Destiny 2 Honors Developer Who Passed Away With Moving Piece Of In-Game Lore

 

When players log onto Destiny 2 this week they’ll be asked to go investigate some lost Golden Age tech on Mars as part of a special tribute to Matt Helsom, an artist at Vicarious Visions who passed away last year.

 

Touching down on Mars there’s no objective marker for where to begin the Signal Intercepted quest, but if you head into the Clovis Bray facility toward Rasputin’s bunker you’ll eventually come across a set of sliding doors that are normally closed.

 

Inside is a computer terminal with a journal recording from a Golden Age xenoarcheologist named Helsom.

 

 

Take it back to Ana Bray and she’ll explain that she’s been studying the man’s life and work for some time.

 

“By all accounts, Helsom was a cigar-smoking, whiskey-drinking explorer who hated flying,” Bray says.

 

“He’d refused to use jumpships for planetary exploration. Would just hop in a rover and drive halfway across Mars to do his research.”

 

According to the journal Helsom believed that alien life had made contact with humanity prior to The Traveler’s arrival.

 

“According to this, he stayed here through the Collapse, because he believed in something,” Bray says. The lore tribute also comes with a free Cipher players can use to unlock an exotic engram from Xur.

 

By: Kotaku