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Just wanted to pop on and say hello. I was recently contacted by Lee on Reddit to play Hunt: Showdown. I just wanted to offer help for new players. I am not amazing at the game I am not going to get you a crazy KDR but its a fairly inaccessible game and I have a really good knowledge of the game. If any of you are thinking of getting the game or have just purchased it I would love to help. I am only on PS4 and my PSN is foxhoundmoses.

Hello Everyone! New addition to the crew here - I primarily play Destiny these days with the occasional Warzone thrown in for flavor. Looking forward to getting to know everyone!

It was a little bit funny watching the social media pop off with crazy anxiety because they all needed to know the inside gossip on why he was banned. You could clearly see the reason 'why?!' means that many people are barely surviving to breathe without knowing this extremely important and critical news. Ahh, the difference between life and death for a Social Media addict 😂

Here's the official statement

Aka Syndicate & TmarTn...

It's a step in the right direction, but it's still not worth it because any class can do the same and get the same stuff with the same results. It's pointless. A healing class would be awesome. Not a subclass, a whole new class with its own abilities and stuff. Think Mercy but with more firepower. Give it a mana pool and use Intellect as a stat, making its healing more powerful, and Discipline as a stat making its resources last longer, so it can heal longer. Restrict it to SMGs and scout rifles or something, but make it extremely strong at healing so it makes the difference between a raid completing or failing. Make the Titan a tank class. Give it Discipline as a stat to determine how long its shields last, give it strength as an actual melee damage stat, so punching shit draws aggro. Give bosses the ability to do massive damage dealing strikes, but then give the Titan the ability to punch the boss to get it to focus on the Titan, so he can soak the damage. This will give the healer something to do, and the DPS will have their windows in which to unload and zerg the fuck out of the boss. It creates actual boss mechanics that don't involve stuff like "stand here to achieve this", it makes the fights a lot more active and beating them will be a lot more rewarding. I don't feel needed in a raid in Destiny. I can die and the raid can be completed with the remaining people, no problem. It gives me no incentive to get better and I have no interest in gearing up or focusing on any stats apart from power because it's all irrelevant. Raiding, for me, is a chore in destiny. I have no idea what gear will drop and even if it does, I don't care because it'll have random crap on it which likely won't make a difference. Make me feel needed, make me feel like I have a shot of winning something which will make an actual, tangible difference to my character, and I'll start playing again. Destiny's problem is simple: it's trying to be all things to all people. There's a bit of FPS in there, a bit of RPG, a bit of loot pinata, but it's all just wishy washy crap. There's a reason WoW is so successful after 15 years still, it makes you feel like you're needed. The activities couldn't be done without you. In Destiny you can take 6 of the same class in to any raid and win. Makes no difference at all. In WoW I feel the pressure of having to perform. If I don't, the group wipes. Simple as that. It makes me want to learn my class, know the fights, know my role and my stats. It makes me want to optimize my class to the nth degree because that tiny little bit of extra stats could literally be the difference between winning or losing. And the rewards, whether they drop or not, are tailored towards my class. They have stats I want, and are useless to anyone else. They offer me the ability to make my class stronger so I can perform even better next time. I feel like a disposable character in Destiny, for me there are a billion others. A hunter can do my job, a warlock can do my job, we can all use the same weapons and wear the same armour. What's the point in being a Titan? The class abilities like shoulder charge are fucking ace, we all love them or hate being on the receiving end of them. That's what the game needs more of, not this flippy-floppy-you-all-get-a-piece-of-vanilla-candy stuff. Destiny needs balls.

Destiny needs stats. I don't mean the current stats which are about as effective on your performance as the colour of your armour, I mean actual stats. In WoW for example, each class and role has its primary and secondary stats, and you can shuffle and fiddle till your heart's content. There are tons more stats which also affect your character, however this is more for flavour. As a tank, I stack defense rating to make me tougher, this is my primary stat. My secondary stat is stamina, which increases the size of my health pool, so when I take the big hits, I survive. As a healer, I stack healing power as my primary stat and intellect as my secondary stat. More intellect, bigger mana pool, more heals before I run out. Swap these around however and you've just made both of these classes completely useless. There are thousands of items in the game which offer all manner of stats and although the drop rate is RNG, the place to get them isn't. Want that tanking 'at? Go farm BossyMcBossface in McDungeonland until you get it. You know what you need, you know what you want, and it gives the game a purpose. This also allows you to experiment and play with your gear. Fighting a boss with a short enrage timer? Go for max DPS. Fighting a boss that hits like a truck? Go for a larger health pool. Keep the weapons as they are, with the god rolls and random rolls, but maybe add some stats to them. As for armour, keep the blues as random stats like it currently is, but the legendary stuff? Give it fixed stats and give it a specific path to obtain it. Whether it be a questline, a certain strike or dungeon, raid, boss, whatever. This system could be implemented in the current game with almost no overhead, it's literally just a spreadsheet going on in the background. It would give all the quests, bounties, missions, strikes, etc all a purpose. You know what you want and you know what you need to do to get it. Goals. As it currently stands the entire game is concentrated around the power stat which is fine, but as you've all seen, all they can do at the end of an expansion is increase the power level, moving the carrot a bit further away, creating a non-stop cycle of tedium and boringness. The other stats mean absolutely fuckall, in fact maxing out one stat at the cost of another in D2 amounts to having a different coloured lollipop in your mouth when you shoot people, that's how effective it is. The classes also need more of an identity. Every game with the holy trinity performs well, just look at WoW, and even Overwatch. It makes your class stand out and if you fail at your role, you fail the group, so it incentivizes you to max your gear out and be on your game. The classes at the moment are slightly different, but not different enough. Apart from their supers the only thing differentiating them is their appearance, their jump and which way they lob their grenade. Anyone who's been a warlock will know that the jump is just a pain in the ass and completely unnecessary. You could go a step further and restrict certain classes to certain weapons. For example all classes could use ARs, but only a Titan could use an LMG, and a warlock a shotgun. Only hunters can use sniper rifles, that sort of thing. The game as it currently stands is any class can do anything, and the crap you get is entirely RNG based which just makes you feel like your character is exactly the same as every other character in the game and the only thing differentiating you is RNG. Give classes a proper identity, remove or add some abilities to really give them flavour, make the stuff worth grinding for and the game will get a LOT more interesting overnight. It'll also go a long way to helping fix the PVP system as you can't simply have every class running around with a Mida Multi Tool. I'm not saying turn the game in to an MMO, far from it, but do something to make sure your character is your character. You want other people to see your stuff and go "oh shit, look at that 'at, he must've done the hardest raid on hard mode", not "oh he got lucky from an engram".

Just thought I'd start this topic as I couldn't find another thread to latch onto. So, here's a place for you to recount funny conversations you've had either at work of at home which have given you a laugh. So, while chewing the fat with our office cleaner this morning, he was bemoaning the fact that his missus has had him decorating whenever he has any free time. The conversation went. Me: "How are you doing Ricky?" Cleaner: "The missus is killing me with all this decorating, she's never happy!!" Me: "Yeah I know, the more you give the more they want". Cleaner: "Yeah, but she never says that in bed"!! 🤣

I actually agree with a lot of what's been said here, and I know Lee that most games are the same thing over and over again. I like the idea of grinding once as the power level.rising every 3 months makes it pointless especially when it tracks. I have no reason to grind power,I think destiny has lost its way, @Diddumshit the nail on the head a while ago. I'm hoping things change for the better in September.

Nice little creative early access title for just £4.79 released today Townscaper on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Instant town building toy

Ours is better anyway.

Here is the leaked trailer that was heavily criticised Definitely not much of a remaster - more of a cash grab!

omg the sounds are so satisfying! Looks nice a nice little game, love the style.

Thank you 🙂 I got some practice laps in today to get used to the track and cars but no times to disclose yet 🤣 some improvement is needed!

Bloody hell! The Switch probably couldn't even handle the original🤣

Welcome to the forum mate, hope you enjoy your stay. Like some others have said, you should join us for an FG Friday. There’s normally a fair few of us on and we tend to laugh for hours on end.

@GazzaGarratt Assuming that the menu system is the same on console as it is on PC, then when you go to practice there's 4 vertical panels at the bottom; Session, Realism, Opponents and Results. In Session I'd suggest setting wind to none and track surface to optimum. Then in realism, set mechanical damage off, tyre blankets on, fuel consumption off and tyre wear off. The rest is up to you but the above should give you the best hotlapping settings. @G_dub52 tagging you in too as I know you're new to this too.

This is a unique community of gamers. A family, you could say. Where people get to know each other and help out where they can. Registering just to ask people to join a random separate gaming community isn't allowed. I'm sure you'd hate it if I did the same on yours? Like I said, we're building something unique here for many years after being here for many years already and we endorse people's ideas once they become a trusted FGer. You're welcome to stay but maybe get involved in the community first and create an intro before you spam your hidden agenda on people. That's not how you build trust up in the world, is it? We're going into the GM roleplay sector anyway so maybe you and all your crew can join the FG ranks on the next one thats created?

Thanks for realising so quickly Terri that FG is the home of all homes so hope you can stay and feel warm and fuzzy inside knowing you won't ask something like that again 🤗

Funnily enough this has now been delayed. By a few weeks they say. Also I saw it's going to be on Switch...hmmm... Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

I can make them separate next time 👍 You can choose what settings you use for a practice session. So you can set the track to the fastest, tyre wear off, damage off etc. I don’t use the standard AC launcher so not sure where these options are but I can have a look after work.

welcome whiskey I know I have had the privilege of jamming some games with you in destiny so far! We sure have destroyed some people thats for sure. I know a lot of people are all over the place at the moment with everything going on but there is a lot of stuff going on in the background for a lot fun crazy activities 😜 also welcome to the crazy family you'll fit in just fine! Also @GazzaGarratt we gotta get you off the hunt so we can slam some iron banner with you this week so you can show troy your crayon eatting abilities mate!

Welcome to this crazy family man! Even though I don't play the hunt I know the guys who do and im sure you'll love it!

Love this Greebs, it'd help me if it was 2 separate pics going forward cos we can put them up in different places and see if others want to join the fun (i can separate this one in abit for further use). I'll have to have a look what N800 cars i own. I haven't had time to put AC in yet so this may be a good time to try it. Looks like there is wheel wear on it though which doesn't bode well for slideyslideysmashaccelarator guy over here 😬

In an unprecedented move, Crucible is being 'unreleased' and is going back into a closed beta Amazon's Crucible is being un-released and going back into closed beta | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM The Amazon shooter didn't get the response it'd hoped for.

Lee is right. I do love a good warzone session! haha feel free to add me and we can jump on the plane to Verdansk!

Hey Troy! Glad you made it across man, hopefully we've got many night of Destiny to come 😄 but like George @G_dub52 says, you should totally get in on some FG Fridays. I'm sure on the other days George and the rest of the crew can get some Warzone in, love being a magpie in that game (possible every game, but hey, who doesn't love finding and picking up shiny shit! 😀) Welcome to FG bud and I hope you enjoy your stay. Get involved where you can!

Welcome dude! Scottash and Jew love this game, I'm sure they'll be along shortly to bask in the glory of your wisdom. Or get your drunk and take you on a wild adventure you'll never forget, never know with those two.

That is such a cool username. Welcome to the club dude!

Happy to see another new "face" welcome aboard. 😁

Lee’s next poll...’if you were an item of furniture, what would you be?’ 😂😂😘 Welcome to the forum Adam! 😊👏👏

Welcome and I hope you enjoy your stay 😊

Welcome to the forum dude! I highly recommend you get involved in the FG Fridays too if you want to get to know the guys its always a good laugh 🙂

Hello mate nice intro, there's a few here who play Hunt on PS4 Welcome 😋👍

😂 sorry phil

I was forced to go back to menagerie this past weekend and as I hadn't done it for a while I really enjoyed it. I want to get away from doing stuff just to complete bounties, I still enjoy just running strikes to chill out however PvP really has gone to shit imo and does need some changes ( though I know these things are greatly affected by the community and the way they play )

I actually agree with pretty much most of this @techno Gary. I've said for a while that as the game evolves, the Power grind has become a secondary factor in as far as achieving goals go whereas in the first number of years, the big Power number was the ultimate goal. What people strive for is new content and i'd agree with them. We all want the best, endgame, brand new never seen before content over older, already completed content. The one part in the detail of this that I struggle to side with though is that some people view literally dismiss any old content in the game like its not 'fun' any more or meaningless. Crucible, Strikes, Gambit, Dungeons, Raids, Menagerie, etc gets categorised into something really boring and the negative train sweeps over people. You'd find a ton of these modes actually really engaging compared to other games. The negativity then breeds to guns and armor. "Woopee, brand new content! A D1 Exotic". I'm sorry, but the people that argue they want more Destiny 1 things back moan when thats stuff is back thats it not new. Selective memory lapses happen all the time. They can't make a million guns each Season, but because there's not 100 guns brand new, they brand the entire season shite before trying out some of the 7-10 guns that are new and new activities that are on offer. And some are pretty crazy good. All in all, I totally agree with Power grind issues. I never look at the numbers anymore, only when I need to see if i'm high enough for an activity, which I think a good way to combat it would totally be putting more Hard modes in the game. Clive @Teenwolf25 has said many times as well as Chad @Riff Machine that make the Raids normal level accessible with unlimited revives and then Hard mode has limited revives at higher power levels. Match that reward and Bingo, stuff to grind for which works with getting higher numbers. Menagerie? Add a few extra bosses and levels. Reckoning? Add a few extra bosses and levels. Forges? Create different objectives to Rounds other than just throwing balls, like Niobe Labs has. Raids? Add new harder modes that have slight twist on each section. If they do things like they do above, then I think the Power Grind as we know won't be an issue. You logon, you have stuff to do. You get rewards from that stuff, you do harder versions of the activies. Oh, and yes it'll never be an MMO, i agree with that too. I don't want it to be. All I want is pretty much every activity to be able to have 6-8 people playing the same activity in the same Fireteam. How good would Patrol and other gamemodes be if they did this?! Personally, the reset to the world come September has me hyped because its kind of blowing up the stale world as we know it. I would much prefer it if every season they started to go back to old content and then work on improving and refreshing it. Good thread Gary. 👍

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I'll have to give the Mach Forty a go 🙂 I don't own it but I can easily buy it. Any car with good straight line speed will be good round here so I can see why the Vulcan could suffer. I've also got the Aston Martin One-77 which could be handy. I think I'll have to log on and mess around with all the cars and see which one seems to the best and give a fast lap another go. It is a challenge producing the reference laps, balancing the need to do some practice to drive a relatively fast lap with posting it early enough in the week to be useful. Still it show the lines to take and where time can be gained but if the Mach40 or other car is signifcantly faster, I can alwas record another lap 🙂

Release date is July 27th according to Microsoft Store.

Try the Mach Forty in GTS. I only did three laps and already at 1:34.596 It's not easy to drive but it's got a lot of power, can easily take seconds off that I'd say. Tried the Vulcan but its too slow IMO.

Yup, it is. I did a few laps with the Lambo to record the below but last time we used the N800 class I found the Aston Martin Vulcan faster. So I'll be giving the a go even though it's such a pig to drive. I was quite surprised by AC, the SLS handles quite differently in AC than GT. I've had some massive oversteer moments in AC but find the GT Sport version quite stable. In AC, the track is slightly different too, it's more slippery running wide between T2 and T3 and it's horrible trying to hop the kerbs at the chicane at the end of the lap. Reference laps for y'all too. As for round 1, these are done after 5-10 laps so I know there's room for improvement but should work well as a guide. GT Sport (1:34.582) - Part of a clean lap round here to really cut the chicane at turns 2, 3 & 4 - even in sport mode you can hook one wheel inside the sausage kerbs and get away with it. Plenty of time is also gained getting a good run out of t4, the chican and the final corner - though on this lap I went a bit too deep in to T13 and T14. AC (2:01.114) - Similar to above, you can get a decent chunk of time if you get out of the hairpin at the bottom of the hill (T8), T12 and the final corner. Most of the rest of the track is just about keeping your minimum corner speeds up.

This is the first one, it's all rooted in the cyberpunk genre, and it's single player, at least initially. Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

I completely missed this thread, I was playing Fifa until around 11 then when I was coming off I think there was only 5 or 6 of you left playing 😞 Hopefully next time I'll be able to jump in again.

These weeks roll around fast - Week 2 GT Sport Car Class: N800 Track: Dragon Trail Gardens AC Car 1: KTM X-Box R Car 2: Mercedes SLS GT3 Track: Nurburgring GP Circuit

What I've learned from a lot of YouTubers is even if you are a millionaire and have a steady income coming in; they will still look for other ways to make even more money even if it's shady, scams their own subscribers or downright illegal. I am staggered at the poor ethics, entitlement and greed in some of these content creators where even earning a guaranteed $500.000 a month at worst isn't enough.

I currently own an Audi A3 1.8 sline quattro I moved into this nearly 2 years ago from a fiesta st-2 . The wifes motorbility car is a seat ateca I convinced her to go for it I orange. I also have a Yamaha fz1 😁