Destiny Beta Thread

[Tom Bombadildo]

The matchmaking is kinda poor, but what do you expect with a level system. BUT, the competitive multiplayer is tons of fun to play. Im really really hooked.

August is going to blow :sadbortz:

I definitely agree, the competitive stuff is immensely fun, especially when you get to level 8 and you fuck up all those nubs ;O;O;

But after being able to play the beta for quite a while, I have to say that I'm definitely going to pre-order this when I get the funds. Definitely going to be a good game.

 

[Hells Malice]

I really want to play but i'm worried about getting it on PS3 :[
I really don't feel like dealing with gameplay hiccups or anything. The downgrade in graphics isn't a big deal...

Would've bought a PS4+Destiny buuut my archery stuff cost a lot more than I expected.

EDIT: Whelp I forgot I could just pre-order on Amazon, try the beta, and cancel it if I don't like it.

 

[T-hug]

I just read the lv. cap is 20 in the full game ugh!
Not sure how I feel about that.

Also I found an enemy vehicle with GUNS called a Pike:

Anyone know if and where you can buy new dances? Sure I've seen people doing different ones.

I've done all missions on every difficulty setting, played a bit of MP and bought a new Sparrow... not much else to do so I hope they add more content this week!

[-EDIT-]
The BETA is now down for 2 days and I just learned that today is the 45th anniversary of the Moon landing, so maybe that mission will unlock when it's back on..?

https://twitter.com/bungie/status/491399081265487872

 

[T-hug]

BETA is live again. I didn't know loot was accessible across all characters. Pretty sweet!
I'm torn between Titan and Warlock for when the full game is out.

 

[BORTZ]

T-hug I dont know if you can get new ones, but I am pretty sure dancing is based on your race and sex. So Awoken dance differently than Exo, and Awoken males dance differently than awoken females.

I think at first I'll be maxing out a Titan for the crucible, but after that the other two.

In fact, once i get done doing a race of each, I'll go back and mix up race and class again. There are 18 different character combos.

Male human titan
male human hunter
male human warlock

male awoken titan
male awoken hunter
male awoken warlock

Male exo titan
male exo hunter
male exo warlock

Then all over again with females.
I dont think ill be able to keep all of them, thanks to there only being 3 character slots, so ill have to have a rotation going lol

What do we know about the planets we can visit? Earth, the moon, venus, and mars for sure. There is mention of mercury being a garden planet in the opening cinematic, but who knows if that will be available soon. I remember some chatter about possibily a moon of Jupiter ( which I always thought was cheap. Why not a city ON jupiter? Like Bespin from star wars ) ? There is that old space station out by saturn too. I am much more certain I remember an official source saying that was going to be explorable.

How do you guys think the 10 life cycle of this game is going to work out, first, distribution wise? Do you think we are going to be play off of the same base disk (the one you will be getting in september) in 10 years when we are getting the last piece of 2024 DLC? Or will Bungie keep things alive with new games like the Halo series, with updated mechanics every 2 or 3 years?

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Congrats for the PlayStation gamers who always wanted to play Halo, now they've finally got it and even better is that it's developed by the real devs of it. Now if only Sony could get Crash Bandicoot for PS4/Vita it would pretty much seal the deal. 8)

 

[T-hug]

@Bortz I think we will just be able to explore our own Solar System initially, with just the 13 (?) Planets and Moon. Maybe we'll then get better jump ships and be able to warp to The Fallen's home system or The Traveller's system.
I watched or read an interview that this first game of Destiny won't give us any closure and that there will be more games like every other year with DLC in the gap years.

In Warframe you can only explore our own system and that game is massive so if Destiny even has half of the locations of that I'll be happy due to the overall quality of the experience.
I'm not one to shell out on DLC unless it's huge like The Shivering Isles so I hope Bungie get it right and Activision don't try to fleece us.
Will be on later if you want to team up or something. I got all the gold chests if you need any it unlocks a class specific Sparrow. Mine was yellow!

 

[BORTZ]

@Bortz I think we will just be able to explore our own Solar System initially, with just the 13 (?) Planets and Moon. Maybe we'll then get better jump ships and be able to warp to The Fallen's home system or The Traveller's system.
I watched or read an interview that this first game of Destiny won't give us any closure and that there will be more games like every other year with DLC in the gap years.

In Warframe you can only explore our own system and that game is massive so if Destiny even has half of the locations of that I'll be happy due to the overall quality of the experience.
I'm not one to shell out on DLC unless it's huge like The Shivering Isles so I hope Bungie get it right and Activision don't try to fleece us.
Will be on later if you want to team up or something. I got all the gold chests if you need any it unlocks a class specific Sparrow. Mine was yellow!

What it stated that each planet would have multiple places to land? Like no just old russia on earth, werent there some other playable places too?

 

[chavosaur]

Final can put my 2 cents in now that it's on Xbox One. Not much to as though, as already said its a fantastic beta experience, but definitely still has it's hiccups. Something I also noticed in playing compared to the PS4 version is some notable frame dropping in certain areas of the game. Hopefully a beta issue and not a hardware limitation.

 

[T-hug]

Well I'd be surprised if it were just Russia, I know there is an 'Old Chicago' but whether it's PvE or PvP we'll have to see!

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Nice to this game receiving favourable reviews from the GBATemp community. I'm planning on buying the Destiny PS4 bundle this fall and didn't want to be stuck with another sub-par FPS entry.

 

[BORTZ]

Nice to this game receiving favourable reviews from the GBATemp community. I'm planning on buying the Destiny PS4 bundle this fall and didn't want to be stuck with another sub-par FPS entry.

Its anything but subpar. And that is coming from someone who doesnt really frequent the shooter genre.

 

[Sakitoshi]

it really looked kinda generic by the early trailers but now that I tried it on PS4 I can say that is fantastic.
created a female Awoken Warlock and reached level 6. I did find it very similar to Borderlands(the first one) but with a more deep system and story, you can even level up your equipment. I'm not very convinced with the MMORPG aspect(always preferred playing alone if no friends were online, even in my RO days), but sure looks interesting.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I've pretty much reached the max you can do in the beta, so I've haven't played much recently, but I think I'm gonna try out another class before the beta ends (on Sunday )

 

[T-hug]

Don't forget to at least login on the 26th to get the free emblem for use in the full game! Also I am expecting more stuff to appear in the last day or so, hopefully that damn Moon mission!

In case you didn't know anyone can now try the BETA, you don't need a key as of yesterday.

 

[BORTZ]

Well, Last night was my last time to play the Beta. I am going camping this weekend and wont be back till sunday. I think the Beta ends Saturday at midnight soooo

 

[WiiCube_2013]

The beta is open for everyone but honestly I'm not even going to give it a try considering I don't like shooters very much. Power Stone 2 and Rayman Legends is my gaming treat.

 

[SpaceJump]

Gave the beta a go this morning on my PS4 and I'm pleasently surprised by the game. I get a lot of Borderlands vibe, which is good!

Level cap 20? Is that true?

 

[T-hug]

Level 20 is a soft cap that is reached with XP. After that you increase levels using some Light Stones or something, it's more of a loot upgrade mechanic and I've seen screens of level 31 players on the Bungie site.

Spoiler: Lv.21

 

[Zerousen]

Honestly I don't think I care that much about the story or anything at all. I've been playing it quite a bit since I haven't had much to do, so I've already leveled my warlock and my titan to level 8, and my hunter is sitting at level 5. The camera sensitivity feels very weird to me, it might be because it is similar to Halo, however, I haven't really every played any Halo games besides CE on the PC. It sort of ruined the game for me at first, but as my friend kept urging me to play with him I kind of got used to it. I think I've gotten pretty good in the crucible, as I always manage to rack up around 6000~7000 points in a good game, and maybe 4000~5000 in a decent one. I didn't care too much at first for the strikes/dungeons or whatever, however, I find myself randomly playing them when I get bored of crucible. Before I played the game, I could not care any less for the game at all, but once my friend gave me a spare beta key and had me try it out, it isn't really too bad. I don't plan on buying the game, but my friend is going to buy the digital edition and will gameshare it to me, so maybe I'll buy the DLC for us when it comes out.