Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

X X E X X_sl said:

Good video incase you missed the alpha.

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Sweet vid. Spotted a level 24 trash mob so that kind of debunks the level 20 cap. Unless of course it's from an end game strike or something but i'm hoping not.

Kind of strange it was mostly in third person but I guess that makes for a more cinematic trailor.

Booo its over!

Thought I would give a run down of my overall thoughts.

I spent 10h 56m playing my titan. 10h 25m playing Warlock and about 4h playing my Hunter.

I felt like the majority of people were playing Hunter. I think this will continue due to the coolness factor. There double jump seems the worst of the three. But there ultra is op as fuck for pvp. The melee however is meh, but has a high cool factor. I think the kiddies will be playing this class the most.

Titan. Awesome, loved it. The jet pack jump is super useful in pvp and pve. Maybe op in pvp. With the upgraded Fist of Havoc it will be even better. I felt more comfortable playing Titan in pvp over the other classes. I feel like shotgun will be there best weapon when you can leap into fights with upgraded Fist of Havoc. Followed by scout rifle and auto rifle. Titan melee is op in pve and pvp. Grenade is better then hunter but worse then warlock. I feel like this class will be the least played due to less flashyness.

Warlock. I have a feeling this will be the OP class to beat. The ultra is long long range and they get to use it most often of the three classes with the energy drain from melee. The grenade seems really op in pvp with its harsh aoe even after death. I got more post mortem kills with this then I can count. If i was ever about to die i just randomly chucked my nades and got a ton of kills doing it. Weapons on a warlock are harder to gauge. I think I ended up using a pulse rifle the most, I would aoe with my grenade then a few bursts with the pulse for multiple kills in pvp and pve.

Guns. They actually all felt very balanced. I spent the last few hours of alpha just farming on the different classes leveling different weapons. With the upgrades all the weapons are viable in pve and pvp. The only one that felt underpowered was the heavy weapons machine gun. It was just to low damage with to low range. I favored shot guns and pulse rifles.

PVP. I enjoy the fast paced small maps. The vehicles are op as fuck at the lower levels but I dont think they will scale well. There really werent enough maps or levels to gauge how good pvp will be. It was a lot of fun though.

Strikes. Challenging on legendary with a pick up group. Not so much with some friends who aren't retarded, very fun though. The higher level stuff should be very challenging though if it ramps up enough from what we have seen. The game play trailer with the house of glass looks promising. I really hope that there are platforming elements of rape level difficulty.

Explore mode. I can't really put my finger on it but god damn. I couldn't get enough of just tooling around exploring and killing. I got up to 480 Grimoire score. Finding a little dead ghost tucked in a corner was fun. Doing this kind of thing in other MMO's has felt tedious but doing it in a shooter environment as gorgeous as this just felt good. Finding little secrets caves with ogres and stuff in it was also exciting.

Problems I had with the game. Secondary weapons being equipped with no ammo better be a bug. That shit was annoying as all fuck. Switch to a different secondary weapon, oops no ammo, better switch back, now my original weapon has no ammo. Super fucking annoying. Load times were a little slow. Tha'ts about it...

Overall I was pretty impressed. I have a feeling I will be putting serious time into this one. If I was just going off the alpha alone I would give it a 9.5/10. But I will reserve judgment until more content is opened up. They could have given us the only complete part of the game, who knows.

I would just like to say a huge thank you to Zarc for getting everyone codes as well. I spent a lot of time playing this weekend thanks to him. Big props. You are the asian Santa of the Rerolled community bringing toys to all the good little girls and boys and trannies of this board. Cheers.

Problems I had with the game. Secondary weapons being equipped with no ammo better be a bug. That shit was annoying as all fuck. Switch to a different secondary weapon, oops no ammo, better switch back, now my original weapon has no ammo. Super fucking annoying. Load times were a little slow. Tha'ts about it...

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Yeah I hated switching from my charging gun(which rock btw) to my sniper rifle to end up not having any fuckin ammo. I did love the alpha also, was a perfect first experience. However where the hell did you find ogres? I used my speed to go past the ??? Mobs and ran into a pile of hurt lol, but I never found any ogres.

X X E X X_sl said:

Yeah I hated switching from my charging gun(which rock btw) to my sniper rifle to end up not having any fuckin ammo. I did love the alpha also, was a perfect first experience. However where the hell did you find ogres? I used my speed to go past the ??? Mobs and ran into a pile of hurt lol, but I never found any ogres.

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I found two ogres. There was one in the cave that was level 20. And one on this little ledge kinda hidden that was level 16.Ill post pics in a couple mins.

Here are the two ogres I found and a Shrieker. The shrieker spins and raped me.

Oh wow that's awesome. I found a shrieker myself that raped me but I never ran into any ogres. It's nice to know high level content lurks around even in all the low ice zones, gives you a reason to go back when higher and check shit out.

There is also high level mobs in the starting area in the first building

This is my 2 cents on the Alpha coming from a guy who clocked countless hours on halo 1-3 and the 2 side games.
Played every class to max, explored everywhere, and did countless hours of matchmaking in the Alpha.

This game is really smoke and mirrors, and why I think Bungie is so brilliant.
It is the best part of all the Halos combined into one game. It is not , however a MMO.

Now let me explain that. The story mode is not a persistant world. It is not a server where you will ever see the same people. When you go to an area where the game allows more then your fire team it only lets a set amount of players into that instance.

Even the Tower is like this. You will never see the same tower twice, or the same players again. It is essentially like every other Halo except instead of 2 person co op it allows 3 people to play much like reach. When you go to a instance with other people I believe the max is 6.

So it's just a very detailed story mode, or campaign mode. It of course adds things like exploration to spice it up, but in the end it has more in common with a Diablo then an MMO,

I personally love that.

One thing that is still there from the last Halos is the ability to gimp content. AFK one of your team ,and you never lose. You can just spawn rush shit down. All the mobs are on short leashes as well so can just run past a lot of shit.




On the competitive side, and I really cringe when people call this pvp, it has all the trappings of matchmaking from all the other Halos. The biggest difference is instead of putting weapons on the board you have ammo crates that spawn, and only some of them are in set locations.

One thing I do miss is having multiple grenades. Nades were a huge part of Halo, and only allowing players to have one grenade on a cooldown is my only gripe.
The one shot melee weapons being gone doesn't bother me since that was always broken. Now everyone has a regular melee blow.
They also got rid of people being overwhelmed by vehicles due to everyone having a cooldown to dispose of them.

It is funny seeing all the same bugs from all the other Halos in this game tho. You can do the quick reload bug, and Headshot people by hitting the shoulders. People are already doing the desync shit where there character become invulnerable.

One thing I noticed is people play it like COD, when Halo is all about jump firing.
That's one of the reason I miss grenades so much /le sigh.

The matchmaking allows the player to just play that if they want to. Everything you get from the campaign mode is just decoration much like they did with Halo 3.
I'm hoping that Bungie goes back to the godlike ranking system of Halo 3. I really hope they do not wuss out, and let people play this game competitively.

When the masses only complaint is that Dinklage did a poor VA ( which is asinine), you know you have a good game.
Can't wait for this to launch so I can play Halo again.

fuck i agree with a column post, the world is ending

I didn't get a boner over this game and I can't imagine spending as many hours in a single weekend playing that as others did.

Speaking of that, after my group pretty much maxed out as much stuff as possible we started doing challenges.

I took down the 3 man strike solo which a took over an hour.Just make your 2 friends AFK at the entrance. Pretty easy when you can trap the tank in the first cave on your right, and dieing just gives you more ammo.
Then the last boss is cake since you can trap it behind the first set of boxes.

And we tried to take down some of the ??? mobs, but we were doing like 1 point of damage per hit so wasn't worth it.

There is a soccer ball in the tower you can kick around as well. ;}

A nifty double post

Nice to see a variety of peoples feedback! Definitely not a game for me due to the heavy fps/halo style which I just really do not enjoy but other then that sounds like a very good game setup. Hope its successful; I'd love to see more games blurring the lines abit even if its smoke and mirrors.

Also, man I would LOVE me some Smite MOBA on PS4, that would be so fun and the control structure would fit perfect with the 4 trigger buttons to do abilities and right stick to move target/camera.

Outside of that nothing excites me for my ps4 Going to play Witch and the 100 knight just so i can say ive used it since week 2 of buying at release lol.

if you like driving games try need for speed rivals, i really enjoy just racing like a nutjob making VROOM VROOM sounds. graphics are gorgeous

Springbok_sl said:

Sort of having withdrawals at the moment. Really enjoyed the Alpha, Beta needs to hurry the hell up

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Yeah me to. I wonder if there will be a break between release and beta.

Grumpus_sl said:

Yeah me to. I wonder if there will be a break between release and beta.

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If there is we can always take out our frustration on Zarc,....right?

Super interesting video. I had no idea that was how it worked.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5wPnYJR4I6w

I also pre-ordered the collectors editio today at my local game store. They put notes on pre-orders that get bumped up to collectors when they get announced.

I didn't know Destiny was going to have a collectors edition. What's the benefit?

X X E X X_sl said:

I didn't know Destiny was going to have a collectors edition. What's the benefit?

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No clue yet. But if they have one ill be ready!