contest mode winners edition

>Guide
https://www.bungie.net/en/Guide/Destiny2
>Year of Prophecy
https://www.destinythegame.com/en/YearOfProphecy
>Edge of Fate trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LFBTFpWYVI

>News
TWAB (17/07): https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/twid_07_17_2025
Update 9.0.0.3: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/destiny_2_update_9_0_0_3
Destiny Rising is out on the 28th of August: https://x.com/_DestinyRising/status/1940802715577106526

>Resources
DIM: https://app.destinyitemmanager.com/
Armor Picker: https://d2armorpicker.com/
API: https://www.light.gg/
Stats: https://destinytracker.com/
Braytech: https://braytech.org/
PressKits: https://press.bungie.com/Destiny-2
Gunsmith: https://d2foundry.gg
Checkpoint Bots: https://d2checkpoint.com/

>TTK, Buffs/Debuffs, DPS, etc...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WaxvbLx7UoSZaBqdFr1u32F2uWVLo-CJunJB4nlGUE4/

drowned in the Deep: >>532295930

I maxed out the weekly track shit last week which said I would be able to get more from Zavala this week. I've only been able to get 1 (one) single weapon, as it says I've already obtained armor for the week which I have not. Is this a known bug?

who cares edition

2 armors and a weapon buddy 2 armors and a weapon

>>532392894
No you just need the armor tokens from this weeks weekly track and you can buy them again. For some reason if you have no tokens it just says you bought it anyways lmfao

>>532393113
jesus christ that's convoluted as fuck what a stupid system

Thread Theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ki8crQhI_k

>login
>no bonus drops or featured drops I want
>log off

>>532394647
Thank you for the engagement metrics for the day

reject the streamer dogma and apologize

>listen to a streamer talk about their opinions
>"I actually have stuff to do now, it's great. The grind has been pretty fun."
>read /dg/, xhitter, leddit, etc.
>"I don't want to do this stuff, this sucks. The grind is awful."
What causes this phenomena?

>>532395184
I already apologized to Lightfall

it's fascinating to think that things can get worse since they probably moved more devs to marathon

>>532395338
Lightfall at least had a real patrol zone

>>532395226
Mindless grind lets them pad out their streams and get donos and subs for a “hype” loot drop

>>532395338

>>532395226
The first group is financially incentivized to praise the infinite treadmill.

>>532395692
I do not care about Destiny's shit story, the gameplay was cool and the new subclass was fun.

>>532395869
based, destiny's story is dogshit and has always been retarded

Is encore back? Not at home so can't check

>>532395226
Streamers are just that, streamers. They do not play for the hope of having fun and getting cool shit, they play to make money by streaming. Padding out the playtime works out great for them, since they have all the time in the world to do it and they can farm donations while playing. But it doesn't work out for anyone that doesn't play this game for a living.

>Onslaught
I guess I cou-
>30 waves
not playing

>>532396168
they reduced it from 50? kino

BDF getting really desperate coming up with excuses for the expansion that was the last nail in the coffin for Destiny

>>532396168
You're forgetting
>Onslaught
>No matchmaking

>>532396509
And
>waves dont get progressively harder
>onslaught weapons are only at xur now

>>532396364
30 waves is alright but no matchmaking really hurts it

Some hope for the future...
Some wait for the call...
To say that our destiny...
..Will be the best of all........

What’s the best exotic weapons right now

When was the last time that you were hopeful for the future of Destiny?

>>532397356
the uninstall button

>>532397356
Sweet Business, every time.

>raid meta is still just "stack as many Wells as you can"
I thought we were done with this shit

>>532397923
They tried with some of the the mechanics but they really need more bosses that fight back like Rhulk.

>>532397443
before beyond light released

>>532397582
Keep crying bitch

>>532397443
The last time I had full confidence and felt like the game was living up to its potential would have been Witch Queen and Y5 up until the reveal of Lightfall which raised some alarm bells, and then my faith was heavily fractured by Lightfall itself which was far worse than I expected it to be and basically destroyed the hype around anything going forward. Final shape was alright, but the massive July layoffs that year basically confirmed that the game was absolutely doomed and I’ve been heavily checked out ever since and I don’t plan on buying EoF at all.

>>532397443
When Luke Smith wrote these Director's Cut articles in 2019
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/48058
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/48064

>>532398510
>Thank you Guardian, 5 silver has been deposited into your account

>>532397356
Thunderlord
Third Iteration
Riskrunner is always good when the fallen are around.

>>532397443
Rise of Iron. Bungie had gone through the ringer with Destiny 1 and RoI was a nice last expansion and send off. I was hopeful that they learned quite a bit and would use that knowledge and experience by making Destiny 2 what D1 should have been and what we were promised from the beginning.
And then it launched... Regardless of Forsaken and the following expansions D2 vanilla should NOT have happened the way it did and the only reason anything changed was because people bitched and bungie was about to collapse.

>Strand Warlocks

>>532398881
>And then it launched... Regardless of Forsaken and the following expansions D2 vanilla should NOT have happened the way it did and the only reason anything changed was because people bitched and bungie was about to collapse.
Totally, the entire design philosophy for the game was just fucked at that time. The entire focus was the casual crowd that was not looking to dump 100's hours into the game. It felt like a completely sterile and gutted D1, I still can't believe that they thought 1 static roll for each gun was a good idea.

>>532399262
havent touched that shit since lightfall campaign why did they have to make warlock the most boring one

>>532397443
Lightfall reveal trailer.
Then the DLC actually came out. My optimism hasn't recovered since.

>>532399262
I'm a Warlock main and it's by far my least played Subclass. Seems like it can be decent and there might be some niche potential but idk man, maybe in a more stand focused season it would be cool.

>>532399262
Yes?
May I help you?

I don't even know what warlock build to play anymore. I've kept on getaway because it's comfy and I don't like how squishy solar is, depending entirely on resto x2 to survive

2025 Bungie is an ever shittier developer than 2017 Bungie

>>532399423
It was all madness and I still have zero idea how the hell it was greenlit. I know we already have some information on how things went down and why they did but I pray to god one day we'll get some type of detailed documentary about what the hell happened inside bungie and what led them to this point today

>>532401221
I think we will get big documentary one day, it is a good story on paper. Even my friends that don't play video games heard about all the alleged sexual misconduct at the company. Insanely high highs with Halo, insanely low lows with Destiny, crazy amounts of money, constant rapes, and they have so many troon employees. I mean I could go on but the story of Bungie is insanely fascinating, the entire company as we know it today is a cautionary tale that the rest of the industry should learn from.

>>532391407
darktide blows
this is a verminchad general

>>532400451
I've been sticking with Dawn Chorus using the Paragon armor stat. You get super primarily, then melee, and then you'll wanna keep armor that drops with weapons which will typically have 8 or 10 on it at least for me.
One warlock build I really want to experiment with is Felwinters due to the buff it got + I'm pretty sure it works with Song of Flame so combine that with the new super stat.. it could be cool.

>>532399423
Wasn't that because of an esports focus rather than a casual one?

>>532401894
>Dawn Chorus
Not featured, now glim your loadout

>>532401872
BASESBASEDBASEDBASEDBASEDBASED

It's really sad to me that the version of the game we had just a couple weeks ago is now just completely gone and we can't go back. Haven't really grasped the fact that the game I loved is now literally just gone and replaced by a hollow skin suit with all of the soul and depth sucked out.

>>532402109
Its so funny how chuds keep blaming diversity hires when its just white dudes killing the game.

SIVA in september, its gonna be Maya's last attempt at building her golden age

>>532402274
I still miss pre-Beyond Light Destiny 2. I know it got better but we lost a lot of good content for no reason.

>>532401894
what happened to felwinters? did it extend to the solipsism one as well or just on the main exotic?

>>532402109
But... I love the loop.. I love getting melee energy back from scorching, becoming radiant, getting class energy back for helion, and having daybreak be actually usable.. the helmet also looks really cool with the ornament and its one of my favorite looking exotics..

>>532400451
>depending entirely on resto
pathetic. you can sprint and jump, use them
unless you're one of those botwalking dads, but you're not right anon?

>>532397825
This. You need nothing more than Sweet Business and a Titan with Actium War Rig. Its the very essence of the game.

>>532402573
>Felwinters Helm
>Added: "Powered melee damage weakens targets."
>This is 15% weaken; powered melee defeats still create the 30% weaken burst.
It's exclusive to the helmet itself as far as I'm aware.

>>532344698
>This makes me wonder how Warframe performs on last gen consoles. I mean their newest update will be available on all platforms including the phone version and Warframe seems to have a lot going on, so assuming that all is well on WF whats the deal with D2 and last gen?

Late reply, but whatever. Warframe is ass on low-performing/last gen consoles, which negatively impacts the gameplay for the whole fireteam.

Explanation:
>the game uses a dynamic spawn system which scales the spawn numbers around your fireteam size, with solo player missions being lowest and 4 player missions being the highest.
>there is a high-difficulty mode called Steel Path which has additional rewards but cranks up all enemy stats/damage and sets enemy spawns to the maximum value regardless of the fireteam size.
>the game features a p2p system, where one player hosts the mission, and the rest are connected to that player.
>if a last gen/weak console player is the host, the game severely reduces enemy spawn counts, even in Steel Path missions.

This sometimes leads to unpleasant situations where the mission objjective requires you to kill lots of enemies to make them drop objective-related items, fewer enemies means fewer drops to the point missions take longer to progress, or, in case of Void Relic missions, preventing you from ganing the Void Relic rewards (sought-after prime Warframe and weapon parts) because there wasn't enough enemies to get corrupted by Void energies so you can't beat enough Void Reactant out of them to open the Relic.

tl;dr: crossplay and past-gen consoles are cancer everywhere, including Warframe

>use my fun arc warlock build, but has no new gear
>or use my meh solar warlock build, that has new gear in every slot so i get easy A scores
hmmm

>>532402371
The fact that a trans woman is the best dev on Destiny team should be enough proof that chuds are on the wrong side of history.

This half assed sunsetting nugear shit is so retarded. Either have the balls to actually do a full wipe of everything or don't do it at all

>>532400451
Solar Warlock is INSANE right now, can't go wrong with Starfire Protocol or Sunbracers. If you want to be a tank, just use red death but there are so many other options for healing and I just stick with sunshot. Could even try the one exotic with the toes if you want to just hide in healing rifts, it's pretty decent but too boring for me.

>>532403378
>Solar Warlock is INSANE right now
I know in my heart this is a youtube video title.

>>532403462
lol

>>532403713
Oh my god, I forgot this faggot was even a thing.

D1Y3

>>532403713
Does he realize that Starfire was actually nerfed and Touch of Flame was nerfed?

Wait Hunter Bussy is INSANE Now... (New Titan Meta?)

>>532403879
you got something you wanna say to my face?

>>532397443
Pre Destiny 2 release. Then the game came out and the gameplay was horrendous. 4v4 pvp, paid shaders, all special weapons being heavy weapons. It was awful and I checked out after 2 weeks. I played D2 at various points throughout but didn’t officially return until Plunder, and while the narrative was a complete mess I found the gameplay especially fun. Running HOIL storm grenade build on GM Fallen Sabre and soloing Grasp of Avarice with bonk hammer and double special was dopamine of the highest order. Unfortunately it was further and further downhill after that. Strand while fun wasn’t enough to make the experience a net positive and I quit a a month and a half after Lightfall. By the time TFS came out the gameplay was a far cry from where it was in Plunder. Me and my entire group quit after finishing SE. The game is just awful.

>>532404198
Which one is he? Grim, either way

>>532402502
Imagine pre-BL D2 (maybe including BL content, why not) with the Lightfall-era loadout mechanics, subclass 3.0, fireteam finder, rotating pinnacle raids/dungeons, rotating legendary campaign missions, transmog, etc.

>>532404361
left. the guy on the right is modern

>>532404361
in 2015 this was peak make performance

>>532405368
I liked Teawrex, I wish he was still with us

>>532405368
Me on the left

>>532405553
gigz is still with us, even though i think he is 4'8, and weighs 75 pounds

>>532397443
Right before Lightfall's trailer dropped. Or, rather, I felt like there was hope up to the point I saw the trailer, and the public's reaction to it. Witch Queen was a marked improvement in the PvE sandbox from what the game had been since the shittening of classes, at least, and I thought maybe we'd be at a place going forward where the game could be fun to dick around in with some cool raids/dungeons. The seasons were disappointing, but the core gameplay was in a good spot. We finally started to have at least a LITTLE bit of content in the game after Beyond Light dryfucked it six ways to Sunday, too.
Then I saw the trailer and realized the tone of the game was only going to get worse, and even major expacs were getting to the point of "shoehorned major pop culture reference to cast the widest-yet-shallowest net possible" levels of degradation. The final cherry on top of the shit-cake was when they announced during Seraph they were going to make ALL the armor mods available because they were going to completely revamp (read: neuter) the systems to """improve""" them going forward, I knew it was over and there was no fucking way in hell anything was ever going to get better ever again.

>>532404198
why are they so white

>>532395226
We are in a very odd stupid period for this game in regards to these recent changes where you now essentially have a generation that could theoretically been raised on Destiny, they have no understanding or digestion of what a normal RPG, and MMO is even like so they think these direction changes is this really cool meaningful journey and it really adds in "prestige" to get the end game because now that's a signaler that you went the distance and you must be a real gamer. Zoomies are always fucking suckers for this bullshit. On top of that you got the bread and butter washed boomer millennials who haven't touched a real RPG in forever(see Cross citing Runescape and Datto talking about WoW and FF loosely) and they're so out of touch of general game design, so they harken back to when they busted their balls when a game was extra stupid and to them in their stupid brain that's some big monumental good gaming experience. Despite not realizing how tons of those games severely lessened grinds and really just rearranged stuff when it comes to Item Levels and climbing ladders of harder modes in the actual end game. There's the reality now that with so much of the game squatted from the actual power climb and you're funneled into the Portal this can be hours on end watchable content for content fuckers.

Anybody with half a brain and a calculator can see how this shit doesn't translate well to a good experience for Destiny because nobody was really asking for there to be this arbitrary stretch of leveling especially when Bungie put everything on more extreme expiration dates and like fucking cunts they time gated the actual carrot once you went the distance of getting to end game, so if there's something genuinely good from 2nd half of these expansions, gratz you have an even shorter lifespan of having that big juicy special tier 5 looking fantastic.

It never had to be this stupid

>>532403142
Lmao yeah bro i love my reskinned guns

>>532406120
My favorite Gigz moment was when he weirdly was on an esports team where the whole blurb was trying to hype his experience in Destiny translating to Fortnite and Apex, and then he got his ass hole ripped out and shoved down his throat.

>>532404325
I've told this story a few times here but D2 launch was a rare situation where Blizz customer support actually gave me a full refund where the rep I was talking with was also pissed off about the state of D2 and it was a motivator for giving it all back despite how I had logged like 12 or so hours

Im thinking that 3 more months of season of heresy and rite of the nine would have been far more preferable to edge of fate, but I also dont think this expansion would get its shit together in 3 months. The last two story missions where the only fun ones. I guess I'll try the raid today.
I miss Calus
I miss Oryx

>>532399262
I was strandlock on prismatic last season, does that count….

>>532407208
half of the guns in your inventory were made a by dommy mommy trans woman. How does this make you feel?

80s training montage

Metroidvania roguelike...

>>532402371
the fact that a trans dev was the one that prevented eager edge from being fixed made me less transphobic

Turns out cubicle crawling is a good thing and Bungie needs it back to keep the women, trannies, and malesissies(Tyson) in line

>tranny prevented the retarded speedrunning autism bug from getting fixed
imagine my shock

>>532398753

That was sorta the kind version of the gravy train of the "we want people back in the fold" cosmetic engram cycle was getting pulled. Also that bullshit with "purchases of silver only Whisper ornaments can help our funds for content like Zero Hour" and "we thought people would like to just purchase what they want" despite how EV is completely set in its curation and the only option to buy a big more for silver came way later.

I do get people being a bit validly pissed with wondering where the content when EV expanded and so forth in Shadowkeep and so forth, but realistically I wouldn't be shocked a lot of that got overridden the second VoG reboot was on the menu and then the 30th anni promise of "raid or dungeon in every season going forward from here". Still pissed off we didn't get Wrath

>>532408125
>the retarded speedrunning autism bug
You'll have to be more specific

>>532401897
both

>>532408125
>im a dad of 3 and work a full time job so im only able to play for a couple hours a week

>>532407571
every strandlock is pissmatic because they only parts anybody cares about are green needle and brainstorm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pRY3wlKwm8

so where the fuck am i supposed to find a team that can clear contest mode

>>532397443
forsaken. my interest in the game has never been as high, and dropped to a low that never recovered when shadowkeep dropped after and was dog shit

>>532408678
i found my day one team at the red roof years ago

>>532408678
Transition to female and join a speedrunning clan or become a streamer and get in their clique

>>532404198
why do virgin nerds always look like virgin nerds? physiognomy is real

You guys really are obsessed with trannies lmao

>>532405553
he trooned out and got a job at bungie unironically. should I stop playing? It seems like theres a decent chance for you to troon out if you play destiny long enough

>>532409076
Hey, I gave that guy genuine advice

>>532409076
It's hate, not obsession. We hate you.

>>532407998
>tranny prevented the tranny perk from being fixed so i'm less transphobic

>>532409397
But I'm not trans.

>>532409645
Spiritually, you are.

>>532405368
>I play this game for fun and happen to be good at it
>>>532404198
>I stream on twitch M-F come check out the stream and sub with prime. What’s that? Yes I’ll be hiding my stream, why do you ask?

>>532409743
See this just makes you sound obsessed and mentally ill (but you're a Destiny player so that checks out).

>>532408678

>>532408678
Create or join a niche D2 community or clan and hang out constantly with the other players to eventually join their progression groups or make a team of your own to do difficult raid content that eventually leads to doing day one stuff.

Or PUG it but it barely works.

>>532409897
Anyone crying about troons getting called out is just as bad as a troon. You should transition and apply to Bungie, they don't play Destiny either.

>>532408678
That’s the neat part

>>532405553
>>532409247
So he trooned out, lol. I remember back when xir was a he/him, and there was some rando making a joke aimed at Teawrex, and Teawrex went full schizo and started threatening that talk like this would cause problems if the rando would ever want to work in the game industry. The guy was quite baffled to see such a response at an minor joke so he asked dmg what the hell was going on and if it is normal for Bungo's employees to threaten leveraging their clout to ban someone from entering the game dev industry. Dmg doubled down on that shit, both on threats and supporting Teawrex. Too bad I can't find the screenshots of that clusterfuck thread.

>>532410941
Oh yeah I remember seeing this incident in some video where somebody was making fun of how Bungie responds to trash talk than actual cheaters and broken things in the game.

>>532409247
is teawrex that vivian person or is that someone else

>>532408678
here
i want to watch /dg/ attempt a raid period, contest or not

>Bungo just lost their biggest whale
Hopesisters... i-is it over for realsies?

>>532400451
If you want to cosplay as a Hunter, I highly recommend Rain of Fire. Or at least I would if Vex Mythoclast wasn't bugged to fire at roughly half the speed of smell.

>>532412223
thats not KimDotCom

>>532411834
Completely different person. Teawrex basically rode the coat tails of his brother(Broman) and all that dude did for things, and then finessed a bullshit pretend job @Bungie doing like "environments builder" or some shit that to my knowledge never really had him showing fuck all in terms of design. I legit do wonder if this is a larger part as to why videogames industry is in such a weirdo spot, like everybody got these cash pump almost ZIRP-like funds that had people hired on in the heat of ronatimes, everybody got a super fake email job and these companies obviously trimmed the fat when it was way too many people doing essentially nothing making way too much money. I

>>532412902
Anon spoke too much truth at once and died for his trouble.

>>532411834
>>532412902
Someone else. He used to work at Bungie as Social Systems Designer (he mostly scrubbed that from the internet, saying only 'ex-bungie' or 'ex-developer', but remnants of that still exist. Considering how lackluster they were, with voice chat something sperging out, and the text chat filter going full nuts, he was a fucking freeloader.

>>532412046
I only raided twice in D2, sign me up.

>>532412046
I've raided with /dg/ before. I wouldn't mind running Vow, VoG, or RoN.

>>532412902
>>532413091

Adding to that, this old article by Paul Tassi also mentions Teawrex as Social System Designer at Bungie, the tweet in the article no longer exists because that tranny schizo likes to delete his posts for no reason.

>And Teawrex, former community streamer turned Bungie social systems designer

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/08/17/destiny-2-has-wall-to-wall-bangers-lined-up-says-bungie/

>>532412223
>like 50 handcannons and 2 non-handcannons
what is it with HCs that bring out the retarded super autists in this game

>>532413351
le signature weapon. gets you the most internet points

>>532413459
>signature weapon
Is that why any Meta where HCs aren't the undisputed best and shit on every other primary is considered terrible for PvP?

>>532413351
I would imagine pistol replicas are a lot more manageable than rifles or machine guns.

>down almost 30k concurrent players by week 2

>>532413351
fuck you handcannons are the coolest weapons in the game

>>532412902
> legit do wonder if this is a larger part as to why videogames industry is in such a weirdo spot
Yes. And its why chink devs are slowly taking over gaming since they have massive workforces of actual slave labor devs who churn out content rather than fake bs “black at bungie” type positions

Oh shit, there's one right now, in the wild! Don't respond or point at it too closely or it might get scared!

>>532413351
>>532413459
Why do you think other popular things in life get popular?

For me? It's trace rifles

>>532414303
you're boring
>>532414457
my man

>>532414457
For me it’s sidearms and machineguns. I’ll use them whenever I can, and not just rocket sidearms. I loved them before that, before forerunner and travelers chosen. I hate bungie for not bringing back dregs promise yet. Stupid fucks.

I dont believe for a second 70 stat is the same as old 100. It certainly does not feel like it.

>>532414910
It’s already confirmed that bungie lied, oopsie doopsie!

This ugly duckling is the sidearm I'd be buried with

>>532414457
back in the d1 beta and throughout d1 in general, i mained scout rifles for some reason, boolean gemini my beloved

>>532412489
never tried it but don't have vex cause I'm not a raider. I'll give it a look

>>532415486
If you're not a raider, then try Riptide. It got nerfed recently, but it still rips the tides just fine.
Any Fusion Rifle you like will do, though.

>>532414457
A man of refined taste

erm. im not going to play destiny 2 today.

>>532415816
we need you right now sis

>>532416145
nah sorry bro im just not going to play haha

>>532416145
you can be my black kate moss tonight

anyone else getting anteatered in crucible constantly

>>532414910
Bungoe themselves admitted that 'it is a bug', and it is new 85 that are equal to old 100, not new 70.

>>532414457
Among legendaries, I like 720 autos the most, they're so comfy to use, krait, misfit, chroma, 600 are close, gnawing hunger and arc logic were my favs.
Among exotics, I absolutely love graviton lance and levi breath, both are so satisfying to use. I mained levi well before it's even received any buffs, just the concept of a heavy bow was super cool. And graviton is my comfort weapon.
My ideal triple exotic loadout would be witherhoard, graviton lance, and levi breath.

>>532412770
does he even still play?

>>532416234
No but I've not played it since last week because I lost a game due to it making me slow as fuck randomly.
I thought it was the chinese hacking me or something but turns out its a fairly common bug made worse in EOF.

So is the raid any good? Like is it fun? Everyone said it had lots of bossfights but I never really gave a shit about bossfights and preferred puzzle encounters since boss fights are usually
>stand in well
>use mandated dps heavy weapon
Especially since bungie nerfs any boss damage strat that isnt wellbitch with a heavy.
Personally I didnt buy EoF, Ive just been doing the occasional mission for the datapads. Does the raid make it worth the purchase?

>>532415224
This one carried me through solo flawless legend Avalon.

>>532417206
It’s kind of ass. You can two phase the bosses on normal if you run the right builds and luckshit ammo bricks between phases. But lfgs are going to get hard filtered running their OC donutsteel builds and the mechanics arent too friendly to them either since its full of callout autism and timers

>>532417143
yeah that's happening too

I wish Marathon would just release already, everyone should have shut up and let them release that broken piece of shit with stolen assets. If Sony shows mercy and doesn't shutter the studio, they'll have no choice but to go back to fully supporting Destiny.

>>532417728
>callout autism
Vow level autism or Atheon level?
>timers
And my interest is fucking gone nevermind. Thx for the headsup, wasnt super interested when it was pointed out the bosses are just big normal vex but I guess that seals it.

>>532417206
Bungie cooked

The Alchemist is about Maya

>>532418102
Um, waiter? This content isnt fully cooked... and i didn't ask for the avante garde modifier... can you take it back to the kitchen?

>>532418095
>Vow level or Atheon?
probably the midpoint between the two as theres no symbol memorization but rather colors and orientation.
And yeah, timers. It sucks unless you run with a regular team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVzmZH3IiLA

Bahahha the time gating and progression system is even worse than theorized. Bungie is so fucking incompetent.

>>532418742
What are the chances Bungie calls all hands on deck, and reverts this shit before the next season starts.

>>532420047
they already have all hands on deck for marathon, anon
it's over

>>532420047
All hands are currently working on Maraflop

Any of the keplar or seasonal weapons worth?

>>532420305
yes

>>532418524
>A WHOLE expansion about Maya and dyke drama instead of us fighting the fucking Nine

>>532416989
Oh yeah, before the raid race someone posted a ranking of the top light level players, he was #5

>>532420305
The 600 stasis LMG seems fine, the origin trait rocket is decent. Auto rifle with kinetic tremors can be fun, but mostly in lower difficulties. The hand cannon is 2-burst that I can't get a hang of. I haven't tried other guns. The stasis wave sword has a weird perk that gives special ammo for three hits, haven't tested it yet.

FARMING THE SAME EXOTIC MISSION IS SO MUCH FUN
BUNGIE COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKED

>>532420809
gotta have another 10 year saga. But instead of cosmic forces waring against each other, your protecting the solar system from a dyke. I wonder if Bungie realizes what they did. Gays against dykes, I guess.

>more people have the contest emblem for Salvations Edge than Desert Perpetual
how does this retain players again?

>>532421520
I'd wager that more people have the contest emblem for Salvation's Edge than they do for the Normal Desert Perpetual.
Raid's ass and campaign has lower retention than the fucking pirate season people meme on.

What would a restaurant ran by bungie be like?

>>532421520
anyone that does contest raiding is going to buy whatever ultimate edition of D2 comes out, so contest emblem completion is a meaningless metric.

>>532421707
Subway

just started this game for the first time yesterday

most convoluted system ive ever faced, fucker nerds, whats the ONE currency i should prioritize?

>>532421904
Did you buy E0F

>>532421676
>I'd wager that more people have the contest emblem for Salvation's Edge than they do for the Normal Desert Perpetual.
not quite, but it is roughly in the same ballpark of rarity as contest Crota's End, which is itself funny in its own sad way

>>532421892
i cant believe they sunset the $5 footlong...

Actually good pure Vex storyline/expansion when?

>>532422057
i got that legacy pack for like 8 euros, i aint spending 40 on 1 DLC for a game i JUST started

>>532421707
they never bring out the meal, just a constant flow of overpriced appetizers

>>532420305
Arc Mountaintop
Solar Braytech Werewolf
Crucible Rocket Sidearm
Rocket Pulse
Masher I'm guessing I don't have one.
Solar Warden's Law
Crucible heavy solar GL???

2 Piece armors worth chasing down:
Bushido Armor= Heal Clip for everything.
Vanguard Armor= Adaptive Munitions for primaries.
Crucible Armor= Feeding Frenzy for primaries.


The loot is actually pretty good right now.

>>532422393
Just do the campaigns to unlocks stasis, strand and prismatic.
>which are those
Beyond light, lightfall, and the final shape.

why arent yall playing warframe yet?

>>532423961
Ive been playing for years. just here to harrass /dg/.

>>532418742
>after 400
I'm at 200 and don't know what to do anymore.
All I do is teach Vow, and even that's gotten annoying with the power delta. (Also at this point no one wants to learn it anymore.)

>>532405553
She joined the sisterhood like Datto therefore she never left us.

2017 gigachads

>With Portal, you can play and level up how you want to
>NOOOO NOT LIKE THAT!

grind is alright
however if you make the grind worthless to do then whats the point of having a grind at all?

>>532425856
Uhhhhh... Ummmmmmmmmm...

there are people who are jumping on board with this game
we need to scream at them to stay away in the general op

>>532424554
200 is the limit of permanent power for the year, so now you grind more power while knowing that it'll disappear in 5 1/2 months. Do you feel engaged yet?

>>532418524
Tale as old as time, bail out shitty science fiction with conveniences of time travel and/or clones

>>532421248
But all the protagonists at present are at least bi if not straight. Lodi got jungle fever and gave Ikora a daughter 1,600+ years ago, Drifter will fuck anything but has a thing for crazy women, and Orin is Drifter's ex. The fact that Maya's such an abusive spouse and has killed thousands of versions of her wife is also a funny part of it.

I maxed the weekly track what do I do now?

>>532428942
Finish your seasonal challenges if you haven't already and then go grind whatever people are doing while Encore's disabled. After that, start buying silver as a tip.

Where do I reliably get tier 3 and 4 armor? I have a couple pieces (not weapon stats so who cares) and I don't remember when they even dropped.

>>532428269
That's the same way I felt about the time travel hackery in Steins;Gate.

>>532425645
>hold up... players are getting a lot of loot from this mission and skipping the grind?
>WHAT THE FUCK NOOOOOOOOOO SHUT IT DOWWWNNN
>memento shaders showing up on armor but cant be equipped
>um... even though this would be totally cool to have and probably easy to enable earning us easy player sentiment this wasnt intended and we have no plans on making this a feature... lol sorry guys :3

>>532430203
it didnt even skip the grind though it just gave you a lot more cores and glimmer

>>532425645
Nu-Bungie sucks, remember when you could open the chest in Menagerie like 5 times? That was cool, they even told us to have fun with it over the weekend because they were going to have it fixed by reset. Fun police don't want that to happen ever again.

>>532429668
Tiers are dependent on your equipped power, your Guardian Rank, your score, and your average gear tier. They obfuscate what criteria you need to meet as much as possible.

>>532430357
thats even sadder then

>>532430761
And to go back to that vid another anon linked, it seems like you’re hard gated at 400s where you have like 1 thing off Zavala that it looks like you can only do once so some are theorizing assuming ultimate mode or whatever doesn’t get added in just yet it’s basically impossible to get to 450 in time allotted because there’s just not enough physical sources to even get shit at that degree. The second a approved content creator comes to this reality maybe more will be pissed

>>532397443
season of dawn before that shitty streamer puzzle for a weapon listed on the roadmap

>>532431184
>The second a approved content creator comes to this reality maybe more will be pissed
I really hope they drop the listening only to content creators thing at some point, since the game is more dead than it's ever even. But yeah, well unfortunately have to wait for Cross or Datto to share this opinion before they consider doing anything. And it looks like Cross is mostly on Warframe now, hopefully he levels quickly to see this.

>>532429668
It's level-gated and tied to your guardian rank, have fun in Portal with almost no matchmaking! :)

>>532431515
>Corridors of Time looked amazing
>Its aesthetic hasn't been used for anything since Dawn ended
I'd take it being used for "real" time travel over the Nine and Maya just doing it with the magic of dark matter

>>532431852
Roflwaffle deserves the scorn

They could've been chuds, troons, or something in between but nope, part of my clan is in full blown BDF mode and saying how "i'm glad the grind means something now"

>>532414457
I want a warmind themed trace rifle thats similar in style to sleeper and warmind dlc weapons.

how does heavy ammo work now? can i finally use anarchy or lmgs to ad clear?

>>532425645
Based Sneak

>>532433016
>using anarchy
this aint 2020 lil bro

>>532432518
Man, my clan just quietly died and stopped playing Destiny. That sounds way worse than what happened to mine.

>>532395226
This might be the biggest divide I've ever seen between the streamers and the rest of the community. Contest DP threw a can of gasoline on that fire

>>532433190
NTA but Anarchy was pretty useful in the campaign as a solo player, I used it for most missions.

Um.....................watchable status?

>>532414457
Let’s not forget that when Lightfall came out primaries were so weak that trace rifles were basically your primary.

Bros........

>>532433262
It's horrible, this is like the fucking mind virus with these people that I am otherwise normally amicable in. I'm at a loss because it's like how the fuck is your takeaway from somebody somebody that went to distance to grind saying it's a total horse shit scam is to say "i'm glad the building blocks can feel like their own little end game". I just don't fucking get it, power itself is never the interesting thing and with how Bungie restricts people so heavily with it, it's even worse. The grind especially in a world of soft sunsets and no crafting should be the cap at which when you're chasing the ideal loot and running that stuff that spits it out, to weirdly be cheering on the getting there part is like brain worms shit. I swear I'm not trolling but one of the clanmate's responses was, I don't know enough to say right now, gonna wait for Datto's opinion to speak for me since we usually align. I swear it's amazing how people can just tolerate such shit design.

>>532432309
you'll get your shitty vaporwave blocky aesthetic and you'll like it anon

>>532434704
Sorry for ESL formatting and repeating, on phone, my brain took some proximity damage

>>532425856
>grind is alright
>however if you make the grind worthless
then the grind is not alright. have some fucking standards holy shit

>>532433190
but it looks cool

>>532435328
thats the point he was making hothead

>>532435449
he said the grind is alright
i am arguing that part.

>>532428269
Those copies are vanilla D1 lore so it's okay

>>532435625
he said grind is alright
hes speaking more broadly
regardless he comes to the same conclusion as you

>>532434704
>What does Tranno think about this
lol that's so fucked. That's crazy to see people just outright say that they're waiting for someone else's opinion on something before they even try to form their own. Good luck dude, that fucking sucks.
My clan seemed like the BDF, they all bought merch and silver regularly, but most of them lost interest with Lightfall and by the time TFS, a few of them went through the campaign and then dipped. We used to raid a lot, run dungeons, and really enjoy the game, now I'm the only retard still playing. I never thought they would quit, but they did and I don't blame them.

>>532436375
>he said grind is alright
>hes speaking more broadly
i still disagree with him
>regardless he comes to the same conclusion as you
so he said the grind is alright but then immediately contradicts that. great he's still a moron.

Are the shills defending the grind aware that they're always going to reset us back to 200 every months? I have no idea why anyone would be for this, it seemed like we almost figured out that leveling is not fun and they were hinting at getting away from it almost entirely.

>>532436583
thats why I said whats the point of having a grind if its gonna be pointless in X months
theres objectively 0 reason to play the game anymore because anything you do no longer matters. you only play the game for the story and dont even get me started with the shitfest we call a story

>>532425856
Whats the point of grinding? Everything is shit, it can no longer be upgraded, and it resets back to a power floor periodically. I got a nice roll on a gun. Im not going to keep it because its Tier 1 and is by default worse than an enhance crafted gun from last year

>>532436540
he doesnt contradict himself
he states that he doesnt mind grinding in a videogame
and then he points out that by resetting that grind theyre making it worthless

>>532436797
If they actually stick with this loot system, gearing for future content has always been a thing. But if they're going to take away access to T3-5 loot from me every 6 months, and expect us to grind for another 100 hours so, then I'm just not going to do it and I don't think most people will.

>>532434649

>>532437161
the point of a grind in videogames is to have filler content essentially that would benefit a player, whether it be for levelups or gear enhancement. in the case of destiny 2, bungie has no idea how to implement a grind because they don't play videogames nor do they care if people want to use old shit or not.

>>532435397
if you dont swap to new or featured gear im going to kick you from the fireteam

>do one mythic mission solo
>want to kms after
holy shit this fucking sucks
TOTAL BUNGIE DEATH WHEN

I’m going to grind out a well rolled set of the raid armor and then I’m free, since I only really play Sunbreaker and I don’t see them making anything better than free ember of solace

>>532437819
I meant what I said at the end there. I literally havent used a single new gun because they are tier 2 at best and doesn't meaningfully replace anything Ive got perfectly crafted from 2 years go.

>>532437903
More health = more better

they had the game solved years ago
all it needed was new content, weapon types and the final super to round out the 6+prismatic.
and they fucked it all up.

So we just get no content at all anymore? It's just 2 paid content drops per year and that's it?

>>532438997
It's a sustainable business model anon :)

Buy Marathon btw which we're totally not putting all our resources onto which is why the new zone doesn't even have a strike, lost sectors or patrol missions.

>>532438997
There will be 1 new 3-man activity when Ash and Iron is out, but otherwise it's just old content being drip fed into the portal.

>>532438997
did you buy EoF? If so, your opinion does not matter for another year.

https://x.com/DestinyTheGame/status/1948133293108650093

Watch early and often, this is the only D2 event of the year, as pathetic as it is.

>>532397443
Destiny Rising.

>>532438512
This is what I just don't get, like to even condition somebody to swallow all this shit is like some spoiled neckbeard slob houserules-ing a bunch of 40k shit and then expecting people to get in line and remember those rules or else. It's just needless over tinkering and with all this talk of gating or the wormy dickhead move of removing Encore when it was min/max, it doesn't even let the game function like a normal video game

>>532432309
I'm still extremely confused how vex time travel isn't real time travel.

>>532397443
Right now. Hope shines brightest in the dark.

>>532418742
>sees a retarded grenade launcher
>loses his mind over it, laughs hysterically and says that made his day
I will never understand how the retarded zoomer's brain works

>>532440627
because its a simulation, not the real thing, but a simulation so accurate it sort of bleeds over.

>get to end of solo op
>saint on comms
>just has to bring up how much of a yapper osiris is
Thank you for always needing to remind me constantly that saint loves getting cock on his ass

>>532438512
Agreed, but it wouldn't have worked with this sub 100 iq playerbase. reaction would've been "durrr but it's just more destiny."

>>532440825
yeah i didnt get that either

>He's not going to GCX this year

why are the new exotics since lightfall so fucking ugly

>>532397443
ITL. I knew once ITL was over and Final Shape was out, and things got back to normal, Bungie would go back to their selfish and idiotic ways of running Destiny, and I was correct.

Echoes was terrible, more layoffs happened, they repeat the same phrase saying they'll win our trust back in some copy paste article talking about the layoffs, and everything after that has been terrible.

They did so many good things during ITL, all seasons were free, every expansion was free, they were gonna turn the expansions campaign free to play and turn the DLC into a Forsaken style pack so you can obtain the exotics with the raid and dungeon on the side.

They also brought back two fan favorite exotic missions and a activity that was requested for a long time. Pantheon was also such a good reuse of raid content as well too. It really brought the community together for such a nice time.

But all that is gone now, and the game is in an even shittier state more than ever. I just wish we can go back to a time when Bungie actually cared about what the hell we said, and actually kept their promises and would appease to the general public instead of the 1% who want to grind one activity 24/7 for top tier gear.

This game isn't for me anymore, I haven't played for months and I skipped this new expansion. There could be ways to actually incentivize me to come back, but those chances of what I want actually happening is about as equal as a cold day in hell. Content getting unvaulted en masse, a more friendly new player experience with the return of Red War, and everything being made free that is returning.

>>532440849
Than what the fuck were the corridors of time?

>>532441085
To sell you better looking ornaments and sometimes you can tell the ornament was the og design

>>532440627
Destiny rules is that time travel/manipulation are only possible in specific places. It's why Clovis Bray could time travel for a limited time in specific spots and why Atheon can throw you forward/back in time but only in the Vault of Glass. A lot of what seems like time travel with the Vex is just down to the fact that they can perfectly simulate the universe sans paracausality.

>be bungie employee
>clock in at work
>stare at screen all day
>check twitter and cry
>go home after a stressful day of doing nothing
>login and play hello kitty island adventure while watching my favorite destiny streamer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi93PWZ0bMI

>>532441085
What the other anon said. Its pitiful the things they do to make money

>>532441371
The corridors were another simulation, we were able to use them to change Saint's fate because of the Sundial, which had something (implied to be ahamkara) that allowed the simulation to affect the real world.

>>532441130
Probably not a bad point you also consider the people who were specifically yanked off Marathon to get all that stuff out and improve upon Final Shape. Remember when people were bitchy about lower pre order numbers and "this is just overblown ragebait, numbers mean nothing", and then suddenly Prismatic as a fleshed out subclass , exotic class items and dual destiny came into focus as being something built off of. Imagine if we never got that and Bungie shipped it with Prismatic as Pale Heart's locale only thing? I also think about a ton of the people laid off around that time, and even oursister Datto explicitly had said that he had an extremely bad feeling about TFS and my guess is he knew people staring down the barrel of a layoff. I remember the anecdote of him intentionally not booking a trip to GCX because he didn't want to deal with people dumping on him or talking about the game being shit

>>532441085
bungie's psychologists who are there to milk every cent they can out of people specifically forbid non-eververse gear from looking good

>>532441371
Coopting Orin's schizobabble from EoF might be the easiest way to try to explain it: the simulations are digital spaces that exist physically that are countless X-axes stacked on top of each other. The Corridors are the Y-axis that the vex use to travel between them. We accessed it with a tower that was cobbled together by Osiris and Drifter using vex tech, Drifter's Gambit tech, and what might have been ahamkara magic.

>>532442257
There were also devs talking on social media about being pulled off of Marathon to work on ITL and TFS.

scrambled eggs

doomergods won bigly

>>532424554
How bad's Vow with the power delta? I went in there to try testing ammo generation against the warmup encounter, but it's rated at 200 and I was still only 10 at the time, so I couldn't bother.
I'm wondering if it's still decent once you get up to the minimum level, or if I'm just completely done until they fix this slop.

>>532442257
NTA, but I maintain the stance that I held before ITL: Prismatic did not exist before the delay. Prismatic wells didn't exist before then. There were no rainbow barriers or even a destination mechanic in prismatic before the delay. All of it was added afterwards, and Bungie was absolutely going to ship TFS with only those three supers.
I also think most of the Dread were invented for TFS post-delay. Subjugators were shown pre-delay, but Husks and the bats almost definitely were not real before the delay, and the Psions definitely weren't.

>>532441953
no leafs allowed i guess

>>532444721
That's pretty much true considering how much conscious design in wanting you to really just get lost in the Pale Heart and live there, and to some degree if you did go for Transcendence seal, you "get" where Bungie was going with all the choices. Or even more of a simple tell, if Prismatic class was always in the cards, how come there was never a triumph added retroactively for the older dungeons and raids for full fireteam of Prismatic when it was added for Stasis and Strand even if it was a little later on from their respective releases? I do agree on the nature of the Dread as well.

>datto still hasn't uploaded his damage control expansion review
is he afraid?

>>532447187
Yes, he's been shitting bricks because he realized way too late that he isn't independently capable to have a variety career and the state of Destiny is the state of his livelihood.

>have to play the whole campaign 5 times

so what killed III the first time?

>>532450038
>per character

I started playing Helldivers 2, game is a lot of fun. I’m only level 6 right now, so I have a ways to go, but the game has a lot of cool little details and mechanics that feel natural and lead to emergent gameplay. Would recommend for anyone looking for a fun shooter, as long as you’re ok with third person games.

>>532451102
One of my friends has nearly 1000 hours in that game and still plays it everyday. I, on the other hand, got bored of it after 15 hours.

swedes cannot be trusted with videogames

>raid report still locked down