Earlier today, Much of the world has effectively shut down Due to IT disruption. An update rolled out by a cybersecurity company called Crowdstrike bricked millions of PCs around the world, causing blue screen of death (BSOD) around the world. they may even have gotten Vegas Sphere! This is the closest we’ll ever get to a true Y2K moment, but Destiny 2 The community has been making light of the whole thing.
This is because Crowdstrike sounds a lot like Cloudstrike, which is an existing weapon Destiny 2. In fact, they sound very similar, and if you search for “cloudstrike” on Twitter, you’ll mostly find posts of people talking about outages. people now Convinced Cloudstrike is the name of the company that nearly brought the world to a standstill this morning, which resulted in There is some confusion on the Internet.
In fact, Cloudstrike is an Arc exotic sniper rifle that was launched in the 2020s beyond light and shadow expansion. cloud strike yes A very powerful weapon that creates a powerful lightning strike at the point of impact after being hit hard in succession. Despite this incredible ability, I don’t think it has the ability to incapacitate an entire world.
It can be said, Destiny 2 Fans took to the internet today, utterly confused by the fact that a four-year-old weapon is on its way to bringing the world to its knees. But that didn’t stop them from cracking some jokes.
Some of the people working on the game seem to have fun with it. For example, one of Destiny 2‘s community admin posted GIFs in situation comedies community, Donald Glover’s character returns to his room only to find it on fire. Most responses to his post joked that Cloudstrike was responsible for the outage. A writer at Bungie posted a screenshot Reddit post now deleted Sincerely asked: “Is Cloudstrike meta again?” Another user shared more Intentionally sarcastic post joked about the “global Cloudstrike problem” on the game’s Reddit subreddit.
I’m glad someone is having fun with things. Now that Trials of Osiris is returning this weekend, I fully expect some of you to be running with Cloudstrike to commemorate today’s historic event.