merritt k

merritt k

merritt k is Content Manager at Fanbyte, covering Destiny 2 and other live games.

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One Simple Trick to Fix Gambit in Destiny 2 (Drifter Hates It!)

Ever since it was introduced, Gambit has been a contentious game mode in Destiny 2. It’s essentially a race — the PVE/PVP hybrid playlist has players taking on enemies and collecting the...

The Top 10 Worst Armor Exotics in Destiny 2 (February 2023)

There are a lot of powerful Exotics in Destiny 2 for each class. On the flipside, there are also some real stinkers. These Exotics simply don’t do enough in most situations to make them...

The 10 Best Kinetic Weapons in Destiny 2 (March 2023)

With the changes to the mod system in Lightfall, weapon types have become much less important and elemental type has become much more key in Destiny 2. And thankfully,...

Throwback Thursday: The Palace Was the Metaverse, But Good

In the 90s, there was no Twitter, no Discord, no social media of any kind. What we did have were real-time chat rooms and programs. These were mostly text-based, with a few notable exceptions — and on...

Jeff Minter Rides Again With Akka Arrh

Jeff Minter and his software house Llamasoft are names which need no introduction. Or actually, maybe they do at this point — it’s 2023 and there are probably quite a few gamers out there who have nev...

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The 10 Best PVE Sidearms in Destiny 2 (March 2023)

Sidearms aren’t always the most popular weapons in Destiny 2, requiring you to get up close and personal with your foes. Still, they can be effective in the right circumstances, so here...

All 5 New Weapon Patterns in Destiny 2 Lightfall

Ever since Witch Queen, Guardians have been able to craft certain weapons in Destiny 2. The mechanics of crafting have changed a little in Lightfall, with cra...

How to Get the Jade's Burrow Emblem in Destiny 2

The Chinese New Year is January 22, and Destiny 2 is celebrating with a new emblem and some other cosmetics. While the cosmetics are paid items in the Eververse store, the emblem is...

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Strand Has Made This Useless Titan Exotic a PVP Star in Destiny 2

Titans have had a lot of powerful Exotic armors throughout Destiny 2‘s history, but Khepri’s Horn has not been among them. This Exotic helmet provides two effects. The first gives you so...

I Met a Guy Doing McDonalds Roleplay in Destiny 2

Online games are unpredictable things. Most of the time, people are content to play within the guidelines, doing what the designers intended. But sometimes, they need a broader canvas on which to expr...

Throwback Thursday: Drug Wars Made Narcotics Fun

Confession time: I was a classic “good kid” for most of my early life. I didn’t drink until I was in my senior year of high school, and I didn’t touch drugs — even weed — until I was in college. Maybe...

5 Years On, Destiny 2's Most Dangerous Foe is Still a Guy With a Shield

Destiny 2 is a game filled with memorable and powerful foes. But amongst the wish-dragons, the time-traveling robots, the self- made gods, the most terrifying, the most enduring of all o...

PSA: Hunt Down the Avaricious Treasurer in Destiny 2 Sever Missions

You’ve probably run a lot of the Sever mission in Destiny 2 this season already. You might have noticed, in one of two of those runs, an enemy popping up during the final boss encou...

Bungie, It's Time to Get Rid of Power Level in Destiny 2

Is there anything gamers love more than making a number go up? Well, sure — compelling narratives, engaging action, and mindbending puzzles, I guess. But numbers go up and give good brain chemicals, t...

Let's Do Some Wild Speculation About Arc 3.0 Fragments

Last month, I speculated about what Arc 3.0 keywords might be in Destiny 2. Now, let’s talk about what kinds of fragments we might see when Arc subclasses finally get updated and br...

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Destiny 2 Season 20 Might Be Tied to the EDZ

Back during Season of the Haunted, I noticed something about the Seasonal Challenges in Destiny 2 — there’s always one challenge during the final week’s batch that tasks players with com...

Throwback Thursday: Little Fighter 2 Was Indie Brawling Bliss

In the early 2000s, one of the greatest virtues any indie PC game could have was portability. Dial-up connections were still common, and the smaller a game’s file size, the easier it was to download a...

Destiny 2 Strand — What We Know About the New Subclass

It’s been a while since we got an entirely new subclass instead of a revision of an existing one, but the upcoming Lightfall expansion for Destiny 2 is intro...

How to Get the Interconnected Emblem in Destiny 2

There are a lot of emblems in Destiny 2, but some of them aren’t signposted very well. For instance, there’s a promotion on this month where you can get an emblem...

Bungie is Keeping Quiet About Destiny 2 Season 18

The lead-up to season 17 of Destiny 2 went a little differently than most seasons in recent memory. Rather than reveal bits and pieces of upcoming content through This Week at Bungie pos...