The3rdWalker

Reports are also coming in that they have lowered the end game rewards you get after each match as well, in addition to removing the refund button from their website.

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I just ran some tests. I did some Cabal Excavation public events, so that I could stand far away, shoot the ship down, and attempt to not get any XP aside from the completion bonus. I had already exhausted my Well Rested bonus for the week. Outright, without any short-term cooldown, my XP had a 0.5x multiplier. After hours of not playing, my first public event would say 2500 XP on the screen, but both DTR and DIM reported an increase of 1250/80000 XP. With a Ghost providing 10% bonus XP, I would see 2750 XP on screen, with a recorded increase of 1375/80000 XP. I had initially considered that there was no limit to the amount of XP required per level, that it increased each subsequent level, but that the API was reporting it as a fraction of 80K. However, the multiplier was consistent between my level 52 Hunter and level 38 Titan, which means that this is not the case. It is possible that there is a cap at 160K, hit before level 38, and the system will simply continue to report as a fraction of 80K, but I cannot test this without deleting and re-leveling a character. I also tested waiting for completion of the public event, and immediately fast-traveling back to the same location and completing it again. My testing showed that the XP completion bonus for those events was subject to an additional 0.8x multiplier, resulting in the event yielding only 40% of the XP shown on the screen. In one test, in order to enter the public event after fast-traveling back to the same location, I was forced to shoot the boss in order to enter the event. That XP was subject to the 0.5x multiplier but not the 0.8x additional multiplier; so the short-term multiplier applies only to the completion bonus. TL;DR: I'm getting only 50% of the XP it says I'm getting at the bottom of the screen, and there is some sort of additional factor - be it an amount of time, or completing the same public event (with the same location and start time) - that gives only 80% of the bonus XP for completion. I haven't figured out yet what triggers that short-term cooldown.

We've all seen and talked about the cooldown with regards to chests and planetary materials. If you open them too quickly in rapid succession, you get nothing. Well recently when trying to grind out my last few bright engrams before reset, I've experienced the same thing with XP. I've experienced it several times over the course of several days, so I'm convinced its not a fluke. But I hadn't taken the time to capture it and create video proof until just now. In both of these cases, the following things were true: I had the well rested buff for 3x XP I had the fireteam medallion buff I was wearing a +10% EDZ ghost I was playing solo This is the first public event I did after flying into EDZ. It was a heroic public event in Winding Cove. Note how I get a bit over 9000 XP for the event completion, and the bar seems to move in an amount proportionate to that. https://i.imgur.com/5ghl5H8.gifv This is the second public event I did on the EDZ. It was a heroic public event in Firebase Hades. I sparrowed there (no fast travel) and completed it in a little less than 5 minutes after the prior heroic public even ended. Note how I, again, get a bit over 9000 XP for the event completion. Or so it seems. The numbers don't agree with the bar. Look how little the bar moves upon completion. https://i.imgur.com/ggSbr2A.gifv I confirmed the discrepancy above in DIM, which estimates we need about 80k xp per bright engram. On the first event completion, the amount needed for my next bright engram went down correctly according to DIM. On the second public event completion, I again checked DIM and received barely any XP. If bungie wants a cooldown on this to stop us from spaming public events to get XP, that's a different discussion, but we should at least have this communicated to us appropriately in the UI. Don't show us +9k if we're not getting +9k.

In light of my recent post questioning whether there was something fishy about our EXP gains I decided to test how many public events i would need to level up with a 3x exp buff from the weekly reset. Luck would have it that one of my characters had near 0 exp on his current bar. We all know that one heroic event grants 7500 exp with the buff. My goal was to see how much exp i had after doing 10 in a row without ever going to orbit or doing any other activity aside from the occassional high value target since that along with side exp from adds should grant way and well over a level. After just finishing the 10th event (All of them being heroic) I find myself at about 80% of the bar and according to Destinytracker I'm at 61.077 EXP. After 10 events I should have been on 75.000 with no add exp. As a bonus for all those 10 events I didn't account for side exp given from monsters which everyone playing by now knows gives thousands of EXP per event. At this point I'm fully content of something being really fishy BUT I can't determine which or whose end it is on. As I'm seeing it there's a few options as to why this doesn't turn out as we would want it to: Wrong indicators. I can completely remove the possibility of this simply being a visual bug on the bar since my 10 events didn't give a full level, the chunks are very uneven even though the numbers are equal so theres still a bug to be found here, the displayed numbers however might be a problem since they might not be what we're actually getting. 3rd parties being wrong. DIM / Destiny tracker is lying (unknowingly) about 80.000 being the amount of exp needed to level up. See edit2. Bungie is hiding something. Bungie has put a cap / cooldown on farming exp without telling or showing us since the numbers shown were the same throughout all events.

This is going to be three separate Reddit posts researched by users. tl;dr: In Destiny 2, there appears to be an experience cool down if you earn it too quickly, which slows your ability to earn bright engrams in game. Furthermore, this cool down isn't immediately apparent to the player, since the number that shows is a much higher amount than what is actually being earned.

Did you watch the Alienware Curse series? Assault rifle spawns double and cosmetic clothing turned off. It made for a much better competitive experience as you most likely wouldn't get screwed with loot. I do feel like the game is an awful spectator esport.

I'm going to have to disagree with Lee on this one. The game is fine map wise and you don't want to rush something of that magnitude when it comes to loot spawns. Balance is key.

Here we go, round 2!

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You have major players who invested into these. (Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers, etc) So there may not be enough big groups over the pond that see the value in esports as of yet, not to mention there are more than a dozen EU players currently on American teams.

Osiris is one of my favorite characters in all of Destiny, as well as the entire story and lore surrounding their fire-team and the Vex.

Well there that franchise goes...

Yeah for the first few times you do it. I don't think anyone really ever talked outside of the runner telling us where he was going.

So with the PC team clearing this almost nightly I found a map of the Underbelly online, and the Pleasure Gardens but no Gauntlet! I tried to make one that works for challenge mode and regular every day runs. (I didn't add the extra psions, sorry!) The quality of mine doesn't hold a candle to the previous two, sorry!

Man, 23 days ago and still haven't gotten our first match played.

If he goes to a monitor at any point in time and goes into the 144hz realm he will need a new card. I mean we can do straight budget for his build if he just wants to save the money, but I didn't get that idea from him.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIADU265F0101&cm_re=32_inch_monitor-_-9SIADU265F0101-_-Product

He's using a TV not a monitor, and the 480 is pretty under powered. If he switched to a monitor setup he would already be replacing his GPU. The 1070 gives him more length for the money.

Raid and NF done today, hope y'all get some good loot in the engram(s)!

I was on a meeting for work whilst doing it, absolutely lovely. This is Bungie we are talking about. They nerf one thing and just like evolution, gamers will find a way. "Bungie: we don't want you farming faction tokens so we removed the lost sector method. players: check out this even faster token farm."

I got just shy of 500 tokens in one hour, all of the Future War Cult gear I could ever want. /faction rally

Zone into Winding Cove on EDZ Run a bit north and head down the hole into the Lost Sector Defeat the boss, get the chest Directly above the chest is a door that you can use to get back to the surface. As you’re walking up, as soon as you see the “Winding Cove” area load, turn around, head back to the chest, and you can loot it again. Back through the door, wait for “Winding Cove”, and back to the chest to loot again. Rinse and repeat this step.

The i7 isn't really needed to get everything you'd ever want under the sun for gaming.

Jordie it's awesome to see you around again bud.