Destiny - Rise of Iron: Legendary Vendor Weapons to buy before Rise of Iron Drops!
Destiny players still need to wait another week and a half until the release of Rise of Iron but Bungie has served up a sneak preview as part ofa preparatory patch that was beamed outyesterday. While the update is largely concerned with laying groundwork for the expansion, it does present the opportunity to earn a new gun ahead of time.
One of the exotic weapons set to be introduced by Rise of Iron is now obtainable by all players, according to a report from Eurogamer. The Trespasser is a brand new sidearm, and its being reported that it is the most powerful weapon of this kind to be added to the game so far.
Rise of Iron will apparently buff sidearms considerably in an attempt to increase their popularity among players. This particular type of gun is expected to become 20to 30 percent more powerful during PvE gameplay, and will also pack more of a punch in PvP activities.
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The patch also allows engrams to be decrypted at light levels higher than 335, reflecting the fact that the level cap from The Taken Kingis being increased. Other tweaks made to prepare for Rise of Iron include interface changes to the games quest screen, and improved rewards for public events.
Yesterdays update also contains much of the content set to be added to the game via Rise of Iron, which should helpplayers to dive into the DLCstraight away when it releases later this month. Of course, anyone thats still gaming on an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 will be left out in the cold Bungie is dropping supportfor legacy consoles with the launch of the games fourth expansion.
Destiny: Rise of Iron is scheduled to release for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on September 20, 2016. The expansions new Raid, entitled Wrath of the Machines, will be available from September 23.
A high-ranking member of the Fatah al-Sham rebel group in Syria is dead, rebel sources say, after fighter jets bombed a meeting of the groups leaders near Aleppo.
Abu Omar Saraqeb, who also goes by the name Abu Hajer al-Homsi, was killed during the air raid in a rural part of Aleppo, which rebels say was likely carried out by a U.S. fighter jet, though the nationality of the jets has not been officially acknowledged.
The rebel group, a former al-Qaida affiliate, announced the commanders martyrdom in a post on Twitter.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an aircraft bombed a meeting of commanders of the Army of Conquest alliance, killing Saraqeb and another rebel alliance commander named Abu Muslim al-Shami, though it said it was unclear whether the air strike was carried out by U.S. forces, the Syrian government or Russian forces, all of which have been conducting bombing raids in the area.
Saraqeb was said to be one of the leading members of al-Qaida in Iraq. He fought against U.S. troops during the occupation in 2003 before travelling to Syria, where he became a key commander in the former al-Nusra Front, which later became Fatah al-Sham after breaking ties with al-Qaida.
If it was greater attention Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson wanted, he got it but probably not the kind he wanted.
As part of a media blitz in New York to try to raise his polling numbers enough to qualify for the upcoming presidential debates, Johnson fielded a range of questions Thursday with the aim of demonstrating he can take on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
But one stumped him.
"What would you do about Aleppo?" Johnson was asked on MSNBC"s Morning Joe, a question about Syria"s largest city, which has been engulfed by the country"s ongoing civil war.
"What is Aleppo?" Johnson responded.
Syria"s 2011 pro-democracy uprising, which gradually devolved into civil war, has sparked a refugee crisis across the Middle East and Europe as millions fled their homes for safety.
When reminded of those facts by MSNBC on Thursday, Johnson said he"d work with Russia to find a diplomatic solution to the civil war and that the conflict was an example of the dangers of meddling in the region.
Johnson later acknowledged to another MSNBC reporter the attention to the error was deserved and apologized in a statement, saying he was thinking of an acronym, not the Syrian city.
"I blanked," he said. "It happens, and it will happen again during the course of this campaign."
He added, "Can I name every city in Syria? No. Should I have identified Aleppo? Yes. Do I understand its significance? Yes."
Many election observers, including former candidate Mitt Romney, believe Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson should be included in the upcoming debates. (George Frey/Getty Images)
The error couldn"t have come at a worse time for Johnson. He needs to average 15 per cent in a set of polls to qualify for the presidential debates, the first of which is Sept. 26. He picked up high-profile support Wednesday night when former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney tweeted that Johnson should be allowed in the debates.
Johnson seemed to recognize the peril of the Aleppo error. In a subsequent interview on ABC"s The View, he said: "For those that believe this is a disqualifier, so be it."
Shared images of destruction
In the U.S., his comments sparked debate over the lack of foreign policy discussions in these presidential elections. But for many Syrians it was an opportunity to vent their frustration and bring the world"s attention to one of Syria"s oldest cities, and the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in the five-year civil war.
Using the hashtag, .WhatIsAleppo, Facebook and Twitter users shared stories of its ancient history and its modern woes. Some posted pictures of Aleppo"s beautiful narrow streets and the 13th century citadel that towers over the city.
Others shared images of the destruction that has beset Aleppo, particularly its rebel-held neighbourhoods, which were recently described by one rebel fighter as "like walking into Hiroshima."
Many posted pictures of Aleppo"s residents, such as the iconic image of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, photographed sitting on an orange chair, covered in dust, his pale face smeared with blood following an airstrike.
The population of Syria"s largest city has fallen from 3.1 million in 2011 to an estimated two million today, as families have fled four years of violence and hardship. Once Syria"s commercial centre, large parts of Aleppo are under siege and food and basic necessities are often scarce, dependent on humanitarian aid convoys that arrive only after complex international negotiations. Aleppo"s renowned textile factories have been destroyed.
Gas, barrel bomb attacks cited
The city"s rich cultural and religious mix of Christians, Muslims, Armenians and Kurds has been torn apart by the conflict.
"If you are wondering .WhatISAleppo: More than 100 cases of suffocation in al-Sukkari neighbourhood, .Aleppo, in a chlorine gas .BarrelBombs attack," the Syrian Coalition, an exiled opposition group, tweeted. It referred to a suspected toxic gas attack by government helicopters on Tuesday that killed two people and left at least 80 with breathing problems. The government on Thursday denied using the toxic gas.
For Wissam Zarqa, a 34-year-old resident of rebel-held Aleppo, the city is the embodiment of the "will to live." He returned to his hometown from Saudi Arabia last year and gives English classes to children whose schools have long closed.
"There is something magical about the return of life to an area after a barrel bomb has just been dropped," he told The Associated Press via WhatsApp messages. "When I first returned to Aleppo 16 months ago, a missile hit the last floor of the building I live in. Half an hour later, the kids had finished cleaning the street outside the building."
Unsurprisingly when its neighbourhoods are physically separated by gunmen and sandbags, the people of Aleppo are divided over what their city is.
".WhatIsAleppo. It was an industrial hub of Syria until rebels invaded, looted her factories & smuggled them to Turkey," tweeted Bassem, a self-proclaimed secular Syrian with a large following on Twitter.
But not for the first time in its long history, Aleppo finds itself torn between international powers. Turkey is a main supporter of the city"s rebel groups, and has sent its military to Aleppo province to fight Islamic State group extremists and rival Kurdish rebels. Russia and Iran are supporting the Syrian government"s bid to gain control over the city.
The U.S. and Russia are locked in protracted negotiations over a ceasefire in the city, after a previous truce deal collapsed in Aleppo in April.
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ALPINE, Texas (AP) A 14-year-old girl died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday after shooting and injuring another female student inside a high school in West Texas, according to the local sheriff.
Authorities did not release a possible motive for the gunfire that erupted shortly before 9 a.m. at Alpine High School in Alpine, a town of 5,900 about 220 miles southeast of El Paso. The shooting was followed by a series of unrelated threats made by a male caller that added to the chaos of the day and diverted law enforcement from the high school.
"That"s ridiculous for someone to call in something like this when we"ve got this situation going on," Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson told radio station KVLF.
The sheriff said the family of the girl who died had moved to Alpine about six months ago. She was a freshman at the school.
Dodson said the injured student ran outside seeking help and was taken to a hospital with injuries that weren"t considered life threatening.
Dodson said a U.S. Homeland Security officer who was responding to the incident was shot in the leg when a U.S. marshal who also was responding accidentally discharged his weapon. The injured officer was transported to a hospital in Odessa, Texas.
The shooting at the high school prompted a lockdown at Alpine"s three public schools, which were later evacuated.
Alpine police Chief Russell Scown said even after the shooter was found mortally wounded in a bathroom at the school, it wasn"t immediately clear that she was the assailant. Emergency responders at one point thought two shooters may have been involved.
The school district declined comment, saying it would release a statement later.
Law enforcement officials were also dealing with threats made in the wake of the shooting. They said they don"t believe there was a connection between the threats and the shooting at the high school.
Authorities said threats were phoned in to an Alpine hospital and to Sul Ross State University, which is about a mile from the high school. Officers and bomb-sniffing dogs had to search for explosives in each building of the university, Dodson said. None were found.
"Right now, we think we"ve got some nut, who in the midst of one of our most emotional times here at our school started calling in these threats," Dodson said at an afternoon news conference, adding, "Basically, he"s what we"re looking for right now."
There was also a threatening note left at a motel in Marathon, Texas, about 30 miles east of Alpine.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said earlier that he"s monitoring developments in the Alpine shooting and promised to provide support for law enforcement agencies investigating the matter.
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Destiny Sniper Nerf: Competitive Sniping is Dead (Rise of Iron Patch)
Xur"s back! Wafting his little wispy tentacles seductively in your face and being all "my will is not my own". Do you think he breaths like normal people? I always imagine those wafty strands are like ribbons on a vent. It must be like standing in front of gentle air conditioning set to "warm and damp".
This week Destiny"s hooded one is skulking about the Tower, under those big doors opposite the Speaker, with helmets for everyone! (Although, if you"re a Hunter we"re, so, so sorry). And, for pulse rifle fans, Bad Juju is bringing some good luck to all your burst fire hopes and dreams.
Here"s the full list.
An Insurmountable Skullfort (Titan helmet, 13 strange coins)
Working on through the helmets first we"ve got the Titan"s Insurmountable Skullfort, which is great if you like melee. It spawns you ready to punch and with an extra charge in the bank, as well as adding melee charge on orb pick ups and bonus super juice on melee kills. Plus it refills your health when you use Storm Fist. Basically, if you"re a Titan who likes punching things you need this.
Next up is the Hunter"s ATS/8 Arachnid which isn"t probably worth the effort as all it does it let you zoom when using Golden Gun. Hunters: best wait, there are more useful magic hats out there.
That brings us on to the Warlock"s Apotheosis Veil. This fills your health, melee and grenade energy when you activate your super. That makes it great for comebacks when things get a bit much, especially with Sunsinger"s support focus or Stormcaller"s crowd control powers.
Which just leaves us with Bad Juju, a fast powerful pulse rifle that can be switched to full auto. It"s accurate, especially with its bonus hipfire perk and has a perk called String of Curses that means it can reload itself, buff damage and charge your Super on every kill. It"s worth it.
As ever you"ve got until 10am GMT/2am PT on Sunday to make your choice and earn what you need. And don"t forget to grab some Three of Coins while you"re there. You"re never not going to need them.
Lady Gaga gives a thumbs up while walking around town in her black workout gear on Tuesday (May 10) in New York City.
The 30-year-old singer was seen later that day wearing a knit sweater and black leggings while leaving her apartment.
Gaga took to Instagram to respond to a blogger who referred to her as a hypocrite for posting about her religious beliefs even though shes a celebrity.
Dear Becky Roach, Mary Magdalene washed the feet of Christ and was protected and loved by him. A prostitute. Someone society shames as if she and her body are a mans trash can. He loved her and did not judge. He let her cry over him and dry his feet with the hair of a harlot. We are not just celebrities we are humans and sinners, children, and our lives are not void of values because we struggle. We are as equally forgiven as our neighbor. G*d is never a trend no matter who the believer, Gaga wrote.
See a screencap of the article in reference via Gagas Instagram below.
