OK. I finished the campaign and the strike. Started doing PoE.
PoE is kind of boring. Not because it is easy, but because you can't take cover without everything coming after you. Bungie's servers are garbage and I kept getting dropped on the next to the last round. For loot, I got a auto rifle from the big chest. It is identical to Suros. I also got Hawkmoon and some Hunter arms which I promptly salvaged.
Does PoE only enable after you finish the HoW campaign ?
OK. I finished the campaign and the strike. Started doing PoE.
PoE is kind of boring. Not because it is easy, but because you can't take cover without everything coming after you. Bungie's servers are garbage and I kept getting dropped on the next to the last round. For loot, I got a auto rifle from the big chest. It is identical to Suros. I also got Hawkmoon and some Hunter arms which I promptly salvaged.
If you play PoE 35, expect to lose up to 5 hours of your life.
If you have 3 34s (1titan), you can do it under an hour.
If you are a subpar player, start the game, play it to round 5, once your mates give up on you, post on destinylfg and have someone help you out (Many willing to start from Skola CP for their elder cipher bounty)
If you play PoE 35, expect to lose up to 5 hours of your life.
My group was retarded and it still only took us 2 hours. Void was fun, failed at arc but shouldn't be that hard with decent players.
Take these with a grain of salt:
http://kotaku.com/leak-destinys-new-expansion-is-the-taken-king-out-sep-1709972043
Just summarizing key points from the article,
Sept 2015 ($40)
New Raid: Oryx (Crota’s father)
New Enemy (Race?): The Taken
New Strikes/PVP Maps (The usual)
3 new subclasses with new super abilities:
"Gravity Bow" (Void) - Hunter
"Electrical Storm" (Arc) - Warlock
"Flaming Hammer" (Solar) - Titan
More info at E3 next week
Eurogamer: Taken King costs £39.99, which is almost same as base game. Does its content justify that?
Luke Smith: I'm going to use American dollars, because British pounds are just foreign to me...
Eurogamer: Literally foreign.
Luke Smith: Indeed, an ocean away. So, purchasers get a big, rich campaign. Fully voiced cinematics and the story of what happens when an angry alien god wages war on a solar system, all with a satisfying conclusion. You also have a new subclass to pursue and unlock. We also have a bunch of new strikes - we're not yet talking about how many - and a new raid. We're showing two new PVP modes and four PVP maps this week, and it's a fairly safe bet we're not done yet showing things off. So I'm fairly excited about the value proposition. We're calling this a major expansion because it is. We're giving people a whole new place to go, that new destination...
Eurogamer: I get that it is big but it is also the same price as the base game. That had four areas rather than one and more missions than the Taken King. Why is it the same price?
Luke Smith: All I can do is answer that with the same thing I just gave you... We're really comfortable with the value we're giving to players this autumn. I believe that once we begin to share more, players will be even more excited. And for existing players it also comes with the Founder's pack with a new Sparrow, shader and emblem.
Well shut up and take my money!Fully voiced cinematics!
Reporter seemed to be dead set on getting those emotes without buying the collector's edition.
This doesn't just insult you and I as regular players, but it spits on all of the hard work of everyone who made awesome community tools to fill in the gaps of Bungie's otherwise 6.5/10 game. Things like LFG sites that were made to compensate for the lack of matchmaking; like DestinyPublicEvents or Destiny Item Manager; like Destiny Ghost Hunter or sites that give you a better look at the Grimoire so that you have even the slightest clue as to what story actually exists in this game. The list can go on. We as a community put a lot of time and effort into making this game more than we were given. And don't get me wrong, there are some fantastic people at Bungie working their hardest to constantly improve the game, to listen to us and implement as much feedback as they can, to give use the tools needed to build everything I just mentioned. I get that. I'm hugely grateful for them, too.
However, we can't let an attitude like Luke Smith's dictate the future of this game without being contested. We shouldn't, anyways. We didn't just play this game; we invested in their community. We invested our time and talents to enrich the experience for each other in ways the game itself couldn't. Yet now we're being treated like we're nothing more than a pile of wallets? I get that they're a business, but you don't build a strong base for a game that's supposed to last 10 years by ostracizing and insulting your existing player-base.
It wouldn't be "exclusive bonus content" if they sold it on the side. Plenty of other games do this with preorder bonuses or CE when the game is launched. I really don't see a problem putting exclusive content in a GOTY edition.
I think Luke went off the rails, but I don't see the emotes being exclusive to a bundle as that big of a deal. Blizzard even ties some pets to completely separate game purchases (D3 had a WoW bonus pet.) This is very common in the MMO space.
It wouldn't be "exclusive bonus content" if they sold it on the side. Plenty of other games do this with preorder bonuses or CE when the game is launched. I really don't see a problem putting exclusive content in a GOTY edition.
I think Luke went off the rails, but I don't see the emotes being exclusive to a bundle as that big of a deal. Blizzard even ties some pets to completely separate game purchases (D3 had a WoW bonus pet.) This is very common in the MMO space.