Destiny 2: Scrapped, Cut & Deleted Content Bungie Didn't Release 

What Destiny content do you wish DIDN'T get scrapped?? 🤔

I think it was a mistake to make Rasputin the only Warmind ever rather than the last surviving Warmind.

After the Final Shape gameplay reveal... The Prismatic shader part made my eyebrow raise. Lol.

siva being on nessus has massive lore implications, considering the fact that it is basically a vex-infested asteroid, it's impossible to think that the vex wouldn't try to control it, and while the vex are already powerful enough without siva, they could also steal it from humanity forever. also, it's crazy how early destiny was more like a fusion between futuristic sci-fi and medieval fantasy, im honestly kinda sad they walked away from that as it was one of the few things that truly made destiny different from halo, now the only "fantasy" things in destiny are almost exclusive to the hive. this "magician", if he or she still exists in the lore, probably now has a very different lore than originally planned.

11:25 interestingly it’s because Peter was not voicing the character he was cast as. Originally, the Ghost was supposed to be a very uncaring, bored and flippant character

correction: Galaxy Pools was found by a hacker flying out of bound during a time we had a rise of cheaters in destiny. Froggy in his friends took it upon themselves to find a legit way to reach Galaxy Pools without cheats.

I'm a mod on twitch. One of the other mods used to work at Bungie on the Strikes team. He used to get mad at the "I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain" from the Exo Stranger. He used to tell us she did have time and there was a reason it was cut from the game.

seeing the pink placeholder icon with the "prismatic" shader name... LOL TFS all makes sense now

You missed sparrow crafting. On the original Destiny companion app you could view your sparrow collection and under each sparrow it would have the text: “Crafted=X” Xur also sold sparrow drives so maybe at one point it was intended to put together your own sparrow.

I miss the stances that our characters had in the menu from destiny 1 they just looked really nice.

The blue VoG gear IS in Destiny 1, Age of Triumph brought it back in the game with ornaments, you can select one of two ornamentations or stick with the default.

Love and miss your content. Good to see u again. ❤

We need more vids mate keep them coming

I would LOVE to see that original fantasy version of Destiny, maybe following a lot of thematic elements from our Destiny but more grounded and acting as a more traditional fantasy. I have an itch to write that now

Always a great, unique, video from you man. Appreciate always getting NEW video ideas from you, no click bait. 99% of the time you cover topics I wasn’t aware of.

You're back!!! Sorry, I've not seen your videos for a while. I hope you're well.

11:52 Still wish they had Pete Stacker AKA Captain Keyes voicing ghost, I always appreciated that through line of Bungie cast members through out their games, and I think from the small amount of lines we heard he gave a unique take on Ghost

an unknown player video and into the light releasing tomorrow? we are so back fellas

Thank you so much for this video. Loved your vids since D1

Just watching the 2013 E3 reveal trailer shows so much of what could have been.

i think they should make a joint game where they un sunset every dlc and make it purchase able content where they add things for each of the old dlcs ( discounted for people who bought them originally) and aswell as add back all original raids like they are doing already. aswell as a replay system where we can replay current destiny 2 and old destiny 1 campaigns

I've just now made the connection that Savathun, the "Witch Queen", did a very similar thing to the "Witch" in that old opening cutscene - appearing to humans before the Traveler shows up and indicating it's imminent arrival. I wonder if that was meant to be her, even back then.

One thing I miss is weapons that had changeable scopes; really cool detail that was a great part of the game

It would have been nice if they used the Galaxy pools area as a place like the lighthouse when you go flawless but for finishing the Dares of eternity where you could collect your loot.

“The Witch” resembles how The Gardner is described in one of the Deep Stone Crypt lore tabs

I cant believe this. i reinstalled destiny 2 & hundreds of women flooded my dms, they said "wow, do you main solar titan??" at first i was afraid (i do not talk to women) Then, I began to understand this is the power of destiny 2, the game. This is what Bungie has been working towards all these years

I’ve never played d1, but i’ve looked at all kinds of stuff for years now. Never knew about half of these. Quite interesting

I think that they should allow Loot sharing in the way Division 2 does where you have to be with them when it drops and have a few hours to trade before it's locked to you. Like say you get the roll that you're mate wants and they have one you want so you trade the drops.

Following the final shape gameplay reveal trailer, that prismatic shader might be coming back or may be the new effect in transcendence

Great video! Where can I find those fanart and concept art you shown?

Love these videos bro

I honestly think after the final shape bungie should just reboot and remake destiny 1 following these cut ideas. That way they can a more consistent story that they actually wanted to make, making everything more original.

I love how they wanted to add a locking in mechanic to make you more powerful to adding prismatic which is just a fluid everything class

It’s crazy seeing all these old pictures and all the rumors surrounding them and going “I remember that!!!! That’s what happened?!?!”

The galaxy pool area might have been a boss arena as part of the tease of the black ship attack like we would have warped there in a vision from the traveler fight a tormentor or some early concept of it and boom tease the up coming black fleet. It may have been kept just as a "we dont know when but we are going to use this area somehow " and it just never came to but is still kept just in case cause its like you said a really great set piece area

mashing crota and oryx in one massive raid with more encounters would be badass

I bet you the magician was the witness. It’s been one of those only constants through most of development history, and it makes sense it would have a name like that that was cut for something more intimidating

Glad you alive my guy!💪🏼

Imagine what we could have had if Bungie hadn't gotten greedy and removed 90% of the game to sell back to us later. Not to mention the game was so fragmented at that point that even after $160 we didn't get the full game back

boy do I have news for you on that 5th race, the dread

I remember hearing a lot of funky leaks from pre-reboot d2

there is a leaked internal alpha version of the game that has just been found and hasn’t been opened yet. imagine the cut stuff from an internal 2012 build!!

During destiny 1 I was obsessed with cut content, going back and watching the early gameplay reveals and seeing the differences was so cool. If this video would have came out 5-7 years ago I would’ve been an estatic teen lol

Watching this video randomly and had a Leo pointing at the tv screen moment at 4:55

*here's a seriously huge amount of info i really really hope unknown player sees, as its more content to dive into and leads to more things* theres 1 thing that hasnt been mentioned, and i urge people to try and find it, a clip that originally debuted on MoreConsole's channel where a viewer sent in a video where a fallen dreg ran away from the player called the guardian 'the darkness' and saying 'run away, the darkness is here' and pointing at you. (dregs run and take cover when you kill the captain, because they share the halo ai of elites and grunts). this video (lost in years of content, potentially unlisted too) proves that destiny's base story was set to expose the traveller as evil. which actually lines up with a lot of early days scrapped content and writings. there's even another MoreConsole video that exposes a forum that got a site shut down and cease and desist from bungie because they had leaked content on it that someone on the dev team exposed anonymously. which contained writings from Joseph Staten shortly before Staten left bungie for Bioware and pinched a bunch of the Dev team with him. (this is also why Bioware had an issue with mass effect 3's ending, as half the Bioware team left to join bungie). the contents of this forum sheds light on the fact that the traveller was originally a being that travelled between realities, absorbing worship from civilisations, then once they can't worship it anymore, or doubt starts happening, it leaves. the traveller was evil. this also leads into how how Rasputin shot the traveller down, as the traveller went through enough alternative realities that it eventually encountered Rasputin not knowing what he's capable of, and after Rasputin saw what happened to the fallen (he deduced that servitors were the fallen equivalent of our ghosts) he prevented the traveller from leaving. the traveller didn't stay to defend humanity like everyone thought, the traveller stayed because if it left, it couldn't make the trip to the next universe. i dont know what happened to either of the videos containing this content, but they are very very deeply buried in the past, much of this was when youtube wasnt owned by google, and had its own inbox system, i used to talk with moreconsole regularly through it, but after a system called "google+" was implimented, many channels, including moreconsole, lost a lot of videos, followers/subs, etc. he even made a second channel called 'alanconsole' to have a new log in while he was being messed with by the system changes. so far, the only way i can imagine getting these videos is to talk to him directly, a now almost impossible task unless you're a content creator yourself.

In final shapes trialer, the one with the gameplay reveal, we hear what i think is a unfamiliar voice, maybe that is the return of the Traveler witch

There is a blue ornament set for the VOG armor in d1. Just like the wrath of the machine armor sets, it got two sets of ornaments for age of triumph. One being the brand new ornament set and another being a blue version og the original vog set. Its most likely a reference to that set in the api that never got released.

The crota sparrow had the overdrive perk too

12:19 if I had to guess, the magician was the early name for the witness

6:20 is that part of the original story? I been trying to find something to read what it was like

I have the blue VOG gear I believe they released it when they did moments of triumph at the end of D1

Galaxy pools is one if the most famous, mysterious and coolest locations in Destiny 2. It's a pain in the ass to reach, tedious and takes a long time but it's still cool nonetheless

3:55 we got siva exotic armor ornaments 😢

In a sense we finally did get the 5th enemy class, just that the Dread aren't like the original smokey figures.

When’s the next podcast happening dude?

All of the raid sparrows had that overdrive function but it still would have been cool to get an exotic one...

I feel like the Prodigal armour design has been the default titan armour design since the very beginning of Destiny 1. Bungie always used it for D1 Titan demos for whatever reason.

Man, after today's video it's obvious that the prismatic shader is for the exotic class item, as well as some other stuff.

The unused blue VoG armor was used actually, albeit they were made into the second set of ornaments for the Age of Triumph VoG armor

To correct some errors in the video: The vex void was based in the pyramidion area of Mars. The D1 pyramidion has different geometry to the D2 version, as the D1 version was a raid. The pyramidion area connected through the cabal base (Giants scar in D2) to the door in the rubicon wastes in D1 Mars. This is known as the files for the pyramidion and adjacent areas were found in D1. The leaked vex cinematic re-used for season of the Undying was originally intended for the vex void, and the older version of the video is inside the martian pyramidion. Curse of Osiris was made exclusively for D2 and is not cut content.

8:13 slowly ??? to appriciate the milky way moving thegalaxy pools should be moving even faster than the speed of light

imo while most of these ideas would sound cool in the current game they definitely got placed in better positions that they fit better in than they would have been before, like most of these id personally love to see integrated into what we currently have one way or another, for example the exo stranger assistant thing could be changed to this: when the exo stranger first awoke in the last city she was recruited by this exo as an assistant who taught her things and gave her information in exchange for her working for him but after a while he let her go her way back to the last city(that boss of the exo stranger could have been an old friend of zavala that zavala entrusted the exo stranger to) and it would def add just one more npc to the roster

What about oryxs basketball court? Did any body ever figure out what that was for? I also remember there was some sort of secret in the subway map in crucible that I dont think anybody discovered.

Love seeing this.

King's Fall actually never had Harrowed armor. There were harrowed weapons, and Bungie added Age of Triumph ornaments that gave the sets a black color and blue glow, along just generally being WAY cooler than the base sets, but no harrowed armor. That image also isn't official. It's fan-made.

Well, now we know what the Prismatic is 😅

Having crotas oversoul be the final encounter screams queenswalk There was definitely inspiration there

Here from the Aztecross vid

Cool video

I still want that dawnchaser sparrow.

idk get the fascination with siva...it was a cool story beat in D1...but other than that i could care less. Also...that original scrapped story sounded so lame. I did some research on it and them changing it was by far the best choice they've ever made from a narrative standpoint.

I feel like the white haired lady is going to be the voice that we heard at the end of the trailer for The Finak Shape.

I feel like we getting galaxy pools in final shape

The Magician might've been referencing the Speaker using tarot cards as a metaphor fwiw, the meanings associated with The Magician as a tarot card reflect both of the ways the Speaker presented himself. In D1 he presented himself as speaking for the traveler as though he was guided by its will, and in D2 before Ghaul kills him he admits to being a fraud and both of these sides of him coincide pretty well with the upright and reversed positions of The Magician pretty well

ok the prismatic shader has to be releasing with prismatic right???

I can’t say for sure but I think the galaxy pools is a dev room rather than a piece of cut content

Are you gonna be making a video on the possibility of D3?

To me the Witch and or Pilot/avatar of the Traveler. Looks a lot like Mara Sov.

Can I ask why you stopped covering the game regularly? I always enjoyed your videos

While I think factions are dead and buried (in one case literally). I would LOVE to see the foundries take their place. Like have a Hakke and Veist and Suros vendors in the tower, simply the system so you progres them by defeating targets with their guns.

First person paywall simulator. 10/10

And yet with the content that had made for lightfall still dropped the ball on that expansion

I still wouldn't count any of things out of ever coming back, if I know one thing about Bungie, they love circling back and reworking previous concepts for things.

2:10 god the RMT would’ve been POPPIN for people that had multiple g rolls

SIVA is like the Fallout: New Vegas of Destiny

Dude. I would've actually given a fantasy styled version of Destiny any day just to see what it'd feel like playing something that's basically the same but with a different setting.

Bruh long time no see are you ok

Yuna is the best looking vendor and NPC in the game so its a shame not to have her in the global version

They definitely need to do a destiny 3. I think this game needs a good loot reset so when they make new guns there not all pretty much useless

Mara in a bikini better not be on this list.

Mann I really miss how the warlock used to stand in your inventory screen in destiny one. I hate their pose in destiny 2 :/

destiny needs to make Devrim a guardian it also needs one of those touching moments when your ghost has a conversation with you on a personal level like in d1

Man this makes me sad! So many cool things that I wish would come to Destiny 2 and even so many good things from D1 that I wish all of the content would come back with greatly expanded areas.

Idk why they cut siva completely… thats one of the coolest things destiny has brought us

what if the witch lady shows up in the final shape that would be massive

I’m still so annoyed that they never brought siva back I love siva related shit

3:50 - The SIVA Engine was destroyed, it would just be dormant SIVA.

Honestly what didn’t get cut from this game? Where’s our player-affected economies, large open social spaces on all the planets and the ability to walk in town after a fight instead of flying to orbit every time? The world was meant to be affected by the choices players took, (guardian games are BS) Also, I miss all the content that I’ve paid for but can’t access these days. As soon as bungo announced D2 going live service I knew we’d never see those original ideas get expanded on. Biggest thing Bungie cut out of Destiny 2 was that original spark and that’s the 7th’s Column soul.

they could add this cut content in future dlcs

The fantasy element would have been pretty cool. Even if it’s like in another galaxy for future content