Since we can't post pictures in here, here's a tweet with very clear comparisons between the two. Would appreciate if you guys could give it some attention boost, but yeah. This sucks, i've been playing this game for a decade and this feels like a punch in the gut.

Link to the original commission i did in 2015: https://www.deviantart.com/tofurabbit/art/Ace-of-Spades-573764211

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EDIT -- Thank you for the overwhelming support, Bungie already reached out so the right people have already seen it. Muting this post now, but to all the people throwing insults and slurs here and in my DMs, hey, be nice, your mom would be disappointed.

EDIT 2 -- The situation has been resolved! Bungie has been nothing but polite and professional handling this. They will disclose everything soon. Thank you for helping me bring attention to this whole thing and all the support, I truly appreciate it, and thank you to Bungie and community managers for reaching out so fast. Small artists like me often feel powerless in cases like these so it's nice to know you do care. Thank you.

https://youtu.be/nsIdPWB2_JA

I think Aztecross’s new video is phenomenal at exposing the many ways Bungie is displaying their corporate greed. Watching this makes me so sad to see the game I stood by since launch decided to chew me up and spit me out. I am so tired of Bungie lying to us and treating it’s community so poorly.

Edit: I see this is starting to gain traction so I think I should clarify why I feel this way. First one of the most scummiest things Bungie has done. Was the implementation of the $20 story skip. The community had been asking for a way to skip the story for years on alternative characters and Bungie gave us a nice big middle finger and put it behind an egregious pay wall. Second, I think it’s insane how Bungie has promised us multiple times a “renewed focus on PVP”; however, we have gotten one map in the last 4 years. A super shallow “update” to comp with rewards they STOLE FROM US. (At this point that is what I’m calling weapons that were sunset and are coming back”) Trials coming back so half naked I can’t even begin to describe it. Third, every expansion is more and more expensive and what do we get? 1% innovation 3% something new and 97% greed. We got one new strike with lightfall, 0 crucible maps, 0 gambit maps. Besides the raid weapons and exotics EVERYTHING WAS A RESKIN. THINK ABOUT THAT. Everything was a reskin weapon and that’s insane.

Edit: Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the conversation respectfully. I usually always say something to Bungie defense but I feel the time for any sort of backpedaling is over. I have seen a few post say “Reddit saved bungie lol!” and I’ll have to say is Reddit didn’t save bungie, it’s players did. If you played this game during the beta and year one, then you know this game was borderline finished;however, bungie loyal community showed up for them and continued to support them. Look at a game like red fall. It is completely dead with what looks to be like 0 chance for revival. Destiny 2 was the same way, while not as bad forget life support they already had one hand on the plug.

We saved Bungie; but, they’ve abandoned us. Eververse blackout August 22 2023

We will not tolerate the way Bungie treats us anymore. The day they announce Final Shape and the start of the new season we will see how “hard at work” they were creating a lot of great content for Eververse; however, that day I will not buy anything from eververse (I rarely do to begin with).

https://youtu.be/dZrxWFrd1zQ?si=5ZTB31Mr3UYexEVb

In his new video MyNameIsByf expresses his profound disappoint with Lightfall and concern for Bungie's narrative capabilities and for the future of Destiny 2, particularly The Final Shape.

Here is a link to his video :

https://youtu.be/BcX6TjLbpWU

Disclaimer: I don't know if anyone will read this, but Destiny and r/DTG has been a special part of my life for the past years and has allowed me to meet fellow guardians from all over the world, so I figured this is a good place to just vent.

Short Edit: Sincerely, thank you everyone. Know that I am reading every comment and trying to respond. My wife and I are just sitting here switching between crying and laughing.

So I wanted to introduce and say farewell to a close furry friend of mine, Nala. She has been a great cat that has been in my life since college, my first pet actually. While she has sat next to me watching my play all kind of games through the years, something was special about Destiny. Whether it was the pretty stars flying past during the travel loading screens, or the space cats found around the Dreaming City, or maybe the little meow that happens whenever I pull out my ghost cat. Nala was always mesmerized and would sit and watch me play, sometimes for hours.

She's well known to my fireteams. I've always had good luck in Destiny, whether it was raid exotics or exotic cosmetic items, RNG was good to me, but it LOVED Nala. My friends would ask how I kept getting exotics through Bright Engrams, and honestly it was my cat. Nala was clever. As a kitten, I was able to teach her to give high fives, shakes, and fist bumps. Eventually, she would respond to "open an engram." She would take her little paw and smack down on the X button and BOOM. It felt like every time she did it there would be the sound of an exotic engram in the background. After many stories and jokes, I eventually decided to record it in action. (PS, this was literally the first take)

Over the past few weeks, she's gotten weaker. I don't believe in much, but before we took her to the vet, she opened one more bright engram after a short gaming session. It was the "Ghost Fist Bump" emote. I don't know why, but that's the first time I've cried in years. Today we found out that she has metastatic tumors in multiple organs. Even with aggressive treatment, it would be a few miserable months. Unfortunately, there is no res for this guardian, but before her final death we decided we would rather spend time with her at home. Maybe we'll get to sit on the couch and explore more of the Pale Heart. It's bittersweet, but I am glad she got to be here for the final shape. I hope that we get an interactive cat quest like we did Luna's howl or Archie in the upcoming echoes, although I don't know if I'll be able to handle it. Hopefully, I'll see her starside, right by that rainbow bridge.

Final Edit: Nala's cancer rapidly spread within just a few days. We thought we had a few weeks. She is too weak to eat or drink or take her meds. We had planned to have her take her final sleep at home, but we ended up having to take her to an emergent vet the night before as she started seizing continuously. They made her comfortable and we got to spend her last few hours just simply snuggling and getting pets. She has transmatted over to the other side. I'll see her starside.

Thank you again for the outpouring of kind words and stories. I got to read all the comments to her earlier today before she got worse. I will continue to read and reply as able. To everyone. O7

He's so right. There's a suit at Bungo that got paid for this decision. More concerned with the next few months of $$ than the next few years of players.

https://youtu.be/mYSdTqwHM-k?si=bVw8T5yD2FZs5Zwj&t=1120

https://x.com/spaceiion/status/1800698699833610573?s=46

"Should be 1.1M when void surge is active"

Whoops?

EDIT: As suggested by u/Dr_Arkeville, this is what it's supposed to look like.

...and you're never gonna guess who did it.

https://youtu.be/RulXPHPacV8?si=4vdc9rTlgnCfYXLT

Might be the first time ever, not 100% sure though. Impressive stuff regardless and it wouldn't have been possible without near-permanent invis on hunter, and the hilariously long infinite third damage phase.

No excuses not to clear it on your Fireteam Finder LFG's now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzBmOeYmN_M

Ben Wommack said on the podcast, that Bungie consider to add new aspects to Prismatic subclasses and there is also a lot of talks about Titans internaly

Link to podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSgtJRd29g

Link to moment - https://youtu.be/axSgtJRd29g?t=1351

There is also some intresting things. For example, Bungie realized that the Final shape was "good" only in the last stages of testing. And delay was mainly for testing

Edit: And intresting fact for those who cares, but Bungie begin do develop Dread from the top, Tormentor was the most demanding unit they created, then they worked on Subjugators and then of red bars.

Short break 😀👍

https://fxtwitter.com/BogOnMyDog/status/1811338078734233972

Edit: Here's the whole uncut clear pull on Youtube

This is the first raid in Destiny 2 history where this has been achieved.

https://twitter.com/xemoficus/status/1650004283859845121?s=61&t=N7TaIbQNazo-8M0u56zn7A

https://raid.report/pc/4611686018517984145

Video of this fair and balanced ability:

https://i.imgur.com/HjkW94E.gif

Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1WaxvbLx7UoSZaBqdFr1u32F2uWVLo-CJunJB4nlGUE4/edit

Spirit of Alpha Lupi: Instantly restores 80 shields and 75 health to the wielder and all nearby allies within 12 meters upon Thruster usage

Spirit of Wormhusk: Instantly heals 45 HP

Actual dedicated Wormhusk Crown exotic: Instantly heals 67 HP

Edit: Everyone going "BUT DODGE RELOADS YOUR WEAPON" so you're telling me you would willingly nerf your own exotics by 230% just to get a single weapon reload? Let's say Phoenix Dive nerfs your healing by 1/3rd, giving a tiny fraction of cure, and no long applies to allies, but it reloads your gun. Would you still use it?

Melee and radiant dodge have significantly longer cooldowns than 21 seconds, so their longer cooldowns are balanced by their increased benefit. Comparing an 82 second cooldown ability to a 21 second one and then saying that's why the 21 second cooldown one should be stronger is...completely ass-backwards logic.

https://x.com/mossy_max/status/1849246476041605224

"There's no reason that Moving Target + Threat Detector should be 17x more likely than MT + Repulsor Brace."

Truthteller was reissued when Final Shape came out. Notoriously, it was panned as a pretty shitty reissue, with no good rolls, no clearly defined god roll, and overall just everyone moved on and ignored it.

However, even on Truthteller, the perk distribution is night and day. This is the exact same bug that's on Chill Inhibitor.

It's just that nobody was crying they couldn't get "Harmony + Grave Robber" on the GL. Out of tens of thousands of drops, only 161 people got Danger Zone + Elemental Capacitor.

That is fractions of a percent.

This bug has existed for a while. It's only just now, just this season, just recently, that it's finally happened to a meta defining god roll trait combination.

How long as this been in the system?

Hey Reddit,

I have just released the 3D printable figurine that I created in honor of Lance Reddick. I wanted to share it here for anyone who may be interested. The figurine can be downloaded for free, with the only request being that if possible, you consider donating to Lance's preferred charity.

Per Audacia Ad Astra, Commander.You will be deeply missed.

Lance Reddick Memorial Figurine Render
Release post on Twitter
Link to CGtrader page

https://imgur.com/a/DkmXLAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3utyCyf8Acw

https://streamable.com/fd6oye

courtesy of u/a_persian

I'm a Titan so this doesn't affect me but I do think they went overboard here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XezRR_UUa5g

Worth checking out, he just uploaded it right now.

Eventide Ruins (Europa Patrol) is the other Onslaught Map. Aztecross's video shows Kell's Grave (the old Tangled Shore gambit map) as the final destination.

Warlock: Bleak Watcher Exotic, your turrets are surrounded by stasis crystals and slowing storms at their point of impact. Standing within the storm grants you "icicles", which make your weapons apply slow when shooting at enemies (it appears to be similar to Arc Soul, a self-guided slow turret on your shoulder that shoots at what you shoot at).

Titan: Basically Hazardous Propulsion 2.0. You gain resistance to your explosives (lol). Kills charge the armor. You can slide or rocket jump with your self-explosives to launch yourself back and shoot out stasis crystals where you launched from. Gain max frost armor upon activating this attack.

• Edit: Unconfirmed, but plausible: According to Aztecross's footage, this exotic has synergy with this season's exotic weapon, where the vestiges you pick up after kills grant bonus progress to the meter for both this exotic's effect and the GL itself (which being a grenade launcher, can then activate the exotic boot's effect too).

Hunter: Withering Blade hits and bounces create small stasis crystals at their point of impact, freezing enemies hit by it and refunding melee energy. Using withering blade to shatter frozen targets or crystals releases a spread of more withering blades.

https://youtu.be/Bfuela2gAbI?si=biSQ0TWLnTUfZlV5

The new warlock chest piece looks MUCH better than expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pVboiodni8&ab_channel=Destiny2

New exotic mission, Kell's Fall, takes place in the Dreaming City/Tangled Shore

New exotic shotgun creates a void portal which attacks enemies? Thanks /u/engineeeeer7 it's already on Destiny Data Compendium: Void Shotgun. Rounds shatter into submunions on impact which bounce and inflict Weaken. Kills grant Nightsworn Sight, while buff is active player receives Truesight and increased reload speed and precision damage. Catalysts will include choice of Repulsor Brace, Stats For All, Cascade Point, or Loose Change. Looks to synergize with void subclasses. Here's hoping for good seasonal void mods in the new row.

Seasonal Stasis Scout and Rocket Launcher depart the timegate.

Shatterdive go brr

Swazdoh-lah, Tenno, that's not it. Er...greetings, Guardians!

I have designed 44 individual weapons, mostly in themed sets. They are a mix of legendary ritual weapons and exotics. It's not just crappy text descriptions either - there are crappy pictures too!

here is the link to the pictures

I have tried to be creative and design unique weapons, while remaining believable in the context of Destiny's world. Except two...you'll know 'em when you see 'em. Two others (The Centrepiece and All Star) are based on suggestions from the DTG Discord.

Why?

I am an artist. This was fun. Also good practice.

Those are pinnacles!

Yeah but I can't call them that any more, can I? In all respects other than the unique perk, they are rituals - they're designed to come from themed ritual pursuits from specific vendors or events.

Your balancing sucks!

Post your suggestions below. We can discuss this peaceably.

What about exotic catalysts?

Didn't feel like it. More text than picture and I'm here for the picture. Suggestions accepted.

Bungie

If you're reading this and liking it, let's talk. I like money. You like guns. It's simple math, Guardian.

Thanks for the gold

I know you didn't give it. I'm a Hunter main, I just took yours while you were reading this.