At the end of last month’s Festival of the Lost seasonal event, Destiny 2 players were greeted with a quest to find Master Ives’ killer. The murder of the Reef Cryptarch may have started out in a pretty disappointing way, but its conclusion is actually something pretty special. Originally leaked by a credible source?who also leaked alleged details about Destiny 3?it turns out this murder mystery is actually the Destiny 2 Thunderlord quest, giving players access to the classic Exotic machine gun ahead of the weapon type’s full introduction in Season 5, the Season of the Forge.
Thunderlord’s Exotic perk (besides being the only machine gun in Destiny 2 right now) calls down destructive bolts of lightning from the sky, making this gun a deadly spectacle to use in a number of situations. Solving the murder of Master Ives and getting the Thunderlord isn’t just some throwaway quest either. This final quest step takes players back to the Cosmodrome in Old Russia, starting players exactly where they originally spawned in the first game and retracing the first steps of our new Guardians. The references in this quest go back further than Destiny 1 though. The original reveal for Destiny at E3 2013 saw some developers heading into the wall in Old Russia and killing a Fallen boss that emerges from a pipe before obtaining the Thunderlord, the first ever Exotic to be revealed for Destiny. While we don’t get to head to the other side of that wall again ...