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

[Kaslo]

I'm worried I might not want to get on tomorrow since Fortnite is doing an Avengers event <,<

[Fiendishone]

I'm worried I might not want to get on tomorrow since Fortnite is doing an Avengers event <,<

What is this fortnite shit? God of War onry!!

[6souls]

What is this fortnite shit? God of War onry!!

Nah, Star Ocean 5 onry!

[Takiwaki]

[Serra]

Figure I'd get a start on this early -- anyone on PS4 going to be around for the new raid lair on Friday? I believe I should be free that afternoon, so looking to build a group to go in totally blind, like usual. First come, first serve, conditional on LL, etc -- I assume we'll need to be at least 340, but could see it being higher.

[6souls]

Sadly, Fridays are a terrible gaming day for me. Typically busy until 9 pm ct.

[Wulfgang]

I should be around Friday, just need to get my LL up to snuff in time. All my characters are around 310-320 right now.

[Serra]

Sadly, Fridays are a terrible gaming day for me. Typically busy until 9 pm ct.

If it's like EoW, might be able to plan a second run for that evening.

[Kalmado]

I got a D2 key hanging around. PM me if you want it.

Obviously have some posts/activity I ain't giving it to someone who smells like onions.

Haha I haven't been nearly as active as before. Just had some things to iron out. My thing about D2, and most games like it, is putting in the time and then once a DLC comes out all you have done is irrelevant. That's what turned me off of XI. Not sure if I could sustain the grind of Destiny.

[Serra]

The nice (or bad, depending on your perspective) thing about Destiny is that infusion means the gear you previously grinded for doesn't have to become obsolete. On one hand, a piece of gear that took forever to get can still be relevant 3 years later, but it also means that there's less reason to grind for new stuff if that weapon can still carry you through everything (assuming you're not a collector).

[6souls]

I want to be a collector, but this game has an inventory issue. Warmind is adding 100 slots to the storage, but the 50 item limit on shaders and mods still hurts.

[Takiwaki]

You guys need to swap to PC ...; ;

[Wulfgang]

I enjoy couch pewpew-ing far too much to ever switch to PC. Same deal with Overwatch for me.

And @6souls, it's the mod system that drives me bananas. They need to change the system by slot; make an Arc grenade for all armor across classes...not one Arc grenade mod for Titan arms, one for Warlock arms, etc.

[Kalmado]

You guys need to swap to PC ...; ;

That's what I'd be on. I can still couch pew pew but would get destroyed most likely from using a controller. Ever since downsizing to a 32" monitor I am really enjoying FPS while using k/m.

I'm going to ask here since this thread has Destiny players active here and can answer. I'll apologize in advance if I'm shitting this thread up tho. So the "grind"...is it say 2006 praying for a Ridill grind? Or can I actually get stuff done if I only want to play for an hour or less? I thought Destiny was supposed to be like a 10 year game. Did that change and that's why D2 happened?

Thanks for informing my uninformed self.

[Serra]

So Destiny's grind is nowhere near as bad as XI's was. For a variety of reasons that I won't bore you with, drops are fairly easy to come by, so even if you only have an hour or less a week, you can work on things. Some things do take longer (like you can't do an entire raid in an hour), but there is plenty of content that is a smaller commitment.

I think it's still supposed to be a ten year game, but Bungie appears to be approaching it in the same way they approached the Halo franchise -- one entry every few years with a reset with each major release. Part of that is Bungie's fault, but part of it is also because of changes the community clamored for (and then promptly started bitching about).

[Kalmado]

Is the majority of BG Xbone/PS4?

[Myrrh_Quetz]

The best players are on Ps4.


Maint today? I finally have some free time but its saying Servers are down.

[6souls]

The best players are on Ps4.


Maint today? I finally have some free time but its saying Servers are down.

Warmind today, preload in 20 minutes.

[6souls]

Is the majority of BG Xbone/PS4?

PS4 for exclusive content.

[Serra]

Patch Notes:
https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/46849

Updating post..

Warmind Launch
Warmind is now available
Season 3 has begun

Player Character

General
Players who own Warmind may now reach level 30 and Power level 385

Emotes
Multi-emote is now available, and players can now configure all four emote options with player-selected emotes
Emotes are now stored on the Multi-Emote page of the character inventory
The emote collection has been removed from the Vault, as emotes are now stored on the character

Sandbox

Abilities
Additional grenade charges granted by some Subclass trees or Exotic Perks now charge at the same rate as the primary grenade (was considerably slower)

Exotic Weapons – General
Implemented Exotic Masterwork weapons

Exotic Kinetic Weapons
Sweet Business
Increased the ammo gained when players pick up Kinetic ammo
Increased ammo inventory

Vigilance Wing
Recovery is set to maximum while the Last Stand perk is active

The Jade Rabbit
+20 stability

Rat King
Enhanced the total stat benefits of running with a pack
Benefits are front-loaded; there are now larger damage benefits when two people equip the Exotic, with slight damage increases for each additional player
The Rat Pack perk can now activate and stack while Rat King is stowed
Added HUD notification text for when the Rat Pack perk is active
Increased ammo inventory
Added full auto

Crimson
Refined damage, rate of fire, and recovery time between bursts
Increased ammo inventory

Sturm and Drang
Sturm
Increased base stability stat
Overcharged rounds from Drang now deal 80% bonus damage
Added HUD status notification and visual feedback for when the magazine is overcharged
Drang
Kills with Drang reload Sturm and add one overcharged round even if Sturm's mag is not full
Increased magazine size
Now has the Rampage perk

Exotic Energy Weapons
Hard Light
Can now be manually reloaded to change the damage type
Hits after its rounds bounce now deal double damage

Graviton Lance
Now fires two-round bursts
Increased stability
Reduced recoil on its final round in a burst
Cosmology explosion deals more damage
Cosmology explosion now spawns secondary Void projectiles
Enemies eliminated float up and back, detonating closer to their death location
Improved aim assist

Skyburner’s Oath
+10 aim assist
+30 increased handling
Now has the Explosive Payload perk
Hip fire now lobs slower-moving projectiles with tracking

Riskrunner
Now deals more damage while Arc Conductor is active
Enhanced Arc damage resistance to 50% while Arc Conductor is active and Riskrunner is in the player’s hands
Arc damage resistance is now enabled against Guardians in the Crucible
Arc Conductor can be activated while the weapon is stowed
Added Arc FX to the player while Arc Conductor is active

Sunshot
Increased damage and radius of kill explosion

Coldheart
Damage now ramps up faster
Reduced incoming flinch
Increased precision modifier to 1.4x (was 1.05x)

Prometheus Lens
Increased magazine size to 100 rounds
Deals more area damage and less beam damage
Increased precision modifier to 1.4x (was 1.05x)

Fighting Lion
Deals more blast damage and less direct hit damage
Increased ammo inventory
Increased spawn ammo
Kills with this weapon guarantee Energy ammo drops

Exotic Power Weapons
Tractor Cannon
Weapon damage now suppresses targets
Weapon damage now makes targets more susceptible to Void damage (+50%) for 10 seconds

D.A.R.C.I.
Reduced flinch
Reduced zoom on scope
Increased precision damage to locked-on targets (up to 4x)
Increased aim assist

Borealis
Reduced flinch
After breaking the shield of an enemy (a combatant or a Guardian using a Super) with the matching elemental damage type, it deals double damage for the remainder of the magazine

The Prospector
Grenades now stick to surfaces
Grenades now cause burn damage over time


Weapon Perks
Pulse Monitor
Now reloads 35% of the magazine (up from 17.5%)
Now can activate while the weapon is not equipped

Precision Frame
Fixed an issue that was causing inconsistent recoil reduction on precision-category weapons
The pattern is now more consistent as the weapon kicks
Lightweight Grenade Launchers
Adjusted breach-load Grenade Launchers so that they can fire sooner out of a reload, and fire sooner out of a sprint cancel

Legendary Weapons
Precision Hand Cannons
Adjusted the ADS firing animation

Linear Fusion Rifles
Increased precision damage modifier to 2.0x (was 1.5x)

Activities

PvE
Changes to outgoing player damage scaling vs. higher-level combatants
Higher-level combatants take longer to kill if you’re below their level
Increased the outgoing and incoming damage scaling, from capping at a 40 Power level delta to a 50 Power level delta
Over-level combatants continue to increase in difficulty up to 50 Power levels above the player
When enemies are 50 Power levels or higher above a player, they will be immune to damage
Over-level, immune combatants will display a “??” icon in their nameplate
Updated the damage dealt to combatant Energy shields from the following weapon damage types:
3x damage dealt from Energy weapons of a matching damage type
2x damage dealt from Energy weapons of a nonmatching damage type
No bonus damage from Kinetic weapons

Strikes
Heroic strikes now feature rotating modifiers:
At any given time, the following will be active on the Heroic strikes playlist:
1x Elemental Burn (weekly rotation)
1x Advantage (daily rotation)
1x Disadvantage (daily rotation)
In addition to the above, the baseline difficulty of Heroic strikes is boosted to be closer to Nightfall difficulty

Legendary Nightfall Strike Challenge Card
Can be obtained from Xûr (at no cost) by replacing your Rare Challenge Card
The Legendary tier adds additional slots for new Advantages and Disadvantages

Fixed an issue in which scoring did not add points for killing the bosses in the Nightfall strikes “A Garden World” and “Savathûn’s Song”
Fixed an issue where the Nightfall score summary was only displaying kills since last death
Now displays the score for entire activity completion
Fixed an issue in which the Unbroken Challenge completed for all fireteam members even if the clear criteria had not been met
Fixed an issue where strike scoring granted points for players in public bubbles, Lost Sectors, or other unintended areas

Raid
Weekly lockouts for raid rewards are now class-based
Players running multiple instances of the same class will receive rewards only the first time they run the raid in a week

Tower
Seasonal Ranks are now available for the Vanguard, Crucible, Trials of the Nine, and Iron Banner
Increased Vault size from 200 items to 300 items
Fixed an issue with collections where event emblems would not show up unless players owned Curse of Osiris
Fixed an issue where Cayde-6 refused to offer all three Treasure Maps for Mercury

Items and Economy

General
Milestones now award a more balanced distribution of Exotics between weapons and armor, but overall they award Exotics less often than before
Fixed an issue where powerful engrams could not draw from Exotics released at Destiny 2 launch
Fixed an issue where the first powerful engram opened after each sign-in was guaranteed to produce an Exotic (..ummm, wut?)
Fixed an issue with slow load times for Uncommon gear
Mods and shaders can now be dismantled from the Item Details screen
Items can now be dismantled from the Postmaster and the Vault
Season 2 Exotic Ghost Shells that use destination perks now have a chance to have Hellas Basin destination perks when initially awarded

Character Inventory
Created a “Pursuits” category in the character inventory to contain pursuit tracking items, such as those associated with Exotic quests
Items in the Pursuits category are specific to each character and not shared across the account

Eververse
Players now may receive one Bright Engram per character (account limit of three) from Tess for the seasonal milestone
Increased the number of items available for purchase via Bright Dust from 14 to 18
Additional slots will feature shaders and transmat effects
Fixed an issue where players could purchase bundles or engrams when their inventory and Postmaster were full
Fixed an issue where items rewarded from Eververse Gleaming Boons would not display the correct icon within the Postmaster screen

Added the Prismatic Matrix to Eververse
At launch, 10 Eververse items from Season 3 are featured each week that the Prismatic Matrix is available
An account's first well-rested level-up each week grants one Prismatic Facet, allowing one free use of the Prismatic Matrix
Players may hold up to three Prismatic Facets at a time
Additional activations may be purchased for 200 Silver each
This item inventory is based on a knockout list and will not drop duplicates
Items earned via Bright Engrams, Bright Dust, or previous Matrix activations will contribute to the knockout list

Clans

Progression
A new set of clan perks is available for you to earn in Season 3
A new Clan Banner Staff has been rewarded to those who hit clan rank 6 in Season 2

Clan Engrams
Trials of the Nine and raid clan engrams no longer grant Trials of the Nine or raid weapons
These now grant Crucible and Vanguard rewards
Clan Engrams no longer grant rewards above the player’s level when reaching 340 Power
The Nightfall and Crucible clan engrams will grant rewards up to 340 Power

Guided Games
A new set of Guided Games tickets has been granted to all players
Players can earn a Leviathan Guide emblem that tracks the number of raid encounters and raids they complete as a Guide
The emblem rewards an aura for 14 days when completing a raid as a Guide
Once a week while the aura is active, guiding a raid to completion grants a Bright Engram

Crucible

General
Private Matches are now available to all players
Players must own Curse of Osiris or Warmind to play maps from those respective releases in Private Matches
Added a Crucible ranking system (see details here)
Added a fireteam matchmaking system (see details here)

Maps
Curse of Osiris and Warmind maps are now available to all players in matchmade Crucible playlists
New Warmind maps: Meltdown and Solitude
Added spawn points to Altar of Flame, the Dead Cliffs, and Endless Vale
Added kill volumes to the Burnout to prevent players from escaping the intended playable space
Fixed a cinematic camera point on the Dead Cliffs for 6v6

Game Modes
Added “Doubles” to the Weekly Rotating playlist

Audio

Settings
Added and revised in-game audio options that can be accessed through the Settings menu in Destiny 2: (Help Article)
SFX Volume
Dialogue/Cinematics Volume
Music Volume
Chat Volume
PC

Key Mapping
Secondary key mappings can be assigned through the Settings menu in Destiny 2.
Key Mappings are now stored per-account by default. There is a setting in the Settings menu to store Key Mappings per-machine instead.

Text Chat
Incoming Text Chat messages are now visible by default. There is a mappable key (defaults to 'L') to toggle Text Chat to a minimized state.
Incoming Text Chat messages now play an audio cue while text chat is in the minimized state. This can be disabled in the Settings menu.


UI

General
Fixed an issue where the cursor sometimes failed to appear on destination maps