destiny weekly recap

Weekly Recap Oct 27 – Nov 2

Published on: Nov 02, 2014 @ 14:33 Each Sunday we review the items posted that week, and highlight in bold the articles that were particularly popular or important. Be sure to follow us for even more Destiny content! [divider] Monday Designing Destiny’s UI Ship & Sparrow Shaders Revealed! Tuesday All of Destiny’s Expansion Exotics Nightfall Guide: The Nexus Update 1.0.2.3. – Patch Notes  Dark Below (Not Halloween) Sparrows Wednesday New Dark Below Details, Release Date! Epic Interview Discussing Dark Below ERIS Thursday Community Spotlight #2 Hard Light Exotic Review Expansion Pass Winners Friday Where’s Xûr? Is That Worth Buying? Dark Below BOSSES REVEALED! Weekly

In Other News

If you’re being affected by our cache issue (unable to see newest articles), please read this. Published on: Oct 20, 2014 @ 21:51 “In Other News” is a segment we post usually once a week, which lets you all know about some miscellaneous Destiny news or information that isn’t quite ‘news-worthy’ enough to warrant an entire article by itself. To see the previous In Other News article, click here.[divider] Engram Farming Check out this new way to quickly farm Engrams on Mars! Flying in the Tower This video shows off an easy way and fun way to explore the Tower, allowing you to get

Destiny Sells Over $500 Million Day One

According to an Activision Blizzard press release, Destiny grossed over $500 million on day one of release. [divider] Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard’s CEO stated: “Based on extraordinary audience demand, retail and first party orders worldwide have exceeded $500 million for Destiny. This industry milestone marks another blockbuster success for our company and demonstrates our unique ability to create some of the most successful entertainment franchises in the world. The success of Destiny, along with the recent introduction of Blizzard Entertainment’s Hearthstone, is further validation of our unique capabilities to create great entertainment franchises from the ground up.” Source A great success indeed!

Bungie Talks Raiding

IGN sat down with Bungie’s Luke Smith to talk more about Destiny’s Endgame. Read the entire  article here on IGN. I think Destiny’s endgame begins as soon as you see the way the story ends. As soon as you see the way we wrap up the sort of first piece of the adventure that we’re going to tell because we want to set you back out into the world to keep going. We want to try to align your motivations as the player with the motivations of the character who you’ve been pushing around this world. So for us I think a

Rumor: Gameplay Scale Details

According to a post on the Destiny subreddit, Destiny will have a total of 11 crucible maps, 22 story mission, 6 Strikes, 4 exploration areas, and 1 raid. The missions, strikes and raid will all have multiple difficulty levels.  The information was data mined through the Destiny companion app by Destinydb. Although at this point it is not confirmed whether there will be more content included when Destiny launches. Update: The DestinyDB developer has pointed out that this information appears to be dated June 30, 2014. It stands to reason that additions/changes have been, and will continue to be made up

Trigger Beauty

It’s the little things that make Destiny such a unique and and entertaining shooter. That’s because Bungie’s attention to detail knows no bounds, even when it comes to the hand cannon’s trigger animation. For some reason, watching someone apply pressure to the trigger leaves me with an oddly satisfying feeling. Test it out for yourself the next time your in-game. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGes2mng2lk’] Thanks to Firebird for posting the link on reddit.

PS4 vs PS3 Graphics Comparison

Watch these helpful resolution comparison tests made by DigitalFoundry. It’s no surprise that the PS4’s image quality benefits from things like higher-res textures and sharper dynamic lighting effects. View in HD for best results. For Xbox, take a look at this article. The PS4 runs at a resolution of 1080p (1920×1080), while the PS3 runs below 720p (1024×624). Beta Single Player Graphical Comparison Beta Single Player Frame-rate Test

Beta Randomness

The Beta is currently under maintenance and will be so until July 23rd. (image by falconbox) How was your Beta experience? For all of the Xbox users, we’ll have download keys to give away just like we did for PS, and those will be given out as soon as they become available on the 23rd via Facebook message. Meanwhile while you guys wait, here’s some miscellaneous Destiny shenanigans that have brought Beta players some fun. Dance to Dodge Bullets posted by bsb1127 Dragon Spotted on the Shores of Time Crucible map (Venus)  Fallen T-Bag by InfiniteLegitimateAgama Crucible Mega-Kill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptX1LCTsIsI’] How to