General tips for Destiny Beta
- When you score kills with your super ability, you’ll spawn orbs of light. Your teammates can scoop them up to fuel their own devastating supers. Sometimes when the sun goes down in Rocketyard and Skywatch (two areas of Old Russia), the Fallen and the Hive go to war, sending out waves of high level reinforcements. You can jump into the middle of the fray, or stand back and watch them throw down. You can find a Hive Ogre or a Hallowed Knight guarding a treasure chest beneath the helipad in Skywatch. You can use the vault in the Tower to share weapons, armour, and items between all of your characters. While your exploring you can find materials like Spinmetal that you can exchange in the Tower for reputation and upgraded gear. Each Faction offers unique shaders you can purchase that change the colour scheme of your equipped gear. There are five Golden Chests and numerous Dead Ghosts hidden throughout Cosmodrome for players to find.
How to survive The Crucible
Friendlies always show up as dots and players can see their position relative to their own. If a player goes in with a pre-made fireteam, the dots will be green instead of the standard glue. Enemies always show up on the Tracker, so it has nothing to do with movement. If they are crouched, however, they will ping less frequently, but still show up. This greatly reduces camping. The Tracker is broken up into segments, and generally shows where the enemies are without revealing the exact position. This means effective Tracker usage requires a combination of map knowledge and in-game situational awareness. When lines appear outside the main segments, it shows the general direction of enemies, and usually following that will get the player back into action. When the centre piece starts flashing that means an enemy is within 6 meters, and Bungie calls that the panic zone.
Ammo in Destiny uses Bungie’s private loot stream tech, so any glowing ammo block you see on the ground is always for you. Ammo crates can be shared. When a teammate activates a crate, it will also create ammo for any nearby teammates. This is true of both special (green) and also heavy (purple) ammo. It’s a great idea to gather teammates around a heavy ammo crate so everyone gets ammo, but beware that some enemies will try to bait you with this. Primary ammo is plentiful, and players always spawn with it. A small amount of special ammo is available at round start, but after that it must be picked up from special crates or dead enemies. Players never spawn with heavy ammo in The Crucible, and the only way to get it is to get it from a crate or kill an enemy who has it. If a player dies with heavy ammo they drop it for their killer. The announcer gives a 10 second warning before heavy ammo comes in. Learn the locations in the map and listen for the warnings.
