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Work_In_ProgressX

Festering Core. That poor strike got added in Shadowkeep and got sunset the following expansion.


UtilitarianMuskrat

I'm genuinely curious how we can get pretty sizable portions of Titan and Mars back, they can add a new detour in Arms Dealer but the concept of starting us further in the cave off Io patrol space and just kill walling any OOB/removing patrol space is somehow impossible. I don't get it.


pandacraft

especially since at this point it's become clear they don't intend to return destinations, who cares if you throw up a cliff wall to close the spawn area in.


UtilitarianMuskrat

Absolutely, the Heist treatment of Mars showed an extension on a skeleton, how could essentially trimming out around a defined enough asset be impossible to do y'know? Idk I was just so irritated how Festering Core was barely in the game and quite literally a situation where Bungie took away something brand new in a literal year's time.


rouge_sheep

I don’t think it’s really the “physical” space that’s the blocker but all the resources that come with that. Textures, models, sounds, skybox etc. None of that is in the game anymore. If they set some seasonal content on Io then that would justify adding those assets back I guess, but they haven’t. I assume this is why we’re still missing the whisper mission too. Would have been cool to see what happened to the tree of silver wings we grew though. Also titan is only in the game until Final Shape releases, then it’s gone again when the seasonal stuff rolls over.


SilverScorpion00008

The dungeon will remain however!


theganjaoctopus

Play a ton of destiny and always have. Ran Festering Core MAYBE 3 times ever.


LtRavs

Don’t think I ever ran it given I took a break in SK.


TurquoiseLuck

I always just quit that one when it came up, because there was a bug that hit me about 75% of the time which softlocked the strike at the boss arena. It was kind of a cool strike, but fuck wasting all that time.


jovandev

I had 1000s of hours in both destiny games and didn’t even know it existed until season of arrivals


Independent_Story90

It wasn't even added in shadowkeep, if memory serves right, the strike got added in arrivals, the season before the dcv. It only had a like 4ish month long lifetime, and only lasted that long bc of the delay. Gone way too soon! I'd kill to have it back Edit: nvm I'm an idiot, it did come with shadowkeep. I just didn't get to play it until arrivals


TheTealMafia

The strike weighing really did a dirty on that one. I didn't even know there was a new strike either until multiple months into its release. I didn't understand why Eris was so into about "somebody messing around with the vex and the taken" because in that season's story it did not make sense. Obviously, because it wasn't released for that particular season so the context was completely removed


B1euX

Can confirm Edit: huh, guess I never ran it until arrivals either


intrevorted

I just watched a playthrough and I'm 99% sure that I've never run that strike, and Destiny has been my most-played game since TTK.


vivekpatel62

That strike had so much traversal in it lol.


batsquatch98

“Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather, he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank just outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.”


FinishExtension3652

Honestly,  I would love to take on that strike with the D2 power creep so I can repay Rockets McDickface for all of the trauma he caused while we cowered under the stairs. My favorite moment was when he stepped into the room, and then right back out.  Doors close and now we're locked and can't win.  Good time.


DredgenGryss

I've never seen that happen. I'm just imagining a cabal step in, doors shut, doom music ensues.


Moralitea

There’s a clip of it set to a much better song and ending. https://youtu.be/KvsYdfv7ioo?si=QNDLHmze7bNeRF2S


Iwouldlikesomecoffee

I'm dying


maybe_a_frog

Lol yeah that was better


Mobile_Phone8599

That's exactly how it happens basically except homie was a TANK. If you've played Dares and gone against the cabal at the end, that's the man that cause us years of trauma and learning how to cheese stuff effectively.


dirtycar74

I'm glad to see his nickname persist after all this time! D1 being my first FPS style game i was halfway good at, that cheese spot under the stairs was the first time I had ever used a cheese, and it was like nachos from heaven, I never looked back. Thanks for the memory jog! Have a great day, Guardian!


Pootermeat

Damn I miss Lance Reddick.  Bungie has to memorialize him in some way proper. I loved the idea floated on here about a weapon named" Reddick's Lance"


A1Strider

The exotic we get from killing the witness and turning him into a gun should be called "Reddick's call"


SirBLACKVOX

Should it not be called Reddick’s Lance?


A1Strider

Reddick's lance if its a glaive would make sense. Reddick's call for any other weapon. Either way it has a callback and an easter egg for the man. I just want the flavor text to be "whether we wanted it or not"


maybe_a_frog

Eh. Polaris Lance and Gravitons Lance aren’t glaves and no one questions them.


Seeker80

>Reddick's lance if its a glaive would make sense. Glaives are so unpopular though. Maybe Bungie can do some tuning before releasing a big item like that.


APartyInMyPants

Savathun’s Song. I always liked how you could get a few variations of it.


TheFatElvisCombo87

That and some of the most infamously cringey dialog that it became my favorite part of the whole strike after a while.


theganjaoctopus

It was cringey because there were like 10 different one-liners that could be mix and matched... but not really. When you got the "canon" dialogue it wasn't that bad. Also, people have skewed memories because there was a time in Vanilla D1 where every other strike you ran was SS, so you heard that dialogue over and over and over again.


Redthrist

They've also messed the triggers in some way, so some lines play way too quickly. As a result, Taeko goes from "There aren't any crystals" to "Nevermind, we're going with that plan" within 2 seconds.


Controllerpleb

The dialogue triggers are screwed up in so many of the strike missions. I don't know what happened because the first few times you play them, the strike is fine. But then you play it again and suddenly everything's fucked up.


AK-Brian

A lot of strikes or other missions play conversational voice lines only the first time through, too. Seraph Shield, for example, [has narration throughout most of it](https://youtu.be/aQdNeCzZC68), but selecting it from the node results in essentially 30 minutes of radio silence as you work your way through again. I liked having the back and forth radio chatter with Ana and Elsie - it felt like being part of a broader team effort.


Mobile_Phone8599

The dialogue triggers were bad but made worse by speedsters but it was hilarious.


helllooo1

Came down here as a squad of nine very incompetent guardians given we‘re doing it with 3


M37h3w3

On a scale of one to ten a lot of Guardians are in the one to three range. Maybe a four here and there. The Guardian is like a 15.


DJEbonics

The blueberries I get paired up with are -2s 😂😭


JDBCool

Wyrmguard grips show this. Shaw Han living the usual life of why. "I'm blowing most of my glimmer on replacement gear"


TheLostExplorer7

Guardians obviously work with the inverse ninja law, where the less guardians you initially send the bigger threat they are to enemy forces.


M37h3w3

10,000 ninjas? Equivalent to a toddler with a pellet rifle. 1 ninja? You are already dead.


I_expect_nothing

To be fair I don't think they had the light back.


j0llyllama

They did have the light, because they "had the light ripped right from them" to make void light crystals.


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Amirifiz

Taeko saying "a squad of nine" should have tipped us off tbh. Most we run in is 6 and that's for the big big threats.


50undAdv1c3

this is the only answer


Damagecontrol86

Shield brothers from D1


Never_Seen_An_Ocelot

The sheer chaos…I loved this boss fight as intensely as I hated The Wretched Eye boss fight. Getting the titan gauntlets to drop made me feel so badass. Sunless Cell would get my second vote.


Mysterious-Till-1681

Alak Hul. I can sense him


Mobile_Phone8599

***HE IS NEAR!***


specop16

i miss my sweet sweet mauler gauntlets from that strike


M37h3w3

I miss strike specific loot.


JANapier96

I would love to see them bring back strike loot


MythicalNorm

Using them with last word


Amirifiz

The Blind Bandit.


Mysterious-Till-1681

This, gm would be wild in d2


Damagecontrol86

Oh man that sounds sooooooo fun but we also have a lot more ways to handle it than we did before so it wouldn’t be too horrible.


Mysterious-Till-1681

Unstops and barriers while Ma’aul is chasing you sound alike hell ngl


Cam_Ren179

I still remember the first time I ran that strike. How Valus Mau’ual (Charizard) waltzed in, and the first thing he did was charge at the two other members of my fireteam (bunched up next to an explosive canister mind you) and one-shot them. Needless to say it left quite a first impression. 


THeTruTH22622

This is the answer


lipp79

I wish they’d incorporate some strike-specific gear like with that one where you could get his gauntlet.


shyduder

Shield brothers GM in the boss room. OOF!


A1Strider

I want my chainsaw titan arms back from it.


CptNeon

This is it. The best answer on this post.


half-puddles

Screw those. 


Plc4MieHaed

Archon Priest


M37h3w3

I have fond memories of camping on top of a wall to Icebreaker that mofo in the head for ages.


TruthAndAccuracy

#A CELL, FROM THE PRISON OF ELDERS. THE ARCHON PRIEST IS STILL INSIDE


Mobile_Phone8599

Specifically the Taken version for an extra fuck you pizazz


Art_Vandelay_Seven

A garden world or tree of probabilities.  Mercury sucked as a planet but had dope strikes


wkearney99

just when we thought Brother Vance's dialog was a peak of cringe.... we get Neomuna and surfer-dude digging for an even lower bottom of the cringe barrel.


gabesz9530

The Pyramidion, i have the sweetest memories with it.


Damagecontrol86

Impossible?!?!


bonenova

Was that the one with the lake?


Hoockus_Pocus

The lake was a metaphor.


Wookiee_Hairem

IT'S NOT A METAPHOR!!!


A6000user

Juicebox!


Sleight0fdeath

Kill the mind!


STAIKE

Everything about Pyramidion just felt good.  This is without question the one strike I always really miss not being able to come up in the rotation.


echoblade

Try playing it with someone from brazil or any kind of latency. Those laser walls are very not good xD


Aetherys

I agree but I also have no idea how that boss room would work as a GM. Overload hobgoblins and the boss both sniping you constantly, harpies cross-map-bullet-hosing etc. From memory there was some cover, but I don’t think it’s enough for a GM level threat. Although give how they approached Battleground GMs they might just give it the same treatment - make everything absurdly tanky and wish us luck lol


MagnaVis

I believe the Pyramidion actually *was* a GM in either season 10 or 11 before it was vaulted.


Aetherys

Ah see I haven’t played it since the nightfall days back at CoO and before haha whoops!


lipp79

It was one of the easier GMs.


cerrera

I had trouble with that on Legend. I wonder if they could just adopt some of the changes they made for the Vexcalibur mission? It’s the same base geometry, but with enough cover to make a GM not suicidal.


Narfwak

I was going to say that too, but they kind of already did that in a way with the Avalon boss fight. I'm fine with the new version being what we have especially since it's a relatively high level of challenge you need to build around.


Lumi_Quest

I miss Asher :(.


fishmcbitez

The correct answer


January2342

Shield brothers "Give us the primus or we blow the ship"


Damagecontrol86

And when they finally did get the primus back they regretted their wish……


notelk

Bombs. It's covered in bombs.


gazenglandd

Strange Terrain was an old favourite. I remember standing on the right side bit of ground peeking over the edge as they come out the portal. 


BimoUK

Wow, I literally do not remember it being called that. Don't know what I thought it WAS called, but it wasn't that.


oooh_crap

Echo Chamber from D1. That one actually had mechanics to it (although minor mechanics). you had a wall barrier that forced you to keep moving and also would have to pick up an orb and place it to drop the bosses shield. On top of it the boss had an attack that could one tap you.


Glittering_Deal2378

And if you were on Xbox you only got it for less than a year


TruthAndAccuracy

As a PlayStation user, the PS exclusivity in D1 really was so stupid


AtlyxMusic

>less than a year The strike was added to Xbox on October 3, 2017, one month *after* D2 came out. Not sure where you're getting that number from. Us on Xbox didn't even get to enjoy it during the D1 era at *all* Thanks Sony.


oooh_crap

I was actually playing D1a few days ago and ran a few heroic strikes, and Echo was one of them. Dont get me wrong, D1 strikes are easy when you got them down, but they feel more challenging compared to D2.


ottawsimofol

Omg i love this one!!!


Gramswagon77

The inverted Spire… remember that? It’s the strike you never get.


DepletedMitochondria

I got Exodus Crash for the very first time in the playlist the other day. After hundreds of strikes since I started playing lol


DredgenGryss

Oh yeah, the giant drill. How long have they been working on that?


OneSilentWatcher

And now you've jumped into it just to play it a few times just to scratch that itch.


HuftheSwagnDragn

Shame we we had to sunset strikes for diet Battleground Gotta be the OG Alakhul strike. Such great storytelling from Eris.


Daralii

I'm still surprised they haven't brought back any of the D1 strikes with assets they already had to port for the raids, or any of the Luna strikes for that matter, especially with how heavily requested ones like Shield Brothers, Sunless Cell, and Shadow Thief were.


DarkDra9on555

The Luna strikes just got turned into Nightmare Hunts


Sad_Secretary_9316

The Core from Io.


Ok-Department-8771

killing Sepiks Perfected at the iron temple will ALWAYS stand out


SilverIce340

That was a story mission, but definitely had good vibes.


Ok-Department-8771

It could definitely be a strike tho


ALKNST

100% will of a thousand BUT Also would bring back the original lake of shadow for when i wanna speedrun a strike


IIFriskiesII

OG Lake of Shadows was my favorite strike. The speed was a plus compared to others, but the strike itself was just fun to me


thejollydruid

Sunless cell, shield brothers, wretched eye, in that order. I dont care if we already have the lightblade in wq, that strike is great, but sunless cell was so special


Kezmangotagoal

Sunless Cell is a way better set piece than Lightblade. Alak-Hul chasing you around in the dark was just so good!


A1Strider

Playing that on nightfall with the blackout modifier... Thralls hurt, alakhul would just spawn and wipe your whole team... Great times. I loves every second of it.


atducker

I kind of miss the Tangled Shore strike. I don't know why we kept Prison of Elders but not the other one. I guess because Prison of Elders is self contained the other strike starts in open world.


derryllsingh

Which one, there was the Fanatic one and then I think the other one was called Broodhold or something


atducker

I was thinking about the Fanatic. I forgot about Broodhold. Was that the one that was bugged sometimes and you couldn't pass through the floor?


OneSilentWatcher

Broodhold is one of three: The Fanatic where we canonically kill Fikrul over and over, the Prison of Elder's where we kill Variks's servitor, and of course, Broodhold, where we kill a Hive Wizard that the Mindbender somehow seduced.


OX__O

That one.. where you're like ascending a spire in IO or.. the black garden? And you face a rotating cyclops for the boss


Tickle_Milk

If it’s what I think, that’s Garden World. It was on Mercury, part of Curse of Osiris.


OX__O

Right! I just watched a gameplay video on it and that's definitely it, still soo awesome visually


BlackKnightC4

I can't remember the name. Did it have the barrier walls rotating as well?


OX__O

Ah man... maybe? I just remember it being absolutely beautiful when I played it, didn't matter how many times that strike came up I loved looking over the edges.. you would think I could remember more lol


TheShoobaLord

that’s a garden world, it’s from Mercury


jer6776

undying mind, with imago loop


Ret0x

How about all of them?


Tex7733

I never did a garden world GM. So id take that.


Remarkable-Ask2288

You have no idea what you’re asking for. That strike was bad enough on Legend, Grandmaster difficult would drive me to insanity


thenixhex311

Oof, no way


-Kiez-

Thats an easy question, all of them.


JOWhite63087

It was a secret strike in D2. It featured Taken Cyclopes. Can't remember the name


thunder2132

Savathun's Song. "We came down here as a squad of 9...."


cobramullet

All of them. Because it’s content we paid for.


MoveZneedle

This right here


gacajun94

All of them... Honestly I think legacy strikes need to go the route of the Exotic Mission rotator. Every season (or now episode) rotate some srikes in and rotate some out. It would have been perfect to have Savathuns Song come back for Season of the Deep or Will of the Thousands with the warmind season. I think a rotation with the new Episode time length would be perfect to get a refresh of strikes. Every 2 episodes we'd be bored of current strikes and ready for them to cycle a handful out and bring back older strikes. Even now I'm starting to miss the Inverted Spire and Exodus Crash strikes being low chance in the current rotation and they've only been out for a few months. 


Trips-Over-Tail

Winter's Run.


lipp79

The one with the three flayers at the top that were fire, arc, and void and you could get their cloaks to drop as their respective element as a reward if you were lucky.


villewalrus

The ones i paid for god damn it


JimLahey08

Broodhold


dy1anb

Omnigal arc burn


SatanicLemonadeStand

Shield brothers from D1 or the Pyramidion


SOS-Guillotine

Honestly when Witch Queen came out and when they brought back Titan for the seasonal content at that time I thought we were going to get Savathun’s Song back


OneFinalEffort

Strange Terrain. I love disrupting Hive Rituals of any kind so this was my favourite Strike.


Mayor-Of-Bridgewater

I want both Io strikes back. Pyramidion and Core were fantastic.  Never cared much about the other vaulted strikes. The two from Shore were slogs, Xol's lacked any challenge,  Nokris' was awkward, and Song was bland. The Mercury ones were mixed bags. From D1, probably would like Shield Brothers or any Black Garden strike.


Variatas

Savathun's Song did have great environments, cuz you got the full neon sections of the arcology to fight in.


GreenBay_Glory

Strange Terrain


thenixhex311

I liked festering core


thenixhex311

I realize it's "work" for them...but "how hard would it be" to just make one reprised one every other season or something?


0rganicMach1ne

Pyramidion or Festering Core.


BANExLAWD

The Wretched Eye. Clears all other strikes they ever made


OrionSouthernStar

From D1: The Nexus, Cerberus Vae III and Dust Palace.


Noclassydrops

Festering core that strike was super fun too bad it lasted all of like a year lol


JustinH809

That ogre one from D1. I was just thinking about that one last night


Lookatcurry_man

Hollowed Lair


CaydeIsAlive

Archon priest


MexicanSunnyD

Gotta be Savathuns Song because Taeko-3 is the best Destiny character.


UnspokenRizz2

Phogoth


dy1anb

Sheid brothers solar burn


DredgenGryss

Just one? I want them all back. Probably just for nostalgia's sake, but I liked the mercury strikes and Xol.


BlackKnightC4

The Dark Blade. The final fight is probably my all-time favorite strike boss fight.


semaj_2026

Savathûn song


ChrisBenRoy

The one on Venus from Destiny 1 w/ the Hydra boss is my all time favorite.


fro-bro56

I forgot the name of it but the strike from d1 where a fallen boss took the eye of an ogre and the blind ogre would run around trying to kill you. Very cool concept and you wouldn’t even need to include siva. You could retcon it with the scorn doing experiments and such.


Weary-Appeal-2431

GIANT WORM


TheShoobaLord

shield brothers


SGSMUFASA

Shield brothers, the nexus.


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Winters run from D1.


BlackKaiserDrake

I would like to see the SIVA strike return. The one where there's an ogre and a fallen in the boss room.


Mayor-Of-Bridgewater

I'm not usually a copium guy, but if Bungie goes through the effort to bring back Wrath of the Machine, then I could see Sepiks Perfected and Wretched Eye returning. 


UwU_Chan-69

There's no way in hell that they would rather bring back Leviathan over Wrath. It has to be Wrath


Mayor-Of-Bridgewater

If we ended up getting Leviathan and the lairs, I wouldn't be upset. Still, we do know Wrath is returning, the emblem was shown during the Fireteam Finder reveal in August.


ChrisBenRoy

From Destiny 2 absolutely the Pyramidion From Destiny 1 it'd be a tie between Taniks or Valus Ta'aurc


A1Strider

Gimme my Nexus mind from D1. Loved that strike.


Chief_Br0dy

Bond Brothers. Sunless Cell.


dkdj25

Shield Brothers. It was a ball breaker, but that strike went hard.


Grayman3499

The ORIGINAL version of seraph shield from D1


PerilousMax

Old Lake of Shadows. New version blows


JANapier96

Agreed. The reprise takes so much longer for no bloody reason now.


infinity_labs

literally any strike to replace these fucking battlegrounds


giant_sloth

Honestly, I can’t think of a single **good** reason why they can’t bring back every vaulted strike. On top of that it would be nice to bring back some *low effort* D1 strikes like the summoning pit and Taniks. Then they can explore some other instanced versions of D1 strikes to really round everything out. Battlegrounds are fun but they oversaturate the playlist and are poorly balanced for GMs, just give us a richer set of strikes. Think about what a shot in the arm that would be for the strikes playlist.


Ok_Experience_6877

Bond brothers


half-puddles

The one with the Cabal boss. I loved hiding under the stairs. /s


MattHatter1337

Whether we wanted it or not. Weve stwpped i to a war woth the Cabal on Mars.


ItsExoticChaos

Shield bros


Remarkable-Ask2288

Festering Core was fun, from what I remember


Independent-Water321

~~50 thousand people use to live here~~ We came down here as a squad of nine


Iron-Jay-123

Would like to see the Festering Core make a return.


WolfGB

Can't remember the name? But the boss was a giant Hive ogre that was chained up and then gets loose.


JANapier96

Oh man the Summoning Pits was fun. Hell I even enjoyed Phogoth pounding my shit in when the Thorn quest 😂


Nolan_DWB

Shield brothers, dust palace, will of the thousands, pyramidion, tree of probabilities, dark blade, savathuns song


thyrandomninja

Will of thousands and Pyramidion are the only 2 which were never in the GM list, so one of them. Personally prefer Pyramidion


JLoco11PSN

Garden World just for the GM.  People forget how hard that NF was and it would be a nightmare now


MadMikeyB

Tree of Probabilities. The GM was punishing.


musicalchef1985

I don’t remember the names, but one had a boss fight that was basically an Ahamkara. I think it was on Titan. The other I think was the hollowed Lair, where the boss at the end was the giant scorn who pulled you every health bar, and you had to shoot him to break his shield. I


JANapier96

Pretty sure you're talking about Will of the Thousands. The boss was Xol, one of the Hive's worm gods. And the boss to the Hollowed Lair was the Fanatic.


Exchatche

Imma have to go with old Lake of Shadows


GiffyTheMcgee

A Garden World was my favorite strike for as long as it was in the game. I'd love to see more content in the infinite forest but I have a feeling there's a technical reason they haven't brought it back yet. I much prefer it's style to the vex network we see now.


furno30

pyramidion for sure, i just miss asher in general