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raid prestige mode is gonna be fun, don't see lfg teams enjoying it


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raid prestige mode is gonna be fun, don't see lfg teams enjoying it

Have they released the conditions of it?


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This only filters out more of the idiots that make micro transactions.

Also destiny isn't p2w so this system wouldn't have any impact.
theyre almost certainly using similar methods to encourage cosmetic microtransactions
but you get shaders out of your arse



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>Wearing non-raid/non faction shaders

what, are you all gay?


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microtransaction apologists get out
Purely cosmetic microtransactions are great and have been a staple of MMOs since the genre was invented.


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destiny isnt an mmo you fucking moron


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destiny isnt an mmo you fucking moron
yes it is


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the developers took elements from popular MMOs but destiny happens to lack the most important identifying quality of an MMO: the massive part. the largest amount of players a single instance in D2 supports is 25 at the farm. not even close to massive.


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It's an FPS with RPG elements and an emphasis on social play. Not an MMO.


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the developers took elements from popular MMOs but destiny happens to lack the most important identifying quality of an MMO: the massive part. the largest amount of players a single instance in D2 supports is 25 at the farm. not even close to massive.
With the construction of areas in Destiny, a player cap in each instance makes sense.

However, you're not on a server with just 25 players.

Destiny is massive. Worldwide massive.

You can run into any player anywhere and all you have to do is move to a different area.

You can never play the game without any of these thousands of players being nearby in the areas you must share with them.

The fact that you aren't competing with every single one of them for kills at once only serves to emulate games with multiple massive servers which rely on the player's whim to not congest areas, then falls back on splitting them across populations which never interlace.

Destiny is singularly massive, much like Elite Dangerous is. And though Elite has no instance caps, I've never seen twenty players in one place.

Just because Luke Smith is too much of a hipster to say MMO doesn't mean it isn't one.

Spoiler
And if you had any balls you'd quote me when you reply (look at me when you speak to me) instead of hoping I don't notice.


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Destiny is shit game who cares


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raid prestige mode is gonna be fun, don't see lfg teams enjoying it

Have they released the conditions of it?
Gauntlet:
Each time someone runs the gauntlet, they gain a debuff, so needs to be a new pair of runners each time
the extra psion that usually spawned if you failed to hit the arrows is now a guaranteed spawn each time
and in the final bit where everyone runs, there's only 3 orbs to cool off the psionic charge instead of 4

Dogs:
There's 8 dogs instead of 6, so there's one at each flower on the damage phase. Also affects their patrolling routes when gathering the damage buff.

Baths:
If you don't one phase this, when the damage on the crystals is done, 4 people will see one of the 4 raid symbols above the psion that spawns in the middle, you gotta run to that specific plate to lose a debuff that prevents you from having the protection to stand in the water. The Bathers are also stronger, spawn faster, and drop a puddle of purple stuff when killed. Kinda like the Vex fanatics, and the puddle drains your protection buff a lot faster than just the water, if you stand in it.

Calus:
The person in the throne room that punches the correct psion gets swapped into the succ zone with a random player in there. So each time you get pulled closer it cycles people in and out, so people gotta be quick to adjust for the next callouts, as it spawns you at the back and you fly down to the current barrier.


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tbh I'm glad they removed most of the bullshit tedium of grinding from the game, it's made D2 a lot more enjoyable. MMOs are shit.


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raid prestige mode is gonna be fun, don't see lfg teams enjoying it

Have they released the conditions of it?
Gauntlet:
Each time someone runs the gauntlet, they gain a debuff, so needs to be a new pair of runners each time
the extra psion that usually spawned if you failed to hit the arrows is now a guaranteed spawn each time
and in the final bit where everyone runs, there's only 3 orbs to cool off the psionic charge instead of 4

Dogs:
There's 8 dogs instead of 6, so there's one at each flower on the damage phase. Also affects their patrolling routes when gathering the damage buff.

Baths:
If you don't one phase this, when the damage on the crystals is done, 4 people will see one of the 4 raid symbols above the psion that spawns in the middle, you gotta run to that specific plate to lose a debuff that prevents you from having the protection to stand in the water. The Bathers are also stronger, spawn faster, and drop a puddle of purple stuff when killed. Kinda like the Vex fanatics, and the puddle drains your protection buff a lot faster than just the water, if you stand in it.

Calus:
The person in the throne room that punches the correct psion gets swapped into the succ zone with a random player in there. So each time you get pulled closer it cycles people in and out, so people gotta be quick to adjust for the next callouts, as it spawns you at the back and you fly down to the current barrier.
damn my raid team is too incompetent for any of this

although we did go for ages on normal mode switching runners on the gauntlet without realising you didn't need to so we're already prepared for that


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raid prestige mode is gonna be fun, don't see lfg teams enjoying it

Have they released the conditions of it?
Gauntlet:
Each time someone runs the gauntlet, they gain a debuff, so needs to be a new pair of runners each time
the extra psion that usually spawned if you failed to hit the arrows is now a guaranteed spawn each time
and in the final bit where everyone runs, there's only 3 orbs to cool off the psionic charge instead of 4

Dogs:
There's 8 dogs instead of 6, so there's one at each flower on the damage phase. Also affects their patrolling routes when gathering the damage buff.

Baths:
If you don't one phase this, when the damage on the crystals is done, 4 people will see one of the 4 raid symbols above the psion that spawns in the middle, you gotta run to that specific plate to lose a debuff that prevents you from having the protection to stand in the water. The Bathers are also stronger, spawn faster, and drop a puddle of purple stuff when killed. Kinda like the Vex fanatics, and the puddle drains your protection buff a lot faster than just the water, if you stand in it.

Calus:
The person in the throne room that punches the correct psion gets swapped into the succ zone with a random player in there. So each time you get pulled closer it cycles people in and out, so people gotta be quick to adjust for the next callouts, as it spawns you at the back and you fly down to the current barrier.
damn my raid team is too incompetent for any of this

although we did go for ages on normal mode switching runners on the gauntlet without realising you didn't need to so we're already prepared for that
From what I saw, it seemed like most groups struggled with the Baths the most. Adds dealing way more damage + tankier and more frequent bathers is enough to have people dying from any minor mistake really. The other changes don't take too long to adapt to, as far as I can tell.

I'll probably only aim to do it once anyway, just for the completion of the exotic quest.


 
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on the one hand games haven't increased in price since the 90's despite inflation basically halfing the value of $60 AND they've become more expensive to develop

so i mean it's not hard to see why companies try their best to make more of a profit. would you rather be paying for a complete game where it's not guaranteed to be good for $120 bucks or would you rather pay $60 bucks for a game that might be good and then if it is you can spend money to buy the rest of it later? neither sound appealing.

microtransactions solve this issue in theory but it really depends on how you execute it... weapon skins and cosmetics are the best way to go about it, but once you start affecting things like drop rates you jump the gun because those can be directly altered by the developers to incentivise spending more money

i honestly don't know where i stand on stuff like this but it's not just because companies are more greedy than ever like a lot of people try to pretend it is.
Last Edit: October 19, 2017, 03:14:42 PM by Snake


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would you rather be paying for a complete game where it's not guaranteed to be good for $120 bucks or would you rather pay $60 bucks for a game that might be good and then if it is you can spend money to buy the rest of it later? neither sound appealing.
I would happily pay double for a game the quality of Titanfall 2 with the sheer amount of content (Map editor, custom games etc) of Halo Reach and a DLC model involving free content with no microtransaction loot crate involvement whatsoever.

That seems well worth £80-£100 (games here are generally £40-£50) to me, if it's something I'll be spending as much time on as I have for the Halo games pre-H4 or the Bethesda games.


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PC launch in 4 days.

4K and uncapped framerate.
Currently available for pre-installation.
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>Destiny 2 PC
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I got it on PC and now I can go back to shitpost on B.lind
Even that place is dead ass slow.
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