merritt k
merritt k
merritt k is Content Manager at Fanbyte, covering Destiny 2 and other live games.
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Ever since it was introduced, Gambit has been a contentious game mode in Destiny 2. It’s essentially a race — the PVE/PVP hybrid playlist has players taking on enemies and collecting the...
There are a lot of powerful Exotics in Destiny 2 for each class. On the flipside, there are also some real stinkers. These Exotics simply don’t do enough in most situations to make them...
With the changes to the mod system in Lightfall, weapon types have become much less important and elemental type has become much more key in Destiny 2. And thankfully,...
In the 90s, there was no Twitter, no Discord, no social media of any kind. What we did have were real-time chat rooms and programs. These were mostly text-based, with a few notable exceptions — and on...
Jeff Minter and his software house Llamasoft are names which need no introduction. Or actually, maybe they do at this point — it’s 2023 and there are probably quite a few gamers out there who have nev...
Sidearms aren’t always the most popular weapons in Destiny 2, requiring you to get up close and personal with your foes. Still, they can be effective in the right circumstances, so here...
Ever since Witch Queen, Guardians have been able to craft certain weapons in Destiny 2. The mechanics of crafting have changed a little in Lightfall, with cra...
The Chinese New Year is January 22, and Destiny 2 is celebrating with a new emblem and some other cosmetics. While the cosmetics are paid items in the Eververse store, the emblem is...
Titans have had a lot of powerful Exotic armors throughout Destiny 2‘s history, but Khepri’s Horn has not been among them. This Exotic helmet provides two effects. The first gives you so...
Online games are unpredictable things. Most of the time, people are content to play within the guidelines, doing what the designers intended. But sometimes, they need a broader canvas on which to expr...
Confession time: I was a classic “good kid” for most of my early life. I didn’t drink until I was in my senior year of high school, and I didn’t touch drugs — even weed — until I was in college. Maybe...
Destiny 2 is a game filled with memorable and powerful foes. But amongst the wish-dragons, the time-traveling robots, the self- made gods, the most terrifying, the most enduring of all o...
You’ve probably run a lot of the Sever mission in Destiny 2 this season already. You might have noticed, in one of two of those runs, an enemy popping up during the final boss encou...
Is there anything gamers love more than making a number go up? Well, sure — compelling narratives, engaging action, and mindbending puzzles, I guess. But numbers go up and give good brain chemicals, t...
Last month, I speculated about what Arc 3.0 keywords might be in Destiny 2. Now, let’s talk about what kinds of fragments we might see when Arc subclasses finally get updated and br...
Back during Season of the Haunted, I noticed something about the Seasonal Challenges in Destiny 2 — there’s always one challenge during the final week’s batch that tasks players with com...
In the early 2000s, one of the greatest virtues any indie PC game could have was portability. Dial-up connections were still common, and the smaller a game’s file size, the easier it was to download a...
It’s been a while since we got an entirely new subclass instead of a revision of an existing one, but the upcoming Lightfall expansion for Destiny 2 is intro...
There are a lot of emblems in Destiny 2, but some of them aren’t signposted very well. For instance, there’s a promotion on this month where you can get an emblem...
The lead-up to season 17 of Destiny 2 went a little differently than most seasons in recent memory. Rather than reveal bits and pieces of upcoming content through This Week at Bungie pos...