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dalzo

1,876 posts

135 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Not been able to sign in since 2 this afternoon, will hopefully be fixed tonight so I can get on tommorow, bungie seems to be going from one crisis to the next right now

Rick_1138

3,656 posts

177 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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After upgrading my gun and a few bits I found the level I was getting owned in was actually easier but still fun.

I may have griped and whined a bit too soon :-)

Mr E

21,583 posts

258 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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tankslappa said:
What would normally be a grind on your own isn't so bad with a bit of banter with others. It's very much a social game IMO and the raid demonstrates that perfectly.
Agreed. I need to get on with you boys and show you how a real guardian gets blown to bits every 45 seconds or so...

Rick_1138

3,656 posts

177 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Finally on the Moon and enjoying the story a bit more.

Only real gripe is that in the darkzones (no respawning) like Circle of Bones, the mission is to kill a knight, so I am in the arena, kill a lot of the mobs that are about level 6-8, happy days, and I see a Hallowed Knight round a corner at the bottom of a corridor, he is lvl 12, so I use a missile and sniper rifle to bring him down, but as I do this he hides so I have to go kill him up close, I then find there are actually 2 of them and their cannon splash damage is one shot one kill on me.

I try the mission again (with no missiles now, because resetting the arena doesn't include resetting ammo!!) try again, die again. So I stop playing for the night.

I go and have a look at a walkthrough guide and find out you aren't even supposed to go near those knights, the one I want is in the middle of the arena a bit further on than I was and he is only a level 7.....I had no way of knowing this from the mission preamble.

Turns out many have gone past those lvl 12's and think its an area of the game that was closed off for future DLC.

Its frustrating wasting ammo and time doing something that was completely pointless. Reading a bit further on it seems the next few missions aren't much joy solo as its rush mob city and no respawns....yyyaaayyyy.....

Oh well, apparently Venus is pretty when I get there.

Steve Evil

10,653 posts

228 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Rick_1138 said:
Finally on the Moon and enjoying the story a bit more.

Only real gripe is that in the darkzones (no respawning) like Circle of Bones, the mission is to kill a knight, so I am in the arena, kill a lot of the mobs that are about level 6-8, happy days, and I see a Hallowed Knight round a corner at the bottom of a corridor, he is lvl 12, so I use a missile and sniper rifle to bring him down, but as I do this he hides so I have to go kill him up close, I then find there are actually 2 of them and their cannon splash damage is one shot one kill on me.

I try the mission again (with no missiles now, because resetting the arena doesn't include resetting ammo!!) try again, die again. So I stop playing for the night.

I go and have a look at a walkthrough guide and find out you aren't even supposed to go near those knights, the one I want is in the middle of the arena a bit further on than I was and he is only a level 7.....I had no way of knowing this from the mission preamble.

Turns out many have gone past those lvl 12's and think its an area of the game that was closed off for future DLC.

Its frustrating wasting ammo and time doing something that was completely pointless. Reading a bit further on it seems the next few missions aren't much joy solo as its rush mob city and no respawns....yyyaaayyyy.....

Oh well, apparently Venus is pretty when I get there.
Look at your Nav point on the minimap, along with the white pointer on the main screen, it will steer you in the right direction. The area beyond those knights is used for the Strike on the moon.

Mr E

21,583 posts

258 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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The Hive missions are a little bit "Flood-y", but I quite enjoyed them.

Warning, I found the strike on the moon to be significantly more challenging than the level lead me to believe..

Trustmeimadoctor

12,526 posts

154 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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the bikg monster in chains ? that and the cabal ones are the hardest imho just a slog to get through they were even worse until they reduced their health

Mr E

21,583 posts

258 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Trustmeimadoctor said:
the bikg monster in chains ?
That's the fella. I think we needed 4 goes the first time.

Mr.Jimbo

2,082 posts

182 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Annoyingly, I found I had 50 spinmetal last night so raced down to see Mr. Armourer, thank-you very much, 25 Crucible points.

Arse.

It was then I remembered that the Vanguard Armourer is in the hangar!

Agree with the comments about grinding, I'm 24-1/3rd and getting here has been a bit tedious, pretty much just relying on getting a good teamate (i.e. a few levels above) the hard vanguard strikes. I'm getting some good light now and weapons are OK, got my first legendary item drop last night and it was for a fecking hunter!

What can you do with all the ascension shards/energy? I've got a fair amount now and it's just rattling in my virtual titan pockets.

Mr E

21,583 posts

258 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Mr.Jimbo said:
What can you do with all the ascension shards/energy? I've got a fair amount now and it's just rattling in my virtual titan pockets.
I think it's all for upgrades. Legendary/Exotic weapons need rather a lot of scarce bits to make them go bang more.

tankslappa

715 posts

205 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Don't sell any of the materials, legendary and exotic equipment needs a significant amount of it to upgrade.

The weekly heroic and nightfall strike is the moon level this week and it's going to be tough. Managed the heroic on level 28 so far (off work this week smile) and it's hard.

Connection issues again today, keep getting caterpillar errors.

Did get an exotic scout rifle from a legendary engram though biggrin

Antimus

468 posts

189 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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I finally got the auto reload unlocked on Bad Juju and, it's still bad. Going to switch to my legendary pulse rifle and concentrate on Ice Breaker or Super Good Advice.

wuddie

509 posts

249 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Raiding tonight???

Antimus

468 posts

189 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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I need to negotiate with the wife, maybe I should go out and buy some flowers.... too obvious?

This is assuming that caterpillar/bee/cattle/zebra isn't still happening of course

tankslappa

715 posts

205 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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If the connection stabilises then raiding it is.

Bad juju is okay as long as you are getting kills with it, it basically has infinite ammo. It is supposed to be getting a buff at some point so I wouldn't shard it just yet.

InnocentShadows and myself had a good crack at trying to open the vault door ourselves last night. It was hard but managed to get the spire half built at one point. It was good practice if anything.

InnocentShadows

482 posts

141 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Antimus

468 posts

189 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Still getting booted off randomly, only get about 10 minutes of play at most. This is day 2 of this issue, no matter what Bungie keep saying about the issue being resolved. Feckers

Trustmeimadoctor

12,526 posts

154 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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i got booted off last night within about 1 minute of getting onto venus logged back in fine for an hour its a pita when it does that 3/4 way through a mission

dalzo

1,876 posts

135 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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InnocentShadows said:
Good effort but I'll raise you with this biglaughbiglaugh
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EHVtZsCZ1TA

tankslappa

715 posts

205 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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dalzo said:
InnocentShadows said:
Good effort but I'll raise you with this biglaughbiglaugh
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EHVtZsCZ1TA
They are class biggrin