The question on the best way to get the coveted rocket launcher is a frequently heard one. This is a guide on the most efficient way to pick up Exotic weapons. First, you’ll need to accept that you are completely at the mercy of Destiny‘s Random Number Generator (RNG) when it comes to Exotic loot drops. One of my friends that I regularly play the game with didn’t get a Gjallarhorn to drop until he had passed 1,300 hours in…
Happy Xursday, everyone! We’re coming up on the release of House of Wolves, which means these weekly updates should become a bit more interesting. This week, Xur is carrying a heavy weapon that has been requested quite a lot. No, it’s not Gjallarhorn. Sorry. Location: Xur is in Tower North. Head left from the spawn point, past Eris Morn, and down the hallway. Once you’re in the courtyard, look to the right in front of the large, circular door. Thunderlord…
On Wednesday, Bungie released Destiny update 1.2.0, which took the game offline for a few hours and prepared it for House of Wolves later this month, but the changes didn’t go live yet. In their Weekly Update, Bungie revealed that update 1.2.0 goes live on May 12, while another update on May 19 will set the stage for House of Wolves‘ activation: Update 1.2.0 Tuesday, May 12 Sometime after 10am PT Final preparation and world changes Update 1.2.0.1 Tuesday, May…
The content, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg said, is being designed to appeal to not only fans of the series, but people who have never even Destiny power leveling. During an Activision Blizzard earnings call this afternoon, the mammoth publisher offered a new tease about the “major content release” coming to the Destiny franchise this fall. The publisher said the project–whatever it turns out to be–will be the “biggest content addition to date” for Destiny. “We have a very robust…
Destiny is getting a new weapon type, sidearms, developer Bungie announced during today’s Prison of the Elders livestream. Siderarms will act as secondary weapons that add elemental damage and a very high rate of fire. As you can see in the image above, the Vestian Dynasty sidearm, for example, also has high stability and reload stats. Bungie today released tons of new details about Destiny’s new Prison of Elders co-op arena that’s included with the upcoming House of Wolves expansion….
It’s that wonderful time when Bungie’s regular offering of high-reward Weekly Heroic and Nightfall Strike missions are rebooted (along with any raid progress made in the previous week), giving everyone a fresh chance at scoring some of the game’s sweetest and rarest loot. Are you new to Destiny? Don’t know what any of this means? Good news! There’s a Destiny wiki that’s packed with information. Click on through for details on what Strikes are, and how Nightfall differs from Weekly…
Destiny’s second expansion, House of Wolves, will add a new gameplay mode called Prison of Elders when the add-on hits later this month, and Bungie plans to reveal more about that new endgame activity tomorrow, May 6. In a new teaser video, we get an early peek at Prison of Elders, which sounds like a cooperative, horde mode-style gameplay option for three players. “Prepare for combat. Fight. Kill. Survive,” the teaser says. Destiny: House of Wolves senior design Matt…
With every new Destiny DLC expansion comes a wealth of new content, from co-cop to story to gear. House of Wolves, the final planned DLC add-on for Destiny, is no different. However, while the majority of the focus with House of Wolves will be on the two marquee cooperative experiences, the Trials of Osiris multiplayer event and the Prison of Elders combat arena, there are a ton of little tiny details to look forward to as well. Gear will get…
Destiny is a game many people have put a lot of time into, but sometimes you don’t have several hours to put together a fire team for a raid. So what’s the solution? According to speedrunner ScaRdrow, just blitz through Crota by yourself- if you do it right, it will take you less time than it takes to cook a pizza. As you can see in the video embedded below, speedrunning through Crota, the final boss of The Dark Below…
It seems like Destiny servers are currently down on all platforms and players are experiencing some nasty issues related to it. As per the details coming out from Destiny players on Reddit, Destiny servers are down on all platforms (PS4, PS3, Xbox One and Xbox 360). Here are some of the complaints from Destiny players on Reddit in a thread titled as “[Misc] servers down”: “Got newt first, then caterpillar. IB wouldn’t load at all, and the daily heroic worked…