In Destiny 2 there is the exotic fusion rifle Telesto. The weapon works so strangely that it repeatedly causes problems: There have now been 38 incidents in which the weapon has been responsible for trouble. A website keeps track.
What is wrong with this weapon?
- The Telesto is an exotic fusion rifle that was also present in Destiny 1. The weapon originally came with the 2015 expansion “The Taken King” in the online shooter.
- The joke with Telesto is that it doesn’t fire normal bullets, but uses sticky projectiles that are objects in the game world, which stick somewhere and explode after a certain time.
- The weapon is shrouded in legends in Destiny 2: It is said to predict the future, but above all it keeps breaking the game.
Telesto has been breaking Destiny for over 5 years
How often has the weapon broken Destiny?? On the page “telesto-report” there is a list of 38 incidents in which Telesto was responsible for a bug in Destiny 1 or Destiny 2:
- The earliest incident is from January 5, 2016 – at that time Telesto turned off the Nightfall modifier “Juggler”. Normally, special ammo should drop when the player held Telesto. But it didn’t.
- There was a nice bug in June 2018: Telesto could simply crash another player’s game if too many Telesto projectiles were fired at them.
- In May 2020, Titans could reset their melee charge with the Telesto.
- In March 2021, players managed to go under the map with the Telesto and eliminate their opponents from there in a strike.
- In October 2021, it was possible with Telesto to instantly regain melee and grenade.
Ten days ago, the last Telesto bug was revealed: Telesto projectiles simply remained active when an enemy was eliminated with a shot.
How do players react to the weapon? By now, it has almost become a tradition to wait after an update to see how Telesto will break Destiny 2 this time.
There is even a poem that a user on light.gg wrote about Telesto:
Telesto, it’s the besto
Shines above the resto
Others may detesto
But I will attesto
It passes every testo
Completes any questo
There’s no contesto
Meanest gun in the westo
Fits in your vesto
How dare you suggesto
I use anything but Telesto
With it, I am at resto
How does Bungie combat it? Apparently not very successfully. The weapon has been repeatedly deactivated, repaired, and reactivated, just to cause problems again.
As the Forbes website knows, there have already been 9 incidents involving Telesto in the current season alone.
Apparently, Bungie simply cannot fully get a handle on the unusual mechanic that the weapon fires objects that remain in the world.
By now, the weapon even seems to actively refuse to be deactivated:
Destiny 2 locks weapon that makes immortal in all PvP modes – forgets one
