I blame the Vex.

They ain't called that for nothin'.

I liked returning to the tower. Since I can't draw, it was the one place I could see the the guardians I write about in fully realized graphical form. That and the beautiful views, and the fun balls, and the interesting story dialog and, yes, even loot aspects made it a great little place to hang out. :)

I wonder if that banner for playing the Beta is tied to a platform ID/gamertag, or your Bungie.net account. Some of us weren't able to play the Beta on the platform we'll actually end up on...

98.9% sure its B.Net account based.

Wouldn't be a good move.

As it is their claims of it being "their biggest beta evar" are kinda "well no DUH".

The most surprising to me is that the simultaneous players exceeded any of the release Halo games.

Now if only everyone could play together...

If you checked out the locked lvl20 bonds the Speaker sold, you'd see some pretty cool-looking Omni-Tool-like light armbands. They extended much farther than the arm, sorta like an upper-arm Jackal shield.

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I see that another Warlock felt short changed by the lame arm band class item that the warlocks get. I worked just as hard in the iron banner as my hunter friends, but when I bought the legendary class item, I had a small, slightly shiny (read: made of aluminum foil) arm band you could barely see, while they had awesome flowing capes with wolves on them...

Hopefully, Deej isn't over selling us when he responded to this question:

Mr Wonderful Will the Warlocks still have the visually limited "bond" items? The Warlock is my favorite class to play, but I'm strongly considering playing as a Titan just to have the cooler class items.

The Warlock is anything but subdued. It’s easily the most eccentric class in Destiny, which is why Urk and I chose the order. We have swagger. We don’t need to wear a cape like the Hunter to get noticed. We have better ways to get attention than to pound the ground with our fists like the Titan.

If you crave flashier items for your inventory, wait ’til you see what we have in store for you in the final game. Would you say the Bond was limited if your arm was bathed in light? I’d tell you more, but I’ve already said too much. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

I feel a little bit petty for caring so much about the vanity item of my class, but man, when the two hunters in my fireteam wore their legendary capes around the tower... They looked badass and got tons of attention, questions and friend requests. Not a single person even noticed my warlock sporting the legendary armband (also this is probably why they call it a bond, there is nothing legendary about the word armband, but let's be honest, it is what it is). In fact, me and my friends made up a game called, "can you identify the legendary gear on my guardian?" Truth be told, they could not. I had to tell them, "look for the shiny armband"

No - I hear ya. While I'm not one for vanity, from my design standpoint the bands are pretty "meh" in the scheme of things. Even the holo-level 20s look pretty "meh" to me. While they are likely only a few of the total, I figure the only other way to make it look fancy is something with an emissive, or the the arm band gives added effects of raw power - like you see in Reach. That's two of my ideas at least (if I could mod it *sigh*).

( WINK FREEKING WINK BUNGIE )/subtle

At this point - if you want a fancy cloth effect its going to have to be all about the trench coat.

I'm going to appreciate having understated pieces to rock.

Well, Warlocks get sick coats by default and I'm sure their later level ones are crazy awesome. Hunter's outfits have none of that flare without their capes. Don't be greedy!

I think my copy of the Halo 3 Beta was a victim of the red ring of death.

...anybody still have the Halo 3 beta on their HD?

Yes.

Both the H3 and the Reach beta.

Both Halo 3 and Reach Betas. I ain't even mad.

I've got Reach. Nobody ever let me play Halo 3 :(

I've got Halo 3 and Reach.

I didn't even play in the Halo 3 one. I just downloaded it for shiggles. :3

...anybody still have the Halo 3 beta on their HD?

(or am i just a digital hoarder?)

20 GB HD. All betas had to go. Thanks Obama.

Blaster73 Plenty of feedback has been received since the Beta went live and subsequently closed. Assuming that a decision can be made internally, how feasible is it to see changes made to the game at this point? Basically, is there enough time to implement changes?

We implemented changes before it ended. It happened both during our maintenance window and on the fly while you were in orbit. You were oblivious to the magical bits beneath the hood. Space magic! Let that bake your noodle.

Perfectly good question, and one that I think speaks to a lot of the higher-level concerns about gameplay, but as usual we get a flowery hand-waving answer from DeeJ. I think the kind of change that is being alluded to here is exactly the kind of change that you couldn't be oblivious to, isn't it?

But hey at least he answered the question, right?

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I gotta ask... doesn't it get tiring harping on the same point every day for weeks?

We all get it. You want there to be more transparency in the development process. Bungie (who happens to be the developer) is happy with the current level of transparency, and has made that clear many times over.

How does your continual reiteration of your point do anything but alienate your readers? Do you think that maybe we missed your unhappiness? Do you feel that the 50th repetition will somehow open eyes that weren't open before? Do you worry that if you don't keep this issue in the forefront of our minds, that there's a danger that we'll forget that it bothers you (and probably others), and that the slippery slope to even LESS info will be steepened?

What do you GAIN from this constant repetition?

In the past three weeks, you've accounted for almost 6% of all posts on this forum - even though nearly 200 people have chimed in at least once in that time frame. (Your post count is 35% above your nearest competitor - a pretty significant margin.)

I'm thinking that maybe you should consider NOT posting the next time you find an example of a behavior you don't like, if it's a behavior you've already complained about. While I agree with your oft-stated premise that purely positive feedback is not useful for a developer (or really any venture), I think that maybe you've taken that thought a little too far to the other side.

This was a hand-waving answer? I found it pretty clear he was stating that they can make changes very quickly and even on the fly when they need to. Basically saying even if we don't make some changes before the game goes gold it doesn't mean we can't make them.