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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?

You can always keep your winnings....in your favourite friends pocket 😎 Surweeeet! Ah, no worries, sounds like a good weekend away for you lot still! Need to put a rod up is ass and starting seeing that sexy mofo around here and online more often! 👊 As I said before to anyone else thinking of joining, don't be scared if you don't know much about Poker, its a fun little night where its something completely different. Definitely a chilled evening in the FG Virtual Pub! 🍺

Nice Justin, sweet grenade! Didn't need to be all invisible and that though, bloody hunters, pfft 😂 You do know if you all have clips loaded to Youtube, then I'd suggest adding them to the Video section, rather than a thread. Its in the menu and super simple to add a video but shout up if you want me to help show you all how to add them 👍

That is an absolute epic hoarde of pics Greebs. Like, seriously epic. Can't wait to see more of them!

Any normal standard content can be done by anyone, yep, but its definitely a different story at higher level, endgame content. I 100% agree with you if this was still Destiny 1. Or maybe Destiny 2, Year 1. The raids are completely different to just shooting everything and standing on plates. Mechanics and enemies do mean that most raid teams need 6 in every raid. We've only just started to 5 man one of them but even then everything has to be spot on at the boss. From what you've pointed out I think highlights for me a big issue between player skill and casual to hardcore players. Imo, more than 70% of all activities are accessible by everyone because that was one of the key things that the entire playerbase asked for was to play with their friends no matter the Power level. Problem for me though is theres no gradual increase in understanding what you need to get from a stats POV for the endgame harder content - thats when actually all of the stuff about stats, mods, and type of Guardian with subclass matters. And that 30% most of the community have barely even tried because as much as people ask for that type of content they either find that they struggle with those activities because of skill level and they usually don't want to bother understanding the next level of detail that is evolving in Destiny right now. Even me as a core player, struggles with the Artefact (where the key mods are) but mainly because i don't push myself to understand it. If i did, I know i'd be more successful and confident in taking on multiple raids, Prestige/hard raids, 3-man mengerie, solo-ing Dungeons, even solo-ing Bad Juju mission i'm not good enough because i haven't looked into the mod system and armour stats enough. At higher levels, for bigger groups the game has got way harder than D1 and that for some is ironically a turn off when its exactly what they asked for after D1 because of how easy Crota's End or VoG raids became. I think @crispymorgan could give a bit of insight into it a little more that the game has created more depth but it has a crap way of telling you what has changed. If they had a system which told you in clearer terms how powerful mods and different abilities could work together then that would bring more casual/core players into the game more regularly.

@G_dub52 , not seen @TonyAE86 lately. Can you give him a nudge to see if he can join on Saturday? @Middle Class Caveman , @Diddums, @tronic44 you all still able to join again? It'd be ace to see some new faces here too! @Dan94 definite worth the laugh for a few hours like we spoke in your PPR. I fancy @techno Gary could rinse us all if he could work out how to join!

Never heard of these phones. They look like Honor ones that my wife gets from 3. I know they're pretty smart and way more affordable than most other android phones. Lol, yeah I know what you mean about size for all those games. The phone has kind of become the camera of this age. I don't know many that own a camera, unless its a proper professional one like @Greboth has. Mad how battery life has become a key factor in phones now. Strange your newer version doesn't have wireless charging though?

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 🤗

Here's the official statement

Well, it makes sense if its that bad to remove it from wider consumption and work on the game further. You have to think how much decent feedback did they get from their testers?

I'm not going underestimate the amount of stuff I've called out and my main hope is to keep each one flowing as best as we can. That's where you guys come in! To try and get some momentum and keep it going, I've created new support roles for the following: Merch Support - for Merchandise Pages Support - for Homepage and New Game Spaces Guides Support - for Guides & Tips Recruitment Support - for Old Veteran FGers and New FG Recruits Socials Support - for FG Gaming Schedules, FG Charity Streams and FG Socials I think bringing a few into the same pots will mean a few are easier to maintain that way and make more sense over time to the ones that have asked to get involved in some capacity. They'll be corresponding elements that you guys will see if you raised your hand to help out. This can help track conversations and drive stuff to happen. I still want as much as we can shared with everyone at FG so once stuff and decisions have been made we can then get more threads and posts up in general sections so everyone is kept in the loop. Thanks also to the few that have offered general support along the way and/or can't support right now. The door has and always will be open to keep helping where possible. This is an attempt to make shit happen. If anyone wants to get involved stuff all you have to do is ask and we can try and get you involved where possible. Not all things will work and that is okay. I'd rather us all try because if we don't try, we'll never know how to get better and help more people. Outside of all of this, don't forget we have a Suggestions Tracker here (also can be accessed via the 'More' menu). We should always strive to get as many suggestions as we can that the FG family can achieve together, system changes, etc so don't feel frightened to put some up. All below, your profile roles have been updated on the specific ones you asked to support - i'll nudge you all to show you where stuff is shortly. @Greboth @MrBiron @FallenDark200 @Middle Class Caveman @fg_cal @Misneach_ @Mikepjbell @Nutcuttlit @slamminbones @G_dub52 @crispymorgan GGFG 👊

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 😬

Nothing has been officially confirmed yet though has it? However, i'm with you if it does. Maybe its trying to follow the footsteps of this new one trying to be different which overall I think has been a positive step.

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 😂

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!

Yeah, totally with you on this Gaz. The good thing is they've acknowledged it has to change (heavy reliance on bounties) and it starts to change next season into more lifetime/one-off objective based rewards. I want to do activities first and bounties alongside them as a secondary non-essential feature. Thats spot on there. The current Discipline, Intellect, Strength, etc stats make some minor differences at end game stuff but i've never had to worry about them on 90% of the easily accessible stuff. In some instances this would totally work and in D1 we had one exotic per class (I'm looking at you, my favourite Fabian Strategy PvP AR ❤️) however this kind of goes against a fundamental principle that Bungie wants which is to give the gamer the ultimate choice on what you wanna play in any gamemode as over time they started to receive negative feedback that they were 'forcing' people to play all 3 classes if you wanted to get 'everything'. There is a number of activities where each class will be better than others already, and taking 3 Hunters into a hard activity like 3-man Menagerie, wouldn't struggle like hell without the Warlock healing bonuses. On your theme though, I would love to see a brand new subclass all centered around different healing abilities to see if it would change up the meta. I think the brand new burn and subclass Stasis coming in September is a pretty big change to the overall sandbox so don't be surprised if that has stuff that dominates for a while. I know you haven't played in a while mate, but they are actually making activities with their own specific loot pools alot more often and I hope coming soon we get some 'Hard' mode loot that exists on new and current content.