Destiny 2 [PS4/XBONE/PC] (Sept. 6, 2017)

[Obsidian]

Game Informer is putting out new information on D2.

Arcstrider:
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/de...rcstrider.aspx

Story:
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/de...direction.aspx

Ultimately, we do owe our players a story there – what is The Darkness? – but that’s not this game.

How the fuck did he say that with a straight face, lol.

"We owe our players a story. But that's not this game."

[Serra]

D2 will have Quickplay and Competitive modes, Luke Smith tells Game Informer.

"Quickplay is the place where you're going to find more party games - Control, Clash, Supremacy."

"Competitive play has two modes - one we're not talking about right now, and the other is Countdown. These are objective modes..."

https://twitter.com/CrucibleRadio/st...99876874915850

And yet the word ranked is apparently never mentioned, so no idea if it's just names or will actually mean something.

[Kaslo]

How the fuck did he say that with a straight face, lol.

"We owe our players a story. But that's not this game."

I'm pretty sure that's not what he's saying, you left something out. This isn't a story about what the darkness is, is what he is saying... But this is the internets so whatevs.

[PantsJunior]

I'm pretty sure that's not what he's saying, you left something out. This isn't a story about what the darkness is, is what he is saying... But this is the internets so whatevs.

Still, it is a little disappointing that the "main themes" of the series aren't going to be addressed in their first game with a substantial story to tell. I hope that's not the case, but it would be disappointing for them to just never actually cover the major elements and just do side stories. It's not like a TV show, where you can have several episodes going on their own stories each week and then come back to the main thread at the end of the season -- there's years and years between these games, so it's unlikely we'll ever get around to that stuff if things go as they are.

Nonetheless, it's going to be a story told with more purpose than the first game. Regardless of what that story is about, I'm excited to see it play out.

[Kaslo]

Destiny 2 dropping September 6th on Playstation.

EDIT: and XBONE (according to Luke Smith)

[Serra]

Takeaways from the new trailer:
Gary has no helm.
Enemies speaking English reminds me of Halo 2 -- so hopefully we get some fun grunt-esque conversations as well.
Taken are back

PS Exclusive Stuff:
Strike: Lake of Shadows (Old Russia)
Gear (which will probably be blue, so meh)
Ship (another meh)
Exotic Weapon: Borealis (looks like it's got a similar effect to Zen Meteor)
PvP map: Retribution

[6souls]

[Kaslo]

Consoles 9/6 with beta 7/21. PC 10/24 with beta late August.

https://twitter.com/UrkMcGurk/status/874454847596019713

[Takiwaki]

Sigh I duno what to do now, get it on ps4 first and play with you guys then get pc after? long wait for pc

[Serra]

Watch, the game's releasing on Wednesday so Xur can sell Ghorn v2 on Friday.

[Obsidian]

I'm pretty sure that's not what he's saying, you left something out. This isn't a story about what the darkness is, is what he is saying... But this is the internets so whatevs.

I didn't leave out anything, I'm pointing out the absurdity of saying "we owe our players answers, but we're going to make them wait for them and give us another $60."

[Serra]

July 18: PlayStation 4 Pre-Order BETA

July 19: Xbox One Pre-Order BETA

July 21: Open BETA for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

July 23: Console BETA End-date

Late August: PC BETA

https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/45950

[6souls]

[Intrinsic]

If this game turns out to be good, I'll gladly wait extra time to not have to play at 30 FPS.

[Obsidian]

Their engine sucks or Sony forced them to have framerate parity.

[Serra]

Or it's the simpler explanation that they didn't want XB1X players to have an advantage over XB1 players -- which, btw, is in line with their philosophy from back in the PS3/360 days.

[Obsidian]

They have no problem with PC players having framerate advantages over other PC players. It's also not like they couldn't scale down the resolution to just hit 60 FPS on Xbox/PS4. If Halo 5 can do it and look like it does, Destiny really doesn't have an excuse. "But muh physics sims" is also a joke when you realize Battlefield 1 is doing destruction and bullet flight and still hits 60.

Either their engine sucks or somebody pressured them into parity. Either way the game should run at 60 FPS on all platforms and it doesn't, which is a failure that lies with Bungie and Bungie alone.

[6souls]

[Obsidian]

A little more story info from PC Gamer along with some other stuff: http://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2s-lu...es-and-more/2/

The more they talk about the story the more wary I am of the game and the franchise, honestly. If Luke Smith feels like they "wrapped up" the Exo Stranger in vanilla Destiny story, I don't really know what to say.

[Takiwaki]

PC it is