Destiny 2: Closing Thoughts on Season of the Seraph & The Witch Queen Era
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- It's all over. Let's take a look back at this brief season. Also I just realized that I didn't really talk about Iron Banner, but... you know, it was a thing. We'll also take a quick look at the year as a whole as I enter what is my last fully guaranteed year of Destiny coverage. I'm coming up on my 10th anniversary of Destiny coverage, but I'll have a dedicated video in June to talk about this major milestone. Destiny is probably gonna hit me with the franchise tag in Final Shape, but there's a very small chance I become a free agent.
Story Summary - 0:00
Story Thoughts - 5:51
Heist Battlegrounds /Currency - 8:35
Seraph Shield - 10:41
Spire of the Watcher - 11:23
Seasonal Mods - 12:09
Guns/No More Blues/Dawning - 13:06
Wrap It Up - 15:10
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A new Datto profile picture era
Had to double check to make sure it wasn’t a fan account lmao
gonna be a while before i get used to it, but i do like it
Already forgot what the previous one was🤣
@@savagedabsavage877 same
We've been through a lot over here, feels wild
It feels good to finally be at that story point we’ve been slowly working towards for years.
Edit: this aged poorly :/
Turns out destiny had COVID for years
Yeah Datto's profile picture change lol
feels good? bungie's been wasting our time since D1 launch!
@@2001onlin3 why do you even exist?
Slowly walking to end in one and two weeks lol
1:14 “Osiris not exactly the biggest fan of Osiris in the past” me too man, me too
It's weird that Bungie keeps writing him as an egomaniac. He has moments of reflecting on his mistakes, but he never apologizes for being extremely arrogant.
@@DUKEzors to be fair he is one of the oldest, smartest, and strongest guardians ever. You ever see a boomer irl think they can never be wrong? Yeah they have experience and generally know what they’re talking about but sometimes don’t
@@bossjack4225
He is two parts intelligent and experienced and one part straight up asshole.
From what we know he always kinda was one even in his Vanguard days. It got worse after he left the Vanguard, chasing the electric Boogeymen
I was like trueeeee
The Vanguard has a lot of people who think they do cooler stuff than the guardian, while they brood on locations and hand out armor sets.
But if I had the chance I'd slap Osiris every time he opens his mouth. B*tch already was already pushing his boundaries before the whole Savathun incident.
Thank you Datto for telling me how I feel
Destiny Fantano moment
Thank god wouldnt have known myself slugger
These comments are stupid. Been stupid for several videos.
Thank you for beating a dead horse until nothing remains
Finally we have an opinion about that year
Not enough people are talking about the video description, I'll be interested to hear Datto's feelings going into a decade of Destiny coverage, what that means for him, his feelings on the future of this series that Bungie has pretty much confirmed is NOT ending with the Final Shape, and what Datto wants to do going forward for his channel and coverage. 10 years, absolutely wild Datto!
It's been 10 years now, and he has mentioned the possibility of going into a new main game, but nothing concrete yet
I'm pretty interested on everything you mentioned. Personally, I'm probably gonna keep watching datto with whatever he's gonna do.
They've always been explicit that the game isn't ending with TFS
Didn't really get what datto said in the description... Does it mean that he will move on from D2 after lightfall?
@@David-cq9tc I think he's saying that he's considering diversifying?
The expansion itself, risen, and seraph were all highlights. This year, we had higher highs, and higher lows than most years. Honestly, thats makes for a pretty good year.
@@nahqiv Season of the Haunted is one of the best Stories imo, much better than Shadowkeep and thats an expansion😆
@@Nujamperseason of “moon’s haunted again, also debilitating trauma (and calus)”
@@nahqiv Plunder was definitely that one part in animes where they go on side quests for a while for filler episodes. That being said, Haunted was a great story, exploring Crow's shame from his previous self, Zavala's survivor guilt, and Caiatl tackling that her mentor did not share the same opinions as to what was best for the Cabal empire.
@@JL32506 I think Crow's and Caiatl's were sold well. Zavala's is what to me feels like it kind of came out of left field.
The lows of this year were way less low than we’ve had in the past. Don’t try to tell me it was worse than the other Rasputin season.
My 1 complaint after witch queen and season of the rizen. Was the lack of lucient hive. The didn't show up in anything for haunted and only showed up for a bit in plunder. The hive light-bearers were gone outside the seasonal activity, story, and random events in the throne world. The need to come back it's such a cool concept
Get ready for the Tormentors than because they were carefully placed in the story! Meaning probably not in strikes or anything else, minus maybe a Tormentor-like boss in the raid.
Yeah I was thinking the same, the concept of hive guardians should be a way bigger deal then it ended up being, it's crazy to me that them having the light hasn't had a massive impact on the world going forward.
Bungie again proving themselves kings of adding really cool ideas for small slices of content that will be irrelevant in a few months
100% I wanted more Lucent Hive, and with more hp.
I think WQ started strong, started falling off then ended strong
Yeah, I think that's inevitable. It's impossible to pace a story over a whole dang year.
yeah, guess it’s kinda like how you do an essay, stuff the weakest point in the middle so people remember the start and finish
Yeah the final season of every year is always the best of that year
@@nevish2284I’d say BL’s middle two seasons were better than the end two, but Shadowkeep and TWQ I agree
I love dattos optimism throughout the video. It’s really nice to hear him be excited for the future of t he game.
15:10 one little thing I quite liked abt the dawning this year is the fact they revamped all the weapons and made them all actually look Christmas-y. Before it kinda felt like some weapons didn’t really have the same spirit as others but this year that was changed AND the new origin trait which was pretty fun to add to that.
I am still using the pulse and the machine gun, they had SICK rolls with many optional perks
That’s true actually now that I think about it.
Except their origin trait for the Dawning didn't actually drop Dawning Gifts like they were supposed to...
@@BlitzStorm it worked exactly how it was supposed to, you just assumed it was a different type of present than it was
@@michelangeluhhh So it drops a purple cube on the ground that does nothing? Neat.
Ooo, new channel emblem? I like it. It’s definitely different, but neat.
Also, “Life, Humanity, and Cheese-Its” Yeah I think you got all the important stuff there.
I loved seraph, really brought back my love for destiny
I would loooove player housing, or even a Clan Base. That would be amazing
I mean, we almost had something like that in Beyond Light with the camp where you could unlock new decorations from completing triumphs and the tribute hall from Opulent. I'd love to see that extended into something like the Dojos or Orbiters from Warframe. Imagine having a hall full of the heads of raid bosses or mannequins to show off your looks or a firing range to test your guns.
we need a condo on Neomuna
Save it for Destiny 3. No way is Bungie going to add this to Destiny 2 with the short lifespan it has now.
@@markmurex6559 they are not doing D3
New PFP and Channel aesthetic? I dig it! Great video as always Datto!
Nice new channel icon datto, it’s very clean
YOOOO NEW CHANNEL ICON
5:28 Datto voice acting is the best part of the recap 😂
"If I cAn'T hAvE iT nObOdY cAn" 😆
He absolutely nailed the tone.
This is something i would've told Eramis too, in the exact same way, just to mock her.
Pretty spot on as usual. And yeah its been 10 yrs of Destiny coverage for you and 10 yrs watching for me. Excited for the June vid and will look forward to the future of the channel.
Thanks for the video glhf
thanks also for giving the coverage over the last season, i’ve enjoyed a lot of this one, and really the return of puzzles and just the beauty of the station and the quality of story telling. see you in lightfall
Clovis and the exos are some of my favorite story elements, so I loved this season
the Logo and everything look new, solid, and ready for a new chapter. Nicely done
Great video and appreciate the time & effort :)
“Oops you tossed your cookies” got me good hahahaha
so happy i can finally have closing thoughts on the year
Thankful for going on 10 years of Datto. It feels absolutely insane to say it’s been that long as I remember the D1 Beta like it was last night, so excited for that video & for what the future holds ❤️
I LOOOOOOOVE clicking the same thing a million times to buy 5k glimmer at a time instead of a slider bar or being able to type in the quantity I want.
NEW LOGO?!?!
LOVED the sense story recap!
The perfect amount of info 🤌
10 years and we are finally here. At the cusp of the end of an era.
hey Datto. Im a subscriber since
you started talking about destiny 1 before the game even released. I dont play destiny atm but I come to your channel every once in a while.
I remember you having a few thousand subscribers and seeing your enormous success makes me really happy, you deserve it. I appreciate you for sticking to your roots. being as informative as you were all the time and not using weird-face-thumbnails or clickbait headlines. These days youtube is kinda polluted with trash content with zero info which can be frustrating sometimes.
Thank you for staying as you are for all these years, still providing us with free premium high quality content.
Kudos!
Thanks datto for the story summary. I didn’t get to play this season so it was a nice refresher
Whoa, diggin’ the new logo/branding. Great video.
The Ikelos hand cannon with Repulsor Brace has became my favorite gun this season as a Gyrfalcons user
I didn’t really play this season, so I am very thankful for the datto story summary
So hyped for this video and tomorrow!
Wherever you go and what you cover, play, whatever I'll be around homie. You're more than the Destiny guy and the past 10+ years have been a pleasure
Datto: gives an extensive and accurate, if somewhat broad scale, summary of this season's very dense and lore heavy story
Also Datto: I'm not really a lore person, tbh
For a split second I thought this was a re upload by someone else because idk if I've ever seen the datto logo change lmao good for you king it looks nice
This year overall was good with some relatively good season stories there were some holes in the road but the build up through the seasons was nice.
I do hope we see a mix up with the season patterns like the weekly missions, 3x7 upgrades, etc cause going though that for a while now it kinda drags and to that some new boss designs in the season activity seeing the same boss with a new name is boring.
As for holiday events that we got it was alright but it is the same stuff we’ve seen with some new weapons sprinkled in again new stuff would be nice
Ayyyy Datto with the Hey Arnold aquarium security guard reference with cookies.
I think that one with the sea turtle is like one of the first episodes of that series
Yay! More Datto incoming!
epic video datto!
I really enjoyed the level cap system in the heist battleground. The enemy combat and their resistance to the guardians made it really fun. We werent just over powered guardians.
It’s interesting that at the end of the pirate season eramis was kinda almost almost ready to stop fighting us. And now at the end of the seraph season the witness rose her house as scorn almost like a punishment. It’s possible she may switch sides ya know
Loving the new design for the logo!
Another massive change this season, that had me, an on and off player, playing again, was unlocking all mods for everyone. I reinstalled and bought the expansions I hadn't the next day.
Lore recap was good bro!!
the datto rebrand looking fresh
ily
I get that space battles and housing may be a bit much, but what about sparrow racing. It would probably be something a lot of people would enjoy....
Wait a minute...
Hey Arnold reference was golden!
14:44 is that not a Hey Arnold reference with a guy feeding a penguin??? that is ingrained in my brain 😂😂
With your new picture and video, you are really spoiling us Mr Datto
Datto rocking an Ali Express logo now lmao
All jokes aside, I'm SO excited for Lightfall. I haven't felt so excited since The Taken King.
lmao that hey arnold reference, i see you datto!
New pfp? Looks good.
Thank you for letting Arnold sneak by
love the look of the new branding, looks very clean
Looking forward to doing a dawn chorus + daybreak and the new firebolt grenade perks
I think with the manticore we all just collectively looked at it, went ‘eh looks cool’, tried it out for a bit then put it in the vault, never to be used again.
didn't expect our end to begin with a new datto pfp
New logo is mad clean
Regarding the end, I think one of the big concerns Bungie likely has with trying crazy stuff is their slow update pace. If they try something that everyone hates, they aren’t really able to make nuanced changes to it in a regular basis
I'm ready for the lightfall era!
Thank you, Destiny Dattano
Digging the rebrand
I just noticed in the ending cinematic for season of the seraph the scene with ikora and Zavala looking up at the traveler are surrounded by guardians wearing D1 armor sets which is cool but sad because I low key miss the more rugged look the armor we had back then compared to the non stop knight and smooth armor sets we have now
Wish they had a mode similar to war frame where you stay for 5 rounds or continue and the longer you stay the better the rewards. Sorta like the wells but it can be infinite with a small fire team, basically survive from the last mission in reach
I would like to have more Datto sums up the story
New logo is lookin clean.
Magnificent video, that's all
I liked the difficulty change in this seasons seasonal activities but there were a few too many orange bars in the early areas, it's fine to have trash mobs that basically exist to scram at you and die, as long as the big enemies are engaging and fun to fight.
I think the first part and the room where you open the inner bunker door were my favorite parts. You could absolutely slay out and just roll everything, but you could also very quickly get waxed if you weren't careful or weren't playing as a team. Honestly, between the heists and solo legendary exotic quests, I think the difficulty was perfect.
14:40 Didn't expect a Hey Arnold reference there
14:42 Hey Arnold reference, I got you Datto
Overall honestly loved this season. I played less during Season of the Risen and it's crazy how much time I spent playing this season. My main issue with Seraph Shield was how buggy it was and how no one could join you if you were already in the activity on legend. Many runs had to be restarted because a servitor wouldn't spawn. Took me forever to figure out the "can't crouch" work around. Other than that I loved it. I felt Heists were a lot of fun and offered high red bar drop rates. Overall played more this season than the last two seasons. I pretty much got the seasonal titles and then stopped afterwards. I even bounty grinded on three characters. Excited for Lightfall!
The new icon and banner looking sick.
Datto with a Hey Arnold reference in a video? I love it
I gotta say that background gm gameplay with jez and Danielle was actually crazy smooth, datto has turned them into proper gamers
14:40 sounds like something Leonard Snart said in legends of tomorrow
Datto, please give us your critical thoughts on Diablo 4! I know I wouldn’t be the only one eager to hear your thoughts about that game coming out. I love your perspective because it helps open my eyes to what’s in front of me, Thank you for putting in the work for these videos script or no script, it’s appreciated.
Cool new channel icon!
On of my favorite things in both Division games is the Dark Zone, Div 1 was my favorite iteration of it so I'll explain that one.
It was this huge section of the map that was an open world area, the deeper you went the harder it got, but the better the loot. There were areas that were like Lost Sectors with powerful enemies in them that had chests of powerful loot in them. There were also public event like things that happened in there too. The kicker is that any loot you got was Contaminated and had to be extracted before you could use it, to extract you had to go to one of several points on the map and call a helicopter which would stick around for a couple minuets before leaving with any loot players and then leave. The second kicker? It was a PvEvP area, players could "go rogue" and kill other players for the contaminated loot they've picked up in that run, and calling a Helicopter would alert any nearby players who could also steal the loot you've attached before it leaves.
I spent a lot of time in there, the risk and reward (while not having the risk of losing EVERYTHING like in games like Tarcov) and the tough pve elements made it very fun, even if I almost never went rogue.
I have no idea how they would pull something like this off in Destiny, especially considering the TTK is a lot higher in the Div games and mobility isnt as insane as it is in Destiny, but it would be cool to see.
Your summary was not dense; it was perfectly concise and to the point. Your choice of information matters
It's insane to me that Datto and I have been playing this game for almost ten years. I remember watching his mythoclast raid exotic video in my freshman highschool classes. Now I'm watching this video as an adult working a 12hr shift lmao
These seasons were very interesting ones, and I have my feelings on them, but I always have the mindset of, let's wait and see how impactful this past year was on the next year.
I got that reference, Datto. A fellow Hey, Arnold enjoyer.
Datto with the new logo OKAY!!!!
The first 20 or so battlegrounds I was like cool I enjoy the level cap. After the honeymoon period I proceeded to speed run battlegrounds because I couldn't be bothered. It's amazing how much you can skip
Datto, loving the new brand logo. So fresh to see it and actually…..ITS GREEN. Datto made STRAND??
I perfectly understood the tossed cookies reference LMAO
Imagine later they give you the dog as another vehicle but you have to get it first. You can call it forward like strider or use strand to have it run you through an area. 🤯
I better get my damn dog back or it is John Wick time
Hah, I had a good chuckle at the Hey Arnold reference
Woah, nice do-over, fresh and clean 👏
New logo is 🔥
Good video, PHENOMENAL NEW LOGO (Graphic Designer 😁)!
I would say quality of life upgrades can be innovative depending on how much change happens (Stasis changing how we view subclasses). That being said, I don't think a whole lot needs to be done to make other parts of Destiny feel great. For Crucible: New maps that can be interactive (Players being able to change how the map plays) Gambit: Remove immunity phases from the Primeval and more maps (preferably smaller). Also, for Crucible and Gambit map voting would be nice.
I think aside from leveling and the seasonal model, the last thing I'd like to address is buffing exotics. Have unused/underperforming exotics get a fix/buff. Bungo may be ahead of that already though and we just have to wait for the changes to come through (Like kephris stinger for hunters)
This was my best Destiny 2 year, I did WQ legend campaign and I quit until last tuesday.
I didn't even know what that channel icon was supposed to be compared to that old channel icon lol
While it wouldn’t be super innovative, I’d really, REALLY like to see wacky modes come to Gambit.
Gambit is the only core activity in the game to have one selectable mode to queue for and it needs something way more unique than what Gambit Prime was.
Now I don’t want to say “throw balance out the window to make a gamemode bonkers” but I feel like Gambit has a lot of potential to be fun if there were more unique gamemodes.
Team Scorched in Crucible for example is a very unique, yet pretty balanced gamemode because everyone is locked to a fun-to-use thirdperson rocket launcher.
I’ve had an idea for a while about a Gambit custom mode using vehicles, but I’ve thought about how I would go around doing it better.
I would call the mode, “Enemy Arms Gambit” where everyone is forced into using some form of thirdperson relic weapon like Scorch Cannons, Hive Swords, or the Vex Shield from VoG (let’s say just Scorch Cannons for now to keep it fair).
Banking motes still summons the same blockers, but if your team reaches an invasion threshold, your team gets one vehicle. The first threshold gets you a Heavy Pike, the second gives you an Interceptor, and the final one gives you a Drake.
The invasion portal’s size is also changed to allow you to invade with Vehicles, but that risks losing the Vehicle your team worked for if the invasion doesn’t succeed. That way there’s actually a gamble in Gambit if you need extra firepower to succeed.
This could be pretty cool, but I know there’s many ways to make it better.
That’s fucking awesome
I'm thinking very hard if it's worth it to come back. I've been playing destiny since Day one of Destiny 1
All my friends stopped playing it a little bit after destiny 2. I stopped playing after I finished witch queen. Everything is so confusing, the builds, weapon crafting and all that. I've had enough after some time. But destiny has a place on my heart, it's the only game that I've played for this long. I just hope lightfall is different at its core. I'll watch datto's stream tomorrow and see if it's any different, hope I can bring myself to love this game again.
It was pretty crazy this season having multiple antagonists that had their time in the spotlight, it kept on changing our focus.
Every season of the last year has definitely felt like they’ve been experimenting and I’m really looking forward to the next year in destiny
A new era for Datto too it seems