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Welcome to FG @RedBeardCG ! (Collier I believe is it?) I know you've joined the Destiny group already so looking forward to some good runs in at some point in the future! Make sure you take a look around and get involved where you can, we dabble in lots of stuff and have as much funsies along the way. The new PC build sounds interesting man, what games do you intend to play on there? I've recently got hooked with @phil bottle @tronic44 and @Greboth on Green Hell, a gorgeous survival game. Hope you enjoy bud! 😎👍

That looked pretty decent for a F2P on a Switch! I fancy trying to get my son on this one to give him a perfect opportunity to find something different than Fortnite. @phil bottle for some reason it says its being released today but I can't download the free version yet. It might come available later in the day perhaps. If someone can nudge this thread when it is that'd be great.

Week commencing July 7 to July 13 - niris.tv doing his usual infographic for the regular weekly updates below. Its also Moments of Triumph that has been updated as well a few new quests dropped to pick up in the Tower; 1 Exotic and 1 Legendary one, alongside the weekly Seasonal quest and story mission. Raid Challenges this week:

Happy birthday Mike @Commander_Undies !! Hope you've had a great day dude 😎

I'd briefly played the first one. Too much expectation for a game that looked really deep but it was literally spam square a million times and the game just does it for you. Not sure how good the second one was, some people here said it was good im sure.

I asked a while back via a poll to try and work out best days to do raids but its difficult as we all can do so many different days and it really didn't matter what we ended up picking...so we din't do anything! So lets start using Thursdays for now as a start off point. Btw, this isn't saying we won't do raids on other days because this day won't suit all. However, to start getting back into the game and making sure we have a regular bunch of people around to learn raids more regularly in turn will mean we can confidently try and complete more raids on other days like over the weekend, etc. I'm thinking we try this via events on the Event Calendar and we try and focus on one type of raid each week. It'll give time to people to realise which one we're trying out and get in the mindset to do their best for that particular raid. If people can't make it or request other times, lets help them and put up an event so we can see if we can get 6 people around. There's been a number of new FGers join recently on Destiny and I know some old folk are starting to get back into it, so happily share what your thoughts are below on what stuff you'd like to try, whens best for you, etc. I genuinely believe if we knew it 'raid night' on a set day like Thursday we can be soon getting at 1-2 teams being able to jump in and help each other. If it doesn't work, then we can always keep trying other ways to get us playing the fun stuff together. Consistency for us all to get behind an idea is the key to us all having loads of fun and completing all the things we'd like to do so please consider getting behind events and whatever we put up. Let us know what you think below.

Oh bless Dave, one new word in there (Umbral) and everything else is still what you know...I can know see what @uberwarrior was on about losing your marbles 😜😂

Ahh, I see. Oh, I totally agree that would be an excellent improvement to the existing token system. If they could at the very least take the framework of umbrals so you could select a weapon engram or Armour engram that would be brilliant. There still has to be some form of RNG involved otherwise it wouldn't be Destiny would it 😜 but narrowing down the selection path is a great way to go. I'm interested to see what they do with vendors come September. They've indicated some form of Vendor Refresh anyway and if these types of choices came with it we'd be receiving another Win.

Thanks mate, all downloaded 👍 Tommy @BO7H B4RRELS , what days are best for you? We'll get an event up so we can get as many people to join as possible.

We had it on in our house, and was hoping they'd get through knowing you'd be biting your fingers off in the process! Pompey have still not won a single Playoff game. It follows him around doesn't it?! I haven't seen it yet but I Lloris has always baffled me cos he gets the Captain's armband a lot but he doesn't look and act like one.

So thats 8pm and 2am for us Brits. I'm sure we can get one night to start at this time. @phil bottle, i've clicked subscribe but its asking me this: Do i need to download all 3?

Yeah, you did raise it before a long time ago! 😄 I'm totally open to any ideas like this, in actual fact @deterioration brought it up back in 2015 too so I know there's some interest. Ultimately, theres pros and cons which requires some thoughts/debate with the real regular FGers here. I don't think i'm saying anything different to what @Diddums also said back to Joe in that a separate section is easy to create on forums and we could create some basic access restriction based on minimum posts or other criteria. Most that would buy and sell you'd hope would be regulars and we are in a place where fallouts i'd say a few and far between (if ever) but one horrible transaction and it could get messy. We'd also need moderators and people all over it, something that I don't think i've got the capacity to do right now but that doesn't we shouldn't if we had the right people offering to help maintain it. It'd also have to be no ones responsibility behind the scenes at FG if something went wrong - transactions would be directly between the seller and buyer. Another pro though is there is now more functionality options available for the software we have down to the types of stuff that'll be here soon such as the Merch shop elements. I'd also say that we're a giver family, and i'd love to get to a stage whereby we have things gifted in so we can give them back out via FGFGF offerings. What do others think?

It won't be a surprise to me if games RRP goes slightly up and Greebs is right as the prices don't now come out at RRP these days and very quickly come down 5-10 quid. We also forget how much games were back in the day, when the RRP was even higher for most games. The picture below just shows some games for a SNES that had been out for a while were still mega money: £64.99 for Robo Cop 3? A lot of people didn't bat much of an eyelid at these either.

Yep, completely different to what I expected. Love the idea and feel. However, not sure Survival mode has come a little too soon for this game. Its not as clear you'd hope on how to build a base, etc. Feels like there's kinda of a hidden basic story in it, as we found a battery that then helped us create different bots to help you build other stuff. Thing is, we don't even know where the Map view is yet! Early days but i'll keep my fingers crossed it can only get better.

Thanks @Greboth, when you get them over I'll try and find time to do something with them 👍 I missed last week's so i'll try and get some laps in on both this week.

Jeez, that's tough luck that is man, I feel for you. @Godspeed , when you get 4 Focused Umbral engrams from the recaster, are you making sure you pick between armour and weapons? I mean it still cant stop you getting multiple gear in one slot but it may help a little.

Looks like a bunch of Tjorborn's from Overwatch on steroids in a Zombierobot Apocolyptic War, I like it! I always wonder if we can actually make cool contraptions like in trailers, I bet in reality it would take me 6 months to build just one of them.

The power grind / progressive gameplay element to get rewards is a key part of an RPG and an MMO game, sometime i cba to grind power but i get that if I want to play certain activities there's some steps to take and at least it has multiple gamemodes that you can do it whichever way you like. I think as time going by in the world, the culture is changing. I think we also forget a Power grind also gives you subconsciously gives you a chance to try out new guns that drop, rather than always upgrade your existing ones. I always found it strange the remark when people would say 'just let me use the guns I want to!' and after using the same 3 weapons all the time then say 'I need more guns to use, these ones are boring'. @Godspeed sometimes we all get a little fed up of grinding, its at those points we all need to remember this isn't the only game out there. Its just happens at different times to different people. This game isn't made to be played solely all the time and that isn't good for anyone (I can vouch for that as how annoying my son is by playing Fortnite all the god damn time and nothing else). Whats great is there's so much choice you can go and come back to it and have lots to do, but if you don't want to go away, there's still lots to do. Oh, and the season pass isn't sold on the Power level, the cost of it they see is based on how much they offer via the Season Pass levels. When you break down the armour, bright dust, emotes, ornaments they give you on top of the other activities available to do in the Season. £8/$10 ain't that bad versus other models out there in other games. Plus, its not mandatory to buy it. You can always miss out on when you need to.

Happy birthday to THE FG veteran, the Stan Lee in our lives!! Happy birthday Dave! 👍❤️🍺 And Happy Birthday @jordie1892 ! I'd say hope you get what you want today, but you already got that a little early, enjoy it whilst it lasts! 🏆😂❤️👍

August 7th launch date on PC.

Nice little incentive just to be watching some affiliated Crytek streamers. Just link your Twitch account via the link below and start watching an affiliated streamer (most streamers at the top of the Hunt search on Twitch you can see have !drops enabled). Hunt: Showdown - Twitch Drops WWW.HUNTSHOWDOWN.COM Hunt: Showdown is a competitive first-person PvP bounty hunting game with heavy PvE elements. Set in the darkest corners of the world, Hunt packs the thrill of survival games into a match-based format. I've had it up for the past few days whilst working from home just in the background on a Tab. You don't have to actively watch it so its a great little incentive. Funnily enough though some of the plays that Psychoghost is great to watch for some fun runs. Just by having it up, here's the in game loot i've received so far: Its still on until the 6th July so worth getting a device in the background somewhere open with it on. Let us know what you all got below!

Two little stories this week. Had such a random game with Adam @foxhoundmoses , which was our final game of the evening. We thought let's just go for the gauntlet (both bounties) and once we picked up one, we could hear some shooting at the next one, West of us. When we got close we were expecting to have a fiery contest considering we had the other bounties so completely visible to everyone else on the map. We rocked in close, not sure what to expect, maybe 1 or 2 full teams around. But it was weird; we used some Dark Sight and no one was around? The boss had already been banished so it was so odd that the Bounties weren't picked up. Maybe they were camping and waiting for us to pick them so they could grab everything off us? Nope. No one near, well no one alive. We walked up and Adam spotted some dead Hunters next to the entrance to the boss room. Then noticed a few more, and a few more! It was like the entire server had took each other out like how Van Damme and Lundgren go against each other in Universal Soldier. I caught the clip of it all when we rocked up near below. Mental way to end a game and get the Gauntlet to boot! An hour or two before this, I think we witnessed the greatest gun show Aaron Nuttscratcher Mc@Nutcuttlit when total Ham and Bone when we decided to aggressively go into Fort Cormack (correct me if i'm wrong Adam/Nutty) where the single bounty was on offer. 2 teams were already there across a wide open patch of land. I picked a stray Hunter up running away from the battle early doors whilst Adam and Nutty got in close with Shotguns and Borheim pistols. Adam baited someone out, Nutty blasted their face in one of the sheds in the Fort. I kept getting sniped a few times as i came into the main Fort area which meant they kept pushing up closer...and closer, until they were close enough for Nutty to pop them through the fences, whilst ANOTHER team rocked up and tried to burn a team from the outside. We got rid of a few teams which left us 3v2. They were great snipers, one took me down and started to burn me at an opening. They pushed with Adam only one health bar left, he then managed to injure one before Nutty the Hunter exterminator ran out of the secure shed and blasted both to kingdom come. 7 down, with Nutty nailing 6 and one assist. I think what was probably more hilarious was when all that was left was to get the Spider killed and then bounty extraction, Adam raced in and got killed by the Spider - and couldn't get revived as he only had one health chunk left! 🙈😂 Great night of Hunting!

Ain't that the truth, had the speakers on loud and the dogs went mental! 😂

Happy birthday Kev @BoroVC ! Hope you're keeping well and can enjoy a beer as its Friday aswell, double bonus! 🍺😎

Here's a few guns from this season that i'm finding are working well and are seriously good to use: False Promises - New gun available this season from the Recaster at Drifter. You have to give it some time when using because the slow fire rate is something to get used to. However, with Subsistence (filling up your mag from reserves on kills) and Swashbuckler (increased damage after kills with it or melee kills) is a good combination for PvE this season. Plus Anti-Barrier Mods for Champions is on Auto Rifles so an added bonus. Gnawing Hunger - The PvP beast right now! I think this build though is actually extremely good in PvE. Maybe others have a better PvP option due to perks? Tap the Trigger works well for PvP but Demolitionist is great for returning grenade energy. Xenophage - I love Machine Guns and this is one of the best all round Exotics to use. Just because it has 13 in the mag doesn't matter in the slightest as it feels like the gun that Rocket builds in Guardians of the Galaxy when they try to blow up Ronin. Every shot is super powerful and great at high end-game activities. Temptations Hook - The two new available swords from the season pass don't just look ridiculously cool, but Swords are still in a powerful place since Season 10. What you are looking for is Whirlwind Blade that increases damage over time with continuous sword strikes and also Jagged Edge (both circled in red below). Jagged Edge also increases damage at the cost of sword ammo. I think this is one perk off the ultimate God Roll - if it has Relentless Strikes, it would increase damage through the aforementioned 2 perks, and this would return Sword ammo when landing 3 light attacks in a short period. Maybe others have some better swords or perks on guns that are working for them this Season?