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It certainly is a beautifully crafted racer. Only played some licences and an arcade race so far so its early days. I'm glad we have the licences still in the game. Its a big part of the core way GT works, and its good that they have linked to youtube for key videos to help understand what to do in each one. I'm on the fence with the way that the races work though. The licences are the career mode. You're then left with Arcade mode (vs AI) that looks initially like just a single race with defined cars to choose from. Then there's online races, which I imagine you use your cars you've purchased. I'm going to see if you can tune like you used to and what other customisation is in it. The picture mode though is ridiculous. I'll find some pics people have seen online and you wouldn't believe its not real. I'm excited to play the online mode to see if it will play well or if you get online trolls immediately.

Okay. So some decent news to come but If i'm honest, most people I see here may not think its great news because its not coming quickly and there wasn't mention of endgame content. They'll get hammered to bring Ice Hockey to the tower and not releasing new missions. Summary Torch has been passed from team who made Destiny 2 to the team that is maintaining it aka the Live Team. Live Team's goals: New reasons to keep playing New pursuites, rituals, and challenges. And more.. Examples: Iron Banner, Faction Rally's, etc. Expansion 1 - Winter 2017 aka Osiris DLC Destiny 2 year 1: 4 seasons total. All About Seasons Seasons have themes associated with them. They take feedback from the community for adding and adjusting things such as new emotes, rewards, etc. Season Goals: More predictable time tables (what to expect and when) Destiny 2 year 1: 4 seasons Make big changes to the game Sandbox tuning, new features, more content Big patches to change the meta, etc. Meant so you don't feel like you have to play Destiny ALL the time but instead can take at your pace and show up for important events. Season 2: When: Winter 2017 The Dawning will make a return shortly after the launch of Season 2. Ice Hockey will be enabled You can have snowball fights, plus other Easter Eggs Event affects will be throughout the world, not just the social space. Armor, Weapons, Shaders, and possibly emotes will come Iron Banner - What Bungie Learned: 1,500 YEARS worth of time played between all guardians. Learned how we interacted with the loot system. There will be changes to loot such as letting us direct purchase guns using tokens and legendary shards. The token economy is not always the best way for everything. For Season 2, there will be an ornaments slot requiring an objective to unlock to show that you completed a limited event objective. Such as winning 10 IB matches, Flawless in Trials of The Nine, etc Heard community feedback of wanting rewards more meaningful. One more Iron Banner in Season 1. Some new gear Perks and stats will be updated. There will be a matching energy and kinetic weapon so you can have one of each. Trials of The Nine There will be ornaments as well, not shown yet but "They look really cool" Updated weapons, both visual look and perks Faction Rally Data was tallied cross-platform. One more in Season 1 Screenshot For Season 2 there will be changes to promote playing with a fireteam more vs just solo. Meaning "I'm going to solo farm this as it's more efficient" won't always be the thing. This does NOT mean a nerf to solo, but rather a buff to fireteam aspects so that you can play with your friends instead of splitting off doing your own individual thing. Season 2 Facton Rally Faction Rally Armor can be earned by just playing and repping your faction. Dead Orbit NM FWC Weapons Clarion Call: When: Before end of Season 1 What: Double XP while playing activities with your Fireteam Pilot: Clan collaboration required Screenshot Bright Engrams All the emotes, and other rewards from it will be updated and changed Certain rewards from Bright Engrams will be retired making them limited/exclusive and not able to collect anymore, but if you already have it them you can keep it. New Mic Drop emote (thanks /u/Mblim771_Kyle) Fun Fact: Bungie has a recording studio that they record the emotes. New transmat effects will be available Exotic Ships Season 1 Season 2 - The Dawning Season 2 Example 1 Season 2 Example 2 Exotic Sparrows Season 1 Season 2 Example 1 Season 2 Example 2 Ghosts Example 1 Example 2 - Rotating the ghost causes a solar system effect to rotate behind it Example 3 Example 4 - Dawning Exclusive Shaders Shaders stay season over season (Unless Bungie adjusts down the line, no plays at the moment) They heard our feedback over deleting shaders in mass - On the to do list, no promises. Armor Changes in bright engrams when season changes New armor with new seasons Crucible Maps When certain rituals complete special maps goes live to entire circulation - Example Such as the Trials of Nine map (Eternity), Raid themed map (Emperor's Respite), Shores of Time (Destiny 1) themed map (Distant Shore), etc. Sandbox Tuning What is the sandbox? The playable space. Diagnosing the Meta - Data view They have data on basically everything you do such as most played subclass, weapon, what bullets fired from what weapon, usage of basically everything in game. They are always collecting, analysing, and using the data. With seasons they hope to make more ongoing adjustments to allow the meta to constantly adjust and not be stale. Clans Clans have a max level so that smaller clans have a chance vs only larger more active clans to dominate. Keeps everything on a more fair level. Clan rank resets at Season 2, as well as all season changes New perks to earn, targeted at what the game goals are (based on the Season themes) Clan rewards You can change the staff/bar in the middle based on clan rewards from seasons. Clan engram updates Make sure loot pool updates More Info Bungie will be at Paris Games Week next week https://Twitch.tv/Bungie will be going live soonTM with more info

Took the kids to Drayton Manor theme park for Daddy day care. Will be on tonight to share some bits on here.

Ahh, got you. Yeah, I really do cos it is an addictive game. I find it easier to learn on the PS4 version if I'm honest. Getting the basics down but then struggling with ideas what to build. Not made anything mechanical yet as I'm not sure what they all do.

I need to get that quest as I've not even picked it up yet. Might try it tonight if people are around.

I'm pretty convinced that whilst they talked about the reason being mainly the emote issue, it isn't that. You can see its been 'delayed' conveniently in line with when PC Trials launches. Thing is, the code releases are always 99% in contention with all platforms therefore to delay trials on PC they need to delay it on other consoles. Yes, they could remove the emote quicker and everyone knows that so they are just using it as an excuse imo.

4.30pm Pacific Time the stream goes live. Big stream that is pretty significant future for the future of this game I reckon.

I really need to get my sorry ass on here to check it out. Might try over the weekend, as Hayley is away and I can get the stupid long LAN cable out rather than my shitty WiFi. Where does the track take you?

Apparently Activi$ion have come out to confirm this model has never been used and it was a model concept created in 2015. Destiny community bod, Deej, also quickly came out to say its never been a part of any Destiny game. Problem is though, now we now they've created it, it cements the fact they are utter money grabbing bastards and loses any hope thinking Activi$ion will make a game without Microtransactions and putting themselves first.

I'm with Dave, a little lighter on the roof but tbh it looks pretty sweet mate. Nice work. The light coloured stone on the corners, is that slabs?

You weren't alone in thinking that mate. I really don't know what's happened there, I geniunely thought Koeman was a great manager.

Not really interested in much football since Blackburn have been doing piss poor in League 1. Another draw against Plymouth last night. Not good enough. I heard though that the English teams did well in Europe last night. I wouldn't mind watching the Real Madrid v Tottenham highlights.

Just bumping this to see if anyone has thought about what Sam asked? I know it might be hard to say but honestly, its great if there was something for all of us to focus on that people needed.

Took the kids to see Ninjago last weekend. It's okay, no way near the last 2 films, maybe because Ninjago isn't something I know well enough but the kids didn't laugh as much as the first Lego Movie

How did you guys get on?

Burn. It's a little unfair as it's not comparing apples with apples but still, some of that list should be there now.

Not a great start to this game which is such a shame. If the servers are down or your PS4 is not connected to the Internet, no other parts of the game are available and no progress can be saved. (This means you'll lose any in-game credits or level progression earned in Arcade mode.) Campaign mode (the career mode that includes the notorious Gran Turismo driving school) is off limits while offline. Also unavailable offline: buying new cars, viewing your garage, editing car liveries, and even the "taking photos of fancy cars in exotic scenery" mode. At least the driving school is back though but at this rate Project Cars 2 is looking a far better buy.

Gonna pick this up at the weekend, anyone else picking it up? Excited to play both games tbh based on what you guys have said.

This is going to be the first and last DLC for HZD. Guerilla Games have tweeted that they won't be making any other DLC's for the game. "The Frozen Wilds contains additional content for Horizon Zero Dawn, including new storylines, characters and experiences in a beautiful but unforgiving new area." It's mad that a game that took the best part of 7 years to make and another 12 months for a DLC, will be left the way as it stands. I suppose some great games need to be left alone?

I met a girl with 12 nipples today. Sounds fun, Dozen tit?

Shit, we're gonna get smashed against Alex

W/C October 17th Nightfall Exodus Crash is this week’s strike, with modifiers Prism, and Time Warp: Rings. Prism means that the damage elements rotate constantly, forcing you to switch to the new element for maximum damage. Time Warp: Rings enables you to extend the mission timer by passing through the rings that appear throughout. Challenges Speed of Dark: complete the Nightfall with at least five minutes remaining. Unbroken: complete the Nightfall with fewer than three deaths. Faster Than Lightning: as a fireteam, defeat nine Shanks with melee attacks before defeating Thaviks. Meditations Riptide: without power, Zavala’s resistance has hit a wall. Travel deeper into the Arcology and help them past it. Looped: no one’s heard from Cayde-6 since the Hunter took off for an uncharted world. Track him down. Utopia: venture deep into the heart of the Hive to retrieve a powerful Golden Age CPU and make it out alive. Flashpoint Titan is this week’s focus. You’ll need to do a few Public Events to earn a Powerful Engram. Triggering Heroic objectives in Public Events is a great way to finish the quest quickly.

Bigger change and taken away content I couldn't agree more. The more I play it, the more I feel they really can't bullshit us or hide behind the wall when we say that they've purposely removed content. It's the most randomest decision i've ever seen, however maybe this is just how all games are going and its a sign of the times. I dunno. I disagree with the Tower space (you're just a lazy fuck ) and the enemies. I think they're okay. Not great, but still good. You also need to give the raid a go a bit more. Its a good raid, not better than VoG but its up there. Its just feels more of a relaxing game so i'm with you. Just like crispy though, you need to give the raid a chance, its pretty decent, its just we're all not used to the entire 6 man fireteam needing to do something, at least one or two on most previous raids we could say 'you go just sit at the back whilst we sort this shit out'. Everyone has a role this time so we just need practice and time (A-team ) Banner is great. I still hold though, more of us would be up for playing a load more PvP if it was 6v6. I feel so frustrated with Bungie right now cos this game is screaming out to be brilliant and it can't find the map to know where 'brilliant' or even 'damn good' are.

Agreed. @Diddums, you're in! That's the extra 3 Rob, lets be having ya!

Nice work mate! It is a really good considering its free. I still haven't won yet but when I do (let's hope its when) I don't know how much appeal there is to it. It does have a sense of Overwatch to it in the sense of cartoony but pretty easy to pick up and play without knowing not too much about the game.