[Silencer]

Sounds good. I think stalker and I both need to do the nightfall strike? I'll try and produce another level or two by the weekend.

[Stalker]

Sounds good here. I need a team to try vog with at some point too.

[Silencer]

^this also.

[Obdigore]

Nightfall strike this week is all burns, and the vex one. You could actually solo it if you wanted to, it is pretty easy, but we can go through it as a group. Just bring your best weapons and some heavy ammo synth.

[Cause]

Briar King, on 10 October 2014 - 12:36 AM, said:

I really hate when I bust ass in an event by myself and then some fucker comes 10 sec before the end and winds up finding the Shard or Energy....it happens way to often to me

I once got dropped into a strike against the winter priest, he was down to five percent! I unloaded a full clip into his head and got the kill. I thought how pissed I would be if I had been fighting this guy for 30 min only for someone to show up and waste him. So I feel your pain

[Obdigore]

30 min? hey you are doing it wrong.

I've had people join strikes AFTER the boss is dead during the 30 second count down and they get credit.

hwhy does it piss me off? They donut take anything from me...

[Stalker]

I love joining at the last boss, especially with the exotic strike bounty I'm on now. Plus it helps the other player or players already there. Half the time the solo guy gets killed anyway and now doesn't need to start the boss over. Win win.



Obdi, Silencer- I'll be on at 9:30 est tonight. That nightfall strike seems easy, but I could not solo it with random hobgoblin death beams. Should be simple as a team.

[Silencer]

Alright, I expect to be on most of the day tomorrow, so I'll definitely be on to run with you guys in my afternoon (roughly 2pm for the time stalker specified).

I think joining at the last boss (especially at/after it's defeat) annoys me primarily because it's poor design. There should be a check to prevent people dropping in unnecessarily. If there's only one player, fine, they might need a hand, but not if the mission is over.

It's also frustrating as the player dropping in - you get none of the fun for all of the matchmaking and no exp for it.

Then it's annoying, though this is the least factor for me, in that this random is getting credit for, and possibly a bounty turned in because of something they didn't contribute to. They didn't spend 40 minutes to an hour fighting through the level. They just got a 'lucky' connection. Kind of a silly reason, but it still matters.

And again, it goes both ways. They aren't getting the fun they were looking for, just the end result. And if you've spent ten minutes in matchmaking and the final seconds of the match and then post-game, and you only had a limited time to play? That's just eaten into your time.



But really it boils down to a lack of good code. The game obviously registers stages of the bosses health, so it should flag a game as almost finished when the boss is critical or dead and prevent joins until post-game. Simple. (Unless there is only one player, in which case an add is fine as it has a good chance of either saving them replaying or giving them a second player to help if they do die before they drop in.)

But that's just me. XD

[Silencer]

You need a six man team, bk. XD

[Obdigore]

Yes.

[Silencer]

You always play crucible for an exotic bounty. But depending on what one you picked determines what the challenges are and what weapon you get.

[Silencer]

You have to get a 25 K/D for multiplayer for that one I think....

>.>

[Silencer]

Haha, good luck with that.

There's actually a trick to the K/D spread - it includes assists.

+ 1 point for a kill or assist.
- 1 point for a death.


It also is not in a single game. It's cumulative over all games. So as long as you have more kills and assists in each game you play than deaths, your score will go up. Though it might take ages if you only barely manage to get a point or two positive per game.


Get a good team, it's easy. I was running with two decent players I got match made with in Skirmish, and I got it done in no time. Only like five games or so.

Plus, Invective is awesome. XD full auto shotgun that generates its own ammo? Yes, please!




In other news, in a joint effort between myself and a friend, I punched through the level 28 weekly heroic strike at levels 26 and 27 respectively, to try and get me another 3 strange coins so I could get an exotic helmet (since the only slot not legendary on my character was the helmet, thus limiting my level...somewhat annoying) from Xur.

My friend had to drop at Sepiks after about an hour of hard slog.

Thankfully, Obdi came to my aid and basically single-handedly carried me through the final fight while I cowered and took potshots from relative safety.

Now I've got a nice hat and am comfortably level twenty seven. Just need to level my helmet and run some VoG to get my character up to top tier. Phew. XD

[Dragonstar]

I got invective the other week, took a few games in PvP to get it, its quite awesome tho. I just finished the exotic bounty for a fusion rifle. The last step was to get 200 kills with a fusion rifle in the nightfall strike. I ended up doing it solo and getting 200 kills. Took a while and a lot of special ammo synth and what happens when I complete the strike?? I get an exotic fusion rifle as a reward!!! God dammit!! All i really want is an exotic auto rifle. I now have 2 exotic fusion rifles, 2 exotic shotguns, a exotic pulse rifle and a exotic hand cannon and im on the last stage of the exotic thorn quest for another hand cannon. Xur seriously needs to have a auto rifle nxt week.

[Silencer]

Ck, Obdi - vault of glass next weekend? It's a public holiday next weekend in nz, so whichever day suits you guys.

Ithink we've got at least four people at level 26+ now. What's your brother at, stalker?

[Stalker]

27 now too. Not sure how free he'll be but I'll definitely mention it. Other than the raid, we're kinda done with destiny though. No real upgrades other than exotics and raid gear and I don't want to grind rep or materials.

Let's go call of duty, halo, and dragon age. Going to be a good November!

Edit- but yeah, definitely up to try the vault with you guys. Saturday works best for me as I'm gone Sunday.

This post has been edited by Stalker: 20 October 2014 - 02:26 AM

[Silencer]

I'm in the same boat. Vault and Nightfall strikes are the only things left. There's a few exotics I want but that's all random number god stuff.

Far Cry 4 is what I'm most looking forward to in November. Then CoD.

[Silencer]

Eh, even with all of us, we still need one extra/random from somewhere. The only reason I can even hope to get enough people I know is this forum. XD

As for the expansions...they will add at least one more Raid (in the first one, it will be "Crota's End") and I'm assuming it will also add a new round of story missions. I believe it will also push the level cap up based on comments regarding the Mythoclast's intended performance level.

They were basically free with the limited edition and up, though. So I'm not sure how large they'll be. Hopefully huge, because otherwise the game will only get picked up once every few months to run the new content. Hopefully the story will at least start to make sense. Etc. I kind of doubt it though.

Master Chief Collection could well end up being much better than Destiny. :S depends how well it's done, mostly.

[Silencer]

Exotic fusion rifle that is a primary weapon, not special, that drops in the Vault on Hard mode.

Bungie stated that their intention is for it to be just powerful enough to be viable in the next raid.

[Obdigore]

destinylfg.net

Learn it. Love it. Use it.

That's how I've been raiding.

Yea, I'll save my hunter for this weekend for VOG with you guys. 26 might be a bit low for completing VOG, but we can certainly get in there and get through the beginning.