In this case, you can see that there are tiny tweaks to almost all of them, a “copy my homework without making it look like you copied it” type situation, but it’s pretty clear that if these weren’t flat-out taken from Destiny they were copied almost exactly with those small additions or subtractions added.
Different Dream
While I’m not sure anything else is 1:1 like this in the game, played have noticed a gun that looks a lot like a Destiny 2 design. The gun in question is the Different Dream, which you can see above. And the idea is that it has taken its design aesthetic from the IKELOS series of weapons in Destiny 2, namely the IKELOS sniper:
IKELOS sniper
And more so the Sleeper Simulant.
That barrel and Sleeper’s look extremely close, obviously. Though the fact that the gun is called “Different Dream” makes me think it could be a tribute rather than a rip-off.
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There’s one shielded enemy with a weak spot in the center that reacts essentially identically to a Cabal Phalanx when it’s struck. There is of course one of the main pieces of art of the game that was compared to Destiny ahead of release, though that’s a little freeze orb, not a ghost.
Generally speaking, The First Descendant feels like an amalgam of a bunch of games with relatively few original concepts. Again, it is at least 85% Warframe DNA in almost every possible way, with more intrusive and expensive microtransactions (though even those are mostly from Warframe too).
‘The First Descendant’ Is Using Barely-Changed ‘Destiny 2’ Icons
While The First Descendant is mostly built from Warframe DNA, players have noticed that a number of in-game icons look awfully like ones from Destiny 2.
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