A lot of DestinyThe story exists anywhere but in the main game. The version you get when playing in your campaign today is very different from the one that existed just a year ago, and it is also very different from the one you will get after playing Destiny for hundreds of hours, absorbing its discreet environment. building of gun flavor text, random menu screens, and Bungie’s own website. Now the studio has found an even stranger place to reveal new twists in history, putting the great evil of Season of the Chosen on Twitter.
This week, Bungie handed over the reins of its Destiny account to Caiatl, Empress of Kabbalah. What could have been just a weird publicity stunt to break the fourth wall has turned into something else due to how much the game’s developers have committed themselves to the part.
“Guardians! His commander set him up against those who could be his allies, ”wrote Caiatl on Monday. “Join me in the fight against our common enemy.”
At the Destiny-land, Caiatl is trying to get players to bend their knees as part of an alliance to face their common enemy, the Hive. Although they didn’t join her in the game, they did join Caiatl on Twitter to reveal her final game and ask the giant alien warlord step on them.
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Here is an example of how this is happening:
Caiatl: Join me in revenge.
DrLupo: Walk to me, please
Caiatl: You address an Empress, commander of legions and ruler of Kabbalah. You are already below me.
Caiatl is 9’10 ”. For comparison, it’s ten centimeters taller than Resident Evil Villagea very tall vampire lady, whose players also wanted to step on them, who is 9’6 ”.
But the empress, whose father was head of the attack in the first year, is not just trying to get along with people. She also spilled some important grains on this week’s assassination attempt on Vanguard’s father, Commander Zavala. In an excellent daytime soap opera style, he was hanging on a porch about to be shot by Psion Flayer when Crow, old one Destiny 2 villain got amnesiac sad boy good boy, appeared before him only briefly enough to make him aware of the intruder. The big reveal? Caiatl says he did not order the coup.
“If I wanted to kill Zavala, I would look him in the eye when I did,” she wrote in response to a player’s tweet asking about the attack. “A warrior deserves no less.” It certainly gives a different touch to things! Destiny he often prefers to tell stories through forceful allegories – Achilles dragging Hector out of the gates of things like Troy – rather than relying on intrigue and conspiracy. Season of the Chosen has excelled in this regard so far. The politics of the Destiny universe is deepening and becoming more three-dimensional. Of course, you would have to continually repeat the missions of rotating dialogue snippets to get the full picture and now also be on Twitter, enjoying Caiatl’s menchies.
The players who showed up were very involved, however.
“You missed all the shots you fired, [Caiatl], ”Tweeted a player. “The greatness of the work of their gunsmiths seems somewhat doubtful, at best. Meanwhile, the pile of Cabal bodies we have accumulated speaks for itself, Empress. But, please continue with your sales pitch. “
Caiatl replied, “Every challenger you kill opens the way for stronger commanders. Each battle you fight against us teaches us your tactics. “
Bungie probably couldn’t have done it better.
Some comments from the players even led the character to become poetic. “Have you ever regretted betraying your father, Calus?” Asked one of them. “Life is a chain of decisions, triumphs and regrets. Do you regret not being able to save Cayde-6? ”She wrote back. (If you live under a rock or just don’t play Destiny: Cayde-6 was Nathan Fillion, who Crow killed in 2018)
Ideally, exchanges like this would be featured in the game, not just as lore dumps attached to loot items or animated shorts, but as normal scenes rendered on the engine. For a number of reasons that probably include a lack of time, money and resources, this kind of detailed narrative has never been in the cards for Destiny. Still, turning fans into responsive faces to help build this season’s characters is one of the most creative solutions that Bungie has come up with since the series launched, and it’s certainly better than nothing.