4/26/2020 The Darkness 2
This is a seperate section of the Darkness II walkthrough where we have shown you'll how to find all 29 relics in the game. If you need videos for each relic then they are present in the main. (Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB) The Darkness II is an intense first person shooter that puts you in the role of Jackie Estacado, don of a NY crime family and wielder of an ancient supernatural force of chaos known as The Darkness.
Submitted on 2/3/2018 Review title of DJDAVE614Under-rated masterpiece.One of the gems on 360 along with one of the best looking graphically upon its release running in 1080. You have never seen anything quite like it.
The cell shading is impressive and gives that comic book look. Think Borderlands style with the usual modern weapons (duel wield) but you also have 2 snake like demons protruding that fill the screen who offer different ranged attacks. The combination of weapons and these demons gives combat an interesting satisfying twist. Enemies are capable and vary with multiple difficulty settings. Controls remarkably.
The story is great with an American mafia setting. We need a new Darkness game on current gen. Imagine the 4k hdr goodness that could be with this i.p. If you like fps, you will love The Darkness II.
My only gripe. I keep losing audio occasionaly, but the admission price is still quite worth the hassle.anyone. Doesn't Jackie look just like the Indian from the original Prey?
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The DarknessOverviewFocal world(s):(formerly)Extragalactic space(formerly)Sol SystemGoals:Track and destroy theSpread its influence across the universeReduce the universe to its most basic, simplest formAt war with:TheTheDistinctions:ParacausalAverage lifespan:Infinite; predates time.Notable groups:Notable individuals:Other Names:'The Deep'IT'The flower eater'The queen of final shapes'Titanomach'The Black Edge'The Formless One'The Winnower' Ah, how do we explain it to them? The world is not built on the laws they love. Not on friendship, but on mutual interest. Not on peace, but on victory by any means. The universe is run by extinction, by extermination, by gamma-ray bursts burning up a thousand garden worlds, by howling singularities eating up infant suns.
And if life is to live, if anything is to survive through the end of all things, it will live not by the smile but by the sword, not in a soft place but in a hard hell, not in the rotting bog of artificial paradise but in the cold hard self-verifying truth of that one ultimate arbiter, the only judge, the power that is its own metric and its own source—existence, at any cost. Strip away the lies and truces and delaying tactics they call ‘civilization’ and this is what remains, this beautiful shape.The fate of everything is made like this, in the collision, the test of one praxis against another. This is how the world changes: one way meets a second way, and they discharge their weapons, they exchange their words and markets, they contest and in doing so they petition each other for the right to go on being something, instead of nothing. This is the universe figuring out what it should be in the end.And it is majestic. It is the only thing that can be true in and of itself.And it is what I am.'
— The Darkness to Oryx, the Taken KingThe Darkness, also known as the Winnower or the Deep, is a powerful, force inimical to the. It is the main antagonist of the series. Contents.Overview ' It is the nature of life to favor existence over nonexistence, and to prefer the fertile soil to the poisoned wind. Because those who open their mouths to that wind pass from the world and leave no descendant, whether of flesh or of thought.But imagine the abomination of a world where nothing can end and no choice can be preferred to any other. Imagine the things that would suffer and never die.
Imagine the lies that would flourish without context or corrective. Imagine a world without me.' — The DarknessLike the, the Darkness is a cosmic paracausal force that has existed since before the beginning of time. In our universe, it has been shown to enact its will indirectly through numerous proxies and servants, with some of the most powerful being worshiped as unto. The, and are all linked to this force.The Darkness is fundamentally driven to reduce complexity and diversity within the universe, and to eliminate any entity which cannot survive in the face of adversity; its philosophy is tied to that of the, though not necessarily identical to it. The Darkness once ruled the universe, and the believe that the must be consumed for the Darkness to reclaim its domination. Its ultimate goal is to bring about an end-state of the universe in which the only entities that exist are those that have overcome all possible obstacles to their survival, and which have the strength to continue existing forever.
It refers to this goal as the 'final shape' of the universe.The are said to carry Darkness within themselves as well as Light, a product of the circumstances of their creation. During his possession by the known as, emitted streams of Darkness from his eyes to activate the gate of the. The existence of further indicates that the Darkness is a universal force in a similar sense as the Light.The Darkness seemingly also has the ability to 'infect' individuals.
Though it is unknown if 's infection was caused by fallout from the Dreadnaught weapon or Riven's influence, he began to display symptoms on (in his unique case, irritation of the eyes), and gradually descended into mood swings, bouts of lethargy, extreme sensitivity to influence, bloodthirsty tendencies, and almost completely forgetting, and turning against those he once considered close friends (Jolyon and Petra, respectively). In a similar case, fell due to being heavily seduced by the Darkness.Based upon matching descriptions from, the, and records, the Darkness and certain Darkness-related entities seems to have the ability to project some sort of field that gives the impression of complete darkness surrounding an individual. Calus wrote that upon encountering the Darkness, it appeared as a complete void to him, while the Awoken reported being surrounded by a force that 'made the stars go out.'
Cayde-6 similarly described being enveloped by a smothering, paralyzing black cloud during the Collapse; however, in this case it left his senses intact so that he could witness the destruction of his surroundings. The Drifter also encountered mysterious entities on an unknown, distant ice world that were trapped in alien monoliths.
These beings had a disturbing ability to kill from just being near them, and to nullify itself. The beings were everywhere on the world, and were described as having a 'Darkness field.' In addition to being a fundamental paracausal force, The Darkness is intelligent, and capable of communicating with sentient beings; in the Books of Sorrow, is described as directly communing with the Deep, and the deposed Cabal Emperor Calus is recorded as doing so as well. In, the Darkness communicates with through their possessed, describing the as a source of weakness, failure and death for all those it touches.Pyramids and Veiled Figures By Destiny 2, many depictions and allusions to the Darkness now represent it as an armada of located in the depths of intergalactic space. These pyramidal entities were first seen in the vision that the sent to the, and also in the cutscene that showed the Traveler being attacked on.
The describe the Darkness as a 'knife with a million blades,' perhaps alluding to this fleet of pyramidal entities. During the Collapse, the human colonists who would become the Awoken detected that they were being followed by a 'phantom ship' that exposed them to gravitational waves and emitted sterile neutrinos, axions, and phaetons. During his encounter with the Darkness, Calus also reported the 'nothingness' around him parting to reveal a fleet of ships, although his statements do not describe the vessels in detail.Alternatively, the Pyramids are noted to be entities entirely analogous to the Traveler, which is an embodiment of the Light but not the source of Light itself. Similarly appear as black tetrahedrons, further suggesting a relationship between the Darkness and the titular Pyramids.A single resembling those that attacked the during the was discovered beneath the surface of the in the following the. Even in its seemingly derelict state, this vessel exhibited profound Darkness-related abilities, such as the power to manifest.Recent investigations of the pyramid located on the Moon, as well as a newly-discovered region of the, have revealed another motif that appears to be representative of, or at least associated with, the Darkness: statues of humanoid, veiled figures.
Both statues thus far encountered are identical with seemingly feminine features, and are posed with faces turned upward and arms slightly outspread. The significance of these statues is currently unknown.History Origins According to the Lore Book ',' which is seemingly narrated by the Darkness itself, both the and the Darkness have existed since before the beginning of time, and thus before the universe came into existence. Being unbound by the laws of causality, neither the Light or Darkness can be said to have a beginning. Rather, they are emergent properties of even more fundamental 'mathematical structures' that in turn underlay reality itself.In the allegorical story recounted in the Lore Book, the Darkness and Light are referred to as the 'Winnower' and 'Gardener' respectively. The Winnower and Gardener occupied themselves by engaging one another in a game, analogous to a vastly more complex version of the 'Game of Life' devised by Earth mathematician John Conway. This game would consistently arrive at an end-state dominated by a single, self-perpetuating pattern, which subsumed all others in the game. The winnower found this to be a pleasing outcome, but the gardener felt the pattern to be boring, and desired that the game endlessly produce novel patterns instead.
In order to promote this novelty, the gardener transformed itself into a new 'rule' within the game; the winnower did the same, to counteract the gardener’s efforts. The Darkness closes in upon the. ' Something hit us.
Killed our Golden Age. Nearly wiped us out. Only the Traveler saved us, and at a shattering cost.' — description.The only solid information on the Darkness gathered by humanity itself comes from an ISR report from centuries ago. At that time, the Darkness appeared just beyond the edge of the in what was termed as a ' TRANSIENT NEAR EXTRASOLAR EVENT', with the only means of determining that a transient event had even occurred was through the detection of a 0.3 second displacement of gravity waves, as well as anomalous interactions in the local Higgs field traced to scattering.An AI observing the event, the, was able to derive some information, based solely on the phenomena that it could detect, but was unable to ascertain its mechanism.
Rasputin conducted an 'Omnibus analysis' of the event's effects on local spacetime, measuring a wide range of data points including direction, distance, range, speed and size as well as a comprehensive pattern analysis of the event itself. This last set of data showed, to a certainty of '9 Sigma', a definite and measurable pattern which had a complex, almost linguistic, structure that demonstrated both intelligence and intent.In an attempt to better understand the phenomenon by recreating all of its known variables (also known as a 'bootstrap simulation'), Rasputin reran the data through a series of iterations which included a number of randomized inputs, in a process known as a Monte Carlo analysis. Despite this, it was unable to derive any definitive information about the event or its source; however, it was able to determine that whatever was behind the event was clearly a complex structure, acting with clear purpose. Rasputin concluded that the source of the event not only failed to conform to any known phenomena in the of particle physics (thus labeling it '), it was also directed, acting with anger, and almost certain to reach the solar system in a short amount of time. As a result, the previously issued Skyshock alert was upgraded to OCP:EXTINCTION, and a number of defensive protocols were added.
The Darkness nonetheless swept through the Solar System, devastating civilization in an event called the. Only due to the Traveler's intervention did humanity survive. Seven centuries later, the Darkness was set to return.
Events of Destiny. The Black Heart, an aspect of the Darkness.Centuries after the Collapse, a lone encountered the on, and was subsequently sent on a quest to find the. After battling through the and reaching the center of the Garden, the Guardian discovered an entity, the, that the Vex seemed to revere as an object of worship.
The entity could not attack the Guardian directly, but attempted to defend itself by taking control of the, three enormous Vex Minotaurs. After a protracted battle, the Black Heart was apparently destroyed along with its three Sol Progeny vessels. Upon the defeat of the Black Heart, the Black Garden was relocated to from its prior location, and Light began to return to the dormant and damaged Traveler.Following the battle in the Black Garden, Ikora Rey hypothesized that the Black Heart had been an aspect of the Darkness itself.Events of Destiny 2.
A mysterious fleet in orbit above the Milky WayAfter the death of and the restoration of the, a fleet of activated in response and started moving en masse toward the Milky Way. The shape of these ships bore a resemblance to the black tetrahedrons featured in the vision the Guardian experienced upon losing their Light, as well as the triangular shadow used to represent the Darkness in the opening cinematic.Curse of Osiris In the, encountered a massive shadow-like entity on. Warmind ' There is no here. You shall drift.
You shall drown in the Deep.' —Following the reawakening of the on, encountered the in the beneath.
There, the Worm God addressed the Guardian telepathically, claiming that the Guardian would 'drown in the Deep'.Forsaken. Mara Sov's star map of the Darkness ships.The, a faction of undead first encountered by the Guardians in a mass breakout from the Prison of Elders, were created through the use of. This 'Dark Ether' was first generated when drew upon 's internal Darkness and infused it into Ether, bringing Fikrul back from death.has a star map in the that is actively tracking the Darkness as it travels toward the.The also seem to be aware of the Darkness' approach to the Solar System. Shadowkeep ' You made it.we have heard cries for help. And soon, we will answer.' ' Who are you?'
' Don't you recognize us? We are not your friend. We are not your enemy. — The Darkness andEris Morn, after going missing prior to the Red War, stumbles upon a derelict alien vessel in the shape of a beneath the surface of the Moon.
She discovered that the Darkness originating from the Pyramid was triggered into unleashing phantasmal, and that the are harnessing them in a crimson citadel built above the ancient structure, near the, dubbed the. With Eris Morn as their guide and having the Vanguards approval on handling the situation, the Guardians made efforts in combating the Hive and the Darkness-powered Nightmares. Using the Hive's knowledge and the essence of the most powerful of Nightmares, Eris was able to forge armor that was capable of resisting the Nightmares.Now prepared and with the Nightmares pushed back, the Guardian descends beneath the Scarlet Keep to the Pyramid. There, the Darkness itself manages to commandeer the Guardian's Ghost and opens the Pyramid, drawing in the Guardian.
Inside, the Guardian faces off against some their most dangerous of foes:,. As they combat against the powerful Nightmares, the Darkness taunts the Guardians, through their Ghost, on the Light's failures and weaknesses. Despite this, the Guardian manages to overcome the Nightmares and reaches the center of the Pyramid.The Guardian is presented with an and is subjected to a vision from within the, where they encounter a doppelganger of themselves, apparently representing the Darkness itself.
The Darkness addresses the Guardian, claiming that they are neither the Guardian's friend nor enemy, but instead their 'salvation'. The Darkness closes in.The Guardian brings the artifact to Eris and reports what they encountered in the Pyramid to the Vanguard. Utterly suspicious of what the Darkness speaks as their salvation, they take it as a confirmation that the Darkness is preparing to return.
At the same time, Eris identifies a signal emitting from the artifact that leads deep within the Black Garden, to which a fireteam of Guardians was sent to. What they found were remnants of the Pyramids that the Vex were attempting to harness with Vex Minds, which the fireteam destroyed and triggering the artifact to unlock.
Eris began receiving messages directly from the Darkness to which she dismissed as attempts of manipulation, but nonetheless provided potentially valuable information into the origin of the Light, the Darkness, the, and the Universe itself.When confronted regarding his allegiance to the Light or the Darkness, the Warmind directed him to an anomalous signal located in the Kuiper Belt. Upon arriving at the coordinates, reported feeling strange (in a manner similar to the Guardian's Ghost when approaching the ). Osiris then entered 'an anomalous Maw' and returned with a 'cold metal seed' before setting his ship on a course to return to the inner Solar System.Later in Season of the Worthy, Rasputin shows the Guardian and Zavala a holographic image of the solar system, only to show them that the fleet of Pyramid ships seem to be surrounding the system from all directions. From there on, Zavala, convinced that the warmind knows the stakes, exclaims that the Vanguard and Rasputin will stand together to face these pyramids head on.
Further, maps of the Solar System within Rasputin's bunkers all reveal a disturbing discovery - the Pyramids have arrived and are slowly closing in on the inner system.
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