
Essentially, anybody can make an app that manipulates your Destiny characters and items. It’s a third-party inventory management system made possible because developer Bungie allows app-makers to fiddle around with the API. Now let’s talk about one of my favorite apps ever: Destiny Item Manager. Here’s a look at all of my guns as of January 6, 2022.

And let’s not even dig too deeply into armor, which has six randomly generated stat values that influence ability and defensive cooldowns. Most guns feel great in Destiny 2, but when you get a roll perfectly suited to your playstyle, it’s one of the most satisfying feelings in games. Why would you incentivize not using your abilities, which might include magic singularity grenades or superpowered throwing knives?Ī hand cannon with “Kill Clip” (reloading after a kill grants increased damage) and “Outlaw” (precision kills grant increased reload speed), however, will create a feedback loop of raw power, finesse, and speed - assuming you can hit those headshots. “Surplus” boosts the handling, reload speed, and stability of the gun based on how many fully-charged abilities you have. “Shoot to Loot” lets you shoot ammo bricks on the ground to pick up ammo. Bungie / DIMĮvery weapon in Destiny 2 gets a random “roll,” with the most important variation coming from two perk slots drawn from a pool of dozens. This Scathelocke auto rifle deals bonus damage for each kill AND each kill auto-reloads extra ammo from reserves. So you can hold up to 580 randomly generated items (ignoring Ghost Shells, Sparrows, Ships, Emblems, and Emotes). Then you’ve got a storage Vault with 500 more slots. On each of your up to three characters, you can hold up to nine additional items for each slot. For armor slots, there’s the helmet, gauntlets, chest, leg, and class item. In Destiny 2, you can equip primary, special, and heavy weapons. Therein lies the whole lottery ticket analogy. There’s an overwhelming amount of depth to the lore, but if all you want is a shooter that feels good, you can just follow the objective marker and destroy everything you see with snappy gunplay and some totally rad abilities.Īs part of this potentially brainless fun, you get a lot of armor and guns - more armor and guns than you’ll ever know what to do with. You wield immortal space magic granted to you by quirky little AI drones that were created when a huge primordial robot sphere died. But instead of growing vegetables, you are defending humanity from a neverending onslaught of big-D Darkness-powered aliens. Like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing: New Horizons, elements of Destiny 2 make it feel like a satisfyingly easy chore game.
