For those sensitive toSPOILERSabout upcoming gear inDestiny 2, turn back now.
Fans have found new UI images and a lore entry for a certain rumoredDestiny 1exotic making its return in the near future in the sequel. After doing some digging, players discovered that theDestiny 2database contains UI images and a lore tab entry for Thunderlord, the exotic heavy machine gun fromDestiny 1.
Ginsor over ot theDestinysubreddit posted images that show not only the UI image for Thunderlord but also images of two ornaments called Hypervelocity and Ta’aurc’s Wrath that will be available for the weapon. Just in case anyone doubts that the images could be another weapon, the weapon’s lore tab entry confirms that it is Thunderlord.
It’s unknown exactly when Thunderlord will appear in-game. Fans first started expecting the weapon to show up after a trailer for Year 2’s Annual Pass with the announcement thatheavy machine guns would return to the gamein December 2018 (the heavy machine gun weapon class was left behind inDestiny 1and did not make the jump to the sequel). While there wasn’t an official confirmation then that the heavy machine gun in question was Thunderlord, many fans expected it to be.
It’s almost certain that Thunderlord will at the very least show up in the Black Armory DLC coming in December, wherea number ofDestiny 1exotics are rumored to re-appearin the game as well. However, could Thunderlord be coming toDestiny 2much sooner than that?
There’s an unconfirmed possibility that it could appear later this month as part of the current Festival of the Lost live event. Anew exotic was added to the game’s Collectionstab after Update 2.0.4 on Tuesday, which ushered in Festival of the Lost. And with Bungie promising a quest coming near the end of the event (and fan’s speculating that it may lead to an exotic) there’s a chance that Thunderlord may just be that quest’s final reward.
Players will have to wait and see what happens when that quest goes live on October 30.
Destiny 2: Forsakenis available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
