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Edited by Kalliope:
8/27/2015 5:26:29 AM
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The Taken King Stream Review (08/26/15)
[spoiler]I put a poll up not long ago to see who would be Lost Sols' replacement until he gets unbanned. After chatting a little bit with the man himself, I decided to take it upon myself to step into the shoes of a respected community member and try to fill the void. That's why I'm putting a recap up for you guys.[/spoiler]
As of writing this, the stream showcasing one of the new Strike Missions coming in Destiny: The Taken King, has just ended.
Honestly, I loved it. As short as the stream was, it was definitely very exciting to see what we're getting in just a few weeks.
I think it's safe to say that this Strike will be complete chaos when it becomes a Nightfall, there is Cabal and Taken enemies everywhere, a Goliath Tank in a medium-sized room, and two massive bosses with new interesting abilities.
We also caught a glimpse of the Arc Edge in action, it seemed to be working effectively.
New marks and weapons were dropping, as well as being displayed.
The most important part for me?
The bosses [b]aren't[/b] reskinned bullet sponges.
You heard me right, this may be the end of those pain in the ass bullet sponge bosses.
The new supers were showcased yet again, also showing that Titans can use their Hammer of Sol to grant themselves an overshield.
No new exotics were seen from what I remember, just legendaries.
I also noticed that there was a barrier above the boss arena, but instead of a static screen saying "Turn Back!" it now says "Returning To Your Allies!" with the countdown included, I'm happy about that.
They will no longer be known as "Death Barriers", but now they will be known as [i][b][ERROR: CLEVER PUN NOT FOUND][/b][/i] and that excites me.
I'll see if I can get Sols to send me a list of stuff he enjoyed or noticed and I will paste it on here when I can.
[b][u]TL;DR[/u][/b]
New weapons and armor were seen, the bosses aren't bullet sponges, no waves of enemies while Ghost scans things, great design and mechanics.
Great stream all around, good work Bungie.
I'm all hyped for the Court of Oryx stream now, and I'll update everyone when that happens.
The full stream can be found on Bungie's Twitch channel under 'Past Broadcasts' so if you want to watch it again, go ahead.
Until next time!
[i]~Anarchy[/i]
[spoiler]There is no way I could be Sols' replacement....
I'm horrible at this.[/spoiler]
EDIT:
So, how many more people are gonna bash me for picking up where someone left off?
EDIT 2:
Welcome back Sols!
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2 RepliesEdited by garionlrpg: 8/27/2015 9:34:44 PMOne thing I noticed, and didn't like, was the titan super. It just seemed like the warlock sun singer super with hammers instead of grenades. Thoughts?
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Honestly have been here since the alpha and I have never heard of you. Haven't even heard of sols until like a month ago.
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1 ReplyGood job stepping up! Maybe there is room for 2!
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I actually don't want to watch the stream. It will take away the surprise.
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Thank you for an actual positive feedback post.
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Cast your vote on allowing optional infusion on year 1 legendary weapons: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/148284067
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You didn't think there are waves of enemies while nolanbot scan things? Um.....that's literally how the boss fight starts. REINFORCEMENTS ARE COMING!
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I will start off by saying I have enjoyed playing this fps since day one, the only let down for me was HOW, not the playable content but the weapons and armour. I have pre ordered TTK so I thought I would sit down and see what I'm getting. To start with it all looked pretty good I have to say, the feel of the environment, the new subclasses and the new bosses, so all good so far. Now the important things for me as a guardian is to look feel and be bad ass and the new subclasses ticked that box, however looking at the legendary weapons in use through the strike I saw nothing that said I want that, for an FPS guns, armour and power are top of the list for me. This brings me to the HUGE disappointment of losing some awesome exotics and all of my legendary weapons, armour I can deal with but awesome guns in an FPS, no. I don't want to lose any of my raid weapons, let me give you and example: when I equip my fatebringer and get that first head shot which triggers an electrical storm on nearby enemies, that just never gets old, it's awesome, not one of those weapons on the stream did anything unique like that, they all acted and sounded like average weapons that we already have, and that triggered HOW alarm bells. Then I started to think those new supers look awesome, I wonder how long it will be before the PVP players are calling for nerfs??? This was a chance to show off some new weapons to replace our old ones and in my eyes bungie failed here. I originally pre ordered the special edition of destiny and with that came a book detailing all the cool guns and armour, so I say again let us bring all our cool guns with us through this journey, let US decide when we get bored of them or find something better, nobody likes to be dictated to which is exactly what you are doing Bungie. So it is with regret that I have canceled my pre order of TTK until I see some solid reviews and decent weaponry to bring me back.
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tbh the undying mind will be chaos when its able to be nightfall with solar and void burn
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[quote]EDIT 2: Welcome back Sols![/quote] Tyvm :)
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1 ReplyMy impression of TTK is getting worse with every news release they make. I can appreciate your points on change with the bosses and how the mechanic is different; however, none of it is impressive and makes me want to keep playing. I agree with Sols, the strike will be fun to SOLO on NIGHTFALL/HEROIC. If this the level of gameplay one can expect from the TTK Fallout 4 and Halo 5 will kill this game while no man's sky digs the grave.
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1 ReplyYet again bungie's fiendish plans of greedy are set in motion,but this time the people are strong against this bullshit!
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Thanx
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New armor was seen, if you count reskinned pre TTK armor as new..
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Edited by Unforgiven: 8/27/2015 1:24:16 AMI prefer this gameplay better than the Stream.
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8 RepliesHonesty the tank seemed same old bullet sponge with more adds to me. The shield Bros seemed like it had better mechanics but If you noticed the guardians shooting at the boss it didn't seem like they were going all out with there fire power. I didn't really see them use heavies or rockets and they took care of the bros pretty easily. The shield bros boss fight did appear to be an improvement over what we had as an end boss on year one strikes but I guess I need to see more..
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3 RepliesI unlike others, enjoy that there will be another "longwinded" person adding comments and insight for me to read and enjoy, whilst commenting on it. I actually enjoyed the look of the new strike, my biggest hope is that they go back and reinvent the old tired strikes to be more in line with this one. Especially the part where the bosses move around a lot, which is a huge nice change.
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1 ReplyBurmp for opinions and paragraphs. :)
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2 RepliesDo not be discouraged young Jedi. Anger, fear, aggression, the dark side are they. The quick and easy path it is.
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2 RepliesStormcaller gets blink with their super , who's jelly?
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1 ReplyIm in agreement. Im stoked for TTK.
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1 ReplyWell done! Please keep this up.
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10 RepliesEdited by Unforgiven: 8/27/2015 1:07:36 AMHey LOST Sols is actually back. And this post seemed biased. Very heavily fanboyish taste. The first boss was shoot the tires tank. Seemed to be that they wanted you to engage with bosses. But instead they put are skinned tank from the mars strike which everyone hated. The hand cannon he was using was a re-skin of the older hand cannons. The ghost voice is badly acted. Titan hammer looks decent. After that it looked like easy mode strike. Bosses seemed to be doing nothing but jumping around. Overall it was a 6/10. If this is all we have to expect from Destiny year 2. I guess cancelling the pre-order would not be such a bad idea.
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When will the community ever have enough? don't ya think its time to band together?
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4 RepliesI heard Sols enjoyed this post and after watching the feed, he thinks that your review is spot on and he doesn't have to review it :) [quote]I think it's safe to say that this Strike will be complete chaos when it becomes a Nightfall, there is Cabal and Taken enemies everywhere, a Goliath Tank in a medium-sized room, and two massive bosses with new interesting abilities.[/quote] Should be a fun challenge to solo. Thank you for the great write up, was nice to be able to read it earlier since I was at work and couldn't catch it live. You should do more of these :)
