Destiny General Discussion Thread

Generic Dreadhead

^ are you waiting 10 minutes between popping another 3oC and killing him again?

Yakuza

Cormac... wrote: »

^ are you waiting 10 minutes between popping another 3oC and killing him again?

Oh yes, even more than ten mins. I normally pop an Ether Seed at the start of a mission and kill every Fallen I can get my mitts on until it after it runs out before I go near his throne room.

I pretty much did the same as I did the last weekend (before patch 2.1.1.3 on March 8th) (which netted me a decent haul of exotics), the only difference being that this time around I got zilch for my efforts.

Finally got all the trophies for Destiny.

Kimbot

Im missing 3 trophies but im going to start on them soon. I need a flawless raider and full fireteam of clan members i think and im all done.

gimli2112

my last trophy was the salvage one. I had a couple of friends helping me and we were playing about an hour and couldn't figure out why it hadn't dropped. Then realised I had got the platinum the night before.
I just slinked away quietly.

Kimbot

gimli2112 wrote: »

my last trophy was the salvage one. I had a couple of friends helping me and we were playing about an hour and couldn't figure out why it hadn't dropped. Then realised I had got the platinum the night before.
I just slinked away quietly.

ah gimli haha

Im not a trophy hunter but I feel I just have to plat Destiny or it would be all too wrong.

Mitch Connor

Picked up a couple of ghosts the other day (only had around half of them) and got my 100% Destiny trophy - still a lot more grimoire that I won't bother going after. Rumble? FECK OFF!

Generic Dreadhead

For you glutens for punishment:

Nightfall: Cerberus Vae III

Modifiers
Epic - Heavily shielded and highly aggressive enemies appear in great numbers.
Small Arms - Primary Weapon damage is favored.
Chaff - Player radar is disabled.
Ironclad - More enemies have shields.
Exposure - Guardian shields are increased but do not replenish.

SolvableKnave

Cormac... wrote: »

For you glutens for punishment:

Nightfall: Cerberus Vae III

Modifiers
Epic - Heavily shielded and highly aggressive enemies appear in great numbers.
Small Arms - Primary Weapon damage is favored.
Chaff - Player radar is disabled.
Ironclad - More enemies have shields.
Exposure - Guardian shields are increased but do not replenish.

That's just sadistic.

bugs

To be fair, the nightfall was always intended to be extremely difficult. They've achieved it in recent times, unfortunately the rewards don't match the effort required.

Generic Dreadhead

Found a handy section on DestinyTracker where you can see how you perform (well in KDR anyway) for each month and by each map etc. Makes for some interesting findings..... Cathedral of Dusk.... who knew!

I really like this site, helps you see if you are indeed improving. Which I walkways feel like I am. Just don't feel KDR and Win% ever really reflects that.... might have to stop playing demented drunk at like 4am

http://destinytracker.com/destiny/tracking/ps/GenericDreadHead

Activity K/D Games
Cathedral of Dusk 1.24 46
The Drifter 1.21 32
The Dungeons 1.17 40
Memento 1.13 71
Widow's Court 1.13 87
Bannerfall 1.11 99
The Timekeeper 1.11 36
Vertigo 1.11 61
Black Shield 1.1 103
Asylum 1.09 137
Blind Watch 1.09 223
Firebase Delphi 1.08 244
Sector 618 1.08 64
The Anomaly 1.06 163
Shores of Time 1.05 304
Rusted Lands 1.04 318
Frontier 1.03 108
Pantheon 1.03 210
Exodus Blue 1.02 260
Twilight Gap 1.02 313
Crossroads 1.01 27
The Burning Shrine 0.97 201
The Cauldron 0.94 119
Bastion 0.93 20
Thieves' Den 0.92 58
Skyshock 0.91 11
First Light 0.9 32

(I was able to filter out SRL games for the above but not the below)

Activity Games K/D
Mar-16 146 1.1
Feb-16 110 1.13
Jan-16 96 1.15
Dec-15 291 1.11
Nov-15 272 1.17
Oct-15 231 1.15
Sep-15 255 1.05
Aug-15 246 1.02
Jul-15 290 1
Jun-15 281 0.91
May-15 214 0.97
Apr-15 191 1.02
Mar-15 211 1.07
Feb-15 149 1.2
Jan-15 235 1.15
Dec-14 183 1.01
Nov-14 98 1.07
Oct-14 161 0.89

Mitch Connor

Month Kills Games K/D Win%
Mar 2016 1513 128 1.44 51.6%
Feb 2016 1756 159 1.29 49.7%
Jan 2016 677 62 1.14 50.0%
Dec 2015 1602 179 1.09 48.0%
Nov 2015 1441 155 1.01 41.9%
Oct 2015 355 33 1.03 39.4%
Sep 2015 569 52 1.03 59.6%
Aug 2015 371 27 1.19 59.3%
Jul 2015 317 27 1.01

Mitch Connor

Cormac... wrote: »

I really like this site, helps you see if you are indeed improving. Which I walkways feel like I am. Just don't feel KDR and Win% ever really reflects that.... might have to stop playing demented drunk at like 4am

I certianly don't think your stats reflect skill, to be honest.

My stats, at a basic level, stack up fairly well to you - but put the two of us in a game together and it is rare I would ever get close to you in terms of kills or score. I could be on a cracking run of form, hop into a game with you and do fecking sh1te.

I would say it is a function of Skill Based Match Making - i generally find games with you on my team tougher - so you are probably playing against better players than I am most of the time. So while you are improving (and I would certainly say you are, and one of the better PVP players in the clan) the level of opponent you come up against is doing the same, so your skill gains don't translate to stat gains, as you might wish them too.

The Destiny algorithms a built (mostly) towards making things even so a 1.0K/D would be the aim of that.

SolvableKnave

Activity K/D Games
Thieves' Den 1.36 16
Crossroads 1.26 3
Black Shield 1.18 24
Asylum 1.14 57
The Burning Shrine 1.13 67
Pantheon 1.08 63
Exodus Blue 1.06 68
The Drifter 1.06 16
Bannerfall 1.04 27
The Dungeons 1.04 14
Blind Watch 1.03 63
Frontier 1.02 39
The Cauldron 1.02 37
Firebase Delphi 1 45
Rusted Lands 0.99 105
Widow's Court 0.99 16
The Anomaly 0.98 49
Twilight Gap 0.96 97
Bastion 0.92 4
Shores of Time 0.91 95
Vertigo 0.9 16
Sector 618 0.87 31
Cathedral of Dusk 0.86 15
Memento 0.77 43
Skyshock 0.77 9
The Timekeeper 0.66 4
First Light 0.54 6


Just had a look through some of the other stats: Top 3% for Assists per game (#6 in Ireland overall) - I play for the team :rolleyes:
And top 4% for Avg. Kill Distance (I'd love to know how that one is calculated)

Activity Kills Games K/D Win %
Mar 22 206 23 1.00 44.4%
Mar 02 522 54 1.00 44.4%
Feb 25 584 64 1.00 43.6%
Feb 01 222 28 1.00 43.5%
Jan 27 1668 166 1.00 43.1%
Nov 16 0 0 1.00 44.0%
Nov 11 1003 104 1.00 44.0%
Sep 08 464 36 1.01 44.4%
Aug 10 386 32 1.01 44.2%
Jul 31 420 29 1.00 44.2%
Jul 29 433 30 0.99 44.4%
Jul 14 0 0 0.99 44.1%
Jul 08 408 35 0.99 44.1%
Jul 03 2130 179 0.99 43.8%
May 05 2991 236 0.97 43.0%
Mar 16 751 73 0.83 41.7%
Oct 15 321 42 0.73 35.7%

Guess I've plateaued a little.

Generic Dreadhead

Mitch Connor wrote: »

I certianly don't think your stats reflect skill, to be honest.

True, it's just quiet in work and I was trying to motivate myself to go for those next 6 Rumble wins this week

My stats, at a basic level, stack up fairly well to you - but put the two of us in a game together and it is rare I would ever get close to you in terms of kills or score. I could be on a cracking run of form, hop into a game with you and do fecking sh1te.

I would say it is a function of Skill Based Match Making - i generally find games with you on my team tougher

I'm going to get a reputation now as someone to avoid :pac:

so you are probably playing against better players than I am most of the time. So while you are improving (and I would certainly say you are, and one of the better PVP players in the clan) the level of opponent you come up against is doing the same, so your skill gains don't translate to stat gains, as you might wish them too.

The Destiny algorithms a built (mostly) towards making things even so a 1.0K/D would be the aim of that.

I did notice one night (and I said it at the time) that the group we put together (it was kind of the C-Team for Iron Banner - basically anyone who was left without a fireteam after the main 12 players formed up) who overall would have been of an ok standard resulted in us, as a group, getting matchmade with groups/individuals with Skill levels I rarely come across (I'm talking 1,500 grimore, stomping the whole team pretty hard, them shooting at us while standing stone still etc)

It was glorious for once to just be able to wreck lads. No offence to the guys on the team (not that I think they are even on boards) but it was very much me and 5 lads who never really play PvP but needed IB drops

I had done my time posting "anyone for IB?" and "any IB spaces" for 30 minutes so did my usual thing of putting together a rag tag bunch of likely lads a-la the Mighty Ducks.

AdamD

The skill based matchmaking is incredibly strong at the moment. Was playing with guys from a pvp clan last night and all of our skirmish games were against streamers and their clan mates and the like. Good if it's what you're looking for but I can't play destiny solo anymore which is trash.

Mitch Connor

AdamD wrote: »

The skill based matchmaking is incredibly strong at the moment. Was playing with guys from a pvp clan last night and all of our skirmish games were against streamers and their clan mates and the like. Good if it's what you're looking for but I can't play destiny solo anymore which is trash.

Given the trouble I have in games with Cormac, I reckon I would do well to stay well clear of any team you are in!

Spawn-Dead-Spawn-Dead-Spawn-Dead.

nevelator

bugs wrote: »

To be fair, the nightfall was always intended to be extremely difficult. They've achieved it in recent times, unfortunately the rewards don't match the effort required.

Yeah, I played my first nightfall in ages last week and got a shell. Really not worth the effort. In saying that; tempted to dust off the Tlaloc for this weeks one.
Also, would NLB be buffed by the small arms modifier?

Generic Dreadhead

Actually my "average score per game" and "average score per kill" is fairly decent I guess.

That might explain the difference in points etc despite our KDR's being close

SolvableKnave

Cormac... wrote: »

Actually my "average score per game" and "average score per kill" is fairly decent I guess.

That might explain the difference in points etc despite our KDR's being close

Playing the OBJ

Kimbot

PVP matchmaking is really weird for me.

Last night I was in Crucible with Brad and I was top of the pile each game with good scores and K/D (That never happens to me at all), I will pop the pics up in the clan chat later but I was wrecking it for the few games we played and in 1 game alone got 5 bounties done. Normally tho when I go into PVP im getting hammered from all side unless im in with any of you guys and even then you have all seen im normally bottom of the pile and climb up a little bit after a few games.

Generic Dreadhead

SolvableKnave wrote: »

Playing the OBJ

Very much.

Hence my blatant frustrated utterances of "What happened to us pushing B? I was the only one there" yadda yadda.

I'm not sure what system they are using but my WORST stat is "Average Kill Distance" :pac:

EDIT: The system is clearly correct though. I mean I've started running Blink->Double Melee in Rumble now

Kimbot

Cormac... wrote: »

Very much.
I'm not sure what system they are using but my WORST stat is "Average Kill Distance" :pac:

EDIT: The system is clearly correct though. I mean I've started running Blink->Double Melee in Rumble now

They use an ELO rating for basing skill:

All players start at a baseline of 1200 points. You will take points from your opponent's Elo score by defeating them, and vise versa. Defeating a more skilled opponent will yield higher points than if you beat up on a weaker one. The higher the score, the more skilled the player. It is extremely difficult to maintain a high Elo score, these players are regarded as the best of the best!

As your score rises and falls, you'll be categorized into leagues.

Bronze: 0-1099
Silver: 1100-1299
Gold: 1300-1499
Platinum: 1500-1699
Diamond: 1700+
Each mode you play has its own Elo rating and league categorization. Beyond that, Elo is account-wide, so in Control you'll have the same rating whether you're on your Titan, Warlock or Hunter.

Goto http://guardian.gg/ and you can see what your score is.

Generic Dreadhead

Silver......

Well unless it's racing... I can race good

AdamD

Can't really tell much from single stats. Even if you've a high score per game you'd want a positive KD because otherwise you might be shelving out as many points as you're getting. Ultimately you can use them all to paint a picture but its still difficult. The monthly tracking thing on DTR is great, as I you can see Mitch has clearly improved over time so his overall stats aren't very relevant.

Think mine have gotten steadily worse :pac: gonna blame SBMM!

http://guardian.gg/en/profile/2/DoyIer/14

Activity Kills Games K/D Win %
Mar 2016 342 36 1.38 69.4%
Feb 2016 1012 114 1.47 76.3%
Jan 2016 1037 142 1.74 85.2%
Dec 2015 1317 139 1.68 80.6%
Nov 2015 1402 158 1.57 79.1%
Oct 2015 2583 205 1.79 73.7%
Sep 2015 3205 223 2.12 79.8%
Aug 2015 307 17 1.82 64.7%
Jul 2015 678 56 2.18 75.0%
Jun 2015 4697 395 2.01 77.2%
May 2015 3739 290 2.00 70.7%
Apr 2015 1543 83 1.97 62.7%
Mar 2015 985 52 2.11 69.2%
Feb 2015 1817 111 1.61 64.9%
Jan 2015 1215 83 1.33 63.9%
Dec 2014 1740 103 1.40 50.5%
Nov 2014 1441 83 1.35 62.7%
Oct 2014 1252 84 1.32 60.7%
Sep 2014 55 3 1.31 33.3%

http://destinytracker.com/destiny/tracking/ps/DoyIer
Apparently I peaked last summer

Kimbot

Cormac... wrote: »

Silver......

Well unless it's racing... I can race good

Im silver tier but Gold in IB and Rift haha

jonny24ie

jonny24ie wrote: »

PVP matchmaking is really weird for me.

Mid game it's a bloody bastard.
Playing the Freelance 3v3 playlist last night. A lot of people dropping out at the start of matches.
Was in a Salvage match, doing ok 2v3 from the start, but they were leading by about 1000 when one of theirs drops out, and we pull it back to within 200-300 points, then a new player joins their ****ing team. Needless to say we lose.


Rage ensues!

CianRyan

I'm mostly silver but bronze in Salvage and Control.
I've been pretty bad lately though, I don't get to play as much and I really seem to be between "grades", I have some unreal games and then get absolutely smashed for a few games, queue going back to being a boss, etc...
It's frustrating.

sniper_samurai

Silver for everything except Clash which is gold.

Also remember that the twitch stream is on at 6pm tomorrow and not 7pm like the later two due to the US already being on DST and the clocks not changing until Saturday here.

PetKing

Exhausting marathon running through the raid last night with a few lads who hadn't really done KF before, but worth it to reward them with Golgy challenge and prizes!
Things I did for the first time last night: standing on right at warpriest (horrendous experience!)... How do you save yourself from warpriest blasts after first pillar is gone and you're holding the plate?!?! I kept panic bubbling which caused all sorts of bedlam come DPS time.
Two orb strat on Golgoroth.. Was always used to running 3-6 from bridge to back. I was 3 which I'd never done, you barely have time to enter the pit before you're climbing out again to take his gaze, few wipes there as I was leaving the pit too late.
Some 320 boots finally. Stuck with a 319 class item now to finish my Titan. Have the cp if there's a group that wants to run him tonight. As I said to lads, have a very busy schedule of boozing this weekend so getting 2 challenges done would be the job.