What you need to know
- When Destiny 2's Lightfall expansion launched last month, many players were confused by the fact that its final cutscene featured their Guardian using the Khvostov 7G-02 Auto Rifle instead of their equipped weapon.
- This weapon is the first one that players can acquire in either Destiny game, and an Exotic version was added to the original Destiny in 2016's Rise of Iron expansion. As a result, many have a soft-spot for the iconic firearm.
- Many speculated that the weapon's appearance in Lightfall was hinting at the return of the Exotic variant to Destiny 2.
- In a new blog post, Bungie's Cinematics Director James Myers explained that the weapon was used in the cutscene because the studio needed a "default weapon" to use for carefully animated scenes that wouldn't look right with Bows, Glaives, and some other weapon archetypes.
