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Was hardly a point playing after beating TTK Challenge Modes or w.e. they were called (which was the same day they came out or so).
Were they supposed to introduce 330 gear at some point - haven’t really paid attention to the game since I quit after the racing league during xmas.

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Saw The Jungle Book last week and noted something cool.

Surely you guys remember The Law of The Jungle trailer, right?

The Actor who narrated LTOTJ is Giancarlo Esposito, you may recognize him as Gus Fring from Breaking Bad. In a pretty cool coincidence (or not?!?!) he’s now playing Akela in The Jungle Book!

Interview with Giancarlo:


Thought some of you would get a kick out of that!

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The Rise of Iron expansion will be revealed tomorrow.

Multiple leaks have already confirmed the name.

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So, I started playing Destiny again. I played it heavily for that first month after launch, but I got really frustrated with the loot reward system for raids (I beat Vault of Glass several times and got shit that I could use), combined with my brother dying unexpectedly, and I just couldn’t play it anymore.

I’ve got some free time in the last couple weeks, so I picked up TKK and started a Hunter and am up to 40. But my light level is only 243 right now, and I’m really starting to realize what a fucking grind it is to get it over 300. I’ve been playing it all day, and I’ve moved it from about 238 to 243. To make the big leaps, I’ll have to do the raids, and I’m not really looking forward to that. I’m wondering how far I can push it before I burn out.

I’ve been doing strikes, and only once I’ve managed to launch with 3 players. Usually I launch by myself or with one other player, because the population has apparently gone away. The fireteam usually fills up mid-strike, but, yeah, I’m thinking the player base took a big hit, and I wonder how much Rise of Iron will help?

I’ve also been playing a lot of Halo 5, and it’s been interesting to contrast the two. These two franchises are essentially cousins, considering the histories at work here. Destiny looks amazing, like a truly next-gen game, while Halo feels like a really-nice Xbox 360 game. Multiplayer looks worse, too. The Blood Gulch/Valhalla remake looks like it came from Halo 2 in terms of textures and geometry. They made too many sacrifices for frame rate in arena multiplayer. Thankfully, the Firefight levels actually look like single-player environments. But Halo is just the better all-around game for all the reasons mentioned already about why Destiny disappoints (Halo has single-player and multiplayer, a story/narrative that’s downright Shakespearean compared to what Destiny threw at us, character, and the mix of vehicle/infantry gameplay, etc).

I really wonder if Bungie regrets jumping ship. Sure, they own the IP and they’re “independent”, but they’re essentially tied to Activision to deliver so much content each year, and you can tell they’re struggling by the way all the schedules have been rejiggered (instead of two expansion DLCs a year, Bungie offered up introducing micro-transactions in TKK instead). Under MS, all they ever had to do was make a single game every 3-4 years.

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Nice write up and analysis @Woolen_Horde.

I too played Destiny just after release and quickly became frustrated with the repetition, grind, and lack of narrative. I have grumbled about it quite a bit and stopped playing a month after release.

I recently picked up an XBone so I will be putting time into Halo 5 which will be the first time I played Halo since maybe 2005/6 on the PC. I’m excited to get back into it.

Despite my monumental disappointment with that initial release of Destiny a part of me does miss the dialed-in combat, movement, fun weapons, and interesting enemies/AI. I was thinking of picking up the The Taken King to enjoy all of the solo content again and not fret too much about levelling to max or engaging with large raids. I will consider it for a while but perhaps Halo 5 will scratch that itch just as well.

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Back to Destiny again for me as well.

Missed out on Iron Banner this weekend though, as I was in Belgium. Kinda annoying not getting some sweet 335 loot, but I guess I can make do with some crucible, dailies, and the ocasional Challenge of Prison of The Elders (or whatever it is called).

Amazed that they still haven’t added matchmaking for Nightfall (with requirements) and COE. And of course that Iron Banner still allows 6 man stomp-parties, they did add a solo-crucible queue (that took ages), all they had to do was include it for IB as well.

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The matchmaking in this game is ridiculous.

Another weekend with Trials of Osiris. They supposedly made matchmaking more “even” but from the looks of it… that isn’t remotely true.

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Pretty much almost every match has been with below a 30% chance to win based on ELO rating of the opposition team…

The few times we win a match it has been close, like 4:5 in score, and the ELO rating shows that both teams have been from 40-60%. Why the hell cant the game make matchups like that.

Alternatively, why is it always the enemy team that has a 1700+ELO player on them, I want them on my team so I can get that damn lighthouse thing done once and for all…

In conclusion: Bungie are dicks.

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So I expect to rejoin Destiny for the next expansion. Any tips on getting up to speed again? I guess my old clan is caput, any recommendation for a Q23 heavy one to join?

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PS4 or PRISM ONE?

I’m in a defunct clan as well as joined the Reddit PS4 Destiny community, use their wall to find groups for stuff since the game STILL doesn’t have a proper matchmaking system for “the things you really want to do.”.
https://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Detail/118172

I’m surprised that Bungie doesn’t give a F about adding some simple tools to the ingame interface, as well as moving away from pushing you into the Sony PS4 UI to do parties etc…

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I expect I’ll get back into Destiny when the next expansion hits as well. Mind you, I am not a very serious player, more like a tourist with an automatic weapon. Plus I play on the Xbone. But I’ll join up with whoever wants to get a team going.

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Ps4 sorry

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I skipped The Taken King, and I might skip the next one too. That way when I do get whatever expansion eventually, I’ll get the whole package cheaper!

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I last played Destiny on the PS3 at release. I found fun mechanically but lacking in terms of content, narrative, and solo play.

I just picked up Destiny/Taken King for the XBox One to start playing/dabbling again. I do miss some of the moment-to-moment gameplay and the fun environments. Like divedivedive I am very much a tourist that focuses on solo play, but will be happy to join up at any point (though I will probably low level/underleveled).

Last time I played a Hunter - Gunslinger. Any recommendations for a fun class/subclass at this point?

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When stuff like this happens_
http://guardian.gg/en/pgcr/5324195725

I wonder if I should ever bother with Trials again.

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Destiny: The Collection announced.

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That explains why Destiny: Taken King Legendary edition is only $20 at Toys R Us this week. That’s Destiny, the two expansions, and Taken King all together. So if this new “Collection” is that plus the new Rise of Iron, then Rise of Iron by itself must be around $40, I’m guessing?

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It’s 29,99 euro on PSN europe.

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This site: http://www.destinychecklist.net/ is kinda neat to check your weekly progress.

On the other hand, when it tells you 940 hours played… since June last year… there’s room for reflection.

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I’m surprised. I thought you were the one that kept insisting it wasn’t as good as Warframe when Destiny launched? How do you go from “it’s not as good as this free game” to “I’ve played 940 hours now”? :-p

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A single game every 3-4 years, but judging from the rumors, 343 is doing constant death marches to get their games out. I think Bungie was trying to move towards something different. It is a shame they can’t seem to produce content fast enough. I would think with an efficient tools pipeline, they could be popping out some really interesting expansions once a year (new areas, or new enemies, etc), along with smaller expansions for the hardcore (new weapons, new challenges, etc).

And I was in the same boat as you, played pretty heavily for a month, really enjoyed the moment to moment shooting, but the overarching treadmill got boring, and I really wasn’t a fan of Vault of Glass style raids. I haven’t tried Halo 5 yet, Halo 4 kind of killed any excitement I might have for another Halo.