In the MMO shooter Destiny today, on August 26th at 8:00 PM, the new Strike “Shield Brothers” will be presented on Twitch in a stream. We will accompany this in German with a live ticker.
As before The Taken King, Bungie has decided to present details of the new expansion “The Taken King” on the streaming platform “Twitch”. Today’s stream will be the second, as they venture into a strike. Here is the recording of the stream:
We will accompany the stream on Mein MMO with a entertaining live ticker. You can either view it live by pressing F5 or read it later to recap what happened.
Our Live Ticker for the Destiny Stream
7:00 PM: I can already tell you how it will start later. At 8:00 PM, there will be a countdown that will take a few minutes, and you will first watch this.
7:05 PM: For those who missed it yesterday, certainly the highlight since last week: six new exotic weapons and armor were presented, with a pretty neat design.
7:25 PM: Today’s stream features James Tsai, who is responsible for Strikes at Bungie, that’s his thing. And then “Mr. Fruit”, a YouTuber known for his humorous videos. No worries, nobody who screams loudly. With a bit of luck, we might see DeeJ playing Destiny PvE again. That was super last time.
7:30 PM: Well, it’s just a strike. What could possibly go wrong? Oh right – Ninja Turtles!
7:45 PM: What will today’s topic be? Strike “Shield Brothers” – is supposed to be a Cabal strike on the Dreadnaught. The Cabal are somewhat the faction that gets hit on the turtle shells by the Taken. The most important question is certainly: How do strikes in Year 2 differ from those in Year 1?
Bungie has already said: We want to make everything a bit more variable. Encounters should alternate, and we want more exciting bosses – the whole room should be included. Let’s see!
7:50 PM: Journalists from Game Informer were really impressed by the Strikes, especially by the new PS4 Vex Strike. Well, we won’t see that today, but it still could be an interesting matter. We don’t know much about the current strike yet. At least I haven’t got anything on my radar. Another strike is already known with the “Dark Blade”, a rebel against Oryx. He has to be eliminated because it is believed that he could be the next big bad. The fight against him is supposed to take place “in the dark”.
7:55 PM: Mister Fruit has about 260,000 subscribers on YouTube. The Destiny videos get around 150,000 clicks. Destiny designer James Tsai’s Twitter account shows a preference for cats! So that’s what he’s like.
7:58 PM: I bet they will all play 3 different classes and then the new subclasses, so that we can see them. That means Fire Titan, Void Hunter, and Arc Warlock or better said: Sunbreaker, Nightstalker, Stormcaller.
8:00 PM: Yup, music is coming, countdown 4 minutes. Just like the last time.
From here on, the official part of the ticker begins – The stream is starting
8:04 PM: Slight difficulties. By the way, it is supposed to be a “Level 36” strike in the Saturn rings. There are tweets that the stream is somehow broken. Approximately 110k viewers on Twitch, by the way. That shouldn’t be the problem, as they have managed more before.
8:07 PM: Bungie is having difficulties – something with the power. The stream is not running right now. It’s not your fault or ours, but Bungie’s. This is a great start!
8:11 PM: In the Twitch chat, only people with privileges can speak right now. That means all the Destiny celebrities are speaking. But the guy impersonating Professor Broman is clearly a faker. Too few exclamation marks!!! – Bungie is working on getting the stream started. It seems they have power issues.
8:12 PM: It should continue soon. They say the power is coming back.
8:17 PM: Here’s a dirty truth – misfortune is good for our business. Every time something goes wrong at Bungie, our traffic skyrockets. Just now we had as many visits as we normally have on Friday mornings around 11:00 AM. But why there is always so much going on at that time… we haven’t figured that out yet.
8:19 PM: The trailer! Who would have thought?
8:20 PM: DeeJ says the Thunderlord had a short and overloaded the stream. Definitely fewer Vikings in the audience than last time.
The three new subclasses unleashed and in action for the first time
8:21 PM: Bad news: They are not letting DeeJ near a controller this time, neither is the designer playing, but Mr. Fruit with Cozmo, the community manager who came from Reddit, and Claude Jerome, a sandbox designer. He has mainly worked on the new subclasses.
8:22 PM: It will be the first time we see the new subclasses fully unbridled. Fruit plays the Sunbreaker Titan with a hand cannon – he will mainly focus on “Sunspots”, a debuff-and-kill mechanic.
8:25 PM: Artifacts will have a function, not just a cosmetic one.
8:26 PM: Claude Jerome will play the Hunter as a support class. More defensive, lots of fog, many grenades.
8:30 PM: And Cozmo as the aggressive Emperor Palpatine, Arc Warlock.
8:32 PM: The artifacts have chances to create orbs of light when defeating PvE enemies (i.e., servants of darkness) with a certain element in melee.
8:33 PM: The new strike goes directly into the Dreadnaught, but against the Cabal. The Cabal want to destroy everything in this strike, the Dreadnaught – the Guardians cannot allow this and want to explore the secrets first.
8:35 PM: Oh, Fruit is acting like DeeJ. Dies in a few seconds. The Bungie designer takes command. Level 40 Guardians against level 36 enemies. Destiny learned from the Prison of Elders stream.
8:37 PM: The idea in the new strikes is to make them more varied. Guardians should encounter different situations during various runs.
8:38 PM: There are traps – flames come from the ground. In the strike. Cabal are normal and “Taken” – and now a big tank: Goliath Tank.
Bosses in strikes have items that can only be obtained from them
8:41 PM: In Destiny, they want to give out more loot, to be less stingy. The bosses will have “unique gear”, things that only they can drop.
8:43 PM: Titan pulls out a hammer. Says “Hammer Time” – I estimate we’ll hear that about 8 million times from everyone in the next year.
8:45 PM: Bosses should not just be larger versions of already known mobs that suck up huge balls, but have their own strategy and follow specific patterns.
8:46 PM: Valus Mau’ual is a kind of dive wrestler who jumps in with his fist forward. Looks really cool. Adds come as well. He flees at 25% health.
8:47 PM: The second brother appears, Valus Tlu’urn (Oh man, these names!). He has a kind of mortar on his back, shooting randomly. Adds also appear. He too flees at 25% – Adds must then be defeated.
8:49 PM: In the third phase of the fight, both bosses appear simultaneously and have about 50% HP.
8:51 PM: The strike is done, it looked quite entertaining. Surely nobody’s brain is blown away, it’s just like a strike in a typical “MMORPG.” A few trash mobs, a “pre-boss” and then a boss fight, where a bit more happens.
8:53 PM: That’s it, very short and concise today. Without the technical issues, it would have taken about 40 minutes. Next Wednesday, there will be more in the new Dreadnought zone.
What have we learned new?
- The strikes are supposed to be more varied
- Bosses will have their “own” loot and unique game mechanics
- Artifacts will be a full-fledged equipment slot, having values and properties, they looked more “gimmicky” so that they have a certain trick, the presented artifact revolved around: melee with certain elements generates spheres
- And some details about the new subclasses, but it’s probably better to really try them out yourself
8:55 PM: Live ticker ends. Stay loyal to us and recommend us further.
