Destiny 2 - Place your bets on how many $40 DLC packs we'll get this time.

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Asian tech support said:
sort of. xur's ingredient was a god rolled main ingredient that he sold at some point during the beyond light patch cycle. people remember it like they remember the one triple tap firefly hung jury from D1. it had every single stability increasing perk you could ask for and this came either immediately before or immediately after the big fusion rifle buff that increased the bolts shot by the rapid fires and reduced the bolts shut by the high impacts.
because of how stability controls the bolt pattern, it's the best stat on fusions. it's also why firmly planted was nerfed soon thereafter. anyway, the roll was particle repeater, under pressure, tap the trigger, and a stability masterwork, all three of which increase stability with under pressure always active due to muh special ammo economy and tap the trigger activated on every shot because it's a fusion rifle and you're not spraying a fusion rifle. this capped stability. on paper at the time, there were probably better fusions but it performed so well at the low low cost of checking fucking xur that weekend that it was impossible to pass up.
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Erentil FR4 with a long-range scope, Under Pressure, and Backup Plan was the play back in Forsaken era, up until they nerfed Backup Plan.
 
Two more preview videos posted today. First, new void hunter melee:


And second, new void warlock aspect, Soul Siphon:


Ability and armor insights still coming tomorrow. Bungo also posted the current status of the patch notes: 71 pages, 17k words, and they're still working on them.

ETA: Also, teasing a little update for the Lawless Frontier with some new items to chase, including at least one thing for the Praxic Blade. Guessing that this stuff was probably going to be rewards for the Shadow and Order update before it got canceled, so it's good that they're getting put into the game somehow.
StacticShock said:
this commendation system is pretty fucking gay, ngl.
especially when i have bounties to claim, i need to hold tab fucking twice to bring the director, bleh.
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Could be worse, you could have been playing when Guardian Rank was tied to needing a specific commendation score, and the highest ranks required blue commendations specifically. After a couple of seasons when people stopped caring about them, you could pretty much guarantee nobody would give them out. Now it's just wholly optional at least, but it's still a pointless system that I wouldn't mind if they ripped it out.
 
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lol.
i mean it beats hearing failsafe's VA's hot potato in mouth voice but damn, this is so fucking cringe.
her intro is at 4:07 ish.
 
Been playing original Halo and it's literally just pre-historic Destiny. Watching the alien drop ships come and drop enemies, and get shot by the ship's turret activated muh neurons.
 
Monument of Triumph Launch Trailer:

Tower updated, featuring lots of grass and overgrowth, looking very nice. Traveller has canonically returned above the Last City with the Pale Heart closed. It'll be a legacy location I guess. SRL shown off. A new solar titan ability was displayed where a towering barricade is now an offensive ability, being sent towards enemies and killing them.
 
Blackstar said:
Monument of Triumph Launch Trailer:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-TWYj6sw2NQ
Tower updated, featuring lots of grass and overgrowth, looking very nice. Traveller has canonically returned above the Last City with the Pale Heart closed. It'll be a legacy location I guess. SRL shown off. A new solar titan ability was displayed where a towering barricade is now an offensive ability, being sent towards enemies and killing them.
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Looks like the sunset raids are back.
 
Blackstar said:
Monument of Triumph Launch Trailer:
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i love that this trailer makes everything seem cool and hip but i've noticed more than enough windows of vulnerability that will get you killed in 3 seconds or lesser on a shitty advanced solo ops and higher since the game loves locking your light level a couple of levels below the combatants even if you have more than enough or even resistance stacking items.

also faggot detected:
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Thomas Talus said:
Looks like the sunset raids are back.
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some of it, yes, i noticed the nessus one with the rings and the huge hydra in the middle.
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but they said that was not possible... how they manage to do that?
 
Thomas Talus said:
Looks like the sunset raids are back.
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Burgundy Brandy said:
So has scourge been left behind? Nothing shown of it during the trailer and tempered dynamo is obtainable from arena ops as of next season.
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It's likely just boss encounters for Pantheon and not the full raids. Dunno why they'd leave out Scourge, but maybe they just didn't have time and something needed to be cut.

Dev insights for abilities and armor, highlights:
  • New subclass abilities:
    • Titan: Shieldburst (boosts Barricades to either move forward or grant scorching rounds, activate again to make it explode and scorch enemies)
    • Hunter: Crackshot (mark up to three targets by aiming at them, fire with your dodge, land all three to gain Cure)
    • Warlock: Soul Siphon (activate with a powered melee, use melee again to drain from all in front, dealing damage and gaining Overshield and class energy)
  • New Darkness grenades that give more direct damage options:
    • Stasis: Shatter Grenade (sticky grenade, explodes into shrapnel that ricochets, hitting a frozen target makes it explode instantly and deal more damage)
      • Also the previous change to make Shatter stun Overloads instead of Unstoppables has been reverted, so Stasis can handle two champs again.
    • Strand: Slicewire Grenade (bounces along the ground unleashing damaging strands that also sever enemies)
  • New Nightstalker melee, Phantom Surge (dash forward to deal damage as you move through enemies, generating Overshield for each hit, more for at least one kill while also refunding some melee energy)
  • Ability reworks:
    • Nightstalker Trapper's Ambush (now works like an aerial strike but consumes class energy, damaging enemies and either healing you or granting Devour)
    • Sentinel Ward of Dawn (radius doubled, grants Overshield and Weapons of Light inside the bubble, weakens and pulls in nearby enemies, can be repositioned up to two times by the caster)
    • Broodweaver Mindspun Invocation (charged Threadling Grenade now creates a Threadling Nest like the recent Service of Luzaku exotic)
  • Stasis Harvest aspects:
    • Stasis subclasses now generate Stasis Shards by default through shattering crystals or enemies or defeating slowed or frozen enemies
    • Harvest aspects now give Frost Armor stacks on picking up shards, as well as refunding ability energy
    • Frost Armor stacks now melt off one at a time instead of all at once
  • Too many ability changes to list, a couple of highlights:
    • Heat Rises is safer to use in PVE with combatants having reduced accuracy while it's active
    • Thruster can be used airborne, as well as Gunslinger Hunters' Acrobat's Dodge
    • Radiant and Volatile Rounds no longer have anti-Barrier effects due to intrinsic changes, instead granting additional damage to Champions while active
    • A couple of nerfs to ability regen: floors remain the same but the ceilings have been brought down somewhat to reduce how abilities trivialize combat; in addition, Super energy from damaging bosses has also been brought down
  • Armor 3.0:
    • Six new archetypes are being added to give more variety in stat combos; while every single possible combo isn't covered, most will be
    • Armorer mods on your Ghost increase the droprate of your chosen armor from one-in-three to one-in two
    • Exotic armor will automatically be raised to T5, both old and new, and will have access to all tuning mods
    • A targeted nerf and buff to a couple of set bonuses, preview of a couple of the incoming ones
  • Exotic armor reworks, again too many to list but some highlights:
    • Shards of Galanor now creates a delayed explosion if you land most of your knives per burst (equal to a Cuirass Thundercrash if you land both)
    • Shinobu's Vow creates a Bolt Charge/Skip Grenade loop
    • Hallowfire Heart lets you sling ignitions around while charged up from ability kills and consumes charges to refund Super energy
    • No Backup Plans works with every subclass
    • Helm of Saint-14 not only gives Weapons of Light outside the bubble but also lets you increase the duration through kills
    • Skull of Dire Ahamkara gives a second, smaller, faster Nova Bomb after your first that you can use to detonate a Cataclysm bomb and get a Vortex and the Cataclysm seekers
    • Astrocyte Verse gives you a second dark Blink that you can activate with your air move to blink horizontally
And the last pre-update TWAB:
  • A list of a lot of the rewards (I was wrong, the exotic hand cannon wasn't The First Curse, dammit)
  • Legendary Marks are earned by completing Monument of Triumph triumphs, and can then be spent at the Tower for rewards
    • God there's so many, too many to even go into
  • Some rewards will require specific objectives to acquire, for example:
    • Chatterwhite shader: Complete Hawthorne's weekly Deepsight quest for Vault of Glass
    • Einherjar Coronet helmet ornament: Complete eight Teamwork: Raid Challenges triumphs
    • Immortal Legend armor set: Complete the new Immortal title
  • Note from Bungo Foundation and a reminder that it's faggot month
  • One final Moments of Triumph shirt for anyone who finishes the Immortal title
  • Also a free soundtrack reward will be available
  • And finally, two free emblems will be available: one for everyone who logs in starting on June 9th (along with some Legendary Marks and Bright Engrams), and one exclusively for oldheads who have played at least once during every one of Destiny 2's expansion years
The free-to-all emblem is particularly funny to me. The full image has a collage of practically every allied character from across Destiny's lifespan, even going back to D1 with characters like Efrideet tucked in there. But someone at Bungo must have a sense of humor, because look where Nimbus ended up: halfway hidden by the Ghost emblem. Hilarious.
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And the oldhead emblem is also kind of funny in a sad way, considering that it's a timeline of Destiny releases going back to the first game, but also still has the second half of the Renegades season icon tucked in on the right side. A continued reminder of what could have been.
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The Doom Slayer said:
You know, if they had put all this content and all these features in the game before now, maybe it wouldn't have fucking died. :roll:
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boy do i have a redditpost for you.
8__D said:
You can't blame Sony. The Bungie management were inside the building torching everything long before that deal was finalized. The worst thing Sony did was not firing the entire C-suite to try to contain the fire.

Edit: For everyone downvoting me, here is the evidence that Bungie's C-suite destroyed the studio, not Sony. This problem predates Sony by years.

When Bungie split from Activision in 2019, Activision's COO explained it on an earnings call: "Destiny is highly critically acclaimed, high quality content, but it was not meeting our financial expectations." That's partner #1 walking away over finances. GameSpot

Then Microsoft, a company that previously owned Bungie and knew them intimately, put Bungie on their 2021 acquisition watchlist but passed. Internal Microsoft documents revealed during the FTC v. Microsoft court hearing show they flagged Bungie had a "high burn-rate" risk, meaning they were spending more money than they could make back. Microsoft knew the books and said no. Sony didn't listen. [Windows Central] (https://www.windowscentral.com/gami...-acquiring-bungie-and-sega-for-xbox-game-pass)

Sony was misled by Bungie leadership. Investigative reporter Stephen Totilo (Game File), speaking to insider sources, reported that Bungie's leadership overstated their financial prospects to Sony. Sony paid $3.6B based on promises Bungie's C-suite couldn't back up. [Bloomberg/Schreier] (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/news...and-destiny-faces-reckoning-after-mass-layoff)

Multiple former Bungie developers have publicly stated that funds that should have gone into Destiny 2 "went into leadership pockets." One ex-dev said directly: "You're not understanding me. We're saying it went into leadership pockets. You should be pissed, but keep the blame where it was." [Windows Central] (https://www.windowscentral.com/gami...-issues-as-destiny-2s-final-update-approaches)

Meanwhile, CEO Pete Parsons spent $2.4 million on 25 vintage cars between 2022 and 2024, verified by cross-referencing auction records on Bring A Trailer with photos of Parsons' personal collection. This happened across both rounds of mass layoffs. [PC Gamer] (https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indu...-414-550-on-vintage-cars-in-the-past-2-years/)

Leadership lied to employees too. TechCrunch interviewed laid-off employees directly. One said: "It kind of feels like upper management is being very two-faced about it. Like they're telling us one thing, but behind the scenes, something else is happening." Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, speaking to ten current and former Bungie employees, reported the company used Sony's money to inflate headcount and chase multiple projects simultaneously, stretching itself to breaking point. [TechCrunch] (https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/31/b...y-were-caught-off-guard-by-17-staff-reduction) [Bloomberg] (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/news...and-destiny-faces-reckoning-after-mass-layoff)

One producer found out she was laid off the week her maternity leave was supposed to start. The work culture was rotten long before Sony. In 2021, IGN published an investigation based on interviews with 26 current and former employees detailing crunch, burnout, sexism, racism, and leadership protecting bad actors. The fallout was so severe that Bungie's head of HR resigned, writing in her goodbye email that the company needed leadership "largely comprised of people new to Bungie." [Axios] (https://www.axios.com/2021/12/16/gaming-bungie-hr-head-steps-down)

The problem followed Bungie's C-suite across every single relationship. Microsoft, Activision, and now Sony.
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dayum, that's some good shit.
 
Schizo theory time: We're getting 3 exotic weapons
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Here is my reasoning; The magazines present on both weapons look far too different with the weapon shown in the Immortal Legend (IL) preview looking to feed from the top while Fafnir in the Tenet of Bravery is fed from the bottom. The weapon shown with IL is also pretty slim and in the kinetic slot while Fafnir has a chunkier build and looks to be a heavy weapon just from a glance. I also just think it's far too out there to be an ornament for any of the weapons we already have. So we're getting a third exotic and quest for it.
 
Burgundy Brandy said:
Schizo theory time: We're getting 3 exotic weapons
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Here is my reasoning; The magazines present on both weapons look far too different with the weapon shown in the Immortal Legend (IL) preview looking to feed from the top while Fafnir in the Tenet of Bravery is fed from the bottom. The weapon shown with IL is also pretty slim and in the kinetic slot while Fafnir has a chunkier build and looks to be a heavy weapon just from a glance. I also just think it's far too out there to be an ornament for any of the weapons we already have. So we're getting a third exotic and quest for it.
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It wouldn't necessarily surprise me. If Shadow and Order would have been anything like Ash and Iron, it would have dropped another exotic mission to go play through. It's possible that they didn't scrap it entirely when the decision was made to axe the original midseason update, then rolled it into this final update. They haven't said anything about it thus far, but they do know how much the community loves secrets, so they might be keeping it under wraps until the update launches just to give one more surprise. Here's hoping.
 
Burgundy Brandy said:
Schizo theory time: We're getting 3 exotic weapons
Here is my reasoning; The magazines present on both weapons look far too different with the weapon shown in the Immortal Legend (IL) preview looking to feed from the top while Fafnir in the Tenet of Bravery is fed from the bottom. The weapon shown with IL is also pretty slim and in the kinetic slot while Fafnir has a chunkier build and looks to be a heavy weapon just from a glance. I also just think it's far too out there to be an ornament for any of the weapons we already have. So we're getting a third exotic and quest for it.
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probably the planned exotic stuff from the new battlepass they wanted to slap on the game but since shutdown order is in effect, they will release it whatever, i mean they can always lock shit under a pass anyway like they've always been doing because fuck free players that's why, gotta act like some retarded version of world of warcraft for some gay reason, hoping people will just bite the bullet and buy their shit, like nah nigga the game is ded, fuck you too bungo.
 
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Guardian,
For more than a decade your triumphs have echoed across the Sol system; a resounding chorus of bravery, selflessness, and teamwork. Of running towards danger with enthusiasm. You have faced down invincible foes and solved intractable challenges. You've explored countless locales, filled your vaults with all manner of Exotic gear, and even defeated gods at chess. Truly your accomplishments are without equal.

The journey of Destiny 2 has been unforgettable for us, full of moments of joy and awe, as we have watched Guardians overcome the challenges put before them; to come together in the spirit of teamwork and overcome the odds; to rise, and to fall, and to rise once again.


We're proud to present this collection of music, our largest Destiny 2 soundtrack release ever, featuring a wide range of tones and moods. These songs have accompanied your triumphs throughout the game and continue to reflect one of Destiny's enduring themes: an unwavering optimism for a brighter future, even in the darkest moments.

We hope you enjoy this collection of music as you continue your journey in Destiny 2 and beyond. For your next Sparrow race, your next quiet moment contemplating an impossible vista, or your next battle to protect those who need it most.

Thank you for being a Guardian. May this music accompany you into the future, wherever in the stars your destiny takes you.
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The raiding scene is so dead. Doesn't help that there's 10 fucking raids and a quarter of the nigs in the LFG groomcord are some flavor of troon.
Been able to do a few but I don't have high hopes I'll get to the ones I missed.
 
Swarth Suppressor said:
The raiding scene is so dead. Doesn't help that there's 10 fucking raids and a quarter of the nigs in the LFG groomcord are some flavor of troon.
Been able to do a few but I don't have high hopes I'll get to the ones I missed.
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You'll probably have a better chance post-update once people need to raid for the new triumphs or grinding new loot. Even the people like me who already have all the weapons crafted will probably want to dive back in if the new set bonuses are worth chasing.

But yeah, I haven't really dipped my toes into raiding since before EoF, still have yet to try Desert Perpetual because it sounded like a complicated mess, not helped by LFG being pretty dead. I guess I'll have an excuse to actually give it a whirl now that there's nothing else coming, though. I will say this: I've generally managed to avoid troons in my groups over the years, most have been pretty casual and normal, and some of those groups have been complete chuds that made the whole raid hilarious. You love to see it.
 
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