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I'm trying to install the #Destiny beta update and it keeps showing a server error. Why now?!? I JUST WANNA DO COOL STUFF IN SPACE
— Katie Dumas (@katietdumas) July 18, 2014
Damn it I got an email from #Bungie so I can beta test #Destiny on my #PS3 & decided to wait to dl tonight but I am getting 400 server error
— Monkey Business (@MonkeyzBizz) July 18, 2014
Not to rub it in or anything, but my experience was all smooth sailing when starting the game after 11PM. The download took a while – it is over 5Gb (on PS3, and much bigger for PS4) – but once in, Destiny was completely error free. I got to do cool stuff in space. Except, I didn't, because despite the Solar-System-spanning promise of Destiny, its beta is set exclusively on Earth. There were pre-level screens where I got to select between two points of travel from a position of orbit, which is sort of space, I guess. But that aside: exclusively terra firma, albeit of a fairly conventional post-apocalypse-styled variety. The sole slice of otherworldliness: the game's intro cinematic, a sleek Mars mission that leads into the status-explaining monologue opening the trailer below.Got in destiny. Two mins into cut scene after downloading content for 30mins and guess what… Server issues! Ahhhh!!!!
— Paul Todd (@TheRealToddy88) July 17, 2014
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And, straight up, I am impressed. Destiny looks really handsome, even on old PS3 hardware – I'll get to a PS4 when there's enough of a catalogue to warrant the investment – and it plays very intuitively. If you've been hands-on with a Halo game before, or something from the Call Of Duty range, you'll feel immediately at home with the L1 to aim, R1 to shoot set-up. Early upgrades unlock a useful incendiary grenade and a delightfully fun double-jump ability, essential for swift traversal. The story so far is a collision of stock genre motifs, pretty much just mumbo-jumbo existing on the periphery of some terrific shooter action – but I'm sure, with the full game, I'll become more invested in the tale of the Traveller and the threat of The Darkness.I'm going to bed zzz but let me say that was a fairly terrific hour or so in the company of Bungie's new baby. Not bad. Not bad at all.
— Mike Diver (@MikeDiver) July 17, 2014
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