My timeline has been filled with Destiny 2 posts all week, which is something that hasn’t happened in almost a year. Usually, all the Destiny 2 players and content creators I follow start flooding social media with memes and clips at the start and end of every season and major expansion, but since last February’s lackluster release of Lightfall, the only time Destiny has trended was after Bungie en🐎acted its callous and completely avoidab🔯le mass layoffs.
But Destiny 2 is back in the zeitgeist a full three months before the release of The Final Shape, the conclusion to the decade-long Light and Darkness Saga, and for a surprising reason. It’s not a new season or raid, it’s not the sweeping PvP balance changes everyone has been waiting for (though there are some of 🌜those), and it’s not even because of another game-breaking Telesto bug wreaking havoc on the game. There’s no massive new release rejuvenating the Destiny fanbase, it’s just a hoverboard.
Obviously I’m downplaying it a bit for effect. It’s not just a hoverboard. The Skimmer is Destiny 2’s first ever new ve🐼hicle type, giving players an alternative mount to the trusty Sparrow, and it seems like everyone is having an absolute blast with this thing. Inspired by the Neomuna Cloudstrider’s skyboard, the Skimmer is the fastest and most stylish way to get around, turning the entire galaxy into a new kind of playground.
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If you haven’t seen the skimmer in action, You can do spins, grabs, kickflips, and swing the back end around and tail whip a Cabal in the face with it. Best of all, you can create grind rails made of light underneath you anywhere, allowing you to effectively fly across the maps as the rail extends infinitely in front of you in whatever direction you’re headed. You no longer need a 🌌specific sword and perfect timing to sword skate across the Hellmouth on the Moon, just hop on your skimmer and grind, baby, grind.
It looks like a lot of fun, and I love the way people are exploring old patrol zo꧒nes and repurposing them into freestyle skateparks. Of course, , but it’s obvious this was at least somewhat expected when you introduce a mount that doesn’t obey gravity. With so much pressure on Bungie to reinvent Destiny, it’s refreshing to see the team put a lot of work into building something silly that brings joy to the community.
I’m impressed by how much care and de🎃sign went into the skimmer - which even changes the color of its light grind rail based on the subclass you have equipped - but I’m also impressed by how much the community has embraced this goofy little gimmick. The Final Shape is already three months late, with three more to go before release. There’s been a sense of dread about Destiny 2 ending or losing a big chunk of its core audience with the next expansion, which started even before last year’s layoffs.
This past year hasn’t been too hot for Destiny 2, and there&﷽rsquo;s a lot riding on The Final Shape to reinvigorate passion in the audience, but the reaction to the skimmer proves that that passion is very much still alive. Maybe it doesn’t take as much as we think to bring people back around. Destiny players want to love Destiny. Even when the audience’s morale is as low as i💖t is now, we’re still rooting for Bungie, and we’re always looking for a reason to fall in love with Destiny 2 again.
