Bungie's Destiny

[wittyscorpion]

Jul 29, 2014 15:47:55 GMT -5 wings said:

Why do the Hive and the Fallen fight each other when they both get powers from the Darkness?

Good question. I guess Darkness just loves chaos

[wittyscorpion]

IGN featured an Q&A with Bungie: www.ign.com/articles/2014/07/29/bungie-answers-your-destiny-questions-ign-first

There is not much we don't already know.

The also revealed another Crucible map yesterday:



Looks interesting: more verticality than other maps.

[TheHawkNY]

Jul 29, 2014 15:47:55 GMT -5 wings said:

Why do the Hive and the Fallen fight each other when they both get powers from the Darkness?

I think you just answered your own question. Wars happen over shared resources.

[wings]

Jul 29, 2014 16:12:37 GMT -5 TheHawkNY said:

Jul 29, 2014 15:47:55 GMT -5 wings said:

Why do the Hive and the Fallen fight each other when they both get powers from the Darkness?

I think you just answered your own question. Wars happen over shared resources.

Yes but it appears to be quite a common theme where the bad guys aren't united allowing the good guys a chance to improve their chances of victory. And are the Hive after resources anyway?

[wittyscorpion]

"Analysts" have started their prediction games: venturebeat.com/2014/07/25/analyst-destiny-will-likely-outsell-call-of-duty-with-at-least-15m-copies-sold/

According to an estimate from Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz. Every year following the big Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow in June, Cowen begins tracking the performance of upcoming games on retail sites like Amazon to get an idea of how excited players are for those games. Destiny has the highest rating in the four-year history of Cowen’s chart. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, meanwhile, is tracking behind the three previous entries in the franchise, and Creutz believes that a lot of that is due to “cannibalization” from Destiny.

“We continue to believe that Destiny is a lock to sell at least 15 million copies,” wrote Creutz. “And we now view 20 million copies as increasingly likely.”

Destiny’s rating on Cowen’s chart is actually higher at this point than either 2012’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II or 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V. Black Ops II went on to sell 25 million copies and Grand Theft Auto V is at 33 million.

“Now, we still think it’s unlikely that Destiny will match the actual unit sales of [Call of Duty: Black Ops II] or [Grand Theft Auto V] due to the cap created by a PS4/Xbox One hardware installed base that we expect to be 25 to 30 million units by year’s end,” wrote Creutz. “We do expect Destiny to spur significant hardware unit sales of PS4s and Xbox Ones, and we expect Destiny to have very high attach rate to new-gen hardware.”

The Cowen analyst team is estimating that nearly one in every two PS4s or Xbox Ones sold may end up paired with a copy of Destiny.

Somebody actually does video games sales prediction for a living. Hmm...

[wittyscorpion]

Another montage of Hunter sexiness:



The Shotty + Throwing Knife combo is real. Will definitely try it some time.

[wittyscorpion]

Jul 29, 2014 0:10:22 GMT -5 Dumien said:

Isn't exotic gear just "different" as in has a different thing going on. Similar to how Borderlands legendary weapons generally had a special ability.

I think you can only have one exotic weapon in your loadout at one time too.

Some guy made a video of all the "exotic"s found in the beta:



Besides admiring the great "personality" each piece has, also check out how sophisticated the upgrade trees can be!

[wittyscorpion]

Great in-depth article about Destiny's "end game" from IGN first: www.ign.com/articles/2014/07/30/destiny-the-endgame-is-only-the-beginning-ign-first

Notes:

1) Story missions end at level 20. After that, first you will jump into strikes and Crucible, then Raids;

2) Level "26" is mentioned as an example, so it is safe to say that the level cap is at least 30;

3) "Raids are “extremely crafted,” six-player, friends-only gauntlet", no match making;

4) Raid will last at least "a couple of hours";

5) "You are going to suffer" when playing Raids, "but it’s going to be a fun kind of suffering that makes for a better water-cooler moment with your friends later. "

6) What the Raid bosses are like: "they're still big monsters, much like what you're going to see, they're still scary, but they have a bunch of abilities that are unlike anything you've really experienced in a shooter before"

7) What the Raid experiences will be like: "building and learning and failing along the way to find cool mechanics and occasionally we'd succeed"

8) Other end game activities - Bounties

“Bounties are this opportunity for you to create a parallel progression for what you're doing for a day: It's like allowing you to optimize, people love that; I mean I love that. I mean that's the thing that we do every night when a couple of us pretty much play every night from six until embarrassing o'clock. And we're like, the first thing we do is log in, grab the bounties, synchronize what we're going to do, and then either head off to play explorer, and then we tip over the daily activities, and if we haven't done it, we'll knock out the weekly Nightfall activity and get our guys rolling. And then, like, I do that on all three of my characters.”

9) Nightfall activities: “Nightfall activities come in two flavors: daily and weekly. They have extremely exotic rewards.”

My take: 8 & 9 are going to form the backbones of "something new to play every day".

[wittyscorpion]

Den has graciously created a subboard for us, woohoo!

denkirson.proboards.com/board/11/destiny

This marked the end of this thread. It served its purpose and brought us together, now move on to the new home!

[TheHawkNY]

Jul 30, 2014 14:31:01 GMT -5 wittyscorpion said:

Den has graciously created a subboard for us, woohoo!

denkirson.proboards.com/board/11/destiny

This marked the end of this thread. It served its purpose and brought us together, now move on to the new home!

Thread has been moved, now in new home, all embrace the old thread in the new location.

[TheHawkNY]

Bounties remind me of BO1's Contracts, which were awesome. I hope they continue to expand on the bounty system.

[mannon]

Jul 30, 2014 15:01:08 GMT -5 TheHawkNY said:

Bounties remind me of BO1's Contracts, which were awesome. I hope they continue to expand on the bounty system.

This! Especially when you get to pick and choose what weapons to apply the xp to regardless of what you used getting them done. I love being able to do that with turn ins. Takes some of the sting out of using a maxed out weapon, (stings because it being maxed out means I'm wasting valuable weapon xp I could be earning).