I skimmed through it this morning and it’s another example of how much the GOP is just Trump’s cult. Most of the vetting on the first few pages is highlighting how much Vance didn’t gargle Trump’s balls until around 2020. Very little about his actual policy stances. Also shows that Vance is your typical opportunist. No principles or morals. Willing to do whatever grants himself power.
Body is an AoS Knight Relictor. Sword and backpack are from the Black Templars upgrade sprue. Riever helmet.
I had to carve off all the lightning bolts with a knife to make it look less Stormcast.
More pics in comments.
- Enemies can spawn with new abilities randomly during an activity.
- Ex. Killing an enemy with a certain buff causes all other enemies to enrage.
- Ex. Putting a certain enemy to a health threshold causes them to start a detonation countdown. They must be killed or they send out an AOE blast.
- Additional buffs to players coming they don't show in this article.
- First expansion of the year has a new raid
- Major update will change up the new raid
- Second expansion will have a Dungeon
- Second Major update will have a Pantheon-like activity.
- Raids can now have player selected Feats. The more feats you have enabled, the better the rewards.
- Dungeons will no longer require buying keys
TL;DR:
- New Dev insights on Frontiers next week
- Rewards Updates coming in Episode 2:
- Nightfall focusing costs less engrams
- World Drops will be farmable from Lost Sectors
- Power Caps increasing by 10 each episode
- Lots of Titan updates:
- Titans will be able to taunt enemies with barricades, unbreakable, and sentinel shield. Functionality might be coming to Ward of Dawn.
- Changes to barricade and unbreakable for balancing this new functionality.
- Several changes to abilities across the Titan kit to make prismatic more interesting but also apply to the base subclasses.
- Buffs to supers across all classes. Hunter, Warlock, and Titan. Roaming supers to get a duration buff later in Episode 2.
- Some smaller changes to Warlock and Hunter abilities.
- NERF Ace of Spades will be available for pre-order purchase for those who complete the Legend title by 9/24. Bungie also credits the original artist.
Based on what they showed I think Heresy will be more beefed up considering the Dreadnought is coming back. Whether that's an actual explorable area or just an area where we do activities remains to be seen. The content drops that wrap up the year tend to be the best.
Echoes has big "Season that ships with the big expansion" vibes for me. Where there's a barebones story and a token activity thrown in.
Revenant I've got no idea. Middle of the year content is either a banger (Season of the Haunted/Witch) or a complete bust (Season of the Warmind/Pirate Season)
Bungie kind of shot themselves in the foot with that year of Light 3.0. Those seasons had a lot more going for them with essentially new subclasses coming out. Gave people a lot of content to chew on. Now, seasons and Episodes are just kind of meh.
Today marks 10 years of Destiny. It's been a long bumpy ride but there's still nothing quite like this game out there. Here's to hoping Bungie can continue to deliver a good experience for players and its employees.
I hope that all the developers who still work on this game and those who worked on this game continue to have success in their careers. My hope is that Bungie (along with the rest of the industry) can stop treating people as expendable assets while still making the games they are passionate about.
Bungie dropped several articles about the future of Destiny today. I have not had a chance yet to read them all. See links below:
Paving the Way for New Frontiers
Developer Insight - Core Game: Activities
Different person called me a hacker. I reported these two for offensive user name but doubt anything happens.
Might play a little more this weekend and see if I can get the trifecta.
Ran into this lovely couple playing the BLOPS6 beta last weekend.
This was one game after getting called a hacker. Some things never change.
They’re beating this drum now so they can claim the election was stolen by “illegals” voting in swing districts. They just need to (at a minimum) challenge a couple thousand votes in 2-3 states.
TL;DR:
- 8v8 Sparrow Control in Crucible Labs this weekend
- Xur will begin selling Exotic Class items OR and Exotic Cipher with Random Rolls for 41 strange coins with the update on Aug 20th.
- First week (Aug 23rd) will be Class Items but after that it's RNG.
- Aisha's Care will be back in Trials next week.
- Bungie is selling a skateboard deck.
Glenn (and Trump) seem to forget that the only reason he won was because Dems ran a dogshit candidate. Now that they’re not I don’t see VA going to Trump.
Glenn Youngkin is a spineless opportunist who thinks he knows better than everyone else because he has money. Remember that when he tries to run for President.
Bungie site works fine for me. It’s Kotaku having problems with this one but they usually don’t have problems either.
Link to the actual blog post: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/newpath
The renowned studio is becoming more embedded within Sony and spinning off one of its teams
Not a good look for Bungie or Sony. Bungie management needs to go but at this point I feel like that will lead to a full takeover by Sony who aren't any better.
EDIT: I keep getting redirected to The Root when I try to scroll on this link. I think it's an issue with the site.
EDIT 2: Another article about those who were laid off: https://kotaku.com/bungie-ceo-layoffs-locked-account-destiny-pete-parsons-1851610118
Pete Parsons is a fucking coward.
Big chunky boi. Has to be the heaviest plastic infantry model I have.
His multi piece cape sucks. You can’t see it in this pic but his right side is all messed up and I had to use miliput to fix it.
I forgot about 30th Anniversary pack. Super fun activity with good guns. Absolutely farm that.
I think the only thing that was free that you still can access is Onslaught. A horde mode from last season. It drops very popular guns like Mountaintop and Recluse. In August they’re pushing an update that lets you focus what gun you want to drop at Zavala.
Dungeons are hit or miss. I don’t think you’re missing much there. They can be fun but after doing it 5 times and not getting a good roll they get old. If they had craftable guns I’d say consider it.
Favorite Raid: Salvations Edge
It has a good balance of being challenging, not too long, but also not completely brain dead like RoN. Also a satisfying raid lore wise.
Least Favorite: Garden of Salvation
Raid is too easy until the boss. Then that encounter requires everyone to be 100% on their shit. Throw in a terrible mechanic with the tether, a bad exotic quest, and lore completely inconsequential to the overall story and you’ve got a really bad raid.
You could probably buy Witch Queen and The Final Shape and get a good amount of Destiny out of those two expansions. Both have good campaigns and Raids. Skip Lightfall and Beyond Light unless you get them in a bundle. Most of the content in those is dead and the campaigns suck. They’re really only good for unlocking Stasis and Strand.
So far Episode 1 has just been Seasons with a different name and I’m not really impressed. From what they’ve said I think Episode 3 will probably be substantial but we’ll see.
TL;DR:
- Crucible Updates Coming in August:
- Map weighting towards newer and more popular maps
- Lobby balancing changes
- Updated quitter system
- Nerf to Threaded Specter and Swarm grenades (PVP only)
- Trials Passage of Persistence doesn't take away wins when in a 3-stack
- Comp Clash score to win decreased
- Better spawn logic on Collision
- Tribute removed from Iron Banner
- Increased rewards for all Crucible
- Spawns on bigger maps have been pushed closer together.
- There's a lot of detail about all the Crucible changes if you want to go read more.
- Exotic Class item Drop Rates
- Increasing chances while in Pale Heart to a stacking bonus until a drop happens.
- Random Pale heart chests drop rate decreased to encourage Overthrow participation. (Probably also to prevent AFK farming with Macros.)
- Weekly challenge to Dual Destiny for a double drop per Character.
- More tuning to come in the future. Team is aware of the negativity around farming these.
- Brave Weapon Attunement returning at Zavala
TL:DR: This TWID is all about IRL community related stuff you can participate in to get emblems and other swag. I am personally not very interested in that kind of stuff but check it out if you are as some of it looks pretty cool and goes to good causes.
I really wanted one of these when they did the limited release but couldn’t justify it at the time. Glad the brought it back and improved upon it.
It’s a strange pedal and probably best for ambient effects or backing tracks. The DBA side is probably the most “usable” of the modes for more traditional guitar work. I have to play around with it more.
I tried something weird by having it between my distortions and almost blew out my eardrums with the feedback when I turned on the plumes.
TL;DR:
- Episode 1: Act 2 Livestream recap
- In Episode 2 all story content will release at the beginning of each act instead of weekly.
- Two new battlegrounds available July 16th. Third one on July 23.
- New and Returning Weapons:
- Solar Rocket Sidearm
- Arc Two-burst Pulse
- Perfect Paradox (the GOAT)
- New artifact perks. Very sniper heavy.
- Some balance tuning changes mentioned that are coming in early August. Only a few specifics. Probably will be covered in another article in more depth.
- Big thing to note is that Still Hunt+Celestial is getting a 25% dmg nerf.
- Solstice Armor lookin' hot this year. More details about the event in a future TWID.
- Havok Hardware in Crucible labs next week. Mayhem but for Special and Heavy drops.
- Next collab is RecRoom but only in that game.
Super late with this post
TL;DR:
- Episode 1 Act 2 starts July 16
- Iron Banner will now be two weeks instead of one.
- Khvostov getting nerfs to recoil and ricochet rounds in PVP only.
- Red Death is getting Pulse Rifle recoil instead of AR recoil.
- Speaker's Helm is getting it's orb generation disabled in Crucible only till a more proper fix can be implemented.
- For those who didn't play Trials the last two weeks this helmet combined with Khvostov was one of the most toxic things I've ever seen in PVP. Whole teams of warlocks throwing heal turrets every single round bouncing buffed ricochet rounds across my whole team.
- More PVP changes coming with the mid Episode patch.
It’s nothing fancy. I recently switched to an undercoat of Vallejo Game Color Sick Green direct on the model then 1-2 layers of Warpstone Glow. Edge highlights are Moot Green.
I was using the standard GW method of Warpstone over Caliban but I found it to be a pain b/c it took 3+ layers of Warpstone to get no streaks and it came out kind of dark.
It’s nothing fancy. I recently switched to an undercoat of Vallejo Game Color Sick Green direct on the model then 1-2 layers of Warpstone Glow. Edge highlights are Moot Green.
I was using the standard GW method of Warpstone over Caliban but I found it to be a pain b/c it took 3+ layers of Warpstone to get no streaks and it came out kind of dark.
Thank fuck they slammed it. That’ll show those pesky fascists.
