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Qbah

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Tip/Cheat: For the Dawning Gift quests when collecting materials (datalattice, dusklight etc). Collect 1 of the required material and return to the tower. Put it in your vault and retrieve it. Each time you do, it will count as 1 toward the quest. You don't actually have to farm the materials.
OMG!! Thanks!!

I rolled one with 10 engrams... And exotic don't count, got 2 exotics and 6 legendary since I picked up the quest for that day... Only counted 6/10...

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cmdrdredd

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OMG!! Thanks!!

I rolled one with 10 engrams... And exotic don't count, got 2 exotics and 6 legendary since I picked up the quest for that day... Only counted 6/10...

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Bah...it doesn't really work. It was reported elsewhere and I just tried it and nope lol
 

Qbah

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Bah...it doesn't really work. It was reported elsewhere and I just tried it and nope lol
I use a tracking ghost and a sniper with max range. Shows me everything... Takes like 10 minutes to gather.

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cmdrdredd

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OMG!! Thanks!!

I rolled one with 10 engrams... And exotic don't count, got 2 exotics and 6 legendary since I picked up the quest for that day... Only counted 6/10...

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For 10 engrams, the purchased engrams from the cryptarch count.
 
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Qbah

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What sucks the most is that you can't get the Dawning armor or the exotic stuff from the daily gift... You only get 7 chances in total across all your characters!! You get 2 engrams each week on the first character that does the two milestones and that's it for the week. And Bungie gave a free engram at the beginning. Event runs for 3 weeks...

The only other option is to buy it if Eververse is selling it for bright dust (chest and legs this week). But if you're low on bright dust, you're SOL.

I have no idea who in their right mind thought it's a good idea. No amount of gaming can get you items. You can only buy silver for real money and hope RNG is in your favor when opening.

This is greed in its purest form :-(

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cmdrdredd

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Supposedly all the items will be up for sale but I dunno for sure. There are people who got an exotic ghost shell from the gift package and some armor. Not me though
 

Qbah

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Got my two dawning engrams for this week and... Got 2 ships. So that's it for dawning gear this week for me. Ridiculous...

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dawheat

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Does anyone feel like Crucible matchmaking has gotten worse recently? It used to be that I could jump in solo in quickplay and still have a decent amount of fun - probably win 50% of the matches. Some games you get decent teammates and win, other games you get horrible teammates and lose, but overall you won some and you lost some.

I played over the holidays a few times solo and simply got wrecked, even in quickplay. 4/5 games I get teammates who seem like they've never picked up a controller vs 4 high level teammates (going by destinytracker elo). I'm talking about teammates going 0.1 efficiency with 3 kills against full teams with players with elo sometimes in the top couple hundred. A couple games l can understand being so unbalanced but out of 20 games I probably had about 16 of the above, 2 competitive games (even odds), and 2 straightforward wins.

Is the PvP community so small now that it's forcing these horrible matchups of teams vs randoms, regardless of skill level?

I'm not a great player but I generally help more than hurt and when I do play with friends we definitely win more than we lose. But I don't see how anyone can possibly play solo these days and have fun. I'm normally don't care much if I win or lose as long as it's entertaining, but this was just spirit crushing.
 

cmdrdredd

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Does anyone feel like Crucible matchmaking has gotten worse recently? It used to be that I could jump in solo in quickplay and still have a decent amount of fun - probably win 50% of the matches. Some games you get decent teammates and win, other games you get horrible teammates and lose, but overall you won some and you lost some.

I played over the holidays a few times solo and simply got wrecked, even in quickplay. 4/5 games I get teammates who seem like they've never picked up a controller vs 4 high level teammates (going by destinytracker elo). I'm talking about teammates going 0.1 efficiency with 3 kills against full teams with players with elo sometimes in the top couple hundred. A couple games l can understand being so unbalanced but out of 20 games I probably had about 16 of the above, 2 competitive games (even odds), and 2 straightforward wins.

Is the PvP community so small now that it's forcing these horrible matchups of teams vs randoms, regardless of skill level?

I'm not a great player but I generally help more than hurt and when I do play with friends we definitely win more than we lose. But I don't see how anyone can possibly play solo these days and have fun. I'm normally don't care much if I win or lose as long as it's entertaining, but this was just spirit crushing.

The matchmaking is based on skill. If you start winning or have a high rating a few times then you will be matched with better players. So it balances out in the end.
 

purbeast0

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Sep 13, 2001
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I don't play Destiny but I find it pretty hilarious that Bungie/Sony is advertising Destiny 2 on the PS4 dashboard right now in the midst of all the Bungie hate that is going on right now. I turned on my PS4 last night to play some RE7 and a Destiny 2 icon popped up in the front of the list of my games list, and it might have auto-seleted it too I don't remember. But instead of "Play" being the text that pressing X does, it said "Buy Now" instead.

Here's an article with screenshot of it.

https://www.destructoid.com/destiny-2-ads-are-popping-up-on-ps4-dashboards-479672.phtml
 

dawheat

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The matchmaking is based on skill. If you start winning or have a high rating a few times then you will be matched with better players. So it balances out in the end.
I'm fine with skill based match making - it's more that it felt reasonably fair in the past but this past week (maybe since the dawning update) that it's been wildly out of wack. More than half the games I play are against good teams and I put up some reasonable stats (1.5-2 efficiency) but the rest of my teammates go sub 0.5 while the entire other team goes 2-4.

Game after game like this. I wish it was my skill level was so high it was bringing in these teams, but their elo (I know its not exact) are way higher than mine as well, much less my teammates.
 

cmdrdredd

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I'm fine with skill based match making - it's more that it felt reasonably fair in the past but this past week (maybe since the dawning update) that it's been wildly out of wack. More than half the games I play are against good teams and I put up some reasonable stats (1.5-2 efficiency) but the rest of my teammates go sub 0.5 while the entire other team goes 2-4.

Game after game like this. I wish it was my skill level was so high it was bringing in these teams, but their elo (I know its not exact) are way higher than mine as well, much less my teammates.

I wonder if the masterwork weapon perks may have something to do with it. Not sure what perks are in the game for masterwork weapons but if something like kill clip is there...
 

Qbah

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They boost a stat too. 10 reload speed, 5 impact, 10% magazine, 5 blast radius, etc Some weapons can only roll certain boosts (no impact on auto rifles for example).

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dawheat

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I'm fine with skill based match making - it's more that it felt reasonably fair in the past but this past week (maybe since the dawning update) that it's been wildly out of wack. More than half the games I play are against good teams and I put up some reasonable stats (1.5-2 efficiency) but the rest of my teammates go sub 0.5 while the entire other team goes 2-4.

Game after game like this. I wish it was my skill level was so high it was bringing in these teams, but their elo (I know its not exact) are way higher than mine as well, much less my teammates.
Turns out it was probably just reduced players over the holidays and those playing probably being more hardcore. This week things are back to normal.
 
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Wondering if anyone can answer this for me.

Yesterday I ran a heroic strike, the arms dealer. Shortly after completing the first section (where you open the door and fight in the more open/outside area), I had my super ready (titan striker). I didn't notice at first until I used it and my brother asked how I got it so fast. I had no idea.

The only thing I can think of is that I was close to leveling up for next illuminated engram and I'm wondering if leveling up gives you an instant super, and other class abilities (grenade, melee, ability), etc.

Can anyone confirm if that's true? Otherwise, how would I have gotten my super filled within the first minute of the strike?
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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Wondering if anyone can answer this for me.

Yesterday I ran a heroic strike, the arms dealer. Shortly after completing the first section (where you open the door and fight in the more open/outside area), I had my super ready (titan striker). I didn't notice at first until I used it and my brother asked how I got it so fast. I had no idea.

The only thing I can think of is that I was close to leveling up for next illuminated engram and I'm wondering if leveling up gives you an instant super, and other class abilities (grenade, melee, ability), etc.

Can anyone confirm if that's true? Otherwise, how would I have gotten my super filled within the first minute of the strike?

Yes when you level up you get all your abilities charged. I've used my super, killed the boss for a public event, leveled up and got it right back.
 
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Yes when you level up you get all your abilities charged. I've used my super, killed the boss for a public event, leveled up and got it right back.

Ok cool, thanks for confirming.

Knowing that, seems like it would be a smart way to start a nighftall prestige by having your character almost leveled up and having your super ready in the first section of the strike. Though it's not very efficient, since you'd have to wait awhile building up your XP.
 

Skel

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Looks like the next DLC is coming out May 8th. It's going to be called "Warmind" and looks to be bringing more changes with it. From a couple of places I've read like "Bleeding Cool" it's supposed to be larger than the last DLC, which wouldn't be hard. I haven't logged in for a couple of months. I used to log in once a week and clean up the tasks, except those that needed a party. For some reason I could not ever find a group that was active. The clan I'm currently attached to has one other player that's active. When I look for a new one I'm met with either more clans that aren't active, or worse they want to put me through auditions like it's real life. I just want to do a RAID for once.. two games later and I still have yet to do a RAID. I don't think I suck that bad.. le sigh.. more 1st world problems..
 

Pheran

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I haven't played for quite a while, but I'll probably jump back in once this latest expansion is out.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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I haven't played for quite a while, but I'll probably jump back in once this latest expansion is out.

I played a bit last week to see the new changes to weapons. Pulse rifles are really, really good now. Hand canons are a bit better, scout rifles were tweaked so that you don’t have to always use explosive rounds to feel like it’s doing good damage. Some other minor tweaks to shotgun damage and snipers. Linear fusion rifles are really strong now too.
 

EXCellR8

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I haven't touched the console version of the game since PC dropped... how's the PS4 crowd? It was nuts when the game first launched.
 

zerocool84

Lifer
Nov 11, 2004
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I haven't touched the console version of the game since PC dropped... how's the PS4 crowd? It was nuts when the game first launched.
Tons of people left the game in general regardless of platform. More so than the first one.

The first game was able to keep the hardcore players around, this one, anyone but big destiny fans have mostly stopped playing and will only come back on every big update or dlc release.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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Tons of people left the game in general regardless of platform. More so than the first one.

The first game was able to keep the hardcore players around, this one, anyone but big destiny fans have mostly stopped playing and will only come back on every big update or dlc release.

Yep. Mostly the complaints I see are about crucible not being good but to be honest I don't play that enough and never touched it in the first game to know what the complaints are really about.
 
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