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Crucible Labs was shipped with yesterday's update and the first time we get to see it is today when it becomes available in a separate playlist. They said on Bungie yesterday: As noted in our most recent Roadmap, Crucible Labs shipped with Destiny Update 1.2.1. While the content has been downloaded and installed on your platform, the feature is not yet available. PvP Design Lead Derek Carroll has some information to set proper expectations for the feature, and what to expect when it becomes available: After this, it was queried on Twitter to see if this extends to Sandbox changes. Here's the answer: Josh Harnick added to this to explain it would be difficult to bring a different sandbox to a live environment. I'm pretty disappointed tbh. They released this info on the day it was available so that tells me they knew it wouldn't go down well. It will still be fun if we get to play some truly different game modes but I hope its not just a control game with slightly tweaked spawns or subtle score changes. I can now see why they called it Crucible Labs rather than Destiny PTR, so more fool me to assume it meant that (as too the thousands that thought the same).

It's back again. 6v6. This time round it's going to be with a progression system similar to what we have had previously. So we rank up, and loot becomes available. I think this is avery good start to changes in reputation with vendors. The guns aren't much to shout home about tbh, nice reskins, but reskins nonetheless. The armour is a nice variant from previous seasons. I think the challenges for ornaments shouldn't be too hard this time round (no grenade and punch kill target). First week starts this Tuesday (22nd May) and you're likely to have IB 3 or 4 times this season so don't panic if you don't get what you want next week. Who's up for IB next week?

I wouldn't say this Quest is difficult to figure out as you follow the quest steps until Ana gives you this but it is certainly a grind and along the way there are some challenging activities to do to get this done, mainly due to your Power level struggles along the way. Here's the Quest steps to get the Sleeper Simulant: Complete the main story in Warmind and subsequent missions Legacy Code and A Piece of the Past Receive the IKELOS Hand Cannon as quest reward, then visit Ana Bray and pick up the Violent Intel quest item Defeat Hive and Cabal with an IKELOS weapon equipped Defeat yellow bar enemies with an IKELOS weapon equipped Complete 5 Heroic Strikes with an IKELOS weapon equipped Complete 3 Escalation Protocol levels and find 15 Sleeper Nodes with an IKELOS weapon equipped Complete the 'Will of the Thousands' mission with an IKELOS weapon equipped It's now a 2 mag size rather than 3 due to how Power ammo works but it is something that fits clearly into Warmind and definitely will help against key bosses. I'm really enjoyong the grind for this. It is the closest quest we've had to D1 in terms of steps and I hope we get more of these going forward. The Sleeper Nodes are a brilliant way of one of the steps as lots of people enjoy hide and seek collectibles that also have a purpose.

The update in May has been a significant Power update and brought in modifiers which are making them way more fun to run now but at the same time excrutiatingly painful when it gets to the bosses with the Power level set at 350. There is one big issue with them is the loot reward, which is acknowledged by Bungie and they are now looking into what changes they can make. Essentially it does not drop 'Powerful' Gear or at least gear that around your light level. It is capped at the soft cap at 340. This has to change as its more powerful to run than the rewards. However, away from this one point, heroics are needed for quest steps now as well as Milestone rewards so there are reasons to run them. They feel as intense as Nightfalls were without the hassle of any timer. It is really satisfying when you complete one, especially whilst your Power level sits around the 350 mark. There seems to be one elemental burn per week with modifiers changing daily. Last week was Solar Burn and yesterday I had Grounded on (damage to you is way higher whilst in the air) and it was a nightmare. Ended up not being able to complete a strike and I was 348. Your fireteam should really work together but its also great that it has matchmaking you can run solo in party of 3 too. Its making me think more about my loadout but also what type of elemental class I use as a Guardian. I switched to Sunbreaker last night and put the top tree perks on to try and get Melting Point on the boss to deal more damage. How are others finding them?

Called 'Warmind', reveal stream is set for April 24th. The only thing said about it so far is that “It will send you to new places to meet new heroes and battle new enemies. You’ll earn new loot and master new activities.” What's made this one more way more interesting so far is there choice of words. They know they can't use the word 'new' if we're talking about seeing any of the current and Destiny 1 enemies. The only ones we haven't seen yet so far in D2 is SIVA but it shouldn't be just Dreg Splicers we see as it indicates new enemies. Its odds on to meet a person from the Bray family, as they invented Warminds. Just hope the story lives up to a £20/$20 DLC and it comes with a really grindy, progressional new activity.

One collectible activity is the Data Fragments, of which there are 45 to collect or 'shoot' to be clear. They can be found in weird and wonderful places - I'll pop up a quick short video to show what they are as I can't find a pic online. EDIT Important note - You have to shoot them with the corresponding weapons: - White - Kinetic Weapons - Coloured - Energy Weapons - Red Haze - Valkyrie There are 2 main rewards from this hunt. One at 35 fragments and one at the full 45 fragments. At both stages there is a cache you have to find to open to get the rewards. At 35, you can obtain Destiny 2's first exotic sword, Worldline Zero. At 45, you obtain an Exotic Sparrow. Quite a cool treasure hunt that takes a while (not if you're ultimate hardcore, like Datto) and seem cool rewards to obtain. I really like how you have to shoot them rather hold square on them. Makes a nice change.

DESTINY 2 UPDATE 1.2.0 - 5/08/2018 - From Bungie Website Warmind Launch Warmind is now available Season 3 has begun Player Character General Players who own Warmind may now reach level 30 and Power level 385 Emotes Multi-emote is now available, and players can now configure all four emote options with player-selected emotes Emotes are now stored on the Multi-Emote page of the character inventory The emote collection has been removed from the Vault, as emotes are now stored on the character Sandbox Abilities Additional grenade charges granted by some Subclass trees or Exotic Perks now charge at the same rate as the primary grenade (was considerably slower) Exotic Weapons – General Implemented Exotic Masterwork weapons Exotic Kinetic Weapons Sweet Business Increased the ammo gained when players pick up Kinetic ammo Increased ammo inventory Vigilance Wing Recovery is set to maximum while the Last Stand perk is active The Jade Rabbit +20 stability Rat King Enhanced the total stat benefits of running with a pack Benefits are front-loaded; there are now larger damage benefits when two people equip the Exotic, with slight damage increases for each additional player The Rat Pack perk can now activate and stack while Rat King is stowed Added HUD notification text for when the Rat Pack perk is active Increased ammo inventory Added full auto Crimson Refined damage, rate of fire, and recovery time between bursts Increased ammo inventory Sturm and Drang Sturm Increased base stability stat Overcharged rounds from Drang now deal 80% bonus damage Added HUD status notification and visual feedback for when the magazine is overcharged Drang Kills with Drang reload Sturm and add one overcharged round even if Sturm's mag is not full Increased magazine size Now has the Rampage perk Exotic Energy Weapons Hard Light Can now be manually reloaded to change the damage type Hits after its rounds bounce now deal double damage Graviton Lance Now fires two-round bursts Increased stability Reduced recoil on its final round in a burst Cosmology explosion deals more damage Cosmology explosion now spawns secondary Void projectiles Enemies eliminated float up and back, detonating closer to their death location Improved aim assist Skyburner’s Oath +10 aim assist +30 increased handling Now has the Explosive Payload perk Hip fire now lobs slower-moving projectiles with tracking Riskrunner Now deals more damage while Arc Conductor is active Enhanced Arc damage resistance to 50% while Arc Conductor is active and Riskrunner is in the player’s hands Arc damage resistance is now enabled against Guardians in the Crucible Arc Conductor can be activated while the weapon is stowed Added Arc FX to the player while Arc Conductor is active Sunshot Increased damage and radius of kill explosion Coldheart Damage now ramps up faster Reduced incoming flinch Increased precision modifier to 1.4x (was 1.05x) Prometheus Lens Increased magazine size to 100 rounds Deals more area damage and less beam damage Increased precision modifier to 1.4x (was 1.05x) Fighting Lion Deals more blast damage and less direct hit damage Increased ammo inventory Increased spawn ammo Kills with this weapon guarantee Energy ammo drops Exotic Power Weapons Tractor Cannon Weapon damage now suppresses targets Weapon damage now makes targets more susceptible to Void damage (+50%) for 10 seconds D.A.R.C.I. Reduced flinch Reduced zoom on scope Increased precision damage to locked-on targets (up to 4x) Increased aim assist Borealis Reduced flinch After breaking the shield of an enemy (a combatant or a Guardian using a Super) with the matching elemental damage type, it deals double damage for the remainder of the magazine The Prospector Grenades now stick to surfaces Grenades now cause burn damage over time Weapon Perks Pulse Monitor Now reloads 35% of the magazine (up from 17.5%) Now can activate while the weapon is not equipped Precision Frame Fixed an issue that was causing inconsistent recoil reduction on precision-category weapons The pattern is now more consistent as the weapon kicks Lightweight Grenade Launchers Adjusted breach-load Grenade Launchers so that they can fire sooner out of a reload, and fire sooner out of a sprint cancel Legendary Weapons Precision Hand Cannons Adjusted the ADS firing animation Linear Fusion Rifles Increased precision damage modifier to 2.0x (was 1.5x) Activities PvE Changes to outgoing player damage scaling vs. higher-level combatants Higher-level combatants take longer to kill if you’re below their level Increased the outgoing and incoming damage scaling, from capping at a 40 Power level delta to a 50 Power level delta Over-level combatants continue to increase in difficulty up to 50 Power levels above the player When enemies are 50 Power levels or higher above a player, they will be immune to damage Over-level, immune combatants will display a “??” icon in their nameplate Updated the damage dealt to combatant Energy shields from the following weapon damage types: 3x damage dealt from Energy weapons of a matching damage type 2x damage dealt from Energy weapons of a nonmatching damage type No bonus damage from Kinetic weapons Strikes Heroic strikes now feature rotating modifiers: At any given time, the following will be active on the Heroic strikes playlist: 1x Elemental Burn (weekly rotation) 1x Advantage (daily rotation) 1x Disadvantage (daily rotation) In addition to the above, the baseline difficulty of Heroic strikes is boosted to be closer to Nightfall difficulty Legendary Nightfall Strike Challenge Card Can be obtained from Xûr (at no cost) by replacing your Rare Challenge Card The Legendary tier adds additional slots for new Advantages and Disadvantages Fixed Strike Issues Fixed an issue in which scoring did not add points for killing the bosses in the Nightfall strikes “A Garden World” and “Savathûn’s Song” Fixed an issue where the Nightfall score summary was only displaying kills since last death Now displays the score for entire activity completion Fixed an issue in which the Unbroken Challenge completed for all fireteam members even if the clear criteria had not been met Fixed an issue where strike scoring granted points for players in public bubbles, Lost Sectors, or other unintended areas Raid Weekly lockouts for raid rewards are now class-based Players running multiple instances of the same class will receive rewards only the first time they run the raid in a week Tower Seasonal Ranks are now available for the Vanguard, Crucible, Trials of the Nine, and Iron Banner Increased Vault size from 200 items to 300 items Fixed an issue with collections where event emblems would not show up unless players owned Curse of Osiris Fixed an issue where Cayde-6 refused to offer all three Treasure Maps for Mercury Items and Economy General Milestones now award a more balanced distribution of Exotics between weapons and armor, but overall they award Exotics less often than before Fixed an issue where powerful engrams could not draw from Exotics released at Destiny 2 launch Fixed an issue where the first powerful engram opened after each sign-in was guaranteed to produce an Exotic Fixed an issue with slow load times for Uncommon gear Mods and shaders can now be dismantled from the Item Details screen Items can now be dismantled from the Postmaster and the Vault Season 2 Exotic Ghost Shells that use destination perks now have a chance to have Hellas Basin destination perks when initially awarded Character Inventory Created a “Pursuits” category in the character inventory to contain pursuit tracking items, such as those associated with Exotic quests Items in the Pursuits category are specific to each character and not shared across the account Eververse Players now may receive one Bright Engram per character (account limit of three) from Tess for the seasonal milestone Increased the number of items available for purchase via Bright Dust from 14 to 18 Additional slots will feature shaders and transmat effects Fixed an issue where players could purchase bundles or engrams when their inventory and Postmaster were full Fixed an issue where items rewarded from Eververse Gleaming Boons would not display the correct icon within the Postmaster screen Added the Prismatic Matrix to Eververse At launch, 10 Eververse items from Season 3 are featured each week that the Prismatic Matrix is available An account's first well-rested level-up each week grants one Prismatic Facet, allowing one free use of the Prismatic Matrix Players may hold up to three Prismatic Facets at a time Additional activations may be purchased for 200 Silver each This item inventory is based on a knockout list and will not drop duplicates Items earned via Bright Engrams, Bright Dust, or previous Matrix activations will contribute to the knockout list Clans Progression A new set of clan perks is available for you to earn in Season 3 A new Clan Banner Staff has been rewarded to those who hit clan rank 6 in Season 2 Clan Engrams Trials of the Nine and raid clan engrams no longer grant Trials of the Nine or raid weapons These now grant Crucible and Vanguard rewards Clan Engrams no longer grant rewards above the player’s level when reaching 340 Power The Nightfall and Crucible clan engrams will grant rewards up to 340 Power Guided Games A new set of Guided Games tickets has been granted to all players Players can earn a Leviathan Guide emblem that tracks the number of raid encounters and raids they complete as a Guide The emblem rewards an aura for 14 days when completing a raid as a Guide Once a week while the aura is active, guiding a raid to completion grants a Bright Engram Crucible General Private Matches are now available to all players Players must own Curse of Osiris or Warmind to play maps from those respective releases in Private Matches Added a Crucible ranking system Added a fireteam matchmaking system Maps Curse of Osiris and Warmind maps are now available to all players in matchmade Crucible playlists New Warmind maps: Meltdown and Solitude Added spawn points to Altar of Flame, the Dead Cliffs, and Endless Vale Added kill volumes to the Burnout to prevent players from escaping the intended playable space Fixed a cinematic camera point on the Dead Cliffs for 6v6 Game Modes Added “Doubles” to the Weekly Rotating playlist Audio Settings Added and revised in-game audio options that can be accessed through the Settings menu in Destiny 2: (Help Article) SFX Volume Dialogue/Cinematics Volume Music Volume Chat Volume PC Key Mapping Secondary key mappings can be assigned through the Settings menu in Destiny 2. Key Mappings are now stored per-account by default. There is a setting in the Settings menu to store Key Mappings per-machine instead. Text Chat Incoming Text Chat messages are now visible by default. There is a mappable key (defaults to 'L') to toggle Text Chat to a minimized state. Incoming Text Chat messages now play an audio cue while text chat is in the minimized state. This can be disabled in the Settings menu. UI General Fixed an issue where the cursor sometimes failed to appear on destination maps

Happy Warmind Day FG! Just thought I'd ask who's playing today? I plan to be on later to enjoy the story missions. Also may have a quick go on some Ranked Crucible if I get time. You should be able to pre-load the DLC now. It's around 7-8 GB so start it early if you want to play from live time (7pm UK / 11am PDT).

Significant changes ahead in 2 ways. 1) How harder the enemies will be 2) How much your light level can increase when May update/DLC2 drops Enemies will now be going up to level 50, 10 levels higher than they do now. They are reintroducing harder enemies in certain sections which means we'll see the ?? Symbols if you are too level for them. The objective is to bring a higher challenge across the board. Exactly what it needs. The Power level you can go to will now be: 340 soft cap 380 hard cap Weekly milestones will be the way to go to bring up to 380. Also, moving from 370 to 380 will take just as long as 340 to 370 - trying to add the grind and achievement back into the game. Clan engrams will help (0-2 power level increase) but it will be more about your own efforts. The wider challenges you complete the greater the reward. All in all really good change. The top level (385 with mods) is a larger increase than expected. Higher rewards come from Raids and Trials but doing everything pays off too. The balance seems to be getting better with each update. How do you guys feel about this? We'll also have another raid lair available too.

Event Title: Destiny 2 Raid Event Author: GazzaGarratt Calendar: Destiny Calendar Event Date: 02/13/2018 07:30 PM to 02/13/2018 09:30 PM Leviathan or Eater of Worlds raid run. Can decide what we do on the day unless anyone has a preference? RSVP if you can or can't make it. Destiny 2 Raid N.B. If viewing this via the FG App, please visit the Calendar event via browser to RSVP. Thanks.

Crimson Days begins in Destiny 2 on Tuesday, February 13. At the heart of the weeklong event is a 2v2 Crucible playlist intended to get your blood pumping as you and a friend test your bonds to the breaking point. This celebration of teamwork will last one week! The combat scenario is 2v2 Clash with a round-based twist. We will also be debuting The Burnout, a new take on The Burning Shrine set in a future timeline where the Vex have succeeded in altering our reality. The sun is darkened and the only Light to be found comes from you and your partner fighting as one. Stay in close proximity to your partner and your abilities recharge at a faster rate. Stray too far, and your enemies will be given a waypoint leading to your location. If you can’t find a partner, don’t worry. We’ll play matchmaker and find one for you. The Rewards The best way to earn rewards during Crimson Days is to compete in the Crimson Days Crucible playlist, and we’ve tuned the experience to focus on rewarding single-character play. Most rewards are found within a new Crimson Engram, with all contents on a “knock-out” list, preventing you from receiving duplicate items until you’ve earned all of the new gear. No matter which activity you play in Destiny 2 during Crimson Days, every player will receive both an Illuminated Engram and a Crimson Engram when they level up. Crimson Engrams are only earnable through gameplay, and are not capped or limited during the event. To qualify, you need only to reach the level cap for your Guardian (that’s 25 if you’ve acquired Expansion 1; 20 if you haven’t). There are also five new rewards found exclusively for players who complete the following: Complete the milestone “Welcome to Crimson Days” by finishing five Crimson Days matches and visiting Lord Shaxx in the Tower to earn the Fire of the Crimson Days Emblem and the Tirastrella Ghost Shell. Complete matches in the Crimson Days Crucible playlist for a chance to earn the Undeterred Exotic Sparrow. Complete either the Leviathan Raid or the Raid Lair: Eater of Worlds to claim the Dieselpunk Exotic Ornament for Wardcliff Coil from the final chest. Complete the Nightfall Strike during the Crimson Days event to earn the Flaunting Dance Emote. Tirastrella Ghost Shell Undeterred Exotic Sparrow Dieselpunk Exotic Ornament Flaunting Dance Emote Crimson Engrams will only be earnable through gameplay, but if you’re looking to directly purchase a specific item, Tess will also offer a selection of the Crimson Engram contents in exchange for the Bright Dust you are holding. Gear purchased with Bright Dust will also count towards the “knock-out” list mechanic described above, preventing duplicate items unless you have already earned all the rewards. Every reward item obtained from a Crimson Engram can also be dismantled for Bright Dust, including event-specific shaders. Crimson Days will begin next Tuesday, February 13, and conclude on the weekly reset at 9 AM PST on Tuesday, February 20. If you’ve yet to find a dance partner, now is the time. We’ll see you in the arena.

What would you do? I'm geniunely interested in what you guys think (yes, i know what we'd really like to do [emoji14]) as to if you were in charge how would fix things and move forward to try and save the franchise. They have a business need to hit targets still but for me, it was just a subtle change of priorities to which thing to deliver first. No doubt stuff takes a long time to develop, so to try and keep people at bay, adding strike modifiers and potentially strike loot if there was time would've kept the game grind going and make a key part of the game massively relevant. I'd have been happy to wait for other stuff then, even like Raid specific perks on armour.

Here's the steps to get ridiculously amazing exotic shotgun. 1. Acquire the On the Comms quest and complete the requirements 2. Complete the Destiny 2 Leviathan Raid 3. Play through the End the Arms Dealer strike 4. Get the Legend of Acrius Exotic shotgun 5. Complete the Cabal Killer quest 6. Get enough tokens for His Highness's Seal quest Steps 1 - On the Comms quest just drops pretty easily whilst on Patrol too. Step 3 - is challenging and a fun objective to achieve. Essentially its the Arms Dealer Strike, 300 level difficulty with Prism and Anomalies modifiers active. Once youve done steps 4-6, this enables an extra round in the chamber for the gun. The gun drops after step 3.

What's your favourite destination in Destiny 2 and why? Mine is Nessus. I enjoy visiting FailSafe (she is funnier than I initially thought) and the fact that some of the adventures of initially done around the Exodus Black make it a pretty interesting planet. Surprising too as I never really wanted to explore Venus with the Vex on Destiny 1.

List of how to start the Heroic events thanks to @jSyn66

Now starts the master planning. I want all thoughts and opinions to put under here. What we should, how we should get out there, etc. I'm happy to work on a plan with others so we shape up and get ready to hit the ground running with Destiny 2 and make ourselves open to be the clan we've always wanted to be. We do need to think about the post structure, just in case we get newbies here and they need support. We also need to think about what regular meet times and whether we have weekly or monthly focus points on subjects. We can utilise the calendar a huge amount more. I'm looking into calendar events that auto creates a thread in case people don't immediately see the event pop up. Let's know your expectations, if you have any, about gettng new people to come and say hi and join our clan? I think most on FG want to give this a bloody good shot so here's our chance to start hitting the ground running.

Whilst I had all 3 last time, I only rocked the Titan tbh. This time round I want to try to maintain all 3 types, even though Titan Master Race FTW of course. So what will be your setup on D2? Will you have different Guardians so you have different mains on PvE and PvP?

As there was a heightened demand from the community for Bungie to release reference material so people can get to work on creating their own Destiny 2 armor to show off at events, Bungie have created a portal for reference artwork. It will work similar to the Destiny 1 version and currently the gear shown looks so beautiful. The Warlock colours and armour for me looks the best.

Through an interview in Kotaku and MoreConsole info, Bungie revealed some info on a new weekly event called Flashpoints. Flashpoints are supposed to be a bunch of different exploration experiences put together that you can go searching solo for these items. At the end of it will be an unknown reward equivalent to the Nightfall drops we see today. What got me excited about this is the ideas of treasure maps were mentioned. Love the idea of cryptic clues and maps helping you to explore the open world and find stuff. There was some stuff datamined on Destiny 1 about treasure maps but it was never used. Anyone else got any thoughts about this idea and where it could go?

Destiny 2 Beta Dates have been confirmed and there will be a period of Open Beta so you DON'T have to pre-order if you want to try it out. Also the launch date is now 2 DAYS EARLIER - September 6th. Beta Dates July 18th - Playstation Beta July 19th - Xbox Beta July 21st - Open Beta for both Playstation and Xbox July 23rd - Beta Closes Late August - PC Beta Launch Dates September 6th - Playstation and Xbox October 24th - PC Hyped for long beta. Will post later what's available unless someone can grab the details?

Thought i'd get a roll call going to understand who has pre-ordered and therefore playing the beta from 18th (4 days time) or who is waiting until the launch? If you don't pre-order you still get to play 2/3 days of the beta.