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Just to say that this is an ace read Sebba @ChaosGladiator . I haven't got into it at all as of yet but i'll be making sure I take all of this into consideration and revisit it once I get more into it!

Its all good mate - maybe next week see if you can join fo rthe first race perhaps and we'll try and make sure its done before 10pm or something? I felt like you were just getting into your groove too!

Raid Lead Joe Blackburn looks he has been promoted to Assistant Game Director and has released a min blog about loot and rewards moving forward in this Season and across the next few seasons. A great read and definitely some good additions across he core gameplay loop we have. Additional ritual rewards coming back across regular playlists AND Nightfall Adept weapons is great news withoit giving too much away from what is upcoming this year. Especially more resource being recruited for more rewards moving on year on year. What do you guys reckon? DESTINY 2 DEV UPDATE - REWARDS 0h - Destiny Dev Team Hey everybody, My name is Joe Blackburn, and I’m the Assistant Game Director on Destiny 2. If your free time looks anything like mine, you’ve been spending a lot of it on Europa over the past few weeks. Some of you may know me from my previous Bungie life when I worked with the raid team and on Season of Opulence. I'm back thanks to a revive from Luke and team as we work together to create a Destiny 2 future that we’re all excited about. Today I want to spend some time with you on a subject that is near and dear to every Destiny 2 player’s heart: rewards. There’s a thing I ask a lot around the virtual office, “How are we making every Season the best time to jump back into Destiny?” Destiny is a very large and complex game, and while this is what also makes it a game we love, we want Destiny 2 to continue to evolve, to be a world with momentum. Introducing Infusion Caps is part of addressing this, a way to make sure that the overall number of rewards Guardians need to care about in order to be competitive in Destiny isn’t prohibitive. It is also a way to continue evolving each season’s meta, while at the same time making sure players still have a ton of options when choosing what they want to bring into the next challenge. Our goal from the beginning with Infusion Caps is to improve and keep Destiny 2 fresh over time - what we’re most looking forward to is how this system will introduce innovation to the season-over-season meta, how creative builds from the community will shine, and how we can continue to deliver more unique hand-crafted gear that aligns with the world narrative and where the universe is going. While we still are hard at work on improvements to how we rotate gear out of the Destiny Power ecosystem (what gear you can infuse to max Power), there were a few clear-cut misses with our first rollout. The initial reward pool with this release was just too small. It's frustrating to be playing Destiny and see another player use a weapon that is no longer obtainable in game. I’m going to spend a lot of time talking rewards, but before we deep dive, let's get the TL;DR out there. These are the big commitments we’re making today. With each season in Year 4, Destiny 2 will grow the overall Power ecosystem for weapons. With very few exceptions, all weapons you can take to the Power cap should still be earnable in game. Future annual releases will contain more new weapons to collect than Beyond Light or Shadowkeep. GROWING THE POWER ECOSYSTEM With Beyond Light we took on the huge challenge of rebuilding our technology from the ground up. One of the benefits of this was improving the speeds with which we could make and update Destiny. You’ve already seen some of those gains since launch, with updates such as buffing the Legendary engram coming in much faster than we’ve been able to do in the past. But Season 13 will be here in just a couple of months (very soon in the world of Destiny development), so let's talk about how we are continuing to leverage our technology to act with agility. Season 13 is the first chance for us to prove our commitment to growing the overall Power ecosystem with each release in Year 4. We want to make sure that, with each new season, there are more weapons to take with you to tackle that Nightfall Ordeal or Master Bunker E15 than there were before. While I won’t be spoiling what new stuff you’ll be able to chase in our next season, I did want to touch on a few changes we’ve made to the reward offering specifically based on what we’ve seen in Beyond Light. In Season 13, we’re adding six new Legendary weapons to our ritual activities, two each for strikes, Gambit, and Crucible. In addition to the weapons above, Nightfall strikes are getting three unique weapons, with The Palindrome, The Swarm, and Shadow Price all making their Destiny 2 debuts. If you’re brave enough to take on Grandmaster Nightfalls, you will be also able to earn Adept versions of these weapons. KEEPING CURRENT Season 13 not only represents the start of our commitment to growing the Power ecosystem, but it also is an opportunity for us to improve how we can keep Destiny accessible to new players. New Guardians are essential to the health of our community and, as with our investment in features like the “New Light” introduction on the Cosmodrome, we must also invest in making sure the reward structure of Destiny is approachable to everyone. In a recent patch, we added the Season 10 and 11 weapons to the world drop pool and we removed the Season 9 weapons. This was important for a few reasons. We want to make sure that players have a way to earn all Power-relevant weaponry in the live game. If a group of new Guardians is just getting into Grandmaster Nightfalls and they see guides on YouTube involving Warmind Cells, we need to provide a path for them to participate. At the same time, we don’t want to be clogging up the reward streams with weapons that are about to exit the Power ecosystem. So anything that’s only going to be around for a few more months shouldn’t be something a player can accidentally obtain. In Season 13 we will continue to allow all players to gain Season 11 and Season 12 weapons in the world drop pool while Season 10 weapons will be obtainable through a more prescriptive source. This means that Legendary engrams will no longer reward these soon-to-expire weapons. If you want to chase a specific piece of soon-to-be-capped loot, you’ll find it with the Gunsmith. This is all part of our larger commitment to making sure that players can always earn anything they might need to take on challenging activities. That said, this will require a few exceptions and some updates to the live game. As far as exceptions, we don’t plan on adding methods for players to acquire holiday weapons like the Braytech Werewolf outside of participating in those yearly celebrations. For updates, this does mean in Season 13 we will be adding limited time quest weapons like Felwinter’s Lie, Whisper of the Worm, and Outbreak Perfected to the Exotic Kiosk in the Tower. QUALITY AND QUANTITY After covering things we’d like to change, I want to spend some time talking about what must stay the same. Destiny is a game built on exciting rewards. From Bastion to IKELOS_SMG_V1.0.2 to Falling Guillotine, the rewards over the last twelve months have continued to evolve the way Guardians play the game. In Beyond Light, I believe the Rewards Team nailed it again with incredible new Legendary perks like Recombination, Thresh, Chain Reaction, and Reconstruction. Alongside these perks came what I believe is one of the best lineups of Exotic weapons and armor in Destiny history. But where we succeeded in quality, we failed in quantity. Even as Season 12, the Deep Stone Crypt, and the full breadth of Europa weapons came online, the total count of weapons in Beyond Light is lower than we want. So, we’re making the commitment now that our future annual releases will have more weapon rewards than Beyond Light or Shadowkeep. There’s no way for us to make more rewards at Destiny’s standards and still maintain the health of our current team, therefore we’re going to reinforce the Rewards Team with more talent that will allow us to deliver quality and quantity in the future. Molding someone new into a master Destiny gunsmith takes time. This isn’t going to be a change that the community will feel next week, but it does put our best foot forward as we step towards The Witch Queen and Lightfall. PREHEATING THE OVEN Increasing the Reward Team’s size is one of our long-term initiatives, but it is not the only upgrade to our gear rotation plan that we want to get into the oven. We envision a better solution for how armor intersects with Infusion Caps. The personality of armor comes from mods right now, so gaining a new piece of armor often means just trying to find a piece of armor that replicates the stat allocation you already have on a piece in your vault. While we are not ready to talk concretely about armor plans right now, we do want to get more gameplay novelty on armor itself so that looting a piece of armor in a new season has the potential to change the way you play. Expect to hear more about armor and other holistic upgrades to the way gear rotates in and out of the Power ecosystem as we harden plans in the new year. And that new year will be here before you know it. A big chunk of the team will be taking some hard-earned time off to rest and relax ahead of coming back to the studio and diving into 2021. We have a lot of work to do and, while I’m looking forward to the break, I also can’t wait to get to work on some of the huge stuff we’ve got coming in the new year. Without spoiling too much, here’s a brief teaser of some of the things that are on their way in Destiny 2, Year 4: Transmog will be coming with Season 14. More details to come. (See work-in-progress screen captures, below. Not final, may change!) DDOS protection for Destiny 2 players on all consoles will be coming in Season 13. The Vault of Glass raid returns. Crossplay is coming in 2021. Two strikes (Fallen S.A.B.E.R. and Devil’s Lair) are coming to Destiny 2 in Season 13. Legendary and Master Lost Sector rotation will be expanded to include the Lost Sectors on the Moon in Season 13, and there will be new three new pieces of Exotic armor to chase. RETURNING TO ORBIT Now that I’ve ranted longer than a raid leader on Val Ca'uor, let’s wrap this thing up. 2020 has been a hard year for so many folks out there, and I hope that Beyond Light has been able to be a bright spot over the past couple of weeks. Playing Destiny 2 alongside you helps keep us going. We’re going to keep our ears and eyes open for more feedback as we continue towards 2021. I hope your holiday treats you well and can’t wait to share more Destiny with you in the new year. Thanks for your time, Joe

Well done to @slamminbones who won GT Sport from December 7th! Looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday night racing now matey! 😎

Hows the map @phil bottle? Not had chance to catch up on your PPR yet. Anything to be aware of straight off the bat if I dipped my toe on a server that has this map?

Someone helped me recently with this. Quickest way is to 'Extend' the screens over both with Windows button + P. Then make 7 Days within a window rather than full screen. You literally then just drag it to the relevant screen you want and then maximise back up to full screen. It'll stay there then moving forward (it does for me when i leave stuff like that).

That's disgustingly too good @Greboth! Very difficult to see they aren't actually real! If I see a post opening at Gran Turismo studios i'll let you know 😎

Ghosts of Tsushima is also heading Ryan's @ImRyzxn way too from December 6th giveaway! Still loads of days left and enter whatever and however many you'd like FGers!! 😎

You starting to at least let yourself believe you will win one trophy minimum this season @phil bottle 😎?

Event Title: Monday Night Football - FIFA 21 Pro Clubs - FGFC Event Author: GazzaGarratt Calendar: Community Calendar Event Date: 12/07/2020 08:00 PM We've crept back into Division 3 again so let's see how the FG train can take us! Monday Night Football - FIFA 21 Pro Clubs - FGFC N.B. If viewing this via the FG App, please visit the Calendar event via browser to RSVP. Thanks.

Dual screens = Top level strats by Dave the Crackmeister @Plumbers Crack 😎

Isn't this one of the most welcomed maps of the CoD era? This is a great move surely. I imagine they would have the original code with spawns so I can't see why they won't be the same or at least extremely similar.

I haven't done it yet mate, only realised last night I needed the disc in for the option to have it come up. When you say Pro Clubs progress, do you mean when you switch back to PS4 your stats are gone? I know that it doesn't transfer to PS5 so we'll continue to Pro Clubs on the PS4 version for now.

Well done to Tommy @BO7H B4RRELS winning the next voucher of his choice from December 5th giveaway! Enjoy dude!

Well done to @ImRyzxn who wins December 4th - Wreckfest. FG Fridays will never be the same again for you 😄 Enjoy!

Event Title: FG Fridays - MW:Remastered & Wreckfest! Event Author: GazzaGarratt Calendar: Community Calendar Event Date: 12/04/2020 08:00 PM Getting FG Friday games up - its been too long for a CoD night of shooting each other in the face! So lets play for an hour or so and the crack on to the lovely Wreckfest! This is for the remastered version not the new one. If we don't get enough for MW Remastered we'll just start Wreckfest earlier! 😄 Grab a drink and jump on in! RSVP so we know who's in or out!! FG Fridays - MW:Remastered & Wreckfest! N.B. If viewing this via the FG App, please visit the Calendar event via browser to RSVP. Thanks.

Happy birthday BreadCake Boy @MrBiron ! Won yesterday's giveaway too, happy days! 😎❤️🍺

Well done to @MrBiron who wins December 3rd - A voucher of his choice.....what a surprise to wake up to on his birthday! Lucky bugger! 🤣❤️

I think I shat myself rather quickly when i jumped on for my first few hours on Sunday, seeing those massive spiders and one that went to start coming my way! The looks are fantastic and as opposed to all other survival games that we're playing right now, it does give something different through those cartoon-esque graphics, crafting system and story mode within the co-op game. Very Green Hell but not as gruesome. For an early access game it has a lot to offer straight off the bat. The only things that have been a little annoying is the UI as you can get stuck working out what to press as there doesn't seem to be many shortkeys for things like crafting, etc. I'm interested to see if the story grips us all and also if there will be some form of skill points, etc in the future.

You tried it out yet @TheMuggySpud ? Just wondering if its worth a night of exploring on it with a few others at some point? Also, any pics of this new section?

Yep, I hear you on that. Force of habit is a kicker for most things life, even this place. How big your home gym? I think this will be the way for me to get more exercise, via an outbuilding that we can use within seconds. I'd probably get up earlier each day to do something as I can't go to gyms or many external runs cos of getting kids ready and sorting dogs out, etc.

@phil bottle @BO7H B4RRELS @techno you sadistic fuckers. Top marks for the first gruesome death shared here! 😄

My daughter has had one for years and she loves it! 🤣🤣 I'd love to mate as I think these are great shouts. Weirdly, my wife doesn't like bracelet or necklaces much...but you've reminded me she LOVES querky rings. I'll go and check some now! Thanks mate. Outside of these stuff, I've also noticed a few more things: Galaxy/Wave Projector - @jordie1892 reminded me of this the other night when playing FIFA. With my lad being autistic I think he'd like the movement of the lights in his room when playing or watching a film at night. I think they look fantastic for all ages really Grumpy Cat Calendar - more just for @crispymorgan if i'm honest 😄