A large part of DestinyThe story exists anywhere except the main game. The version you get from his campaign today is very different from the one that existed only a year ago and is also very different from the one you will play Destiny for hundreds of hours, absorbing its lowkey-building environmental world. from the weapon-flavored text, random menu screens, and Bungie’s own site. Now, the studio has found an even weirder place to reveal new twists of the story, putting the great evil of the season of the chosen one on Twitter.
This week, Bungie handed over the reins to his account Destiny Caiatl, the queen of Kabbalah. What could have been just a weird publicity stunt that turned into the fourth wall turned into something else by virtue of how much the game’s developers have engaged in this bit.
“Guards! Your commander is fighting you against who could be your allies, “Caiatl wrote on Monday. “Join me in the fight against our common enemy.”
In the Destiny-land, Caiatl tries to get players to bend their knees as part of an alliance to take on their common enemy, Hive. Although they did not join him in the game, they joined Caiatl on Twitter to take out the final game and ask him alien giant to step on them.
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Here’s an example of how this went:
Caiatl: Join me in revenge.
DrLupo: Come on, please
Caiatl: You are addressing an empress, commander of the legions and leader of Kabbalah. You’re already under me.
Caiatl is 9’10 ”. For comparison, it is four inches taller than Resident Evil Villageis a very tall vampire lady that the players wanted to step on, who has 9’6 ”.
But the empress, whose father has been a raid chief for a year, isn’t just trying to meme with people. He also spilled some important beans in connection with this week’s assassination attempt on his father’s commander Vanguard Zavala. In a great day soap opera way, he was sitting on a balcony about to be shot by Psion Flayer when Crow, former Destiny 2 bastard turned amnesic sad boy good guy, appeared in front of him short enough to make him aware of the intruder. The great revelation? Caiatl claims he did not order the shot.
“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.” This definitely puts another spin on things! Destiny he often prefers to tell stories through large, blunt allegories — Achilles drags Hector out of the gates of Troy-type things — rather than relying on intrigue and conspiracy. The season of the elected has stood out so far in this regard. The politics of the universe of Destiny deepens and becomes more three-dimensional. Of course, you should continuously play the missions for the rotating dialogue sounds to get the full picture, and now, be on Twitter participating in Caiatl’s menhi.
However, the players who showed up took a lot of it.
“You missed every shot you made, [Caiatl]”, A player wrote on Twitter. “The greatness of the work of your craftsmen seems, at best, quite dubious. In the meantime, the pile of Kabbalah bodies I’ve gathered are talking a lot, Empress. But please continue with your sales launch. ”
Caiatl responded: “Every provocateur you kill paves the way for stronger commanders. Every fight you fight against us teaches us your tactics. ”
Bungie probably couldn’t have organized it better.
Some of the players’ comments even led the character to become poetic. “Have you ever regretted betraying your father, Calus,” one asked. “Life is a chain of decisions, triumphs and regrets. Do you regret not saving Cayde-6? “He wrote back. (If you live under a rock or just don’t play Destiny: Cayde-6 was Nathan Fillion, whom Crow killed in 2018).
Ideally, such exchanges would be presented in the game, not only as great attached to cakes or animated shorts, but as normal scenes played in the engine. For a whole host of reasons that probably include lack of time, money, and resources, this kind of complete story has never been in the books for Destiny. However, turning fans into response guys to help build the characters this season is one of the most creative solutions Bungie has come up with since the series’ launch, and it’s certainly better than nothing.