One Destiny 2 player theorizes that the endgame reward for Season Pass holders in Beyond Light's campaign, the No Time To Explain Exotic Burst Rifle, fires off bullets from an old Destiny landmark - the now almost mythical Loot Cave. Way back in 2014 when the original Destiny launched, it had a serious lack of things for players to do in its initial release. One of the things players did to pass the time in the early days was hunting for secrets, which eventually led to the discovery of a cave that produced loot out the wazoo when players cleared it repeatedly and allowed its cash cow enemies to respawn. The "Loot Cave" took social media by storm and cemented itself as a mainstay of Destiny player culture before Bungie patched it out for obvious reasons.
Fast forward to today and players are finishing up Destiny 2: Beyond Light, the latest campaign expansion for Bungie's robust space shooter. Players who have purchased the Season Pass or the Deluxe Edition for Beyond Light can speak with a certain NPC after the campaign is over in order to procure a pulse rifle named No Time To Explain. Named after a viral quote from the early days of Destiny that perfectly sums up the game's sometimes arcane storytelling, one of the gun's special abilities is to summon a portal that brings in bullets from another dimension.
Redditor MaleficMarengo has considered the Destiny reference in the gun's name and tied it in with the years-old Loot Cave to produce a rather intriguing theory. They claim that the bullets produced by the gun's extradimensional rift are the same bullets players shot into the Loot Cave in the original Destiny as they finally escaping the constraints of the space-time continuum. Bungie itself described the cave as a "black hole" in their messaging on why the Loot Cave was removed in the first place, and it's widely theorized in both pop and theoretical science that even black holes have their respective exit points.
Destiny 2's edition of No Time To Explain is actually a sequel to an exotic pulse rifle found in the original game. That Pulse Rifle was a quest reward in The Taken King, usually regarded as one of the best Destiny expansions to grace the original game. Part of Beyond Light's appeal is a return of content from that original game, so it would make sense that one of the quest rewards would see an upgraded return. Whether Bungie also meant to tie it in with one of the most notable events in the original game's history can only be confirmed by the developers themselves.
The concept of a Loot Cave has captured the imagination of Destiny 2 players several times over the years, but nothing beats the fervor surrounding the original. Players were looking for substance in that original launch period, something that the game wouldn't get for a long while. While some found the loop in the original enjoyable, Bungie has made the Destiny experience much more appealing to everyone in the years that followed, a commendable job on the level of No Man's Sky and Rainbow Six Siege. As for the details of why that is, well... there's no time to explain.
Destiny 2 is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia.
Source: MaleficMarengo
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