Destiny 2 is great when it comes to fantastic designs and is especially detail-oriented. You can equip your Guardian with many different items and armor or use ornaments. But there are also some really creepy items in Bungie’s space shooter that I would rather never have received. Here are 5 of them.
Bungie’s space shooter has many armors and items designed down to the smallest detail. Bungie’s attention to detail knows almost no bounds.
- Some armors and ornaments are dedicated to seasonal themes and have details like logos, symbols, or patterns that make them unmistakable.
- Others belong to events, like the Solstice, and play not only with different fabrics and themes but also offer glowing effects.
- And even with the jump ships of the Guardians, there are unmistakable unique items, such as a flying stone.
Every player eventually develops their own personal look. This consists of the most diverse items collected over the years that can be combined and shaded at will. In the end, it results in a mix of personal taste and prestige.
However, there are also armors and items in Destiny 2 that are truly so extravagant and ugly-funny that I don’t want to withhold them from you. Here is my personal top list.
1. The ‘Ugly’ Guy
“Oops, where did the face go?” That’s what some Guardians must have wondered when they saw the Forsaken armor design. The ‘Streuhorn’ helmet from Season 7 of Destiny 2 indeed has quite an unconventional look, just like the rest of the set, and raised a few puzzled questions in the community:
- Why do I look like a ‘Space-Man-Bun’ with headphones?
- Why does my butt look so opulent in this armor?
- And why are we bringing a handful of plastic bags to the Reef?, referring to the rather generously bulging thighs.
I personally never really kept the ‘Streuhorn’ armor in my inventory for long. Instead, I preferred to chuckle at how much fun the design team at Bungie must have had coming up with this look. Which brings me to the next hit.
2. The Creepy Owl
Seasons and the DLCs make a Guardian’s collection grow quickly. Such was the case with the expansion ‘Shadowkeep’.
As the new player generation of Destiny 2, I was excited to explore the Moon in 2019 with my Warlock.
Bungie released a few images of the armors in advance, which were supposed to shorten the long wait for the release. But the first glimpse of the new armor for my Warlock instantly made me become a Titan.
While the Titan in the new ‘Nightmare Curse Set’ still looked somewhat cool, even if he was an astronaut from the ’70s, the Hunter got the look of a ‘melted meerkat’. No golden decorative headband could hide that.
I still find it difficult to find words about the Warlock. For this armor, a few creepy owls must have modelled and also shed some feathers.
Due to the campaign, you had to wear all armor pieces in Shadowkeep for the quest to work. This caused me nightmares from opening the character menu in Shadowkeep. Using an armor ornament was definitely a must with this face.
Moreover, the longer you look at this three-eyed owl helmet, the more it grins at you. Give it a try. Speaking of eyes…
3. I have one, two, three… eyes on you!
After the Legendary armors, we are now taking a look at a very special Exotic armor. Here too, Destiny 2 does not only offer an enormous variety but has also created 108 quite unique creations for all three classes to date.
The armor Exotic that I’m about to show you even stared at me when I first got it. We are talking about the ‘Omnioculus’ chest piece for Hunters, which means ‘Small/All-seeing Eye’. This Exo was introduced during Season 13 (Season of the Chosen).
Despite the many, blinking little eyes (they really blink), you are consequently more invisible to your enemies than ever.
You have unshaded the choice between a few metallic, yellow Exo-eyes or, with the ornament ‘Distorted Mark’, the version with large, green ‘Hive-Watchers’.
Even though the Exotic is incredibly practical, especially when trying to escape Savathun’s annoying moth bombs in the top-tier ‘The Lightblade’, it’s still a little creepy.
The eyes constantly look around searching and even twist depending on the direction of sight. And of course, I don’t talk to my Exotic and wonder: “What are you looking at again?”.
4. The Alien Insect Hotel
If you listen to the veterans of Destiny 1 as a Destiny 2 player, they often rave about the cool, old Iron Banner armors. And yes, there are indeed a few armors from Lord Saladin that are cool, such as the current ‘Iron Trailblazer’ armor. It has a fiery armor glow.
However, there is also this small catch with an integrated alien insect hotel, resembling a trypophobic nightmare.
Somehow, Bungie not only forgot an old rag of the Iron Lords on my Guardian’s face. (Help, I can’t see anything!) One wonders, once you’ve looked at your character from all sides, “What is growing on my Hunter’s back? Is that still alive?”.
The cool cloak of the gunslinger seems to be the former home of a few alien insects with the ‘Iron Trailblazer’ armor.
Even with the other classes, the abandoned ‘buildings’ are hard to overlook. Not that I have anything against oversized insects. But this set is, for me, the ultimate proof that armors should not stay in Bungie’s basement for too long.
Since the armors can’t excite us, we might as well get a cool ship from an exotic mission that requires several weeks of grinding.
5. A Pile of Space Junk
Bungie often hides not only armors but also exotic Sparrows or ships in various missions, like currently in the activity ‘Vox Obscura’. Some items are guaranteed from Triumphs, others are random drops.
So it was also the case in 2018 with the exotic mission ‘The Whisper’. There, you could get the coolest ship in all of Destiny 2, the ‘Thousand Wings’. But only if you had no problem with daring jumps timed against the clock and heroic challenges over three weeks.
The Guardians rave about it, even though the ship cannot be shaded, to this day.
Then came the dawn of ‘The Zero Hour’ in 2019, where players earned the Pulse Rifle ‘Perfected Outbreak’, and of course, there was again, for three weeks of heroic grind and a tricky puzzle, an exotic ship to snag.
Motivated by the last cool ship acquisition in Whisper, I struggled over several weeks to master the configuration challenges of the ‘Zero Hour’. I jumped daringly and under time pressure along postage stamp-sized ledges on the outer wall of the Last City.
When I was finally to be rewarded, I was grinned at by the Nomad, who handed me ‘Scrap Metal CF-717-91’. This ship could be shaded, but it didn’t matter!
It is from all angles, as the name already suggests: Just rusty scrap metal. That’s why I only park it behind the moon – of course, left.
But at least, as the new owner of this rickety pile of junk, I could claim: “My ship has seen all the parts of this universe!” … at least some of its individual parts and hope that it survives every new flight to the Tower still somewhat intact.
All that’s missing is the sound of clattering and creaking metal when the ship starts to jump in orbit. Then this little pile of junk would be perfect.
Of course, my personal selection here is purely a matter of taste. Everyone can determine the appearance of their Guardian themselves and choose the ship they like best. Sometimes it’s also fun to combine completely crazy items. The best example of this is probably the “Patrick Star”-Titan.
Two things have nonetheless been achieved by all the items shown here:
- They are not only creative but also unique and remind Guardians of old adventures. (Yes, even the cute ‘scrap heap’)
- Moreover, they invite players to smile, and that’s certainly a cool thing.
By the way, there are not only crazy and funny armors and ships in shooters but also weapons. Among them, a unique grenade launcher from Destiny 2:
Now we want to hear your opinion in the comments. What is personally the coolest and ugliest armor in Destiny 2 for you? And which ship would you never fly? Did I hit the mark with my selection or do you find these things in Destiny particularly successful and wear them with pride?
