Destiny 2

[ind33d]

Bungie Replaces Marathon Director Amid Leadership Shakeup, Fears of Layoffs

https://www.ign.com/articles/bungie...s-barrett-as-game-director?utm_source=threads

Within the company, there is a growing expectation that senior company leadership will leave in droves in the summer of 2026 when the final payouts from Sony's acquisition of the company take effect.

marathon is now a hero shooter LMAO

 

[frajaq]

the very mild enthusiasm I had for Marathon (mostly the unique aesthetics of the trailer plus those details about it having some unique mechanics aside from an extraction shooter) is now gone

 

[Old Hans]

bungie is a shadow of its former self. they're like Sauron after his ring falls into Mound Doom. They may as well just switch over to monetarized mobile phone slot machine games

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Nearly said the F word.

Spoiler

the fallen

 

[ADL]

Interesting, the mix and match class ability stuff aligns with a leak that also mentioned Destiny 3 being in development.

Luke Smith kinda teases it too.

 

[ADL]

Everyone might as well play Witch Queen campaign now. It's free for a couple weeks.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

how about no?

 

[Gerrard]

Funny how this game doesn't require a PSN account despite being owned by Sony now.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Would 100% need it in the future if the Helldivers drama didn't happen, now I'm unsure. Destiny 1 required it if you played on PS3/PS4. (no PC version, other option was xbox)

But yeah apparently it's all free until June, including the seasons and their guaranteed weapon patterns drop daily instead of weekly. (completing a pattern lets you customize the perks instead of relying on RNG drops)

 

[Cheesedragon117]

Still not enough to get me to come back. Every update, every genuflection, every concession they make brings with it another unspoken insult. The removal of upgrade materials, an insult to those that spent weeks and weeks of their lives farming Grandmaster Nightfalls. The addition of a craftable version of Outbreak Perfected is an insult to me, who spent at least a hundred hours maxing out the original weapon's catalyst. The removal of Special ammo from the Crucible, an insult to the 99% of PvP players to appease the 1%. The reworking of core mechanics like Titan shoulder charges, an insult to those that spent thousands of hours mastering the game's tech. One harebrained decision after another, over and over and over again.

Seeing Bungie like this, the apple polisher that keeps dropping the apple in the mud in their desperate attempts to please, elicits only contempt rather than gratitude. No, I'll come back when the game's dead and long abandoned. At least then, I can be sure they won't remove jumping or sliding in the next update.

 

[Perkel]

>No, I'll come back when the game's dead and long abandoned.

They will just switch off servers. Because Destiny main point is to nickel and dime users not to make a good game.

 

[Cheesedragon117]

The first game's servers still haven't been shut down yet, despite getting like 40 concurrent players tops, on a good week.

But of course, this is also assuming that Bungie survives the end of D2, and whatever abomination they make afterward. Frankly, they can all burn. I'm actually hoping Sony will shutter this studio permanently. A just reward for betraying their own principles, pimping themselves out to whoever has money.

Too many women and trannies have spoiled the pot, and now they're simply creatively incapable of making anything any man would recognize as a "Bungie game".

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

The first game's servers still haven't been shut down yet, despite getting like 40 concurrent players tops, on a good week.

servers are cheap. also what if those 40 are idiots who keep spending?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

The addition of a craftable version of Outbreak Perfected is an insult to me, who spent at least a hundred hours maxing out the original weapon's catalyst.

You don't have to get it again, it's considered the same gun.

https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/twid-05-09-2024Prismatic

subclasses gameplay previews. I think this is what was shown in the larger weekly videos about TFS recently, but here they are in short clip form.







Now I'm wondering if that leak about a new subclass was just leakanon overdosing on weapons grade hopium for a SIVA subclass, or if he really saw ideas for this and got the wrong idea. (edit: Nope, he specifically mentioned prism)

Unofficial graphic

Unfortunately none of them gets the solar fusion grenade, so that ends my hopes of an Ashen Wake + Shinobu's Vow class item that gives me a fastball fusion grenade that detonates on impact and chases enemies for maximum pebble throwing.

 

[Cogemesiter]

I’ve been done with Destiny 2 since the DLC after Forsaken. I don’t feel like coming back but damn, D1 and D2 post forsaken were some of my favorite games of all time. I just want a game where I can play as a futuristic space cowboy, and Destiny Hunter class allowed me to do that.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/tfs-abilities-tuning-preview

Abilities update. didn't read it yet but I'm scared.

 

[Lazing Dirk]

The only thing I care about in Destiny 2 is if I can still use PEREGRINE GREEEEAAAVES or not

 

[ind33d]

The first game's servers still haven't been shut down yet, despite getting like 40 concurrent players tops, on a good week.

But of course, this is also assuming that Bungie survives the end of D2, and whatever abomination they make afterward. Frankly, they can all burn. I'm actually hoping Sony will shutter this studio permanently. A just reward for betraying their own principles, pimping themselves out to whoever has money.

Too many women and trannies have spoiled the pot, and now they're simply creatively incapable of making anything any man would recognize as a "Bungie game".

the fact Destiny was supposed to be an FPS based on the movie The Crow and ended up as this trainwreck is fucking hilarious. it's like a cargo cult in DLC form

 

[Clockwork Knight]

That must have been some really ancient idea for the game, then. The oldest iteration of Destiny I'm aware of already looked like Halo RPG.

https://www.gamesradar.com/well-destinys-original-menus-sure-were-fugly/

Which is before the playable stuff that got chopped up in order to get a proper game ready for release, changing the space mercenary Crow into the awoken prince. Even back then that was just the name Crow and the character had nothing to do with the movie.

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/12/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny/

In the summer of 2013, just over a year before Destiny came out, the story got a full reboot, according to six people who were there. Bungie ditched everything Joe Staten and his team had written, reworking Destiny‘s entire structure as they scrapped plot threads, overhauled characters, and rewrote most of the dialogue. The decision was made against Staten’s wishes, sources say. Destiny project lead Jason Jones and the rest of senior leadership were unhappy with the writing team’s supercut, and their reaction was to scrap it all.

Destiny‘s story went through several revisions before the reboot, but the supercut’s version revolved around players’ hunt for the warmind Rasputin, according to two people familiar with the original plans. In today’s Destiny, Rasputin doesn’t do much but listen to classical music in a steel bunker on Earth, but in the 2013 version, he would have starred in a more prominent role. Alien Hive would have kidnapped the machine and brought him to their Dreadnaught spaceship, which was later cut from vanilla Destiny and moved to The Taken King. Originally, this Hive ship would have been part of the main story. “The entire last third of the game took place on the Dreadnaught with you rescuing Rasputin,” said one person who worked on the game.

https://www.inverse.com/article/7233-what-changed-from-bungie-s-original-draft-of-destiny

Prince Uldren is an Awoken and brother to Queen Mara Sov in the Reef. He’s antagonistic to the player, has a flamboyant flair, and looks like Criss Angel dipped in a pool of a melted Grimace.

He wasn’t supposed to be a jerk. In the original Destiny, the model used for Prince Uldren was supposed to be a different character, a rogue named Crow, possessing a fun, witty personality that Cayde-6 has now.

“In Destiny’s original story, the Crow would have met the players in an early mission … and worked with them to find Osiris. One person familiar with the original story described the Crow as rogueish and charming, not unlike Nathan Fillion’s character, Cayde-6, in the most recent expansion. ‘Basically, who Cayde-6 is in The Taken King was the personality of the Crow,’ that person told me.
Bungie reused the Crow’s model for a new character: the Awoken Queen’s brother, Prince Uldren.”
Crow would have been an ally, but in Destiny now Uldren hopes you die trying to take down a Gate Lord. Of course you disappoint him.

 

[ind33d]

That must have been some really ancient idea for the game, then. The oldest iteration of Destiny I'm aware of already looked like Halo RPG.

https://www.gamesradar.com/well-destinys-original-menus-sure-were-fugly/

Which is before the playable stuff that got chopped up in order to get a proper game ready for release, changing the space mercenary Crow into the awoken prince. Even back then that was just the name Crow and the character had nothing to do with the movie.

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/12/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny/

In the summer of 2013, just over a year before Destiny came out, the story got a full reboot, according to six people who were there. Bungie ditched everything Joe Staten and his team had written, reworking Destiny‘s entire structure as they scrapped plot threads, overhauled characters, and rewrote most of the dialogue. The decision was made against Staten’s wishes, sources say. Destiny project lead Jason Jones and the rest of senior leadership were unhappy with the writing team’s supercut, and their reaction was to scrap it all.

Destiny‘s story went through several revisions before the reboot, but the supercut’s version revolved around players’ hunt for the warmind Rasputin, according to two people familiar with the original plans. In today’s Destiny, Rasputin doesn’t do much but listen to classical music in a steel bunker on Earth, but in the 2013 version, he would have starred in a more prominent role. Alien Hive would have kidnapped the machine and brought him to their Dreadnaught spaceship, which was later cut from vanilla Destiny and moved to The Taken King. Originally, this Hive ship would have been part of the main story. “The entire last third of the game took place on the Dreadnaught with you rescuing Rasputin,” said one person who worked on the game.

https://www.inverse.com/article/7233-what-changed-from-bungie-s-original-draft-of-destiny

Prince Uldren is an Awoken and brother to Queen Mara Sov in the Reef. He’s antagonistic to the player, has a flamboyant flair, and looks like Criss Angel dipped in a pool of a melted Grimace.

He wasn’t supposed to be a jerk. In the original Destiny, the model used for Prince Uldren was supposed to be a different character, a rogue named Crow, possessing a fun, witty personality that Cayde-6 has now.

“In Destiny’s original story, the Crow would have met the players in an early mission … and worked with them to find Osiris. One person familiar with the original story described the Crow as rogueish and charming, not unlike Nathan Fillion’s character, Cayde-6, in the most recent expansion. ‘Basically, who Cayde-6 is in The Taken King was the personality of the Crow,’ that person told me.
Bungie reused the Crow’s model for a new character: the Awoken Queen’s brother, Prince Uldren.”
Crow would have been an ally, but in Destiny now Uldren hopes you die trying to take down a Gate Lord. Of course you disappoint him.

Ghosts resurrecting your guardian when you die came from the crow resurrecting Draven

 

[Clockwork Knight]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...-final-shape-expansion-early/?sh=198138941524

Sony Just Leaked Destiny 2’s ‘The Final Shape’ Expansion Early​

It is a disastrous morning for Bungie and the Destiny 2 community as next Tuesday’s mega-expansion, The Final Shape, has been leaked early.

What precisely happened is still being worked out, but this appears to be an issue with Sony PS5 streaming, where the DLC was made available briefly through that service. It’s been nuked now, but an incredible amount of damage has already been done. (There are no spoilers in this article).

The leak allowed some players to start the campaign, but more pressingly, see loads of information in the collections system, leading to story spoilers circulating on the internet, which will no doubt soon include spamming of them in threads, stream chats, even in-game, as unfortunately that’s what always happens with this sort of thing.

In addition to the story spoilers, there are now raid mechanics that have been leaked early, casting a shadow on what would be the highest profile raid race in Destiny history, as if you do not know those leaks, you would be at an immediate disadvantage over those who have seen them.

This is, without a doubt, one of the worst leaks and screw-ups I’ve ever seen, and it appears to be entirely Sony-based, as this is the only platform where this happened and it’s tied up in their streaming functionality. The exact technical nature of how this unfolded remains to be seen, but it’s an issue Sony must address immediately lest this happen elsewhere. There are other, as-of-yet unconfirmed reports that this may have also made Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree playable, but I have not seen confirmation of that like I have with the Final Shape leak.

It's hard to overstate just how devastating a leak like this is for Bungie, where so much hinges on the release of this expansion, the culmination of a ten year saga, and the leaks are not just leaks, they are spoilers for years-long plot threads.

The community seems to be rallying to clamp down on the spread of these leaks as much as possible, but the only real solution to this is to go completely dark online until Tuesday, as there are just too many avenues for this stuff to pop up. All it takes is one comment, one line of chat, to ruin a major plot point, and I’ve been here before with many different games. Stay online at all and it’s almost impossible to avoid, especially when a leak is this large. And there are plenty of people with vendettas against Bungie who are more than happy to spread stuff like this around maliciously.

It's awful. We need to know exactly what happened here, and how it can be avoided in the future. But for Destiny 2, it’s too late.

RIP

Though it's just weapons and seasonal stuff, not the main plot it seems. But knowing raid details in advance will make for an interesting world first raid race.

 

[Cheesedragon117]

No worries. There wasn't actually any good writing to spoil in the first place.

 

[ADL]

Supposedly Elden Ring's DLC was accessible through the same method too.