A game as attractive as ‘Destiny 2’ needs a photo mode

Well, I promised Twitter that I would make this an article, so here we are. Bungie is having a fashion contest asking players to take photos of their well-dressed Guardians “in the world”, and he has reminded me how difficult it is to do that.

Destiny 2 is an extremely beautiful game, one of the most underrated in this field of this entire generation. And yet, while many other games, from The Last of Us Part 2 to Borderlands 3, come with standard photo modes, Destiny 2 still doesn’t have one and it bothers a lot of people, including myself.

There are ways to get around the current system and take attractive screenshots. I am featuring a bunch of images from @_UnknownStag in this article, one of the best Destiny “photographers” I have ever seen. But her tactics include the limited tools available to her (turning off HUD) and a lot of trial and error.

the only The way the game helps with this is to turn off your HUD as an option, but taking shots without your giant horn gun is to break one while it’s shifting and it’s out of frame. Or you can rotate your camera around your character while gesturing, but that’s it. The closest thing Destiny has to a true photography mode is probably the “selfie” emote.

One problem is that Destiny 2 is a live game, where unlike TLOU 2 or BL3 or Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, you can’t pause the action mid-game to take a photo. That’s a bummer, and I’m not asking you to change the nature of the game for this. But other games like The Division 2, which are also live and never offline, still have photography modes, so it’s definitely possible, if not a little more difficult to take photos. But it is still much better than what we have now.

The elaborate Warframe Capture system has been pointed out to me as a benchmark for what such a system might look like:

That may be a bridge too far given Bungie’s limited power tools, but it’s certainly amazing.

At very Less, I hope Bungie can at least add some features to make it easier to take screenshots, if not a full photo mode. The most obvious is the ability to store your weapon or make it invisible so you don’t have to shoot in the fraction of a second between a weapon switch. I also think a free camera would go a long way towards making significant improvements, or at least one that doesn’t require you to rotate the camera around you while broadcasting in an unpredictable way that can’t even show you doing something simple like … firing your gun , unless someone else takes the shot.

There are many ways Bungie could do this, but I think photo modes are very important to the scope of a game on social media, and Destiny is too beautiful to lack as many basic photo-taking tools as we are seeing now. . . There is a great community that would go crazy taking photos if there were better systems, and while I realize this is not the top priority, I think it would be a service to both the community and the artists who have made this game if they were developed photo mode tools for D2.

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