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Taken from Bungie Website THIS WEEK AT BUNGIE – 6/13/2019 11h - Cozmo This week at Bungie, we watched Guardians hunt for Truth. Season of Opulence is off and running. Guardians are piling into the Emperor’s lost vaults in search of the treasure of their choosing. Earlier this week, you discovered a new boss waiting for you in the depths of the Menagerie. Upon defeating it, you were given a quest to seek out Truth. Not in an X-files way, but to find the Rocket Launcher, Truth—a weapon that seeks out its targets… aggressively. Just look at what some players are seeing in the wild: Next week, we’ll mix things up once again with a third additional boss to keep things fresh in our new six-player activity. And that’s not all we have planned. We are also welcoming an old friend back to the Tower. Iron Pursuits Lord Saladin will return next week for the first Iron Banner of Season of Opulence. With a new Season, you have a fresh set of weapons and armor available to earn. Saladin continues to offer Iron Banner bounties, but will also set you on a quest to earn your gear. In other words, prove your worth, and be outfitted as an Iron Lord. This Season’s Iron Banner armor is now acquired through a quest. Each armor piece will be granted upon completing its associated quest step. Each armor piece will be granted as a powerful reward. After unlocking an armor piece, it may be reacquired with random rolls through Iron Banner Reputation Packages and match rewards. If you are a veteran player who earned Iron Banner ornaments in the past, this Season’s armor is compatible with all Year 1 Iron Banner ornaments. Iron Banner packages have been updated. Iron Banner Armor may now roll with enhanced perks. New weapons have also been added to Iron Banner packages and have a higher chance to drop on the first package you redeem. New Iron Banner shaders, an emblem, and a Sparrow may be earned through objectives that must be completed during Season of Opulence. Iron Banner bounties will continue to grant rewards and Iron Banner Tokens. Iron Banner bounties no longer unlock direct purchase for Iron Banner gear, as it is now acquired directly through the Iron Banner quest. Iron Banner and Increased Valor Start: 10 AM PDT on June 18 End: 10 AM PDT on June 25 Here is a preview of the armor and weapons available during Iron Banner events in Season of Opulence. Valor boosts will also be available next week in Iron Banner and the rest of the Crucible. Saladin will also have some other items available including this new Emblem. Raid Stats Thousands of Guardians explored deep within the Leviathan to tackle the challenges of the Crown of Sorrow raid. A fireteam of six completed it first and paved the way for others to follow in their footsteps. We made a graphic showing the number of Guardians who beat the raid in a few key timeframes during the first week. If you were one of the 45,475 Guardians who bested Gahlran within the first week and are thinking about purchasing the Bungie Rewards raid jacket, you have until 11:59 PM PDT on June 18 to claim your Bungie Reward code and place your order. Dmg04 and I both completed it the night before the deadline and ordered ours. Congratulations to everyone who has completed it so far. If you’re still Powering up, Gahlran is waiting for you.

PSN back up. Thats one extra day we'll get back around the usual xmas period 🙂

@Bluebear has given me some links to some great images to help you understand if you want a chance at a specific weapon or armour from the Menagerie then these are the types of runes you should use in combination:

Erm. Want? Take my god damn money.

Agree 100% mate. Thats why yours and @The3rdWalker's opinions made sense as you explained them. I think if launchers had extra incentives, e.g. the more games you own the more loyalty reward you receive that could go to more games then that could make a huge difference in the market but I find it just odd how the PC market as ended up with these 'intermediates' in the middle - maybe because they are just better at promoting games than the developer?

It does feel a little too coincidental that Sony didn't attend E3 thats happening right now and Xbox have recently finished their show this week that has been well received. Hmmm.....

Can I ask everyone how they feel this has gone so far over the past 3-4 weeks? I have to hold my hand up and have had technical difficulties with Crispy's Controller Hospital page and the Gambit Tournament as they are new features to FG but apart from that we seem to have had every game night happen, the poll briefly worked for 2 nights of Brawhalla, the first FGer Game Choice went down well with 8 turning up and would've been even better if people had updated their games 🙈 Be good to get some feedback that this sort of thing helped or didn't help and the reasons why for both? I've been trying hard to bring the FG family spirit back of late so wanted to keep the momentum going for all of you now I feel there is some. P.S. I'll update the bits that are lagging here when I've got them working.

Thanks both for your thoughts on the launchers. It sort of backs up what I hear but also why I think how I think. Theres been quite a lot on youtube and twitter about Epic Games exclusive launcher and then Destiny 2 going to Steam (initially), amongst other games going to lots of different launchers. I see hundreds of comments and replies crying and moaning on how they hate it so much and can't believe they have to buy a game from some launcher and they also try to stand up and not buy a game out of principle. My thoughts when i read all of this was - I want to buy a PC game. It is on PC. Why the fuck would I care where I bought it from. The only part that makes me sad these days is not buying the physical copy of the game so it would launch on its own right. Just weird how these days on PC we have virtual shop windows when everyone and anyone can download the launchers. Gaming communities out there seem to just wanna moan about absolute anything of late.

Is it just me or is it looking more Steam with a little Discordy feel? Looks miles better though for sure!

The stealth to do in this game was awesome and hard as nails at the same time. Great to see a remastered version come out to update the way it looks. Funnily enough I still felt the original held decent graphics still.

This better not last all night.

I just don't get it. If I want to buy a game as I like the look of it, I then first look to see what platform i'll play it on, usually where FGers go to. If its PC, I do not think for one second that its only available on the Epic Store, or Steam, or Blizzard, etc. I'm sorry if that disappoints people but I don't even think about it. I can't understand any of these launchers give you in addition to just being able to be a space where i can have less clicks moving from one game to another. I only foresee one major thought process that could trigger why i'd buy specifically from one and not the other and that's down to if I love a game so much i want to support them directly and make sure they don't lose enough cut of the pie, and in those rare occasions i'd buy direct from the game website. Can people fill me in here? Am I supposed to care more about this than I do today?

Hes not a moron, I agree but he just made a dickish mistake, and therefore happy to call him a twat for it. Problem is, when you're in the spotlight like this you cant just make mistakes like that. That's the world we live in these days.

Week Commencing 11th June. 2nd Menagerie boss available. Also Truth Quest is now available to find, wherever that may be.

I watched that game as well mate. Clearly a difference in standard but they didnt do too badly 😘 I want England to win stuff. Stick them in Competitive games that players know will be recorded as that fact and you see a difference. Croatia and Spain games tell you that.

You say that but a few things I've got from it all. 1) We received £10 million from coming top in the group and then finishing 3rd. 2) The overall play and watchability of England in these Competitive games from the start of the group stages has been far more enjoyable than ever before. Make games matter. More like this and less Friendlies please.

If I do get chance I'll download the 50ish GB it is. What was so cringey at the conference?

From my view it isn't strange but that is because when I grew up FF7 and FF8 were both super huge and I loved both games. Cloud and Squall are quite iconic in the wider franchise and if the same demographic that wants the FF7 remake will largely want the FF8 remake too.

Hopefully further little clarifications and extra bits of info to come later today as Bungie is at E3.

Well, this the season to be jolly 😄 This new Menagerie is tons of fun so we should be trying to group up in parties as much as we can as theres also some triumphs we can help each other to get and give you some decent imperials you need for upgrading the chalice. Its perfect to bring us all more together. Perfect example was Sunday night just gone. Not expecting much but @Kemp210 @igotmollywhopped @Horrible_Hector @techno @reaper-2201 @Bluebear nailed a couple of Menagerie runs and then followed it up with a super quick Leviathan normal run. Dead relaxing chat and some banter along the way meant that this was possible. I'm definitely in the mood to getting some of these to be happening again. Let us know here if you want any specific raids as well. Let's get FG back up and running again in Destiny! 👊

Nice Bob. I'm looking forward to being nearer 750 Power and giving this a go. It's been really well received so far in the community I can see.

Might go back and play them on xbox. Disappointed I never really went back to complete Halo 5. I loved Halo back in the day and really ain't sure what their issue is with that one. I always enjoyed the campaigns.

Finally. March 3rd 2020. We have a game!!

Let's face it. New games sell better than xpacs. Especially on a game over 3 years old now. It makes total sense to have PvP and PvE in an Overwatch world. If they could keep maintaining 2 separate games they could keep the sandbox environment fully independent of each other. Personally, I would rather see it being added into the existing one. PvP or PvE, it's still Overwatch so it'll be anit annoying to swap games when you want to do either one on a game night. Not a deal breaker though. It HAS to be more than just Brawls though. That would be lazy work on the vision of PvE Overwatch.