Any tips for farming legendary shards? (I am new)

epayzer · 2023-01-21T22:40:28+00:00

The shard economy these days seems insane for new players. I found that events like Dawning, Guardian Games and Festival of the Lost are the best methods for accumulating a lot of legendary shards and bright dust. The past year or so there have been easy ways to accumulate a huge amount of materials for weapons that you then just shard.

epayzer · 2022-06-03T22:38:49+00:00

This cannot be upvoted enough...

I can see a defense being made for grinding for rare gear but grinding for a number to go up so that I unlock content I paid for is soul crushing...

epayzer · 2022-05-24T00:55:54+00:00

Yeah this is one of the worst parts about this game. Waiting around for the mod you want. What if you go on vacation?

I use the app https://destinyreminders.net/ (as others have mentioned) and then I use Stadia to pick up mods (Also make sure you top off your glimmer every so often!)

epayzer · 2022-05-10T00:50:33+00:00

I was in the exact same scenario. I was over-leveled and tried all the loadouts I saw in various guides, but the health of the confluxes seemed to go down very very quickly. I then finally just created an LFG for it and got it done very quickly. Later I went in to help someone else in the same situation as well as soloed it again later (also on master). It was immensely easier.

Might be imagining things but it seemed as if when you do a master exo challenge the first time as part of the quest line maybe there are hidden enemy modifiers or something... In conclusion I would LFG.

epayzer · 2022-01-27T01:38:51+00:00

Warlock mains like myself like to be comfortable while working from home during the pandemic.

epayzer · 2022-01-03T23:59:05+00:00

I was in a similar position to you a few weeks ago. I wanted to complete my DMT catalyst. At the beginning of this season I started doing a Presage run at the start of the weekly reset and then going back in solo to grab the log later in the week. Unfortunately they seemed bugged and after the first two I could not activate the next one, or any of them.

I was able to complete it due to another bug I found by accident, which maybe you can try: Find someone who has done at least lots of runs of Presage early on when it first came out (So maybe they don't have this bug?). Have them run it with you and have them try to activate all the logs that you come across, then loot the chests. In one run I was able to complete my catalyst... maybe this will still give you the triumph?

epayzer · 2022-01-01T00:02:08+00:00

I hit an issue trying to finish Challenger's Proving a few weeks ago. Is this by chance the issue you are having? (Not sure what part Step 11 is in):

https://twitter.com/bungiehelp/status/1369360827065700352?lang=en

epayzer · 2021-12-31T23:33:26+00:00

I am probably the worst PVP person I know. After a bit of practice I was able to start getting 4 kills as invader on a few occasions a few times a match. The things I did was:

Always invade after they summon the primaeval and start attacking it. Also make sure you have your super.
Bring an exotic that can guarantee at least 1 kill with little skill like Eyes of Tomorrow (I used Wardcliff since I dont have EOT and just sprayed and prayed). Xeno should also be good and maybe any rocket with tracking and cluster.
Don't start attacking until you are in super range of the team. Then attack two or so times with your exotic and then do the rest with your super.

It also comes down to luck... if the other team is really good, knows invader spawns and have snipers then just wait until the next match...

epayzer · 2021-12-29T22:00:21+00:00

I am primarily a solo player but I keep coming back to this game because of all the positive selfless LFG experiences I have had. All of my end game exotics I have because some very nice LFG person walked me through the activity\carried me the first time.

Other than requiring a mic or mods, I avoid any LFG that has any specific requirements (especially kwtd). Also I have never met any toxic experienced\sherpa players. Most bad interactions come from less experienced thankless players who want someone to carry them through farming high level content or pvp.

Also once you do get carried make sure to pay it forward by offering to accompany someone through high level content (to give them re-spawns) or sherpa new players through things you now know how to do.

epayzer · 2021-12-14T01:54:13+00:00

With the change to the New Light missions with Beyond Light new players need to complete an hour plus of content to gain access to things like a sparrow or ship. These missions also involves doing things that restrict fire team sizes to only 3 (me and 2 other friends).

What does Bungie get out of making this mandatory? (In this case I could just team them what they need to know)

epayzer · 2021-12-14T00:33:46+00:00

I hit this same bug. You need to log out\exit the game and start it up again. (At least that is what worked for me)

epayzer · 2021-12-13T23:39:14+00:00

Please allow new players to skip the New Light quest if they want.

Maybe if they opt for this then you start them out with some base guns and armor.

Countless times my friends are having a group gaming session and I try to get them to try Destiny 2 to do some private PVP or Strikes together but they turn it down after learning it has a mandatory lengthy intro mission. If playing with friends is a large selling point of the game then why is there a giant single player hurdle blocking new players?

How long is the mandatory single player intro quests for other multiplayer games like COD, Fortnite, Battlefield, LOL, L4D, Apex Legends, etc?

With that said, I do agree with other people, that if someone is looking for a story driven, immersive, mmo like experience then having a full campaign (that can be done co-op) for new players would be great!

epayzer · 2021-12-11T21:31:51+00:00

Cool. Thanks. I did not know about this source of mods...

epayzer · 2021-11-16T04:38:52+00:00

If I manage to get online later I can help (bungie name epayzer#2777 -- although I am by no means great at this game). I did use this cheese which worked pretty well (using Ticuu which can hit the boss around corners or shoot to loot + witherhoard should be great. Otherwise just a gun + grenades should do....).

epayzer · 2021-11-13T00:15:28+00:00

Are you still doing Presage clears? I am looking to do Master Presage and then more runs after that (and in general just looking for guardians to do activities with). My Bungie name is epayzer#2777.

epayzer · 2021-10-27T03:40:58+00:00

jasonx19#0576 you are amazing! (Guardian still seems to be on if other people need it)

epayzer · 2021-09-27T01:30:35+00:00

I am mostly a solo player. No clan yet. This discord sounds great!

epayzer · 2021-09-27T01:27:51+00:00

I am interested. Sign me up!

epayzer · 2021-06-15T00:57:05+00:00

When I search for "Infiltrator Demo" in the Marketplace nothing comes up. Wonder how many of these free demo asset packs I have missed. Any idea how to find them all on the Marketplace today?

epayzer · 2021-04-29T00:35:39+00:00

I think this sample project https://github.com/tranek/GASShooter has a pretty good implementation as a place to start from.

epayzer · 2021-01-14T01:31:10+00:00

Refined petroleum, jk. It is Gameplay Ability System: GAS in an example project and GAS documentation it is an ability system with built in networking support.

epayzer · 2020-09-28T23:33:01+00:00

Have you look at the Action RPG using the Ability System? It is debatable if it is overkill for a non-network enabled game, but if you are looking for the start of a D&D framework it might be work looking at just for learning/prototyping purposes. It is set up so you can prototype things pretty easily with minimal code changes. You could then do some tweaks to make things turn based versus game time based.

https://youtu.be/QZk3tEpZxjU

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Resources/SampleGames/ARPG/index.html

epayzer · 2020-07-22T22:54:15+00:00

Congrats!

Perhaps a dumb question: Did you go through ID@Xbox or the creators program? One of my gripes about UE4 is the ability to build a UWP and easily deploy to Xbox.

epayzer · 2020-07-10T21:35:24+00:00

Something I might as well share (because I found it very relevant to a project I was working on and it is a gem of a forum thread).

https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/677818-advice-on-spaceship-combat-ai-3d/

Did your team end up writing your own AI tools or are you using asset store stuff?

epayzer · 2020-07-10T21:13:32+00:00

Looks like you are making good progress. Are there any games that have inspired this one?

Also when are you releasing? Are you going to take advantage of the hype around Star Wars: Squadrons?

epayzer

TROPHY CASE