In case you didn't know, the goblins playing games in the Thrilladrome are actually the same goblins in the boss room that have the arc cannons. So if you don't kill them in the arcade you can use their cannons against the boss.
If you clear that lost sector before meeting Sam then Ghost will remark how novel it is to have an entire building dedicated to entertainment, saying, "Can you imagine what it must be like to have free time to spend playing video games?"
You forgot the fact that the raid abbreviation for The Root of Nightmares is TRON. Which Neomuna looks reminiscent to the grid as it is a futuristic cityscape, and the arcade lost sector having a portal to the grid
The killing the trailer guardians was such a shock once pointed out, they might not of been main characters like cayde, zavala, emperor thickums but had the same energy of always being around. Next season or dlc could we get a memorial for them
Kinda awkward that Colonel is hopping around at the new memorial in the Tower since you can still see her in the Tower hanger where Cayde used to be, meaning she’s seemingly in two places at once. So either there’s actually two chickens in the Tower who look exactly alike, the Vex sent her traveling through time for some reason, or the Nine are messing with us even more than usual.
The Easter egg about the OG fireteam being dead is slightly wrong. Technically the fireteam from the D1 Live action release trailer is not the fireteam we see in Lightfall. The Titan in that trailer is make while the one that appears in season of the seraph and Lightfall is female. It does match up with the team we in the Curse of Osiris cutscene though
There are probably two, the first one is from the live action trailers of vanilla d1 and taken king, and the second one from the CJI trailer of vanilla d1, course of osiris, season of seraph and lightfall.
You spoke about winterbite but missed that the glaive itself is a Doom reference, the perk on it is "Big Frigid Glaive" or BFG for short, which is the name of the iconic super weapon from doom (Big Fu***** Gun) the ice blast even behaves similarly to the plasma projectile from the doom BFG, except that one vaporizes and winterbite just freezes
people were also saying its likely that the projectile that comes from winterbite was probably supposed to come from salvations grip (which actually looks like a bfg)
Its super cool that they are doing stuff with the dialogue where it can change based on previous things you have done and stuff you have equipped, I hope we will see more of this in the future.
Dialogue when clearing the Hydroponics Delta and Thrilladrome lost sectors will change based on whether you've met Sid and Sam, respectively. In the Thrilladrome Ghost makes a meta-joke about playing video games if you haven't met Sam yet.
In warden of nothing, if you open the treasure after the "Challenge of the Elders" but everyone jumps out before the shield comes up, Drifter gives you a different line.
Рік тому+1
Before the new light the D1 players have a lot of these lines, but the take they out in the new light release :/.
You forgot a very easy missed easter egg; in the cutscene when the witness gets mad at calus, calus's head starts bleeding; could say this is the reference to that once scene in the fifth element when one of the enemies head starts bleeding because he's communicating with some evil meteor
I dunno if I’d call it easily missed, he pissed off the witness, the witness makes him begin to bleed profusely. Not really an Easter egg, more I’d say a window into seeing the witnesses powers. Like watching him flick his wrist and cut a ghost into pieces
remember, the Guardian fireteam isn’t the original team, the original team probably is still decked out in TTK stuff considering that’s the last we saw of them, this new fireteam technically was seen in the VoG curse of osiris opening cutscene, so it could be assumed the raid team consisted of both fireteams
I don't think we see TTK fireteam in the VoG scene, only the new one. I think they are still MIA and presumed dead since their trailer ends with them about to fight Oryx. And considering our guardian(s) kick him back to his throne world/room at the raid final boss room later...
Something i would like to point out, during the first mission later in before you land in Neomuna, the hangers are arranged in subtle nods to the way ships are hangered in the Truth and Reconciliation mission. My friends pointed out that the purple ships are aligned like the Covenant drop ships. Also NOT REALLY a possible nod, but with the halo referencing it made us think of it: the drop pod section and landing away from osiris hits like your first start up of Halo 3 Odst
@@VinnyFromTheBurb YES DUDE, I was wondering the same exact thing because yeah I can get behind the fact that from the outside it looks like there’s no possible way to see but considering how advanced Cabal Technology is, that drop pod part was such a huge miss to see outer space again from that POV
There's also another Asher Mir easter egg when you stand next to quinn in the hall of heroes, she also talks about a vex transmisson in more than 100 languages which translate into “Assistant”. I hope we get titan and Io back
Gotta love my big [redacted] gun! For those unaware, they call the BFG that at least once in one of the newer games (2016 I think), just one of my favourites things about the games
im glad you noticed the arcade one, but it isn't just some throwaway easter egg, these people know more than they let on. I have been starting to wonder about all those alternate clovis timelines, maybe we shouldnt be so confidant they cant become real.
I don't know if they just forgot about it but kernel has been in the hangar where Cayde used to be near where Amanda used to be for awhile now so either they totally forgot about him being there or the one in the main part of the tower is an imposter (I mean, they did just make an among us crossover lmao)
@@patornzgd164I could see bungie maybe doing this when final shape comes as eververse sets since final shape is supposed to be the 10 year mark unless they do it with the season this year in setember
I only cleared crown maybe 3 times. Never got the Shadow title. Started playing D2 during shadowkeep and he called me shadow on my playthrough of the LightFall campaign. I don't think it's tied to the title.
Nezarec"s voice actor should've been Sam Witwer. Dude can play a really cool dark side entity. His portrayal of Darth Maul in The Clone Wars would be enough to sell me as a rouge Disciple
I don't think the original cinematic team is dead since the Titan that is shown is female since the Titan from the cinematics is a bit more bulky and the warlock and hunter weren't shown at all so they're probably still alive to along with the Titan and the 1 that died is a different 1
During one of the patrols an NPC says the line "These stem bolts aren't going to seal themselves" which is a reference to the 100 gross of self-sealing stem bolts that Quark had in cargo bay 11 on DS9 and could never find a buyer for.
I really, really hope they're bringing titan back! It was the planet I spent the most time on when I first started playing destiny and it'll always hold a special place in my heart
Also there is a mural in the thrilla dome that looks like it's the traveler terraforming and there are multiple arms and heads reaching upwards set over what looks like a lotus flower... It matches the new raid gear, especially the warlock's.
I played the campaign on three characters, and Calus called me shadow all three times. I only even played season of opulence on my titan, but I got called shadow on all three characters still 🤨
@@Jirito I never played Opulence and he has called me Shadow on all playthroughs so far. It may be because I had Opulence (Got Destiny 2 Disk w/ all expansions in Forsake)
I was really hoping that our guardian would team up with the OG fireteam in Final Shape but no. Seeing that fireteam is what got me into Destiny all those years ago
Every time Jisu Calerondo’s jingle comes on and he starts talking, all I can envision him looking like behind the mic is Stanley Tucci’s character from _The Hunger Games_ movie adaptations.
Damn I didn't even notice how in the trailer scene with the ghost being sliced up that you can also see part of the guardian's head moving away from the rest of him too. I thought he was just looking over at his dead ghost, not dead by a similar fate...
Summoner from D2 revived as Warlock threadling, Titanfall 2 smart pistol got introduced, the frozen orb from Diablo 2 is also in destiny 2 in the Glaive...
dumb thing i noticed about the cabal drop pods is that ingame they usually drop like 3-4 enemies, yet visually only 1 can fit inside. also thats not the same fireteam we saw. the titan had fur around his neck. the cutscene that one did not.
If we do go back to Titan, we will either find Sloan alive, who's rocking an amazing suit of armor... or we will have to fight Sloan, who's rocking an amazing suit of armor.
You mention the vanguard/quest not making much difference, but literally yesterday I just noticed ikora saying stuff like" your wavering loyalty to the vanguard does not go unnoticed " and stuff about trust
No, the hunter didn't die, He was seen during curse of Osiris. then seen in Lightfall behind Zavala. They have the same armor pieces. You can identify them by looking at the shoulder piece. The only guardian from the og trailer who I think died was the titan. If you watch "rip to the og fireteam" you can find my comment.
None of these are Easter eggs, they're references. Easter eggs aren't lore bits or things that are just funny. They are things that shouldn't be there by definition, that's what makes it in Easter egg. I'll show myself the door now
I've not seen anyone point out that the first light on the wall you see when you're dropping down a level inside Calus's ship is literally the Marathon logo
Saturn VI, possibly a nod to Warframe and their character Wolf of Saturn Six. It's an old story, those who have played at the time, know about it a lot more than i.
With Colonel, she's actually been in the hanger for years since the end of red war. Over where cayde used to lean. She's still there.,,.,.,. Now there's 2 Colonels in the tower?
I don’t have the Shadow title but I did play during that time and did the raids and menagerie during that time and he still called me his Shadow. So I think it’s more if you played during that year/time.
Okay there's a bug then. Calus called me his shadow even though I didn't play literally any part of that season. I assumed he was just referencing that where ever he goes, some how we're right there behind him. Sharpening our knives.
In case you didn't know, the goblins playing games in the Thrilladrome are actually the same goblins in the boss room that have the arc cannons. So if you don't kill them in the arcade you can use their cannons against the boss.
Interesting, I’ll test this out to see if it works, I haven’t seen any videos that include this yet
[The line between simulation and game is so vexingly thin.]
If you clear that lost sector before meeting Sam then Ghost will remark how novel it is to have an entire building dedicated to entertainment, saying, "Can you imagine what it must be like to have free time to spend playing video games?"
love this
@@a_faceinthecrowd8762 I got this voice line made me laugh
There's no way they didn't realize the bad ahamkara bundle when releasing it
I wonder what you mean by that-
Hmm..
They knew what they were doing
I don't get it
They’re bungie they absolutely have people who know what bad dragon are
@@palito9231 Ahamkara are dragons, bad dragon is a well known dildo/sex toy manufacturer
You forgot the fact that the raid abbreviation for The Root of Nightmares is TRON. Which Neomuna looks reminiscent to the grid as it is a futuristic cityscape, and the arcade lost sector having a portal to the grid
that is such a fucking coincidence lmao
@@YeahTheDuckweed ikr not to mention the arcade lost sector having a portal to the grid
@@michaelrivera7542 uh-huh
The killing the trailer guardians was such a shock once pointed out, they might not of been main characters like cayde, zavala, emperor thickums but had the same energy of always being around. Next season or dlc could we get a memorial for them
Everyone’s reaction to them are hilarious since a majority of us forgot they even existed until the end of seraph and until they died
But it's not them
I don’t think it’s them tho because their ghost shells are different, they’re just generic guardians
@@ishyhq people can change their ghost's shells
@@immortal_shrooms6757 But they still aren’t the same,
it was a female warlock, male hunter, male titan
Kinda awkward that Colonel is hopping around at the new memorial in the Tower since you can still see her in the Tower hanger where Cayde used to be, meaning she’s seemingly in two places at once. So either there’s actually two chickens in the Tower who look exactly alike, the Vex sent her traveling through time for some reason, or the Nine are messing with us even more than usual.
Sounds like something The Nine would do, to be fair.
a good reminder...the Nine...interesting, will we have dlc based on them? I would want to know more about them
They are different. The one by the monument is just a random chicken
The Easter egg about the OG fireteam being dead is slightly wrong.
Technically the fireteam from the D1 Live action release trailer is not the fireteam we see in Lightfall. The Titan in that trailer is make while the one that appears in season of the seraph and Lightfall is female. It does match up with the team we in the Curse of Osiris cutscene though
I think it's the fireteam from the law of the jungle trailer back in 2014, as that team had a female titan
There are probably two, the first one is from the live action trailers of vanilla d1 and taken king, and the second one from the CJI trailer of vanilla d1, course of osiris, season of seraph and lightfall.
I always inferred that the fireteam is meant to be us, the players.
You spoke about winterbite but missed that the glaive itself is a Doom reference, the perk on it is "Big Frigid Glaive" or BFG for short, which is the name of the iconic super weapon from doom (Big Fu***** Gun) the ice blast even behaves similarly to the plasma projectile from the doom BFG, except that one vaporizes and winterbite just freezes
OHHH TRUEEEEE
DOOM CROSSOVER CONFIRMED
people were also saying its likely that the projectile that comes from winterbite was probably supposed to come from salvations grip (which actually looks like a bfg)
Its super cool that they are doing stuff with the dialogue where it can change based on previous things you have done and stuff you have equipped, I hope we will see more of this in the future.
Dialogue when clearing the Hydroponics Delta and Thrilladrome lost sectors will change based on whether you've met Sid and Sam, respectively. In the Thrilladrome Ghost makes a meta-joke about playing video games if you haven't met Sam yet.
In warden of nothing, if you open the treasure after the "Challenge of the Elders" but everyone jumps out before the shield comes up, Drifter gives you a different line.
Before the new light the D1 players have a lot of these lines, but the take they out in the new light release :/.
i like when the vanguard decided to send a mortal engineer and three guardians straight toward the most lethal opposing force in the universe
You forgot a very easy missed easter egg; in the cutscene when the witness gets mad at calus, calus's head starts bleeding; could say this is the reference to that once scene in the fifth element when one of the enemies head starts bleeding because he's communicating with some evil meteor
I did actually catch that one, but thank you for mentioning it
I dunno if I’d call it easily missed, he pissed off the witness, the witness makes him begin to bleed profusely. Not really an Easter egg, more I’d say a window into seeing the witnesses powers. Like watching him flick his wrist and cut a ghost into pieces
People missed that?
half of this video is a HUGE stretch for content
hence why they're all called "honorable mentions"
Ohh I thought it was familiar but couldn’t place it!
remember, the Guardian fireteam isn’t the original team, the original team probably is still decked out in TTK stuff considering that’s the last we saw of them,
this new fireteam technically was seen in the VoG curse of osiris opening cutscene,
so it could be assumed the raid team consisted of both fireteams
I don't think we see TTK fireteam in the VoG scene, only the new one. I think they are still MIA and presumed dead since their trailer ends with them about to fight Oryx. And considering our guardian(s) kick him back to his throne world/room at the raid final boss room later...
Yeah if you look at all the trailers and stuff with them
After the attack there should be last lest to members left
Female warlock and male titan
Something i would like to point out, during the first mission later in before you land in Neomuna, the hangers are arranged in subtle nods to the way ships are hangered in the Truth and Reconciliation mission.
My friends pointed out that the purple ships are aligned like the Covenant drop ships. Also NOT REALLY a possible nod, but with the halo referencing it made us think of it: the drop pod section and landing away from osiris hits like your first start up of Halo 3 Odst
I think after the drop pod was like dropping into new Mombasa too. Until the strand moment
Wish we could’ve seen through the pod as it dropped but not a big gripe.
@@VinnyFromTheBurb YES DUDE, I was wondering the same exact thing because yeah I can get behind the fact that from the outside it looks like there’s no possible way to see but considering how advanced Cabal Technology is, that drop pod part was such a huge miss to see outer space again from that POV
@pinkintheflesh even if it's through some kind of camera meant to allow the Cabal to see their surroundings before they exit their pod
There's also another Asher Mir easter egg when you stand next to quinn in the hall of heroes, she also talks about a vex transmisson in more than 100 languages which translate into “Assistant”. I hope we get titan and Io back
And mars
@@piggymaster3209 Mars we already have
In the intro cutscene of Lightfall when the Witness is coming out of the Pyramid ship, you can see next to him a statue of Nazerac.
Thank god someone else caught the Bad Ahamkara one, I thought I was going mad.
Of course YOU would get it.
@@Raze394 _Weesht_
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Yeah I saw that bad dragon thing as well...which is odd for Bungie but ok.
@@danieldreemurr6485 nah there’s definitely some bungie employees that are familiar with it
How about Winterbite's exotic perk "Big Frigid Glaive", which combined with how the projectile works is a clear nod to the BFG of Doom and Quake fame
Gotta love my big [redacted] gun!
For those unaware, they call the BFG that at least once in one of the newer games (2016 I think), just one of my favourites things about the games
im glad you noticed the arcade one, but it isn't just some throwaway easter egg, these people know more than they let on. I have been starting to wonder about all those alternate clovis timelines, maybe we shouldnt be so confidant they cant become real.
I don't know if they just forgot about it but kernel has been in the hangar where Cayde used to be near where Amanda used to be for awhile now so either they totally forgot about him being there or the one in the main part of the tower is an imposter (I mean, they did just make an among us crossover lmao)
if only we could obtain the old D1 armor sets, to commemorate the OG fireteam
Prodigal Warlock set and all three Tangled Web sets are from D1 so
@@Kuragi_Kriada nah i meant the armor sets worn by that fireteam, the simplistic look with a badass feel
@@patornzgd164I could see bungie maybe doing this when final shape comes as eververse sets since final shape is supposed to be the 10 year mark unless they do it with the season this year in setember
I only cleared crown maybe 3 times. Never got the Shadow title. Started playing D2 during shadowkeep and he called me shadow on my playthrough of the LightFall campaign. I don't think it's tied to the title.
Nezarec"s voice actor should've been Sam Witwer. Dude can play a really cool dark side entity. His portrayal of Darth Maul in The Clone Wars would be enough to sell me as a rouge Disciple
I don't think the original cinematic team is dead since the Titan that is shown is female since the Titan from the cinematics is a bit more bulky and the warlock and hunter weren't shown at all so they're probably still alive to along with the Titan and the 1 that died is a different 1
During one of the patrols an NPC says the line "These stem bolts aren't going to seal themselves" which is a reference to the 100 gross of self-sealing stem bolts that Quark had in cargo bay 11 on DS9 and could never find a buyer for.
I really, really hope they're bringing titan back! It was the planet I spent the most time on when I first started playing destiny and it'll always hold a special place in my heart
Also there is a mural in the thrilla dome that looks like it's the traveler terraforming and there are multiple arms and heads reaching upwards set over what looks like a lotus flower... It matches the new raid gear, especially the warlock's.
Always a nice surprise to hear the music from Banjo-Kazooie in videos. Frosteazy Peak is definitely the most calming track to listen to from the game.
for the first Easter egg I was literally saying to my team "if I don't see cabal under this drop pod it was all for not" XD
Nezeracs glaive only has to be in your inventory and you’ll get the voice lines doesn’t have to be equipped
Asher was Iconic because of the Whisper Mission. "CABAL AGAIN?!"
Also in the Arcade Lost Sector are D1 Hunter helmets
(white, green and blue ones from D1)
I’m so happy Asher’s back, even if it’s only in some small measure.
Only if he isn't a pain in the ass.
I haven’t heard of cowchop for a while you just unlocked some memories
6:05 Is the urgent message referencing Sloane? If so, this could mean she's still alive! I really hope so. She's a badass
the only reason i know about bad dragons is also because of james and aleks. all of my youtube subscriptions connect and i couldn’t be happier
Another Asher Mir easter egg is that Quinn states that the word "Assistant" is being broadcast across the vex network in 147 different languages
Asher's lake from the Pyramidian Strike ( "There's no pit in the Pyramidian!" ) is in the exotic glaive quest.
1:19 major respect, i loved cow chop and uberhaxornova
I like how at 9:00 the Calus Statue is also looking straight at the Guardians.
That isn't the Colonel. The Colonel is still located at Cayde's old workstation. The chicken at the memorial is the wrong color.
As SOON as you said Ahamkra = Dragon my brain INSTANTLY put it together 😂😂 S/O to Nova and Immortal and the OG cow chop crew 😂😂😂😂
I played the campaign on three characters, and Calus called me shadow all three times. I only even played season of opulence on my titan, but I got called shadow on all three characters still 🤨
Its prob based on account not character, i didnt play season of opulence so he didnt call me shadow. Just guardian
@@Jirito I never played Opulence and he has called me Shadow on all playthroughs so far. It may be because I had Opulence (Got Destiny 2 Disk w/ all expansions in Forsake)
It propably just checks if you have the shadow title
But you can also equip the title on three characters so...
@Redstone Pro I don't have the title and he called me shadow 🤔
Ghost interviews himself.
I was really hoping that our guardian would team up with the OG fireteam in Final Shape but no. Seeing that fireteam is what got me into Destiny all those years ago
wow. I never thought I should I equipped a Nezarec gear during the whispers.
nice one.
Every time Jisu Calerondo’s jingle comes on and he starts talking, all I can envision him looking like behind the mic is Stanley Tucci’s character from _The Hunger Games_ movie adaptations.
7:44 press f to pay respect
The drop pod is a one too one recreation to the first mission in halo odst
The cow chop reference made my day
Damn I didn't even notice how in the trailer scene with the ghost being sliced up that you can also see part of the guardian's head moving away from the rest of him too. I thought he was just looking over at his dead ghost, not dead by a similar fate...
The Asher Easter egg hits hard especially after todays quest
Also, lock it in, Nezarec is the head of the Psion race
The fact that you know Nova make me so happy I grew up on the creatures
Asher is also in the Seasonal Dungeon you get the Vexcaliber Exotic Glaive in. It is part of the missions in the Vex Network.
The tea had feedback why is that so funny to me 😂
Summoner from D2 revived as Warlock threadling, Titanfall 2 smart pistol got introduced, the frozen orb from Diablo 2 is also in destiny 2 in the Glaive...
The Vexcaliber quest has Asher in it too and it's theorized that he lead you to and/or created the glaive in the first place
Wow, what a throwback to Cow Chop, Uberhaxornova and their bad dragon antics 😂
Now I remember now seeing those 3 in the first trailer I've seen D2 years ago
Ngl, I appreciate that they are working Titles into Veteran dialog. Also, rest in pieces, OG fireteam o7
dumb thing i noticed about the cabal drop pods is that ingame they usually drop like 3-4 enemies, yet visually only 1 can fit inside. also thats not the same fireteam we saw. the titan had fur around his neck. the cutscene that one did not.
That Titan later changed their armor to the TTK Titan armor on the cover of TTK expansion.
Does it count if the escape from Calus ship reminds me of escaping a Halo ring?
If we do go back to Titan, we will either find Sloan alive, who's rocking an amazing suit of armor... or we will have to fight Sloan, who's rocking an amazing suit of armor.
I started saying we always get Caballd, to my friends a while back and it stuck, so now when we finally got to Caball them back, it was pure pleasure
5:35 i thought this was so cool when i first heard, had no idea it was a title exclusive
Gonna be a nice video as always :D
6:50 I respect the use of Ori.
You mention the vanguard/quest not making much difference, but literally yesterday I just noticed ikora saying stuff like" your wavering loyalty to the vanguard does not go unnoticed " and stuff about trust
4:07 yeah he’s a voice actor with a great range
No, the hunter didn't die, He was seen during curse of Osiris. then seen in Lightfall behind Zavala. They have the same armor pieces. You can identify them by looking at the shoulder piece. The only guardian from the og trailer who I think died was the titan. If you watch "rip to the og fireteam" you can find my comment.
You should make more content like this! Love it
Revenge against the cabal, brings a tear to my eye… that’s for crushing me ya space rhinos!
i thought about the titan that screams "for the puppies!!!" dying after trying to go true the portal in the traveler
Asher called me a juice box one time lmao. A f***ing juice box 😂😂
You're killer, keep it up man! Also, my best regards from Chile.
The fact that he got the titan winter bite thing is crazy
With the death of the cinematic fireteam a new era is ushered in for destiny in the sense of the symbolism out with the old in with the new
Great video man, awesome content here.
For Asher, he calls out for the Guardian for the exotic Vexcaliber! There's more secrets in the exotic quest but I have yet to figure it all out.
None of these are Easter eggs, they're references.
Easter eggs aren't lore bits or things that are just funny.
They are things that shouldn't be there by definition, that's what makes it in Easter egg.
I'll show myself the door now
I've not seen anyone point out that the first light on the wall you see when you're dropping down a level inside Calus's ship is literally the Marathon logo
Fun fact: The Guardian Cosmicube currency for the D2 collab in Among Us are litterally Legendary Shards
I really love the way you point out very obvious things but in a way that made me feel like I didn't notice before now. A+ gaslighting.
The chicken at caydes statue isn't the colonel, she's still over were amanda used to be in the hangar
I learned something new and subscribed ✅👏🏾
My man’s said cow chop, damn what a time that was
Saturn VI, possibly a nod to Warframe and their character Wolf of Saturn Six. It's an old story, those who have played at the time, know about it a lot more than i.
The dragon reference was wild😂
I didnt see evan talk about it but in the arcade lost sector there's also dragon ball radars in one of the claw machines
Bro when you mentioned cow chop i had a fuckin ratatouille flashback i miss them so much! 😢
With Colonel, she's actually been in the hanger for years since the end of red war. Over where cayde used to lean. She's still there.,,.,.,. Now there's 2 Colonels in the tower?
no hair easter egg though
Asher can be seen in a green sphere, watching, in Partition: Backdoor
Oh man you know those cow chop days
I don’t have the Shadow title but I did play during that time and did the raids and menagerie during that time and he still called me his Shadow. So I think it’s more if you played during that year/time.
Okay there's a bug then.
Calus called me his shadow even though I didn't play literally any part of that season. I assumed he was just referencing that where ever he goes, some how we're right there behind him.
Sharpening our knives.
The thrall arcade machines are likely a reference to the alien arcade machines that have a xenomorph on top of them.
Also in the thrilladome you can find a claw machine that has old D1 helmets in it before you enter the portal on the left side
Asher is also in the Vexc exotic side mission.
If you use the "Feed the Pigeons" emote, the chicken in the tower will eat
Colonel is still down by Saint in the hangar. That's a different hen by the tree.
Pretty sure the announcer is a reference to tv news reporter Joan Calamezo from parks and rec