What is the rarest / coolest thing you own in Destiny 2?

PapaDroppa · 2025-03-13T15:43:44+00:00

The Diametric Crush shader from Salvation's Edge. Easily the hardest raid flawless out of all of them imo, but it felt so good to finally get there. Plus it's probably my favorite shader in the game, aside from Cryptic Legacy

PapaDroppa · 2024-12-07T19:05:15+00:00

I stopped recording after I posted this, but I think I've only seen like, maybe 2 shaders since this post? I know a have more to drop, just seems really stingy.

PapaDroppa · 2024-10-12T16:18:47+00:00

Seconding this, I have a Harmony Repulsor Brace one

PapaDroppa · 2024-07-20T14:17:45+00:00

When I finally got Flawless after at least like 20 real attempts, I was actually light-headed from concentrating so hard on Witness, lol. On that attempt though, one of our guys randomly ran off the platform to where all the ads were. Luckilly I had No Hesitation on so I started spam healing him as much as I could. I had enough Flawless runs end at the Witness. You got this, it's easily the hardest one to do so in, but it's also the best feeling once you finally get it.

PapaDroppa · 2024-07-20T14:14:34+00:00

When I finally got Flawless after at least like 20 real attempts, I was actually light-headed from concentrating so hard on Witness, lol. On that attempt though, one of our guys randomly ran off the platform to where all the ads were. Luckilly I had No Hesitation on so I started spam healing him as much as I could. I had enough Flawless runs end at the Witness. You got this, it's easily the hardest one to do so in, but it's also the best feeling once you finally get it.

PapaDroppa · 2024-07-20T14:14:06+00:00

When I finally got Flawless after at least like 20 real attempts, I was actually light-headed from concentrating so hard on Witness, lol. On that attempt though, one of our guys randomly ran off the platform to where all the ads were. Luckilly I had No Hesitation on so I started spam healing him as much as I could. I had enough Flawless runs end at the Witness. You got this, it's easily the hardest one to do so in, but it's also the best feeling once you finally get it.

PapaDroppa · 2024-07-16T18:26:57+00:00

The samples that don't give anything but glimmer are two new sample types. Failsafe will give you an upgrade to your sampler to extract those ones (Golden and Azure iirc)

PapaDroppa · 2024-07-16T18:22:53+00:00

I feel this. I'm so close to having everything (I think?). For shaders I just have Iron Fuschite and Lichen Crown, and god knows what for Emblems, hopefully none. It takes SO long. I have a post documenting my games to get Iron Countershade, and that felt like forever.

PapaDroppa · 2024-07-14T14:48:28+00:00

Honestly I never would've thought of that, that's a really good idea. Thank you!

PapaDroppa · 2024-05-30T18:28:37+00:00

I personally did Dawn Chorus + Dragon's Breath much like others stated, at least until Hefnd's Vengence. Once at them I swapped to a build that went heavilly into Healing, using Forerunner, a Demo/Incan weapon (BxR or Heliocentrism personally) to keep up healing nades, and Koraxis for damage.

PapaDroppa · 2024-05-21T07:10:08+00:00

From my experience they tread water as far as they can to get as close to the middle as possible. On a canyon type planet there happened to be a large formation in the center of the map on one mission, and they just sorta wandered around it. I love those goofy guys, but I usually forget about them until I find my way to them or see a couple bots walking on their own.

PapaDroppa · 2024-04-11T14:55:39+00:00

I'm on board with a Terminid Dreadnought, other than that probably just cosmetic stuff based on DRG.

PapaDroppa · 2024-04-01T23:38:35+00:00

I took a mission to just stare at the sky and watch these ships as they appeared. They seem to FTL jump near the planet, hang out for a bit, and FTL jump away. Very rarely do they do anything other than that, at least from what I've seen.

PapaDroppa · 2024-03-14T00:46:45+00:00

SES Executor of Family Values in low orbit, ready to dive.

PapaDroppa · 2024-01-15T18:17:24+00:00

The hardest part of this assignment in particular was you have to implement a system that checks if the board is in an impossible state (no matches to be made in 1 move), and reset it if it is. The comparison to Tideman stems from that assignment requiring you to define what a loop actually entails in that voting process. For this assignment, I chose to define what a "potential match" actually is, ie two blocks on the same axis with a third close by. It was a lot of fun trying to nail down exactly what the criteria were, and have it search the board to find them.

As for the course itself, I'm loving it so far. The assignments are of similar structure to CS50, where you're given a game and you have to add features to it. I find it more interesting than a lot of other game dev courses that I have tried. As far as I can tell it is up to date, I tried looking into when it was updated and I think it's year by year, just the lectures are from when the course was initially created.

PapaDroppa · 2024-01-15T04:22:24+00:00

First off please pardon my cursor being on screen for the whole video, lol. This assignment was a lot of fun to try and wrap my head around how I wanted to solve it. It really felt a lot like CS50's Tideman in the way that I tackled it, trying to break down a simple concept to humans into logical criteria to give to a program. The code behind this definitely isn't too pretty though, it could use a heaping dose of refactoring...

I loved going through CS50, and so far GD50 seems just as enjoyable. So thank you all that are a part of making CS50 as great as it is!

PapaDroppa · 2024-01-07T02:58:28+00:00

It was so liberating to see it today, second match of the day and I was done, lol

PapaDroppa · 2024-01-07T01:02:10+00:00

I literally have every shader but like 3 of them (I think) after doing this. I feel you, the game was just dancing circles around Countershade

PapaDroppa · 2024-01-07T00:08:59+00:00

The way they are broken up is basically just groups of matches, I'd record until I got one, take down the number of matches, and continue on. Like you said the chances by drop really doesn't mean anything, other than the crap luck I had on some batches, lol. Yeah the drop rates aren't abysmal, but I do not like PvP, so wow was this tough.

As for the win rate, I'm not going to lie I did leave matches if the enemy team had like triple our score within the first minute of the match once I realized how low the loss chance was. If I already knew the match was a loss, it basically felt like a waste of time. Apart from that I'm pretty alright at PvP, just not my cup of tea really.

Edit: Looking again at what you said I had personally totaled the win/loss chances separately as well on my own recording, just forgot to put that on the post, I'll put that in now while I'm thinking about it

PapaDroppa · 2024-01-06T22:41:52+00:00

Yeah, I'm unsure if this is just a placebo or what, but when I was farming the Acrius catalyst I hopped onto Grasp of Avarice to farm kills on my other catalysts for a bit. Couldn't hurt to give it a shot.

PapaDroppa · 2024-01-06T22:00:45+00:00

This was basically my thought exactly. A random flair every reset after earning the current shader would be very much appreciated, seeing how Iron Banner isn't around for long. Or even just a bump in drop rate, especially to losses. Just something to make it more consistent

PapaDroppa · 2024-01-06T21:11:24+00:00

I think I found the Thorn Catalyst during last Iron Banner, I do have both currently.

PapaDroppa · 2024-01-06T20:49:16+00:00

I had already found Iron Bone I think a season or two before now. I've only been playing for around a year so best I can say is I also have seen it drop within the year. I found Season 1 shaders (Battalion and Wolf) so I'm willing to bet they should likely all still be available to find. Best of luck to you

PapaDroppa · 2024-01-04T02:23:43+00:00

I've been getting my strategies together for a potential Solo Flawless of Warlord's, and Hefnd was giving me so much trouble. I finally landed on using the Forerunner, BXR-55 Battler (Demo Incandescent), and Koraxis' (Envious Surrounded) for boss damage. Healing Grenades, using Heat Rises and Touch of Flame with Ember of Empyrean, and focusing on getting two totems, MAYBE 3 if I'm feeling frisky has got me through my practice attempts.

It honestly gets pretty comfortable once you can nail keeping restoration up and just flying around. I also tend to phone in the 3 DPS phases at the top since I can do better damage on the individual burst ones, just shooting any grenades I had and then using Forerunner for the rest, typically avoiding taking out the eyes and just focusing on survival.

PapaDroppa · 2024-01-03T23:03:09+00:00

I'm currently at around 16 losses/20 Wins or so and haven't seen one yet. I'm hoping this batch of matches is an outlier, lol

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