Destiny 2's Twilight Garrison Incident is Why Dev Transparency is Hard to Come By

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One of the challenges that video game companies tend to face in the modern age is that, because of the online presence of the said company and its employees, it can be difficult to figure out an effective communication strategy that involves transparency. In the case of Bungie, the developer behind Destiny 2, communication is often a multi-platform effort that involves both Bungie's own website with TWABs and other posts, and also Twitter. Twitter proved to be a great way for Bungie to communicate changes and acknowledge feedback and issues onDestiny 2 mechanics, but it can also be overwhelming at times.

Because Destiny 2 currently has a rather complex sandbox that's made of hundreds of moving parts, it's often onerous for Bungie to address all the changes in an extensive manner in patch notes or TWAB posts, and that's when the developers' personal Twitter accounts come into play. Quite often, Bungie employees share crucial information about the way the game is designed or about what's to come in the near future, which is what led to the recent debacle concerning an old Destiny Exotic called Twilight Garrison.

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One of the sandbox developers for Destiny 2 at Bungie shared comments via Twitter about the upcoming Solar 3.0 changes announced in the TWAB, with many of the tweaks being about improving the gameplay loop of both Warlocks and Titans. A popular request ever since Destiny 2's launch was that players wanted to see Twilight Garrison once again, this time adjusted for the current game, but still bringing the old item identity it had in the first title. Twilight Garrison provided Titans with a mid-air dodge ability that was extremely useful in