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Post by wings on May 6, 2016 4:48:20 GMT -5
As for Destiny... technically all the old content is still there, it's just that they keep making it obsolete when they bring in new content because the rewards for the old content aren't scaled and it loses it's place in the progression. I'm guessing Lexapro's key word is "essentially". Sure you can do old content but it means: 1. Year 2 legendary armour is only available to be used by those who have purchased The Taken King, year 1 legendary armour received an epic nerf to their ability cooldowns. I'm surprised how little criticism this received considering how this makes PvP 'unbalanced'. Blue armour is nowhere near good enough for ability cooldowns. Yet people single out Thorn for the "if you don't have one, you can't compete" argument, even though The Last Word was better for many maps and Thorn was overused to an extent because of the Trials meta's importance in keeping opponents' shields/health from regenerating. This is partly the reason why it's a rare sight to be killed by a special weapon that isn't a sniper rifle. 2. During The Dark Below and House of Wolves, if a DLC strike appears as the Nightfall and Weekly Heroic strike, there is no alternative for someone without the DLC. Most shooters have DLC in separate rotations. 3. Xur would not have his inventory expanded upon each DLC instalment either. So during The Dark Below, if you didn't have the DLC just yet you were out of luck, especially on the first week as every armour and weapon being sold by the special vendor required The Dark Below. I made a suggestion many moons ago that each instalment could expand Xur's inventory by one row so nobody is locked out. Bungie actually half-addressed this at one point where they changed it so the Nightfall was a different strike to the Weekly Heroic and, if the Nightfall was a DLC strike, then the Weekly Heroic wasn't. 4. I suspect players with only the vanilla Destiny can only get exotics via the Vault of Glass and Crota's End unless they rely on Xur for legacy exotic engrams, which cost a lot of Strange Coins (31 last I checked). 5. Wearing year 1 legendary armour means if an engram drops from an enemy, there's a good chance it will be a green engram instead of at least a blue engram. This happened to me when I wanted to mess around in the Cosmodrome wearing full Vault of Gear armour with my Warlock. It's impractical to use it in PvP because Bungie uses a pretty strict SBMM algorithm, so I'll be feeding the enemy team easy kills if my setup is not 'try-hard' enough. This is also an issue generally with Gunsmith weapons and Shaxx bounties that require the use of suboptimal gear most of the time. 6. Not sure if this still applies, but the chests in the legacy Prison of Elders playlists were not rewarding anything. Had this been current content, this would have been patched far, far sooner. That said, you can no longer buy the weapons and armour from Variks, so I'll make sure I will never dismantle my Shadow of Veils so I can take it out for a spin in the Crucible once in a while. If this hasn't been patched I believe it is forthcoming. I suspect many players find Destiny's DLC structure more acceptable if the updates were larger and less frequent like in other games. Edit: Actually even the patrol missions that require you to enter a private phase to kill specific stuff, like Karrhis in The Breach (via The Divide) renders year 1 weapons very weak because these are at a higher light level than the enemies that are out in the open in patrol.
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Post by mannon on May 6, 2016 11:12:36 GMT -5
Oh no argument that the game in general gets majorly handicapped if you don't have all the latest DLC. Hence why I quit entirely when TK came out. It just doesn't, technically, remove any actual content. It does remove some of your ability to acquire new rewards and it buffs other players and some enemies so overall you take a big nerf if you don't update. But the old content is still technically there, just rendered obsolete.
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Post by lackingdamage on May 7, 2016 7:07:23 GMT -5
Uh yeah the general sense of entitlement I see in this thread is rather surprising. Its not enough that they made MWR, now they have to just give it to you the way you want it too. "Why should I even have to pay for single player, I just want the multiplayer. Can I not pay for Zombies, I never play it. Wow, IW/Activision is so evil and screwing over us gamers." It's ridiculous. Sense of entitlement got my CoD4 disc free copy of the remastered version please. Questioning the choice given towards the general consumers not sense of entitlement. Dealing with interactive media nothing wrong with letting consumers pick which parts they pay for. Big questions to be asked if this offers value for money and content on offer. Don't understand this move because for me modern warfare only thing would like to play. Won't offer it to me don't care.
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Post by PSIII on Sept 2, 2016 13:21:23 GMT -5
So Activision overturned the decision to withhold the other maps. They'll add them in December, for free.
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Post by Slick on Sept 2, 2016 15:16:11 GMT -5
So the naked emperor slipped on a pair of socks, but the erect penis still stands ready to service the next round of connedsumers.
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Post by PSIII on Sept 2, 2016 16:21:11 GMT -5
They'll probably have to be unlocked in IW supply drops.
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Post by UrbaneVirtuoso on Sept 2, 2016 19:17:32 GMT -5
Seems like they finally got the memo~.
Now for more dozens to read, frankly.
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Post by Will on Sept 2, 2016 19:51:35 GMT -5
Free maps - just another thing COD is copying from Titanfall
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Post by GodMars on Sept 3, 2016 19:01:11 GMT -5
Well, fuck
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Post by Slick on Sept 3, 2016 20:25:18 GMT -5
Well my nostalgia boner is gone now. Seriously, how did they manage to make a great game look so uninspired? Mediocre voice acting, severely washed out colors, the guns no longer have satisfaction when fired because of the less impact gun-sound, jarring medal popups, questionable font color choices for hud information, and they didn't make any balance tweaks. Jesus christ. How...?
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Post by GodMars on Sept 3, 2016 21:26:00 GMT -5
Well my nostalgia boner is gone now. Seriously, how did they manage to make a great game look so uninspired? Mediocre voice acting, severely washed out colors, the guns no longer have satisfaction when fired because of the less impact gun-sound, jarring medal popups, questionable font color choices for hud information, and they didn't make any balance tweaks. Jesus christ. How...? Are you daft?
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Post by UrbaneVirtuoso on Sept 3, 2016 21:35:54 GMT -5
That is not Griggs. >:C
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Post by Slick on Sept 3, 2016 22:55:51 GMT -5
Well my nostalgia boner is gone now. Seriously, how did they manage to make a great game look so uninspired? Mediocre voice acting, severely washed out colors, the guns no longer have satisfaction when fired because of the less impact gun-sound, jarring medal popups, questionable font color choices for hud information, and they didn't make any balance tweaks. Jesus christ. How...? Are you daft? Could be, but damn it, my first impressions were very sour.
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Post by tiesieman on Sept 4, 2016 6:36:18 GMT -5
did they get some intern to voice the spetznaz announcer
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Post by mordecai on Sept 4, 2016 7:37:54 GMT -5
Could be, but gosh darn golly gee whiz it, my first impressions were very sour. I had the exact same thoughts actually, only in a slightly different order. It looks pretty half-assed for a game that's supposed to be completely remastered. So they re-created everything but couldn't be bothered to make some changes for balance for things that are almost universally acknowledged to have needed change (Last Stand, Martyrdom, Frag x3, weird/bugged attachment effects). And one of the few changes they did make is a useless thing for eye candy. Kind of sums up the whole thing in a nut shell, actually. They fixed and changed nothing that needed to be fixed or should have been fixed, and then did change things for things that didn't need to be changed like pressing a button for idle animations, shittier voice acting, shittier gun sounds, and obnoxious medal pop ups. You are my bro, bro.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 4, 2016 7:46:06 GMT -5
"Everything about it was done perfectly. It's exactly the Modern Warfare remaster that you wouldd want it to be... So in case you haven't heard, Activision flew me out to COD XP so I get some early gameplay which is what you're watching right here". I rate that at about one and a half FTC honesty stars out of five.
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Post by GodMars on Sept 4, 2016 8:12:46 GMT -5
"Everything about it was done perfectly. It's exactly the Modern Warfare remaster that you wouldd want it to be... So in case you haven't heard, Activision flew me out to COD XP so I get some early gameplay which is what you're watching right here". I rate that at about one and a half FTC honesty stars out of five. How would you rate it if it was someone other than Drift0r? Because I know some of you hate his guts (why, I don't know, but so it goes).
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Post by GodMars on Sept 4, 2016 8:15:16 GMT -5
Hutch's take
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 4, 2016 8:42:35 GMT -5
How would you rate it if it was someone other than Drift0r? Because I know some of you hate his guts (why, I don't know, but so it goes). Now now, I don't hate him. Hate's a strong word. I just don't respect him. I mean, he's better than those CSGO gambling guys. See? I said something nice about DriftyPoo.
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Post by GodMars on Sept 4, 2016 8:53:27 GMT -5
I rate that at about one and a half FTC honesty stars out of five. How would you rate it if it was someone other than Drift0r? Because I know some of you hate his guts (why, I don't know, but so it goes). L2Quote
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 4, 2016 9:11:56 GMT -5
How would you rate it if it was someone other than Drift0r? Because I know some of you hate his guts (why, I don't know, but so it goes). L2Quote Thanks for the heads-up sorry if it distracted from your hard-on for Drift0r <3
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Post by GodMars on Sept 4, 2016 9:34:38 GMT -5
Thanks for the heads-up sorry if it distracted from your hard-on for Drift0r <3 If you're going to act like you're five, I'm going to treat you like you're five. 😊
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Post by Aphoristic on Sept 4, 2016 10:25:40 GMT -5
So it's going to release as CoD4 again, no changes. Is that not what you want from a remake? All the nice new particles, textures, animations, whatever, same game otherwise. They said they will support the game post launch with updates, so balance changes are not off the table after everyone is happy they didn't "ruin" the game with the remake. This is the only interesting piece of content this year considering IW is already confirmed to be bad with p2w supply drops.
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Post by GodMars on Sept 4, 2016 10:47:57 GMT -5
So it's going to release as CoD4 again, no changes. Is that not what you want from a remake? All the nice new particles, textures, animations, whatever, same game otherwise. They said they will support the game post launch with updates, so balance changes are not off the table after everyone is happy they didn't "ruin" the game with the remake. This is the only interesting piece of content this year considering IW is already confirmed to be bad with p2w supply drops. The issues with the sound design in the Remaster have been mentioned in other videos. I assume this is something that can be tweaked before the game launches. They've got two months.
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Post by LeGitBeeSting on Sept 4, 2016 12:15:59 GMT -5
If soundwhoring is at CoD4 levels it will be a good game.
Also shotgun buffs when?
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Post by bradman on Sept 4, 2016 13:24:05 GMT -5
Yeah,I'm in. The whole bloated package. I feel dirty.
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Post by GodMars on Sept 4, 2016 13:32:29 GMT -5
Yeah,I'm in. The whole bloated package. I feel dirty. Only if I can sell IW on eBay after getting the download code for MW.
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Post by PSIII on Sept 4, 2016 14:54:41 GMT -5
I hope there will be some way to have it ready to play at launch if you got the physical copy of IW. Just thought of that.
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Post by GodMars on Sept 4, 2016 17:39:31 GMT -5
I hope there will be some way to have it ready to play at launch if you got the physical copy of IW. Just thought of that. The Remaster is digital download-only.
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Post by GodMars on Sept 4, 2016 19:25:57 GMT -5
Hutch does a little Q&A on the Remaster. He does address how the game sounds (among other things).
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