Particularly as we've already beaten the content many times over, and running something like the onerous opening section of the Vow of the Disciple raid just out of a sense of Catholic guilt doesn't exactly appeal. I can confirm that last statement, because I'm one of those who rely on the checkpoints, and the group of veteran raiders I play with are certainly grateful to be able to target their farming more efficiently as the season winds down. The master Duality dungeon is another sought after checkpoint because it drops top tier 'artifice' armor. "As with anything, there are those that wish to hinder and deter progress, but I can confidently say that the vast majority of our community appreciate and, to a degree, rely on the constantly available checkpoints." "The community reaction has been interesting to say the least," he tells me. "I've always felt that streamers need to connect with their audience, and helping gracious viewers is one of the most satisfying experiences," Lai said.īut as with just about everything in the Destiny scene, some have taken exception, presumably because they don't think there should be any shortcuts. It's a smart piece of guerilla marketing for an up and coming streamer. All Lai politely asks is that you check out his Twitch channel (opens in new tab), which currently has just over 5k followers.
It should be noted that the checkpoint service is entirely free. "The community has been generous enough that I have not had to purchase any DLC since the creation of the first five accounts," he tells me.Īs with anything, there are those that wish to hinder and deter progress. However, that's where Lai's Discord has shown its support. The base game of Destiny 2 is of course free-to-play, but some of the most relevant activities are tied to paid expansions, potentially making it expensive to maintain the checkpoint service. "Then the Macro simply goes back to the first window and begins the process all over again." I suspect anything involving macros runs foul of Bungie's terms of service, but given that checkpoint sharing is such a ubiquitous and accepted part of the community, it feels like something the studio can continue turning a blind eye to. "We use a macro that sends Stadia some inputs, then moves on to the next window until all have been sent inputs in a given cycle," Lai says. These days he maintains 11 Stadia accounts, all running off a single desktop containing an i7-7700k processor, 32GB of RAM, and no graphics card. I thought about how it would save electricity, resource usage, and give the ability to have multiple instances open at once." It was only when crossplay (opens in new tab) came out that I had the idea for Google Stadia. "I eventually decided to make an alternate account which I ran on a gaming laptop that would just hold a single checkpoint whose account ID would get posted in the LFG Discord.
"Originally, it started as me using my main account in LFG offering checkpoints," he said.
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