In this episode, Destiny 2 veteran Casey [Destiny 2 Expert w/ 5000 hours] and Brando [your host] talk about their experiences in the Destiny 2 universe... their adventures, thoughts, and memes. All is shared over the backdrop of the lovely Destiny 2 Soundtrack.
Article mentioned: 7 Years with Destiny
Casey's shout outs:
D2 Lore: My name is Byf
D2 Competitive PVP: Wallah, CammyCakes
Brando's Shoutouts:
Show Outline
Opening Introductions
Brief description of what Destiny is
Steam says: Destiny 2 is an action MMO with a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free.
What do we say?
Brief description of Destiny’s overall universe
The Traveler
The Light
Ghosts
Guardians - a la “Space Wizards”
Enemies
Cabal
Fallen
Vex - Favorite (like the lore about the infinite forest, and I like their designs)
Hive
Taken
Brief description of story (some lore, enough to tantalize the average listener, but not Byf levels)
Lol Byfs video “for beginners” is an hour and five minutes long 0.o
The Red War - Cabal Ghall took the traveler hostage
Traveler awakens damaging itself but gets rid of ghall
Osiris takes guardians into the infinite forest to take it back from the vex
Traveler awakening showed activity from advanced AI “Warmind” on Mars
Cayde 6 best boy dies by the hand of Uldren
Forges unlock across the world
Guardians choose to work with drifter or spy on him
Calus promises guardians power if they compete in his menagerie
Hive start taking over the moon, uh nightmares, uh moons haunted
Kill lots of vex that start appearing on the moon
Guardians save saint 14 by rewriting history, before the cabal can rewrite history
Guardians use Warmind to neutralize the red legion from another evil plan. It destroys a massive cabal ship, the almighty
Pyramids start showing up around the system (they are the darkness
traveler becomes whole again
pyramids start showing up everywhere, and the fallen start to get power from the darkness
Uldren who killed Cayde comes back as a guardian forgetting everything
Cabal try to kill important figure, they truce when Uldren (now crow) reveals the plot
Guardians help a house of the fallen to do things and they become friends
big worm Savathun comes out of hiding and promises to tell secrets of the darkness if the guardians free her
30th anniversary
Witch Queen (upcoming)
What we like and don’t like
Like
The Gunplay has always been good. Each weapon, though in the same class, some can feel and handle completely differently. The attention to detail in that regard is insane and makes finding new variants a joy.
The exotics are always fun to mess around with, and I really liked masterworking them to their full potential when I could. Those really make you feel overpowered
The lore has always been interesting to me. I might only know the surface level story of the majority of the game but every so often I would lean into the lore and just be awestruck by it.
Like the exo’s, and the vex, and the darkness
I like how it is usually bug free and is just seamless.
Always has something with everyone with so many different game modes.
Free base game lol, and SO MUCH content in that base game.
Don’t like
Think an article by Ethan Gach from Kotaku says it best for me: “You can dabble in it for a few hours or commit your whole life to it, but there is no getting in, playing the campaign to a satisfying conclusion, and then moving on to something else—especially not these days. This has always been one of the core tensions at the heart of Destiny’s messiness and, perhaps, one of the keys to its longevity.”
linked in the shownotes https://kotaku.com/seven-years-with-destiny-1847679379
they want you to have D2 be the only thing you play. That’s my only beef with Destiny. Everything else I really love about it.
Give some opinions on Bungie as a company
the major story that went around lately was The Battle for Bungies Soul by IGN (linked in shownotes) it is MASSIVE
Talk about:
publically responding that they were working on toxic work culture but nothing was changing
had several bad bones in the biz that made life miserable but because they did good work they didn’t fire them
project managers would alter writers work after voice lines were recorded
sexism stuff
lots of turnover and burnout because of the work load
leadership compiled negative reddit comments about women at bungie and sent them around
lack of women representation... men writing women instead of women writing women
the “rockstar” mentality
fear of talking to HR
women put on difficult and not fun projects
have been actively improving over the last few years
“don’t talk and make statements about these issues”
https://www.ign.com/articles/bungie-report-battle-soul-work-culture-harassment-crunch
Our experiences with the game (BULK OF PODCAST)
Stories, memories
Hopes for the future
Favorite locations
Mars
Best previous content
Obviously, the Outbreak Perfected mission, and the Whisper Mission. SOO GOOD.
Weapons talk
Best of Exotics
PVP talk
Loved Control
Iron Banner
Never really got the meta
Raid stuff
Love the raids
Leviathan, killing Emperor Calus
Last Wish, killing Riven
Scourge of the Past killing Insurrection Prime, Kell’s Scourge
Garden of Salvation, Killing The Sanctified Mind, Sol Inherent
Deep Stone Crypt, Killing Taniks
AD BREAK
Concluding thoughts
Shout-Outs
Refer people to Content Creators & Streamers
News: Houndish, Aztecross
Lore: Byf
Competitive PVP: Wallah, CammyCakes
Wrap up
