Not opened it yet,
Red is a bit weird for this though, looks like a corporate diary
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Destiny 2: Shadowkeep |OT| Moon's Haunted.
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Red is a bit weird for this though, looks like a corporate diary
90% is a gross exaggeration.
Hand Cannons in Survival are currently about 25% of weapon kills. And if you look at Quickplay, Randy madness actually has Scout Rifles having a higher share than Hand Cannons:
I can tell you why, the armor isn't anything special and the weapons haven't been updated in a year.
D2 IB is laggy crap too.
Cleaning up my quest log and one of the quests lines took me into the Menagerie.
First time I've been in there and I had no idea what the fuck was going on. This game just loves throwing you right in the shit sometimes without any explanation.
I killed stuff and ran around... then killed some more stuff..... then collected some stuff with no idea what it is... then got booted out of the game lol.
First time I've been in there and I had no idea what the fuck was going on. This game just loves throwing you right in the shit sometimes without any explanation.
I killed stuff and ran around... then killed some more stuff..... then collected some stuff with no idea what it is... then got booted out of the game lol.
Eh, I have all the good shit and I still use go figure, it's all you really need.
I did actually lol.
But I still had to play the core modes.
I found elimination to be the best. I actually semi-enjoy the 3 v 3 limited life set up. Trials in D1 is the only Destiny PvP I remotley enjoyed. Never really liked in in D2 for whatever reason.
Yeah Trials of the Nine was never as good, or as beloved, as Trials of Osiris. They completely scrapped Trials for the time being, until they can rework it and release it in a good form. Which...who knows when that will be lol
What was the main difference?
I honestly forget, I know I tried like 2-3 tickets and then didn't want to play again. This was vanilla D2 so it may be better (or worse) post Forsaken weapon switch ups.
Its a 6 man matchmade activity but it seems like it put you in solo which can happen sometime. Just wait for more people to join or relaunch it again. Its quite fun actually, with raid like mechanics.
3v3 works best imo because of the map design, but also elimination has a great flow to it where even heavy ammo is even limited impact.
I believe it was removed prior to Forsaken, so the sandbox updates weren't really implemented during Trials of the Nine's life cycle if I'm remembering properly. I never played it personally, but from what I heard from the greater community about it they didn't like the gametype, map, and number of players.
I've seen you and Wiped on while I was doing my recluse grind the last few nights. I'll reach out next time I see you guys.
I thought Trials was still 3 v 3 in vanilla D2? I do remember you had to play on that weird Nine map though. Wasn't there an objective too?
Can you still get the Recluse quest or did you have it from before?
Am I correct to assume it is similar to a game of control? I had to "capture" some zones and then kill bosses... that's what I got from my one game :p
OG Trials of the Nine was 4v4, set map and mode for the week (countdown or survival) and locked loadout. Also no win based matchmaking. Also Y1 Mida handholding meta.
So I set up a build with Verity's Brow, 100 pts of Discipline and the melee hits provide grenade energy mod (once I get Better Already it'll be even more fierce), Middle arc tree w/ pulse grenades, and a masterwork Riskrunner. You run in a pack of mobs, chuck the grenade at your feet, the first pulse gives you arc overload, and you waste everything in proximity. Then you rinse and repeat. As it stands I'm getting a grenade every 8 or 9 seconds and Riskrunner's effect bonus at 100% uptime. It's pure insanity in the Vex Invasions.
Pretty sure you can still get it, but I had it from last season.
Don't pretend that shark know what those numbers actually mean.
Thats one of the encounters. There are 6 different encounter types in there.
The old system wasn't much better. At least this way you're earning stuff on a track that'll guarantee you the weapon at the end. Previously, you just had to cross your fingers and pray at Bergusia for weeks on end.
Just keep at it. You'll eventually get the team with all of the better players and a ton of points for winning.
Nevermind, I do have it. Didn't realize the name of the quest at first.
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I'm looking forward to IB this time around if only because it's regarded as a "Pinnacle" activity and can drop pinnacle mods. Yeah it can be a pain in the rear at times but with this new Armor 2.0 system it will be worth it for the chance to earn stuff that you couldn't otherwise get outside the raid or the 100k NF.
BRB watching Datto's stream for tips on defending this bullshit.
I've gotten the Exit Strategy, Edgewise, Wendigo (never really felt the need to complete the quest for this one as I already had a Spiked Raven), and the Recluse over the last 4 days. Not bad, never thought I'd ever get the Recluse at any point and would have laughed hysterically if you told me I'd have it just 2 weeks into Shadowkeep.
Randy is up next.
Randy is up next.
I would love to go for higher stats in a lot of the builds I use, but the RNG with element, stat type, and stat amount is pretty killer.
I doubt he really would. It takes like no time at all to go from 750-900.
If someone really wants to pay for that boost then I'd have to question why they're even playing the game at all.
You can now spend silver to just jump to PL 900 if you're feeling particularly lazy or stupid.
Really wish they would allow us to buy the full sets of the other legacy Eververse armor/ornament sets as there is a particular set I want for my Titan (that I had on Xbox but not PC...PC characters are now my mains across all platforms). They've only offered the same 2 for the first few weeks of Shadowkeep. I guess I just need to be patient.
It was 4v4, locked load outs, at a time when the weapon meta was absolutely terrible. A lot of the "Trials of the Nine was garbage!!" memories are hard to separate from the fact that weapon balance overall was garbage. It was the era of double primaries with slow time to kill, so it was a Scout Rifle teamshooting from a distance snooze fest.
Then to compound the issues, you could get Trials drops from Clan engrams, so if some other people in your clan were doing Trials you could skip it and still get the rewards, greatly diminishing the incentive to queue up. This of course meant the more casual population, who may have been inclined to play for a chance at drops, could just ignore it entirely - so the people who actually played were overwhelmingly sweaty. If I recall correctly, you could only be revived once - which greatly reduced the exciting clutch situations you could get in D1. The game modes weren't as fun as Elimination in my opinion, though that's clearly subjective and I won't list is as a clear "con".
You no longer had an exclusive social space for going Flawless. Instead, there was an (Admittedly really cool - where you load into Reckoning now) area which you had access to with just a single win - going flawless just offered an extra room (where you pick up the Invitation weekly chest).
I don't think there was a single glaring issue. It's just a lot of stuff compounded. Crucibe in general was in a worse state, there were fewer incentives to play at all, fewer incentives to try and go for flawless, the loot and cosmetics were less compelling and far less exclusive...
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