Destiny (PS4)

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GarryDK

5,670 posts

157 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Martin_Hx said:
Well the PS4 is set up, hoping the game arrives today!
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Flat-out

832 posts

194 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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WaspsNest said:
youngsyr said:
Cheers to Flat-Out and Bokka-Bokka - good team play got us the hand cannon! biggrin
No problem, I got the jist when you asked for Phogoth to be left alone, glad you both got the cannons. God I hate Phogoth though, feels like he takes forever to die sometimes.
Fcensoredk yeah! Chuffed to bits that we got this done at the first attempt. Apologies for not having a mic fella...it was dispatched yesterday apparently. I had to make do with having my hunter nod or shake his head to communicate hehe

Having said that, there was a moment when I thought it wasn't going to happen. After we released Phogoth in order to start the waves and I went in solo, I must have got 3 shots off and an arc grenade before I was absolutely pounded by the first set of wizards and knights. I was bouncing around just shouting Fcensoredk, Fcensoredk, Fcensoredk, Fcensoredk. Probably best I didn't have a mic hehe

Massive thanks to Bokka-Bokka/WaspsNest for jumping in to help. Massively appreciated. I *think* I got the last hit on Xyor with my (potentially ill-timed) arc-blade although I am by no means taking credit for this. I couldn't have done it alone. thumbup

Bokka, TeamPenguin and I then did the weekly and daily strikes. We abandoned the nightfall as it was just impossible as a threesome of level 26/27s. Apologies for bailing fellas- needed a lie down after that and my messages of thanks didn't get sent for some reason. thumbup

I haven't even handed in the Thorn bounty yet. Hoping it isn't as bad as I have read/the buff sorts it out.

Flat-out

832 posts

194 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Shinobi said:
Got roped into raiding tonight but will be on most of the week. So how many people are up for a Sunday eve raid?
I am about for it. Perhaps 6pm is a better start time!?

Seen some people suggest alternative days. Friday isn't possible for me, but if that is the consensus, so be it. Saturday is also possible but I think most are generally free on Sunday evening. thumbup

Speckle

3,448 posts

215 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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youngsyr said:
Not sure what was going on with that weekly at level 22 - was insane trying to get through those Wizards?!
That was seriously tough! I think the only way would be to split up around the room ro keep moving if possible. Because we were all pretty much camped by the door, we had the firepower of all 3 of them battering us to death! I was trying to take down the shields with my solar fusion but for you guys to get the kill but, it is woefully underpowered (uncommon @ 178 I think) and wasn't making enough of a dent.

I did 1 public event on patrol and then 2 further public events while on a story mission this morning. I then quit out of the mission to join another fireteam. I was definitely linked to the events and got the 3 tier gold stars came up on screen but, when I eventually got to the tower, there were no rewards waiting for me?! Is that normal? I have precisely zero ascendant shards at the moment and need 8 or, 1 mote of light at the very least for a risky exotic engram this weekend!

Another thing I have noticed is that my kills seem to be consistently low to middle. I've tried using different weapons (the hand cannon fast becoming a favourite!) but, I'm most comfortable with a legendary auto rifle (Grim Citizen I think). Maybe I just suck but, I don't feel like I'm doing too badly when I'm playing. Am I missing something, is there a 'go to' weapon for high kill rates? It may be that my super (Golden gun) is a little too focussed so I usually only get 3 or 4 one shot kills with it.

Enough rambling! Headseat should arrive today or tomorrow so you will all get to hear me swear alot soon!! smile

Hopefully up for the Raid Sunday but, cannot guarantee 100% so if you have 6 absolute confirmations, I'm happy to sit this one out and join the next attempt. If I'm online at 7pm and there is a spot open, invite me smile

Steve Evil

10,653 posts

228 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Did the raid again last night and got absolutely nothing but Ascendant Shards and Ascendant Energy, both of which I'm rolling in. Haven't had anything juicy from the raid besides a shotgun on my first run through. Meanwhile others on the team came out with a gun and two bits of armour last night. Pretty demoralising.

Martin_Hx

3,951 posts

197 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Well i tried connecting my PS3 headset to the PS4 with no luck last night, turtle beach do an adapter for £30 so i shall see if it is compatible with my headset at dinner, not sure what mine are.

If not ill be on the hunt for a new headset, any ideas? I don't like spending money as im a tight northerner so around £30 really smile

Speckle

3,448 posts

215 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Martin_Hx said:
Well i tried connecting my PS3 headset to the PS4 with no luck last night, turtle beach do an adapter for £30 so i shall see if it is compatible with my headset at dinner, not sure what mine are.

If not ill be on the hunt for a new headset, any ideas? I don't like spending money as im a tight northerner so around £30 really smile
I ordered a Tritton Kama Stereo Headset for PS4 from Amazon (and, it has just arrived!) - it got very good reviews online and it is quite a bit less than your budget at £23 smile

Haven't tried it yet but, will test it out tonight.

Moog72

1,598 posts

176 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Martin_Hx said:
Well i tried connecting my PS3 headset to the PS4 with no luck last night, turtle beach do an adapter for £30 so i shall see if it is compatible with my headset at dinner, not sure what mine are.

If not ill be on the hunt for a new headset, any ideas? I don't like spending money as im a tight northerner so around £30 really smile
I bought a Turtle Beach PX22 headset for use in Destiny (around £50 from Amazon) after reading good reviews. However aside from controlling the PS4 via voice I haven't actually used it in Destiny 'cos I've not been in any fireteams since tongue out Frustrating I can't participate in some of these activities because I just can't get past level 22 (have yet to see any form of legendary gear for instance)

If you are thinking about it though, check your connections on your TV first - you need either 1) analog audio out connectors (red and white) not to be confused with the component IN audio sockets (my initial mistake) or 2) a 3.5mm headphones socket

I had the latter but on the back of the TV and as such needed a headphones extension cable to connect to the jack on the headset cable in order to reach because I think the headset cable assumes the headphone socket would naturally be on the front of the TV

Once setup, it does work really well - can be a little uncomfortable after long periods but that's mainly because of the way the headset sits on top of my glasses sometimes

Speckle

3,448 posts

215 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Moog72 said:
I bought a Turtle Beach PX22 headset for use in Destiny (around £50 from Amazon) after reading good reviews. However aside from controlling the PS4 via voice I haven't actually used it in Destiny 'cos I've not been in any fireteams since tongue out Frustrating I can't participate in some of these activities because I just can't get past level 22 (have yet to see any form of legendary gear for instance)
I'm happy to do a few Vanguard strikes etc. with you tonight if you want. I found it difficult to level up after 20 at first but, persevered and got some legendary engrams drop, bought an exotic helmet from xur and bought some more vanguard armour and somehow I've got up to lvl 27. Keep doing the bounties and grinding away and you'll get there.

Martin_Hx

3,951 posts

197 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Moog72 said:
I bought a Turtle Beach PX22 headset for use in Destiny (around £50 from Amazon) after reading good reviews. However aside from controlling the PS4 via voice I haven't actually used it in Destiny 'cos I've not been in any fireteams since tongue out Frustrating I can't participate in some of these activities because I just can't get past level 22 (have yet to see any form of legendary gear for instance)

If you are thinking about it though, check your connections on your TV first - you need either 1) analog audio out connectors (red and white) not to be confused with the component IN audio sockets (my initial mistake) or 2) a 3.5mm headphones socket

I had the latter but on the back of the TV and as such needed a headphones extension cable to connect to the jack on the headset cable in order to reach because I think the headset cable assumes the headphone socket would naturally be on the front of the TV

Once setup, it does work really well - can be a little uncomfortable after long periods but that's mainly because of the way the headset sits on top of my glasses sometimes
Ill have a fiddle tonight, i connect the 3.5 jack to the controller and usb straight to the PS4. I took out the analog red/white cables out of the loop completely, ill have another go tonight if i can find some more patience smile

Flat-out

832 posts

194 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Speckle said:
Moog72 said:
I bought a Turtle Beach PX22 headset for use in Destiny (around £50 from Amazon) after reading good reviews. However aside from controlling the PS4 via voice I haven't actually used it in Destiny 'cos I've not been in any fireteams since tongue out Frustrating I can't participate in some of these activities because I just can't get past level 22 (have yet to see any form of legendary gear for instance)
I'm happy to do a few Vanguard strikes etc. with you tonight if you want. I found it difficult to level up after 20 at first but, persevered and got some legendary engrams drop, bought an exotic helmet from xur and bought some more vanguard armour and somehow I've got up to lvl 27. Keep doing the bounties and grinding away and you'll get there.
Ditto. I'll jump into to do some strikes which will give you a good chance of some engram drops. The trick is to focus on either PvP or PvE and buy legendary stuff from the Crucible QM or your Vanguard. That being so, doing some strikes will give you good levels of marks and rep which will boost you quicker to the right rank with your Vanguard. Ranking to upwards of 27+ is then just a question of getting Ascendant shards which come from true grinding.

Speaking of shards, it was my suggestion that getting gold on the first public event per day always gave you an AS. My bad... as this doesn't seem to be the case. I've done about 5 when farming for Helium filaments and each time I received an AS... the message from the postie making it sound like they are always AS. read

pimpchez

897 posts

182 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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youngsyr said:
Not sure what was going on with that weekly at level 22 - was insane trying to get through those Wizards?!

I had a bounty to do on my titan that was level 26 and epic on the same level and it was easier! confused

Cheers to Flat-Out and Bokka-Bokka - good team play got us the hand cannon! biggrin
Dirty__Chez here , yes it was hard as fk .Me , you and speckle at lvl 27 should have raped.

I txt my mate after and he shouted pussy , 30mins later he was online and we went in to the same fate :/

youngsyr

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14,742 posts

191 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Flat-out said:
Speaking of shards, it was my suggestion that getting gold on the first public event per day always gave you an AS. My bad... as this doesn't seem to be the case. I've done about 5 when farming for Helium filaments and each time I received an AS... the message from the postie making it sound like they are always AS. read
The first one of the day is always a shard or energy, I think?

youngsyr

Original Poster:

14,742 posts

191 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Flat-out said:
Bokka, TeamPenguin and I then did the weekly and daily strikes. We abandoned the nightfall as it was just impossible as a threesome of level 26/27s. Apologies for bailing fellas- needed a lie down after that and my messages of thanks didn't get sent for some reason. thumbup
Just did the the weekly nightfall with EECCTimH and Ollyarto, trick is for one guy to lure the witches in to the side corridor, where the two others are waiting at the top with solar snipers/HMGs to take them out.

It's not easy at level 29 though, so level 26/7 will be a bit of a struggle.

Edited by youngsyr on Wednesday 22 October 13:55

Snubs

1,166 posts

138 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Speckle said:
1 mote of light at the very least for a risky exotic engram this weekend!
Anyone know how many motes the exotic engram would be? The Internet tells me 23; is that the case? I have 24 so I'm considering it. I only have an exotic helmet, so any other bit of armour or gun would be sweet. Probably get a new cape though, or ascendent energy. But even with the risk of that happening, there doesn't seem to be much else to spend the motes on. All I've seen are emblems and that sort of thing, which I'm not fussed about. Or would my precious motes be better spent on something i haven't noticed?

Martin_Hx

3,951 posts

197 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Well game came at dinner, all installed plus i got my old ps3 headset working.... i think!

BUT! When i go to redeem the 1 month free PS+ i keep getting the following code E-8200012F... i shall try again tonight

Speckle

3,448 posts

215 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Snubs said:
Anyone know how many motes the exotic engram would be? The Internet tells me 23; is that the case? I have 24 so I'm considering it. I only have an exotic helmet, so any other bit of armour or gun would be sweet. Probably get a new cape though, or ascendent energy. But even with the risk of that happening, there doesn't seem to be much else to spend the motes on. All I've seen are emblems and that sort of thing, which I'm not fussed about. Or would my precious motes be better spent on something i haven't noticed?
I'm hoping 23 as I have 22 atm and will hopefully stumble across one before xur leaves this weekend. The main danger with the exotic engram is that you get something that isn't for your class so, a warlock or titan specific piece of armour in my case. If it is warlock, I have a lvl 14 warlock so, could keep it for him or if for titan, dismantle for ascendant shards to upgrade my existing stuff. If it turns out to be a weapon...happy days!! smile

Snubs

1,166 posts

138 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Speckle said:
Snubs said:
Anyone know how many motes the exotic engram would be? The Internet tells me 23; is that the case? I have 24 so I'm considering it. I only have an exotic helmet, so any other bit of armour or gun would be sweet. Probably get a new cape though, or ascendent energy. But even with the risk of that happening, there doesn't seem to be much else to spend the motes on. All I've seen are emblems and that sort of thing, which I'm not fussed about. Or would my precious motes be better spent on something i haven't noticed?
I'm hoping 23 as I have 22 atm and will hopefully stumble across one before xur leaves this weekend. The main danger with the exotic engram is that you get something that isn't for your class so, a warlock or titan specific piece of armour in my case. If it is warlock, I have a lvl 14 warlock so, could keep it for him or if for titan, dismantle for ascendant shards to upgrade my existing stuff. If it turns out to be a weapon...happy days!! smile
I hadn't thought about armour for other classes. Not ideal as i only have a Hunter, but i think I'll give it a go anyway. Perhaps they should have Xur stood there running a roulette wheel...

Flat-out

832 posts

194 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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youngsyr said:
Flat-out said:
Speaking of shards, it was my suggestion that getting gold on the first public event per day always gave you an AS. My bad... as this doesn't seem to be the case. I've done about 5 when farming for Helium filaments and each time I received an AS... the message from the postie making it sound like they are always AS. read
The first one of the day is always a shard or energy, I think?
That's what I thought (and having got about 5 AS on the trot) I thought it was just AS that were handed out. BUT, a quick google shows that strange coins and also motes of light can also be received. I'd hate to be without a few if they were needed to progress something.

There is nothing really of any use with the Motes of Light aside from shaders etc from the speaker and also Xur at the weekend. Having said that, the Thorn bounty (I'll stop banging on about it after this hehe) involved having to hand over a Mote in order to gain access to the last leg. After that, I reckon I'll just let them accumulate if there are no weapons etc that I want. No doubt they'll be of more use when the DLC etc is received.

Snubs

1,166 posts

138 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Flat-out said:
There is nothing really of any use with the Motes of Light aside from shaders etc from the speaker and also Xur at the weekend. Having said that, the Thorn bounty (I'll stop banging on about it after this hehe) involved having to hand over a Mote in order to gain access to the last leg. After that, I reckon I'll just let them accumulate if there are no weapons etc that I want. No doubt they'll be of more use when the DLC etc is received.
That seals it, my motes are going on black 22.