This Week at Shrouded - A Destiny 2 Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Take the PvP out of an extraction shooter and everyone will be nice to each other. Right? Apparently we found a fucking loophole. AGreeNer and M1 Abrams Tank get into ARC Raiders' PvE experiment, the body-checking nonsense, and whether adding PvE is actually what Marathon needs. Is a bigger audience the answer if you annoy the people who already love your game? Before that, A...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny 2 ban waves, suspicious loot, and the worst possible reason to join a random fireteam. Yeah, we're getting into that. AGreeNer and Wrecked talk through the reports of cheaters forcing loot and XP onto other players, then get into Marathon's upcoming reset and whether a fresh economy is enough to bring us back. Meanwhile, No Man's Sky is October's featur...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny fans finally got some genuinely good news. Bungie is beginning work to restore vaulted Destiny 2 campaigns, destinations and raids, while also saying that Destiny has a future beyond this restoration project. That's exciting. But before everybody starts screaming DESTINY IS BACK, there are some pretty important details. There is no Destiny 3 announcement. There is no...

Send us Fan Mail Marathon just threw its original seasonal plan out the window. The major update originally planned for September has been folded into Symbiosis, now targeting December 8, while Bungie says it's moving away from rigid seasonal deadlines so major features can launch when they're actually ready. Honestly? That part might be good. But it also makes December a VERY interestin...

Send us Fan Mail Sony basically won this console generation. So why does it suddenly feel like the company keeps finding new ways to piss people off? Episode 162 of This Week at Shrouded gets into Sony's increasingly strange decision-making, the Kojima project discussion, cancelled live-service games, PlayStation's current first-party direction and the bigger problem facing AAA gaming: p...

Send us Fan Mail State of Play had plenty of games to show. The chat kept asking for Destiny 3. In Episode 161 of This Week at Shrouded, AGreener and Mr. Wrecked discuss the Destiny demands flooding showcase chats, the Paul Tassi follow-up read during the show, and what would actually count as good news for the community. More support for Destiny 2? Something entirely new? Another remaster? We hav...

Send us Fan Mail Something weird is happening around Destiny. No, Destiny 3 hasn't been announced. No, there isn't a confirmed Destiny 1 remake. And no, Bungie hasn't announced that Destiny 2 development is suddenly restarting. So why have Destiny creators started acting like they're communicating exclusively through riddles? Bungie has rehired game-capture artists as freelance...

Send us Fan Mail ARC Raiders is about to get its biggest update since launch. Frozen Trail arrives October 8, and this doesn't sound like another small content drop. We're talking about a completely new settlement beyond the mountains, villages, factories, research facilities, an observatory, much more vertical exploration, new ARC enemies, a huge high-level ARC operation, new weapons, c...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny’s vaulted content is coming back! ...Except not really. A community project has managed to use an old Season of Arrivals build of Destiny 2 to access destinations and spaces that disappeared when Beyond Light launched. You can explore them, move through old loading zones, use abilities, ride Sparrows and revisit places that haven't been accessible for years. But befor...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny finally feels relaxed and fun again. The problem is, that might be because its future is already gone. In Episode 157 of This Week at Shrouded, AGreener and Mr. Wrecked break down the strange new era of Destiny 2. Players are praising the latest content, revisiting everything they never had time to finish, and treating Destiny like a comfort game. At the same time, player...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny 2 is more active than it has been in a long time, but Bungie's major updates are effectively over. This episode asks how long the current version can keep players, clans, and matchmaking going without a real content pipeline. We also get into Bungie's layoffs, Marathon's uncertain runway, the flood of rare Destiny emblems, AI's growing role in game deve...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny had one more messy, sentimental, and surprisingly fun week to talk about. This episode covers the current bug chaos, the bigger Bungie and Sony rumors floating around, and what the future of Destiny might actually look like if support keeps shrinking. We also spend time on the good stuff too, because people are still playing, still grinding, and still finding reasons to en...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny’s final update is here, and this episode is a mix of appreciation, criticism, and a very real sense of ending. We talk through the update itself, the things that landed well, the things that still feel bad, and what it means to keep playing when the game you’ve built a lot of your life around is winding down. There’s also Pantheon, the gauntlet, Trials, the collection chan...

Send us Fan Mail This week is basically a giant Destiny update dump, and it is a lot. We go through the dev insights, TWID, the new sandbox changes, armor reworks, artifact changes, exotic tuning, and all the weird little upgrades Bungie is stuffing into the game right before the finish line. We also get into the Marathon talk, some Sony and Bungie speculation, the new reward structure, and the co...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny gets a pretty big systems refresh this week, and the episode is all about the Dev Insights breakdown. The director is getting reworked, patrol zones are getting more reasons to exist, and the Portal is getting a bunch of changes that should make reward chasing feel a lot better. We also get into the return of Gambit updates, SRL making a comeback, and the general state of...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny 2 just got news on its final content update, and this episode is basically the community processing that in real time. We go through Bungie’s June 9 update, the news around Destiny’s future, and what it means when there is no obvious next project lined up for the Destiny team. There is sadness here, but there is also a pretty massive list of stuff coming in the final updat...

Send us Fan Mail This week at Shrouded goes deep on the biggest Bungie story of the week, then pivots into Marathon Season 2 and the latest TWID housekeeping. We also cover the new creator emblems, weekend rotations, a Marathon exploit ban situation, and the usual community updates. It’s a pretty full episode overall. There’s Sony’s 120.1 billion yen Bungie write down, talk about what that might m...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny had a quiet week, but there was still plenty to talk about. In this episode, we break down the latest Commander’s Orders progress, the fixed Triple Laureate issue, the Animal Instinct emblem delivery, and what Bungie has said about the June update timing. We also get into Marathon updates, the ongoing comparison with Warframe’s communication, and a wider conversation about...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny was light this week, so the episode naturally branched out into the bigger gaming conversation. We talked about the Commander’s Orders community challenge getting bumped up to 50 million with a new emblem reward, then spent a lot of time on Warframe, Diablo 4, Arc Raiders, Final Fantasy XIV, and Subnautica. Warframe honestly ended up being the biggest story of the episode,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 147 of This Week at Shrouded. This week, Destiny has a new community challenge, a fresh charity emblem, and a little more clarity on when Bungie plans to start talking about the June update. The bigger conversation, though, is what June actually needs to be for Destiny, how much pressure is on Bungie right now, and what the current split between Destiny and Mara...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 146 of This Week at Shrouded. Guardian Games has wrapped, Warlocks took the win, and the conversation immediately moved to Iron Banner. This week we talk about how Iron Banner feels right now, the new rewards, the loot pool complaints, and why even in a slower Destiny stretch there are still reasons for the community to jump in and play together. We also get int...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 145 of This Week at Shrouded. This week is one of those weird in-between episodes where Destiny does not give us much to work with, so naturally the show turns into a chaotic mix of Guardian Games talk, Marathon chatter, Path of Exile drama, and pure community nonsense. It is less “huge Destiny breakdown” and more “what the hell are we even talking about now,” w...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 144 of This Week at Shrouded. This week is a lighter one for raw Destiny news, but honestly, that kind of works in our favor. Guardian Games is here, Rushdown is still fun, the break from Destiny seems to have helped, and jumping back in actually felt good again. We talk about what’s working, what we’ve been enjoying, and why the vibe around playing feels a lot...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 143 of This Week at Shrouded hits a conversation a lot of players have been feeling… but not saying out loud. This week, we break down one of the biggest underlying issues in Destiny right now — not content, not difficulty… but motivation. Why are players logging in less? Why does progression feel flat? And why are even dedicated players starting to question what they’re p...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 142 of This Week at Shrouded. This week is a weird one for Bungie fans. Destiny is in one of its quietest stretches right now, with barely anything meaningful coming out of the TWID, while Marathon keeps getting updates, events, creator pushes, and major marketing attention. So naturally, we spend a lot of this episode talking about where Marathon is at, how it’...