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The arrival of Destiny 2: Revenant has come with a decent amount of new story content for players to fight through, but the latest addition to the long-running MMO seems to have broken the ending of its predecessor, The Final Shape.
As the finale to Destiny’s ten-year story, The Final Shape bookended the series’ “light and darkness” saga. However, players experiencing the arc’s finale after the release of Revenant may find themselves being far less impacted by its final scene.
Revenant breaks The Final Shape
The start of Destiny 2: Revenant sees the destruction of the HELM, a massive operations outpost set up by The Vanguard. Constructed on a huge ship, the final shot of Destiny’s last expansion sees the player looking out at The Traveller from the edge of the HELM. However, this cutscene is now broken.
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As players shared on social media, the final shot of The Final Shape no longer shows The Traveller. Instead, the cinematic’s skybox has been ripped away and replaced with what appears to be a floating section of the Neomuna cityscape. Many players believed the game’s destruction of the HELM was to blame, essentially removing the area from use.
However, speaking on Twitter, Bungie cinematics director Jimmie Myers explained willthat the HELM players sit on in The Final Shape is actually a different location. In fact, it’s just a chunk loaded in a random part of the game’s map.
“It’s a separate cinematic instance though… and that HELM piece is just a chunk, it ain’t that literal! (But I do think Somethin’ Got Moved),” Myers told fans.
Destiny 2 and the need for QA
This huge oversight in the latest update for Destiny 2 has caused many fans to remind others of Bungie’s recent mass layoffs. After scrapping hundreds of jobs—many in the studio’s Quality Assurance department—the arrival of such huge glitches is unsurprising.
With Bungie already aware of the ruined cutscene, there is hope that the glitch will be quickly fixed in an upcoming patch.
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