Is Bungie trying some new stuff? (Destiny)

by Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) , London, Ontario, Canada, Saturday, October 25, 2014, 21:18 (3921 days ago)

I saw some things happen today I hadn't seen before in the game; thought I'd float them out to see if they're new or I just missed 'em.

Least importantly, I saw the aurora borealis in the Cosmodrome skybox this evening. Grabbed some video; may render it over to YouTube if I can remember my login there.

Also in the Cosmodrome, I managed to hijack a Pike from a gang of Dregs while patrolling; rode it over to the Divide to help gold-star a takedown of a Spider Tank, and great fun to drive as always. I'd seen them on the Moon, but never on Earth...

Over on Venus I found a spot on the map I hadn't noted available before; a staircase behind the two sentry Minotaurs you find on the big bridge in the Terminus. If you climb those stairs you go quite a distance before getting to an area called the Junction, with lots of baddies and a big spherical room with a column made of the same shields that Hydras use to block shots. It looked to be a pair counter-rotating but in the time I watched them no gaps formed.

-- Steve's wondering if these are recent additions or just things he'd blithely passed by in the past month.