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A brand new trailer for Destiny 2’s subsequent growth, The Final Shape, provides the clearest sense we have but seen of what gamers can count on once they enterprise contained in the Pale Coronary heart of the Traveler. It is a bizarre, considerably distorted reflection of the world Guardians have explored for the final 10 years, made all of the extra unsettling by the creeping, corrupting affect of the Witness spreading by way of it.
The new trailer units a haunting tone for The Final Shape, which stands because the end result of 10 years of storytelling within the Destiny universe. It is narrated by Cayde-6, the upbeat, jokey Vanguard chief who died within the Forsaken growth and who’s resurrected throughout the Traveler by unknown means. Nathan Fillion reprises the function after seasoned voice actor Nolan North briefly stepped in throughout the Forsaken growth, however he is not cracking clever by way of this trailer–he’s giving a solemn and spooky accounting of what Cayde has seen and felt since he awakened, alive once more, inside Destiny 2’s highly effective machine god.
Try the trailer beneath.
There are a couple of different unusual and fascinating tidbits to be seen throughout the trailer. For one factor, the angle of the digital camera continuously shifts and reorients because the panorama itself is lower aside and put again collectively. As Cayde talks about how the very floor beneath his ft and the sky above his head are recollections, implying that this place is extra illusory than it first seems, the bottom flips the wrong way up and we see Guardians traversing within the distance, standing with heads pointed towards the land above, their ft hovering above sky beneath.
One other notable tidbit: Savathun, Caiatl, and Mithrax seem on this trailer, lower collectively in such a means that it seems they’re standing collectively towards a menace. Caiatl and Mithrax, in fact, are alien former enemies of the human Guardians who’ve since joined with the Vanguard to create a coalition towards the Witness. Savathun’s look in that second, nonetheless, is new.
Whereas Savathun has been, uh, “useful” within the battle towards the Witness, she’s at all times additionally been an enemy–a character the great guys discount with however maintain at arm’s size, once they’re not actively making an attempt to kill her. Within the Season of the Witch, Savathun was resurrected and gave the Vanguard details about how one can comply with the Witness into the Traveler, however she hasn’t actually been round since then. It seems, nonetheless, that an actual alliance between the Vanguard and the Lucent Hive is within the offing, not less than so long as the Witness stays a menace.
The trailer was launched Monday evening after it briefly appeared on Sony’s PlayStation YouTube channel, seemingly launched by mistake. After the Sony model was made non-public within the afternoon hours, Bungie re-released the trailer throughout all channels. If this trailer dropped a little bit sooner than supposed, one wonders what else may be in retailer for gamers within the run-up to the growth, particularly with the present content material occasion, Into the Gentle, slowly unspooling over the following few weeks.