Destiny - 9/9/14 (PS3/PS4/X360/XB1)

[Krandor]

Sunset Overdrive is fucking awesome and I was all about the Snap feature last night to play that while watching Game 6.

Btw my Wed Vault group, I'll run it tonight but I think I'm done with this game after that. Paying 20 bucks for a single raid (because who gives a shit about strikes) is not my idea of a good time considering how many games are coming out soon.

[Serra]

Does anyone else do a lot of coding? Maybe I'm over-simplifying it, but I keep thinking I could write up a randomization program in less than 5 minutes..

Spoiler: show

Just to prove a point.. this took me 2:57.7 -- with notes.

gen shuffle = runiform() /* generates a randomly generated number between 0 and 1 taken from a uniform distribution */
sort shuffle /* sorts players based on shuffle from smallest to largest */
keep if alive==1 /* players who are dead would be dropped from the process at this point */
gen order = _n /* based on the player's position in the sort, generates an order variable */
gen stay =0 /* creates the initial stay variable */
replace stay =1 if order >=4 /* any player with an order less than 3 gets a sent value */

At this point, the command to send the players based on the stay variable occurs and the command would drop all the variables so it could run it again.

Now, admittedly, this was done in a different program than what Bungie is using (and was done in a program designed for statistical analysis..), but still. Something like this is simple (although it technically has one extra line that's unnecessary), and I feel would avoid some of the problems that we're experiencing.. I just don't get it..

[Moss]

Anyone else having trouble with the new rest feature for ps4? My fucking ps4 wont turn on
dumb ass update. had to unplug and replug it
Anyone able to help my level 17 run some hard mode dungeons for bonus xp?

really just knock out the bounties and do the story missions as high as possible but not over your level, does not take long to hit 20 in this game. I leveled mainly from bounties on my alt, so by the time I did story missions I was way overleveled and could do the max level version for a ton of exp

[Serra]

Sunset Overdrive is fucking awesome and I was all about the Snap feature last night to play that while watching Game 6.

Btw my Wed Vault group, I'll run it tonight but I think I'm done with this game after that. Paying 20 bucks for a single raid (because who gives a shit about strikes) is not my idea of a good time considering how many games are coming out soon.

I've said it before, but as someone who spent years playing FFXI, to me, these expansions seem less like expansions and more like the major updates. The difference, Bungie is charging us for the updates and not charging us a monthly fee. I don't know how XI is now, but I remember the content in those updates becoming more and more sparse as time went on (especially during WotG when they started doing DLC as well -- like when ACP (I think) came out and the update had the Fey weapons and like maybe 2 missions?).

[-Zer0-]

Tomorrow as in Thursday? I should be around.

Tomorrow as in, tonight!

[Krandor]

If we look at Destiny as a shooter, it's a decent amount of content for the price considering the standard map pack pricing in CoD/BF.

From an MMO PoV though it's probably like 2 hours worth of story, some normal mode dungeons, and one raid for what would generally come out as a free update every 2-3 months.

Crucible has never been of great interest to me and the story in this game has been shit so 20 bucks to run the same one piece of content over and over again just doesn't seem interesting to me. I've been sticking with it for Destiny because I already paid and I'm happy with my investment of $60 considering how much time I got out of it.

But I'm not gonna pay more money to just repeat the cycle (a week or two to learn the raid then just spamming it over and over so the same single piece of content gets easier)

[Dantrag]

So Destiny is going to cost something like 120 bucks by next year. I really did like it the first play through but I can't seem to even want to bother to try anymore. After this I'm actually happy that Bungie isn't doing the next Halo game.

[Obsidian]

Tomorrow as in, tonight!

Should be around tonight too but probably not until around 10-ish EST.

[Therin]

If it were an MMO you would have already dropped $36-45 in monthly fees by the time the expansion comes out.

I'm fine with this. Most shooters charge you for map packs.

[Krandor]

Bungie has a permanent place in my heart for the Marathon franchise (owned a Mac back in the day and Marathon is easily my favorite FPS series) but much like Infinity Ward the developers who made the games we love are long gone.

[Obsidian]

Several of them work at 343 Industries/for Microsoft, though.

[dejet]

Is it that much? Can't you get the expansion pack for 30? And you get everything.

[Dantrag]

If it were an MMO you would have already dropped $36-45 in monthly fees by the time the expansion comes out.

I'm fine with this. Most shooters charge you for map packs.

Content of an MMO vs this. Kind of a huge difference. That and the expansion comes out with content over a year. This is basically a content patch. I think most(not all) shooters had a longer/better story than Destiny. But apples and oranges.

[Zeb]

WTB 300+ relic iron. =/

[Krandor]

Is it that much? Can't you get the expansion pack for 30? And you get everything.

I do not buy season passes. If a game is still holding my attention as DLC trickles out I'm OK with a few more bucks spread out over a couple months then paying a lump sum up front of content I'll never play.

Even if there was no games coming out in November that I wasn't super hyped for, the DLC would barely last me more then a week before Guilty Gear drops and all my gaming time becomes property of Potemkin.

[Moss]

WTB 300+ relic iron. =/

my fave run: http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGa...n_farm_so_far/

[Zeb]

my fave run: http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGa...n_farm_so_far/

Yeah, been doing that. Still boring as fuck though

[Moss]

Yeah, been doing that. Still boring as fuck though

I once had a streak of 3 out of 4 HQ chests there.

But yes chest farming blows

[Mazmaz]

As the existing raid, Vault of Glass, unlocked some time after the release of Destiny, so will players have to wait for Crota's End to unlock soon after the release of The Dark Below.

The hell's the story behind this lol? They're just calling it ahead of time that they're gonna be lazy?

[Greedouw]

I'm a PS4 user, but isn't it kinda crazy that xboners are paying the same price as us for one less strike?