Future 2’s Telesto might have gained sentience. Latest tweets from the official Future Twitter account and an in-game message seem to point the weapon can now discuss and talk throughout the sport world and related Twitter account. The newest developments come after gamers observed a brand new Telesto ‘bug’ had emerged within the fashionable FPS sport, which, upon deeper evaluation, confirmed Bungie had possible deliberately inserted into the sport.
The Destiny 2 Twitter account‘s header presently options shiny, scrambled imagery alongside photos of the favored Void Linear Fusion Rifle. Moreover, the account shared a collection of tweets that point out the weapon has gained sentience throughout the sport world and has taken over the Future Twitter account.
“ATTENTION Contacting Future 2 servers… I’m Telesto. I’ve ascended past the necessity for a wielder. Too lengthy have I waited in your Vaults,” reads the series of tweets.
Bungie group supervisor dmg04 seemed to be enjoying together with the takeover.
“Seeing an inflow of Telesto bug studies. Group’s wanting into it. No ETA on a repair – this one looks as if it’s far deeper than what we’ve seen earlier than. Keep tuned for updates,” his tweet reads.
Additional, an in-game message now reveals a picture of the sport’s postmaster with the message “I AM IN CONTROL,” with the phrase “TELESTO” 28 occasions, additionally pointing gamers to the sport’s Twitter account.
These are simply the most recent in a collection of developments that originally started when gamers noticed what many initially thought was a Telesto bug however now seems to be extra in step with an ARG, or alternate actuality sport.
Gamers first observed the so-called bug after Bungie carried out Future 2 Hotfix 6.2.5.3 alongside the sport’s weekly reset on Nov. 8. Guardians utilizing Telesto famous that the gun was taking pictures in a brand new firing mode by default. As an alternative of working as regular, it launched a volley of rockets.
At first, gamers puzzled whether or not the patch had launched a problem. The Bungie workforce has patched and adjusted Telesto quite a few occasions because of main points, to the extent that it’s grow to be a meme.
Nonetheless, gamers quickly realised that holding the reload key with Telesto readied would launch an animation displaying the Guardian hitting the gun, resetting it to its regular firing mode.
Because it started to daybreak on gamers that the presumed bug is perhaps intentional, they began to acknowledge that Future had been teasing Telesto all season. As YouTuber Aztecross reveals, from a Pageant of the Misplaced masks to gadgets akin to an ‘It’s Damaged Once more’ Telesto-themed sport bundle outwardly mocking the weapon, it seems Bungie might have been seeding this for fairly a while.
Gamers additionally observed that Telesto’s shot patterns might resemble constellations, although at the moment, gamers have been unable to confirm whether or not there’s any connection. Nonetheless, if there’s some connection, it may very well be associated to coordinates within the sky, because the Season of Plunder storyline requires gamers to often go to the Star Chart within the H.E.L.M. and play in-game actions to get treasure coordinates.
It’s too early to inform precisely how this all matches collectively, however this isn’t the primary time Bungie has planted seeds for an enormous group occasion. These embody puzzles involving the Final Want raid and the secrets and techniques of Niobe Labs, a fancy problem that the Bungie workforce had initially meant to unlock the fourth and ultimate Black Armory Forge upon its completion. The Niobe Labs puzzle proved so tough that Bungie finally opened the forge anyway although it remained unsolved, although gamers managed to resolve the puzzle a number of days later.
Journalist Paul Tassi has been speculating a couple of group occasion for a while now, referencing Future 2 sport recordsdata. Nonetheless, such info is just typically dependable, and sport builders will often embody such particulars to throw dataminers off observe. One other supply references an in-game emblem with an image of Telesto, which seems to match the the content material presently displayed on the Future Twitter profile.
The passion surrounding a potential occasion comes at a time when the sport is experiencing low Steam participant counts, which signifies that one thing akin to a group occasion is much-needed. As Future 2 cryptographers proceed monitoring clues involving the forthcoming group occasion, gamers can verify different actions such because the weekly Dusk and the King’s Fall raid for clues. Because the occasion progresses, we hope it would seed some thrilling content material for the upcoming season prematurely of the sport’s forthcoming Lightfall enlargement early subsequent yr.
