Destiny 2 players resorting to YouTube as Final Shape launch issues ruin cutscenes BungieGuardians far and wide are resorting to out-of-game methods to catch up on The Final Shape\u2019s crucial story beats as Destiny 2\u2019s most important expansion has launched with a bevvy of issues hindering the fun. As with most live-service games, the biggest updates often draw the biggest crowds. That\u2019s no different with Destiny 2 as Bungie\u2019s live-service title pulls hundreds of thousands of Guardians together upon the release of every new expansion without fail. Rounding out 10 years of storytelling through The Light and Darkness Saga, June 4, 2024 brought The Final Shape into focus. However, it didn\u2019t do so in a flawless manner. Server issues were no doubt expected, as has historically been the case with new Destiny 2 expansions, but all manner of setbacks are not only halting progress for players, but in some cases, outright ruining the experience. At such an epochal moment in Destiny\u2019s history, finally facing down The Witness, any missed moments or abruptly ended cutscenes are bound to cause frustration, and that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s been happening through the launch day. Although server interruptions are nothing new, with The Final Shape\u2019s release, many have been interrupted at pivotal moments. When disconnected from the always online game, players are either sent back to orbit or straight to the main menu. If that interruption strikes during a cutscene, that particular moment is lost in time until you replay the campaign on another character. As there\u2019s no way to rewatch cutscenes you\u2019ve missed, this has forced the hands of Guardians by the thousands. Popular streamers like Gladd have expressed their frustrations with the day one experience, even suggesting the most dedicated Destiny 2 players avoid the expansion until issues are ironed out. \u201cI\u2019ve been disconnected during every single cutscene except for one,\u201d he tweeted nine hours into his launch day grind. \u201cThis is actually pretty terrible and it sucks. I do not recommend playing The Final Shape right now if you care at all about the story. You risk missing everything important.\u201d Most of Destiny 2\u2019s most important moments are often conveyed through said cutscenes, rather than directly in player-controller sequences of gameplay. So to miss out on the vast majority of them for the final chapter in a decade-long story is certainly a punch to the gut. As a result, many players have been forced to catch up on what they\u2019ve missed by any means possible. In some cases, this has led Guardians out of the game as they watch cutscenes on YouTube, uninterrupted by any pesky server troubles. \u201cHad to go on YouTube to see the end of mission one cutscene because the server kicked me,\u201d one player said in reply to Gladd. \u201cI missed the cutscene post first mission and I was peeved. I got off, I\u2019ll just try again tomorrow,\u201d another added. \u201cThis highlights the fact Destiny needs a cutscene theater,\u201d a player stressed. \u201cUnfortunate that we\u2019re missing them because of errors. I want to be able to see them with my Guardian, not some random content creator on YouTube.\u201d Rest assured, Bungie is toiling away as always, with the Bungie Help account on X (formerly Twitter) providing regular updates on a raft of server-related issues and various error codes too. For now, there\u2019s no quite telling when things may stabilize. Though with the player count slowly dipping after a hot start, we could see hotfixes leading to a smoother experience in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 players resorting to YouTube as Final Shape launch issues ruin cutscenes BungieGuardians far and wide are resorting to out-of-game methods to catch up on The Final Shape\u2019s crucial story beats as Destiny 2\u2019s most important expansion has launched with a bevvy of issues hindering the fun. As with most live-service games, the biggest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}