Oh god you're going to make me work today aren't you? *sigh* Let's get this over with. [quote]"What is he on about?" "Is the darkness actual darkness like the stars are dieing or something?" "Are the fallen human? Are the Vex Fall, Darkness, Or robots?" [/quote] You're going to have to be more specific in regards to the first question. The Darkness is the cosmic Physical manifestation of all negative energy in the universe. It is the shapeless, formless, intelligence that desires to destroy the Traveler and the Light simply due to being the polar opposite of it. Your best example of the Darkness is the miasma at the end of the Black Garden Mission on Mars. No. The Fallen are an alien race of scavengers and pirates. They are not human in any way. The Vex are mechanical Robots of mysterious origin who believe that worshiping the Darkness is the only Logical outcome as they don't understand it enough to make any sort of other call. It is not a Subscription MMO. It is a Always Online game. While you do need to be online to play Destiny, no such subscription is required to access or play it. However consoles these days require a subscription to access their multiplayer servers which allow you to play with others on the same system as you. If you are playing as an Awoken they do recognize you. They recognize you as an "Earth-Born" Awoken. This makes you a lesser second class citizen and beneath the attention of the Reef-Born. Not everyone is born equal in Awoken society. You mean you are playing as a Hunter. The difference is that Titans are a very up close and personal "In your face" class designed to get in close and start hammering physically on their opponents. They need thicker armor to survive giving them more of a "Heavy Tank" feel. They hit hard but at the cost of speed. Titans are not very mobile. The know only "Advance Forward." Hunters are the opposite. They don't quite hit as hard meaning they have to hit smart. Speed is their main advantage allowing them to slip into the cracks in hit and run tactics. They're better as flankers, darting in up the side and hitting the enemy from the side and behind where they're vulnerable. Hunters are the stalkers, finding the weakpoint and exploiting it. Motion and positioning are what Hunters do best. While the story events are set in public space, the stories themselves were designed around the solo experience to tell the story of your Guardian. It the "Multi-protagonist" Paradox that plagues games set in open social gaming yet makes everyone the sole center hero. You've played together and done the same things but you do not kill equally. If you kill 8 dregs but your friend only kills 3 Vandals, you gain more XP then he does simply for having more kills. XP is awarded per kill and is not shared between people who haven't tagged the target. Anything you kill is yours alone. Unless you both shoot it, the XP per kill will not be shared. This is why you are leveling up at different times. Trading is a question we have no answer to. Likely it was done to kill off Gold or Item Farmers. They get everywhere. Beta was level 8. Live is level 20. You need to look for Rare armor or higher with Light stat to push your level higher. You don't get new skills past 20. The Light level is designed to fool the formula that calculates damage values. Oh boy, now you're REALLY going to make me work aren't you? Weapons first then. Rifles come in three flavors, Auto, Pulse, Scout. The difference between them is how they fire and their effective ranges. Auto Rifles are hold down the trigger. The longer you hold down the trigger, it continues to shoot until the magazine is empty. They tend to suffer from steadily increasing recoil and increased bloom physics the longer they're fired making them more inaccurate the longer you hold trigger. They're better at short to mid range. Burst firing can increase the range and accuracy slightly. Pulse Rifles are three round burst fire weapons. One trigger pull gets you three rounds and no more. You must release the trigger and fire again to get another three round burst. They have a better range then Auto Rifles and more accurate but tend to be more unwieldy at shorter ranges due to time to aim to ensure you're hitting with the burst rounds. Scout Rifles are the traditional Semi-automatics. One trigger pull gets you one shot. This makes them precision weapons and better at mid to long ranges since aiming at close range to take precision shots is tricky due to their size. Their damage for this per shot however is better then the other weapons making them a little brother to the Sniper Rifle. The forth weapon, the Hand Cannon, is your usual pistol/sidearm weapon. Due to it's smaller size and limited ammo it belongs to the same family as the Scout and Sniper Rifles. However being of smaller size making it only good at close to mid ranges, it also has the fastest time to acquire while aiming to overcome the problem of being a precision weapon with high damage per shot. With the low magazine capacity however, they tend to be unpopular until later levels because you need to make your shots count. The skill tree is the same until higher rarities where more of the exotic qualities of a weapon is made available. You have a scope, an attack power increase, and depending on the rarity of the weapon, one, two, or three things that make the weapon have different effects. Each one is randomized when a weapon is generated. Quick summery of the story. Humanity first found the Traveler on Mars where they witnessed it terraforming for the first time. The Traveler gifted Humanity with "The Light". A form of Space Magic. Though this, Humanity prospered and spread to the stars. The Darkness, the Traveler's polar opposite and moral enemy, came looking for it and Humanity got caught in the crossfire between the Traveler and the Darkness, battling proxy forces such as the Hive, The Fallen, The Vex, and The Cabal. Humanity's Space Empire that flourished during the Golden Age was destroyed and the only planet left safe for them was Earth. Over Earth the Traveler made one final stand against the Darkness and dispersed it but at the cost of itself. It went comatose to rest and repair. The survivors of this War between the Traveler and the Darkness (known as the Collapse, so named for the Collapse of Humanity's Empire), gathered under the Traveler inside it's protective shields and built The Last City. The only safe haven in this post apocalyptic universe. As a final act before succumbing to it's Coma, the Traveler created the Ghosts. Little machines to seek out and reanimate individuals to create The Guardians. You are one of these reanimated Guardians. The Darkness is returning to finish what it started. You must stop it and wake the Traveler. The bosses do not drop the kind of loot you are looking for or expect. Bosses tend to drop pyramid shaped engrams that are very small and easy to miss. These engrams tend to be tokens you turn in at the Cryptarch for 200 glimmer. Sometimes they're glimmer increase items instead. It could also be said that the bosses don't drop loot for you to pick up but rather, the loot is awarded to you in the scoresheet at the end of a mission after you defeat the boss.

you haven't read much on the net lately have you?

vex are robots if it wasent clear and fallen arent even close to human they have 4 arms for gods sake

Keep playing with your friends and you'll have a good time.

What's wrong with gamers no a days? You expect a story to be handed to you. [b]NO[/b] you have to look around and explore the game for Easter eggs to [b]Unlock[/b] a small part of the story. Geez. This is your Destiny.

I stopped reading at "if the characters are the same in the Reef, why don't they recognise you" That's like saying "Oh you're from the US? You must know my friend!"

Look I'm about to explain a bunch of stuff that doesn't make any sense so you might as well just fast forward through this part. [spoiler]Many generations ago (shortly after present day), humanity discovered a gigantic white sphere hovering above Mars in the process of terraforming the planet. The discovery of "the Traveler", as humans called it, ignited a Golden Age of technology and exploration for humanity. Initially the Traveler settled on Mars, where it shared its knowledge and technology with humanity, and a city grew around it. With the assistance of the Traveler and its enigmatic technology, humanity tripled its lifespan, terraformed planets and moons, and expanded its civilization beyond Earth and throughout much of the solar system. The Golden Age would last for centuries, but human civilization fell victim to a cataclysm of extraordinary magnitude, known as the Collapse. A malicious entity known as The Darkness, an ancient enemy of the Traveler, suddenly struck, destroying most of humanity's interplanetary empire. Few managed to survive the devastation. Forced to withdraw to Earth, mankind's homeworld, the embattled Traveler made its final stand, where it sacrificed itself to save the remnants of humanity. The sphere now hovers over Earth, silent, dormant, and crippled, while those who survived united to build The City beneath it, establishing the last bastion of civilization in the solar system. A powerful defensive aura remains projected over the City by the Traveler. The City has come under attack throughout the years, mysterious alien species probing its defenses for weaknesses. You are one of an army of warriors known as Guardians that call the City home, individuals that have taken a stand to reclaim what has been taken from us. Guardians have harnessed the Traveler's energy to create powerful abilities that allow them powerful offensive attacks, defensive counters, and increased mobility. Guardians seek to uncover the mysteries of humanity's downfall and reclaim what has been taken from them. These exploits lead them to rediscover and reclaim old worlds, once part of mankind's civilization but now occupied by deadly extraterrestrial species and threatened by the return of the Darkness. The Guardians are all that stand between the dark forces that seek to destroy civilization and those who take refuge within the City. It is their duty to rebuild from the ashes of defeat, to ignite the once great flame of human civilization, and be the light that shines through the darkness. Their failure would mean the destruction of the human race.[/spoiler] Are you coming on to me? Yea, you probably shouldn't have stopped on this part. [spoiler]The Darkness is an ancient, mysterious enemy of The Traveler and is the cause of the Collapse, the cataclysmic event that ended humanity's Golden Age. The Traveler sacrificed itself to save humanity from it, and following its last battle against it, became silent and dormant in the place it now rests, hovering low above Earth and protecting The City. Though few remember exactly what the Darkness is, it is returning to finish its war against the Traveler and humanity. Guardians must push it back and wake the Traveler in time, or humanity could be lost. Like the powers that Guardians are granted by the Traveler, the Darkness lends powers to the Fallen, Vex, Hive, and Cabal in a similar manner.[/spoiler] You can't trade cause you can't. You're friends not in your cutscenes because Bungie got lazy on this part. It's really an MMO even though Bungie says it's not so that's why you see others in a old temple that you're the first to see, the best gun is whatever gun you like to use the most (Or the Vex Mythoclast), the Awoken don't recognize you because at the beginning of the game you're a revived dead person to stupid to question why you were brought back to life.

Wether or not he's trolling he's right. I love destiny. I do. Just as i love cod. Destiny was advertised as such a more complex game. Rather then "go here, shoot those enemies". Its stupid simple. Just like cod? Nothing complex at all. I have different theories as of why this game is so "brain dead stupid". Just as why the frame rate was dropped from 90 to 30 because xbox couldn't handle it. Maybe it lacks content because not all systems could handle it. Ok because i have the system thats able to handle it why am i punished? I upgraded for that purpose. If i had a 360 it wouldn't have stopped me from buying destiny. To be honest id buy it for the 360 then be super excited for when i could upgrade to a xbox one or ps4. Bungie gamers call us entitled asses [b]but in truth we upgraded consoles for the reason of better graphics and content. [/b] If that makes me an entitle ass then well i am. I work for my money i expect to get what i payed for. i payed an extra 400$ for this reason! Give me what i payed for if not i will not ever upgrade again.

Your questions made sense until you started asking about the level cap and light levels. Those questions just seemed out of place for someone who just bought the game.

[quote]And biggest of all really, what are we doing, you have found a temple that has been lost for years, cept there is already like 3 other people inside killing things[/quote] hahah that one was quite funny :-)

i think the PSN plus is to be able to play in the crucible ( someone clarify for me please on this rumour?)

this is stupid. have you never played a full online mmorpg before. go do your homework

You bought this game at launch. We get it, there's no story.

Yeah it's kinda weird that the awoken still call you an "it" when you're one of them. XD

mhm, that's strange. Looks like you don't have a single Destiny character listed on your profile. . .image that :O Some are good points though. I want trading.

Your first mission should be locating this stuff: http://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Post/267391/74665304/0/0/1

'Are the fallen human?' What, you mean the things which make bestial noises and have four arms? Yeah, course they're human...

Just bought destiny & are confused? Mate, wait till you complete the story (I mean campaign) & find yourselves non the wiser as to what transpired. Still, amazing game all in. Hope you enjoy it.