Okay, who's ready to go down the rabbit hole, via a brief detour to Japan? Last week we talked about what I'm pretty sure were the longest balance change notes PC Gamer has ever encountered in the form of a 9,000 word edition of This Week at Bungie. In amongst all the buffs, nerfs and general nerding out (graphs!) over how in-air accuracy is calculated, there was a bullet pointed list of exotic weapons with their new 'Airborne Effectiveness' stats. The last entry read: [REDACTED] 29.
Bungie likes to use 'redacted' when teasing forthcoming content, but in this case—as spotted by the ever eagle-eyed sleuths at r/raidsecrets—in the Japanese version of the post, the entry was no longer redacted. Instead, the Kanji translated to: 'Trespasser'. OG Destiny 1 players will know that Trespasser was an exotic sidearm from the Rise of Iron expansion. Intriguingly, that 29 airborne effectiveness stat would line-up with redacted being a primary weapon. So a new exotic sidearm makes sense. But the evidence doesn't stop there.
Not sure but here is a screenshot of it as well as evidence pic.twitter.com/g2qki5J83nApril 27, 2022
Obviously errors can happen with localisations, especially lengthy ones, but as noted in the tweet above the kanji used in Bungie's post was a perfect copy of how Trespasser was previously displayed in the Japanese version of Destiny 1. Thickening the plot further, the Japanese blog post has since been corrected to read 編集済み, which I'm assured is the correct translation of redacted with brackets.
So can we confidently say Trespasser is on its way back in season 17? Probably! Other reasons to think it likely include the fact that the Iron Banner event is getting a revamp next season, and as already noted
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