Destiny 2... It's a coming!

Phixsator · 29 Aug 2017 at 09:37

Cully said:
Any dieas what time the open bat goes live on battlenet for those of us that didnt preorder?

I think it's the same time as it was yesterday so that would be 6? pm GMT.

Would like to add for everyone else that the ingame vsync option is doing weird stuff on my gsync enabled system. Framerate will be locked dead to 165(hz of monitor) but if drops happens it halves to 82, so for me atleast gsync is broken here unless i turn it off(ingame vsync option that is) in which case gsync works as it should.

Junglist · 29 Aug 2017 at 09:46

Yes, you can probably download it from 6pm onwards. It's only 16GB so wont take too long.

I don't think I can go back to the console version now. Anyone running strikes/pvp later?

Glanza · 29 Aug 2017 at 09:50

Cully said:
Any dieas what time the open bat goes live on battlenet for those of us that didnt preorder?

Open beta unlocks at 6pm, will be able to preload from that time, hopefully as the beta is already up and running there isn't a delay with the servers opening like last night for the beta players.

Mercutio · 29 Aug 2017 at 09:54

What's the vibe with so far? Yay/nay? Community full of "well, I've been here 10 whole hours longer than you, my "experience" already means I must look down on you, you ****ing scrub!" types yet?

KNiVES · 29 Aug 2017 at 09:55

People who like Destiny loves it.
People who never played Destiny hates it. It's Bungie's own fault, they turned off loot and progression in the beta and gave the beta characters endgame weapons and armor, and now everyone thinks it's a dull game with no content. The beta just isn't reflective of what the game is about at all, I don't know what Bungie was thinking. It's like saying here's Sunday roast dinner! And all you get are garden peas. And now everyone thinks Sunday roast dinners are all just garden peas and they don't know why people love Sunday roast dinners.

Robi · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:01

1000h+ D1 PS4 player here.

It feels, looks and sounds amazing. The movement is smooth and the gunplay still has that great feel to it. I can't get over how well it's optimised. I'm on an i5-6600K + 1070 and I'm averaging around 120 fps in 1080p with everything on high.

The strike was fun and definitely an improvement on the bullet-sponge strikes in D1. Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come. The sheer scale of the area in the strike is what took me by surprise. It's so vast.

PvP tonight anyone?

Mercutio · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:09

KNiVES said:
People who like Destiny loves it.
People who never played Destiny hates it. It's Bungie's own fault, they turned off loot and progression in the beta and gave the beta characters endgame weapons and armor, and now everyone thinks it's a dull game with no content. The beta just isn't reflective of what the game is about at all, I don't know what Bungie was thinking. It's like saying here's Sunday roast dinner! And all you get are garden peas. And now everyone thinks Sunday roast dinners are all just garden peas and they don't know why people love Sunday roast dinners.

Oh

that sounds disappointing. Happy times in wow was sprinting out of stormwind on the beta and getting destroyed by hogger with zero clue. Giving good stuff seems a bit... eh. Definitely better to get the gear treadmill in view as there's plenty will lap that sort of thing up. I'll keep it in mind.

KNiVES · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:17

You know that's just for the beta though? The final game you literally start off at level 1 in all white gear and no powers.

Sem · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:18

KNiVES said:
People who like Destiny loves it.
People who never played Destiny hates it. It's Bungie's own fault, they turned off loot and progression in the beta and gave the beta characters endgame weapons and armor, and now everyone thinks it's a dull game with no content. The beta just isn't reflective of what the game is about at all, I don't know what Bungie was thinking. It's like saying here's Sunday roast dinner! And all you get are garden peas. And now everyone thinks Sunday roast dinners are all just garden peas and they don't know why people love Sunday roast dinners.

"technically" its a beta to test the servers not a gameplay demo

but i guess these days hard to tell the difference

labbby · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:18

KNiVES said:
People who like Destiny loves it.
People who never played Destiny hates it. It's Bungie's own fault, they turned off loot and progression in the beta and gave the beta characters endgame weapons and armor, and now everyone thinks it's a dull game with no content. The beta just isn't reflective of what the game is about at all, I don't know what Bungie was thinking. It's like saying here's Sunday roast dinner! And all you get are garden peas. And now everyone thinks Sunday roast dinners are all just garden peas and they don't know why people love Sunday roast dinners.

This... I never played the first one and i played a lot of The DIvision. playing the beta has lef tme feeling kind of meh. Alll it feels like to me is that i will be sitting in a lobby and clicking on events that are either PVP or PVE. Were there no open world meeting areas in the first one or was everything done through the lobby thing they have going on ?

I must say for a beta it does run very well especially without AMD drivers optimised for it.

I'm not sure if its because its end game loot they gave everyone in the beta but it feels really clunky on comparing loot stats and so on. I hope it's just because they left the grind out of the beta but at the moment im really not sure what to make of it.

Mercutio · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:19

KNiVES said:
You know that's just for the beta though? The final game you literally start off at level 1 in all white gear and no powers.

oh, don't get me wrong, I _completely_ understand that.
I'm also very well aware how underwhelming being dumped on a test server with everything you could possibly want at hand can be. It's not a good peep into the game imo. Will see this evening though.

labbby · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:19

Sem said:
"technically" its a beta to test the servers not a gameplay demo

but i guess these days hard to tell the difference

Yeah beta's these days are more pre order selling points although at least they did it as an open beta with just the extra day for the pre order peeps.

Mercutio · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:20

Sem said:
"technically" its a beta to test the servers not a gameplay demo

but i guess these days hard to tell the difference

true/fair. It's not intended as a "public demo" but as a quick stress test to make sure the servers are setup right.

Robi · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:20

Why are people mistaking the beta for a demo? It's a beta designed to analyse traffic, stress-test the servers and find catastrophic bugs that were missed during QA testing. The purpose of it is exactly the opposite of KNiVES described.

labbby · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:22

Robi said:
Why are people mistaking the beta for a demo? It's a beta designed to analyse traffic, stress-test the servers and find catastrophic bugs that were missed during QA testing. The purpose of it is exactly the opposite of KNiVES described.

Ah yes they really needed the pre order beta players traffic last night

Legionaire68 · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:31

I played the PS4 beta and only played for about 3 hours as there was so little to do after checking out the subclass changes.

I was always going to get the game as a D1 player and I am stoked for the PC version but for a new platform with people unfamiliar with D1 it will feel underwhelming for many I fear.

llamadal · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:33

Well of everyone i'm playing with, only 1 person has ever played destiny before. All of them love it.

As I said before, the lack of common sense when it comes to assessing a game is odd, I don't understand it.

It's such a tiny sample size available so all you can personally assess is the following

- does it feel responsive and enjoy the overall feel/style of the game
- visually pleasing
- can you get behind a sci fi shooter with bullet sponge enemies

Those on the fence have plenty of time to get more information, the console version will be around for a couple of months before hand so if your concerned about x/y/z then your questions can/will be easily answered.

Chris C · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:35

I really enjoyed it so far but I'm not really interested in PvP, I've got Overwatch for that.
My only issue so far is, I never played Destiny 1, I don't really know what is going on. I've found the skill menu, swapped some grenades around, but the supers and things, not a clue. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it but its very new to me. Hopefully the retail release will have a more walk you in tutorial like WoW etc. I did enjoy the strike, kept falling off some cliffs though, the boss was pretty fun.

labbby · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:38

llamadal said:
Well of everyone i'm playing with, only 1 person has ever played destiny before. All of them love it.

As I said before, the lack of common sense when it comes to assessing a game is odd, I don't understand it.

It's such a tiny sample size available so all you can personally assess is the following

- does it feel responsive and enjoy the overall feel/style of the game
- visually pleasing
- can you get behind a sci fi shooter with bullet sponge enemies

Those on the fence have plenty of time to get more information, the console version will be around for a couple of months before hand so if your concerned about x/y/z then your questions can/will be easily answered.

Well give us a clue then. I take it from this post you played D1 ?

Will it be just a game lobby where you team up with people then enter PVE or PVP instances for loot or is there a bit more to it ?

KNiVES · 29 Aug 2017 at 10:42

Robi said:
Why are people mistaking the beta for a demo? It's a beta designed to analyse traffic, stress-test the servers and find catastrophic bugs that were missed during QA testing. The purpose of it is exactly the opposite of KNiVES described.

That's not how a lot of players are seeing the test though. It's a demo in the eyes of enormous numbers of players. As far as they are concerned, this is how they think the final game will play. This thread alone has dozens of people saying it's a rubbish game because that the impression they've been given. Saying it's a network test (which you are absolutely right on btw) won't change how they felt about it, which is a shame.

If it was the same strike, but with level 100 players starting in blue gear and the strike dropped engram loot, impressions would be much more positive. You get that positive feedback loop that Destiny is well known for.

It's like showing Doom with IDDQD enabled.