Bungie has confirmed it is "actively re-recording" immoderate of the dialog successful Destiny 2 to reconstruct the voices of characters similar Vanguard Ikora Rey.
With the motorboat of The Edge of Fate, the archetypal enlargement successful the Year of Prophecy contented lineup, fans noticed Ikora Rey, primitively voiced by Gina Torres, sounded a batch similar Savathun from The Witch Queen. That's due to the fact that Ikora Rey's astir caller dependable histrion was replaced by Debra Wilson, who plays Savathun.
In its defense, Bungie did notify players that changes would beryllium coming for the English casting of Orin, Chioma, and Ikora backmost successful May, but yesterday (July 15) confirmed that portion the dependable formed had initially been "unavailable to grounds lines for The Edge of Fate," it was present "actively re-recording lines for affected characters." There's nary steadfast day for erstwhile this volition happen, but Bungie said it was "aiming for a aboriginal update."
Until then, players volition proceed to bump into unfamiliar "temporary" voices, oregon adjacent brushwood soundless characters. In those instances, overmuch similar Destiny 2: Heresy, subtitles for communicative contented volition beryllium enabled.
Though Bungie didn't explicitly notation the SAG-AFTRA crippled performers' strike, it did admit determination had been "conflicts" and these had present "been resolved," which just-so-happens to coincide with SAG-AFTRA suspending its onslaught implicit AI protections. The SAG-AFTRA onslaught was instigated backmost successful July 2024 aft the national and the large crippled companies — Activision, Blindlight, Disney Character Voices, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Formosa Interactive, Insomniac Games, Take 2 Productions, and WB Games — that beryllium connected the committee failed to hold connected AI provisions. Over 98% of members subsequently voted to strike.
Bungie precocious unveiled what's coming up successful Destiny 2, including 2 caller expansions and large seasonal and halfway crippled updates coming for some paying and escaped players, each badged nether the "Year of Prophecy." Year of Prophecy is the archetypal twelvemonth to boast 4 "major contented beats," with 2 paid expansions and 2 large updates. The erstwhile is paid contented portion the second volition beryllium disposable to each players.
Of course, Destiny isn't the lone franchise Bungie is moving on. The workplace announced its Marathon reboot successful May 2023. Trouble arose with the motorboat of its alpha test, however, on with contention centered connected plagiarized enactment that had been discovered successful Marathon itself. Many person begun to sermon however the impending crippled motorboat could interaction the aboriginal of the workplace forever. Last month, however, Bungie said it was delaying Marathon indefinitely owed to "strong and clear" feedback from players.
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