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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

6 months

Pixel Hearts, you say 👀. I’ll be participating in the Game2Give drive this year as well!

Bungie Foundation

@BungieLove

6 months

Welcome to Game2Give! Registration is officially open. Head over to our site to see our largest slate of incentives ever, as well as our brand new credit system - offering supporters the most flexibility to choose your rewards! ❤️ 🖤

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

Happy Guardian Games, everyone! This year my focus was on adding new tech to a bunch of the rewards we shipped, such as this finisher that absolutely launches your foes…

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4 months

coughing baby vs. ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

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1 year

first ever seasonal legendary set with ambient vfx…

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Ben Platnick

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2 years

Bungie launched a new benefit this morning that insures my partner and I have access to any gender affirming or reproductive healthcare options when needed by committing to reimbursing all costs related to seeking out that care if my home state suddenly disallows it.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

oh my god purple cube hi

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

9 days

vivian is awesome, everything she touches is gold or crazy. this is both.

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

9 days

Inspired by The Craftening and blessed by the Traveler itself, the Ergo Sum Exotic Wave Frame Sword features randomly rolled weapon perks in your special ammo slot. Available now as part of Destiny 2: The Final Shape. 🐺

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

most of our weapon artists work in Blender. As long as you know how to manipulate the tools to get it in the engine, doesn’t matter what you use.

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@ArtOfPilgrim

1 year

University Lecturers: "blender isn't industry standard!" Bungies new game Marathon:

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

Steam remote play = iron banner pinnacles on the go.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

the oscars 2022, colorized.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

Alright warlocks, this year, we win this thing.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

4 months

yeah this is now my legacy. final thing i pushed for before i left was getting this thing into d2. ribs sweep btw.

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@qHugzz

4 months

NAHHHHH NOT THE GRIDDY LMAOOOOOOOOO

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

how i look at the bag of shredded cheese in my fridge at 3am

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

Hey uh what happened to the Bungie coffee machine???

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

I’ve been mentioning the tech improvements i’ve been working on over the past few months regarding the Inspection Screen, and I’m super excited to show off the end result, launching with Season of the Deep!

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

1 year

Weapon changes in Season 21: 💠 17 Exotic Weapon updates 💠 Weapon reticle updates + Experimental ADS reticle on Shayura's Wrath 💠 Inspection Screen Improvements: weapon rotation and ambient VFX 💠 Full auto melee option 📰 And more!

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

6 months

omg purple cube hello again.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

We all shine a little brighter against the dark when we shine together. Starting today, you can summon rainbows outside of transmat, too, with the Rainbow Connection emote we did in collaboration with Pride @Bungie . Redeem at with TK7-D3P-FDF

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@Bungie

1 year

"Pride is about never being quiet and knowing that you are enough." 🌈 Pride at Bungie:

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

when the clan is looking for 1 for DSC, you don’t let a flight stop you.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

A new sparrow trail awaits if you beat Vow of the Disciple on Master... Check out the trail I did for Gouging Light here:

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

Get all your smallen cuddles with the Hatchling Huddle emote, now available for 1000 Silver.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

oh my god… is that… IT’S THE WARLOCKS, WITH A STEEL CHAIR

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

1 year

Let the Guardian Games begin! Follow the fireworks to the Tower where Titans, Hunters, and Warlocks alike will fight for supremacy as well as their second Guardian Games victory. Who will take home the gold? 🎆

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

psa breaking an NDA is a permanent black mark on you for future opportunities and also a very expensive legal mistake. don’t do it.

Destiny 2 Team

@Destiny2Team

1 year

Community interaction and engagement is central to Bungie and our games. For years, we've invited creators and other members of the community to confidential summits to provide feedback on the future of Destiny. This is a beloved part of the process, but relies heavily on trust.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

10 months

Those of you that missed the "Give em the Chair" Finisher may want to check out the "Unblockable" finisher...

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

Be true to who you are. The “End of The Rainbow” transmat effect is now available, free to all players. Honored to work alongside @lockaitae and the rest of Trans @Bungie in order to bring this to you to celebrate National Coming Out Day.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

I spent a few weeks making sure your fashion game would be working with Strand when Lightfall launches! Read my words about it here:

Bungie

@Bungie

1 year

This week at Bungie, we’re talking about changes to abilities, Strand, and a few other tidbits that we think you should know before Lightfall arrives later this month. 📰

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

I've spent the last 10 minutes punting dolls into the last city

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

Created some new tech for my competitive PVP players: A reactive transmat that evolves and changes as you go up or down the ranks!

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

1 year

Lightfall has arrived and brought PvP updates with it. Read our deep dive on the latest and future changes: 💠 Playlist revisions 💠 Fireteam-based matchmaking updates 💠 Competitive Division info 💠 Iron Banner and Trials of Osiris 💠 And more! ⚔

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

The weapons team went so, so hard this season.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 months

took someone through vow for the first time and they called this one poland?????

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

We added a sick Taken themed trail to this one. A fitting reward for your fight against the Taken King

Destiny Bulletin

@DestinyBulletn

2 years

NEW: King's Fall Raid Exotic Sparrow | #Destiny2

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

You are not ready for this one…

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

1 year

Ferried from an unknown time and place, a haunting presence has been detected. We must now confront the ancient threat growing at our doorstep. The Root of Nightmares raid opens on March 10, 2023 at 9am PST. Contest Mode will be enabled for 48 hours.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

Season of the Seraph is live! I had the absolute pleasure of working on so much stuff, including weapons, spawns, finishers, and emotes, including a couple of highly requested items. A Rhulk Kick emote complete with a bouncy prop and a Rhulk Glaive dash finisher: Now in store.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

volatile rounds, 1 minute of x6 100's, unraveling rounds, woven mail, etc. armor charge man.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

7 months

from the account that brought you “Treat yourself to 19 inches of Venom”:

PlayStation UK

@PlayStationUK

7 months

Does busting make you feel good? How about charting the depths of deep space? Or coming through firefights unscathed? Feel immersion like never before with these #PSVR2 games:

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

in this essay I will explain why deep stone crypt is just among us. -you are on a space station -you have tasks (op, scan, supressor) -you have to find the sussy impostor (atraks) -you have to stop the sabotage to the station -you have to eject the sussy impostor (atraks)

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@AmongUsGame

1 year

HMMM found an incoming message about some Impostors that might be hiding among a certain fireteam very soon... 🤔

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

reason #8272726262 why I like working @Bungie , random twitter jokes about strand being baja blast leads to a crate full of taco bell and meeting new coworkers over a free lunch.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

oh my fucking god HAHA.

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@Mexihh_

2 years

LMAO

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

I send my dad collectors editions every release. He’s since built a little shrine in his office.

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@S3pirion

2 years

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

playtesting this emote consisted of basically doing exactly this on any funny location i could think of.

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@steel_peach

1 year

Proper use of Rhulk kick emote

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

Presenting this year’s juice gun: the baja blaster

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

1 year

🥇 Guardian Games returns May 2, 2023! 🥇 💠 All classes are competing for their 2nd ever victory! 💠 Earn Medallions, dunk to help your class 💠 Strike scoring returns 💠 Supremacy returns with class-based matchmaking 💠 Two earnable Titles 📰 More:

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

We built out some new tech that allowed the taken VFX to show up on reckoning ornaments when they were slotted into the new weapons, but stay the same on the old ones. With the way “taken” visuals are built, this meant hand creating the gradient on each of the old ornaments…

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@kamiyabtw

1 year

spare/reckoning weapon ornaments work on the taken guns (also gives targeted redaction spare sights)

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

I’m so happy to see an instance of these two emotes being used together. This is what it was made for.

Destiny Bulletin

@DestinyBulletn

2 years

My Iron Banner experience: it's not all bad? 📷u/mullanaphy | #Destiny2

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

infinite volatile rounds, strand/void dual siphon with osmosis fatebringer and collective obligation means infinite orbs, which means infinite fast abilities. 35ish second grapples on average, and waves of threadlings. definitely more to play with, but rn it’s fun.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

15 days

If Datto has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Datto has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Datto has only one fan then that is me. If Datto has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Datto, then I am against the world.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

7 months

A reminder to all that games are about fun, and silly ragdolls have a place in every game. The fight for these was worth it.

DestinyTracker🔺

@destinytrack

7 months

YEET | #Destiny2 💻:

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

8 months

🔥

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

3 years

Lots of fun VFX shenanigans were had with this ship.

Destiny Bulletin

@DestinyBulletn

3 years

The new ship, Unixûrsal Voyager has a comet effect when in hyperspace. 📸u/adhig123 | #Destiny2

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

"I have peered through the eye of Chronos to divine humanity's path into the future." —Soteria, the Augurmind Destiny 2: Hierarchy Of Needs VFX via @artstationhq #destiny2 #destiny2art

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

“Hey how big can we make this snowball” “Don’t worry about it” "Destiny 2: Snow Throw" by Ben Platnick. . #destiny2 #destiny2art #bungie #VFX

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

i would implore people to really, TRULY, deeply understand that sometimes things just break, and they don’t have an easy solution to them, even after hours upon hours of investigation.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

Crafting this bow was such a *cool* technical challenge and I cannot wait to use it in 2 hours.

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

1 year

The Witness and Calus have extended their grasp beyond Neptune and begun their invasion of Earth. The line must be drawn here. Season of Defiance arrives today.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

Happy Bungie Day! The Loyal Companion emote was such an honor to be tasked with. Getting to help put Cristian's dog, Artemis into the game and fulfill his wish was the coolest thing I think I'll do in my career. Here is a breakdown on how the emote was made! A thread: 1/19

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

Very excited for next season in Destiny 2. Some of my personal, my team's, and others best work is just a few short weeks away.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

Destiny 2: Season of the Risen starts 2.22.22 We have a lot of goodies in store…

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

3 years

This was the first emote I made. I will be doing it in the tower all day today.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

Sarah Bellum

@tamsully12

1 year

WITHOUT GOOGLING Name a famous historic battle.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

3 years

NAH NO WAY DID I JUST HEAR XÛR SAY “WHETHER YOU WANTED IT OR NOT, YOU STEPPED INTO A WAR WITH THE CABAL” IN DARES

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

the cover photo of this is killing me

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@PlayStation

1 year

PlayStation Playmakers welcomes @FinnWolfhard , who is no stranger to the gaming community.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

We made a worm you could fire out of a grenade launcher, why WOULDN’T we give you one you could hold. @haykebyr ’s dream came true, Wiggle Worm is this weeks featured emote for silver!

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

10 days

this is kinda a testament to the resilience of the tiger engine because i’m assuming the player object is being deleted by whatever they are doing to clean up the 2nd half of the enemy, and the game is just shrugging and going “fuck it, we ball”.

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PDR in destiny 2 lol

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

I had the pleasure of working on the Vow of the Disciple Raid Exotic: Collective Obligation! You can find a breakdown here:

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

4 months

I remember a long time ago being asked casually “hey Ben do we think we could attach all our existing sparrow trails to a hoverboard if we made one” and me responding uhhhhhhhh. The madlads did it.

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

4 months

🏹 Hunters. ✊ Titans. 🧙‍♂️ Warlocks. Compete for glory starting March 5 and earn the brand-new Allstar Vector Skimmer, available to all players. 🛹 Which class will reign supreme?

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

With the Witch Queen I also had the chance to spread my wings a bit and do the VFX for the "Psychohack" origin trait! With the trait imposing outgoing damage suppression, I wanted the effect to be clearly visible, both at close and long range distances.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

Flight of the Phoenix. Destiny 2: Phoenix Sparrow Trail Suite #Destiny2 #Destiny2Art #VFX

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

8 months

Bringing this back for #FortniteChapter1 . Such a fun project to work on.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

7 months

i think my greatest final contribution to destiny was getting this aligned and approved. Amanda killed it with the end result.

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

7 months

Arise, monster slayer. Become the White Wolf. Inspired by Geralt of Rivia, live now in Destiny 2 with the arrival of Season of the Wish. 🌠

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

strand finishers out in eververse today :)

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

amonglass windows

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

Do you like celebrating your friends by bathing them in explosive sparkle showers? You’ll like Commendations then. So excited to see this shown off a bit more :)

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

Extremely excited to announce that next week I join @riotgames to help start to build up a sparkle magic team for an unannounced title as a VFX Artist II, Riot R&D.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

7 months

On one hand: happy it’s getting the extra time the team feels it needs to cook. On the other hand: adding additional content into that gap tends to negate any semblance of a break/release valve from a delay for people that may be working on both things now.

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

7 months

The release date for The Final Shape has moved to June 4, 2024 to allow for an even bigger and bolder vision. New content available is also in development, including Destiny 2: Into the Light, a two-month content update for all players starting in April.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

run a strike or 2 today, for lance. he brought so much joy and life to the role of Zavala.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

someone found it :)

Pickles ✨Comms open!✨

@xPickles77x

1 year

I got an awesome surprise when I went to celebrate with some random that ranked up in the tower! If you emote with someone that ranks up you get a silver glow and it says “Celebration Companion” on the left side of the screen! I LOVE this addition! Well done ! @DestinyTheGame 👏

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

If you harass or spew endless negativity towards me, my coworkers, or my friends, you are getting blocked. It’s that simple.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

10 months

I got to do the VFX for the Monte Carlo Cataylst! Some really cool behind the scenes stuff to get the glow working on each of the ornaments as they all have different sized blades :)

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

10 months

Season 22 Weapons Preview: 🔁 Decoupling damage falloff from Zoom ⬆ Hand Cannons and Bows ⬇ Aggressive Sidearms 🔁 Swords rework 🆕 Monte Carlo’s Catalyst ⬆ Verglas Curve and Touch of Malice 🔁 Additional Exotic Weapon tunings 🔁 Weapon Perks 📰 More:

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

my curse of never obtaining items that i work on has finally ended. it's so good to finally have my baby.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

3 years

The legs move :)

Chrizmo

@Chrizmo__

3 years

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

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Ben Platnick

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1 year

We had a new VFX artist join our team, and this was one of the first emotes she did. Absolutely knocked it out the park.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

3 years

7 Days till I get to share all the cool stuff I've been working on :)

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

Worked with an incredible team to get these out the door for Solstice this year :)

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Ben Platnick

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15 days

the shadowkeep banners STILL being hung up as a pre-covid era heirloom kills me. whenever I walked by them it made me laugh.

Destiny 2

@DestinyTheGame

15 days

Your battle against the Witness to halt The Final Shape isn’t one you make alone. We’ll be watching as you become legend. Make us proud, Guardians.

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3 years

going to work @bungie monday be like

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Ben Platnick

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1 year

Become Defiant. 2/28

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

He always comes back. Grab yourself a Destiny N. F. T. (New Fights with Taniks) against Taniks, The Emoted (and Tiny Atheon) with the Shhhhh! Emote under the 30th Anniversary tab in Eververse. Also pick up any other 30th items you may need!

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1 year

Lightfall and Season of Defiance is Live! I got to work on so many different things from my usual area of emotes to weapons and weapon suites to entirely new features like Guardian Ranks and Commendations. I also got to ship the most important feature: the ability to Touch Grass.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

I got to do the vfx for the raid exotic :)

Destiny Bulletin

@DestinyBulletn

2 years

NEW Raid Exotic Weapon: Collective Obligation | #Destiny2

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

11 months

very tired of reading “i’m not a game developer and i’m not trying to be an armchair dev here BUT” takes that consist of them assuming things from google searches and other unreliable sources and using that to indeed be an armchair dev.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

twab be like.

Liana Ruppert

@DirtyEffinHippy

2 years

Where TWAB? TWAB is on hold temporarily. Team is currently working on a fix for this to get it out as soon as possible. Please stay tuned to @Bungie (and @BungieHelp ) for updates. And feel free to blame Telesto, but that boss raid looking pretty suspish 👀

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

sounds like something someone who works here would say

Datto

@DattosDestiny

2 years

@FieldOfVapor mf I DON'T WORK AT BUNGIE, I DON'T MAKE THE MODIFIERS

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

walking into the Eververse store on tuesday be like

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

I think one of my favorite QOL things I did this season is make glimmer actually dematerialize again instead of blink out of existence.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

…emotes that spawn cloned copies of yourself and those that react to the class of both yourself and the person joining you…

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

ah yes, the rocketgrenadelauncherautorifle is just as good as I remembered it

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

2 years

i just realized i made the weapon crafting themed emote have telesto as the weapon and now i’m thinking this is the reason why i’m not getting deepsight drops. I’m sorry.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

1 year

a minor spelling mistake fucked up a shader that i spent the last 2 hours trying to solve.

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Ben Platnick

@S3pirion

3 years

Another emote that I did, Anniversary Pose! You can get this one by completing the "Repeat Winner" triumph if you have the 30th pack. This one required a lot of collaboration between a whole bunch of different departments, but oh man was the payoff worth it.