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Golden:

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Used to require a win Streak of 10 on a single entry. Guess that's changed now if you can only get up to 9 wins before booting back to Orbit. Any mention of the gun/its bounty, so far?

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This is how we will get the gear. Double win seems like a no brainer. What do they cost?

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Kill the entire team to win the round. Rounds are not games.

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The faster revives might be because of armor bonuses though. I know one of them is wearing Light Beyond Nemesis which makes revives faster.

Or can you matchmake to get your 3? (not that you'd often want to go in with randoms)

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This looks like a lot of fun, but also extremely frustrating for guys like me who don't have amazing kdr's. Seems like I often get above 1.0 now, but I still have LOTS of bad matches.

I agree. I, too, don't think I'll find the Trials of Osiris all that fun. I'm an ok Crucible player as it, but I'm pretty realistic about my skills. I don't have the same magically dextrous thumbs some of you, and some of my opponents seem to have. I get the feeling I'm gonna get ToO invites and fail each time.

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He said Etheric Light comes from Trials of Osiris and Iron Banner - I hope that's not all. :(

Last time they said Prison of Elders as well.

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Golden Gun is still probably better, but facing a team of warlocks that can all revive would be super annoying. It looks like supers are only good for one maybe two rounds though, so unless it's a super close match, the super shouldn't determine who wins the enchilada.

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Looks great.

One thing though:

Golden Gun is going to be so OP :-p

I think Invis revives might be more useful than Golden Gun, but maybe not. If you can kill two with your 4 shots, you have a very good chance of winning that round.

If you win the round with super kills and your teammates aren't around to get the orbs... what happens to orbs between rounds?

Other classes have big pluses too: Titan shield bubble & Warlock self-res.

That's a good point. Any other sport would do this, seems like it should have been done here. I'd be interested to know if they thought of that.

My guess is, in the code, alpha and bravo teams always spawn where they do, so they didn't want, or didn't consider rewriting code for that. If you kept the code as is, you'd have to switch teams each round, (alpha became bravo, bravo became alpha). Personally, I might have considered creating two new teams (give them whatever names you want, Charlie and Delta) and then wrote code to swap spawns with each round.

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Like I suspected, PS exclusive for HoW is a Crucible map. You can read about it on the Playstation Blog.

Remember that this will be filled with other people in the same shoes as you. You'll do fine.

There's a repeating yell "Hoo!" every once and a while. Is that a map feature or a Trials feature? Reminds me of some electronic music from ~2000 (in a bad way).

I don't think it's supposed to be a voice, and it happened when someone died, I think. It happens sometimes in PvE when you wipe, along with something I always thought sounded like an old phone ringing.

So, as I understand it, you buy a passage with special ToO Coins. Does just the fireteam leader need to purchase a passage? Does each member have to buy one too? Are they a shared resource? I'm not entirely clear on how this works. Here's my best guess:

- the fireteam leader MUST have a passage to take his team to the ToO.
- each fireteam member may purchase a passage.
- wins/losses are tracked on each individual's passage, there is not a TEAM passage.

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I'd be really surprised if it weren't a per-person thing. That is - you're not allowed in to the trials at all without a passage. (Your card is your own; you can change teams between games, so team leaders are pretty irrelevant from that standpoint.)

Someone was telling me this is to placate people who want a more competitive experience, but on top of the randomness the game normally has they're prioritizing connection over skill and using Iron Banner-style damage (taking attack rating and player level into account), so I don't think it offers much to people who want that type of game.

When they said it would be more competitive, you could interpret it one of two ways:
1. A match will always push the limits of your skill
2. If you are skilled, it will be obvious.

You took it as the first, I took it as the second, and I think the intent is aimed at the second. Let me explain.
Case #1 is achieved by having perfect matching making based on skill level. If they matched games based on skill, and the matching system were perfect, EVERYONE would win 50% of the time. And half the time, when you lost, it would of course be due to lag :)
This system would make every game as hard as possible while still making the game winnable.

Do achieve #2, you need to do the opposite of #1. If you match based on connection, you'll get no lag, and if you're in the top 10% of teams, you should be able to beat 9 out of 10 teams that you face. Thus if you are skilled, you will actually win more. Yes, you'll end up with games where you walk all over the other team, and the other team walks all over you. But this opens competitive mode up in a way that allows you to experience the spectrum of Destiny players. Maybe you think you're only "okay", and walk into this unable to lose. Maybe you think you're hot shit and can't win a single game.

I personally like the idea as an optional game type. It should produce very different games than what we're used to. At the same time, the team play will be CRUCIAL and will make up for a fair bit of of individual skill.

No, no it does not. A viable tactic seems to be grabbing the special after you've beaten the opponent team but while the round end timer is going.