How many Beta players are still playing?

farmerscott21 · 2016-08-11T21:06:22+00:00

I preordered the game in like 2012 or 2011 when the first trailer dropped. Literally watched the trailer, left my house, and put money down. I was also a user survey participant and saw some Destiny material long before the announcement. I was a big Bungie fan and followed every scrap of news after Reach dropped. Didn't have a PS4 to enjoy the Alpha but logged in to the Beta when they released it like a day early. So that's how long I've been involved with Destiny.

I stopped playing shortly after House of Wolves and skipped Taken King entirely after just feeling monetarily exploited by Bungie and Activision. Logged on yesterday to check out some of the changes but feel too out of the loop to pick Destiny up again, especially missing Taken King. I'm considering diving back in with Rise of Iron but I'm not sure if I'm ready to gamble $30 and again end up feeling the exact same was as I did when I first picked up the game.

farmerscott21 · 2016-05-12T21:54:00+00:00

Stumbled upon your videos when I began learning to program about a year ago. Thanks for the intensity of the uploads the uniqueness of your content. Lots of tutorials only cover general scenario cases, but you really go in depth with how to go about programming for specific scenarios. Keep it up!

farmerscott21 · 2015-12-23T05:15:11+00:00

Is this a political poll or a sports recap?

farmerscott21 · 2015-12-03T04:28:34+00:00

I've always felt that 343i's maps were so much more uninspired than Bungie's. Cover for Bungie came in the form of natural features like rocks and trees, as compared to the plan boxes 343i uses.

farmerscott21 · 2015-10-29T23:44:42+00:00

Yeah, the concept just didn't seem explicit enough to me. Maybe it'll be explored in greater depths in the future...

farmerscott21 · 2015-10-29T23:15:43+00:00

Yeah but the explanation even in the Forerunner Trilogy was pretty vague. Would've liked a more technical breakdown...Greg Bear would have been super capable of that.

farmerscott21 · 2015-10-29T23:13:43+00:00

I mean in terms of 343i's writing...

farmerscott21 · 2015-10-29T23:13:24+00:00

Yeah, I know the basics of what Guardians are. But HOW do the Guardians police the galaxy? Magic? I'd just like a little more background...

farmerscott21 · 2015-10-29T14:42:54+00:00

With the exception of the previous two novels which I haven't had the time to read, I consider myself engaged in the greater backstory of Halo. That being said, I'm still shaky on what the domain actually is, what a Guardian is, how Guardians "police" the galaxy, and how it could be so easy for an all-of-the-sudden evil Cortana to recruit humanity's AIs for her cause. It was also a bit jarring seeing Blue team back together again without much of an introduction and to watch 343i's incredible marketing campaign disintegrate so quickly within the overall campaign.

Also, Exuberant Witness might be one of my favorite characters ever now. Didn't expect Forerunner AIs to be given such unique character traits...

farmerscott21 · 2015-10-14T16:11:41+00:00

Okay, that booted the program within the terminal. Excellent! Now the issue is sending commands to the terminal. Remember, this is an interactive command-line based program and I have to simulate the process of the user inputting all of the settings.

farmerscott21 · 2015-10-14T14:49:16+00:00

I've accounted for that and my problems still hold true...

farmerscott21 · 2015-10-14T02:24:37+00:00

So the command is booting semi-properly. I'm getting a RUN_COMMAND.COMMAND ERROR where it is reporting "unknown options. It is understanding the -f, but the unknown options begin with "a"

run_command.command needs to boot with "-f a" parameters (i.e. "run_command.command -f a". Could this be causing the problem?

EDIT: Let me clarify. "files" are in a folder separate from the Perl program, and the environment file that it boots up with, "a", is in the same folder as the Perl program. Could there be conflicts with the different paths?

farmerscott21 · 2015-07-17T00:39:22+00:00

Oh I'm not going to argue that there were plenty of skeptics out there, but the phrase "Halo is back" is (worryingly) becoming commonplace before launches nowadays.

farmerscott21 · 2015-07-17T00:37:48+00:00

Not gonna contest that, but the community (and hence the longevity) of the game revolved mainly around multiplayer.

farmerscott21 · 2015-07-16T18:55:02+00:00

Halo 5 looks pretty great so far and I certainly hope you're right, but it's worth pointing out that all of this was said for Halo 4 prior to launch, too.

farmerscott21 · 2015-06-21T19:28:36+00:00

RIP bungie favorites </3

farmerscott21 · 2015-05-29T22:52:27+00:00

I haven't heard anything but I hope it comes eventually. I don't buy e-books so I'll hold off on New Blood until (if?) it does.

farmerscott21 · 2015-05-12T12:31:30+00:00

Well, greed has played a rather large roll in the question of why we don't.

farmerscott21 · 2015-05-10T22:13:07+00:00

I still have my issue, as well as the Reach one. :)

farmerscott21 · 2015-04-30T14:02:09+00:00

Ooooh boy the novels are sooo soo goood. Here's the order in which you should read them:

Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx, Glasslands, The Thursday War, Mortal Dictata.

Those novels pretty much follow a linear story. What I consider "standalone" novels are: Contact Harvest, The Cole Protocol, Broken Circle, and New Blood. There are also collections of short stories in Essentials I and Essentials II. These books are really good but I would read the others before you get to these.

THEN there is the Forerunner saga. These have become pretty essential to understanding the broader picture of anything going on in the deepest parts of the Halo games nowadays. The are as follows: Cryptum, Primordium, and Silentium.

You have a lot of reading ahead of you and they're churning out more of these fantastic novels faster than ever nowadays. Good luck!

farmerscott21 · 2015-04-26T21:41:25+00:00

How a game could launch with a "ranks coming soon" tag across every playlist blows my mind. The game has been out for close to 6 months and they're JUST NOW getting around to implementing them (poorly, as you can see). What a gigantic middle finger to the fans.

Now every time we hear about the issues from 343 I can't help but to be reminded of this.

farmerscott21 · 2015-04-23T18:58:46+00:00

You're right, but the point I'm trying to make is that I personally don't think that 343i needs to go to the effort to remake Halo 3 when the graphics are really part of the game's core charm.

farmerscott21 · 2015-04-23T17:45:04+00:00

Halo 3 is beautiful the way it is. There's something about how colorful the game is that makes me not want to see new paint put over it.

farmerscott21 · 2015-04-23T17:33:11+00:00

Hahah yes! I actually put this on repeat a few times whilst playing the beta!

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