The Destiny Thread

[Bubba]

I'm on PS4 so if anyone wants to hook up (on Destiny not penetrative sex) then let me know.

PSN: Dannyeg5dby

[Aulayna]

I still haven't done Vault yet... mostly because I am so terribly geared. I didn't enjoy things once I hit lv20 and it just became an uninspired grindfest that was dull by even MMO standards.

Vault looks cool, but I doubt I'll ever do it.

Are you on Xbox or playstation? Sorry if you mentioned it earlier... @____@;

I am PS4

[Leigh]

If I'm not really into collecting stuff, is it worth me getting this game?

[Iceglow]

For the benefit of Leigh and any other people who still haven't gotten in to Destiny:

Destiny is essentially a loot based FPS game. It's the FPS equivalent of Diablos 2 or 3. I mean that in the sense of you play through the somewhat disappointing/meagre (I'd love to say there was more to it than there is as what is hinted at through the game and explained somewhat but not fully enough in the grimoire is super cool and interesting. The fact is that none of the currently available material from Bungie does the game universe justice) story and then repeat the game on harder and harder difficulties until you get the best gear in the game.

There's six (7 or 8 if you're playstation I believe) strikes which are harder, longer missions than normal and these can be played either at the level they were designed for or on harder settings up until the highest settings in the game (light level 28) these are however just a 3 man warm up to the real fights. There's now 2 raids in the game, the Vault of Glass for levels 26 - 30 and Crota's End for level 28 - 32. In the vanilla game, you only get access to the Vault of Glass. These fights are 6 person team co-op battles which involve puzzle solving, team work and a lot of time and skill. Vault of Glass from start to finish can take in the region of 5 or 6 hours to do. It can be very hard to do these challenges if you don't have the equipment or the friends to do it with. (They can be completed with random people via group finding sites like Destiny LFG but these groups are generally not so good at staying together which is important when one of your mates keeps getting stuck on the same part and causing the team to wipe!) These raids reward the player with the best equipment in the game bar none.

Sadly there's no player trade system so you can't give a sweet piece of equipment you find for say a Titan (the tank of Destiny's 3 classes) which is useless to your Hunter (the stealth/range dealer type) to a friend. However, using the storage system you can share resources and equipment between your own alt characters (so like I have a Hunter and a Titan who pool resources but each has their own weapon loadouts)

If you're not in to games like Diablos 2 or 3, avoid Destiny because you'll dislike it immensely (even though it has some of the best multi player FPS gaming out there at the moment.

Also Vanessa, we will definitely be doing that raid again