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4/18/2015 1:18:46 AM
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Upgrading upgraded guns
I highly recommend making players unable to upgrade exotics that are already at their maximum damage level. I, like many others I have come to find, wasted my strange coins, glimmer, and upgrade materials just to reset my weapon. I know everyone is going to say hurr durr learn to read. I just got my first exotic to cap, I did not know about older guns having worse stats, being able to upgrade them to higher stats, I just saw an upgrade option for my gun and bought it, why would I not? After I looked into it online I felt sick. Destiny is already behind other MMO RPG's in there complete lack of GM's or other system to recover lost items/characters, now i appear to have fallen into a beginners trap because I failed to read patch notes.
At the stage I'm at 7 coins is a lot, all the mats mean a lot of time running around mars, and my gun is reset. put a real bad taste in my mouth...
PUT A WARNING OR MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO UPGRADE 331 EXOTICS
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4 RepliesYou want an idiot-proof game to be made even more idiot-proof? This is almost as ridiculous as noobs saying that they "accidentally" dismantled their exotics - despite the duration time of dismantling taking forever for exotics. When you move over the "upgrade", it lists the stats that the upgrades will have, which are EASILY comparable to what you have currently. Heck, if you are looking for an armour upgrade, you will notice that exotic armour pieces have an actual DIFFERENT stat roll on their INT/DIS/STR values, which are either better or worse than Xur's upgrades for that week. I took my Symbiote on 101 DIS and upgraded it to like 127 - THANKS TO THE UPGRADE STATS BEING PRESENT WHEN YOU HOVER OVER THE POTENTIAL UPGRADE. So keep your embarrassing incompetence to yourself - do NOT instead lobby in the forums for more patronising hand-holding from Bungie. They have a limited amount of resources and time - I'd rather they use it on patches for raids or weapon improvements, than "Locking weapons and armour" and making idiot guides for people who don't possess any intelligence.
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I think they may be working on something that should allow a gun to remain fully upgraded when using this option, so I'm hoping it will be made to also transfer partially upgraded weapons. I'm not sure how it will end up, but ultimately, there's not a whole lot that can be done about it. I'm sorry it happened to ya, pal. If you're going to be on the 360, I'm game to try and help you out. If you've got TDB but just don't have anyone to run it with, I can help you through. Just add me and hit me up whenever, if you can't or would rather not, that's cool too. I hope you decide to stay with Destiny, despite the obvious setbacks it throws at you. We should be able to expect more from them, perhaps in due time. Until then just try to keep up the fight. It should be worth it.
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2 RepliesFirst you should know destiny is not an mmorpg. Second I am pretty sure this same post word for word was posted in February.
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No, simply because it's natural selection. If you can't control your controller, you'll make mistakes.
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2 RepliesHow long have you had the game?
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Bump. Where's the NEw Player Experience tutorials?
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The upgrade process needs to be way more explained and clear. A simple tooltip.
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HERE HERE
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Sadness ensues.
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Yep I made the same mistake. If an shop listing exotic upgrades has your weapon or armour it is effectively says this is a positive option. Wiping the upgrades makes no sense. There is no situation where this would be beneficial. Bungie just need to gray out the option when the upgrades are maxed out.
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When we upgraded our exotics from 300 to 331, they should have added 3 new damage bubbles that require twice the normal exp on the upgrade menu instead of resetting the entire weapon. If this happened, your exotic would have still been maxed out but just at 300 and you'd have to redo the last three bubbles to get it back to 331. Two birds with one stone.
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yea they need a training manual for this shit, cuz some people are really noob like the op.. next thing you know you need a safety for you WEPUNZ... Get gud kid...
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2 RepliesI agree. Why even allow upgrading for weapons that don't need it? The upgrade option should be greyed out and locked for weapons that don't need it. At the very least, it should do a check to see if your weapon needs an upgrade, and if it doesn't, it double checks by asking you again if you want to upgrade, and explains what upgrade is for and what it does, and warns against upgrading a weapon that doesn't need it. It would save _everyone_ a lot of grief, including Bungie who probably get a lot of irate players complaining about an upgrade that did nothing. I think the grief avoided is worth the time and effort taken to code in this safety measure, just like the locks on dismantling.
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Edited by Ninety9 Jews: 4/18/2015 5:01:25 AMBut when you look at the stats and perks of the "upgrade" it is no better than your new exotic so common sense would tell you that there was no difference regardless of any previous events or knowledge. I am day one but I didn't play for months after the first month i got it and started to play again in January. I got my first exotics and compared it to the upgrades wondering what they were for. But because of no increase in damage or better stat rolls I didn't get it because it was the same gun literally. Later I learned it was because of the DLC that made the upgrades needed.
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1 ReplyThey wouldn't need a warning if people paid attention. Just do a simple compare, I did, guess what..... My exotic weapon didn't get reset because I noticed that the upgrade provided no benefit. Also... google told me.
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Me and my brother were looking at that and noticed this but didn't attempt out of fear of an exotic reset like that
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7 RepliesJust don't take it away from the armor upgrades. Those have a purpose to reupgrade.
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1 ReplyThe purpose was to allow players to still use the weapons and armor they attained before the level cap increase and max damage increase. I'm annoyed I had to re-level my Sunbreakers, but I'm glad the option was given and you'll be glad it's there when the cap increases again.
