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Destiny 2players seemed to feel some déjà vu after seeing the climactic part of theFortniteand Metallica crossover event. A special encounter that took place during Metallica’s in-game concert reminded manyDestiny 2players of the game’s latest raid, which debuted alongsideThe Final Shape, the currentDestiny 2expansion.
Destiny 2andFortnitefans are both riding high after major launch events in recent weeks. Despite a major delay and anxiety in the community over the game’s troubles, Bungie appeared to successfully cap off the first saga of its main narrative withThe Final Shape, culminating in theSalvation’s Edge raid against The Witness, a villain behind most of theDestinyuniverse’s troubles. Meanwhile,Fortniteplayers gained a chance to interact with globally famous rock band Metallica via theMetallica: Fuel. Fire. Furycrossover, which included a massive live concert withFortniteversions of the band members. TheFortniteMetallica concert event was also participatory in nature, as it included a boss fight against the Master of Puppets, a massive supernatural creature.
That boss fight gave experiencedDestiny 2player RuKo1998 a familiar feeling, as the fight itself seemed superficially quite similar to thefinal encounter of the Salvation’s Edge raid. The encounter pits a raid team of Guardians against The Witness itself in a fight for the fate of all reality.
Fortnite Metallica Concert Boss Reminds Destiny 2 Players of The Witness
In a video clip fromFortniteshared with theDestiny 2subreddit, RuKo1998 highlighted a phase from the Master of Puppets boss encounter, which kicked off during the Metallica concert. In it, players are tasked with climbing atop floating platforms suspended in a dark, stormy sky. Menacing them in the distance is the Master of Puppets, a massive, multi-armed monster that attacks with many hands shooting magical effects and with parts of its body that players can target. The design of the Master of Puppets reminded manyDestiny 2players of the Witness encounter, which also features numerous hands in keeping with thehorror inspirations ofThe Final Shapeaesthetic.
While some fellowDestiny 2players - particularly those unfamiliar withFortnite- were taken aback by the actual presence of Metallica in the game, others were amused at the funny coincidence of two rather similar boss characters appearing in two major live service games barely weeks apart. Some joked that the Master of Puppets was actually The Witness itself and that the Metallica concert was a secret extension of the2022FortniteandDestiny 2crossover, which sawFortnite-inspired skins enter theDestiny 2armor gallery andDestiny 2characters like Ikora Rey, the Exo Stranger, and Commander Zavala take a seat on the Battle Bus.
The entertaining coincidence highlights how much crossover some live service games have. Though bothFortniteandDestiny 2demand a fairly significant amount of time and effort from their players, the fact that an event in one game can remind players of another shows that there’s a significant population of players enjoying both simultaneously.
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