Lots of Destiny‘s story exists anywhere other than the main game. The version you play through the campaign today is very different from the version that existed just a year ago, and it is also different from the version you played with Destiny for hundreds of hours and the world with a low key surrounded – built from gun odor text, random menu screens, en Bungie’s own website. Now the studio has found a stranger place to unveil new story twists by posting Season of the Chosen’s big bad on Twitter.
This week, Bungie handed over the reins of its Destiny account to Caiatl, Empress of the Cabal. What may have been just a weird fourth-wall advertising stunt turned into something else based on how much the game’s developers committed to it.
‘Guardians! “Your commander will make you fight against those who may be your allies,” Caiatl wrote on Monday. “Join me in the fight against our shared enemy.”
In Destinycountry, Caiatl is trying to make players bend the knee as part of an alliance to tackle their shared enemy, the hive. Although they did not join her, they joined Caiatl on Twitter to bother her final and the giant alien warrior to step on them.
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Here is an example of how it goes:
Caiatl: come revenge with me.
DrLupo: Walk on me please
Caiatl: You address an Empress, commander of legions and ruler of the Cabal. You are already under me.
Caiatl is 9’10 ”. By comparison, it is four inches longer than Resident Evil Village‘s very tall vampire lady, who also wanted players to step on them, who is 9’6 ”.
But the Empress, whose father was a raiding boss, is not just trying to get along with people. She also spilled some important beans regarding the assassination of Vanguard dad commander Zavala this week. In an excellent soap opera mode, he was hanging out on a balcony to be on the verge of being shot by Psion Flayer when Crow, former Destiny 2 villain has memory memory sad boy good guy, appears just short enough in front of him to make him aware of the intruder. The big revelation? Caiatl claims she did not order the hit.
“If I wanted to kill Zavala, I would look him in the eye when I did,” she wrote in response to the tweet from one player who asked about the attack. A warrior deserves no less. ‘It definitely puts another twist on things! Destiny prefers to tell stories regularly through large, blunt allegory – Achilles dragging Hector around outside the Troy-type gates – rather than relying on intrigue and conspiracy. Season of the Chosen has stood out so far in this regard. The politics of Destiny’s universe deepens and becomes more three – dimensional. Of course, you have to constantly play the missions for rotating dialogue sounds to get the full picture, and now also visit Caiatl’s menus on Twitter.
However, the players who showed up were quite successful.
‘You missed every shot you took, [Caiatl], ”It tweeted a player. ‘The greatness of the gunsmiths’ works seems rather dubious at best. Meanwhile, the heap of Cabal bodies we have built up speaks volumes, Empress. But please continue with your point of sale. ”
Caiatl replies: “Every challenger you kill paves the way for stronger commanders. Every fight you wage against us teaches you your tactics. ”
Bungie probably could not have performed it better.
Some comments from the players even led to the character being poetic. “Have you ever regretted betraying your father, Calus,” one asked. ‘Life is a chain of decisions, triumphs and regrets. Are you sorry you did not save Cayde-6? She wrote back. (If you live under a rock or just do not play Destiny: Cayde-6 was Nathan Fillion, who killed Crow in 2018).
Ideally, exchanges like these appear in the game, not only as garbage dumps attached to outside drops or animated shorts, but also as normal scenes rendered in the car. For a number of reasons that probably include a lack of time, money and resources, the type of elaborate storytelling has never been on the map Destiny. After all, it’s one of the more creative solutions Bungie has come up with since the series’ launch, and it’s definitely better than nothing.