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Where y'all at? The update has landed better than expected. Gotta give it a chance with all the changes, especially with way better loot than previously available.

Just a heads up. Worthwhile grabbing Treasure Maps from Cayde-6 again as Exotic drop rates have been impacted by recent changes and you have a greater chance to drop an Exotic engram from them. They'll also help you level up alongside the Weekly Milestones. This weeks maps are for Nessus.

Vendor Progression hasn't been talked about but I do believe this is one of the most underrated changes we've had in this update. Most vendors now have a seasonal rank which you level up when you obtain a package. Each vendor has armour, weapons, ghosts and sparrows that will be unlocked once you obtain enough packages for their level. For instance, Zavala has a specific ghost available at Rank 50. Then each armour you obtain still has the ornament challenges on them. The content is now slowly starting to be fleshed out to where people expected it to be at launch.

I didn't know about some of the different weapons required to shoot some fragments so I've edited above. I found 3 last night that I could shoot so hoping to get some more later now I know how to shoot them!

One collectible activity is the Data Fragments, of which there are 45 to collect or 'shoot' to be clear. They can be found in weird and wonderful places - I'll pop up a quick short video to show what they are as I can't find a pic online. EDIT Important note - You have to shoot them with the corresponding weapons: - White - Kinetic Weapons - Coloured - Energy Weapons - Red Haze - Valkyrie There are 2 main rewards from this hunt. One at 35 fragments and one at the full 45 fragments. At both stages there is a cache you have to find to open to get the rewards. At 35, you can obtain Destiny 2's first exotic sword, Worldline Zero. At 45, you obtain an Exotic Sparrow. Quite a cool treasure hunt that takes a while (not if you're ultimate hardcore, like Datto) and seem cool rewards to obtain. I really like how you have to shoot them rather hold square on them. Makes a nice change.

Forgot to say, worthwhile doing the story missions solo. Far more rewarding and satisfying.

Whilst only Brede replied to this, it was cool to see 10 people from the FG clan on Destiny last night. Looking forward to some more tonight - be good to see even more of us on. Some actual decent content connected to far better rewards. And to see Sleeper Simulant and Black Spindle definitely confirmed is really exciting.

The Graviton Lance is awesome! I used it for most of the night and the whilst it goes down to a 2-tap burst, the explosions are brilliant. I can see a fireteam of Graviton's would look crazy.

It is really well made, albeit short. Btw, for a $20 expansion its expected to be short as Destiny isn't really about the story missions. The grind after that seems positive.

Official trailer for Fortnite X Avengers. Has anyone else had a go yet it looks insanely fun? Is it a random epic drop?

As Tom says, great idea. I do think they'd get more people buying it though if it was somewhere between £5-9. At £13, I can see quite a few people not even considering it, regardless of the cause. I'll look to do it if I get some cash in a few weeks.

If you're looking to save up for that beautiful Delorean for $4m, make sure you log in every day to GTA online from today, for the next 7 days. You'll get $250k initial login bonus and then $150k each day you login online. Way over $1m easily saved if you're saving up for something. It'll get deposited between 15th and 21st May. Also, Double Cash and RP on Stunt Races, Special Vehicle Circuit and Contact Missions. Looks like a good week to do FG GTA Races this week Instead of the Delorean, looking at the deals you could punt for a Bunker whilst they are 40% off or Mobile Operations Center at 30% off.

DESTINY 2 UPDATE 1.2.0 - 5/08/2018 - From Bungie Website Warmind Launch Warmind is now available Season 3 has begun Player Character General Players who own Warmind may now reach level 30 and Power level 385 Emotes Multi-emote is now available, and players can now configure all four emote options with player-selected emotes Emotes are now stored on the Multi-Emote page of the character inventory The emote collection has been removed from the Vault, as emotes are now stored on the character Sandbox Abilities Additional grenade charges granted by some Subclass trees or Exotic Perks now charge at the same rate as the primary grenade (was considerably slower) Exotic Weapons – General Implemented Exotic Masterwork weapons Exotic Kinetic Weapons Sweet Business Increased the ammo gained when players pick up Kinetic ammo Increased ammo inventory Vigilance Wing Recovery is set to maximum while the Last Stand perk is active The Jade Rabbit +20 stability Rat King Enhanced the total stat benefits of running with a pack Benefits are front-loaded; there are now larger damage benefits when two people equip the Exotic, with slight damage increases for each additional player The Rat Pack perk can now activate and stack while Rat King is stowed Added HUD notification text for when the Rat Pack perk is active Increased ammo inventory Added full auto Crimson Refined damage, rate of fire, and recovery time between bursts Increased ammo inventory Sturm and Drang Sturm Increased base stability stat Overcharged rounds from Drang now deal 80% bonus damage Added HUD status notification and visual feedback for when the magazine is overcharged Drang Kills with Drang reload Sturm and add one overcharged round even if Sturm's mag is not full Increased magazine size Now has the Rampage perk Exotic Energy Weapons Hard Light Can now be manually reloaded to change the damage type Hits after its rounds bounce now deal double damage Graviton Lance Now fires two-round bursts Increased stability Reduced recoil on its final round in a burst Cosmology explosion deals more damage Cosmology explosion now spawns secondary Void projectiles Enemies eliminated float up and back, detonating closer to their death location Improved aim assist Skyburner’s Oath +10 aim assist +30 increased handling Now has the Explosive Payload perk Hip fire now lobs slower-moving projectiles with tracking Riskrunner Now deals more damage while Arc Conductor is active Enhanced Arc damage resistance to 50% while Arc Conductor is active and Riskrunner is in the player’s hands Arc damage resistance is now enabled against Guardians in the Crucible Arc Conductor can be activated while the weapon is stowed Added Arc FX to the player while Arc Conductor is active Sunshot Increased damage and radius of kill explosion Coldheart Damage now ramps up faster Reduced incoming flinch Increased precision modifier to 1.4x (was 1.05x) Prometheus Lens Increased magazine size to 100 rounds Deals more area damage and less beam damage Increased precision modifier to 1.4x (was 1.05x) Fighting Lion Deals more blast damage and less direct hit damage Increased ammo inventory Increased spawn ammo Kills with this weapon guarantee Energy ammo drops Exotic Power Weapons Tractor Cannon Weapon damage now suppresses targets Weapon damage now makes targets more susceptible to Void damage (+50%) for 10 seconds D.A.R.C.I. Reduced flinch Reduced zoom on scope Increased precision damage to locked-on targets (up to 4x) Increased aim assist Borealis Reduced flinch After breaking the shield of an enemy (a combatant or a Guardian using a Super) with the matching elemental damage type, it deals double damage for the remainder of the magazine The Prospector Grenades now stick to surfaces Grenades now cause burn damage over time Weapon Perks Pulse Monitor Now reloads 35% of the magazine (up from 17.5%) Now can activate while the weapon is not equipped Precision Frame Fixed an issue that was causing inconsistent recoil reduction on precision-category weapons The pattern is now more consistent as the weapon kicks Lightweight Grenade Launchers Adjusted breach-load Grenade Launchers so that they can fire sooner out of a reload, and fire sooner out of a sprint cancel Legendary Weapons Precision Hand Cannons Adjusted the ADS firing animation Linear Fusion Rifles Increased precision damage modifier to 2.0x (was 1.5x) Activities PvE Changes to outgoing player damage scaling vs. higher-level combatants Higher-level combatants take longer to kill if you’re below their level Increased the outgoing and incoming damage scaling, from capping at a 40 Power level delta to a 50 Power level delta Over-level combatants continue to increase in difficulty up to 50 Power levels above the player When enemies are 50 Power levels or higher above a player, they will be immune to damage Over-level, immune combatants will display a “??” icon in their nameplate Updated the damage dealt to combatant Energy shields from the following weapon damage types: 3x damage dealt from Energy weapons of a matching damage type 2x damage dealt from Energy weapons of a nonmatching damage type No bonus damage from Kinetic weapons Strikes Heroic strikes now feature rotating modifiers: At any given time, the following will be active on the Heroic strikes playlist: 1x Elemental Burn (weekly rotation) 1x Advantage (daily rotation) 1x Disadvantage (daily rotation) In addition to the above, the baseline difficulty of Heroic strikes is boosted to be closer to Nightfall difficulty Legendary Nightfall Strike Challenge Card Can be obtained from Xûr (at no cost) by replacing your Rare Challenge Card The Legendary tier adds additional slots for new Advantages and Disadvantages Fixed Strike Issues Fixed an issue in which scoring did not add points for killing the bosses in the Nightfall strikes “A Garden World” and “Savathûn’s Song” Fixed an issue where the Nightfall score summary was only displaying kills since last death Now displays the score for entire activity completion Fixed an issue in which the Unbroken Challenge completed for all fireteam members even if the clear criteria had not been met Fixed an issue where strike scoring granted points for players in public bubbles, Lost Sectors, or other unintended areas Raid Weekly lockouts for raid rewards are now class-based Players running multiple instances of the same class will receive rewards only the first time they run the raid in a week Tower Seasonal Ranks are now available for the Vanguard, Crucible, Trials of the Nine, and Iron Banner Increased Vault size from 200 items to 300 items Fixed an issue with collections where event emblems would not show up unless players owned Curse of Osiris Fixed an issue where Cayde-6 refused to offer all three Treasure Maps for Mercury Items and Economy General Milestones now award a more balanced distribution of Exotics between weapons and armor, but overall they award Exotics less often than before Fixed an issue where powerful engrams could not draw from Exotics released at Destiny 2 launch Fixed an issue where the first powerful engram opened after each sign-in was guaranteed to produce an Exotic Fixed an issue with slow load times for Uncommon gear Mods and shaders can now be dismantled from the Item Details screen Items can now be dismantled from the Postmaster and the Vault Season 2 Exotic Ghost Shells that use destination perks now have a chance to have Hellas Basin destination perks when initially awarded Character Inventory Created a “Pursuits” category in the character inventory to contain pursuit tracking items, such as those associated with Exotic quests Items in the Pursuits category are specific to each character and not shared across the account Eververse Players now may receive one Bright Engram per character (account limit of three) from Tess for the seasonal milestone Increased the number of items available for purchase via Bright Dust from 14 to 18 Additional slots will feature shaders and transmat effects Fixed an issue where players could purchase bundles or engrams when their inventory and Postmaster were full Fixed an issue where items rewarded from Eververse Gleaming Boons would not display the correct icon within the Postmaster screen Added the Prismatic Matrix to Eververse At launch, 10 Eververse items from Season 3 are featured each week that the Prismatic Matrix is available An account's first well-rested level-up each week grants one Prismatic Facet, allowing one free use of the Prismatic Matrix Players may hold up to three Prismatic Facets at a time Additional activations may be purchased for 200 Silver each This item inventory is based on a knockout list and will not drop duplicates Items earned via Bright Engrams, Bright Dust, or previous Matrix activations will contribute to the knockout list Clans Progression A new set of clan perks is available for you to earn in Season 3 A new Clan Banner Staff has been rewarded to those who hit clan rank 6 in Season 2 Clan Engrams Trials of the Nine and raid clan engrams no longer grant Trials of the Nine or raid weapons These now grant Crucible and Vanguard rewards Clan Engrams no longer grant rewards above the player’s level when reaching 340 Power The Nightfall and Crucible clan engrams will grant rewards up to 340 Power Guided Games A new set of Guided Games tickets has been granted to all players Players can earn a Leviathan Guide emblem that tracks the number of raid encounters and raids they complete as a Guide The emblem rewards an aura for 14 days when completing a raid as a Guide Once a week while the aura is active, guiding a raid to completion grants a Bright Engram Crucible General Private Matches are now available to all players Players must own Curse of Osiris or Warmind to play maps from those respective releases in Private Matches Added a Crucible ranking system Added a fireteam matchmaking system Maps Curse of Osiris and Warmind maps are now available to all players in matchmade Crucible playlists New Warmind maps: Meltdown and Solitude Added spawn points to Altar of Flame, the Dead Cliffs, and Endless Vale Added kill volumes to the Burnout to prevent players from escaping the intended playable space Fixed a cinematic camera point on the Dead Cliffs for 6v6 Game Modes Added “Doubles” to the Weekly Rotating playlist Audio Settings Added and revised in-game audio options that can be accessed through the Settings menu in Destiny 2: (Help Article) SFX Volume Dialogue/Cinematics Volume Music Volume Chat Volume PC Key Mapping Secondary key mappings can be assigned through the Settings menu in Destiny 2. Key Mappings are now stored per-account by default. There is a setting in the Settings menu to store Key Mappings per-machine instead. Text Chat Incoming Text Chat messages are now visible by default. There is a mappable key (defaults to 'L') to toggle Text Chat to a minimized state. Incoming Text Chat messages now play an audio cue while text chat is in the minimized state. This can be disabled in the Settings menu. UI General Fixed an issue where the cursor sometimes failed to appear on destination maps

Happy Warmind Day FG! Just thought I'd ask who's playing today? I plan to be on later to enjoy the story missions. Also may have a quick go on some Ranked Crucible if I get time. You should be able to pre-load the DLC now. It's around 7-8 GB so start it early if you want to play from live time (7pm UK / 11am PDT).

@crazyman's first glimpse. That. Is. Insane.

So how is everyone finding the new updates? I didn't even realise they've been live for a while.

After having an awesome Bank Holiday weekend with the family, I'm starting to write up quite a few things we can/should/want/need to do on FG. I do need help with this. We keep on building slowly along but it takes a shed load of effort and brainpower to keep stuff moving on here. I want to know who has geniune time in the coming few months to support the stuff we can and should do to make this place even better for us and new people. To give you a quick idea the stuff I want to start moving along, I'll list a few things: - More work on how Clubs interact on FG - FG Charity Stream - Installing new ways to make content and posts different - Progress our own native App across Apple and Android to intergrate website - FG Video Plans - Social Media interactions - Loads more stuff Let me know if you'd like to help or be supportive in other ways. Its not for everyone but I'm hoping we can keep the FG heart pumping harder and louder. Cheers all.

Wife gets all the credit for this. We have these wood pieces that look random in our back garden so Hayley wanted to make a feature. Nothing expensive - A standard garden gate lock and solar lights in the shape of a bulb.

I had the chance to read about Crossout and see its crap before I even downloaded it! Destiny 2 DLC is available in less than 2 days.... (wait for Deadstiny joke inserted here).

When we update our server to Alpha, can we do something with Cactus and Mines please? More specifically not put them in the way of my walkathon?

Bungie video on Escalation Protocol. I'm actually pretty excited to jump back into Destiny for abit.

Let us know how it plays Shucker. I think a few of us are on the fence with this one.

Yeah, there's a quite a few looking at it Dan. There's already a thread on RDR2 currently going:

That's an amazing story Dave. Thanks for sharing. It's amazing that they've managed to do something like this and as you say to make it open source is even more amazing. @tronic44, they would definitely be a great charity to raise money for. We need to have a chat about that stream again.

That's ridiculous. How are they still in business if they've made 2 bad games.