead of "kill x guardians in the crucible" edit: speaking of gambit, Drifter quit your poo poo SkyeAuroline fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Feb 21, 2021 |
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Oxyclean posted:Are you looking for more stuff in a similar style to Destiny in the sense that there's like, a bunch of deep lore you gotta youtube/wiki dive for? Or like, do you just want a game with a good story? For the latter, I have zero experience with it, but I've been seeing a lot of raving for 13 Sentinels, but I think it PlayStation exclusive. I've enjoyed listening to some of the podcasts where the lore is read out as I rattle about at home. I've become somewhat averse to silence so filling my head with tales of melodramatic space wizardry has been soothing. I wish they wouldn't parcel it out so meanly by having to collect scraps of it here and there. It feels thinly smeared across the top. My fave parts of the game are definitely when I feel caught up in something. I played the crap out of Baldurs Gate etc and games like Half Life and FFVII had story beats in them that I still remember making me go "oh holy poo poo" at the time. Disco Elysium was also extremely impactful at moments. And ofc sometimes I just want to shoot a thing so I play Black Ops and giggle when I'm exhorted to "make the CIA proud". I get that not every game is going to be world changing, but with such a great backstory it's a shame some of it feels shallow. Some good suggestions from others as well, thank you (gonna check BG3). I went and got the scout rifle. It is absolutely gorgeous, I'm going back tomorrow to get a proper roll on it and now I'm going to go read that lore.
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# ? Feb 21, 2021 04:08 |
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ClydeFrog posted:I've enjoyed listening to some of the podcasts where the lore is read out as I rattle about at home. I've become somewhat averse to silence so filling my head with tales of melodramatic space wizardry has been soothing. You could load them in youtube and listen to them that way but then you have to keep fiddling about with keeping the screen on or pay for youtube premium.
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# ? Feb 21, 2021 05:28 |
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ClydeFrog posted:This season pass is going so quickly - I hope there is some more story style stuff coming as I really enjoy lore in games and the levels of sass coming from Crow towards Saladin is great. I just finished Disco Elysium so now I need something else to help scratch a deep story itch. Suggestions very welcome. May I humbly recommend The Four-Part Novel Series Baru Cormorant?
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# ? Feb 21, 2021 06:24 |
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Major server issues atm, I've seen reports of power outages near Bungo HQ.
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# ? Feb 21, 2021 06:39 |
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Paracelsus posted:Major server issues atm, I've seen reports of power outages near Bungo HQ. I'm "near Bungo HQ". There is no power outage, the servers are just hosed. The Puget Sound Energy map showing an outage that's making the rounds on twitter is clearly dated "2/18/2021" fwiw Kesper North fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Feb 21, 2021 |
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SkyeAuroline posted:[*] Graviton Lance & Hard Light (grouped because same reason - just don't do much useful that regular legendaries don't for me) Both good PvE weapons. Grav is super on a voidlock build with Nezerac’s Sin and scatter grenades. Hard Light is good in certain situations, like nightfalls for example, where you might encounter enemy shields of varying element type. You are a Supercunt if you use it in PvP and will be rightly disowned by the community. With the catalyst it essentially becomes a trace rifle.
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# ? Feb 21, 2021 08:16 |
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Hard Light hasn't been good in PvP for like two maybe three seasons, no one cares if you use it now.
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# ? Feb 21, 2021 08:18 |
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yeah IIRC they changed the lore on Hard Light to coincide with damage dropoff nerf.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:My Name is BYF would be a great one if he launched some of his lore videos in podcast form, but he hasn't as far as I'm aware. They'd probably work better in podcast form as well, given that it's usually just him reading things out in his lovely voice. I do love those even if he occasionally gets his intonations and emphasis a little arse about face. I hadn't realised he'd done so many on YouTube so thank you. Does anyone know why the ones on Spotify now just say "I'm sorry these weren't my videos?" Baru number one made me quite heartsick for a while. Not read the others yet. Battuta pretty please write Destiny Books because your lore is *chef's kiss* and is an amazing part of the game. Doing scout rifle again today - super recommend Dead Space Destiny ClydeFrog fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Feb 21, 2021 |
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Shooting people behind cover with hardlight ricochets is just the best.
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