History VideoGame / Destiny2

* WhamLine: During the climax of ''Forsaken'''s main story, you overhear a voice urging Uldren to complete his objective as you progress through the Watchtower. Before that moment, you are led to believe that said voice belongs to [[spoiler:Mara Sov since it's exactly what she sounds like (albeit conspicuously more expressive than her appearances in the first game), but then she forcefully says "Free me, o brother mine." That last bout is a speech pattern that can only indicate that the Anthem Anatheme phrasing is being used to control Uldren, something that is commonly associated with maliciously manipulative beings like the Ahamkara. Indeed, "Mara Sov" is eventually revealed to be an illusion created by the force manipulating Uldren and the expansion's true antagonist, Riven of a Thousand Voices; the last known Ahamkara.]]
** From a Beyond Light lore journal revealing [[spoiler:the fate of Clovis Bray's Exo self]]:
-->"That nickname the other Exos gave me… add it to my imprint? With my number?"
-->She laughs. It's good to hear it one more time. "You really like it, don't you?"
-->"It's growing on me."
-->"Okay then, [[spoiler:Banshee]]."
** On the Witch Queen: The Altar of Reflection, [[spoiler:a memory-based mindscape created by Savathun is 'packed' with Wham Lines!]]
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* ''The Final Shape:'' The final confrontation between the Light and Darkness begins. Little is currently known about this expansion.

* TankGoodness: This installment throws playable tanks into the fray, as opposed to the unusable Cabal Goliath tanks and their usable Interceptor "[[TanksButNoTanks scout vehicles]], which are essentially motorbike tanks". Along with armed tanks, this includes tanks that are unarmed, but no less armored and [[LightningBruiser capable of great speed]].

* UsedFuture: A number of the weapons are functionally MacGyvering spare parts various weapon crafters could find, and especially common with Kinetic weapons because of the KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter trope. In particular Cerberus +1 is, in canon, several weapons welded together to become a [[MoreDakka hellfire bullet hose]] and looks like it is held together by metal bands, while an ornament can give it a more streamlined, cleaned appearance (which only emphasizes it's rugged default look). Wardcliff Coil is similar in design and with a similar ornament. The Arbalest is a ''kinetic'' linear fusion rifle, and in forgoing the laser guns of the rest of that weapon class it moreso resembles (and sounds) like a nail gun.

** One of the unlockable dances for 3 players is [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind the Torturous Dance, with the description "Vocal percussion on 'nother level", making the three players do the literal 'torture dance'.]]

* ''Lightfall:'' The Witness, the malefactor of the first Collapse, calls upon their newest disciple, [[FaceHeelTurn Emperor Calus]], to invade and conquer a hidden city on Neptune, forcing the Guardians to intervene and gaining access to a new power, Strand.

** The intrinsic trait of the "Winterbite" glaive is "Big Frigid Glaive", or, when abbreviated [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} BFG]]. The projectiles it fires act almost identically to those of the actual BFG, just less lethal and with a freezing effect added on.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The server maintenance that occurred immediately after the ''Season of Arrivals'' live event, which served as the GrandFinale for the pre-Destiny Content Vault state of the game, was timed to occur at the exact moment the event concluded, making it look like the struggle between the Traveler and the Darkness shut off the game itself. Attempting to sign in during the maintenance window would return the following error message:

** A pair of Exotic Hunter Gauntlets has [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed a pair of hidden knives mounted underneath the wrists]]

** Symmetry's SecondaryFire is slow and weak by default, but you can increase the Arc Seekers' damage output by scoring precision hits and building up stacks of Dynamic Charges.

** Parasite's projectile increases in strength as you slay enemies through means other than the grenade launcher itself, with the maximum power capped at 20 stacks of Worm Hunger. At full strength, Parasite is one of the strongest burst damage weapons in the game, easily obliterating a room full of enemies and take off a huge chunk of a boss's health bar.

* ''Lightfall:'' The Witness, [[TheDragon the most senior servant of the Darkness]], calls upon their newest disciple, [[FaceHeelTurn Emperor Calus]], to invade and conquer a hidden city on Neptune, forcing the Guardians to intervene and gaining access to a new power, Strand.

** Symmetry's SceondaryFire is slow and weak by default, but you can increase the Arc Seekers' damage output by scoring precision hits and building up stacks of Dynamic Charges.

** In Season 19, Revision Zero's SwissArmyWeapon mechanics don't play nice with the game's architecture, as it is the first exotic weapon with multiple catalysts and Bungie has had to downscale some weapon designs in the past because of bugs with weapons and armor with too many perks. This was eventually determined to be the root cause of massive server troubles in Week 4 of ''Season of the Seraph''. A stopgap was made by deactivating the API system (an open source link allowing both first and third party apps to interact with the player account both in the game and offline). Said massive server troubles also gave rise to [[https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/109flv5/character_deleted_during_contacting_destiny_server/ a very rare case]] of your character being completely deleted from ''D2''[='=]s database if your game has trouble contacting Bungie's servers. Shortly afterwards, a hotfix update on the weekly reset ended up reverting all triumph progress back over two years and Bungie made the call to pull the game offline for about a day while they identified the problem and reverted all player accounts to before the hotfix went live. Needless to say, this season was quite a ride on that end.

** On getting the Revision Zero its' basic effects involve natural barrier piercing ammo and will build up to SecondaryFire charge shots that are basically overclocked sniper rounds. It wasn't a bad weapon, but in lore the Disparity pulse rifle is a downgraded version of the weapon with superior stats and random rolls. But Revision Zero was intended out the gate to be the most advanced exotic craftable weapon (only five previous exotics were craftable, even still limited to mild barrel and grip options), on upgrading the Hunters Trace catalyst through Seraph Station runs as well as further pursing the quest line its' baseline stats increase significantly while also giving you numerous options on perk slots. Fully unlocked it becomes a highly tuned weapon catered to your own preferences.

** Ticcu's Divination is the solar-damage equivalent of Trinity Ghoul. It makes up for the lack of a chain lightning effect by having tracking Causality Arrows when you fire from the hip. These arrows remain stuck in the foe, and following them up with an aimed shot makes them explode, incidentally detonating any nearby arrows as well. Completing the weapon catalyst provides substantial bonus damage for the Causality Arrow explosions, as well as making them stick in the target longer, giving more time to make the follow-up shots. The upgraded bow can clear out even elite mobs in fairly short order.

** Revision Zero's SwissArmyWeapon mechanics don't play nice with the game's architecture, and was eventually determined to be the root cause of massive server troubles in Week 4 of ''Season of the Seraph''. Said massive server troubles also gave rise to [[https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/109flv5/character_deleted_during_contacting_destiny_server/ a very rare case]] of your character being completely deleted from ''D2''[='=]s database if your game has trouble contacting Bungie's servers.

** And now there's the Legendary Campaign introduced with ''The Witch Queen''. As enemies have more health and also less likely to flinch, tougher variants are more common, and the difficulty in regards to power level is scaled back about 15 levels meaning deaths can be much more frequent for those not paying attention. And to top it all off, players have no radar, and for those looking to go through it with a fireteam, players only have ''one'' respawn per restricted area and [[DynamicDifficulty the difficulty itself scales depending on how many players are in said fireteam]].

** Revision Zero's SwissArmyWeapon mechanics don't play nice with the game's architecture, and was eventually determined to be the root cause of massive server troubles in Week 4 of ''Season of the Seraph''.