Mazerunner posted:

thing is there's not really an easy "here's the deal" type info dump. it's all different stories kind of dark souls style

there's this youtube guy Byf who did like a 4 hour video dealing with everything but eff that

oh yeah, there's ishtar collective. They collate like all the lore availabe from D1 and D2. You can search by topic and whatnot, it's good if you want to delve into a particular subject.

quick recap:

This big white space cueball called the Traveler with magic powers came to the solar system. It went around terraforming the planets and moons and asteroids and stuff. Humanity studied that power (the Light) and entered an advanced golden age.

One of the things they did was start making Exos, the robot people, which are actually humans in cryostorage with their minds flash-saved to robot bodies. The number after their name is how many times the robot body died and they got re-flashed. They lose memory and get a new personality? So Ada-1, the black armoury lady has never been reset. Banshee has been reset 44 times and has robo alzheimers.

The Vex also started appearing. They are time traveling robots who do weird time travel robot stuff. They turned Mercury into a massive machine that can simulate anything, but mostly it simulates hallways, and started doing that to venus, mars, the moon Io and the centaur Nessus. Most of this might have been later on though, after the collapse.

Humans also made an AI warmind called Rasputin.

Then the Darkness came (which are I guess big black space triangles) and hosed poo poo up and humanity collapsed. Rasputin realized it couldn't win and went to sleep until better conditions arose (ie. the player character appeared in D1). The Traveler usually runs from the Darkness but this time didn't. If you hear rumours that Rasputin forced that decision by force, don't listen, that's slanderous lies spread by a certain dick. The Traveler got damaged during the fight with the Darkness and definitely not any russian AIs, and went to sleep also, but made the Ghosts to open doors to find mighty warriors to ressurect and give space magic to. When people first started getting resurrected, they were called the Risen. Many were dicks, and became warlords and mercenaries and what not. Drifter is from around this time. Then a group banded together under the Iron Banner, and killed the warlords and were chill. People started building a city underneath the Traveler, and Risen who went there started protecting it, and became known as Guardians. Now new risen just kind of end up guardians by default since it's the largest collection of 'em.

Also when the darkness showed up, the Traveler let out a pulse of light, which met the dark and made a singularity, which sucked up a colony ship. Those colonists turned blue. These are the Awoken, space elves who lived in a magic time singularity for eons, then some of them, led by their Queen Mara Sov and her brother Uldren who is a dick, came back. They did a thing and some of the Fallen allied with them, and they built a space prison and filled it with bodies and gold. As you do. They also built a recreation of part of their previous singularity-home, and put a magic wish-dragon in there, as you do.

Some other races showed up too:

The Fallen (or Eliksni) were actually the previous race the Traveler visited, but when the Darkness showed up in their version of the collapse (the whirlwind) it ran. The Fallen are scavengers and remnants of a once great civilization. They want the Traveler back, but since we keep kicking their asses, some of them at least are willing to be try being peaceful. They survive off of 'ether', the white gas that goes when you headshot them. Only the servitor machines can make ether. They used to be separated into different Houses, but after the rear end kicking of D1 they banded together in desperation. They also used to do a thing called docking, where the penis goes in the other penis lower castes have one set of arms removed, but they can grow it back if worthy. They stopped doing that in D2.

The Hive worship the Darkness and are probably the closest to straight up evil. There's a whole thing about their history called the books of sorrow, look that up. It's good and weird! We killed one of their main leaders, Oryx, his two sons and two daughters, his best bro, his dog and now his grand daughter. Now one of his sisters is coming after us too. They also worship the Worm Gods, which are attuned to the Darkness. We maybe killed one and but it turned itself into a gun for us to use, so, you know. They have infested the Moon.

In the past, before D1, an army of guardians went to the moon to fight the Hive, but got hosed up by Crota real bad. So bad they just called it 'the Great Disaster' and banned going to the Moon for a while. A fireteam (6) guardians went to the moon anyway looking for revenge, but they got hosed up too. The only survivor was Eris Morn, who lost her ghost and her eyes. She replaced her eyes with hive eyes, I guess, and was lost in the moon tunnels for years then came back, and then left again, and then came back again. She's very goth. The other 'survivor' was Toland, who was a real Hive lore nerd. He died so hard that he just kept right on going, and is now in an alternate dimension watching us shoot and loot. He thinks we're idiots and he's not wrong, but really, he's just a white ball and we have cool guns, so, who's the real winner here?

Oryx was so powerful he killed a Worm for real probably, and took it's power to Take. This means he could suck poo poo into the Dark dimension and then return it as a spooky palette swapped zombie with ANNOYING POWERS STOP MULTIPLYING STOP SHIELDING STOP BOOPING STOP TELEPORTING STOP BLINDING JESUS ahem. Sorry. After Oryx's death(?) in D1, the Taken were maybe leaderless, but now maybe not so much?

The Cabal are definitely-not-space-marines. They had an Emperor Calus, who valued art and poo poo, but the military (led by Ghaul) deposed of him and exiled him on the giant planet eating leviathan battleship. Which, odd choice of space jail but ok. They set it to go to the edge of the universe. Calus looked into the abyss and became a real nihilist. Now he parties hard everyday, slathers enough gold on everything to make Trump look restrained, wants to be the last living thing in the universe, and wants to collect cool bros to chill with him till the end. Also, get revenge on Ghaul. He thinks guardians are the best and commissions fanfic about them.

Ghaul leads the Red Legion. He's a dick. But he's got an inferiority complex maybe? He wants the Light.

The Vex also found this... place. The Black Garden, which maybe isn't so much a place or a time as... an idea. They found a connection to the Darkness there, and worship it. This was the final (underwhelming) boss of vanilla D1. Now they are up to something again, in the new raid and season events.

You might see the Scorn as well. The Scorn are Fallen that got turned into hellraiser bondage zombies due to shenanigans. They killed Cayde-6, who was voiced by Nathan Fillion, so mostly everyone loved him except some who did not. They were led by Uldren the Dick, and you loving them up in return is the plot of the Forsaken dlc. There's more to it but,

Anyway there's many more characters and factions and stuff but that's the main thrust of things. Probably the other plotline to follow is Rose/Thorn/Last Word. It's some good western type stuff, you know, the man with the big gun takes on the black hat. But there's some developments in D2 that are like, huh, especially in regards to gambit and the drifter. If you got a question about something specific ask away.

Ciaphas posted:

i know the campaigns aren't worth much, but is the Shadowkeep campaign at least hanging around ?

super sweet best pal posted:

Yeah, they're the goals for the easter egg that gives the Quickness buff. They're usually pillars of white light but there's some kind of bug that's giving an afterglow.

Oxyclean posted:

Also, once you get an aspect, you can get weekly quests for fragments, with a choice between vanguard, gambit and crucible.

The Vanguard ones feel like they're gonna be grindy. Have to be done in strikes, and one of my reqs needs champions. (90 Super Final Blows, 80 Shatter Final Blows, 35 Stasis Melee Kills) and (100 Solar Final, 10 Champions Defeated with Stasis, 50 Slowed Combatants Defeated)

DancingShade posted:

Just do regular public events, lost sectors and such. Even every blue is a power upgrade.

LeafyOrb posted:

So Europa Enforcer 3 isn’t counting power weapon kills for me for some reason (the purple variks mission).

Deeturbomber posted:

My friend was complaining about that. Range is weird, very slow dash, etc.

Titan's the only class I haven't screwed with yet. Not exactly looking forward to it, the way people are talking.

Snuffman posted:

I like reading Ishtar Collective, so um...I've got some bad news about Clovis. I thought the reveal was pretty lame and just made the universe feel even smaller than it did before.

I won't spoil it here, just go read it for yourself.

Deeturbomber posted:

Oxyclean posted:

Back in the Thunderlord quest, we went to the Cosmodrome and it was snowy and in a part that doesn't look like the area that's back in now - what's the deal with that? Custom area for that quest? Or is it part of the Plaguelands or whatever part of cosmodrome that isn't in yet?

super sweet best pal posted:

They play at like 1 FPS on my old computer, which causes the game to kick me out of the mission. Old cutscenes like the Shadowkeep intro play just fine, so whatever they're doing for the new ones broke everything.

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

? I’ve been using my seventh seraph shotgun with trench barrel and it runs out after a few seconds like normal. Does it linger after the buff leaves the screen or something?

Oxyclean posted:

Oh right, well it might be slightly harder to get people to do them then otherwise since they don't have powerfuls. (And I don't really hear much about the guns?) But I imagine there's probably people down to do them in overchill since there were people do to leviathan long after it was "relevant."

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

The hunt stuff has started already, not that the servers seem to be able to handle it

Phoix posted:

I haven't played in ages so when my quests sent me into Gambit and the game ended after a single round I actually said out loud "holy poo poo it's playable now".

Coldforge posted:

The boss melting instantly is a bug related to stasis freezing, isn't it? Not a gambit thing, just a bug people are abusing.

RBX posted:

How is any of that bad.

You guys support sunsetting bit somehow a whole new game with a not lovely engine full of bugs and new armor and weapons and enemies is worse than the same mess with the same reskinned enemies and useless loot?

RBA Starblade posted:

Lol do nightfalls not guarantee a powerful upgrade anymore? My reward was a single blue piece of armor at the end.

Mill Village posted:

Did you and your pubbies not have any champion mods? Also the Hydra during the boss fight is a bullet sponge for some reason. Its usually not dead until near the end of the fight.

Dark_Swordmaster posted:

I'm 1210 at the moment, getting up to actual-1230, let alone 1240 before Tuesday is probably not something I can do? I'm doing all the weeklies and bounties and everything but I don't think I can get up that high that quick.

Correct me if I'm wrong: Contest mode was 1230 raid, light capped at 1210, right? So "in theory" 1210 is the bare minimum to do the content?


I was hoping to play blind with my usual group but since that's not happening and I'm already a sandbag when I know what I'm doing I suppose a guide is in order.

Codeacious posted:

Good Lord, Lament is insane. Did they feel bad that they nerfed Falling Guillotine or something? At least it takes the exotic slot but I don't ever see myself running another heavy weapon in 1280 content, unless the boss really calls for it.

Psycho Landlord posted:

Icewall nade will apply the overload status but you have to actually catch the champ directly in the wall generation, which also freezes it so it's kind of a moot point.

Sultan Tarquin posted:

I just I knew if the new hunter arms are bugged. It says repeated precision hits give your stasis melee unstoppable but I've never had it work or trigger.

Mesadoram posted:

RNGesus has heard my cries

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

wat???

Mill Village posted:

I swear I've been frozen by one hunter melee. I know Titan's Stasis melee usually kills you, but both classes still have grenades that freeze you way longer than the 1.35 seconds Warlocks get now.