The deed is done, I've been grinding for almost 10 days and each day was like 10-12 hours. Happy that I got #Interstellar but im so ded that i need a break lmao #MW3
🐋 July 23 is World Whale and Dolphin Day.
...and yet, a certain Pal has stolen the spotlight recently!
In the words of our players...
FLY! FLY, FAT BIRD!
"This franchise has helped me make friends that I never would have met, and got me through really tough times in my life," one petition signer says.
More than 400,000 people have signed a petition urging Sony and Bungie to develop Destiny 3 after Bungie ended active development of Destiny 2 with its final major update in June and shifted its focus to Marathon.
The petition, launched by @LUCKYY10P, argues that after more than a decade of the Destiny franchise, players deserve a true sequel that will "keep the fire of the Guardian spirit alive."
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Hey everyone I've got a bit of an announcement to make. Today, Friday 7/17, will be my last day at Bungie and I'll be passing the torch of Game Director to the very capable and amazing hands of Del Chafe III, who will guide the game forward alongside the Creative Director Julia Nardin. Both of them have been operating in a strong leadership capacity for the team and are ready to guide Marathon into the next chapter with an even better and brighter future. I'm proud of them and I'm excited to see them helm the future of this crazy little world we've created together. As for me, I'll be heading to something new, somewhere else, and will update you on where and what soon. I just want to say a deeply heartfelt thank you to all of you for supporting me and Marathon in our windy mission to bring a dark and terrifying space survival frontier to your screen. The mission will continue in new and surprising ways so stay tuned for what this team has in store for you! It's been a pleasure seeing all the stories you've created, all the clever ways you've found ways to murder robots and one another. Hopefully as I move onto new things, you'll join me for those adventures as well. Much love to the Marathon community and to all my friends and colleagues at Bungie. May we cross paths again. Keep it weird, keep it real <3.
One of my personal favorite things about Destiny was it’s skyboxes..
Nearly every destination in the game has a full Day/Night cycle with near scientifically accurate lighting and orbits. I recall finding Europa moving in Io’s skybox before Beyond Light and being blown away.
Before the City. Before the Vanguard.
In the long night after the Collapse…
Destiny: The Dark Age — concept title screen.
🎙️🎹 by me
🎹 Red by @musoscientific
Several of us in QA were still reproing the Seraphs shield and DSC elevator crashes on different consoles/framerates late into Weds night, with a goal of verifying the fix on our dev kits Thursday. Little did we know we wouldn’t get to verify it as we were all swept up in the layoffs. 🥺
It was an honor/bittersweet to close out D2 as MoT QA lead of the Immortal title triumphs and vendors.
Our MATT (most amazing test team) naturally ran thru almost 180 triumphs and all MoT vendor items/the character rendezvous/the cinematics triggering/the grass changing - one even tried to speed run it - you know who you are 😀
I wouldn’t trade them for the world and I’m so damn proud of us. We really wanted you all to feel the passion we put into making the triumph journey feel bug free and rewarding.
Hope that came thru.
If you played these activities thru D2 and liked them/did not hit TOO many bugs, we are glad 😌
And I say WE because it is always a team effort:
- Renegades golden path
- Edge of Fate Invitation intro mission and abilities (MB/relocator/translator)
- Final Shape lost sectors/secrets/combo testing of Dual Destiny exotic class items
- Lightfall full campaign and post game run thrus
- S19 Seraphs Shield exotic mission
- S18 Ketchrash 6 man activity
I guess I can rest now for a bit knowing the end of this journey is here and a new path awaits so many of us.
Thanks to all of you at bungie who worked with me in any way.
And thanks as always to the players - you made this game really feel alive.
Once a guardian, always a guardian ❤️❤️❤️
Basically the whole D2 Sandbox team is gone, myself included.
The good news is if you liked the way Destiny felt to shoot and play, there’s going to be a lot of great designers in the market looking to help other games step it up.
Destiny Bulletin reached out to composer Michael Salvatori following the EoS announcement. Here is his message to the community:
"To the Destiny community, thank you for your kindness and support over these last 12 years.
Writing music for Destiny has been one of the best experiences of my life, and I am truly grateful to all of you who've taken this long 'Journey' with us! Eyes up Guardians!"
You defined the soul of Destiny. Thank you for everything, Michael. 💙
The silence when we were shown this was deafening. Not a single eye was dry. Hugs and stories were shared.
Destiny 2 gave us so many memories and friendships. I’m grateful and honored to have been part of it.
Thank you, Destiny 2. And thank you, Guardians. Per audacia ad astra!
The "Server Offline" text for the final Destiny 2 update:
"We built a universe. Guardians like you filled it with meaning. Thank you from all of us on Destiny 2."