Destiny 2: Lightfall - Opening Cinematic 

I seriously love the fact that life is created as a side effect of the light

So apparently Lightfall’s story was HALF of what The Final Shape’s story was supposed to be. I feel like they tried to make this DLC feel like Infinity War, but it didn’t hit as hard.

1:56 The male choir singing the Witness theme is so bone chilling

I have to say ... more questions than answer in this campain. Big fan of the lore, and we didn't get any explaination about the Veil. Felt like a rushed campain.

The best part of the whole campaign

Witness really was just like “thanks for opening the door for me”

Such an amazing opening that leads to nowhere

The best and only part of the campaign that deserves the name "Lightfall".

Such an insane opening to a campaign. Seeing The Witness effortlessly dispatch those ally ships by slicing them up was absolutely terrifying

Major Halo 5 vibes on account of what we were advertised vs what we got.

0:54 I freaking love it when the chorus plays when the Traveler uses it's power

This opening gave me so much hope for the campaign, a shame the rest didn't live up to it 😢

That male choir moment will live rent free in my head

1:43 not many people know this, and Ik I’m late as hell for this but the titan that got sliced up like that was actually REED-7. Some people might recognize him from his linear called Reed’s regret. He was the exo titan from Shayura’s fireteam, Evaze did a nice breakdown of her story recently and I highly recommend it for any lore junkies out there.

The story should focused exactly more on this Battle than the entire Neomuna Strand Arc. Battles on and above Earth would be amazing like a huge Pyramid attack on the Last City, where we fight together with the Vanguard and all characters frim previous seasons. The character development of Crow, Zavala, Caiatl in the Season of the Haunted could be connected with that and aren't ignored like we have now. I mean what did the Vanguard even do in Lightfall? The looked two hours through the windows of the HELM

Honestly this felt way too rushed, we could have seen an epic space battle. Instead we basically saw this entire scene in the trailers.

according to the new trials ship lore, Valiant Memory, the titan that got french fried is Reed-7, yknow, Reeds Regret

Seeing the Witness just go into the beam of light like it's nothing is insanely satisfying.

This was a good opening to the campaign but rip those guardians that got turned into shreds

They made it seem as if we were going to be fighting in this very scene, right at home. And no, I'm not talking about Season of Defiance ( season 20). Even then, Season 20 is taking place on EDZ. I was expecting to fight in orbit and in the city, on top of what we're doing at Neomuna.

if only the rest of the story was as good as this cutscene

Not gonna lie i was expecting a lot more from this space battle. Where is Caitls fleet, Maras fleet, also doesn’t spider have a few ketches? Compared to the space battle Maras fleet vs oryxs fleet. That space battle was incredible, i was expecting the same amount of action here. Since the witness has come to finish what it started oh so long ago.

The visual of the witness cleanly slicing the guardians ships and ghosts goes so hard. There’s something so terrifying about the idea of an entity so powerful it can cut anything into perfect, evenly sliced pieces with the flick of a wrist.

Here after reading some of the new lore from Season of the Deep. The Valiant Memory ship (the Trials one) gives more context to the Guardian and Ghost who get sliced apart by The Witness. The Guardian was Reed-7.

I was not expecting it to just jump into the action like that

I can not believe I paid $100 bucks for this...

According to the Season 21 Trials ship, Valiant Memory's lore tab, those three guardians that were sliced by the Witness were Reed-7, Aisha and Shayura. The same guardians all those trials weapons are named after.

I have no issues with the events of Lightfall. I have issues with the execution of Lightfall.

Don't ask a man his wage Don't ask a woman her age Don't ask bungie what the veil is

the witness was so cool here! A real badass

Man imagine if Lightfall was all about this war in space and we learned about the Witness, fought Calus, etc. No Neumuna but they could’ve always introduced that after Final Shape

If you frame the video at 0.2x and at 2:42 appears to be the veil and the tangles below, forming a body, thats something

if the contents would just slightly match the quality of the opening, the extension would be worth buying. But I regret the money I paid for this, severely.

SPOILERS: A little disappointed. It’s called lightfall but the campaign just ends after we kill Calus and us players are just left there to not know if the light is falling or not. I hope there will be more in the raid and dungeons.

Wish the rest of the campaign held this same tone.

That sound design !!

Last time the Traveler came into contact with the darkness: gravitational anomalies, tears in the fabric of space time, wormhole to a new dimension that give rise to the awoken This time the Traveler comes into contact with the darkness: literally nothing

As someone who has been playing Destiny since year one D1, I was confused af by this campaign. Gameplay was awesome, story was mid and confusing

I paid way too much for almost 10 years of this game for this. Also I get a big 6 on my head just like everyone else. Thanks Bungie.

A slightly different comment of appreciation: Can we take a moment to digest how rich in emotion are the Pilot 1's voice lines? A sentence so simple as "I'm hit!" bursts equally in emotion of despair and panic. Absolutely stunning work for conveying the chaos from a not-so-credited voice actor!

I'm just looking at this to confirm how Amanda originally died/disappeared, and my god, you can see how the Witness begins finger cutting into the Traveler before it cuts to a whole different hand position that leads to the Veil. XD

Awesome time we dint have an amazing opening cutscene since the taken king!

Truly one of the campaigns of all time.

Rip og guardians

Oh hell it took me till now to realize that the Titan watching his ghost get diced suffers the same fate.

Amazing gameplay and cutscenes, but I do wish it had more explained, but for the most part was fantastic 👍

Haven't had chance to play yet but the opening goes hard

I only juste realised after seing it again that when thé witness cut the ghost, when thé guardian watch it flotting apart, his head is dividing too.

Here we are...three months later and three days away from Season of the Deep...and I'm watching this cutscene again. I was so excited for Lightfall. I've been playing Destiny since 2015 with my two friends, and I love the story and characters. I know some people can take or leave the story, but I personally have enjoyed it having always been a fan of Light vs Dark stories. I really love the Traveler as a character, being such a mysterious entity with a long background. I was so excited to learn more about the Traveler in Lightfall. I was excited to learn about the Veil and what it has to do with the Traveler. I was excited to see the Traveler finally fight. It's no surprise that all of the marketing from Lightfall pretty much exclusively used footage from this cutscene: It is EASILY the best part of the entire DLC. Everything that comes after it is filler with no answers. Nothing about the Traveler. Nothing about the Witness. We didn't even learn anything about the Veil, the thing we went to Neptune to protect. Lightfall just felt like it was a big filler to set up later stuff. Season of the Defiance...I get what they were trying to do. They were trying to show humanity and its allies band together. Our skies are full of friends in the Traveler's absence. I get it, and it could have worked. But after getting nothing from Lightfall, Season of Defiance just felt hollow and equally disappointing since it really didn't advance the story much either. For me...Lightfall is the worst Destiny DLC just from sheer disappointment. Even Curse of Osiris was better for me, and I found that DLC boring. Most other DLCs I didn't really have much expectations for. I just kinda went along with whatever. I was playing with my friends and we were having a good time at the end of the day. Witch Queen was really cool and raised a lot of mysteries in the story. Mysterious I had hoped Lightfall would either answer or at least give hints. But...nope. The Light and Dark saga is nearly over and, for better or worse, I will more than likely hang around to see it through. I am genuinely excited for Season of the Deep, though not nearly as hyped as I was for Lightfall and I genuinely hope all the seasons up to The Final Shape are great. At this point...they NEED to be. But after all is said and done, I'm done with Destiny and Bungie.

Guys the whole radial mast and calus thing is just dirt in the eye for guardians, it was all witness plan for guardian and his ghost to find the veil for witness to be able to open that portal.

I can't figure out if the marketing department deserves praise or a lawsuit for making such awful content appear awesome

Bungie should start posting all campaign cinematics for historical purposes near the end of the expansion year.

Can someone help me find the music/soundtrack in this cutscene? The one with the menacing choir in particular is what I'm looking for; it plays when the Witness destroys those starships while approaching the Traveler.

So the 3 gaurdians that were sliced up when they tried to get close to the Witness, yeah, those were the 3 original ones from the Destiny 1 cutscenes, we also saw 2 of them at the end of Season of Seraph. They're dead now.

bungie i love you so much and i love lightfall so much but seeing how so many people feel about it breaks my heart i just know you guys can do so much better. im sure itll all pay off throughout the year and hopefully in the final shape, but i wish this was just as big and amazing as the witch queen

Neomuna is complete devoid of any life honestly this whole dlc feels like nothing eventful happens it feels like interlude to the thing that is supposed to be happening its like a chase to an abrupt end and even though the campaign was lengthy for me it felt like we really accomplished nothing i mean if we are supposed to lose this part how did the end feel so emotionless most of the characters to respond to the ending are like yeah cant be helped this is supposed to be a vital part of the overall story and now we have to wait another year for a conclusion ? and what about strand its like after the campaign its an entirely useless subclass the cooldowns are to long some of the other classes supers are reused you can tug on the strings of life and make anything in your wildest dreams you chose blades for hands and floating green orbs ? where's the miniguns or artillery bombardments could you not think of anything new?

2:38 I absolutely LOVE how it plays the Lightfall motif when the Witness touches the Traveler!!!

this mission had so much potential to the expansion, the ending, everything.

When is the soundtrack going to be available to listen to? Just wondering because the Beyond Light OST released the day before launch, and The Witch Queen OST IIRC released on launch day.

the life gun looks like it connects to the veil.

If anyone wonders if they should buy the dlc to see the rest, this is the rest, you could link the first and last cutscene together while ignoring the rest of the campaign and you would be as informed as those that did the campaign

What is the veil?

The Witness is so powerful !

Love how the hunter cloak is red in the trailers but completely different in game. If theres a shader someone tell me the name now

Anyone else now seeing Nzerac in the right side of the Witness as it pans to him on the ship deck?

Those Guardians that were sliced up was the Fire team that's been with us since 2014

We’re gonna win , eyes up guardians

Anyone know the track at 2:50? The strings sound so good here but I can't find the OST name.

Oh cool, never noticed the nezarec statue when it first shows the witness

Beautiful intro, but I have no clue how we found ourselves in this predicament coming off the past 2 seasons.

Now I understand how powerful the witness truly is.

does anyone noew if it is posible to rewatch this cinematic ingame?

Can't wait for the final shape now

i could have sworn there were eyes that popped up in this cutscene. like a womans eyes, which i thought were the traveler’s/the gardener

What’s the song called at the beginning

What song did the male choir part (when the ships get sliced apart) come from? That’s all I need to know lol

cold

People got hyped up real hard and it didn't exactly live up to that Hype so they start hating. Its pretty good but not as good as WQ and thats fine 7/10 overall

1:50 bro thinks he's adam warlock 💀

Beyond Light 2.0

anybody know how to get 60fps cut scenes on pc?

at 0:37 you can see another disciple, maybe thats nezarec? the dude has a scythe and 2 pronged head much like nez' sin

Well that escalated quickly

I was so hyped for LightFall till now. But after reading the comments, it seems it's better to not buy LightFall for story content. I would rather wait for a sale on LightFall like how Witch Queen also went on sale last year.

Honestly I'm not even into Destiny's story and world that much (mostly thanks to its mediocre means of conveying that story,) but as an on-and-off player since 2014 I still got chills watching the Traveller FIGHT BACK in full with devastating power only to be countered, that was something else. shame the rest of the Campaign's actually even WORSE than Destiny's usual so-so storytelling.

While I like how ominous and powerful the Witness is, the opening battle for TTK was 10x better.

Haven't played much since Red War but, was that the OG Destiny Live Action fire team? That depressing.

I wish I could say that my $100 was as well-spent as it was in Witch Queen… sadly, it was not. This opening and Tormentors were probably the highlight.

Cool cutscene. Unfortunately, the campaign story was basically entirely unrelated to this lmao

Such a cool cinematic just to reveal that it was split in half and the other part is the last cinematic....

They know how to make content look like it’s gonna be good but always ends up with unsatisfying endings in favour of dragging another plot thread out. Also let us fly or dam ships like in halo reach.

2 questions. Why are the doorpassages so low on Neptunus. And does space have gravity. ?? Really annoying

I wish we had more space battles and more seriousness

The opening is the same as the start of the destiny 2 red war campaign

For the first time we actually saw someone die(guardian) on screen instead of off screen as always Edit: Correction, for the first time in a long time*

since when did an Arcadia-Class jumpship have a cockpit like that @ 1:45?

the godfather of scifi games

~// The Gardener is vexed. //~ || I glide through space as if through water, tugged in nine directions by nine impulses. ||

This Campaign had so much potential 😭😭

Now what happened is that we lost the war?