Destiny 2: Scrapped, Cut & Deleted Content Bungie Didn't Release

[@unknownplayer03]

What Destiny content do you wish DIDN'T get scrapped?? 🤔

[@jacobmcmurtry8768]

the magicians gotta be the drifter

[@Corrbius_]

🐸

[@roobeedooo]

NEED GIANT FROG

[@TheEbonyWarrior]

The Calus boss fight. Concept art has him performing ceremonial Sumo stances, drinking from his chalice to breathe dragonsbreath, covering the arena floor with his drink, a laser from his mouth, and a missile barrage from his shoulders.

[@yaboidre5672]

Escalation Protocol. Best public event ever. Hands down.

[@bearlyplayin]

After the Final Shape gameplay reveal... The Prismatic shader part made my eyebrow raise. Lol.

[@samuelsalvatore4511]

siva being on nessus has massive lore implications, considering the fact that it is basically a vex-infested asteroid, it's impossible to think that the vex wouldn't try to control it, and while the vex are already powerful enough without siva, they could also steal it from humanity forever. also, it's crazy how early destiny was more like a fusion between futuristic sci-fi and medieval fantasy, im honestly kinda sad they walked away from that as it was one of the few things that truly made destiny different from halo, now the only "fantasy" things in destiny are almost exclusive to the hive. this "magician", if he or she still exists in the lore, probably now has a very different lore than originally planned.

[@XogoWasTaken]

Worth noting that SIVA is still on Nessus, just not the haywire corrupted version that was present in RoI (Which was specifically a hacked, fucked up version. It's meant to just, like, build houses). Also the Vex don't really need SIVA - their construction capabilities are seemingly just as capable as it on their own. All it would really do for them is be hard to control.

[@salphoris911]

​@@XogoWasTaken The vex might learn the algorithm using which SIVA functions seeing as SIVA is based on the tiny living beings in Vex radiolaria. They might be able to make all SIVA go rogue and wipe us out. Who knows how much more is hiding on Sol planets unaccounted for?

[@Resonosity]

Yeah the original aesthetic between sci-fi and medieval is what I preferred too, wish they'd lean back into that

[@DriftersWeedDealer]

​@@Resonosity i mean, i feel Like the final shape seems to lean somewhat into IT. Might be worth watching the Stream from Last tuesday If you havent yet 😊

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

@@XogoWasTaken And we already have quicksilver nanties so siva is obsolete now.

[@nat040496]

It's funny that the Vex ended up being the main villains of D1 cuz i always found the Hive more memorable and threatening. The Vex just felt like robots run amok, the Hive felt like actual servants of The Darkness.

[@LateNightHalo]

11:25 interestingly it’s because Peter was not voicing the character he was cast as. Originally, the Ghost was supposed to be a very uncaring, bored and flippant character

[@DuelaDent52]

And he wasn’t supposed to be our main guide through the world, so he had to say a lot more than he signed up for to the point the whole game was basically just him.

[@thundercockjackson]

they just had to make the ghost a wholesome chungus 100

[@EnigmacTheFirst]

I think it was a mistake to make Rasputin the only Warmind ever rather than the last surviving Warmind.

[@dr.blast__2713]

Same tbh

[@Oryxthetakeenking]

He’s not the only warmind?

[@EliteEpicGamerz]

Still pisses me off to this day

[@EnigmacTheFirst]

@@Oryxthetakeenking He is. Rasputin is the only warmind. Everything else is a submind.

[@NEWGHOST9]

I mean in the end we did kinda get that last surviving plotline back from the submind plot lines So wasn’t entirely scrapped at least

[@jmojocat1944]

I'm a mod on twitch. One of the other mods used to work at Bungie on the Strikes team. He used to get mad at the "I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain" from the Exo Stranger. He used to tell us she did have time and there was a reason it was cut from the game.

[@sharequsman596]

Is that a job or a volunteer thing

[@jmojocat1944]

It's a volunteer thing. Kind of. The streamer picks someone to moderate chat. Usually someone they trust that isn't a troll. Bigger Streamers sometimes pay. I was asked, I chose not to

[@streamhiro77]

correction: Galaxy Pools was found by a hacker flying out of bound during a time we had a rise of cheaters in destiny. Froggy in his friends took it upon themselves to find a legit way to reach Galaxy Pools without cheats.

[@ketakevin]

but someone called mad did it first, before froggy

[@streamhiro77]

@@ketakevin but he's still not the one who found it first, a hacker by the channel name Az-1 found it and then Froggy's team spent hours trying to do it without cheats. So what is even your point? I never even said Froggy found it first among his friends.

[@ketakevin]

@@streamhiro77 yea and I added that mad found it first legit

[@streamhiro77]

@@ketakevin okay

[@CloudLXXXV]

​@@streamhiro77Yeah and it was almost a year before a legit way was found. I remember seeing AZ-1s post on raid secrets and being blown away. Huge props to Mads (the Sparrow flying expert) and Froggy and Co for all working together to get there. Even the new easy skimmer method found by someone else is amazing. Haven't been there myself and probably won't ever unless someone invites me.

[@T0mBr1dg3]

11:52 Still wish they had Pete Stacker AKA Captain Keyes voicing ghost, I always appreciated that through line of Bungie cast members through out their games, and I think from the small amount of lines we heard he gave a unique take on Ghost

[@smitywerbanyagermanjenson875]

I miss the stances that our characters had in the menu from destiny 1 they just looked really nice.

[@antgonz4436]

Love and miss your content. Good to see u again. ❤

[@AstarothGX7]

8:13 slowly ??? to appriciate the milky way moving thegalaxy pools should be moving even faster than the speed of light

[@judepalmer8819]

In a sense we finally did get the 5th enemy class, just that the Dread aren't like the original smokey figures.

[@roobeedooo]

seeing the pink placeholder icon with the "prismatic" shader name... LOL TFS all makes sense now

[@coveherbert6035]

It crazy how far back things can go. Hell, in the Destiny 1 gameplay reveal, one of the guardians gamertags is Oryx!

[@btcvgod]

It would have been nice if they used the Galaxy pools area as a place like the lighthouse when you go flawless but for finishing the Dares of eternity where you could collect your loot.

[@TheStinkyOne420]

one of my favorite memories in destiny 1 was seeing and fighting "phogoth, the untamed" for the first time. That fight alone got me into the whole game

[@Tah-.]

One thing I miss is weapons that had changeable scopes; really cool detail that was a great part of the game

[@RocketSloth]

Watching this video randomly and had a Leo pointing at the tv screen moment at 4:55

[@Viflo]

The blue VoG gear IS in Destiny 1, Age of Triumph brought it back in the game with ornaments, you can select one of two ornamentations or stick with the default.

[@IAmOctober]

I would LOVE to see that original fantasy version of Destiny, maybe following a lot of thematic elements from our Destiny but more grounded and acting as a more traditional fantasy. I have an itch to write that now

[@mitchlovesmusic5663]

Hey dude! Something I didn't hear you mention in the video. Apparently the entire Mercury Patrol Space was a cut Combined Arms Multiplayer Map from Destiny 1. Sometime after The Dark Below but before The House of Wolves Bungie made the decision to stop releasing big maps so that one sat around for a while before a use was found.

[@Coldstone666]

You missed sparrow crafting. On the original Destiny companion app you could view your sparrow collection and under each sparrow it would have the text: “Crafted=X” Xur also sold sparrow drives so maybe at one point it was intended to put together your own sparrow.

[@Pen_Slinger]

Those sparrow drives were used to upgrade a 'rare' sparrow into a legendary one which were about as fast as the Raid sparrow however the Raid sparrow had the unique ability to go into overdrive making it still a little faster than a sparrow upgraded by Xur's drives. Something that came in handy when Bungie did that racing event.

[@KingShibe]

No, the sparrow drives merely increased speed to your regular speeder that wasn't legendary

[@DuelaDent52]

Other things: * The Boolean Gemini was originally going to be called the 347 Vesta Dynasty. * The Jade Rabbit was originally going to be a gun called The Fate of All Fools. The latter was never officially released, but they did gift one to this one player who had suffered brain damage and loved playing the game. * People like to think Cayde’s death was a stunt to get people to play again or some weird “take that” to the tone of the year prior, but the truth is he was never going to make it as datamined voice lines present since D2’s launch revealed Cayde was originally supposed to die in the Red War main campaign. There was also a cut speech from Zavala in Warmind that heavily foreshadowed Cayde’s death in Forsaken and numerous hints to the Fallen uniting under Uldren’s House of Kings. Speaking of... * The post-credits was actually a subtle roadmap of where they were planning to take Destiny 2 over the next several years. First the Traveller’s Light goes past Mercury, then Mars, then the Reef, then Saturn with Oryx’s Dreadnought, then what looks like Nine space, and then finally at the Pyramids. They likely refocused their plans internally following the Activision split and they obviously only ever got as far as the Reef, with the Moon being added because somebody was playing around with the lighting on it and them deciding to bring it back because it looked cool.

[@-WhiteDevil-]

The unused blue VoG armor was used actually, albeit they were made into the second set of ornaments for the Age of Triumph VoG armor

[@Wordonko]

In final shapes trialer, the one with the gameplay reveal, we hear what i think is a unfamiliar voice, maybe that is the return of the Traveler witch

[@ontos8914]

“The Witch” resembles how The Gardner is described in one of the Deep Stone Crypt lore tabs

[@SomeOne-hu8hu]

I honestly think after the final shape bungie should just reboot and remake destiny 1 following these cut ideas. That way they can a more consistent story that they actually wanted to make, making everything more original.

[@andyhaber89]

prismatic shader ended up being the new subclass

[@ipolarisi2381]

We need more vids mate keep them coming

[@XogoWasTaken]

I've just now made the connection that Savathun, the "Witch Queen", did a very similar thing to the "Witch" in that old opening cutscene - appearing to humans before the Traveler shows up and indicating it's imminent arrival. I wonder if that was meant to be her, even back then.

[@LateNightHalo]

It wasn’t. What you know about modern destiny was not the original lore or story

[@pewpew9582]

When did Savathun tell humanity that the traveler was coming?

[@BluegrassBriar]

Just watching the 2013 E3 reveal trailer shows so much of what could have been.

[@cuddlecakes7153]

And then we had to pay $160 for a fraction of what it once was

[@atlas6538]

All things considered, what we have now is better then what we could have had, the game has had ups and downs, but people fantasize what could have been too much

[@Artawii]

@@atlas6538true, anyone can come up with amazing ideas on paper but you just can’t really tell how well it’ll actually go till you do it

[@dinckelman]

I’ve never played d1, but i’ve looked at all kinds of stuff for years now. Never knew about half of these. Quite interesting

[@KalosKitsune]

Mann I really miss how the warlock used to stand in your inventory screen in destiny one. I hate their pose in destiny 2 :/

[@Panhammer64]

man , i reinstalled destiny 2 & hundreds of women flooded my dms, they said "wow, do you main solar titan??" at first i was afraid (i do not talk to women) Then, I began to understand this is the power of destiny 2, the game. This is what Bungie has been working towards all these years

[@commanderzavala9328]

Indeed

[@benraynor-]

an unknown player video and into the light releasing tomorrow? we are so back fellas

[@samanthaprzybylski5526]

Think we got the concept art there at 2:59 at the end, final shape patrol area in the Landing looks very similar, minus the castle.

[@jeffersonrodriguez8008]

During destiny 1 I was obsessed with cut content, going back and watching the early gameplay reveals and seeing the differences was so cool. If this video would have came out 5-7 years ago I would’ve been an estatic teen lol

[@MrJEFFJORDAN93]

I think that they should allow Loot sharing in the way Division 2 does where you have to be with them when it drops and have a few hours to trade before it's locked to you. Like say you get the roll that you're mate wants and they have one you want so you trade the drops.

[@AtlasFalls]

Always a great, unique, video from you man. Appreciate always getting NEW video ideas from you, no click bait. 99% of the time you cover topics I wasn’t aware of.

[@cameronmckirdy4874]

I remember hearing a lot of funky leaks from pre-reboot d2

[@bantasanta8928]

Following the final shape gameplay reveal trailer, that prismatic shader might be coming back or may be the new effect in transcendence

[@cuddlecakes7153]

Imagine what we could have had if Bungie hadn't gotten greedy and removed 90% of the game to sell back to us later. Not to mention the game was so fragmented at that point that even after $160 we didn't get the full game back

[@czyrztof]

same game but bloated with irrelevant content

[@Joshy...]

Pretty sure it was the Activision higher ups that rejected the original story and forced the dev team to scramble to piece content together.

[@trafmuc]

the fact nobody realized anything mentioned in this video is sad, it was so obvious to me and my friends 😢 especially when d2 came out and they just scrapped load zones that were in the files of Destiny 1 for IO in D2 and we have confirmation now because you can open the map files for Destiny 1 in blender and see all the cut content, including the pyramid loads and scrapped strikes on mars that became d2 io strikes, it was so obvious they reskinned venus and mars into nessus and io

[@BluVic02]

Having crotas oversoul be the final encounter screams queenswalk There was definitely inspiration there

[@Detroit33Boy]

Glad you alive my guy!💪🏼

[@nat040496]

I still miss and prefer Dinklebot. Nolan North is great but they took our Ghost and changed him from sounding wise and now sounding like a comic relief character

[@Quizzoli]

I bet you the magician was the witness. It’s been one of those only constants through most of development history, and it makes sense it would have a name like that that was cut for something more intimidating

[@Youcancallmeishmaell]

To me the Witch and or Pilot/avatar of the Traveler. Looks a lot like Mara Sov.

[@zaster101]

The galaxy pool area might have been a boss arena as part of the tease of the black ship attack like we would have warped there in a vision from the traveler fight a tormentor or some early concept of it and boom tease the up coming black fleet. It may have been kept just as a "we dont know when but we are going to use this area somehow " and it just never came to but is still kept just in case cause its like you said a really great set piece area

[@Lyric_Cloud_Studios]

You're back!!! Sorry, I've not seen your videos for a while. I hope you're well.

[@th3grav3mak3rgaming8]

12:19 if I had to guess, the magician was the early name for the witness

[@Aegxs]

Until I watched this, I hadn’t put the pieces together about Io being green Mars. And now that I have it raises a LOT more questions like “wasn’t Mars the first place the traveler touched and NOT Io like the first cutscene shows?”

[@s-fang5520]

King's Fall actually never had Harrowed armor. There were harrowed weapons, and Bungie added Age of Triumph ornaments that gave the sets a black color and blue glow, along just generally being WAY cooler than the base sets, but no harrowed armor. That image also isn't official. It's fan-made.

[@voiddoctor]

I feel like the Prodigal armour design has been the default titan armour design since the very beginning of Destiny 1. Bungie always used it for D1 Titan demos for whatever reason.

[@Tobreakthecycle]

It’s crazy seeing all these old pictures and all the rumors surrounding them and going “I remember that!!!! That’s what happened?!?!”

[@lachiripiolca]

Thank you so much for this video. Loved your vids since D1

[@therealfrogjuice]

Love these videos bro

[@dfghjk230]

im so happy that they decided to make destiny a scifi/fantasy hybrid instead of just being a purely fantasy game, I think it's got a pretty unique sort of vibe/aesthetic which we wouldn't have gotten if it was just a basic run of the mill fantasy rpg

[@DawnNamine]

3:50 - The SIVA Engine was destroyed, it would just be dormant SIVA.

[@Desertsniper15]

Galaxy pools is one if the most famous, mysterious and coolest locations in Destiny 2. It's a pain in the ass to reach, tedious and takes a long time but it's still cool nonetheless

[@stormierbody8419]

2:10 god the RMT would’ve been POPPIN for people that had multiple g rolls

[@Calvin-r93]

First person paywall simulator. 10/10

[@snarples]

Man, after today's video it's obvious that the prismatic shader is for the exotic class item, as well as some other stuff.

[@hydronova6729]

Super random but the vault of glass sparrow was not the only sparrow to have the overdrive perk, the crota's end sparrow had it

[@GenocideLv]

destiny needs to make Devrim a guardian it also needs one of those touching moments when your ghost has a conversation with you on a personal level like in d1

[@jessl9390]

Are you gonna be making a video on the possibility of D3?

[@vergilbaberuthofbaseball5983]

Possibility? The devstream that happened a day after the vid came out confirmed destiny 3’s development

[@sokei4670]

I weirdly think that 'The Magician' is what The Witness ended up becoming. His whole deal is to bend some type of reality and the multiple changing arms with conjuring resonance and making limbs appear in different sizes I think heavily connotes what a Magician in destiny would be like, being able to slice ships with fingers and manipulate memory through feelings. maybe the name was changed cause they found it too cheesy after making more lore for the 'darkness faction'

[@mayanwolf]

I love Destiny and been playing since D1 beta, but I do wish they kept a lot of the scrapped stuff. I feel like the game would've been even better, but I do understand a lot could've been scrapped due to size and resources.

[@mitchconner2021]

From everything ive heard the original story of Destiny would have been soo cool. So many more planets and places you go so many more missions. The dreadnaught was cut the reef was cut. Its really a shame they spent years working on the orginal story then cut it all up into DLC and rewrite everything when the orginal story was gonna be so cool but so different than what it turned into.

[@JPOG7TV]

There is a blue ornament set for the VOG armor in d1. Just like the wrath of the machine armor sets, it got two sets of ornaments for age of triumph. One being the brand new ornament set and another being a blue version og the original vog set. Its most likely a reference to that set in the api that never got released.

[@otroweonllamadoseba]

Don't forget that "Forsaken" expansion that was supposed to be added to the game.

[@mr.3piece875]

3:11 and now we got an alien frog in the H.E.L.M.

[@RathOfRey]

I do wish there were more than 2 races to choose from (not counting exo as they’re not a race really)

[@UnknownTuber450]

6:20 is that part of the original story? I been trying to find something to read what it was like

[@SharpShotterJake88]

They definitely need to do a destiny 3. I think this game needs a good loot reset so when they make new guns there not all pretty much useless

[@d4rk_light]

Great video! Where can I find those fanart and concept art you shown?

[@coolkidtey]

i genuinely don’t know how anyone could fumble a game such as destiny. smh

[@MawsYT]

So much of this makes me upset. What Destiny could have been was something we all hoped to have in its early days and sooo much was just left out or forgotten

[@pickme.picker]

All of the raid sparrows had that overdrive function but it still would have been cool to get an exotic one...

[@Tyberes]

While I think factions are dead and buried (in one case literally). I would LOVE to see the foundries take their place. Like have a Hakke and Veist and Suros vendors in the tower, simply the system so you progres them by defeating targets with their guns.

[@rtemisveille2533]

The Magician might've been referencing the Speaker using tarot cards as a metaphor fwiw, the meanings associated with The Magician as a tarot card reflect both of the ways the Speaker presented himself. In D1 he presented himself as speaking for the traveler as though he was guided by its will, and in D2 before Ghaul kills him he admits to being a fraud and both of these sides of him coincide pretty well with the upright and reversed positions of The Magician pretty well

[@absentstars474]

3:55 we got siva exotic armor ornaments 😢

[@SadSackGaming]

The funniest part of not making Destiny 3 and 4 and so on is that they essentially did by vaulting content. I still think that they need to do one of two things with Destiny 2. Well, three things. Main thing is to stop using the same cycle since day 1 of Destiny 1. Bad news -> Boss -> Problem solved -> Bad news -> Bigger Boss -> Problem solved -> Bad news -> Bigger Bigger Boss -> Problem solved, etc. Once the Witness is gone, we get a less inspirational version of the ending of Destiny 1. I'm essentially at the point of, just stop dragging this out, tell me what boss to beat, let people beat the raid, beat the boss, wait for this to happen again. One, create a new game called Destiny. Now I don't know how you would do this since that game name exists. Two, turn off Destiny 2. Turn it back on with an updated engine or whatever they need to do to make the game function better and more efficiently. Now whichever they do, the result needs to be that they have the next evolution of what they are doing as the path forward. Make exotic quests/catalyst quests have optional methods for completing. Someone who plays primarily PVP/Gambit have a 100% way to complete the exotic quest so they aren't wasting time doing strikes. Someone who just does PVE content should have a 100% way to complete it that way. Not, you have to do raids or dungeons, but go kill whatever with this kind of thing. Things like finding all the feathers or whatever need to just be known once you find the first one. If you have one of them in each location, the task should list the locations for you to look. Doesn't have to be the precise spot, but if I have to go to the Tangle, so there's one in the Tangle. If I have to run strikes or crucible or gambit, let me just hop into the queue to go to the next one. Just let me play the game.

[@Pren4573]

There’s a lot of scrapped content in Destiny 2 over half of what’s in the game currently

[@eltony1625]

I have the blue VOG gear I believe they released it when they did moments of triumph at the end of D1

[@anothermetaphor7586]

To correct some errors in the video: The vex void was based in the pyramidion area of Mars. The D1 pyramidion has different geometry to the D2 version, as the D1 version was a raid. The pyramidion area connected through the cabal base (Giants scar in D2) to the door in the rubicon wastes in D1 Mars. This is known as the files for the pyramidion and adjacent areas were found in D1. The leaked vex cinematic re-used for season of the Undying was originally intended for the vex void, and the older version of the video is inside the martian pyramidion. Curse of Osiris was made exclusively for D2 and is not cut content.

[@CloudLXXXV]

The Pyramidian itself via the files also places it under the map and its insanely huge compared to the rest of the map. Surprised this video didn't mention the cut D2 Shard area of which some files remain in the game and it was somehow linked to the unnamed "Galaxy Pools" area.

[@joerogo92]

I still wouldn't count any of things out of ever coming back, if I know one thing about Bungie, they love circling back and reworking previous concepts for things.

[@DraphmirEmpire]

Yuna is the best looking vendor and NPC in the game so its a shame not to have her in the global version

[@Tofuey]

The dark below really should have been part of destiny 1 vannilla. It feels like a complete game that way. But it was definitely cut because they wanted to have 2 expansions in year 1.

[@91mattmac]

Honestly what didn’t get cut from this game? Where’s our player-affected economies, large open social spaces on all the planets and the ability to walk in town after a fight instead of flying to orbit every time? The world was meant to be affected by the choices players took, (guardian games are BS) Also, I miss all the content that I’ve paid for but can’t access these days. As soon as bungo announced D2 going live service I knew we’d never see those original ideas get expanded on. Biggest thing Bungie cut out of Destiny 2 was that original spark and that’s the 7th’s Column soul.

[@martholomeu9160]

there is a leaked internal alpha version of the game that has just been found and hasn’t been opened yet. imagine the cut stuff from an internal 2012 build!!

[@kirbydance8314]

Do you have a source for this? There’s a video that was uploaded/found a while ago of destiny 1 in development. Just of lots of clips of different things they were working on at the time. This came from an ex dev I believe on their portfolio. Can’t help but feel like that’s what you’re referring too. Haven’t seen or heard anything to do with a leaked internal alpha build being a thing and it only just being found.

[@바보Queen]

so asia the only one who get the only attractive NPC jade? LOL

[@William-dx9hk]

boy do I have news for you on that 5th race, the dread

[@drdouchenozzle3556]

I miss Peter dinklages ghost… WE’VE WOKEN THE HIVE!!

[@zenbran]

The fantasy element would have been pretty cool. Even if it’s like in another galaxy for future content

[@crazymic10]

And yet with the content that had made for lightfall still dropped the ball on that expansion

[@Tport712]

I just want to be able to go between 3rd and 1st person at any time.

[@makingacomment]

Gonna have to play a different game then 😂

[@Tport712]

@@makingacomment you act like this wasn't a discussion when we could still 3peak with swords

[@makingacomment]

@@Tport712 that’s entirely different though that perspective is tied to that weapon. I get the point you’re getting at. But we’d be back at the same conclusion we are now. With the state of pvp/competitive. Almost no 3rd person perspective. It would be cool don’t get me wrong for certain pvp/pve modes like how it is in scorched. But it won’t happen unfortunately. Wasn’t trying to be a complete jerk about it. Although it was conveyed that way.

[@Tport712]

@makingacomment no yeah I agree. It probably won't happen but I can still hope lol. The way I figured it, if we had the ability to go 3rd person but are ghost comes out and is kinda like the reason we are in 3rd person maybe they could make it to where if someone or something hits your ghost you go back to first person

[@makingacomment]

@@Tport712 dude that would actually be a cool idea and feature in the game. At some point it would be a nice change for sure. I play a lot of The Division and other shooters that utilize 1st & 3rd person. That would be nice

[@ajaverill08]

The crota sparrow had the overdrive perk too

[@lilydarlow1951]

I can’t say for sure but I think the galaxy pools is a dev room rather than a piece of cut content

[@go2nrg]

Here from the Aztecross vid

[@robertlawrence9000]

Man this makes me sad! So many cool things that I wish would come to Destiny 2 and even so many good things from D1 that I wish all of the content would come back with greatly expanded areas.