You can earn tokens for one week. They have changed up how it works since Season 2. But essentially collect Renown and run Lost Sectors seems to be the implied play route.

So I have a week to earn enough tokens to get to 50? That mastwrworks better be fucking sweet.

Not necessarily, there will be three Faction Rallies this season. So you can work towards the same faction multiple Rallies (ranks don't reset until the new season in Sept.) or try to hit 50 during each Rally with the different factions.

You can earn tokens for one week. They have changed up how it works since Season 2. But essentially collect Renown and run Lost Sectors seems to be the implied play route.

So I have a week to earn enough tokens to get to 50? That mastwrworks better be fucking sweet.

The hamburgers are cooked in the abdomen.

Words never before spoken in that order.

You get everything you earned via packages.

There are 3 weapons and the winning faction’s weapon is available for purchase with glimmer. The next rally those weapons are in the regular Faction loot tables.

All players the week following the rally can buy the winning team's weapon for glimmer. It is provided at a discount to anyone who had pledge to that team during the rally.

There were things that could be modified in Halo.

In the campaigns there were skulls. These skulls were sometimes a direct smack in the face to "not how we intended you to play it" Also, the campaigns WERE linear, so yes in that regard you had to play it as designed. But they eventually added in things like times and scores, these also changed the design of the gameplay. But in PvP, there is no comparison. Heck, we had Forge where we could build our own maps, gametypes, pretty much anything and everything we could customize as we pleased.

Destiny 2 is:

Players are opening treasure chests too fast and we didn't intend that.
Players are ranking up too fast and we didn't intend that.
Players are earning tokens too fast and we didn't intend that.

ooh...you mean we were playing the game? Extremely well and efficiently based on the task?

But with escalation protocol, their intention was "Hey we will make this really difficult so players have to team up with everyone else on the map to beat it."

Really? Who thought that was good? Nobody wants to rely on blueberries, especially in patrol. It's one thing jumping into strikes with randos, you all know what you're getting into and have a common goal. In patrol, you're mixing up all light levels, some people are working on catalyst quests, some are doing lost sectors, one guy has been standing there for 5 minutes with a bubble of dots over his head. This is who they intended us to play this extremely difficult mode with?

They need to give up this "intentional design" stuff and give us our freedom of choice back. "I mean, they outta be ashamed of themselves, how 'bout that?" - Stugotz :P

P.S. I'm not nearly as bothered by all this as my post sounds.

The hamburgers are cooked in the abdomen.

But at least those durn Space Republicans won't win again!!! Nyeh!

I admit they are structurally different in their approach to sandboxing (comparing curated linear playspaces to modular variable playspaces), but I don’t think that is something Destiny lacks - unless it is self-imposed. The perspective of Destiny as less of a sandbox might just be higher encounter familiarity due to staying in locations for longer spans of time. /shrug

I'm gonna wait until after the rally to decide how I really feel. Seeing Dead Orbit win one will be nice, even if the game is thrown before it even starts. But at least those durn Space Republicans won't win again!!! Nyeh!

Dude, they're Space Tories.

The factions are the tories, the militarists, and the Cure fans.

Hey, motivated DIY-ers need not be reduced to their taste in music!! Also thank you for canonically legitimizing my Titan's hairstyle.

~M

Hey, I'm a Cure fan myself, although I never adopted Robert Smith's style.

I just realized that only one of my guardians has hair. Acclimating myself to hairlessness I guess.

To be fair, I think out of the three Catalysts Graviton Lance is the one most people will want (at least from what I've seen in the wild). Really they are setting up Dead Orbit to win.

No joke. It's going to be a landslide.

I'm gonna wait until after the rally to decide how I really feel. Seeing Dead Orbit win one will be nice, even if the game is thrown before it even starts. But at least those durn Space Republicans won't win again!!! Nyeh!

Dude, they're Space Tories.

The factions are the tories, the militarists, and the Cure fans.

Hey, motivated DIY-ers need not be reduced to their taste in music!! Also thank you for canonically legitimizing my Titan's hairstyle.

~M

I don’t think it is fair to Destiny to suggest Halo was a bastion of player freedoms without designer influence.

Halo was kind of designed to be a sandbox, though. You could take the same handful of implements of destruction and approach a situation multiple ways. Physics played a huge part in gameplay. Destiny is MUCH more limited in that respect.

And of course every aspect in both cases has been designer-influenced. But Destiny's moment-to-moment gameplay feels...scripted, I guess, in comparison.

~M

I'm gonna wait until after the rally to decide how I really feel. Seeing Dead Orbit win one will be nice, even if the game is thrown before it even starts. But at least those durn Space Republicans won't win again!!! Nyeh!

Dude, they're Space Tories.

The factions are the tories, the militarists, and the Cure fans.

Between terribly lame Warlock Bonds and miserable FWC loot/shaders, it's like Bungo doesn't want me to have the things that I like. :-P

From the looks of it, I don't think I like any of the new armor sets. The only thing that caught my eye is the FWC Titan helm. It's hard to tell from this image, but I think it may look good. I've been looking for a good one since D2 started.