Destiny launch day live report
Catch up with today's livestream - or maybe just run off home and play the game yourself?The night of the supermoon is almost upon us - and either Activision's pretty canny at picking out release dates, or its insane ability to burn money knows no bounds as it alters the elliptical orbit of Earth's satellite in order to see off the release of Bungie's new game with a bang.
We're going to be marking the launch day of what's quite possibly the year's biggest game with an afternoon of updates, some of your impressions of Destiny and a livestream to see us through to 5pm - when we can all saunter home and actually play guilt free.
Our live coverage of this event has finished.
Coverage
bobfish09: You sure that wasn't the Wetherspoons queue going all the way to Game?
Ha! I took his word for it, but it was a rugged looking queue. It's Lewisham at midnight, though, so I guess it's to be expected.
Skinja: I can't wait for PSN to crash.
It's been surprisingly sturdy so far - I was on a couple of hours this morning, Ian's been playing most of the day, and there have been no problems. Whether it can deal with the pressure as America wakes is another matter, though.
Sammoore: There's word of technical issues on Ian's side. Are we sure we won't get a repeat of the GTAV incident?
The technical issues were his PC eating itself this morning. Should be fixed now - and we've got Twitch for back-up should it decide to go boom again.
thedaveeyres: Des Walker and Gary Mabbutt.
We have a winner! Next...
podgek293: i'm clearly busy in work, all this typing makes it seem that way to the boss
Glad to be of service!
bobfish09: Those last two look thrilled to be there!
That's actually me and Wes! (It actually isn't)
Mox: Dr. Ben Goldacre and the cadaver of Kenny Everett?
And we have a winner here too! Your prize is in the post.
Uncompetative: ian has a lovely relaxing voice
I get him to talk me to sleep at night. He still hasn't complained to HR about it, which is nice.
Technoishmatt: Dammit, chrome slow te refresh :)
You missed out on the most exquisite prize by mere seconds.
Sammoore: trying to follow both, martin and the video itself is blagging my head
Multi-task!
sjmlondon: Has Sophie got a new album out? Is there any other reason for her to be there?
She just
Sammoore: One of the fellows in the YT comments says he's finished the story in one 18 hour session.
Looking into it, around 10-12 hours seems about the time it's taking people to see through the story missions.
simplesimonsays: Anyone else fool enough to get the Ghost Edition? I did and got a nice torn box, money well spent :(
Booo. I gave up on Collector's Editions some time ago - I went for Game's Vanguard edition, which was just a vanilla boxed copy with some pretty pointless DLC thrown in.
Dinomo: Excuse my genuine ignorance, but how is Destiny and different to Borderlands?
It's a legit question. The social/MP stuff is woven in much tighter in Destiny, from what I understand. Borderlands has more guns though!
karlo87: So how's the content looking? Is it obvious they're gonna milk it with DLC or are the planets nicely fleshed out with lots of stuff?
Most people - on the EG team anyway - have only got to the limits of what we saw in the beta, which is about two hours of game. It looks like a run-through will take around 10-12 hours for a single character to the end-game, which seems fair enough.
Dinomo: Thanks Martin and @Sammoore for your answers! I must say I'm tempted to dive into next gen for it! Maybe wait until Christmas...
Apologies for the sales pitch, but if you get a current gen version now you can upgrade to next gen for free a bit further down the line.
Uncompetative: Dreamcast failed in Europe because Sony announced the PS2 on 3/99 and everyone waited a year for it to turn up. Dirty trick.
It's crazy how big the gaps were between other consoles in previous generations. Looking back at the year or more between Xbox 360 and PS3, it's no wonder Microsoft mopped up.
melnificent: Martin, that's inaccurate at present. The cross-buy on Playstation is completely non-functional. I pre-ordered yet nothing is showing as paid. Guardian Edition has just vanished into the ether
Sorry to hear that - I saw your comment earlier, and it's something we're looking into for a report on the site.
melnificent: Martin, that's inaccurate at present. The cross-buy on Playstation is completely non-functional. I pre-ordered yet nothing is showing as paid. Guardian Edition has just vanished into the ether
Also it totally sucks not being able to play on launch day. Our condolences!
binky: human female Hunter for me. Looking forward to actually playing it tonight, rather than just setting up a character and falling asleep like last night.
Ha, I love when big game launch excitement clashes against the reality of actually trying to stay up past midnight (especially if, like me, you're of a certain age)
melnificent: Martin, I've got unedited screenshots of my email and the store as it displays at the moment.
I'll send you a PM in a moment.
Sammoore: did anyone other than Ian get an early review copy?
Copies seemingly went out to some people over the weekend, but it's all for nought anyway as servers didn't go live until yesterday.
Oceadge: Played it for about 25 minutes and then suddenly I got a screen saying: "ERROR Removed from the game world. Please try again. There may be a problem with your Internet connection." I rejoined the game and it put me right back to the start. Sigh. Not going to bother playing it again today.
Welcome to the wonderful always online future! It can be kind of awful sometimes.
Uncompetative: Do you think it should have opt-out proximity voice and press X to party up like in Halo 3?
I haven't really tinkered around enough with Destiny's options to know whether I miss it or not right now I'm afraid.
simplesimonsays: I'm quite surprised that more hasn't been mentioned regarding the damaged Ghost Editions that have been sent out by Game. With no chance of replacements due to stock having all been sold through, surely this is quite a big issue?
If it's a widespread problem we'll definitely look into it. It's an awful lot of money to hand over and then get a damaged product.
Uncompetative: @simplesimonsays Surely you just need to hold Square to Revive Dead Ghost!
Too soon!
IcemanAFC: Well Martin my strategy is to watch some football and then dive in to the FIFA demo. All this while I much on prawn crackers and indulge in some fine Chinese dining ;)
That's... That's not what I was asking. But it's legit.
binky: Tonight's Strategy: 1) Wait for wifey to allow me access to the TV in order to play video games. 2) Fall asleep due to being up too late yesterday evening. 3) Spend all Wednesday F5ing EG reading other people's experiences of Destiny.
Also legit, if a little depressing.
Mojopriest: My ps4 Destiny bundle (procured for the tidy sum of £329 - thank you Amazon preorder price guarantee) is due to arrive between 6 and 7 so I'm heading home now, I'm hooking up a saline drip and molding a chair out of neuro-tactile gel which will prevent me from developing bedsores and then rollicking all over Destiny for 127 hours.
*salutes*
simplesimonsays: My strategy is trying to play through all the content I completed during the Beta (again) and then wait until my next day off from work so I can play new content and feel like I've actually bought a new game.
You can do it in around 90 minutes - I did this morning.
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