Destiny
- Two New Developer Insights
- Enemies can spawn with new abilities randomly during an activity.
- Ex. Killing an enemy with a certain buff causes all other enemies to enrage.
- Ex. Putting a certain enemy to a health threshold causes them to start a detonation countdown. They must be killed or they send out an AOE blast.
- Additional buffs to players coming they don't show in this article.
- First expansion of the year has a new raid
- Major update will change up the new raid
- Second expansion will have a Dungeon
- Second Major update will have a Pantheon-like activity.
- Raids can now have player selected Feats. The more feats you have enabled, the better the rewards.
- Dungeons will no longer require buying keys
- Enemies can spawn with new abilities randomly during an activity.
- TWID - 9/19/2024
TL;DR:
- New Dev insights on Frontiers next week
- Rewards Updates coming in Episode 2:
- Nightfall focusing costs less engrams
- World Drops will be farmable from Lost Sectors
- Power Caps increasing by 10 each episode
- Lots of Titan updates:
- Titans will be able to taunt enemies with barricades, unbreakable, and sentinel shield. Functionality might be coming to Ward of Dawn.
- Changes to barricade and unbreakable for balancing this new functionality.
- Several changes to abilities across the Titan kit to make prismatic more interesting but also apply to the base subclasses.
- Buffs to supers across all classes. Hunter, Warlock, and Titan. Roaming supers to get a duration buff later in Episode 2.
- Some smaller changes to Warlock and Hunter abilities.
- NERF Ace of Spades will be available for pre-order purchase for those who complete the Legend title by 9/24. Bungie also credits the original artist.
- Ten Years of Destiny
Today marks 10 years of Destiny. It's been a long bumpy ride but there's still nothing quite like this game out there. Here's to hoping Bungie can continue to deliver a good experience for players and its employees.
I hope that all the developers who still work on this game and those who worked on this game continue to have success in their careers. My hope is that Bungie (along with the rest of the industry) can stop treating people as expendable assets while still making the games they are passionate about.
- New Details about the Future of Destiny
Bungie dropped several articles about the future of Destiny today. I have not had a chance yet to read them all. See links below:
Paving the Way for New Frontiers
Developer Insight - Core Game: Activities
- GRIFTER DRIFTER RIGS MATCHES
GRIFTER DRIFTER RIGS MATCHES
ill have u KNOW for a FACT that GRIFTER DRIFTER has been PLAYING US FOR FOOLS 👹 he knows when one team will make him MORE MONEY he needs to make sure they win that's why if u watch his face when he goes "Oooh LUCENT HIVE" hes LAUGHING AT U cause he k n ows ur team will die 3 times to the first Lightbearr HE HAS PLANNED THIS "incoming at the beach" bro it's fucken Normandy at the beach and here's GRIFTER DRIFTER 👹👹👹🐸 RAKING IN THE GLIMMER
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- TWID - 8/15/2024
TL;DR:
- 8v8 Sparrow Control in Crucible Labs this weekend
- Xur will begin selling Exotic Class items OR and Exotic Cipher with Random Rolls for 41 strange coins with the update on Aug 20th.
- First week (Aug 23rd) will be Class Items but after that it's RNG.
- Aisha's Care will be back in Trials next week.
- Bungie is selling a skateboard deck.
- Fastest way to setup your alt characters?
Hey guys!
Since I recently re-entered the destiny addiction I took my sweet time completing all campaigns on my main and some odd quests/exotic quests/solstice farms/ etc. But since I've always loved switching between my main (warlock) and the alts, I thought about setting them up as quickly as possible - meaning, unlocking subclasses, fragments and other important stuff.
So far my plan is:
- skip the new light tutorial (playing it once suffices, in my opinion)
- choose a different subclass than the starting one from Ikora via the New Light Pack (whatever it's called, giving you access to a subclass and an exotic)
- unlocking the third light subclass via a quest
Then it moves on to:
- completing the first mission of witch queen for weapon crafting/getting red border weapons
- completing the campaign of Beyond Light for stasis (ouch, that's gonna stretch)
- completing the whole campaign of Lightfall for access to strand (OUCH, that's gonna stretch even more)
- completing (almost all of) The Final Shape for access to prismatics + 2 side quests for all the aspects/fragments
Did I miss anything crucial in this list? I'm not interested in unlocking trials at the moment - I'm not a big fan of PvP. If you have any tips on how to work through this list somewhat fast, I'm open for recommendations. Thanks! :)
- Any tips on farming the solstice gear?
Hey guys!
I was wondering what the more efficient/fun strats for farming the solstice bounties would be, since I generally find Bonfire Bash okayish (it's my first solstice since 2019, I think), but it does get tiresome after 10 rounds.
Since the 5 and 15 alloy bounties can technically be completed everywhere, I was wondering if I could farm up enough leaves to just play strikes/gambit or even blind well/whatever other public stuff with a lot of supers exists? I'm not super knowledgeable since I've only come back to destiny recently, so any tips would be appreciated! :D
- More Bungie Layoffs and Restructuringkotaku.com Bungie Hit By Layoffs And Massive Restructuring Despite Success Of Destiny 2: The Final Shape
The renowned studio is becoming more embedded within Sony and spinning off one of its teams
Not a good look for Bungie or Sony. Bungie management needs to go but at this point I feel like that will lead to a full takeover by Sony who aren't any better.
EDIT: I keep getting redirected to The Root when I try to scroll on this link. I think it's an issue with the site.
EDIT 2: Another article about those who were laid off: https://kotaku.com/bungie-ceo-layoffs-locked-account-destiny-pete-parsons-1851610118
Pete Parsons is a fucking coward.
- Forsaken-Era-Returning player who just bought the legacy collection (2024) on Xbox. What are some insights you can share?
Hey guys!
For a bit more context:
I played A LOT of Destiny a couple years ago, up until the forsaken DLC (and a teeny tiny bit of the annual pass, wasn't really my cup of tea). I dropped the game hard due to bungie sunsetting content - something I entirely despise (and still do to this day). Gotta fuel my gaming addiction tho and after playing some similar games recently, I got the old itch again...
I used to be a pretty casual-PvE player, only raid I completed was the Last Wish. I enjoyed the story missions and just grinding on strikes/nightfalls, sometimes I even enjoyed gambit (shocker, I know) and just vibing in patrol and doing public events. Getting gear and exotics, upgrading them, completing bounties, etc.
Is this all still feasible at the moment? Will I miss out on epic stuff if I wait on buying the latest dlc (what I know of Prisma does sound pretty cool) or the episodes (like hell I'm gonna shell out 50€ for 3 episodes of content that could disappear in a year)?
Also, any general tips, suggestions or other insights, stuff to focus on when starting completely new characters (which is my current plan, I could import my old chars, but not sure yet).
If nothing else: what are your favorite builds? Meta and off-meta suggestions welcome, I like experimenting with stuff. :D
TL;DR: see title
Just wanted to get some friendly conversation going :)
- TWID 7/25/2024
TL;DR:
- Crucible Updates Coming in August:
- Map weighting towards newer and more popular maps
- Lobby balancing changes
- Updated quitter system
- Nerf to Threaded Specter and Swarm grenades (PVP only)
- Trials Passage of Persistence doesn't take away wins when in a 3-stack
- Comp Clash score to win decreased
- Better spawn logic on Collision
- Tribute removed from Iron Banner
- Increased rewards for all Crucible
- Spawns on bigger maps have been pushed closer together.
- There's a lot of detail about all the Crucible changes if you want to go read more.
- Exotic Class item Drop Rates
- Increasing chances while in Pale Heart to a stacking bonus until a drop happens.
- Random Pale heart chests drop rate decreased to encourage Overthrow participation. (Probably also to prevent AFK farming with Macros.)
- Weekly challenge to Dual Destiny for a double drop per Character.
- More tuning to come in the future. Team is aware of the negativity around farming these.
- Brave Weapon Attunement returning at Zavala
- Crucible Updates Coming in August:
- Know the difference
Alt: A "know the difference" meme. On the left is a sniper rifle from the videogame Destiny 2 called Cloudstrike. On the right is a Windows bluescreen labeled with Crowdstrike.