[solved] Some noob-questions from a new player

[Kodijack!]

Questions all answered. Thanks guys!


Hóla!
Might sound silly, but some things bug the f out of me and I can't figure it out:

1: Often there are tiny groups of flying bots with red laser-thingies. you kill one, they dissapear. Do they have any significance for anything?
CLARIFICATION: I mean those passive thingies on europa, flying in tiny groups scanning around and doing nothing. You kill one, they all dissapear and shortly afterwards just come back. Still doing nothing. They don't attack, their death seems to have no effect at all.

2: The number on peoples tags, is that the current season-level? I see many people with lower levels, so it can't be a total level (item level?), as I guess there aren't many new players at all.

3: Is there some clan-browser thing like in "the division"? I'm not the most social person, but I sure like to add to some goal and even benefit from it (if you can in this game). But I can just accept or decline invites and have no idea what clans exist and stuff.

Thanks in advance. Probably really insiginificant details, but they bug me :-)

[Nevermore]

fairly new myself but all i can tell you is that the red flying lazer thingies are just the equivalent to robotic bug enemies

[Maxine]

Originally posted by Kodijack!:

Hóla!
Might sound silly, but some things bug the f out of me and I can't figure it out:

1: Often there are tiny groups of flying bots with red laser-thingies. you kill one, they dissapear. Do they have any significance for anything?

2: The number on peoples tags, is that the current season-level? I see many people with lower levels, so it can't be a total level (item level?), as I guess there aren't many new players at all.

3: Is there some clan-browser thing like in "the division"? I'm not the most social person, but I sure like to add to some goal and even benefit from it (if you can in this game). But I can just accept or decline invites and have no idea what clans exist and stuff.

Thanks in advance. Probably really insiginificant details, but they bug me :-)

1. Emm... I don't know what are you talking about.

2. Number next to nickname is Season pass level.

3. You can find clans here on forum or Bungie.net forum. You can also find people here discord.com/invite/d2lfg

[apocryphalbob]

If you mean (No.1) the drone things on Europa, mostly in Bray areas, I have not found any useful reason to shoot them and they have never attacked me.
I have played a while now and still have many areas where I just think 'wtf is that all about?'
Noob questions can always be helpful to not so noobs

[Mez Koo]

The tiny drones with a red laser can only be shot during the crux of darkness event on europa invoicing the fallen brigs and shooting them all triggers the heroic version of the event.

They can also be found in exploration areas of europa and need to be shot in a specific order to spawn a loot chest. You need the scanner buff obtained from killing a scanner fallen after buying the weekly item from Variks.

[Cafe]

Originally posted by Kodijack!:

Hóla!
Might sound silly, but some things bug the f out of me and I can't figure it out:

1: Often there are tiny groups of flying bots with red laser-thingies. you kill one, they dissapear. Do they have any significance for anything?

2: The number on peoples tags, is that the current season-level? I see many people with lower levels, so it can't be a total level (item level?), as I guess there aren't many new players at all.

3: Is there some clan-browser thing like in "the division"? I'm not the most social person, but I sure like to add to some goal and even benefit from it (if you can in this game). But I can just accept or decline invites and have no idea what clans exist and stuff.

Thanks in advance. Probably really insiginificant details, but they bug me :-)

The flying drones depends on which ones you're talking about, if it's the ones during the public event on europa they're used to activate the heroic mode. If it's the ones scattered throughout europa then they'e used for the "Augmented Obsession" triumphs for the Splintered Seal.

The number is your current level for the season, it will reset with every season.

You can search for clans on Bungie.net if you got to the forums and search recruitment you can find loads of clans looking for people, sadly there's nothing in-game for searching for clans.

[Kodijack!]

Yes, i meant those passive flying bots. So far though, the only things where i wondered why they are there, and what's their purpose.
Sorry, I had described them stupidly....

Thanks guys, very helpful!

So if that level is the season-level, is there any way I can see if a player is really new or a 10000hours-veteran? I'd prefer to be visibly a noob, so my silly mistakes would be more forgivable :-)

[Kodijack!]

@Cafe: Ah thanks! I'll check the triumph, now I can rest in peace :-) Thanks!

[captclaw]

Originally posted by Kodijack!:

So if that level is the season-level, is there any way I can see if a player is really new or a 10000hours-veteran? I'd prefer to be visibly a noob, so my silly mistakes would be more forgivable :-)

Don't worry about the numbers, it's just a representation of how far you have come in the season. It has nothing to do with skill, grind hard enough and even a new player can get a high seasonal rank.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Kodijack!:

1: Often there are tiny groups of flying bots with red laser-thingies. you kill one, they dissapear. Do they have any significance for anything?
CLARIFICATION: I mean those passive thingies, flying in tiny groups lasering all around and doing nothing. You kill one, they all dissapear and shortly afterwards just come back. Still doing nothing. They don't attack, their death seems to have no effect at all.

If you mean the ones on Europa, those are part of a quest series. I've only done it once or twice, so my memories are a bit hazy. But my recollection is that you need to talk to Variks, and level up his quest system (Sabotage), once you've leveled up a bit, you can buy a special sensor from him (once per week). (Note: It's on his second page of stuff). That will let you kill a cloaked NPC (who can appear in any of the patrol zones) and gain data from it, part of what you do next, is go hunt down those little sensor bots. That's my recollection anyway.

They also show up during the Fallen Brig public event. If you shoot all of them during all three phases of that event, you trigger the Heroic version of the event.

Originally posted by Kodijack!:

2: The number on peoples tags, is that the current season-level? I see many people with lower levels, so it can't be a total level (item level?), as I guess there aren't many new players at all.

That's the season pass level for this season.

Originally posted by Kodijack!:

3: Is there some clan-browser thing like in "the division"? I'm not the most social person, but I sure like to add to some goal and even benefit from it (if you can in this game). But I can just accept or decline invites and have no idea what clans exist and stuff.

Thanks in advance. Probably really insiginificant details, but they bug me :-)

There's a lot more direct tools to help with that kind of stuff on Bungie's website: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Topics?pNumber=0&tg=Clans&tSort=3&tType=0&d=0&lang=en

There is an in-game social pane, but I don't recall the command to open it up off hand. (Which just goes to show you how social *I* am in game).

[Kodijack!]

Originally posted by Nakos:

They also show up during the Fallen Brig public event. If you shoot all of them during all three phases of that event, you trigger the Heroic version of the event.

Thanks a lot, very detailed, and I can reast at peace now :-)

Originally posted by Nakos:

There's a lot more direct tools to help with that kind of stuff on Bungie's website: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Topics?pNumber=0&tg=Clans&tSort=3&tType=0&d=0&lang=en

There is an in-game social pane, but I don't recall the command to open it up off hand. (Which just goes to show you how social *I* am in game).

lol...Haven't seen any social pane, but the site is probably a good start. Thanks for that too.
Though I'm not very social, I enjoyed the clan-thingie in Division. At least those PvE-singleplayer-clans. Occasional unforced grouping, and collectively and passively working towards some benifts. Thought it'd be the same here, as the games are very similar.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Kodijack!:

Originally posted by Nakos:

They also show up during the Fallen Brig public event. If you shoot all of them during all three phases of that event, you trigger the Heroic version of the event.

Thanks a lot, very detailed, and I can reast at peace now :-)

Every public event has (AFAIK) a way to trigger the heroic version, which is more difficult of course, but is also supposed to give better rewards. They all vary. Generally, I try not to trigger it if I'm all alone, but if there's a couple of other people there, it usually works out.

[Kodijack!]

Originally posted by Nakos:

Originally posted by Kodijack!:

Thanks a lot, very detailed, and I can reast at peace now :-)

Every public event has (AFAIK) a way to trigger the heroic version, which is more difficult of course, but is also supposed to give better rewards. They all vary. Generally, I try not to trigger it if I'm all alone, but if there's a couple of other people there, it usually works out.

Oh yes I've read that in the reddit-guide and also noticed sometimes happening. But as I'm mostly clueless just doing what I'm told by the game, it mostly worked out well

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Kodijack!:

Oh yes I've read that in the reddit-guide and also noticed sometimes happening. But as I'm mostly clueless just doing what I'm told by the game, it mostly worked out well :awkward:

There are some events I still have no clue how to trigger. You just have to watch what other Guardians are doing, if they seem to be doing something other than attacking the obvious enemies, then the odds are good that's part of what triggers the Heroic version.

[Kodijack!]

[quote=Nakos;5532118063940978651
There are some events I still have no clue how to trigger. You just have to watch what other Guardians are doing, if they seem to be doing something other than attacking the obvious enemies, then the odds are good that's part of what triggers the Heroic version. [/quote]

I will try to keep that in mind, but usually i'm focused on not dying. Guess that most others have waaaaaaaaaaaaay better stuff than me and kill stuff with less hassles. But I'm getting there. Took like 100hrs in Division to dare try heroic stuff. And I'm an old fart, I suck anyway

But I've seen a guide which says what triggers heroic. Right now, I don't care much though, as I swap gear faster than underpants.

[^4Paradise]

Originally posted by Kodijack!:

Hóla!
Might sound silly, but some things bug the f out of me and I can't figure it out:

1: Often there are tiny groups of flying bots with red laser-thingies. you kill one, they dissapear. Do they have any significance for anything?
CLARIFICATION: I mean those passive thingies, flying in tiny groups lasering all around and doing nothing. You kill one, they all dissapear and shortly afterwards just come back. Still doing nothing. They don't attack, their death seems to have no effect at all.

2: The number on peoples tags, is that the current season-level? I see many people with lower levels, so it can't be a total level (item level?), as I guess there aren't many new players at all.

3: Is there some clan-browser thing like in "the division"? I'm not the most social person, but I sure like to add to some goal and even benefit from it (if you can in this game). But I can just accept or decline invites and have no idea what clans exist and stuff.

Thanks in advance. Probably really insiginificant details, but they bug me :-)

1: idk what your talking about with these if u mean the things that laser walls they are just passive builders of the area to assist in adding detail

2: Thats the season pass level

3: If you have a phone u can use the destiny 2 app for lfg but if searching for randoms isnt your thing then there are discords around that people go in for basically the same thing but for some reason more respectable to use.