Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

spronk

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interesting notes on how scoring in domination pvp is different in destiny than other FPS

tl;dr - holding doesn't score, score is aggregate team player scores and you score most killing people.. keep whole team together all the time

 

Grumpus

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I have a feeling the level 20 max is fof subclasses only. The some legendary weapons grant you extra levels for that subclass.So a level 20 voidwalked warlock gets a void weapon granting him level 21 In that subclass.But the are 3 subclasses. You level to 20 in each.That ia what makes most sense to me anyways.
 

Kedwyn

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interesting notes on how scoring in domination pvp is different in destiny than other FPS

tl;dr - holding doesn't score, score is aggregate team player scores and you score most killing people.. keep whole team together all the time
Doesn't that make it team death match then?
 

Column_sl

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Hope they put in all the modes from previous Bungie games. Never really enjoyed Plots that much, but Slayer, Team Slayer, and CTF were my shit.
 

Kedwyn

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In a sense, but it forces people to play the objective to receive a higher score for each kill.
I hear you. I mostly play TDM in games and the objective based games are fun diversion because their mechanics didn't reward people for having higher K/D ratio's. There was more to it than just getting more kills.

I'm ok with it but just seems like they are making it too much like TDM. Scoring that way and having objectives means camping. Not sure that is a great change.
 

Foggy

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Not sure about that change, it incentivizes individual play more. I really wish everybody would copy DoD's setup, with flags that are insta-caps and one or two that require at least 2 people to be there the entire cap time. That really forced players to work together, especially with all the choke points.
 

Droigan

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titanfall is completely free to play this weekend, if you have a decent PC I recommend it I thought the combat in it was way more fun than Destiny, but Destiny's overall story/setting/questing/gear/etc was way better
Play Titanfall on PC for Free - Origin News
+ nets. Didn't know, never tried that so downloading now. Getting 50 gigs on my 128gig ssd felt like downloading a game for my old 60 gig PS3 hard drive though.... So many deleted things!

That said, not used Origin for a long time, but their download speed is... strange. The first 2 gigs downloaded at 10MB/s, while my connection is only 3MB/s. Then it slowed down to my regular speed. All lies from my internet supplier that I have the max here then...
 

spronk

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titanfall has 30 gigs of compressed audio so that part downloads extremely fast. its retarded as fuck that they didn't keep it compressed on the drive, but i guess they think having a 50 gig installed game is more impressive than a 20 gig one

i hope you have more drive space though because i think it has to download and then install, so you need a shit ton of space. i benchmarked it and there was virtually no difference between being on an SSD and being on a 7200 rpm drive in load times
 

Droigan

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titanfall has 30 gigs of compressed audio so that part downloads extremely fast. its retarded as fuck that they didn't keep it compressed on the drive, but i guess they think having a 50 gig installed game is more impressive than a 20 gig one

i hope you have more drive space though because i think it has to download and then install, so you need a shit ton of space. i benchmarked it and there was virtually no difference between being on an SSD and being on a 7200 rpm drive in load times
Well... no. I don't have more room to install. There is 60 gigs available, and not deleting anything else. I think the other hard drives are 5200rpm though and not 7200 (it is a laptop), so might be more of a difference. If I get an error with lack of space if it tries to install, I will switch to one of the slow speed hard drives though.

EDIT: Downloaded 33 gigs so far. Checked the origin settings and there is a temporary install directory listed in C: for the "install files", but that drive only has 9 gigs, so I think it downloads directly into F: (C and F are my SSDs). And since the final install is 50 gigs as you mention, I don't understand why it would require a separate install after downloading it unless it downloads the entire thing uncompressed to install it once more. Guessing the "install files" listed to go to the programorigin folder are more the initial patcher .exe files rather than the actual game.

EDIT2: Finished. No extra install other than the initial 50. Runs flawlessly too, put everything I could to max.
 

Xexx

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For those of you who don't find the humor in the Peter Dinklage's voiceover work from the alpha, you'll be happy to know that the beta will treat you to a new version. It will again be tweaked for the September 9 release.
Hope the sandy vag's are drying over this.
 

Vaclav

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LOL - so the shirt they made will only have context to alpha players. Makes me want the shirt even more. Might just have to get it now.
 

Grumpus

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Apparentlg a "top guild" was given a stab at he first raid zone. After 14 hours they were unable to complete it.

Could Zarc confirm or deny this? The thought of it being that difficult gives me wood.
 

Crone

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Apparentlg a "top guild" was given a stab at he first raid zone. After 14 hours they were unable to complete it.

Could Zarc confirm or deny this? The thought of it being that difficult gives me wood.
Do you really think they would leave it that difficult? No way they don't cave into the pussies and make it stupid easy.

Can you tell Blizzard WoW has made me a bitter cynic? lol
 

Fadaar

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Do you really think they would leave it that difficult? No way they don't cave into the pussies and make it stupid easy.

Can you tell Blizzard WoW has made me a bitter cynic? lol
Pretty sure we all feel that way now. I do like how things are now though with the tiered difficulty in WoW. Let the tards get the lesser loot and those who want to work for it get rewarded justly.