Good Weekly Update This Week (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Friday, October 17, 2014, 18:02 (3928 days ago) @ Cody Miller
edited by General Vagueness, Friday, October 17, 2014, 18:25

- Why Bungie is making balance changes to weapons “There should be no single answer for how to win in Destiny.”

Then why is there only a single way to get to level 30? If that's Bungie's philosophy, either raid gear should give the same light as other legendaries, or there should be other high light legendaries, maybe from Iron Banner for example.

Right now there IS a single answer for how to win. Do the raid until you get the raid set.

Your level is far from a guarantee you'll win, and they're working to make the weapons and armor from the raid not as overpowering.

I am also at a loss as to how 'farthest from Atheon' could be a bug in target selection, given the incredibly specific nature of the calculation versus it being random.

If it is a bug (and I have no basis to say it isn't), there are a thousand ways it could be a bug. I think it's probably the fact it uses that "largest-distance" method instead of a "random-chance" method, which would probably be a flag somewhere that's set wrong. (This presumes the "target the furthest players" routine is used somewhere else in the game; otherwise it's either only there for this fight, which makes it less likely to actually be a bug, or it's not supposed to exist at all, which makes it a bigger bug than just using the wrong method.) Now, not catching it, that seems like a blunder; it takes a lot of testing to make sure something is random in practice, and maybe they didn't do enough.