Leviathan Returns From the DCV... Bungie Responds

A deep dive into a tool unvaulting Destiny 2's Leviathan and Destiny 1 PC port progress, with Bungie's surprising response.

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Key Takeaways

Independent developers are successfully accessing and reviving old Destiny content.
Bungie has acknowledged these community efforts despite prior claims of content being impossible to restore.
The Destiny community remains passionate and hopeful about revisiting or remastering classic content.
Technical limitations exist but do not prevent significant exploration of legacy content.
The future of Destiny may include remasters or new titles inspired by these projects.

What the video covers

A gamer has created a tool to access an early Shadowkeep build of Destiny 2, unvaulting removed content including the Leviathan raid.
The tool allows exploration of old activities, areas, and gear from Destiny 2's earlier versions, despite limitations like missing enemies.
Simultaneously, another developer is porting Destiny 1 to PC, achieving character selection and inventory management.
This progress has garnered significant community attention with nearly half a million views on the porting project.
Bungie, including ex-game director Christopher Barrett, has publicly responded to these developments.
The video reflects on nostalgia for Destiny 1 vanilla and the potential to relive past metas and content.
There is speculation about the future of Destiny, including hopes for a Destiny 3 or remastered versions.
The community's enthusiasm and independent projects challenge Bungie's previous statements about content impossibility.
The video encourages viewers to consider what content or moments they would want to revisit or revive.
Links to the projects and channels involved are promised for viewers interested in exploring further.

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What is the unvaulting tool mentioned in the video?

The unvaulting tool is a community-created software that allows access to early builds of Destiny 2, such as the Shadowkeep build, enabling players to explore previously removed content like the Leviathan raid.

Is Bungie supportive of these community projects?

Bungie, including ex-game director Christopher Barrett, has publicly responded to these projects, indicating awareness and some engagement, though the official stance on support is not fully detailed.

What progress has been made on porting Destiny 1 to PC?

A developer has made significant progress in porting Destiny 1 to PC, achieving character selection, inventory and quest management, and loading into the Tower, with ongoing development and community interest.

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The Leviathan is back. This is really happening. And I'm starting to think that everything Bungie told us might just be a lie. This is a video of a guy who uploaded. We talked about this in a previous one. He's unvaulting everything

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that was old and removed from the game. I think he's able to use like a Shadowkeep build. Not only is this happening where he has countless activities and areas that were removed, but also there's a guy simultaneously porting

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Destiny 1 to PC. Imagine a world where you could play Destiny 1 in year 1. That might actually be our reality soon here.

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And Bungie themselves have actually responded to this, believe it or not. The ex-Bungie game director, the one who made Rise of Iron. We're going to get into all of this, but let's start from the very beginning. This comes to us

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from Jesus MC. Okay, we watched through all of his videos previously. If you saw the last one, make sure to check it out.

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If you haven't, do yourself a favor, watch the video because this is crazy. Let's start it from the beginning. Here we go. Oh, back to the blinding. Do you remember this, dude? You turn that on.

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[laughter] Did you turn that on at night? Ah, it's too bright. [laughter] What were you thinking? Why you got to blind us, dude? Well, that's brutal. So, as you can see there, he's created a tool. It's on GitHub, I

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believe. And with this tool, he's able to access an earlier build of Destiny 2, which is like the Shadowkeep build.

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Look at that. He's 1060 power hunter Titan Warlock with the OG emblems there, which obviously still in Destiny 2, of course.

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He loads in. He's got his ship. He's got the Blast Furnace, the Ichklo shotgun, the Worldline Zero.

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Nice. Got that Scatterhorn wraps. Look at those mods on it. So those OG artifact mods back in the day, dude. Wait a second. Okay, Earth.

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The Red War campaign. Got Vanguard Strikes, Gambit, Crucible here. Titan is back. No, dude. Dude, Io, Mercury, the Tower, Moon. Dude, it's so crazy to step back in time in Destiny.

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Oh man, I love this. Can you imagine being a Bungie dev? Imagine for a minute that you're a Bungie dev and you see this and you understand how powerful this is and then your dumb asses decide to launch

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the portal. Oh my god, it's crazy. What do we got here? The Menagerie is there. The Leviathan. He clicks on it.

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He actually he [music] can change the difficulty level. What does that say? Normal prestige. Normal prestige.

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Normal. That's kind of buggy. Okay, he can launch it. Would there be any multiplayer features?

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Like, would you be able to load in with people? Now, from the previous builds and the things that he did in the past, I believe he said there's no enemies. So, I imagine he's going to load in. There

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will be no Cabal. There's going to be no war beasts, nothing like that. What?

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Dude, absolute cinema. It's beautiful. Oh man, even if it is just walking through the hallways and it's just an empty area, it's still really cool.

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Got no mantle. When did Wait, when did mantle come out? Actually, was mantle day one Destiny 2? So I know it wasn't in D1.

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I think that came later on, right? When did they add mantle into Destiny 2?

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It killed him. That's so funny. It was added in September 6th, 2017. Okay. It was when it launched. So, there is a mantle.

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You just can mantle that edge there. Oh, yeah. Guess watch the mid to that staircase there.

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Nice. Yeah. Normally there's a bunch of like Cabal up here. Do you think you can go into the underbelly down there and wander around?

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Do you remember when we would do that? You would like clear an encounter and then instead of running back to the lobby, you'd run into the underbelly and find like chests down there and stuff.

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And this is a real throwback. I'm like I'm unearthing core memories right now. Oh, he can't even get in the door. Oh man, this is the limitation of where he can go.

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Dang. Okay, wait a second. Wait a second. Let him cook. Okay. Okay. This is not a half bad idea.

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Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Got to take it one at a time. Might be easier if he goes on the other side with the way that those are curving.

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Oh, he's falling in. Oh, no. He's making in. Oh, he's got the strat. Oh, it is there.

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I saw the underbelly there for a second. Oh my god. Okay. Okay. Oh, and then it loads and then you turn around, dude.

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Nice. It's crazy. We're back there. To be fair, we have seen this recently with other activities, but still cool with the actual Leviathan version of it.

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Like the actual Shadowkeep version. I wonder what happens if he glitches into those rooms. All right, so there you have it. That's the Shadowkeep version of this Destiny 2 build. I don't know the limits to what he can access,

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but sounds like he's going through it and figuring out what's possible. I wonder if we can build from here, right?

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I wonder if we can go back in time and relive some of those metas and some of those areas. I wonder what the limitations are going to be for us because what we've been told is it seems like everything's impossible by Bungie,

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but clearly that's not true. Said they couldn't bring back the Red War campaign, but it might just come back after all. This guy right here is doing something completely independent, and he says, "It seems like a good time to talk

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about the Destiny 1 work I've been doing the past month or so. Anyone up for Destiny 1 on PC?" Wow. So, he's got Titan Warlock. He created looks like just a burner account and he's booting the game up. He at least got to the

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character selection screen on PC which is incredible. Almost half a million views. This is the progress he's made so far. He's got destinations are loading.

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So, he's able to make it into the Tower. Wow. Selects his character, loads into the Tower and character creation plus most of inventory management. So, he can create his character. He can manage his inventory. Looks like he's got his quest

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there. Quest management are implemented. Plenty more to do, but very happy with the progress so far. This is pretty good progress for one month. Can you imagine where he'll be a year from now? Someone said, uh, to Moji IRL, want to collab or

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trade notes? So, there's another person doing it. So, there's a little bit of a race right now to do this, get Destiny 1 onto PC. And like we said, Bungie themselves, Christopher Barrett, ex-game director, the guy who created Rise of

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Iron is attributed for that. He said, "Can you revert Prison of Elders to before it got taken stuff added all over it?" Damn, he did not like that taken stuff being added. That's crazy. People go hunting after him in the replies like

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usual. Says, "Was that before after you're fired for being a sex pest?" Says, "Totally false. Never happened, but good try." He's fighting back against him. This is crazy though. This is crazy. What a time to be alive, dude.

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It's 2026. Destiny 2 is dead. Leviathan is back. Destiny 1 is going on to PC.

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Destiny truly never dies. What do you think we should do? Like what if we had the power to wave a magic wand? What would be the best case scenario right now with all of this energy and enthusiasm and these, you know, super

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nerds with way too much free time? What should we re what should we direct the energy towards? What would be the best moment in time to go back to and play? I can't help but feel like actually D1

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vanilla, that was such a cool time. D1 vanilla is such an interesting moment in time as well because we just knew so little about the game that we it's kind of like you didn't know what this game was going to be. You didn't know how big

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it was going to be, if it was cool necessarily or if it was going to die fast or something. I don't know. There was like so much to explore and figure out. And obviously we did we, you know,

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explored and minmaxed and discovered everything there was to possibly discover. But going back now and getting to kind of relive some of those early moments that are very forgotten and very oh there just like it's like an ancient

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blurry memory to me, right? Like you can go back to t

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1 year 1 to year 2 to year 3 when it finally, you know, shut down so that they could launch Destiny 2. Most people wanted a Destiny 3. The problem with a Destiny 3 in this situation is I I think

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that's like totally different. This is probably a manageable project, right? Getting these versions back in playing or at least roaming around some of the areas. This is something that's doable.

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Having the community make a Destiny 3 is obviously like that would be insane. But that would be best case scenario. Of course, it would be cool if I know this is like a bizarre thing, but maybe we should actually start thinking about

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this. It'd be crazy if we were able to like port Destiny 1 on PC and then like sell it and use the crowdfunding to fund a Destiny 3. Can you imagine? Imagine we port vanilla D1 on PC. We sell it. It

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makes, you know, I don't know, $10 million, $100 million crowdfunding for a Destiny 3 project. It sounds pretty far-fetched and absurd at this stage. I understand. But you kind of are left with like, let's do something, right?

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Like, I really like this enthusiasm. I like this energy where we're excited about this stuff. I really hope that things like this can turn into something bigger. But at least for now, I'll be happy with whatever they come up with

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when it comes to exploring this like shadow keep build and whatever the I feel like the Destiny 1 PC thing is more interesting to me than anything. That's crazy. That's something I've wanted for so long now. And it would be cool. It

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would be nice. We'll see if Bungie ever addresses this formally. I could imagine they might not want their IP to be used like this. you know, they could hit these guys with a DMCA, which I think the community would be pretty pissed,

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especially if they're not working on Destiny 3. Like, I'll give you an example. If Bungie is working on a D1 Remastered or a Destiny 3, then I could understand potentially. I mean, I wouldn't DMCA, let people have their fun

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still, but I can understand why Sony in all of their greed and stupidity would do that. But if they're not going to work on a D1 remastered and they're not going to work on a Destiny 3, then truly

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let the community go absolutely buck wild. let us have our fun, relive our nostalgia, uh enjoy the assets and content that was removed as much as we can. Uh until the lights shut off and the servers are shut down, right? Either

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way, I think it's pretty cool stuff and we're going to keep very close tabs on where this project goes to. And if you're interested, we will put the links to the channel down below. So that way, if you want to, you know, download the

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GitHub tool and explore it yourself, you can. Maybe you'll find something new. That's a wrap on this one. Make sure to subscribe, smash the like button. See you in the next one. Later.

Topics:Destiny 2LeviathanShadowkeepDestiny 1 PCBungie responsegame unvaultingDestiny raidRise of Irongame moddinglegacy content

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