Playstation has allegedly told its studios they can’t comment publicly on reproductive rights

Bungie’s CEO Pete Parsons has stated Sony Interactive Entertainment’s ( SIE ) imminent acquisition of the studio won’t stop the creators of Destiny from standing up for what it believes in.

Last week SIE Head Jim Ryan sent studio employees an email reminding them to “Respect differences of opinion” with regard to the sensitive subject of reproductive rights.

The email reminder which was sent after a leaked Supreme Court Draft apparently exposed plans to overrule Roe vs. Wade, which legalised abortion across the US is said to have enraged Playstation employees and sent shockwaves across all of Sony’s studios including Insomniac Games the creatives behind Spiderman.

According to leaked emails sent from Insomniac studio Head Ted Price, the studio had compiled a comprehensive reply to Playstation Studios boss Herman Hulst in which a large collective of Insomniac Studios staff appealed to the parent company to “Do better by employees directly affected” by the situation.

SIE are now reportedly working to improve inter-studio relations collaborating closely with Insomniac Games to put forward a scheme to provide financial aid to employees who have to make travel and temporary living arrangements outside of their home states to receive reproductive care.

Playstation is also reportedly planning to match a $50,000 donation Insomniac is making to the “Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project”

Price however also added that Playstation won’t allow any of its studios to publicly comment on reproductive rights.

Bungie, the latest in a long line of targeted studio acquisitions in the early stages from Sony Playstation is one of the most high profile video-game companies to vocalise publicly its own position on the subject of reproductive rights in recent weeks.

“The leaked draft decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade represents a blow to freedom in America and is a direct attack on human rights,” It had said earlier this month.

“Standing up for reproductive choice and liberty is not a difficult decision to make, and Bungie remains dedicated to upholding these values.”

It’s going to really suck if Sony put a muzzle on Bungie in future and stop them from doing actual hero shit like this https://t.co/zTl0dw1QBH pic.twitter.com/tZRrVqk9xn

— Skill Up (@SkillUpYT) May 17, 2022

Yes.

— pete parsons (@pparsons) May 17, 2022

Earlier in the week, a Twitter user added it would “really suck if Sony put a muzzle on Bungie in future”.

A senior community manager at Bungie responding to the comment offered full confidence that “there will never be a ‘muzzle’ big enough to stop us from standing up for what’s right.”

The statement was given full support by Bungie CEO Parsons, who simply replied “Yes.”

Sony publicly revealed in January that Bungie and Sony had come to an agreement to collaborate and operate under the Sony umbrella of its world-renowned creative Sony Studios. The agreement between Sony and Bungie allows Bungie full autonomy and freedom of publishing rights to its own Destiny and Destiny 2 IP remaining a wholly independant multiplatform studio and has reiterated that future Bungie releases will remain multiplatform for the foreseeable future.

The Sony acquisition of Bungie is reportedly valued at a whopping $3.6 Billion and is currently still pending due to FTC investigations but Sony remains confident expecting the acquisition to be fully complete by the end of the year.

A storm brewing or a storm in a teacup?

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Bungie has been around for 30 years. Yes, 30. In fact, right now we are in the middle of a small retrospective of bungie’s first FPS franchise Marathon (check out the first article here). Well, Bungie’s 30th anniversary celebration dropped yesterday in destiny 2, and brought with it a suite of new weapons.

While not Exact replicas of their historic counterparts, Destiny now has Guns based on Halo 2’s battle rifle, Halo 1’s Magnum and the energy sword from across the whole halo franchise all now have counterparts in destiny 2, which also are all designed to feel like their Halo Counterparts. The Battle rifle, for example, is designed to be hip-fired in a similar fashion to how guns in Halo Typically act.

The Update also features a new 6 player matchmade activity, “Dares of Eternity”, which is available for all players, as well as a new dungeon which is unlocked as part of the Quest to get Gjallarhorn.

Oh yeah, sorry, forgot to mention that, GJALLARHORN IS BACK! The Iconic Rocket launcher from destiny 1 has returned to destiny 2, and its… pretty good. Not really had much time to play with it yet but it doesn’t feel underpowered.

The Update has also added Armour Ornaments based on Marathon, A Sword Based on Myth, and a suite of Well-loved destiny 1 weapons, such as Eysaluna, Matador 64 and 1000 yard stare.

Bungie Split from Xbox, leaving the Halo IP behind back in 2007, and while they would continue to work together for a few years after that, releasing Halo ODST and Halo Reach together, the writing was on the wall. In 2010 bungie signed and exclusive publishing deal with activision, leaving the Halo Franchise and microsoft behind.

In an interview with Axios, Xbox head Phil Spencer said:” At the time they had big ambitions. They had sold their business for a certain amount of money. They saw what Halo turned into. And it’s like, ‘OK, Microsoft benefited more than Bungie did from the success of Halo.’ There’s no other story that can be written there. If you’re saying, ‘Hey, I think I’ve got another one of those in me. I want to really take another chance,’ I can understand the allure of doing that as an independent company.”

When asked if he thought the split from microsoft was inevitable, Spencer responded “Could we do it today? I think we could.”

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Destiny 2 is a game with a lot of lore. Youtube channels like myelin games and My name is Byf make that clear right off the bat. And with a lot of lore comes a lot of characters, from the Kell of house light Misraaks (or Mithrax in human tongue), a fallen captain who regained faith in Humanity after our character saved them, to Mara Sov, Queen of the awoken and 2021’s winner of worst sister ever.

Over the last 2 weeks, fans have been voting on who their favourite character in the game was, and it has finally been confirmed that Saint 14 is the communities favourite character, beating out fellow crucible announcer lord Shax for the top spot.

Who is saint 14?

Saint 14 started out as a name we really only knew thanks to an item description back in destiny 1, with the helm of saint 14 exotic helmet for titans, which blinded enemies that entered the ward of dawn super when equipped. The helmet came back in destiny 2 with the added ability to cause the same disorientate effect while using the sentinel shield, an alternative super ability to ward of dawn. From in game lore you could gleam that Saint was one of the best titans out there, and was even considered to be the “son” of the speaker, who served as a spiritual leader to the city.

Unfortunately saint 14 disappeared at some point in the past, before the player character guardian woke up. As recounted from the helm of saint 14 lore tab:

//AUDIO UNAVAILABLE//

//MAINTENANCE FRAME TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS//

SX: You know what they say about Titans.

C6: They’re loud and abrasive?

SX: The good ones are all dead.

C6: You don’t know that Saint is dead.

SX: The greatest Titan who ever lived just disappeared. Call it a hunch.

[A generator roars.]

C6: No one ever put down a Kell faster than he could. But man, he was a real weirdo.

SX: Eccentricity was his strength.

C6: Talking about the Speaker like you’re related to him is eccentric. Claiming he’s seen the future, that he fought Six Fronts fueled on the idea that some Guardian savior is coming? That’s insane.

SX: Belief is a hell of a thing.

C6: Sure, yeah. One Guardian’s going to fix everything. Kick Crota off the Moon. Make it look like us Vanguard know our head from our hindquarters. Hey, where are you going?

SX: One of the new recruits from Old Russia I’ve had my eye on—entering the Crucible for the first time.

C6: Hey, maybe they’re the one. We’ll call ’em Crota’s End.

The next time the saint came up again probably came as a shock to some people. In The Curse of Osiris expansion for destiny 2, after completing the main story, players where tasked with completing little mini quests to unlock weapons as part of something referred to as “prophecy boxes”. After completing half of these quests, players would be tasked with entering the infinite forest and within you were able to discover the grave of saint 14, confirming he died at the hands of the Vex. The Vex constructed a shrine in honor of him in the simulated future of the infinite forest, which Saint had entered in the hopes of finding Osiris, who Bungie narrative designer Robert Brookes has confirmed Saint has a romantic relationship with.

So he’s dead right? Yeah so… during season of Dawn in 2019, we learned that Osiris had been developing a time machine, the sundial, to try to bring Saint back. It didn’t work, and the Sundial was seized by 3 Psion flayers, who were trying to use it to change the outcome of the Red War, destiny 2’s base campaign. During all of this, the player Guardian took it upon themselves to also go out and look for saint 14, and if possible to bring him back. And we did. Through killing the Vex Martyr Mind alongside Saint, we were able to change history and saint 14 was able to leave the endless forest. 

Once he was out, he moved to the towner, where now he feeds the pigeons and runs the trials of Osiris PVP mode. That is far from the end of saints story, the last year has seen him forced to confront his past decisions when we employed the aid of Misraaks in ending the endless night, and right now, when not running trials, Saint is off scouring the system to try to find Osiris who was kidnapped by Savathune, the hive god of deception.

The Poll

The poll began 2 weeks ago, started by Reddit user “The DankestMeatball”. The poll featured heavy hitters such as Gambit announcer the Drifter, Uldren Sov/The crow and The Exo Stranger. Many where expecting the late Cayde 6, who died during the Forsaken expansion, to win due to his enduring popularity in the fandom, but he went out in the final 3.

LORD SHAXX HAS BEEN ELIMINATED! Saint-14 is the final victor! All the stat distributions for the votes have been posted in order, most recent to earliest. from destiny2

The final poll was a fight between lord Shax, the main crucible Announcer, and Saint 14, the Trials Of Osiris Crucible announcer (for those wondering, lord Saladin went out day 4. No-one likes saladin), with the russian pigeon lover coming out ontop.

Bungie have, through the “spoiler alert” sidearm, suggested that someone will die during the witchqueen expansion coming next february. While saint is an unlikely candidate to die due to his important roll in the game, but its not impossible. 

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What is gambit?

Gambit is destiny 2’s black sheep. While Strikes, the main PVE gamemode, Offer both Casual and hardcore PVE experiences to players that want them, and the PVP Crucible Does the same, gambit has been neglected by bungie. The last real update the mode got was with the launch of the “beyond light” expansion in 2020, which Removed the “Gambit Prime” gamemode and changed up how the main version played. That change was very poorly received by the community and to this day gambit is the least populated core mode of the game.

In gambit, 2 teams of 4 players race to kill enemies and collect Motes. Motes drop from enemies and players can carry up to 15 Motes. These Motes can then be deposited at a bank. When players on the enemy team deposit motes, it spawns a “Blocker” on the Enemies bank, which means that players cant deposit their motes until the blocker has been killed. There are 3 teirs of block (Small, medium and large) that are formed based on how many montes players deposited in the bank.

At periodic points in the match, players from either team will have the ability to invade the other team, during which one player Can enter into the other teams area and attempts to kill as many of them as possible, being pulled back after either 20 seconds or killing 4 enemies.

Once one teams bank is full, that team summons a boss enemy called a “primeval” and must kill it before the other team summons and kills their primeval. During the time that the primeval is active any invading enemies will be able to heal the boss by killing players.

What’s the problem

Gambit has always struggled to find its niche within the destiny playerbase. PVP players tend to dislike the gamemode because both being invaded and invading feel unbalanced in favour of the invader, while PVE players dislike invasions because they enjoy killing ads and fighting a powered up player is not the experience they are looking for.

All this came to a head recently when, on reddit, a user by the name of Zorseking34 posted Staying “Bungie, the fact that an enemy Gambit team can invade while they have 80 motes and we only have 8 makes the mode insufferable.”

This comment actually got a response from Community Manager dmg04, who said “Yeah, this can be a pretty rough time! Team is looking at some improvements to make in the Witch Queen timeframe. We’ll be sure to pass this feedback …”

While this is neither confirmation or denial that changes are coming to gambit, it does mean that the bungie team are looking into addressing problems with the gamemode and to make it a more enjoyable experience for players.

On a personal note, I don’t think the invader mechanics are the main issue with the game mode right now. It is exceptionally easy to Blocker-stack and have 2 incredibly hard to kill Large blockers (and maybe even a squishy small blocker that has the ability to Grant immunity to the large blocker), and then just maintain that stranglehold on the enemy team, meaning that they cannot deposit what-so-ever.

The Witch Queen expansion is a long way off, however, so changes to gambit may not come into the game for a long time.

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Festival of the lost

Destiny 2’s halloween event, “Festival of the lost” dropped with reset yesterday, and this time around Bungie have fully revitalised the event.

Since the launch of “Destiny 2” in 2017, the event had gone largely unchanged. Same loot with few additions each year, same activity (the haunted forest) and endless memes about “homie”, a large, immortal hive boss with a big axe. However, due to the (presumed) destruction of mercury with the launch of “Beyond Light” in november 2020, which was the setting of the “Haunted Forest”, so this years event needed to switch this up a bit.

Prior to launch, we only knew so much about what was coming. The only thing that Bungie had shown off were the new armour ornaments, themed after Dinosaurs and with some HeavyKamen Rider/Power rangers monster energy, and a new day-of-the-dead Ghost shell.

The biggest departure this year is the Haunted lost sectors. These are horror themed modifications to Destiny’s typical lost sectors, and will tell a number of different stories, from a Exo Body fusing with a Vex Mind, a guardian on Nessus being hunted relentlessly for their ghost, and a headless monster on the Moon that searches for lost ghosts.

In addition to these, players can collect Pages from “the book of the forgotten” to earn bonus loot.

Alongside this the festival of the lost mainstay of masks have returned, with a number of new additions such as a Pyramid ship, Ada-1 and the Europan Penguins you collected back when Beyond light launched and haven’t thought about it in 6 months. Players can also obtain the solar 540 Pulse Rifle “Jurassic Green”… although its perk pool is kinda underwhelming, and especially when 540s are out of favour in the meta.

Players have until November 2nd to collect this loot before the event ends, so get out there and get farming!

Other Updates

Alongside the Festival of the Lost, A few other updates have come to the game.

In “The Corrupted” Strike

• Sedias knockback has been reduced.
• A Champion that was hard to find and defeat has been removed from the ransack ogre encounter. This should make it easier for players to get platinum champion ratings on their clears.
• A bug with the scoring triumph for this nightfall has been fixed.

In “The dreaming city” Location

• Taken Miasma would occasionally show up and block off locations while in free roam. This has been fixed.

In “Trials of Osiris” PVP mode

• Currency Reward lockout at 3, 5 and 7 wins no-longer reset when a card is reset.
• Playlist tooltip added to say that crossplay must be enabled to play trials.
• Trials passages only display a warning message if the player account owns a ticket.

In “Momentum Control” PVP mode

• The Maps “Anomaly” and “Dead Cliffs” have been removed from this mode only.

Some weapon changes

• The sunset “horrors Least” Pulse rifle no-longer drops at zero power. Bummer.
• You are guaranteed an Adept Nightfall Weapon if you complete a Grandmaster Nightfall with a Platinum champion Rating.
• Fixed a bug where “Shoot to Loot” and “Overflow” would occasionally double the magazine size on certain weapon types.

Ability changes:

• Fixed a bug where stasis titans could not sprint or use their light attack while in super.

And finally, some Vendor updates.

• You can now preview gears you can focus at saint 14.
• If you reset your Vanguard, Crucible or gambit seasonal ranks for a second time without claiming the ornament they will be available from the vendor.
• Sunset Materials (Destination and Tokens) now clearly say that they have no use and can be safely dismantled.

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