Destiny 2 streamer Datto schools players over game engine complaints

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Destiny 2 game engine complaints are rampant among frustrated Guardians due to a seeming influx of bugs, server crashes, and gameplay issues. However, Destiny 2 content creator Datto, who has more than 1.2 million followers on YouTube and 725,000 followers on Twitch that tune in regularly to watch him play Bungie’s popular FPS game, shares a thoughtful, if blunt, opinion on the matter in a video titled “Destiny 2: You don’t know anything about game engines.”

Throughout the 25-minute video, Stefan ‘Datto’ Jonke, who has been covering the game since its very early days, offers an honest response to ongoing player suggestions that “Destiny 2 needs a new game engine.”

“News flash: You cannot just save Destiny 2 into a .engine file, throw it into another engine file, and have it work,” he says early in the video, setting the tone for his charged commentary.

Datto acknowledges there are serious issues with game crashes and bugs and admits he knows little about game engines or the game development process. However, he notes he gleaned his insights for the video from a 45-minute conversation with developers who do understand game engines, suggesting his brief discussion granted more knowledge than the average Destiny 2 player complaining that the game needs a new engine.

“Destiny is such a complex game that in order to put it on a new engine, it would take years of configuration to do,” he shares. He uses an analogy that describes the process of fixing an old car and compares that to putting the parts of an old car into a motorcycle, which he implies is what the community seems to be suggesting with its “new game engine” complaints.

“A lot of problems that people have right now regarding connections, latency, lag, those are not