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Unconfirmed info says that there will be 11 Crucible maps, 32 story missions, and 15 unique Strikes. Plus we know that there will be Raids.
http://ign.com/articles/2014/07/28/was-destinys-full-game-content-discovered

Um, not sure what video you watched but IGN gave it a 10...
http://ign.com/articles/2014/07/28/the-last-of-us-remastered-review
This guy clearly doesn't play PS3 much though, saying L1 and R1 are "unconventional" as aim and shoot. You mean the way 99.5% of all PS3 games do it?

Um, not sure what video you watched but IGN gave it a 10...
http://ign.com/articles/2014/07/28/the-last-of-us-remastered-review
This guy clearly doesn't play PS3 much though, saying L1 and R1 are "unconventional" as aim and shoot. You mean the way 99.5% of all PS3 games do it?

Bungie posted this tweet: "This emblem is your reward for putting boots on the ground of the Destiny Beta today. You'll see it in September."

Bungie posted this tweet: "This emblem is your reward for putting boots on the ground of the Destiny Beta today. You'll see it in September."

Bungie posted this tweet: "This emblem is your reward for putting boots on the ground of the Destiny Beta today. You'll see it in September."

There are public areas and private areas. Public areas will have lots of people running around and events you can join. Private areas, like story missions, are just you and your party (fireteam). If you haven't joined a party you'll be on your own once you enter a private area.

The weekly update has a picture of the emblem/callsign you get for playing the beta today

The more interesting part of that article is that MP will be playable Aug 13, which means the official reveal will probably happen before then.

Some pre order bonus gear

W/L has issues as a skill stat as well, just because there's only so much one player can do to affect the outcome of the game. An extreme example: I wanted to unlock the xbow in Battlefield 3, which required winning three matches of Scavenger. No big deal, right? Won the first one, then went on to lose ELEVEN games in a row, placing first or second on my team every time. So my W/L took a hit even though I was doing everything I could.

W/L has issues as a skill stat as well, just because there's only so much one player can do to affect the outcome of the game. An extreme example: I wanted to unlock the xbow in Battlefield 3, which required winning three matches of Scavenger. No big deal, right? Won the first one, then went on to lose ELEVEN games in a row, placing first or second on my team every time. So my W/L took a hit even though I was doing everything I could.

So the thread about randomized maps got me thinking about another radical change I'd love to see implemented in shooters, namely removing Kill/Death Ratio as a stat. You can still track kills, but deaths and ratio shouldn't be found anywhere in the game. 
For starters, it's practically meaningless as an indicator of player skill without any context. if player 1 has a 2.5 k/d but finishes Domination matches with no caps or defends, and player 2 has a .7 k/d but finishes on top of the scoreboard every game, who's the better dom player? 
People place entirely too much stock in this number. No doubt the main reason people don't play the objective is to protect that precious k/d. More people playing the objective means more intense matches, which personally I find much more fun to play, win or lose. 
I used to play an FPS called Urban Terror, which kept no stats whatsoever. Once you finish a game, it might as well never have happened. And guess what? Pretty much everyone played the objective. There was no reason not to. There was a popular mode called Team Survivor, which is TDM with no respawns (or SnD with no bombs, if you will). Can you imagine the campfest a mode like that would be in CoD? People camp when they're on offense in SnD, for crying out loud. Yet in UT, pretty much the only time you saw somebody camp was when they were outnumbered 3 or 4 to 1 (in which case camping provides your best/only shot at winning). Granted, the community was far different than the Cod community...but is CoD the way it is because everyone is so focused on that magic number? 
Games could track K/D in TDM modes, since it is somewhat relevant there (though even then, it's debatable whether a guy who goes 4-1 is better than a guy who goes 15-5). 
What are your thoughts?
 
 
Oh, and before you dismiss me with, "He doesn't want K/D in the game because his sucks": over the past few Call of Duty and Battlefield games my K/D is usually in the 1.15-1.2 range, which is not "great" by any means, but I don't think you can fairly say it's "bad" either. So that's not my reasoning. I genuinely believe that without that stat, everyone would play the game the way it should be played and we would all have a lot more fun with it. 
 

What are your thoughts and hopes for the upcoming season?
As a Cowboys fan I'm not optimistic for this year. We had a historically bad defense last year, lost our two best defensive players in Demarcus Ware and Sean Lee, and didn't do a whole lot to improve it over the offseason. I'm predicting a 7-9 record this year.

Still need to write a proper post, but i wanted to just touch on this COD killer thing.
Destiny is an awesome game, but it's a different animal to COD. COD is basically centred around PvP content, whereas Destiny's focus is more around PvE content. Plus i think Desiny is more of a MMORPGFPS(?!) than a strict FPS. It has a hell of a lot more in commom with Warframe than COD.
What i'm getting at is that Destiny will not be a COD killer as it's not the same game. However it sets the bar pretty high for what level of quality we should be expecting from now on, on next gen.
From what i've seen of Destiny so far. I don't think this will be a game to tide me over. It will become my no1 game and i'll maybe dabble in COD. It really depends on how AW turns out. There's nothing to go off at the moment as no MP info has been released, so as it stands i'm not that excites for it.

Apparently Update 14 releases for PC today. It has a new warframe and weapons, a customizable ship, and kubrow companions (those are the dog like creatures on Earth).
U13 took several weeks to get to PS4 but we've got cool stuff to look forward to in the near future!

Apparently Update 14 releases for PC today. It has a new warframe and weapons, a customizable ship, and kubrow companions (those are the dog like creatures on Earth).
U13 took several weeks to get to PS4 but we've got cool stuff to look forward to in the near future!

Basically means there's not much point in playing defense, except for xp and resources, or for a specific reward in the Void. Also means there's really no point in going past 15 waves; seems like you'd be better off starting again and doing 15 waves again if you don't get the reward you want. Survival, on the other hand, the five minute rewards do stack. Provided you successfully extract, of course.

Basically means there's not much point in playing defense, except for xp and resources, or for a specific reward in the Void. Also means there's really no point in going past 15 waves; seems like you'd be better off starting again and doing 15 waves again if you don't get the reward you want. Survival, on the other hand, the five minute rewards do stack. Provided you successfully extract, of course.

Basically means there's not much point in playing defense, except for xp and resources, or for a specific reward in the Void. Also means there's really no point in going past 15 waves; seems like you'd be better off starting again and doing 15 waves again if you don't get the reward you want. Survival, on the other hand, the five minute rewards do stack. Provided you successfully extract, of course.

So maybe I'm the only one who didn't realize this, but defense rewards don't stack. So if you get a Void key as a wave 5 reward, a fusion core as a wave 10 reward then extract, you only get the core. This explains what happened to my two Hell's Chambers I thought I got but couldn't find.
Maybe I'm just dumb but I didn't know that. It sucks though.

Good games last night. I know we could do 20 waves with a little more coordination and a fourth who didn't bail on us.
Also T3 wasn't as bad as I was expecting, I could still one-shot heavy gunners with a critical headshot.

Good games last night. I know we could do 20 waves with a little more coordination and a fourth who didn't bail on us.
Also T3 wasn't as bad as I was expecting, I could still one-shot heavy gunners with a critical headshot.

Even with new content coming out I still can't find any motivation to play this game.