Destiny 2: Lightfall

[Nimmel]

I'm enjoying chasing 700 light level as it is the sort of OCD thing that always appeals to me but I just don't care about or indeed play Gambit or its Prime version, this bit of DLC has been seriously underwhelming I enjoyed the back armory content much more.

[DonRumsfeld]

16 hours ago, Phelan said:

 

I haven't played the season of the drifter at all yet.

 

The week before it launched I decided I was a bit over the game. Felt like it was the same content all the time and that they were pushing more towards PVP - which is my least enjoyable aspect of the game.

 

I'm the same, I don't think I've booted it up since Christmas. Gambit's always been a bit meh for me.

[Mr Ben]

Patch today - Arc week, as I posted previously. However, something was apparently missing from the patch notes, according to dmg04:

 

[mop]

[Mr Ben]

Yeah, useful for the like 2 or 3 people still playing?

[Uncle Mike]

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The Wardcliff Coil

- Reduced PvE damage by 25% against bosses and vehicles

 

"Stop killing bosses with the good guns" intensifies.

[Phelan]

50 minutes ago, Uncle Mike said:

 

"Stop killing bosses with the good guns" intensifies.

 

I feel like they haven't learned in the slightest.

[Mafro]

Every time I dip back into this game Bungie always seem to have done something dumb 

 

 

[Mr Ben]

I have about 380 cores anyway, but I still think they're shit and shouldnt be in the game.

 

The nerf to Wardcliff is, as usual, because they over-buffed it in the prior patch, just like they over-nerfed Novawarp (which has also been partially reverted).

 

Baby steps.....

[Mr Ben]

So the Revelry then:

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“Spring is in the air, Guardians! It’s time to kick up your heels, celebrate, and break a few rules! The people of the City love this time of year, and I wanted to share their joy with you, my good friends. Come to the Tower. Smell the flowers. And revel in all we have together.”—Eva Levante

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Abilities and Orbs

The Revelry is a chance for every Guardian to break the rules about how Light is wielded as a weapon. When you first visit the Tower, Eva Levante will grant you a Reveler’s Tonic. Fill your tonic with Reveler’s Essence by killing bosses in the Verdant Forest or completing other activities. Three different tonics will reduce the cooldown of your grenades, melee, or class ability. Choose which buff you prefer and let the sparks fly.

The more pieces of Inaugural Revelry or Vernal Growth armor you equip, the more potent the tonic will be. The powerful effect applies to every activity in the game except Private Matches. Revelers will even be more dangerous in the Crucible.The Reveler’s Tonic is not the only way you’ll increase your output of space magic during this event. Everywhere in the game, Orbs have the chance of being generated by precision kills. The best place to create tons of Orbs will be in the Verdant Forest, as that's where they'll drop most often. 

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Rewards

The Revelry will feature the new Inaugural Revelry armor set. You can earn pieces of this set by defeating bosses in the Verdant Forest. The more bosses you defeat, the greater your chances to receive a drop. Eva will also have five weekly bounties that award Inaugural Revelry armor as a powerful drop. Each piece of the set you equip will boost the effect of your Reveler’s Tonic.

You can also turn in the Reveler’s Essence you earn through activities to Eva in exchange for packages containing assorted rewards, including world drops, Enhancement Cores, and ornaments for the Inaugural Revelry helmet.

 

Each ornament will grow in size depending on how many pieces of Inaugural Revelry or Vernal Growth armor you have equipped.

 

Are you in need of some extra firepower? Complete Triumphs and turn in Reveler’s Essence to Eva to earn a new Exotic Kinetic Fusion Rifle, Arbalest. It’s the first weapon of its kind and does extra damage against enemy shields.

 

The Revelry begins on Tuesday, April 16.

 

The Revelry ends on Tuesday, May 7.

If anyone cares, that is.

[Harsin]

Don’t read this thread as much as I used to. Glad that Bungie's update writing style still makes me want to claw my own face off. Is it Deej or one of his padawans?

[K]

I can safely say that the prospect of grinding out boss kills to temporarily reduce my grenade / melee / class ability cooldown is not particularly tempting me back again.

[Gorf King]

[Phelan]

6 hours ago, K said:

I can safely say that the prospect of grinding out boss kills to temporarily reduce my grenade / melee / class ability cooldown is not particularly tempting me back again.

 

That sounds like hell.

 

Another reason to not go back.

I'm away to play some Division 2 at least it's fun and a bit silly.

[Gorf King]

Within two posts an event that gives you speedier ability and super regeneration by playing a variety of activities - including a time attack mode - and new bosses that drop special armour, has transformed into a grindathon that sounds like hell. As opposed to which it's preferable to play a game that is definitely not a non-stop grind for gear drops and power. Because shooting aliens in the head in Destiny is not just no fun compared to shooting endless waves of enemies of democracy in beanies, the idea of getting immediate power boosts in a fantasy forest sound like pure torture and altogether too serious. 

 

[Mr Ben]

Yeah, but thats just rllmuk innit.

[FlowerOfInfinity]

Nah it just sounds shit.

[tnman]

The Revelry sounds much better than Arc Week I think.

[Hexx]

I thought there were special bounties for arc week? I can’t see em

[Oz]

It's just the bounties they are selling. They are not special. They are just arc-themed. Or something is loosely related to arc within them. 

 

sometimes. some of them. 

 

 

 

[Phelan]

Anyone played Revelry yet? Didn't it come out this week?

[FlowerOfInfinity]

Haven't played it yet. I saw a video on the Arbalest and it genuinely looks amazing, but the steps to get it felt like such a fucking chore and it sapped all my enthusiasm.

 

Why do they feel the need to add so much fiddly crap where you have to learn some whole new matrix of materials and bounties and trumphs and events and armours? I just can't be arsed to learn it all. I accept I have to work for pinnacle weapons but it shouldn't feel like fucking dry and dull homework. I'm supposed to be a magical space wizard with amazing powers and guns saving the universe. You know...fun?

 

It's time limited too (two weeks), so honestly, even though I want the weapon, I'll probably just wait till it hits the general loot pool. Otherwise I'd have been tempted to "just play" and maybe check in on progress every now and then. They can't even get that right.

[mikeyl]

The Revelry armour is a legit eyesore, especially on a fat Titan. Like pantomime comedy armour. Doesn’t even have the enhanced perks to make it worthwhile.

 

New gun is alright, if you fancy one hit body shotting everything. Very easy to get don’t really grind for anything but you can load into the Castellum and tick off at least 3/7 off what you need

[Gorf King]

The Verdant Forest thing is good fun, but ultimately shallow - a bit like the Spooky Forest was (although I think it's structured a bit better). It's really not complicated either - there's bounties for doing stuff in it, and also in other activities with the buffs active, and the weekly ones get you powerful armour. The buffs themselves are simple to acquire and use. The forest activity is just kill things as quickly as possible, open up as many new paths as possible, then when you've had your fill of opening paths or run out of time (each unlocked path adds to the time you have for the boss rush), face up to five bosses. Kill bosses and open chests and complete bounties.

 

The Arbalest's not hard to get over the three weeks the event is active. There are 11 new triumphs aside from the 'do all the other triumphs' one, and you need to get any seven of them to bag the Arbalest. I completed three just playing the forest for an hour or two. It's more a question of whether you can be arsed, because I don't think I'd use it much myself, and as noted above the forest stuff gets very samey after a while. There are a few other activities you can do to tick off some of the triumphs though.

[Mr Ben]

I played it last night with some randos (as no bugger is playing ). Got to path 31 or 32 I think, and thanks to a tether hunter supplying orbs the bosses went down like a sack of spuds using chaos reach (seriously, that super with the exotic boots is just insane single target damage). Its far more rewarding in terms of drops and those orb things for Eva than the Halloween version was too - 5+ from each chest with the chance of 15, and the chests are so common its ridiculous; I got way over 350 just from playing any activity, in addition to the forest itself, so you also dont need to stick to the forest for them either.

 

I didnt realise the event was for 3 weeks, which makes it even easier to get that exotic, which while you can get as a drop after the event, we all know how rare exotic drops are, and I'd rather just get it and forget it.

[instasis]

Enjoying getting back into this again with the boy, we mainly play campaign stuff but he's about to ding 400 and I'm at about 410 or so right now.

 

Picked Forsaken up on sale and it's...eeeh...ok I guess? Very much at a "been there, done that" stage of what Bungie seem to want to do now.

 

We'll work through the adventures and box it off I think, but so much content is now boxed off from us behind an annual pass I'm a bit pissed off. Agree with the comment up thread that it all seems fiddly - no real idea what to do now and the game definitely CBA explaining it to me, so I guess I'll shoot some things, get my monies worth and then jog on again. 

[FlowerOfInfinity]

Ah cool I didn't realise it was there for three weeks.

 

Thanks both I'll probably jump on over the long weekend and have a crack at it.

[FlowerOfInfinity]

2 minutes ago, Pelekophoros said:

no real idea what to do now and the game definitely CBA explaining it to me, so I guess I'll shoot some things, get my monies worth and then jog on again. 

 

Yeah I don't mind there being secrets and things to be found and cool little things, it's when they put really interesting / good stuff behind it all, and as you say there's nothing anywhere to suggest it's even available.

[Paulando]

A friend and I have been playing through Borderlands on PC together, and we fancied trying some more online co-op games. Where’s the best ace to buy this for PC? I went onto the official site, selected which version I wanted and which country I was from, and it sent me to Amazon.co.uk where it’s no longer stocked. Great.

 

That’s the Legendary Collection, with Destiny 2 and the two expansion packs. CDKeys seems to have three versions with different price points, from around the world, and I’m not sure how that will affect us. Any ideas? 

[V3zna]

Destiny 2 Forsaken complete collection PC