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Live event happening inside Destiny 2 today at 10AM PT

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Bungie has said before that they've wanted to do Fortnite-like live moments in the game, and it seems like tomorrow is their first real stab at it. The whole season has been building to the moment of destroying the Almighty before it hits the Earth and the Tower. So tomorrow morning at 10AM PT in the Tower, something will happen.



 
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Knowing Destiny 2 I could see this not going well with people getting error codes right as whatever happensor something lol.
 
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I can hear the rumbling of the stampede of FFXIV fans approaching to scoff at it being called a "Fortnite type event" despite it happening in FFXIV first.

Anyways, I feel like these kind of things have already jumped the shark now that we're hitting a third iteration of it and inevitable moment when Fortnite does it for a second time.
 
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Hopefully its something decent, Fortnite events are always fun to watch. Preparing myself to be beavered.
 
Dyle

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What even is the Almighty? Honestly, I've played several hundred hours of this damn game and have no idea what it is or why I should care, besides being some new cinematic thing to see
 
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Dyle said:
What even is the Almighty? Honestly, I've played several hundred hours of this damn game and have no idea what it is or why I should care, besides being some new cinematic thing to see
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It is the ship that Ghaul was on. You fought through the ship and up to the top in the closing levels of the base Destiny 2 campaign. It was near mercury at the time if I recall since you had to avoid the sun in one of the exterior levels.
 
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Live event? it's just going to be cutscene, a slightly changed tower and then we all get an emblem.
 
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Dyle said:
What even is the Almighty? Honestly, I've played several hundred hours of this damn game and have no idea what it is or why I should care, besides being some new cinematic thing to see
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Spoiler for the Destiny 2 original campaign:

It's the Red Legion starkiller flagship. It was going to destroy the sun until we disabled it and was lying near Mercury until the Red Legion set it on a suicide run towards Earth this season.
 
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Is this (10am PT) taking place at 6 or 7pm UK time?

Dyle said:
What even is the Almighty? Honestly, I've played several hundred hours of this damn game and have no idea what it is or why I should care, besides being some new cinematic thing to see
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It's a Cabal ship/superweapon that you visit during the main story of Destiny 2. It's been apart of the current season's narrative too as it has been set adrift... targeted at earth, on a direct collision course with the Traveler and the Last Great City.
 
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Considering the fact that error codes, especially in the tower have been at an all-time high this season, I'm sure this is going to be a complete disaster. Can't wait.

I literally got beaver'd out of the tower while typing this lmao
 

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Do you think DLC will have major sales after this? Xbox has a decent upgrade sale right now.

I for some reason only missing Forsaken so I doubt I'll get any good individual sale.
 
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blamite said:
Considering the fact that error codes, especially in the tower have been at an all-time high this season, I'm sure this is going to be a complete disaster. Can't wait.

I literally got beaver'd out of the tower while typing this lmao
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The beavers are out of control, I got like 10 yesterday
 
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Bring shades and your fave beverages for an Almighty sunset - or an Almighty-set.

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PLAYERS: We'd like more content and less FOMO.
BUNGIE: Got it, more FOMO in your content!
 
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Fully expecting something to go wrong (story-wise), and for the Darkness to fuck us over somehow.
 

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iFirez said:
Is this (10am PT) taking place at 6 or 7pm UK time?



It's a Cabal ship/superweapon that you visit during the main story of Destiny 2. It's been apart of the current season's narrative too as it has been set adrift... targeted at earth, on a direct collision course with the Traveler and the Last Great City.
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Wait... There's an actual ongoing narrative now? It used to be there were story missions with expansions but once those were over you just farmed the raid for gear. They've actually turned Destiny into something where stuff happens over time?
 
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Here's a decent summary of what's happened since the end of Shadowkeep, for anyone like me who's missed out on most of it:

Reddit - Dive into anything

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Wait... There's an actual ongoing narrative now? It used to be there were story missions with expansions but once those were over you just farmed the raid for gear. They've actually turned Destiny into something where stuff happens over time?
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It's been really sloppy so far, but yeah. That's what they're trying to do with the game.
 
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PLAYERS: We'd like more content and less FOMO.
BUNGIE: Got it, more FOMO in your content!
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Gotta love when Fortnite does something like this and it's praised from the mountaintops and then Bungie tries it and you get comments like this. For what it's worth, I don't expect much out of this live event, but I still think it's cool that Bungie is even trying it. As someone who has been playing Destiny since it first came out, I've always wanted to see them do live events of some kind. The series is perfect for this type of thing.
 
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Winny（๑•̀ㅂ•́）و said:
Wait... There's an actual ongoing narrative now? It used to be there were story missions with expansions but once those were over you just farmed the raid for gear. They've actually turned Destiny into something where stuff happens over time?
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Yes, pretty significant world changes since Shadowkeep.

Built a portal in the Tower in the Season of Undying


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In the Season of Dawn - we rescue Saint 14 from the past from being killed by the Vex-

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We visit our own grave in a future timeline in a community event called 'Corridors of Time'

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The community rebuilt the lighthouse and ushered in the return of the Trials of Osiris

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At current, the Red Legion, being sore losers have set the Almighty (their Star-destroying super weapon space ship) on a collision course with the last city
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we've spent the season arming the Warmind Rasputin to get its interplanetary defences to be able to shoot it down
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Its been kinda messy to be honest, but its a living game now.
 
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"Fortnite-like" event lmao. Let's see how many people actually show up before you start throwing that around.
 
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hydruxo said:
Gotta love when Fortnite does something like this and it's praised from the mountaintops and then Bungie tries it and you get comments like this. For what it's worth, I don't expect much out of this live event, but I still think it's cool that Bungie is even trying it. As someone who has been playing Destiny since it first came out, I've always wanted to see them do live events of some kind. The series is perfect for this type of thing.
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I honestly like these kinds of events in games, it makes the world feel more 'alive'. Very first MMO I played was Asheron's Call and they had events sort of like that. Usually monthly-events with an on-going story. I missed it myself, but from what I read and seen, there was a period where they turned the rivers red with blood and essentially the big bad (who was actually big) roamed the map, which I think was the company playing as him. There was also the Virindi enemy which I also recall kind of raided the map, killing everything on its path.
 
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I have it on good authority that its a jpeg.
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that you have to finish a 10-step bounty to see. Oh, and btw 3 of the steps are bugged, they'll be patched over the coming weeks.

Jokes aside, hoping that we'll get something like the last season of Destiny 1 somehow, with a refreshing of old content to give benefits to doing older activities and having a bit more guidance on what to do, rather than another FOMO-fueled bounty fest.
 
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Serene said:
It's just to give people an idea of the concept. No need to be so snarky about it.
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Fortnite is unique in that it's, like, masses of people involved, usually involves big changes to the game environment and attracts lots of outsider attention. I don't think it's unfair to say it's not a great comparison to what Destiny is doing. This is more like one of those live plot events in The Matrix Online aka for the existing fans only.
 
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Dyle said:
What even is the Almighty? Honestly, I've played several hundred hours of this damn game and have no idea what it is or why I should care, besides being some new cinematic thing to see
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Did you somehow not play the story? It was probably the best story mission in the game. Shame it was never used for a strike honestly.
 
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Hey! That's me in the OP. I finally got a tweet into an ERA thread. #LifeGoals 😊
 
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Just got an in-game notification saying to get to the Tower and prepare for Rasputin. It's happeninggg
 
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My Blue Heaven said:
Fortnite is unique in that it's, like, masses of people involved, usually involves big changes to the game environment and attracts lots of outsider attention. I don't think it's unfair to say it's not a great comparison to what Destiny is doing. This is more like one of those live plot events in The Matrix Online aka for the existing fans only.
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Fortnite-like just means its the same concept - a live in-game thing everyone playing can experience at the same time.

Your argument seems to be based on popularity. No one is make that comparison - but I secretly hope Sir Paul McCartney shows up to perform 'Hope for the Future'.
 
iFirez

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This happens in 45mins right? Hopefully this sparks something good ahead of the reveal later this week.
 
Bold One

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NPC civilians in the tower are actually looking up and pointing at the Almighty.

Because its fucking huge now.
 
Lukar

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One of the NPCs near Ikora is taking a selfie with the Almighty, lmfao

Also, fuck I wish I got to rank 99. The None Shall Pass emote looks so cool:

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