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Edited by Black Mammoth:
11/9/2014 4:20:12 PM
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The USEFUL game mechanic NO-ONE tells you about...
I found out online and verified in the game, that there's a critical ability every player has access to that the tutorial and controls don't tell you about.
I am talking about Destiny's [b]cover system[/b].
Yes, that's right, Destiny has a cover system that few know about, and is never mentioned in the tutorial. It's easy to perform and it's extremely useful for all classes.
The way the cover system works is that you go find waist-high or higher cover, something you can see over while standing. You get behind this cover, then you crouch, and when you want to fire at the enemy you just need to AIM DOWN SIGHTS and your character will pop up over the cover AUTOMATICALLY to fire. When you want to get back under cover, just RELEASE the aim button and your character will automatically duck down again.
WARNING: Your character will only pop up while aiming to shoot, you CANNOT ADS and then toss a grenade, or your character will drop back down and throw it at your cover. If you want to throw a grenade from cover, you must stand up and throw it, then crouch back down behind your cover.
Edit: make sure to like this topic and give it a bump for other Guardians to see.
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I've only know this for a few weeks but I use it a lot now. It reminds me of Far Cry 3, but just a trimmed-down, simpler form of it. No special animations or firing around corners, but still very useful.
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5 RepliesCool thanks. You can also give directions while on your sparrow. Forward, left, right, and stop. Using the thumb pad. Don't know how many people know about it.
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1 ReplyI thought everyone knew about this? It's only useful at the phogath rocks anyways
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Friendly Bump. As others have mentioned, the color of the enemy's shield will also inform you as to which damage type will inflict the most damage (Void, Arc & Solar). :-) Bungie: Is it possible to sticky threads such as this to help new players? If that's not an option, perhaps release a news update to the effect of "Tips and Tricks to Becoming a Better Guardian." I'm certain it would be appreciated by the community. Thank you. ;-)
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Bump, figured this out on my own a little too late
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ive known about this since playing the beta my first 5 minutes ~4 months ago.
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I knew about it but haven't found it to be all that useful.
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1 ReplyI didn't know about this. Thanks.
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I've noticed this too
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I found this out during the first week... Shown a few people since then. I do it for the giggles now.
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I knew about this
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I been knew about that. I found that pretty cool.
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I'll try it out! Thanks! I think that I've crouched about 10 times during my whole time playing Destiny. And that was to get the raid chest and cheese the arkon priest.
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4 RepliesFound this out on launch week. Its basically a less effective version of BF4's cover system.
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Bump! This took me even longer to figure out then the sliding mechanism, didn't even know you could slide until I got a weapon with the "allows you to slide further" perk.
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2 RepliesYou won't find me standing in one place long enough for this to help me. Thanks for sharing the info with people who didn't already know about it though.
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3 RepliesThe game has been out this long and you just found this out? I guess i'll bump this for more people like you.
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Bumping this for the masses to learn about. Please no smart-ass remarks, while you may not care there are plenty of others who would get use out of this information.
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Edited by Black Mammoth: 11/5/2014 8:40:37 PMI do wonder, as a side-note, if there are any other gameplay features that Bungie hasn't told people about... Edit: Yep, another system people might not know about (THANKS BUNGIE!) is the colors of enemy shielding showing which elemental type it's weak against.
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5 RepliesIts almost useless anyway makes you such an easy target... "you CANNOT ADS and then toss a grenade, or your character will drop back down and throw it at your cover. " Haha maybe you can't =P
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Edited by Sebass09974: 10/21/2014 1:23:26 PMI also recently found this out while behind cover & forgot to stand back up.
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1 Replylove you have so many leveled characters and just realised. Bless. Well hope you make good use of it. I thought it was more general aiming and moving whilst crouched will cause you to raise up slightly like in most modern shooters, which can be a pain fi you are trying to hide. but I imagine there are others who don't realise this so hopefully by posting the thread gets a bump.
