Within the Future 2 group, a preferred meme has gamers reply to huge, scary villains and lethal house gods with a easy message: I’m going to show you right into a gun. There are numerous variants of this meme, however the basic concept stays a preferred joke amongst gamers. Now, within the new Witch Queen enlargement, Bungie leans into the jokes and lets of us actually flip one of many franchise’s most vital enemies right into a wickedly highly effective grenade launcher.
Over the previous few years, Bungie has gotten significantly better at telling tales in Future 2. Gone are the times of getting to examine all of the lore on an internet site or app. Future 2 now options complicated and fascinating villains and heroes throughout the sport itself. And the latest enlargement, Witch Queen, is among the finest bits of Future that Bungie has ever created, matching the highs of stuff like Taken King or Forsaken.
Nonetheless, irrespective of how nice a villain or storyline is, the group is at all times fast to tug out the ol’ turn-you-into-a-gun meme. It’s by no means enjoyable to clarify a joke, however right here I am going. Most huge finale quests and boss fights in Future finish with some loot dropping, and a few of this loot is instantly related to the large dangerous monster or villain you and your fireteam have simply defeated. So, when finishing new expansions or questlines, it seems like you might be turning unkillable gods into enjoyable new weapons.
SPOILERS FOR DESTINY 2: WITCH QUEEN BELOW!
As is usually the case in Future DLC, after you beat the primary storyline of the enlargement, you unlock a plethora of latest actions and missions. Considered one of these new unique quests, Of Queen And Worms, has you journey across the new Throne World zone, exploring misplaced sectors and killing enemies. All of the whereas, you carry with you the previous Hive worm of Savathun. The traditional worm, who as soon as offered the Witch Queen along with her energy by way of a connection to the god worms on the queen’s house planet, was faraway from Savathun by Queen Mara and now requests a number earlier than it spills helpful secrets and techniques concerning future threats dealing with the galaxy. Mara makes a cope with the worm to offer it with a strong host. The worm and others within the sport assume Mara means herself.
However, it’s all a giant trick.
After finishing some difficult missions the place you accumulate vitality for the pesky worm, you carry the nasty little bugger to an alter the place Mara reveals the ruse. Fairly than placing the worm into her, she makes use of house magic and crams it right into a cool wanting unique grenade launcher. After threatening to tear it out of the gun and kill it, Mara and the remainder of us get some vital lore about Savanthun and the Witness. I’d clarify that right here, however should you care about Future 2 lore, you already know. And should you don’t care, you gained’t perceive a rattling factor about what the worm truly stated.
(Odds are you don’t actually perceive loads of what I’ve written thus far. Sorry about that. Anyway, thanks for studying!)
Oh, and the unique grenade launcher! It’s fairly good! I’m having fun with it. The weapon, often called Parasite, fires explosive worms, dealing a considerable amount of photo voltaic injury, which could be very helpful towards giant crowds of enemies. I’ve been utilizing it so much, although I not often take pleasure in utilizing heavy exotics.
It’s humorous that in spite of everything these years of followers speaking about turning monsters into weapons, Bungie went and crafted a complete questline that culminates in letting gamers just do that. It’s simply another reason why I’m having fun with Witch Queen and this newest season of Future. To be clear, although—I nonetheless suppose Bungie eradicating previous content material and story missions is horrible and makes it onerous for brand new gamers to leap in.
However…I additionally acquired a brand new, highly effective weapon that shoots worm bombs and was created by squishing an evil historic bug right into a gun with house magic. It’s onerous to not have a great time after I get to do stuff like that.