Saturday afternoon Bungie tookDestiny 2down for emergency maintenance. The announcement from Bungie was short and lacking detail, leavingDestiny 2players without an answer to why the game was offline and how long it would take to bring it back up. Never missing an opportunity to resurrect a meme, theDestiny 2community has been quick to blame the infamously broken weapon Telesto for the game’s dysfunction. It couldn’t be a simple coincidence Xur started selling Telesto the day before servers crashed, after all.The memes about Telesto andDestiny 2being offline have spread so fast that the term “Telesto” is currently trending on Twitter, an impressive feat with both the NFL and UFC having major events Saturday evening. Some are even making jokes that Telesto will be the final boss inElden Ring, as From Software’s upcoming RPG is also trending on Twitter.RELATED:Destiny 2 Player Has Hilarious Idea for Telesto OrnamentThe story behind Telesto becoming a weapon legendary for its broken behavior goes all the way back to 2016 when the exotic Fusion Rifle gained the reputation of being prone to bugs due to its odd style of floating purple bullets. That reputation escalated in 2021 when Telesto would genuinely crashDestiny 2if rapidly firing bullets into the ground during a 12-man raid. These memes grew even more prominent when Bungiedisabled Telesto for PvPbecause it could be used as armor, but multiple bugs allowedDestiny 2players to continue using it anyway.
To be clear, there’s no indication that Telesto is causing today’sDestiny 2server outage.Destiny 2players are simply joking that because Telesto rotated intoXur’s selection of itemsfor sale this week, a new wave of players having access to the weapon could explain the server outage. They’re mostly joking.
It’s still remotely possible thatDestiny 2did go down due to Telesto, however unlikely that may be.Bungietook the servers down due to emergency maintenance, which could mean any number of things. Telesto crashing raids again, or disrupting PvP in an unforeseen manner, could be the reason. How much more could the legend of Telesto truly grow, at this point?
While the threat of Telesto may be fun, the truth is that Bungie dropped an update on Thursday duringDestiny 2maintenance, and it’s had issues ever since. Three messages shared by the Bungie Help Twitter account on Friday described issues withDestiny 2playersconnecting to Bungie’s servers. No specifics were shared about the cause of these connection problems and the servers were taken down Saturday, assumedly to roll back the recent patch to the previous version ofDestiny 2. That, or it’s Telesto again.
Destiny 2is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
