I have a PS4 beta code available, if anyone wants it.

Finally got a key by camping in the reddit code giveaway thread and being quick enough

Welp, I am in too on PS4. Hopefully see some of you there!

Really wish they would've raised the level cap from 8 to 10, was hoping to use some rare gear during the beta but rare gear was capped at level 10 in the Alpha.

Just played through the first level. I'm going to waste a lot of time on this game.

This is insanely addictive. I've been trying to log off for about 3 hours.

Just one more mission!

After you are at the tower, your next mission is to go back to Old russia, correct? trying to figure out

Anyone need a PS4 beta key?

Yeah you'll see a blue or green exclamation mark on top of your next mission.

any ps3 beta keys ?

I got mine out of this thread
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGa...rading_thread/

change view to "new" and keep refreshing.

I don't use reddit. How do you change view to new?

EDIT forget it. Not worth all that work just to get beat all the time. LMAO

Here ya go

http://i.imgur.com/imm733p.png

Who is smiliejoe

Just a reminder. Good place to clan up.

Sorry guru I was about done playing when you invited me. Game is awesome. Rank cap sucks in this. Should be 10. I had a kick ass shotgun I wanted to use but couldn't

I sure hope they open up that rank level. I heard they were going to 20 on the beta but guess not.

It does seem a little more difficult than the alpha was.

I'm forcing myself to go without any auto-aiming this time. If I am going online I have to ween myself from that.

I got a rare shotgun, too. Weird. Tons of other loot, too. My warlock has uncommon in every slot except feet and class armor. Used the vault to give weapons to my hunter so now at level 3 he has a real nice uncommon pulse rifle he's continuing to level, a nice machine gun and a level 6 sniper rifle he'll get in a couple hours. Then later if I want to do some explore missions I can give them back to the warlock.

Really loving this game. I know bungie says it's not an mmo, but it's totally an mmo. I've got the freedom to do basically whatever I want for as long as I want, and there's plenty of not-so-hidden grind with all the factions to level. And I had a ton of fun exploring last night, looking for dead ghosts and loot chests (and riding a pike, which I had no idea you could do in pve). Can't wait to dive back in today, see how I like the Hunter class, and then tomorrow try out the titan. And I haven't even tried the strike yet.

I'm glad the beta stops at 8, cause if it didn't I'd just spoil more of the game for myself. Although I have a feeling they up the level cap next week.

I wanna get to the moon! That one locked mission is just there, taunting me...

I hate the shotguns. I don't typically mind recoil but it bounces up and stays up. I'd like them a lot more of it bounced and then resettled.

Anyone have an extra 360 key?

I'll take one.

Is the difference huge between the PS3 and PS4 versions?

holy crap. I didn't know your profile carried from one playform to another. Just got on my PS3 and my character from the PS4 is there. SWEET

I wonder if it would carry to xbox too.

So apparently all the destiny app stuff is available through bungie.net. This is me: http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/2/46...43009214848613

Mmo, I don't think you know what that means.

I've only played 6 of them for thousands of hours in the last 15 years. Definitely no idea what mmo means.

(I'm referring more to style of game, however - this seems to me to be heavily influenced by them).

Crucible is pretty fun, if you have good weapons. got in as the only level 5 in a game full of 7s and 8s and held my own.

If I did crucible I'd probably be the first player ever to hit -100 k/d. LMAO

Alright so im really good at crucible so far lol

Also just spent the last hour + doing the Devils Den with 2 guys i met randomly. We had a blast. That was the best time I've had playing a video game in a long time. Monsters so hard to kill! Super rewarding.

Haven't done the strike yet not sure if I will this week. Although I did find the devil walker in the explore area yesterday and killed him. Slowly. This morning I spent about 3 hours just doing random missions and looking for loot chests and dead ghosts on the explore map. Had tons of fun. Got my grimoire score up to 400. Slowly getting better in combat although my aim is still off more than I'd like. Still, made it through all the story missions on a hunter with just two deaths yesterday, so a marked improvement over my warlock on the first day. Both classes are fun, though I prefer the warlock so far. Going to give the titan a go later.

Crazy fun game...

The Hunter's Knife throw is pretty OP in PvP.

You can kill him a lot quicker if you aim for his legs with somebody and have somebody else destroy his turret. did this with 3 guys just a minute ago and only took 5 to 7 minutes on him.

Yeah, that's what I did. 'Cept I was by myself. Would've gone much faster if I hadn't repeatedly run out of heavy and special ammo, was using a pulse rifle most of the time. Hadn't actually planned to do it but a scouting mission took me there.

as an xbox guy, I hate you guys..

Partnered up with some random kid and he showed me showed me a bunch of loot boxes we also knocked out all of the earth missions. I really wish that I could carry more sniper ammo (it has the flame icon).

I don't think that I like the warlock. I played the alpha with a Titan and life was a lot easier.

Did anyone take part in that Iron Banner thing earlier today? Was just curious as to what you get for doing it.

I buy the shit out of ammo replenishes in the tower

I was online at the time but didn't do it. There were several new bounties and the door behind the bounty droid opened up, giving access to a vendor with the typical high level purples (saw armor, a machine gun and class items when I looked on my titan). The loot seemed broken in the matches themselves judging by reddit at the time. Purple weapons and a legendary ship skin dropped, seemingly randomly. The crucible mode itself looks brutal, as level advantages are unlocked. Didn't seem like a good time for my first sojourn into the crucible.

btw. Iron Banner again tomorrow at 2 and 7 pm

Just finished my first successful gold tier public event. Defended a warsat with 3 or 4 other folks. Turns out there's actually a daily reward for finishing them, as I later received a in-game mail with 2 vanguard marks and 2 rare glass shards.

I Gotch ya on rpgs elements. Just rattling your chain.

Doesn't sound like an MMO at all. ;)

I've always wondered how those work. I'll give it try this afternoon when I go to the moon.

I think the flame icon you're seeing's probably attached to the weapon, rather than the ammo. Ammo is generic, so every special weapon (shotguns, fusion rifles, sniper rifles) uses the same green special ammo. Weapons (all types, primary, special or heavy), on the other hand, can be void damage (purple swirly icon), arc damage (blue) or solar damage (flame). I assume we'll eventually figure out that different enemy types are strong/weak to certain damage types.

I discovered this morning that while changing special or heavy weapon types (i.e. swapping from shotgun to sniper rifle) will deplete your special or heavy ammo, which makes it rather difficult to swap weapon types on the fly, changing weapons of the same type doesn't. At least I switched shotguns on the fly with my titan and the new shotgun was still fully loaded.

Why are they showing us the moon if we can't go there? And I'm terrible at the multi-player.

Check your PM, although I'm not sure if the key is gonna work or not.

Iron Banner is up again in about an hour, I've been having a lot of fun with PvP. If you guys are competitive like me and wanna see how you stack up to others, this leaderboard is pretty nice: http://destinytracker.com/destiny/le...?grouped=false

I sorted it by combat rating as I think that's the best way to do it but there's a bunch of other stats you can use.

Multiplayer is cheap because of the warlocks. Their grenades are horseshit and cheap.

I still like it though. Love the game overall can't wait to play full game

well as usual. I ****ing suck at multiplayer. glad I'll have some of you to play coop with.

I'm really bad too but if anyone wants to do some Iron Banner tonight when it opens at 9 CST, I'm in. OnlyInDreams23 is my PSN name

Most of you probably already know this but it's new to me so I thought I'd pass it along. If you want to level up a weapon and have a completed bounty available, equip the weapon(s) you want to level up before turning the bounty in, every item you have equipped gets XP from the bounty and will level up once.

This also applies to Gold Tier public event rewards as well.

If anyone else who is up late wants to fire team up, hit me up at ValBrandon though I don't have my mic.

I've gotten better at multiplayer. Just gota get used to maps and shit.

Got all 5 gold beta chests. Earned me a new vehicle

I tried the PVP out some more and I really just can't get into it. The controls just feel so clunky in PVP, in PVE the controls are fine but in PVP it just doesn't feel right.

Ya gota remember that for the actual game

Isn't the vehicle in the devil's lair chest? I never did it so didn't see for myself yet. Probably the first thing I do Wednesday.

I basically spent the last day roaming randomly around the Cosmodrome doing quests, looking for chests and searching out dead ghosts. Some people were apparently making several thousand glimmer an hour and quickly hit the 25k glimmer cap. Little too boring for my taste although I did end up with 11-12k after I purchased a nice ship skin for my warlock and engrams for all 3 toons. I would be a little surprised if they don't tweak those chests although maybe that's intentional. My last ghost resulted in a message stating I was at 20/50 Ghost Hunter. Final Grimoire count was I think 530. Saw a few people with more, and read about some as high as 700. I expect that doing the strike and PvP will boost my own score.

All in all had loads of fun, played way more than's probably healthy and really looking forward to getting back in Wednesday. It's going to be a long two days and then an even longer month and a half...

Beta's still running, just finished Devil's Lair.

Confirmed that the vehicle is in the 5th chest.

Down now, got it in just under the wire.

You get all 5 and you get the vehicle. 5th chest is in devils lair.

Beta lasts how much longer?

The sparrow is in the Devil's Lair chest. I did the strike about 2 hours ago.

Starts again Wednesday (the 23rd) and runs through Sunday (the 27th) at Midnight.

Just fyi to everyone interested, they're giving everybody logged in on Saturday (the 26th) a beta-exclusive emblem.

Details:

Oh well I had it already and never got it. Hmmm. I got it when I finished all 5

Damn I'll be out of town

Starts the 23rd for me

I can check on my titan, I don't think he's done most of the gold chests yet. Warlock had done 4 and so has my Hunter. Nothing else dropped from the chest this morning, though. Not that it really matters in the end, all 5 are easy to find.

Interesting to see what they do on ensuing planets. Since they show up on the Earth map, I'm assuming we'll get them on the Moon and Mars and Venus.

This ****ing game. I can't seem to get myself to play anything else right now. August is going to be a long month.

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Ugh. I'm going out of town. Will miss the final beta days.

This I think is exactly what the developers are hoping for.

Definitely a side effect of the beta, but I think the technical side of the testing is probably more important for them. This game didn't really need a demo, it was always going to sell millions and millions of copies. It's the first real mover for this generation of consoles.

Neat little side-by-side of the PS3 and PS3 versions:

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PS4 looked great I thought (while playing), but also impressed with how good the PS3 version still manages to look.

I am convinced that this game was made using mostly last gen assets, then made a shade prettier on the new consoles.

I've been doing a lot of reading on reddit and I've come to the conclusion that I have no idea what I'm doing.

I've just been running around shooting at anything that moves and upgrading as a find new items.

This game is way more complicated than I originally thought. I'm going to have to study up before the actual release.

Destiny's back online for playstation users. I just logged in.

Getting on soon

Looks like it's up on all platforms, so you xbone guys can get in on the action now as well. :thumb:

Anything new?

Nope. There wasn't even an Iron Banner even tonight.

Me starting over with a Titan was new. :p