Destiny 2 Players Missing Major Story Reveal Because Cutscene Won't Play

Today, after months of waiting, Destiny 2 players were finally treated to Season of the Lost’s big reveal, setting up next week’s massive Witch Queen expansion. At least, that is, the players who could get the new cutscene to work. For everyone else, the only way to partake in the big moment was to watch it on YouTube.


Season of the Lost, which began back in August 2021, saw its final mission, Exorcism, go live earlier today. In it, players venture across a sky bridge they saw pieced together one week at a time to defend Awoken queen Mara Sov’s inner sanctum while she performed a ritual to purge the worm god inhabiting the Witch Queen, Savathûn.


It’s a fun little mission with big stakes and an even bigger showdown against the Hive forces storming Sov’s palace. There’s just one problem: It’s currently busted. Some players can’t get the game to count them as having completed the mission. Others can’t get it to progress to begin with. And then there’s another group who can’t get the mission’s pivotal cutscene finale to play.

no dunk and no disrespect. i’m just curious as to how it wasn’t considered or from a technical level, why the cutscene instance is shared with the fireteam.

— Niris | Nic (@mr_niris) February 15, 2022

That’s what happened to me after I finished Exorcism. The screen cut to black and then…I was back in space on the selection screen. I replayed the mission and…the same thing happened. My mission progress registered but I couldn’t watch the finale, which was meant to have answered one of Season of the Lost’s biggest questions. I now know the answer not because I got to watch the cinematic but because an NPC on the last leg of the quest told me what happened.


Source: Kotaku