This is the third or fourth time I've heard gambling mentioned. I'm wondering how that will work.

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I'm quite curious of what they mean by buying as well. Does that confirm a monetary system in game, outside of exp and progression.

This could also be microtransactions, but color me an optimist.

"yeah, we do have lava"

Maybe I missed it if it's been mentioned elsewhere, but I didn't think so.

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I love me some commentary tracks. So much so that I get kinda mad if a movie doesn't have one. This one was fun as much for what was shown as what was said. I liked the additional angles shown in a couple of places. I also did not notice that the Spider Tank was launching Shanks. I thought they had come from the dropships. Makes the Devil Walker that much tougher of a boss. Kinda makes the Covenant Scarabs seem like wimps. :)

The most interesting thing to me though were the few details they provided about the Wall and the colony ships. Having a logo that says "Forward" with the little spaceship circling it is too cute / positive for a military installation, and yet they say the wall was built to protect the ships. Fasinating. That wall, much less those ships, would have taken years to build unless building techniques had come a long long way in Destiny prior to the fall.

I have a theory: Humanity was experiencing a Golden Age brought on by The Traveler, but as I've said before, it wasn't a Star Trek everything's happy, we all work solely for the betterment of mankind type world. I'm thinking this Russian spaceport was part of a nationalistic space race. That the various governments of Earth were rushing to build colonies on the other planets of the solar system. There may have even been tensions between the various governments. Uncovering the history behind those possible tensions might just be another fun layer of discovery for us in Destiny.

I guess when The Fall began the people of Russia fled towards the spaceport hoping to catch a ride away from Earth. That there were rockets ready to launch, or nearly so, shows just how serious the Russians were about their colonization efforts. That a huge traffic jam had time to form, and that the Russians had time to get tanks to the spaceport shows us that The Fall was not an instant Earth crushing invasion. Beyond that we just don't know much. Could it have been a Seven Hour War like in Half Life? Could it have been a massive coordinated strike of major targets like in Independence Day? Or maybe it was a long, drawn out war with Humanity slowly being driven back and on the point of total annihilation before The Traveler intervened?

Fun! :)

This is the third or fourth time I've heard gambling mentioned. I'm wondering how that will work.

#SPACEBLACKJACK

Giant orbiting space casinos ala Cowboy Bebop

Also, no anti-gravity lavel. This is a sad day indeed. :'(

Bungie-made mini-games!

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Basically, it's like the Moon, only much hotter during the daytime.

Of course, Bungie could take some liberties here and turn Mercury into a lava-filled land of death.

It worked, but the planet became non-OSHA-compliant.

See also: elevators that smash you into the ceiling if you don't get off fast enough.

Although it is geologically inactive, I'm pretty sure it still has a molten core and some thickness of mantle around it, so, technically, it does have lava, even if strictly underground.

Now, of course, the chain of logic that allows Mercury to have a lava-level is the same for any of the planets.

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I haven't heard it anywhere else so it's news to me, when the Titan was running into battle he performs a rather obvious double jump in mid air. This was not a 'fist of havoc', I made sure. Maybe a Titan-exclusive ability.

Low gravity is not anti-gravity, bungie please do relative planetary gravities it would feel amazing.

Low gravity is not anti-gravity, bungie please do relative planetary gravities it would feel amazing.

Whoa... I never would have thought of that, but it would indeed be amazing!

There was something about pressing jump again and holding to "glide" on the controls image someone posted a while back. I think our Guardians are going to be a bit more mobile than our Spartans were.

technically, it does have lava, even if strictly underground.

I believe that's called magma, as in liquid hot magma (read in Dr. Evil's voice). It's not lava until it's no longer underground

There was something about pressing jump again and holding to "glide" on the controls image someone posted a while back. I think our Guardians are going to be a bit more mobile than our Spartans were.

The Warlock has a Glide ability. I don't know if it transfers to the others classes, though.

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I might be wrong--but I thought in the debut Sony reveal the Warlock did a double jump before he cast Nova Bomb on the Devil Walker. I was under the impression that everyone got to double jump.

I might be wrong--but I thought in the debut Sony reveal the Warlock did a double jump before he cast Nova Bomb on the Devil Walker. I was under the impression that everyone got to double jump.

That double jump is his glide. I don't think it's been announced officially that I can find but I am pretty sure that you're right and every character will have a double jump, if not just all having the glide.

technically, it does have lava, even if strictly underground.

I believe that's called magma, as in liquid hot magma (read in Dr. Evil's voice). It's not lava until it's no longer > underground

Now that's some good science :)

As far as Mercury having lava in Destiny, the Traveler infused Mercury with his space magic so anything goes. In our actual solar system though, no, there's no lava fields on the surface of Mercury.

... but if it did and we could go there to fight some Vex scum, we'd want there to be lava fields because it's just way more fun that way.