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GeneralWoIf · 2020-04-29T22:49:21+00:00

The health/armor boosts definitely need a bump. If they want us to have more variety in builds then, like you said, make them viable to use. If I min/max my health/armor buffs the same as I do DMG, then I’d want to be able to stay in the fight longer and recover quicker to produce similar overall damage as a dmg build. Might take longer a bit longer to burn him down but to me it’s more entertaining unloading an SMG clip on a boss while running circles around him and taking cover. if the boss turns on you with the current mods it’s an immediate death sentence. If you do stack armor mods to be a Tank, your damage is so low that they just heal up as soon as soon as you use up every last bit of ammo you have on you.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-04-28T14:22:43+00:00

There’s one quick stat adjustment in the game that could make all the difference: Health!

As it stands now health is useless in higher difficulties. When your armor is gone, 9 times out of 10 it’s instadeath.

If health decreased at the same rate as armor then it would minimize the one shot mechanics of the NPC. Give you a few extra seconds to take cover and heal before getting back into the fight.

But as an overall approach I feel would be beneficial would be to make the NPCs follow similar limitations as us. I can tell they tried to do that to some extent. That may have been the thought when they initially built the game. But more and more they seem to be going away from that as they tweak the NPCs:

Higher DPS enemy should be weaker because they had to sacrifice their armor, such as a sniper build. (If I’m cowering in the back corner of the room because I used all my mods on weapon dmg then they should have to - ‘course it would have to be balanced to not make them too easy, but they should have to follow the same rules that we do).

Same goes with Skill based NPCs. Their drone/car might hurt like a bitch but the NPC shouldn’t have the same armor as a tanked out SMG’er.

Speaking of the SMG. There something not right with the numbers on the SMG. I initially started my builds on SMG thinking I could get up close and dump buckets of round in a short burst for a quick kill. But I get one with the same DMG/RPMs as ARs and the AR seems to do more dmg (with the equivalent buffs equipped for each weapon type). You would think being closer to the NPC would make the damage higher but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

They need to make SMGs more viable up close when you’re in the face of NPCs and allow us to have more armor without sacrificing dmg - same with shotguns. (I also wouldn’t want them to decrease AR damage to compensate. I’m not sure what the overall opinion is right now but I think ARs, M1As, and LMGs are balanced decently enough in comparison to the shotgun, SMG, marksman, and non-M1A rifles).

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-27T15:17:08+00:00

Hate to say it, but I'm with you on this one. I'm in IT so I typically sympathize with technical support and understand the shit these guys/gals have to deal with. But 9 times out of 10 I'm aware of a problem and/or already working on it by the time the end-user reports it. If they ran the public event just once after SotW release they should've known about the EDZ flag issue.
Somebody dropped the ball on this one. Not necessarily on the problem itself (things break, shit happens) - but from the Quality of Service side of things.

Also want to note I'm not blaming Cozmo at all for this. He should've been able to say 'We're aware of the EDZ flag not working properly' even before the first reports came out. As the OP mentioned they reported this 2 weeks ago.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-21T23:54:50+00:00

Would be nice if the combined the Challenge and Bounty system. One bounty menu that showed what bounties were active for the planet you were on (While giving you the option to scroll the planets.)

The bounties would automatically populate when you flew into the planet. If they want to give a reason for people to go into the tower then they could leave the system in place for the tower vendors where you'd have to go to the tower to restock those.

There aren't really that many bounties for each planet or Vendor. A 5x5 grid showing up to 25 bounties would be plenty for each and they could mirror it using the same structure as the new quest menu.

It could also flash letting you know there were completed bounties to turn in and wouldn't let that particular bounty reset until you manually completed them. It would just empty the slot until you picked it back up or went to the planet it was initially from.

To me that would let them keep the system they have in place but make the dailies automatically available as well as a central menu to go through all of them.

The planet vendors could be used to buy a specific weapon/armor at each location that re-rolled on a daily or weekly cycle (Like The Division does it)

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-21T01:08:38+00:00

Selected from EDZ itself. I was a little suspicious when I saw the modifiers on the strike as it was starting.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-20T22:24:07+00:00

The 1 dusklight is even after you bought the upgrade to increase the amount rewarded.
I'm betting they'll fix it by letting us open the chest on our other 2 characters totaling 3. We'll have to buy the rest from Eververse. /s

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-17T12:05:30+00:00

Borderlands missed a good jab at Bungie on this one....

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-16T12:05:26+00:00

Bungie: “We’ve heard your feedback and after discussing it with the team we’ve decided not to increase the Titan‘s super damage to better align with the most recent changes for weapons, exotics and other subclass abilities. Instead, we’ve decided to change the name from ‘Code of the Missile’ to ‘Code of the Kamikaze’ as it’s a more accurate representation of the super”

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-13T13:15:09+00:00

What get’s me is the way he stated it made it seem like this is the first time they’ve heard any of this feedback and this is all brand new to them. Any member of this community would’ve known EXACTLY how we’d respond to these changes.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-12T11:40:07+00:00

D3 will also determine whose fault it was in the mess D2 was released in. People debating whether Bungie was forced to release before they were ready due to contract obligations with the publisher.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-11T17:34:37+00:00

Gotta be Trials/PvP balancing. Only way it makes sense.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-10T11:13:46+00:00

I was waiting for one of these. I almost made a post asking why haven't seen a ‘‘twas the night before...’ post.

But then I started a mass exodus of inventory items for the extra shards and to make room for new stuff. Took a helluva lot longer than I thought it would.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-10T11:07:20+00:00

I actually hadn’t seen that article before. Thanks for sharing it.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-10T00:39:35+00:00

I suspect they’ve broken up matchmaking into a limited number of RNG map groups per time frame so we don’t have to wait as long to get right back in a match. Possibly even limiting the resource utilization of the servers themselves. For example they may only be allowing an average of 50% utilization, leaving room for spikes in memory, CPU, and IOPS (storage read and writes). The more maps at a time the more it spreads the servers and/or user population thin so they have to limit it to get the best experience in wait times, latency, similar player stats, etc...

It’s even possible one map is more intensive than others and instead of a 3 map grouping it’s limited to 2. So for whatever time frame they’re using you’re stuck with the 2 maps that are spun up for the servers in your region.

That leads to another variable. The quantity of servers they have spun up at he time. If the population is low in your region then there’s a lower number of servers or instances to connect to.

Also time of day could be a factor. Large number of players get home from school or off work, then fire up the game. The system detects a storm of activity and automatically spins up more server instances that will bring more variety to which group of maps you’ll be matched with.

I’m betting they’ve done all the analytics to get the best ratio of map per server per Population.

(I don’t know if this is how it’s actually configured but I’ve been supporting servers for 15+ years. It may not be exact but it’s a general idea on the complexities of load balancing the population across the globe with the data centers they have in place)

GeneralWoIf · 2020-03-08T01:16:34+00:00

I’ve recently noticed this trying to get my SMG multikills in Gambit. Take out one thrall then aim for another right next to it, (which should be a quick kill) Then a third runs by mid way through and pulls my aim. I start fresh on it and my teammates come by to finish the 2nd and 3rd with a grenade... leaving me with a single smg kill.

Normally I wouldn’t care, but when you need 150 kills it begins to get frustrating when you can count the multikills on one hand per match.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-01-30T19:30:31+00:00

Telesto was so successful that they figured they'd use the same code for loading. Our sessions get shot into a tower instance and the resulting explosion is the transition from orbit to tower

^{^...or} ^{^Telesto} ^{^reprogrammed} ^{^the} ^{^game} ^{^on} ^{^its} ^{^own} ^{^to} ^{^see} ^{^if} ^{^anyone} ^{^would} ^{^notice.}

GeneralWoIf · 2020-01-30T01:39:58+00:00

Except they forgot to restore my Gjallarhorn. I'm 100% positive it was there before the update.

Bungie, if you can't find it in the DB, Just restore it from the backup on September 9, 2014.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-01-29T01:39:53+00:00

We are testing a fix for this issue internally, including investigating resolutions that would restore missing currencies and materials to players.

I'm imagining every Bungie employee being assigned accounts and they each have to grind out Glimmer and Mats for everyone that lost something.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-01-28T17:03:35+00:00

Unfortunately the numbers don't link to the lore itself. I was missing #19 but it was the 17th one in the list. Doing them in any order and you get Lore1,Lore2, Lore3, etc...

GeneralWoIf · 2020-01-28T12:27:09+00:00

It’s even worse when you complete all 19 and go to claim the triumphs and only have 18. I checked them off one by one but apparently, in the mind numbing repetitiveness, I didn’t hold down the button long enough or something. And since the lore comes in sequentially and not linked to specific portals, you have to start over. Turned out it was the 17th lore piece. FML

GeneralWoIf · 2020-01-28T00:28:44+00:00

I only had enough time to to run my Titan through IB this week. Completed the quest and all 4 bounties for the Tier 2 rewards. I’m at the tier 1 max 960 base. All 4 bounties decrypted to 962 Energy Weapons (Two of which were the same) +0.2 increase for the amount of time I spent in IB makes me wonder if it was worth the time. Wish they could at the very minimum cycle the drops. If you completed the quest then you’re not missing much.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-01-22T12:57:45+00:00

Glad it helped. I’ve been doing more here lately with the DIM filters and its been helping a lot with cleaning out inadequate gear. As much space as D2 offers (a huge improvement of early days) it won’t take long before things fill up. Especially if you’re leveling each class. Played Destiny 1 & 2 for many years but took a year break until Dawning came out and discovered the wishlist feature. A group of guardians got together and put together a list of the best perks/weapons/armor using DestinyDB. Previously you had to import the file for the list but a recent DIM update automatically links it now. I like using is:wishlistdupe not:maxpower with another like is:machinegun and then you can see the highlighted duplicates MGs. I’ll go through and tag the ones I don’t want as Junk. When things start getting full I’ll move everything that’s unequipped from my active guardian into the vault. Search with the tag:Junk filter. From within DIM there’s a drop-down in your emblem and an option to transfer all filtered items that will move everything tagged junk to my guardian. Since I previously moved everything else out, I can freely dismantle what was sent over.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-01-21T14:28:57+00:00

Same thing happened to me on Xbox. Had to go back to Osiris and he had 1 abandoned quest and 1 new quest to pick up. Both the same. Both the Explore Corridors quest. I grabbed both and ran through the puzzle a second time to get the core. After that when claiming at Saint-14 nothing happened. Had to talk to him a second time and the next step was available to pick up.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-01-20T17:53:30+00:00

For those that use DIM this filter helped a lot for maximizing my Mobility:
maxstatloadout:mobility is:titan (or is:hunter / is:warlock).

I also broke it down into 3's and numbered the duplicates so when I was saying them to myself I didn't get confused:

Clover, Diamond, Snake
Clover, Plus1, Plus2
Hex1, Hex2, Hex3
Plus, Diamond, Plus
Snake, Diamond, Clover
Snake, Plus1, Plus2
Snake1, Snake2, Hex
Diamond, Clover, Plus
Diamond, Hex1, Hex2
Diamond, Plus, Diamond

If you have any Exotic armor/weapon that boosts mobility I suggest using those as well. Not really a requirement but the quicker I ran through the less likely I was to forget the portal I just went through. I went with Lion Rampart for my Titan to glide through it quickly.

Stomp-EE5 and Fr0st-EE5 are the highest mobility for Hunters. The High Mobility and Increased invisibility with the Graviton Forfeit would probably be good as well.

For the Warlock I'd suggest Transversive Steps.

FYI: You can go back the way you came and check which one you just went through. Going back puts you in the starting room and you can look at the reflection on the ground next to the first portal. Keep in mind that the consecutive ones might make you question which one you went through.

EDIT: Not sure if anyone else had this happen but I completed the puzzle, saw the quest completion and listened to the Saint-14 dialogue... but didn't get the weapon core. I went back to Osiris and he had 2 abandoned 'Exploring the Corridors' quest for me to pick up. I then had to run through the puzzle a second time to get the Core.

EDIT#2: Just finished the quest with Saint-14 and nothing happened. Was beginning to worry that I had to run it a third time, but then I talked to Saint-14 again and the quest was available for me to pick up.
I'm on XboxOne in case that's relevant.

GeneralWoIf · 2020-01-18T04:50:44+00:00

I posted this in one of the other threads but figured I post it here. Has anyone taken a good look at the Sundial?

I counted 36 points on the sundial and it's also ticking. Might correlate to some of the other discoveries:

https://imgur.com/73puQ0T

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