We Played The Final Shape

so guys we got to play it we got to play

the final shape a little bit early now

understand today's video is not going to

be containing really any spoilers we are

going to be showing a lot of the Exotics

because during the two days that we got

to play the final shape we pretty much

play with every single exotic that

includes the still hunt exotic sniper

rifle with golden gun which by the way

just to give you a small little tip

there it does synergized with Celestial

yes you can get one single golden gun

super shot off with it it's quite

amazing microcosm we got to play with

that as well that's the Exotic Trace

rifle and it's a kinetic Trace rifle and

we got the mess with kostov red death

and pretty much every exotic armor piece

on the Titan Hunter and warlock classes

we got to play with all of those I will

be doing individual reviews of those

Exotics because we tested those things

extensively today though I wanted to

focus more on the final shape the intro

Mission into the final shape but also

the big item which is the thing that

everyone's been asking how was Prismatic

Prismatic is the new subclass that we're

going to be getting in the final shape

and it is something that we didn't know

we were originally going to be getting

Strand and and both stasis were things

that were pitched very early on and

initially Prismatic though Not only was

it not revealed to us in the vok last

year but it is doing something that

Bungie has never done before it is

combining light and darkness abilities

all together now let me just say right

out the gate this is the most advanced

class Bungie has ever given us and it's

going to take a very long time to really

just wrap your head around it because it

took me and it's still taken me a long

time to wrap my head around it when you

have access to this many different

abilities you're looking at your subass

UI and you're like okay I've got an arc

subclass I'm rocking a void grenade I'm

rocking a strand melee when I slide my

abilities change because of whatever

aspect or maybe I'm charging of a trip

mine super Trip Mine grenade up on

Hunter you know I I've got the ability

to jolt Scorch sever freeze it messes

with you it messes with your head

because we've been so committed to these

particular Lanes think back to when D2

first launched and we had just these

little sub menus of what our subclass is

and that's where we played in you know

you got top tree bottom tree and middle

tree and Forsaken and then that was it

and then eventually we rolled into the

fragman aspect system but it was still

committed to one elemental type and

within those Elemental types you would

have your set of subclass verbs what's

so confusing with Prismatic is in your

mind you're like okay I'm rocking an arc

subass like my super is Arc but it's not

just jolt that you're going to be doing

here you have the ability to have access

to ignitions and Scorch and the ability

to weaken and freeze and Sever and so

when I say this is an advanced class it

really just kind of comes back to the

understanding of what we had before and

almost like unlearning those things and

going all right this is how Prismatic

works and once you wrap your your head

around that then you could start making

Headway into builds now I will say

initially at least in the campaign

similar to how strand was and even

stasis to some aspects you're going to

be relying on Prismatic to like do

damage to certain enemy types you'll see

these enemy types that have like the

rainbow look and you know you'll have to

go over there and get Transcendence to

do damage against those enemies and

again Transcendence is essentially this

bar underneath your super metab bar and

as you do damage with Darkness abilities

and also do damage with light abilities

each one of those meters fills up now if

you're doing damage with a kinetic

weapon you're going to actually be

splitting the the amount of ability or

the amount of regeneration on either

side but each one of those things fills

up and then when it fills up you have

the ability to press a button and you

are now Transcendence and in that moment

when you're Transcendence your weapon

damage goes up by 5% your ability

increases are off the channel like

there's just so many abilities you're

going to get to a point especially like

in week two when you have access to

Exotic class items where the amount of

abilities you have readily available you

almost don't have enough time to to put

that many inputs in there's just

especially in a Transcendence mode

there's just so much happening man it's

almost like a mini super it's almost

like you're rocking one and a half

supers now with Transcendence on top of

that you get access to the grenades the

Prismatic grenade which is going to be

specific to each class and those are

very potent as well and they too dip

into a variety of subclass verbs as it's

normally like a mixture of things

whether it's like suspend and jolt

together or or it's like shatter damage

and you know void damage together you

know so there there's a variety of

different subass verbs that they all

rely on and that's the thing about

Prismatic is just understanding that you

really are rocking a little bit of

everything but initially I would say

Prismatic was not that crazy to me like

it was like okay this is cool but I'm

not that Blown Away by it and that's

where I was like initially and when I

say initially I'm talking about in the

campaign I was concerned that Prismatic

was too much of a jack of all trades

build here's where things really blow up

the second day we were there we got

access to Exotic class items that's the

big selling point for prismatic is with

exotic class items you now have the

ability to merge two Exotics into one

now it's not the entire exotic you'll be

like the main benefit of that exotic and

that'll be the Bold Point that's within

that exotic class item but nonetheless

it's still two exotic class items into

one and that is what really elevated

Prismatic so initially when rocking

Prismatic which is my normal Exotics I

was like okay this is this is all right

and I'm not blown away by it then when I

got into the full builds when we had all

the aspects unlocked all the fragments

unlocked because they pretty much gave

us the whole Suite to play with in the

second day and all the Exotic class

items that's whenever it was like this

is power Fantasy on roids this is why

the raid is coming out 3 days after the

launch of the final shape and not week 2

had the raid come out in week 2 I'm not

saying we would have walked in there and

SLA the witness around but exotic class

items and a fully kitted out Prismatic

subass you're going to be putting out

some potent damage you're going to be

doing some nasty stuff and what's so

crazy is with all these different

variety of different aspects and

fragments and and also class items

there's going to be more build variety

than ever before and we know this

because we have like the build battle

series and I will say as a season goes

on all the builds kind of consolidate

into like maybe three like two or three

where everyone's just pretty much much

using the exact same thing there's some

people being creative but there's

obviously like your your bold Point

potent bills that rise to the top

Prismatic though because of how much

variety is it's going to take us a long

time to really just narrow down and like

what is the most potent now in terms of

what I I use we tried a variety of

different things some were more potent

than others there was one set of

abilities we did which included us

rocking dust fi grenades we were rocking

Spirit of renewal and that was you know

of course is getting getting a b with

the frost armor there and then the other

exotic that we were rocking with it was

actually from the the hunter exotic

helmets so Sera rnes facade so we had

Spirit of renewal and ser raknes facade

that one comes where you where you gain

woven Mel when activating a grapple

there's been some changes there and so

the change there is just simply by using

your grenade you get woven melt so if

you're understanding where I'm coming

with this guys with the single dust fill

grenade throw you have both woven male

and frost armor you essentially have

double the resist and so the things that

you can tank with that was was pretty

wild and I was just running in there and

like throwing it down and essentially

just letting things just beat the piss

out of me just to see like what I could

survive but I'm really impressed with

that and obviously like in day one

encounters when you have minus 20 Deltas

like that's going to make a big

difference another combination we rock

was actually the spirit of abiant leap

which of course takes advantage of

dinger's lash but we combine this with

the spirit of kep and ke's getting a

buff too and dude the amount of

abilities I had not even including

Transcendence was wild because

essentially I mean I was just popping

abilities over and over from my

concentration from getting the slam from

popping my barricade to uh suspending

everything in front of me from applying

the wave of solar going back and forth

doing the the solar and doing damage

with that like essentially I I ran into

a situation with that particular build

where I was like dude I have so many

abilities at my disp

I just I don't have enough time to get

all of these abilities out that's how

crazy it is and you know what's even

even crazier is like the moment you pop

Prismatic or Transcendence these things

amplify so it's like you're already

chewing out abilities left and right and

all over the place but then you hit

Transcendence and this thing this thing

amps up even more on top of giving you a

prismatic grenade now what I will say

about the Prismatic grenade that takes

presence over your base grenade so it's

not like you can use your Bas grenade

while using the moment you're in trans

in it's you're only using the Prismatic

grenade which you're going to want to

use anyways because it's potent but that

was the experience there with Prismatic

and we'll be doing like deep dives into

Prismatic uh this week but just to give

you an idea here initially when the

final shape launches Prismatic is a

means of getting through the campaign

kind of like strand is potent but not

nearly as potent as what you were you

were going to want it to be but then

week 2 rolls around the episode will

launch we get access to Exotic class

items and that's where things get insane

and again like I said earlier this is

why the raid is launching in week one

Buie knows this they know we would have

went in there and probably whooped up

the raid pretty quickly especially like

high tier players that know how to build

craft really really fast those guys when

they get their hands on exotic class

items and the full kit there Prismatic

it's going to be nasty so yeah lots of

great things from that let's kind of

circle back to the the final shape

itself I don't want to give you

narrative spoilers because the narrative

is really important to all of us I did

have an interview though with the with

the narrative team and one of the other

developers and you know I'm I'm trying

to get access to that audio and I think

we may just upload that audio from that

interview and that way you can kind of

get an idea of what I was trying to go

for but essentially in that interview

guys what I was really driving home to

and my questions was are we going to get

all the answers are we going to wrap up

the Lucin l wise now let me just say I

definitely didn't get nearly as many

answers as I had hoped a lot of it came

back to hey cross just play the campaign

you'll get more information and we did

get to play mission one we also got to

play Mission 5 I would say jumping

around from mission to Mission like that

we didn't get to play a bunch but I

think we also got to play a little bit

of mission 7 but one was like the

mission we played the most of and I

honestly was kind of like kept my

blinders on CU I didn't want to know too

much going into it because nothing jars

me more than like jumping around in a

campaign and things get kind of

fragmented so I like to kind of

experience things in its chronological

order because that's the best way to

experience it but I asked questions in

that interview and those questions

included are we going to learn more

about the three factions the factions

that make up the witness right what was

the witness's life like before the

witness and all I got pretty much from

that is just play the campaign and these

things will be answered now one question

we did ask and this was actually

answered for us right on the spot was

about the red subass I asked was the red

subass ever going to be a thing and

essentially what I asked was are we

going to get that third subass I would

assume it it will be paracausal

considering our other subclasses but

things are going to change right

obviously after we defeat the witness

how is that going to play a role how why

would we even need a third sub class

that wasn't really answered on whether

or not we're going to get a third sub

class what was answered was that the red

subass that we covered last year was not

real I don't know what that was they

just said that there is no red subass

being worked done they did not say that

a a new subass is not being worked done

or that we will not get the third dness

subass they just said from that

screenshot that so many of us ran with

last year uh on the red subass that is

in fact not real so yeah just just

wanted to bring some clarification on

that I'm happy that they answered that

for us though anyways as far as like the

final shape goes and the pel heart this

is an area that's going to be unlike any

area we have had and the reason why I

bring that up is because the the vibe of

it is just creepier and it's not

necessarily like day and night cycle and

not going to get into like mechanics or

whatever but there are points when

playing on the pill heart where you know

things are clear and you can see the sky

and everything it'll go from that to

suddenly you can't even see what's right

in front of you like that that's and it

almost reminds me like the dynamic

weather system they included in Europa

it's similar to that except for this is

just like more daunting you know it's

not just oh it's snow we're in a

blizzard it's like no you're literally

being enveloped by what you would equate

to the darkness and uh that that plays

into it mechanically but that's kind of

the experience on the pill heart you'll

go from this Garden atmosphere to some

of the most beautiful areas and then

you'll step off into what feels like

hell and I love that you could have both

of those type of biomes in in this one

destination now I did not get to

experience the entire destination we

mainly only got to play like within the

mission structure and then we got to

play one of the game modes on the on the

pill heart which is really cool but uh

within that new activity is when I got

to really experience you know that that

effect where suddenly clear skies you

see your enemies all around you and the

next thing you know it everything around

you you can't even see what what's

happening in front of you and it feels

like you're being wrapped in darkness so

that was really cool now finding the

dread we said in the past that the I

would say the most annoying enemy type

to face inside of Destiny is probably

the Scorn the scorn man that they just

the way they move the the fact that some

of them just go in complete immunity by

just like disappearing the reappearing

and then they can just kill you from

behind or the fact that they have this

like small circular Shields that can

somehow block literally everything is is

extremely annoying The Dread are equally

if not more annoying subjugators they're

real man they're like on the level of

tormentors their presence is known

they're big they literally take up the

battlefield originally when we were

first shown the subjugators we thought

they were just going to be like you know

like the side little ad that comes in

and Buffs up other enemies no that their

presence is no they are as potent as a

Tormentor especially considering they

can lean in on Strand and lean in on

stasis as far as the other dread enemies

the ones like the flying bats yes they

have that that shout that can

essentially like almost have like that

suppression effect on you which can

really really mess you up the guys that

got run around with that's got like the

double blades and then when you kill

them they have like the worm thing come

out of them that can explode they're

also really annoying and understand like

a lot of the gamepl that we're going

against them at is like at level stuff

maybe we're a little bit under but that

level stuff these enemy types are

annoying even at at level you can

imagine how annoying they will be on GMS

like grandmas nightfalls playing against

the dread it's going to be awful and I'm

here for it man I I'm looking very much

forward to facing those enemy Types on

the harder difficulties especially like

the legendary campaign when we really

get into that I think that's going to be

really really fun and we get we did get

to go against some of those enemies in

the legendary campaign and that was a

lot of fun but in terms of like the most

annoying enemy types to go against I

think they are now first place for me

used to be scoring like scoring and

taking were like right there neck and

neck but the dread are at the top for me

again I really really want to talk about

some of the boss encounters we had and I

I've got to go back through and check

the notes and see what we can talk about

this week and I think maybe at some

point this week we may have an entire

video that's like all right listen if

you don't mind spoilers you know here's

some more stuff right but some of the

boss encounters man are are incredible

especially when dealing with this new

enemy type but I love the the the Gomen

clature used for a lot of the dread you

know whether it's Weavers and that's

essentially what they are their weaving

Strand and so it's really cool that they

dip into those names for all of those

and now that we know the witness is

literally using the light to create the

dread uh really cool little lore detail

on their creation and of course why it

is they're so annoying now as far as

other abilities we got to use we did get

to use the new aspects we also got to

use the new supers now we're going to be

doing deep Dives on everything

throughout this week but if you've seen

the new supers so for the tie you've got

the ax that you throw one at a time uh

you throw three of them in total and

then you can pick up those three axes

now your teammates can pick up those

axes too and inside of pppp we went up

against an entire team of Titans and

dude once they got those supers going

they were so hard to beat because not

only were they using the supers to kill

us then they had three axes they can

come pick up individually and run around

and either kill us with the LI melee

attack or just outright just throw the

axe at us and kill us and so we were

literally getting killed on spawn by

these Titans the tit super is crazy not

just because of the damage it puts out

but because of its longevity the ability

to stretch the super beyond the super

itself right now I did use the aspect

the unbreakable aspect where you you

know you charge your grenade and then

you do like the explosion it's all right

I wasn't that Blown Away by it I mean

it's okay I think we need to mess around

with it a bit more we'll go back to the

footage and look at it a bit more I want

to say there was one moment I did use

Ursa furiosa and again I know this is a

this is a game death build so things are

subject to change but for the most part

sandbox wise everything here should be

the sandbox we're going to be playing

with in the final shape so things like

cerus and Colony I got to play with

those Exotics that got their Buffs and

yes we'll be talking about that more

this week now other aspects we got to

play with we got to play with the solar

Soul aspect on warlock that was really

good I enjoyed it the super itself was

also really really good I felt like I

was running around with like a souped up

sun singer from back in in D1 and as

what Bungie said they of course wanted

it to surpass that of sun singer back in

D1 obviously many people think of sun

singer as the self- reses Warlock and

that's what a lot of people want you're

not getting that here what you're

getting is a number of abilities that

are constantly up for you and so you can

just go to there and just start you know

laying waste to an entire team or group

of enemies it has crazy tracking

especially the the actual grenade effect

but you synergize it with your melee so

just think of it as all of your

abilities having infinite up time and

you're just literally emitting

everything left and right and it was

funny because I was pairing that with

Prismatic so I would go from

Transcendence using Transcendence

buffing all my ability spitting

everything out left and right ability up

time at full Max then right afterward I

would then jump to my super which then

contribute back to my Transcendence

there you see the loop here guidance or

you can go the other way you could do

you know super first and then

Transcendence second to contribute to

more Super and so there's a lot of

things here that is going to involve you

having very high up time with your

abilities and that was what I registered

there with warlocks was like you know

with the new super I had very very high

up time we also used it in PvP and it

was pretty nice in PvP now for Hunter

Hunter has the the new Ascension aspect

where you troll the the staff above your

head okay this this is really good I

think a lot of people are discounting it

yes we used it with the new exotic but

we also used it with other things like I

used it with ger Falcons and so every

time because of the G Falcon change

every time we got an ability kill we

would do with ger Falcons and stylist

executioner we would also go invisible

come out invisible give a volatile

rounds to avoid weapons he was really

really nice I really really like that

ability now as far as the super ghost

remember you throw the knife you

teleport to it you come out of it and

you're doing your it looks like the same

super animation from back in D1 when you

could just do spin the win on yourself

and kill everything in like AOE I would

argue and say three to four times larger

than the D1 version of this it's so

large that when you throw that knife

anywhere remotely close to an me when

you're coming out of and it's so instant

you're just going to kill whatever it is

I didn't necessarily do PVP gameplay of

this but I got to see or go up against

Hunters rocking this and you just could

not Escape that ability as far as PVE I

don't necessarily know if I'm going to

use this super for PVE it seems to be

more gauged at PVP for myself but those

were those new supers and aspects so

guys that's pretty much it I I know this

is a very general video and and so I

mainly wanted to put this together and

put this out that's kind of like a

warning because past this point we're

going to be doing deep dies on

everything we have a number of things

lined up exotic reviews for all the

exotic armor pieces the exotic weapons

the new supers the new aspects the

complete look at exactly what you're

looking at in your Prismatic kits all of

these things are going to be rolling out

throughout this week if you do not want

to see any of those things I would

honestly advise just not looking at

anyone's YouTube channel because it's

not just going to be me making this

content there are a number of other

content creators there that are also

going to be posting up this content so

look away but but I hope you're okay

with this video today being just more of

a general overview so far I I've been

really impressed with what we got to see

in the final shape I'm excited about

this expansion I think it's going to be

one of the best expansions and you know

I I'm not getting into cutscenes or into

narrative but let me just say

narratively there is a darker undertone

than what we've experienced in the past

and I love that Bungie is leaned into

that war and let me also just say Keith

kills it as the Vol that's it that's all

I'm going to say narratively if we put

out anything else that involves the

narrative or any other missions which we

shouldn't be able to do anything other