Radiant Materials (Destiny)

by Blackt1g3r , Login is from an untrusted domain in MN, Monday, December 15, 2014, 10:46 (3440 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Not according to the interview with Luke someone posted here recently. Luke said basically that the Radient materials were intended to help encourage people to upgrade their stuff with the Ascendant materials instead of holding on to them while trying to get raid gear. According to him Bungie found that many players were doing exactly that and it was keeping them at a low level whereas if they just upgraded their gear and waited to upgrade Raid gear later they would have leveled up already.

It's probably a consequence of how they designed things, but it was a solution that they came up with to that specific problem they identified in the player base without making drastic changes to progression.

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Pretty scathing opinion piece on Polygon - Speedracer513, 2014-12-15, 10:23
- Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 10:34
  - Radiant Materials - EffortlessFury, 2014-12-15, 10:36
    - Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 10:40
      - Radiant Materials - Speedracer513, 2014-12-15, 10:57
        
        Radiant Materials - stabbim, 2014-12-15, 12:37
  - Radiant Materials - Blackt1g3r, 2014-12-15, 10:46
    - Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 10:48
      - Radiant Materials - petetheduck, 2014-12-15, 11:28
        
        I feel no attachment to my gear - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 11:33
        
        Radiant Materials - CruelLEGACEY, 2014-12-15, 12:07
        
        Radiant Materials - petetheduck, 2014-12-15, 12:45
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:49
      - Radiant Materials - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:05
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:12
        
        Radiant Materials - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:15
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:19
        
        Radiant Materials - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:24
        
        Radiant Materials - stabbim, 2014-12-15, 12:42
        
        Radiant Materials - Ragashingo, 2014-12-15, 12:48
        
        Radiant Materials - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:58
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:03
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:59
        
        Radiant Materials - ZackDark, 2014-12-15, 13:02
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:04
        
        +1, tbh - ZackDark, 2014-12-15, 13:07
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Revenant1988, 2014-12-15, 12:49
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:53
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 13:15
        
        Either way, that's a lot - Revenant1988, 2014-12-15, 13:20
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:59
        
        Does psn track play time? That could corroborate with b.net - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 14:18
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - RC, 2014-12-15, 14:39
        
        Only 1 more than Levi - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 14:43
        
        Only 1 more than Levi - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:57
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 13:28
        
        You never will understand because you don't listen - scarab, 2014-12-15, 13:34
        
        You never will understand because you don't listen - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 13:52
        
        You never will understand because you don't listen - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:55
        
        Echo Chamber, guys - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 13:57
        
        You never will understand because you don't listen - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:11
        
        You've been asking that question for the last 3 months - scarab, 2014-12-15, 14:08
        
        You've been asking that question for the last 3 months - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:31
        
        You've been asking that question for the last 3 months - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 14:38
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - scarab, 2014-12-15, 15:03
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 15:48
        
        Don't listen to him. - ckamp, 2014-12-19, 08:38
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 08:04
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - scarab, 2014-12-19, 10:21
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 10:51
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - Cody Miller, 2014-12-19, 10:56
        
        Exploring - Leviathan, 2014-12-19, 14:31
        
        That's a big post :-) - scarab, 2014-12-21, 02:22
        
        Exploring - scarab, 2014-12-21, 04:29
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:43
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:08
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 14:15
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:44
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 14:52
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 15:52
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 15:59
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Speedracer513, 2014-12-15, 16:03
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 16:10
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 16:08
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 08:09
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Revenant1988, 2014-12-15, 13:46
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:48
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Revenant1988, 2014-12-15, 13:55
        
        I *actually* LOLd at this - Speedracer513, 2014-12-15, 13:57
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - CruelLEGACEY, 2014-12-15, 13:56
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - scarab, 2014-12-15, 14:19
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 08:23
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - Cody Miller, 2014-12-19, 10:46
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 11:00
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - Cody Miller, 2014-12-19, 11:10
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 11:12
        
        Doing things that you don't want to do in a game is a grind - scarab, 2014-12-19, 11:00
        
        Doing things that you don't want to do in a game is a grind - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 11:07
        
        Doing things that you don't want to do in a game is a grind - Cody Miller, 2014-12-19, 11:12
        
        Doing things that you don't want to do in a game is a grind - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 11:26
        
        Doing things that you don't want to do in a game is a grind - dogcow, 2014-12-19, 12:30
  - Destiny has made me enjoy Dota more. - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:17
    - Is this really a fair analogy? - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 11:20
      - Is this really a fair analogy? - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:23
      - Is this really a fair analogy? - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 11:28
        
        Hmm...you're on to something here. - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 11:32
        
        Hmm...you're on to something here. - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 11:46
        
        Hmm...you're on to something here. - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 11:51
        
        I'm bumming myself out - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 12:04
        
        You bums - ZackDark, 2014-12-15, 13:06
- Eh, whatever. - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 10:52
  - Eh, whatever. - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:21
    - Eh, whatever. - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 11:27
    - Eh, whatever. - Revenant1988, 2014-12-15, 11:36
  - Eh, whatever. - unoudid, 2014-12-15, 13:17
    - You guys are happy-hardcore - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 13:54
      - I like that term! - unoudid, 2014-12-15, 14:59
- I honestly agree with this whole article. - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:12
  - I mean, I agree...I just don't really care, either :/ - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 11:14
- So we are all in agreement? - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:29
  - Nah. - RaichuKFM, 2014-12-15, 11:44
    - DBO: Taking a shard into the hellmouth - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:52
      - DBO: Taking a shard into the hellmouth - RaichuKFM, 2014-12-15, 12:09
  - So we are all in agreement? - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 11:50
    - So we are all in agreement? - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:56
      - So we are all in agreement? - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:09
        
        So we are all in agreement? - RaichuKFM, 2014-12-15, 12:10
        
        So we are all in agreement? - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 12:14
        
        So we are all in agreement? [img] - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 12:15
  - So we are all in agreement? - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:15
    - We need to build a statue. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:21
      - :p - Ragashingo, 2014-12-15, 12:26
      - We need to build a statue. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 14:37
        
        We need to build a statue. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:53
        
        We need to build a statue. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 14:54
        
        We need to build a statue. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 15:02
        
        We need to build a statue. - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 08:35
        
        We need to build a statue. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-19, 10:42
        
        We need to build a statue. - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 11:10
        
        The engineering talent isn't gone - scarab, 2014-12-15, 15:08
  - Investment team didn't decide to make a game with no content - scarab, 2014-12-15, 12:19
    - Investment team didn't decide to make a game with no content - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:29
      - I think they are being paid to be top of the charts - scarab, 2014-12-15, 13:24
- A weekend with Xur - unoudid, 2014-12-15, 14:08
  - A weekend with Xur - Durandal, 2014-12-15, 14:58
    - A weekend with Xur - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 15:00
      - A weekend with Xur - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 15:02
    - Broke for Iron Banner Now - unoudid, 2014-12-15, 15:01
      - Glimmer Grind is more boring than Mats Grind Was - Kahzgul, 2014-12-15, 18:02
        
        Glimmer Grind is more boring than Mats Grind Was - HavokBlue, 2014-12-15, 18:08
        
        Glimmer Grind is more boring than Mats Grind Was - Cody Miller, 2014-12-16, 04:14
        
        Glimmer Grind is more boring than Mats Grind Was - HavokBlue, 2014-12-16, 04:56
        
        Kill counts will stop too sometimes. - Revenant1988, 2014-12-16, 05:51
        
        Yep - ZackDark, 2014-12-16, 08:22
        
        Citadel on Venus - iconicbanana, 2014-12-16, 08:36
        
        Citadel on Venus - Cody Miller, 2014-12-16, 09:04
        
        Citadel on Venus - iconicbanana, 2014-12-16, 09:10
        
        You don't need 4 or 5 - ZackDark, 2014-12-16, 09:11
        
        You don't need 4 or 5 - iconicbanana, 2014-12-16, 09:16
        
        Fair enough :) - ZackDark, 2014-12-16, 09:22
        
        Citadel on Venus - Schedonnardus, 2014-12-16, 14:08
- So I take it Bungie patched out BXR and Sword Flying... *NM* - HawaiianPig, 2014-12-15, 20:10
  - So I take it Bungie patched out BXR and Sword Flying... *NM* - Cody Miller, 2014-12-16, 03:44
    - So I take it Bungie patched out BXR and Sword Flying... *NM* - HawaiianPig, 2014-12-16, 21:32
      - Have you given up on gaming entirely? - scarab, 2014-12-17, 00:14
        
        Have you given up on gaming entirely? - HawaiianPig, 2014-12-18, 21:36
        
        If you are short on time then avoid Destiny - scarab, 2014-12-18, 23:42

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