To some, he’s a cryptic agent of the nine. For others it is the exotic engram type. My friends call it Pasta Face. Most know him as Xur, and after years of being out of date, he’s once again a weekly spotlight in the Destiny 2 universe. It feels good to have him back.
Xur’s merchandise has gone through many different developments since the original was released in 2014 determination and now, but for much of the past year and beyond, it had become a bit of a minor matter for many players. The pool of exotic engrams he was famous for had grown so large, with so many alternative sources, that he seldom 1) sold anything and 2) most players didn’t yet have it.
Back then in Fate 1 Where he sold the joyously overwhelmed and the coveted Gjallarhorn rocket launcher was a distant memory. More often, Xur felt like a used car seller who turned over well-known exotic cars because he promised an increase in the overall statistics by two or three points.
That changed when the current Season of the Lost of Destiny 2 started at the end of August. Since then, Xur has been selling a number of iconic weapons with curated roles and relatively high stats armor that are no longer available elsewhere in the game. It was a small improvement, but an illuminating one. Not a Friday goes by that I don’t check up on the alien from across the asteroid belt to see what’s up. Sometimes he offers decent roles on guns I’ve never really tracked, and sometimes he gives away absolute gold.
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The most notable example of this was the weekend of September 17th. Among the oddities on offer was a bottom dollar hand cannon that had both the Outlaw and Dragonfly benefits. For the uninitiated, Outlaw lets your weapon reload in a flash after a couple of headshots, while Dragonfly said headshots causes enemies to explode and solar damage to everything else around them.
Needless to syes it’s a very fun, very powerful combo on a weapon that is agony to farm for (she just falls from Fate 2Gambit mode, which some people don’t like and everyone else hate). It wasn’t like winning the lottery, but it was like getting a scratch card and revealing one of those special symbols that automatically make it a winner.
Not every usek is just as remarkable, but the fact that it is Power everyone has to look again. This is how you land on one of the most unusual stories in recent Destiny 2 history: Players take Xur hostage. How did you do it exactly? Well, it all started the weekend before Halloween when players discovered that Xur was selling a True Prophecy handheld cannon with a range finder and timed payload. The first perk enables the weapon to be used at greater distances, while the second rounds shoots into the opponent’s faces, causing a lot of twitching. In other words, it’s a PVP “God Roll,” one of those combinations that is hard to beat and will prevail against most smaller matchups.
In fact, it was so good that the players decided not to let Xur go with it, at least not right away. In the past few years, Xur left on Sunday. Now it’s going right before Destiny 2’s weekly reset on Tuesday. At the end of October, players kidnapped him until Thursday. They did this by simply standing next to him the whole time so the game wouldn’t update. If someone had to leave, someone else took his place. A whole discord was thrown together coordinate the shifts. Dozens danced, hugged, and bought the gun. One person even tried Venmo the mastermind behind the whole lunch thing. Only in determination, Man.
Much digital ink was spilled documenting Xur’s weekly exploits. Even after Bungie decides to start bring its weekly location into play, the flood of “Where’s Xur?“Posts persisted thanks to the death grip of Google’s search algorithms on the Internet. Bungie later reverse course, maybe he realized it was cooler when he came and went as he pleased. At least now people have a reason to look for him the end again. Long-lasting pasta face.
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