Destiny 2 *Official* CAG Thread - Farmhands Wanted

FYI to all - I've gone through the clan and friended everyone that has played the game in the last two weeks.  Feel free to friend me back.

 
Would love to keep playing this game but every time I play it kicks me in the the nuts. I try and do the few weekly things that I can solo that gives me the "Powerful Gear" but all I get is snipers and submachine guns as rewards. I checked my vault and I have twelve 330+ snipers and seven 330+ submachine guns. Also thats not taking into account that all my 330 armor drops are gloves and bonds and my last 5-6 exotic drops have either been Aeon Flux or Ophidian Aspect gloves. 

 
 
If anyone still needs to get some of the Faction armor ornaments for Season 2, this is your last chance to do so.  Here are the prizes offered by the Factions:
 
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I'm not a huge fan of any of them, but I'm rooting for FWC in its first win.
 

 
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chnandler_bong said:
If anyone still needs to get some of the Faction armor ornaments for Season 2, this is your last chance to do so. Here are the prizes offered by the Factions:

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[customspoiler="Dead Orbit - Distant Tumulus"]
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[customspoiler="Future War Cult - The Domino"]
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I'm not a huge fan of any of them, but I'm rooting for FWC in its first win.
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I think I'm missing 1 ornament for my FWC armor. The one from the ridiculous number of grenade kills in the crucible. I'm at 85%, which I did in one week. More grenade kills than I had gotten in the crucible the entire 4 months prior.
 
Played some crucible this morning. Hated it. Has the matching algorithm been changed to just stick all players that suck, myself included, on one team?

I mean I can hold a 1+ efficiency, but if everyone else is below ...

Matches now end when 1 team hits 100. I didn't won 1 match. They were all severely lopsided. 46 - 100?
 
ubiquetous said:
Played some crucible this morning. Hated it. Has the matching algorithm been changed to just stick all players that suck, myself included, on one team?

I mean I can hold a 1+ efficiency, but if everyone else is below ...

Matches now end when 1 team hits 100. I didn't won 1 match. They were all severely lopsided. 46 - 100?
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Were all/most of your matches against a team/party of four? If so, you can usually expect that (not always). Case in point:

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chnandler_bong said:
Were all/most of your matches against a team/party of four? If so, you can usually expect that (not always). Case in point:

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Yeah I usually expect to get slaughtered if 2+ are in the same clan. I didn't notice that yesterday. I hate the sword and gun tactic where 1 player with sword rushes you while the 1 behind lays into you with an auto rifle.

I was getting dropped in half way through matches where they were already behind 35 - 70. And it looked like they may have been playing 3 vs 4 for a while. Seems like odd stuff like that has been happening more recently.

Also noticed a lot of the players I was teamed up with just scattered in all different directions immediately after spawning. Everybody wanted to be a solo hero.

Once stuff like that happens I just play best I can to protect my overall KAD.
 
Tonight was all about running the NF.  Me and a buddy ran a few regular NFs to get warmed up and then after about 5 tries with Extinguish and 10 handicap we put that Prestige NF in its place (and got the emblem too!).  After that the magic fell apart a little bit so we had to call it quits.  If anyone wants to be a third for some NF or PNF tomorrow night hit me up!

 
On a similar note, the scoring for this week's NF strike (Inverted Spire) is pretty screwy in the beginning. The first two major fights you can have, while you are still in the "public" area and before you go off into your "private" instance, you don't get any points for kills. Your multiplier is 0X that entire time. I wonder if this is a side effect of this March 27 update note:

Bungie said:
  • Fixed an issue where Orbs granted points in public areas
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A pretty big blog post by Bungie today --> https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46735

The highlights:

  • The visible roadmap has been expanded to September (see at bottom for details).
  • The new DLC has been named ("Warmind") and dated (May 8) and will coincide with Season 3.
  • Per Bungie, "it will send you to new places to meet new heroes and battle new enemies.  You’ll earn new loot and master new activities."
  • It sounds like Quickplay/Osiris Quickplay and Competitive/Osiris Competitive will be combined into one playlist, so all players will have access to base maps and CoO maps (and also Warmind maps when they are available), except for private matches for some reason.
  • Prestige Raid / Raid Lair changes.
  • Weapon perk randomizations
  • Weapon slot changes (I still don't understand why this was such a sticking point for so many people).
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I never understood why they removed the machine guns all together with really not explaining why. Also if they go back to D1 weapon slotting how are they going to handle all  energy weapons with burns. I dont think they can just add all of them back to the normal/kinetic weapon slot.

If the more active players can wait I would love to run some Nightfalls or Crucible on Friday or Saturday night.

 
Awesome news on Season 3, can't wait! Online I'm hearing that some people are kind of 'over it' but this news still excites me.  Can't wait to check out this new destination and enemies. 

 
ajh2298 said:
I never understood why they removed the machine guns all together with really not explaining why. Also if they go back to D1 weapon slotting how are they going to handle all energy weapons with burns. I dont think they can just add all of them back to the normal/kinetic weapon slot.

If the more active players can wait I would love to run some Nightfalls or Crucible on Friday or Saturday night.
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We can definitely use a third for the NF!

 
ajh2298 said:
I never understood why they removed the machine guns all together with really not explaining why. Also if they go back to D1 weapon slotting how are they going to handle all energy weapons with burns. I dont think they can just add all of them back to the normal/kinetic weapon slot.

If the more active players can wait I would love to run some Nightfalls or Crucible on Friday or Saturday night.
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Will be on Friday and Saturday and I'm up for both.

Still working on my competitive crucible wins for the associated ornament.
 
Here are a few previews I missed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_d70pK7Cys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsRAthxZttI

 
chnandler_bong said:
Now, be honest - Will you ever play Competitive again? :)
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I had only played 3 rounds before. I do like the different match styles. But it can be brutal with random teams. Like to the point where I want to find those people in real life and throw the controller at them.

Do you know when the early exit / quitters penalty goes into effect?
 
ubiquetous said:
I had only played 3 rounds before. I do like the different match styles. But it can be brutal with random teams. Like to the point where I want to find those people in real life and throw the controller at them.

Do you know when the early exit / quitters penalty goes into effect?
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That penalty is in effect as of the March update.

There is a certain euphoria felt when your team isn't doing well against the other team, and then one of them drops out, and then you start to roll over them. We were losing 3-0 in Survival and then we won 4-3. Awesome feeling!

 
Anyone excited for a new game mode in the next expansion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i7zLsTyEDg

Streaming begins at 10 AM PT tomorrow at www.twitch.tv/bungie.

I hope that enough people come back so some of us can run a raid!

 
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It looks like the MW upgrade for exotic weapons will be more than what they did for legendary weapons.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/27/17292166/destiny-2-exotic-masterwork-catalyst-upgrade

For example, once you unlock the catalyst for the Coldheart trace rifle, you get this mod block as a quest to complete:

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Although not all exotic weapons will have this option immediately, this GREATLY excites me. In fact I wouldn't mind if they revamped the system for legendary weapons in the same manner.  I'm not sure if exotic armors will have the same enhancements, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was coming soon also.

 
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A quick last minute reminder to try to finish some of the Season 2 specific goals:

  • Last chance to get the S.2 Iron Banner gear ornaments
  • Last chance to get the S.2 Crucible gear ornaments
  • Last chance to get the S.2 emotes and exotic ghosts, ships, sparrows, and ornaments.
  • Last chance to get the Omega Mechanos gear (probably).
Only a little more than 15 hours left to accomplish all these things!  Here is the timeline for when the new expansion is available and Season 3 starts:

  • 6 AM PDT (1300 UTC)
    Destiny 2 server maintenance is scheduled to begin
  • Players may no longer sign in to Destiny 2

[*]7 AM PDT (1400 UTC)
  • Players still in Destiny 2 activities will be returned to the title screen
  • Destiny 2: Warmind and Update 1.2.0 will be available to download and install

[*]11 AM PDT– (1800 UTC)
  • Destiny 2 server maintenance is scheduled to conclude
  • Destiny 2 Hotfix 1.2.0.1 will be available to download and install

So, do we have any "regulars" that will be returning to play the new expansion and experience the Season 3 changes?   :D/

 
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Well I guess I'm not getting any of that S2 stuff finished up.  BUT I will give the next expansion a shot tomorrow since, well, I already paid for it.  I don't have nearly as much time to play any more but I'll try to be on a few evenings this week.  I'll be out of town next week. 

 
The game + the last DLC left such a bad taste that I'm going to wait for reviews to decide if I'll even try it, and that's still a big maybe.

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Here are some thoughts I put about the expansion in the Xbox thread:

chnandler_bong said:
TL;DR - I greatly enjoy Destiny and Destiny 2, and while I don't understand or like all of the decisions Bungie and company have made, I'll probably keep maining this game. I guess we look towards the Fall update and hope that Bungie listens to all of the constructive input from this expansion's release.

I haven't played any of the strikes or any Crucible yet, but here are my not-so-hot thoughts on Destiny's latest expansion so far:

  • I heard that we were going to get a new enemy, and I assumed it was with this expansion. Snow-covered Hive is NOT a new enemy to the players, even though I can tell that they are different enough from the original Hive to not be a simple "reskin."
  • The campaign seemed really short and I didn't even know it was over. I'm sure there's more campaign type things to do in the game, and the story that was there was enjoyable, but that was really short.
  • As I mentioned above I haven't done any strikes since reset, but if what that post says is true that is just HORRIBLE. Since CoO did the same thing (re-used campaign missions as strikes, i.e. no new content on :xb1: for strikes) and I'm SURE people complained about it, if Bungie said that the strikes were new content (which is stupid for them to have to say that in the first place) I would love to read where they said that.
  • I've only played the campaign as a Hunter, but the new gear that I've seen for them isn't that great. Maybe playing around with shaders will make it more appealing.
  • I think Bungie might have been too aggressive with the slowing down of leveling up power. I need to do more personal research on this though.
And now some positive things:

  • A lot of the new things to get look really cool to me and I want to get all of them (and with the increased vault space I'll have room for them):
    All of the new Exotic Ships
  • All of the new Exotic Sparrows
  • Several of the new Exotic Weapons
  • The new IKELOS themed weapons (I heard them pronounce that word in the game, but they're WRONG)

[*]I really like the Warmind-themed areas of the game. They are a great design. Some of the areas are incredibly massive and make you feel like a tiny part of the whole thing.
When Rasputin speaks in the game, I am genuinely impressed by the effects.
[*]The grind for some of the loot keeps you coming back to the new area. I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think I'll like what they did with this.
[*]The new endgame mode, Escalation Protocol, is NO JOKE. Because of the changes Bungie made to the game, us newly leveling Guardians are being thrown into the meat grinder in this mode because we are so much lower level than the mode suggests. I look forward to when I can last more than a few seconds in this!
[*]The new way to unlock ornaments for the Vanguard and Crucible gear is intriguing, and I can't wait to get all of those too.
[*]Ana Bray is a Hunter. #HunterMasterRace
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I played last night and not a single person on my friends list was playing Destiny (and note that most of my list came from people I met playing Destiny 1).   True, it was late, but not THAT late.  I started around 11:30 Pacific.  I'll try to play again tonight.

I'm not sure if I was in that escalation mode thing or not - I was in some sort of wave-based public event in the new space where I kept getting killed.

I've only done the first mission and then got to the new public area and then spent some time trying to level up via faction rewards.  Funny thing - got a Masterwork Uriel's from the Nessus rewards.  I had created one of those back when they first added that stuff.

I was very confused by some emblems I had in my post - they were planet-themed with progress on them to different levels for each planet?  These did not seem to be new things - when did they come out?

Do faction packages cap out at 340 now?  What is the new highest cap?   I'm wondering when I should cash in powerful engrams this time.

I'd still like to try a Raid lair at some point - have yet to do a single one.

Edit: Well, I just read this: https://kotaku.com/destiny-2-s-warmind-expansion-is-both-disappointing-and-1825895692

and it indicates the new power cap is 385.  Wow, I'm a way from that still ;).  Also it appears the highest level stuff is now locked behind Raid/Trials.  So I guess that isn't happening.  I didn't like the ease with which you could hit the cap before because it devalued the Raid, etc.  But now that I have no one to raid with, I wish it was like that.  I can see how they would struggle with this decision, though, and there's almost no way to make everyone happy.

 
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That escalation protocol mode is for 370 and above. I was in groups of 6-7 people and we couldn’t beat the Orge boss at the end of the first tier.
 
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