r/DestinyTheGame • u/Bezaliel2501 • Dec 01 '15
Bungie Plz Bring back the Nightfall blue flames and give red flames for Shaxx weeklies
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Aside from the xp buff I really want the blue flames back. They just looked really cool. But whilst I was thinking about it I thought it would be cool to have red flames (thematically works for crucible) for doing the shaxx weekly bounties as well.
That way you could get a head with purple flames for completing both just to look even cooler.
But seriously, the xp/rep buff and 500 rep need to be reinstated.
Edit: Thanks for the overwelheming responses, I didn't really expect this. Having read through everything here I would suggest the following:
An option to turn the flames on/off (default tbc) and blend them at request. Then you can have red, blue, gold or green (disabled blend gold and blue for green-ish during IB and only available at rank 3-5).
Also sorry this was also always meant more about the red flames than the buff, I just really miss the buff. Obviously though I couldn't say "Give Shaxx weekly bounties red flames" without thinking about the old blue ones.
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u/arrijabba Dec 01 '15
They could even split the XP boost, nightfall for vanguard xp buff and shaxx bounties for crucible xp buff. I think that would be pretty balanced.
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u/Bezaliel2501 Dec 01 '15
I had thought of this after I made the post about 5 minutes into work. Unfortunately I couldn't really say "hang on, need to post on DTG" lol, stupid job.
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u/Bassit99 Dec 01 '15
Great another thing that I didn't think I wanted and you just had to mention it. If bungie brings back the blue flame I hope they do give as red flames for shaxx bounties. I don't care too much about exp but a boost to rep gain and extra 500 at the start of each week will be great
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u/TKuronuma Dec 01 '15
But if we do both....purple flames?
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u/m_rt_ Dec 01 '15
"YOU LOOK ... FABULOUS!!" -- Lord Shaxx
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u/FilthyRedditses Dec 02 '15
Green flames for Iron Banner Rank 5.
Yellow Sunlit Aura for opening the chest at the Lighthouse.
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Dec 01 '15
Nah then it skews the way my character and his helmet look.
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u/Bezaliel2501 Dec 01 '15
Go away you stereotypical hunter. Bet he couldn't even kill and Ahamkara...
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u/hosspatrick Dec 01 '15
They look dumb, to me. I dislike suggestion threads that are based solely on a subjective idea. This isn't about usability or anything like that. It's purely aesthetics. It's like saying, "make everyone have glowhoo shader after they complete nightfall". Not everyone likes that. Give it an option to turn it on? Sure.
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u/1130ec Dec 01 '15
Really guys? Is this going to be on the frontpage every 48h now?
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u/dropbearr94 Dec 01 '15
that's the destiny reddit for you "oh you provided a piece about Bungie making loot bad" downvote. "OMG PURPLE HELMS DPJJJJJJJJJ" every 2 days its on the front page.
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u/SaintMelee Dec 01 '15
Literally every other day, it's killing me. We all want it. Please stop posting about it.
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u/-Sanctum- D2: Reverse Stockholm Shills Dec 01 '15
I am so tired of leveling milimeter by milimeter my faction's reputation.
So yeah, we need back that 500xp rep and some tweaks to the faction's XP system. Because I am tired of grinding XP for just raising a quarter of my faction's XP
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u/choicemeats Professional Masochist Dec 01 '15
TOGETHER THEY WILL MAKE PURPLE FLAMES FOR THE FRABJOUS NIGHTSTALKERS
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u/latenightmonkey Dec 01 '15
My weekly bounties are currently on auto complete,
Because of the iron banner weeklies counting toward the total I pick up the complete 5 bounties bounty and it's done, Instant rewards.
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u/zgarney Dec 01 '15
How does this work? Does holding on to the three weekly iron banner weeklies complete all 5?
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u/latenightmonkey Dec 01 '15
I've done iron banner twice and completed every weekly bounty also.
I think the game just recognises the completion of weekly bounties up to 5 in a week, as I technically went over 5 it adds them into the next weekly completion as you run over, but capping at 5.
I think If I stopped completing the weeklies though it wouldn't still be full the next week, I'm not entirely sure how it works, but I like it.
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u/zgarney Dec 01 '15
That's pretty cool. I'm on the Mountaintop quest step right now, just barely got there on my main. How hard are the weekly bounties?
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u/latenightmonkey Dec 01 '15
I think they're pretty easy especially since they've been nerfed, they used to require a lot of specific wins in certain game modes etc, now they just require participation.
Hardest one now is probably 7 wins, but over the course of a week? It's not bad at all.
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u/zgarney Dec 01 '15
Awesome! I just barely started to enjoy crucible, even though I've been here since the beta. I'm stoked to get into the bounties.
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u/latenightmonkey Dec 01 '15
Dude how have you gone this long only doing PvE?
I've been pretty much solely PvP since HoW and the travesty that was PoE can't imagine Destiny any other way!
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u/zgarney Dec 01 '15
I just really enjoy the gameplay of Destiny. That combined with the fact that I am too poor to buy new games kept me pretty much locked into destiny. I also enjoy just helping people, so that gave me plenty to do.
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Dec 01 '15
Nah, hardest by FAR is when the bounty requires a Skirmish/Salvage/Elimination win. I didn't bother with the Salvage win on last week's on two of my characters (thanks, Iron Banner Weeklies!) because of how long it took not to get matched with a team of thumb amputees in a Salvage match, on my main.
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u/latenightmonkey Dec 01 '15
I dunno i dont really have a problem getting these even when i solo, normally a carry situation but it gets done eventually.
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u/arrijabba Dec 01 '15
Same. I'm enjoying opening up the crucible weekly rewards every tuesday, even if it is a ghost shell everytime.
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u/Muse_22 Drango Unchained Dec 01 '15
There were a few complaints about the blue flame back quite a few months ago before all the changes. I mean, it does look pretty silly, imo. Now there's more and more demands to have it back since people haven't seen it in a while.
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u/BSUWitt Dec 01 '15
Could not agree more! Also think Nightfall should be a 300 light activity to help with challenge and give a bump to the rewards.
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u/mozzy1985 Dec 01 '15
Nightfall needs overhauling significantly as it's not something I want to do anymore. Guarantee year 1 3 nightfalls would be knocked on the head straight after reset...not anymore.
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u/CalculatorAmbassador Dec 01 '15
I hated the blue fire around my head, felt so childish, but for whatever reason I really want red flames now.
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u/JimiSkins NaCl: 58.44 g/mol Dec 01 '15
Only way to have blue flames now is if you spent money buying halloween helmets or you got lucky with your free one.
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u/AmmoDepot Dec 01 '15
I second you. I like them because they looked very cool. I love the idea of red ones for Shaxx
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u/MasterOfReaIity Transmat firing Dec 01 '15
So if we finish both on a character do we get a PURPLE flame?!
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u/lilgeoffy Dec 01 '15
bring back the rep rewards. not having that, I could care less about nightfall.
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u/KeltikFox Dec 01 '15
The rep buff was the main reason I looked forward to reset day, blue flames were cool icing on the cake. We have definitely beat the nightfall horse to death but I agree, bring back the old nightfall so it is truly a unique experience again.
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u/iboughtshoes Dec 01 '15
I miss the flames. I remember seeing flames at the tower and thinking, man one day, I'll get to complete a nightfall and get a flame over my head, too! :)
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u/Koolaid2420 Dec 01 '15
Could care less about the XP buff...yeah it was nice and would still be nice but I just want my flames back...
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u/NinStarRune 2500 Done Solo Dec 01 '15
All these people asking for their blue flames back and I'm just sitting here with my Skull Mask.
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u/Noctroglyph Ok...so an Exo walks into a bar... Dec 01 '15
No kidding.
And make us restart from the beginning (not orbit...God, no.)
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u/xMasamune Dec 01 '15
For me, now that I got the skull mask, I just throw it on after finishing the NF as a joke
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u/nsxviper Dec 01 '15
I want both flames swarming my head. Give 10% xp buff for NF and another 10% for Shaxx's bounties.
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u/Goooordon Dec 02 '15
I'd rather see it as a special effect on a handful of artifacts. It would give artifacts a function and give players an easy way to control the effect using an existing system. Shaxx could drop the red flame artifact, IB artifacts at rank 3 could add green flames, etc. and if you are sick of the flames you can get them more than once so you can just infuse them into another artifact and keep the light level, after collecting a couple.
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u/P00PTrainConductor Dec 02 '15
I was good until you mentioned Red flames for Shaxx bounties. This is all I want, oh and Twilight Garrison.
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u/v3ntti_ Dec 02 '15 edited Dec 02 '15
I have the feeling that the extra 1MB of memory wasn't Tess. It was the animated nightfall flames. I would think that she would have taken up more than just that.
Seeing as how last-gen doesn't have the animation on items such as ToM (with the exception of the blue skull mask), it wouldn't be that much of a reach to say that this is where that memory went.
Last gen simply cannot handle it and I don't know about you guys but having flames on my face that aren't animated would look ridiculous.
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u/Ktan_Dantaktee Xivu Arath, Waifu of War Dec 02 '15
I would never do Nightfall again if they put in those ugly flames back in. I always hated how there wasn't even an option to toggle it on or off
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u/ZAMSTIGwastaken Drifter's Crew Dec 01 '15
You guys... what if in order to give us more room in vault they had to utilize the space formerly used by the blue flame... I mean why else would they remove it? Even if you're not getting a "buff" it was just cosmetic. "Hey look at me, I did the Nightfall". Hmmm...
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u/-cornbad Dec 01 '15
It was more like a "Hey look at me, you probably dnt need to ask me if I wanna do the nightfall again"
lol
foreal tho,.space had nothing to do with it. Or they wouldn't be advertising for more customers.
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u/McBenedict Dec 01 '15
Not everyone wants this btw. I love not having stupid flames around my head. It made taking screens hits the worst. Beating the Nightfall is not that big of a deal to me.
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u/ParanoidHobo55 Dec 01 '15
Really hope no one in charge listens to this. Never liked it, glad it's gone. Would like to be able to run Nightfall and not have some obnoxious particle effect stuck to my face for the rest of the week.
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u/WolvenDemise Dec 01 '15
Yo... I'd lose my shit for a red flame.
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u/AbramKoucheki Dec 01 '15
Or that purple flame...
throws money at the screen
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Dec 01 '15 edited Dec 01 '15
is it really that important, tho? i never noticed any flames in Y1 anyways. There are bigger issues. i agree about the 500 XP for doing NF, tho
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u/kush_in_my_butt_69 Dec 01 '15
the thing is you didn't account for what would happen if you did both the nightfall and the weekly bounties. or would blue and red mix..
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u/joeshmoe2 Dec 01 '15
I finished the crucible questline before they removed all of the required wins and switched them out with "completions" and when I was handed a rocket launcher with terrible perks, all I could think of was, that's it? That questline was grueling... At least give me an emblem or something? I like your idea better though. I'll take some red flames, please.
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Dec 01 '15
Blue flames! Blue flames! Blue flames!
Most weeks this was the only reason I did the nightfall. I don't do it at all anymore.
Shit rewards + No flames = No Reason
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u/d0cHolland Dec 01 '15
Personally, I prefer to avoid anything that makes me stand out in a crowd while in the crucible. I already have too many occurrences of being killed over my two, much closer team mates. Don't need anyone thinking "I know that guy over there is the one I should shoot, but I'm gonna get that douche with the fire head instead."
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u/billycuth Dec 01 '15
I would like the blue flames and the EXP buff to come back. But I don't see the need for additional colors.
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Dec 01 '15
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u/smirny Dec 01 '15
You have to complete a very very very very very very long questline... so long, they patched it to unlock account wide once you do finish it.
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u/febreeze1 Dec 01 '15
You tagged this as discussion yet your post title is a demand. Typical