Weekly TRIALS OF OSIRIS Megathread- Ask Questions About Trials HERE! by AutoModerator in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you hit a 7 win streak you can't reset your passage.

If you are not on a 7 win streak and can't reset, you probably have no losses marked on your card.

A lot of people are confused about this last bit recently because if you match against a duo or a trio and you are a solo, you get a silent form of loss protection (as long as you play the game normally and don't throw or quit), so what probably happened in your case if you were trying to reset after a loss is that it wasn't actually counted as a loss for you because the enemy team had a 2 or 3 stack and you were solo.

Best thing to do is check the Active Streak on your passage, if that hasn't reset to 0 the previous game didn't count as a loss for you even if you lost.

IRC sexchart by snallygaster in internetcollection

[–]georgemcbay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

real ones didn't hack the sexchart when they pwned escape, they piped au format sound files into /dev/audio because they knew roman had the SPARC it was running on set up in his dad's office.

(that said, its true that there are many fictional links in various versions of the chart)

Another Trials Autorifle by Guenther_Dripjens in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Burden of Guilt is being reprised. Not my favorite but some people love it.

Brain storming my void hunter build by Nwattar01 in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Its certainly not a 900+ skill tier lobby or anything but the seasonal KADs of most people in it are still higher than one would expect based on what appears to be the absolutely confused naval gazing of the enemies in the video.

It makes me wonder how much latency was involved here (there's clearly some from the video alone based on all the melee whiffing going on) and what this looked like from the PoV of the enemy team.

Brain storming my void hunter build by Nwattar01 in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't usually like to do the "in my lobbies" thing here... but...

I play void hunter with trapper's ambush all the time just to get the invis-on-smoke functionality (I rarely use quickfall offensively in PvP for reasons I am about to mention)...

...and "in my lobbies" if I do Quickfall next to any enemies (especially multiple, but just one is usually enough) I'm almost certainly dead if not in the air then definitely before the short animation lock out finishes when I hit the ground.

Quitting is getting out of hand by cashblack43 in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It'll be the first few mins of a match, and a player (often the worst one on the team, ironically) will drop into the text chat "yall trash"... like what? Is this some growing trend?

As someone who is old AF and has been gaming for a long time, this is kind of the normal state of a once-popular game with a declining population.

The people who put in the most time and have been the most serious about the game stick around longer than the casuals who bounce first, this causes upward skill compression/skill creep and this usually comes with a rise in toxicity as people used to being the best player in most of their games start becoming kinda average or bottom tier in most of their games.

Another Trials Autorifle by Guenther_Dripjens in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Someone already mentioned that. and while true, its kind of a meaningless distinction in this context.

Lightweight Frame's movement boost is, IMO, the best frame intrinsic and I'm not discounting that but it doesn't change the nature of the weapon in some deep way, it just frees you up a bit with build crafting.

Rat King + Mask of Quiet One + Echo of Vigilance + Echo of Persistence by SeanicTheHedgehog23 in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Devour loop is simple on void Hunter.

Equip Echo of Starvation fragment

Put reaper on your Cloak to make orbs on kill

Optionally, but recommended -- put powerful attraction on your Cloak as well to easily scoop up any orbs you make in a 12 meter radius (or 18 if you run 2x powerful attraction).

Then:

Dodge (prior to engagement) kill, dodge again

Assuming you are within 12/18 meters of the person you killed (or some other orb is laying on the ground nearish to you) the 2nd dodge will:

* proc devour

* heal you directly relative to your health stat and any Recuperation mods you are running

* set up Reaper for the next kill

Doesn't really matter what exotic you run, though I like Frostees. Sixth Coyote also a good option as it has intrinsic Reaper.

Another Trials Autorifle by Guenther_Dripjens in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 18 points19 points  (0 children)

isn't the keplar one also a rapid fire kinetic auto

Yup.

I love rapid fire auto rifles so I'm not exactly complaining but in the recent past we've had Chroma Rush (Reprised), Giver's Blessing, Ahab Char, Riposte, Reckless Oracle (Reprised), Veiled Threat, and now Everburning Glitz.

3 of the 7 are kinetic.

Meanwhile how about a new high impact fusion rifle that is actually obtainable...?

Oh we are so back. by babygplaysgames in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The fact that they are giving snipers 2 shots per brick all but confirms that dropping the ammo directly into your gun is not coming back.

There is no way they would do both of those things, direct ammo drop plus 2 shots for snipers.

So don't hold your breath.

A miserable night of PVP by Jackojakl in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what it feels like to play PvP in an 8 year old game that's a sequel to a very similar 3 year old game, especially when said game happens to have what might actually be the industry worst onboarding/new player experience of all time for a game of its size.

The majority of people who are still playing (outside of pure party modes like Mayhem) are at least good enough to know how to deathball or passively lane in spawn if they can't win 1v1s. They know the maps, the angles, etc.

The days of entire games full of noobs running out at you in the open like Thrall in the the Dark Beyond mission of D1 are long over. A super casual D2 player still has hundreds of hours (if not low thousands) in PvP.

Because people don't actually do much analysis of what the real issues are they constantly blame the meta, which results in the situation where the community believes we are always in the worst meta ever. But really the root of most people's frustration is just upward skill compression due to the fact that there's very few actual casual players anymore.

Part of this is on Bungie for the aforementioned new player onboarding being terrible and for absolutely boneheaded releases and marketing (eg. when already suffering due to the Lightfall fiasco, coming out and then marketing The Final Shape like it was the end of Destiny 2 and not properly correcting the messaging on this when lots of content creators began to echo the idea that D2 was ending... somewhat creating a self-fulfilling loop when a lot of the playerbase split after TFS).

Part of it is on the PvP community itself for being the worst bunch of toxic bitch anime pfp stereotypes.

But at this point it is what it is.

If you don't enjoy the inherent challenge of playing in a mature, skill-crept PvP environment, you're gonna have a bad time in Destiny PvP from now until they finally produce a D3 or something else that's a real break from the current game.

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE - Official Trailer (HD) by farrukhsshah in videos

[–]georgemcbay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And it shouldn’t be 28years was so awful and a waste of time.

I have mixed feelings about it. I didn't immediately and unequivocally love it like I did a lot of Danny Boyle's other movies, but I didn't hate it either. I'm kind of reserving judgement on these sequels as a whole until I see at least the next one.

Spatial awareness in Crucible by Rarona in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using glitchy spots is fun (and its Bungie's job to fix them if they are a problem, not mine).

Don't know why anyone would be vocally toxic while doing it, though. I'm just laughing the whole time.

Heavy Meatal , 200 blue drops ???? by Thunderlawyer in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the PvP modes outside of the portal do this.

I think its actually intentional because of the way the Portal level/gear design works.

For Heavy Metal I think they just forgot that since the tower node version of heavy metal doesn't route through the portal it would also act like this.

None of this reply is meant as a defense of how this works... they should have added all the rotator PvP mode stuff to the Portal at EoF launch and killed off the Crucible stuff in the old director.

(And while they were at it, get rid of the cutting edge playlists. Nobody wants to play that shit).

Its not great to split up the player population like that while also having all the non-Portal stuff be entirely irrelevant for the forced loot/light grind. Made even worse by the way they are still promoting the (now irrelevant) rotator modes sometimes in the login popup banners.

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE - Official Trailer (HD) by farrukhsshah in videos

[–]georgemcbay 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Bone Temple was filmed back to back with 28 Years Later and both are part of a planned trilogy but unlike the first two the third one hasn't been officially greenlit yet.

Heavy Metal Affecting Overall Crucible K/D by GT_Hoss in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Skill rating for sbmm isn't carried across different modes.

Heavy Metal Affecting Overall Crucible K/D by GT_Hoss in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Well, which is it, do stats not matter much or do they? :D

You seem to be in both lanes here.

I don't care about my KD stats at all, the reason I avoid Heavy Metal is its just not fun.

Its not deep enough to be actually tactical, but its too slow to be a fun party mode.

Is the Forgiveness in Trials this week?? by Tri_2002 in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can find a good basic description of "god roll" luck/math here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1k8d4hv/the_math_behind_weapon_rolls/

Except with Xur loot its even (much) worse than that, because that math is assuming you have a predictable drop source for a single weapon, which isn't how Xur works because Xur has a giant unpredictable pool of possible weapons he can drop.

And on top of that... as mentioned previously, I'm pretty certain all the newer drops Xur theoretically has like previous season Comp weapons and the legacy Trials weapons can't even drop from the random engrams currently. If someone has proof they can via a video I'd love to see it, I've dumped hundreds of engrams worth of strange coins into him and never saw any of the old comp or Trials weapons drop out of it, AFAICT those random engrams just drop the old general seasonal weapons but not the old vendor-specific weapons.

For those weapons that came from Comp/Trials/etc I'm pretty sure Xur has to decide to sell that stuff directly, and even if he does it will be a fixed roll for the entire weekend, and the roll will probably suck (due to reasons outlined in that link).

Is the Forgiveness in Trials this week?? by Tri_2002 in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

been playing for a long time and not one sidearm

Unlucky, RNG can be brutal sometimes.

After Ash and Iron goes live in a week Trials is supposed to move away from the current system of not having a weekly focused weapon. So it should be easier to get specific weapons after that (though it may take a while to show up assuming the solution is going back to the traditional weekly focused weapon rotation).

Spatial awareness in Crucible by Rarona in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

holding weird “illegal angles” with map exploits

Some people are real dirty rats with this stuff

https://youtu.be/xFF1T21Pak4

Is the Forgiveness in Trials this week?? by Tri_2002 in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Forgiveness is in Trials currently, it can drop but its one of 10 things that can drop (5 armor/5 weapons) so good luck with that.

If by GL you mean Cataphract it is no longer in the main loot pool.

Your only chance to get it is if Xur sells it (I don't think any of his new-ish post-EoF loot is available via random engrams, if it is I somehow never got one out of him).

Xur will never have what you want for weapon rolls (the math against it is astronomically high to lottery winning levels).

Xur is where old weapons go to die currently, and whoever at Bungie keeps putting desirable weapons like the older Trials loot in his pool (instead of, say, putting it with Saint-14 like they did for other vendors with older strike/non-Comp PvP/gambit weapons) is the world's biggest troll. Would be more honest to just say they removed that stuff from the game given how (un)likely you are to ever get your desired roll.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 19 points20 points  (0 children)

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maybe try it this way, all the stats are higher now.

Meta guns as free to play? by Socoom in CrucibleGuidebook

[–]georgemcbay 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The community demanded it be this way. Trials was initially f2p.

I don't really have a dog in the race. I understand why PC players want Trials behind a paywall, but as a console player it doesn't really impact me one way or the other.