The end of Season 10, the Season of the Worthy, celebrated Destiny 2 with its 1st live event. It ended with a spectacular bang, but many felt it dragged on too long. What did you think?
A first in the history of Destiny: The outgoing Season 10 officially ends with the Weekly Reset on June 9. But essentially, the season is over now – and it ended with a huge bang.
Bungie came up with something very special for the end of the current season and staged the whole thing in a live event styled like Fortnite – for the first time in Destiny’s history.
By the way: The name of Season 11 is finally known – it reveals the new season
The Almighty is no more
What’s the event about? Bungie invited all Guardians to the Tower at 7:00 PM on June 6 to witness the destruction of the great threat from the Season of the Worthy live. It was The Almighty, a massive falling Cabal mothership that was close to colliding with Earth.
The destruction was not presented in a cutscene but unfolded slowly (very slowly, but more on that later) live and ingame before the eyes of the Guardians who had gathered in droves in the Tower for the hoped-for spectacle.
This is how the destruction of The Almighty went down: The Almighty was clearly visible from the Tower, hovering ominously close to Earth and blocking out the sun.
Subsequently, the Warmind Rasputin, whom we supported throughout the season to regain his former power, apparently fired numerous missiles from his planetary defense systems at The Almighty.
The missile salvos approached the Cabal ship from various directions until the first impacts were visible. The station visibly took more and more hits (which looked much more spectacular on PC), until it finally happened.
There was a massive flash, a bang. The Almighty was destroyed and crashed burning past the Tower to Earth, ultimately impacting in a final spectacular explosion.
Since then, you can view the crash site from the Tower at any time. If you spawn at the main spawn point, just turn around 180 degrees.
This is how you get the emblem: The destruction of The Almighty was honored with a special emblem. If you haven’t got it yet: You receive it when you interact with the damaged spot in the Tower. This is located behind the Eververse – to the left side of the platform where Zavala stands. Jump down there and you will quickly discover the interaction option.
If you missed it – The whole thing in video: The video from YouTuber
Shazbawt is sped up at the beginning and only shows the actual destruction of The Almighty in real-time.
How was the 1st live event in the history of Destiny received?
This was praised: Overall, this event was well received. Many found it better to experience the entire development build up to its climax live than to just see a short, summarizing cutscene. This is seen as a step in the right direction.
The staging and especially the explosive ending were praised by many Guardians. Many envisioned a living and evolving world as Bungie has advertised. This was less well executed in the previous Season in the eyes of some players.
Here there was significant criticism: However, the event had a major downside for many. It simply dragged on for too long, and the development was very tedious.
This caused a lot of tension to be lost, and some even completely lost interest in watching the event until the end. Many expected it to last 10 or 15 minutes, at most half an hour. But the event, which could have easily fit into the expected time frame, stretched over 90 minutes.
Initially, it took a whole 30 minutes before any visible changes occurred – in the form of contrails slowly approaching The Almighty. By then, some Guardians had already lost interest and turned to other activities. Some thought something had gone wrong.
After that, you had to watch for another 30 minutes as the contrails of The Almighty came closer millimeter by millimeter until you then “admired” the impacts on the Cabal ship for about another 30 minutes. Only then did it finally happen – the big bang, and The Almighty was no more.
In short: The event was well staged, but it would have been received much better had Bungie not stretched it so much.
Many wished that Bungie had packaged the whole thing tightly in 15 – 20 minutes and that the event started on time. Not everyone has 90 minutes on a Saturday to just stare at the virtual sky – 30 minutes of which without anything happening.
You should keep in mind that this is the first event of its kind in Destiny and that this was absolute new territory for the developers. It will be interesting to see if Bungie will bring more such events in the future and how they will process player feedback.
What did you think of the first live event in the history of Destiny? What did you like? What didn’t you? Would you be excited for more events like this? By the way, all eyes are now on the start of the new season: Destiny 2: Could Season 11 be delayed? This is what Bungie says
