The Hunt For Destiny’s Most Mysterious Weapon
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This is the Hunt for Destiny's Most Mysterious Weapon, Sleeper Simulant. In the first year of Destiny, there was the hunt for Exotics and that was really the main chase of the game. There was exotic bounties which one could argue were quests, but ya know.. It wasn't until the Taken King where exotic quests hit the forefront of the game. One in particular, Sleeper Simulant, was Destiny's most hyped quest of all time. Conspiracy and fan theories of this weapon everywhere, player base going crazy, and Sleeper Simulant nowhere in sight. After the Black Spindle mission was revealed, fans of sleeper were ancy to see if the gun would receive the same treatment. Did it though? Or did Sleeper fade away? Only one video to watch and find out. Enjoy the story of Sleeper Simulant.
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Time Stamps of Each Part:
Intro: 00:00
The Slept: 01:21
The Taken Quest: 02:29
The Warminds Return: 11:32
Catalyst & Beyond: 13:46
Outro/Bloopers: 21:07
Links to everyone mentioned or footage/ Music:
Videos:
• Destiny - SLEEPER SIMU...
• Destiny TTK - Sleeper ...
• How to Masterwork Slee...
• All destiny exotic wea...
• Destiny - Sleeper Simu...
• Destiny - Trials with ...
• Destiny 2: Prestige Sp...
• Destiny: SOLO Shadow C...
• Sleeper Simulant Catal...
• THE SLEEPER SIMULANT I...
• All Sleeper Simulant D...
• Bungie Developer Insig...
• Destiny 2 - Sleeper Si...
• SLEEPER SIMULANT vs MO...
• Destiny 2 | WE WERE AL...
• Destiny 2: How to Get ...
• Destiny: How to Get Th...
• Destiny Taken King: Ho...
• Destiny Taken King: Ho...
• Destiny's Sleeper Simu...
• Putting Riven to Sleep
• [RE-UPLOAD] Destiny Ta...
• Destiny - How to kill ...
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• Destiny 2: Forsaken Or...
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• Fallen S.A.B.E.R.
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A few of you have mentioned Queensbreakers Bow, which did release in the House of Wolves before Sleeper Simulant, BUUUUUUUUUUT that was a special ammo fusion rifle, not a heavy, so I kind of just passed over it, my fault, I will sit and think about Queensbreakers Bow for the week!
I have a gif roll Threaded Needle but I would love to purchase the Sleeper from Monument to lost lights. However I can’t justify it over other exotics I need such as Whisper, Truth, Erianas, Outbreak, and Burden unfortunately 😩
yeah and even the mythoclast could have been considered the first linear although that is a stretch given they are similar but also have many differences.
@@vorpalweapon4814 Vex Mythoclast says it's a fusion rifle but lets be honest, it's a auto rifle.
Hey thats me
Queen breaker is the one gun I currently want to get
“It was Destiny’s first ever Linear Fusion.”
Queenbreaker: *Visible confusion*
I was hoping I wasn’t the only one that remembers that gun
@@nathanflinchum1153 One of my favs, sad they nerfed it.
I earned the Sleeper Simulant on D2 but I could never get into that 1 second charge time without the catalyst. I never got around to getting the catalyst because if I remember right you needed to complete a raid in the step.
Lmao he really forgot about that
@@jaywatson8720 You can do it now with just kills. It drops in night falls.
remember the golden rule: Big crit, Sleeper; No crit/hard to hit, Gally
Heya whumpus
Truer words have never been spoken
and in two months, that rule will be in effect once again.
Remember no crit or small crit bring divinity
Or use black spidle if you can hit
S15 Season of the Fusion Rifle, Sleeper is finally back in the PvE meta.
And it just got a buff.
HELL YES!!! Even more now after I think it got buffed again. Ah I’m glad to have our boy back in action murdering raid bosses..
Sleeper was my baby in d1 so it’s good it got a buff
I'm just gonna say it: but Sleeper's history in Destiny is one of redemption. It went from being one of the best DPS weapons to one of the worst heavy weapons as a result of its subsequent nerfs (mostly due to a game mode that had a broken heavy ammo economy system), then to being one of the highest DPS weapons in a season where the meta was focused around damage with fusions to now where they are still an amazing DPS option even without the seasonal mod that made them meta.
If anything Sleeper to me is a reflection of how far Bungie has come with balancing their weapons. How weapons like Queenbreaker, Sleeper, and others were heavily affected by this mode should not have happened in the first place. What should've been done to limit the heavy ammo abuse was either turn off heavy ammo for Gambit entirely or better yet just disable it for invaders. But yet Bungie has done netiher and heavy ammo continues to ruin Gambit.
Man seeing those public event tracker websites gives some real nice nostalgia. I still have one bookmarked just for the memories.
Remember the event tracker apps loll?
@@Astrapionte man they were actually pretty fun to visit, anf then frantically rushing to the location so you don't miss the PE. Those were the good days
definitely had the app lmao chasing down PE, what a time to be alive
I remember it but it was an infuriating quest step
@@jakubbercik6965 Yea and remember sometimes the app was a fkn liar and u ended up waiting for like 30 minutes. Ah yes take me back
“First ever linear fusion”
Queenbreaker’s Bow: Am I a joke to you?
It's a "BOW" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@vohbe new to the comment section?
@@vohbe weirdo
@@vohbe stfu this is gungang territory
@@ethandeis7427 😂😂
When I heard the TK theme play it sent a shiver up my spine.
One of their best intros for sure
One of the best expansions hands down
I often go back to Byf's Book of Sorrows videos because its one of the best sci-fi novellas ever written but the music is so iconic and impactful, that I literally feel the hair on the back of my neck raise whenever I hear it.
@The void banana Taken King and Forsaken were hands down the best expansions.
Same here! What great memories!!
I hated that they nerfed Sleeper so hard but at that same time, I discovered One Thousand Voices, so my troubles were put to rest by that.
Why you gotta cheat on me
Two words: blame Gambit.
Shhhh don’t say that name! Bungie is listening.....
@@xX67attakXx oopp *trembles in fear*
Y’all remember when everyone thought this was going to be a Heavy Sniper Rifle? Me too, imagine if they actually made a heavy Sniper though
🤔
w h i s p e r
**cries in d.a.r.c.i**
I assume you mean a "legendary" heavy sniper
Darci?
god i'm praying that its good again with the season of the splicer linear fusion buff
It will have higher dps than xenophage, but about 80,000 less total damage output than Threaded Needle. So I’d say it’ll be pretty good.
@@mose3775 what roll on the needle for reference do you know? I’ve loads of these in stash
@@liamjordan3068 vorpal weapon, clown cartridge, liquid coils
@@liamjordan3068 or Vorapal Weapon, Auto -Loading Holster so you can hot-swap with something like Izinagi’s Burden
I’m seeing the vision nicely!
The OG version of that catalyst still gives me nightmares lmfao
Yh a couple thousand kills with each ikelos weapon. That was aids coz at the time the weapons were rare and were in the heavy slot.
It was awesome for me, it felt actually meaningful
Specially the Whisper mission part
The faint goddammit at 10:19 killed me.
Sleeper: "I used to ruuuuuuuuuuuuuule the world"
Except for gjallarhoooooorrrnnn
I dont know wether to be happy or offended
It was a great time back then
i miss it a lot today
Atheon: when I return with vault of glass the guardians will not ... wait what is that?
Guardians with sleeper: Remember this thing. We bout to kill you with it again
Especially now
You mean to tell me I was 2-3 steps from getting sleeper with without realizing it
Oof
Just as I’m about to drift off to sleep...It appears. My resolve is not strong enough. I can’t, not now. I am a simple man bound by a code.
I see Evan video, I click.
go to bed raythe u nerd :)
I guess you could say the video stimulated the sleeper?
CZcams didn't give me a notif but I'm here anyway!
Ok?
Same
Same
Same
@@vohbe you tried
Sleeper was a pain to get
Ugh I hated all those music boxes I had to loot
Same, it was really boring to find the boxes
I had to do it twice lol
Dawg, I swear I see you everywhere
@@Kebbie01 I’m like forcer but less popu- wait
I know you
siva pfp gang
The funniest part about sleeper is that I can kill myself with it by shooting it at a wall.
Pathetic... I can kill myself with it by shooting an enemy.
@@isaiahhackshaw201 pathetic I can kill myself by shooting it at the sky
Yeah that has always been a thing since Destiny 1
I killed myself once with Sleeper by shooting that fallen Nesso Boss, from a strike, and I was on the other side of the room.
Sleeper Simulant, the only thing Bungie hates more than Warlocks
Telesto: am i a joke to you?
Divinity:"... I'll just sit back and wait for my turn."
Lies hunters hated more and other guns too
That's a hot take
We're Overdue for a big new mystery weapon. I want it to be hyped in the lore and have hints and clues sprinkled in throughout like 2 seasons of content.
Could be a good excuse/ opportunity for an exotic sword modelled after the hive cleavers. Granted we have a good amount of swords already, and cleaver artifacts do drop a decent amount at the alter of sorrows and hive relating public events, so it's not nearly as likely these days we'll get a dedicated hive style sword, but it could be nice to see. Also if there is a new element, such as Soulfire, it would be somewhat appropriate. Alternatively could be a neat way for the taken style Dreadfang to come back.
2:21 God I miss those days and that music
Takes me back
My big concern with the upcoming linear fusion buff, specifically when talking about Sleeper, is that 1k exists and is also a solar weapon. As mentioned, every legendary LFR is already in competition with Sleeper, but if you want a strong exotic heavy LFR, 1k (as annoying as it is to get) is already good
Moment I've hear TTK music... Oh that hit hard. That music was too beautiful for it's own good.
I wish we could just chose which theme music we could have in D2, or album play out.
Why do they have to make every fucking piece so good
Sleeper is definitely one of my favorite weapons ever from Destiny. It just feels so godly to use!
Destiny's first linier fusion rifle was Queenbreakers' Bow, which came out in House of Wolves. 3:15
Sorry, just had to correct you.
Special, not a heavy, I don't count it
@@renwebsupportgrade6816 that's only in D2
"probably the most hyped up weapon to be a part of Destiny 1"
* Sad Gjallahorn noises *
it puts a smile on my face seeing sleeper be one of if not the best dps heavy weapon in season 15
I remember Sleeper being called the Gjallarhorn replacement, now with VoG coming back with no gally we'll see if Sleeper can live up to that name with this buff
YESSSS FINALLLY, another story video !!! I’ve held onto sleeper since d1 and this brought back the memory of when I first got it
I just want to be able to use sleeper again without being at a disadvantage.
I’ve started to feel that way with last word in dest8nt 2
@@MothFable last word got a buff?
Your time has come
@@Kg-tj7rz particle deconstruction baby
@@brennanwilliams9130 yessir
i love these videos i remember watching ur older older vid back then, but now it kinda dry i hope it gets better later on. much love evan.
Every time I watch your videos it brings back memories of the good days and reminds me of how much I miss Destiny. Thank you
And so Season of the Lost came to us with Particle Deconstruction, and with it, the Sleeper Simulant's days of glory have returned.
Legit love these vids, I could watch them for hours, keep it up dude
This still in my top favorites exotics....this was my reason to grind for it to go with a team and do the raid in D1. WOTM to be exact....
This video has a lot o research and hard work, kudos my man.
I hope these videos never end, such high quality rather than others in the community just going over the twab
2:21 GOD just hearing that theme and seeing that image made me smile. The Taken King was PERFECTION.
I still have insomnia from waiting for Warsat events to trigger after 6 years
Every once in a while I hop on to see if there’s a warsat on Mars. Hasn’t happened yet...
Always enjoy your videos man!
This gun brought me my favorite time in destiny 2 during season of the worthy hunting for this weapon because I just figured out how the game really worked.
Love you sleeper
I love the comment about the buff of sleeper near the end, looking back it rose to the top out of no where, with the addition of focusing lens and particle deconstruction and the addition of the debuff from divinity, sleeper became the only option, for a whole season or two. Its crazy that it final found its spot in the niche meta of precision dps.
Except cartesian coordinate still did more dps because reasons 🥲
Love your vids bringing back the nostalgia
I was pumped to hear about the buff. I even finished the catalyst in preparation for the new season and the raid.
Great video as always
Everyone and their monter has been using Sleeper in PvE lately
You cant tell me you didnt call it Sleeper Stimulant more then you should have x3
Evan I love your videos and appreciate all of the hardwork that you put into them for our entertainment.I have litterally watched every video.Yes I am a subscriber.lol
only the real ones know the pain of the mars warsat
Or that one hive knight in the d1 cosmodrome warsat, an asshole to core and health like a raid boss.
Actually pain is one of the steps for this gun, I swear
14:00 - Evan, I'am not sure, but as far as I remember, catalysts appeared in Destiny 2: Warmind. Maybe you ment masterwork weapons (Curse of Osiris)?
Telesto Catalyst definitely came with Curse of Osiris
@@ethanrapp6998 wiki says it was added in season 3 (Warmind)
@@pyramid8019 AH, you right
I really hope so. I just finished the catylst this weekend in anticipation of the buff.
Evan is the only guy that can make a destiny puzzle look like one of Earth's biggest mysteries
At the launch of D2 I used SS a lot and was always at the top or near the top of DPS for the boss but you did need the catalyst and good luck grinding that out
This paired with 1K yard stare was such a great combo in Kings fall, I loved it. Very sad to see when i returned to D2 in shadowkeep that Sleeper was a shell of its former self. But it is getting back there in season of the lost with Particle Deconstruction!
Congrats on 200k, well deserved Evan.
we need more of these types of missions.
I remember doing all these in D1 and D2
Dude!! You should totally make a vid about escalation protocol!!! I talk about it all the time with my friends: the reason it was so good is that it was incredibly difficult, and while it was rng, it dropped some of the best weapons in the game.
Defidently using this in season of the splicer
Goddamn. Destiny 1 Taken King was the best of times. I clocked out at 1700 hours in 3 years.
I don't even work that much.
That whole game/expansion was incredible.
Maybe its nostalgia.
Maybe im just old now.
But Im 1200hrs into D2 and it will never be as...pure.
Thanks for this.
Oh my god, those nodes.
I started in Shadowkeep and this was the first exotic heavy I chased.
I remember getting sleeper day 2 and man it felt amazing being likely one of the first 100 or 1000 people with the weapon
The part nobody talks about: the ARG quest that led to the middle of the woods where one of the lead warmind devs left a 1:1 life size javelin replica and strange coins as well as a note was brute forced into completion after months because we didnt know the letter key to the puzzle. It was only found out during shadow keep that if you want to the warning sign by the vicarious visions dev tribute and aimed down sights with sleeper at it, the lines on the sight would perfectly underline the letters for the key.
Leave it to us to brute force something that simple only to find it accidentally nearly 2 years later.
I honestly forgot what the d1 quest was for the gun. Good recap to watch.
I never knew the way to sleeper was changed in warmind, I got mine from the one of the 2 big "nodes" after shooting 25-ish of those display(?) things.
Ahhh the grind of this is pure nostalgia
THIS was destiny to me, i remember the hunt and the theories me and my friends would come up with was what made me fall inlove with this game
Man. I'm glad you made this video about Sleeper. In S15, Particle Deconstruction made Sleeper a valid choice for players who don't have 1KV. What journey this gun has gone thru
I remember doing this as a solo player. This quest was amazing
*Laughs in Particle Deconstruction*
This really does make me enjoy the fact I got the sleeper when looking back at the process
I got into destiny 2 after Shadowkeep came out. Sleeper was one of the first exotics I got, and to this day I love it. Sure it may not be the highest DPS, but man it’s so satisfying.
Warmind: Fails to get Destiny 2 back on track
Forsaken: Hold my Dark Ether.
ive not forgotten about it. ive around 10 kills on my, always used it when DPS was not that important.
I still use Sleeper in Gambit. It's any range one shot for Guardians and still decent damage on boss crits makes it still a good choice. It's ammo economy is also real nice as having mods nets you around 7-9 shots on a ammo drop.
I remember the hell that was getting this weapon mainly cause of that HELL that was finding a warsat event on mars back in Destiny 1 (xbox 360)
Loved this quest, the knights being the code I picked up immediately, but I'm also a huge puzzle nerd so
To be honest, I retired before the CoO came out, it seemed like a recluse of several things from D1 and I left it to focus on other things, I disconnected so much from the game that I didn't even know what happened. After watching your video it was like an unlocking of nostalgia for TTK, and see that one of my favorite weapons had been beaten more than the quiet boy from school, it was very sad. I'm glad to know that sleeper simulant will shine something again, but as you said, it may be overshadowed by the legendary linear fusion rifles with a vorpal weapon, we'll just see if it can help me with VOG on day 1.
Bro in 5 years these are going to be sacred logs of our journey. Thanks for doing this please don’t stop
I was definitely one of the people that grinded out for Sleeper in D1 I use it quite a bit. But in D2 I grinded to get it and used it for about a week and stuck it in my vault where it has been until I got the Catalyst for it in a Nightfall strike a couple of weeks ago. It's at in my inventory for about 3 days and got put back in the vault because I decided to try to do that catalyst was a lot of work and was going to be very tedious. It will eventually get done, someday🤷♂️
Love the vids man, I hope Sleeper makes a strong return next season but I also have to say, who the heck is that guy raging in the bloopers!?!?!? Your bloopers are absolutely hilarious but I'm worried about that guy!
I had an ep sg droppin from a legendary engram with trench barrel on it and it still shreds
Currently grinding the catalyst for next season!
I was about to start working on the catalyst until I heard about the buff. Feels good to be in the present lol
The weapons kills for the catalyst went faster in pvp btw, didn't take me but a few games to finish it. Also I didn't know they took away the Whisper oracle step. I got it and finished it not long after it was launched and to this day I think it's the best catalyst quest ever, and added the most benefit for one also. I get them taking away that step now that Whisper is gone but why back then, it wasn't that hard or anything and was really cool if ppl hadn't done it up to that point.
I remember having the taken king collectors edition, and we looked for any clues about sleeper in that thing
Gotta correct you there Evanf, Queenbreaker’s Bow from House of Wolves is technically our first linear fusion rifle, it was in the special ammo slot then.
I remember this weapon... still occasionally use it in d2.
I have fond memories of shooting it at a raid bosses crit!
Only for it to bounce back abs hit me.
Fun weapon, not that good anymore but fun.
Thanks for reminding me of the pain, getting this weapon.
I have a question evan, have you ever thought of making a discord server and taking statements from the average Joe players?
Broaden the amount of people you get opinions from and not just content creators?
would love to use Sleeper again...
but happy to use my new god roll Threaded Needle i got from a random drop for jumping off cliffs in Trials over the weekend for the HC bounty...
Sleeper Simulant is my favorite Linear, i only got the weapon during Warmind Expansion; didn't come back in Taken King and Rise of Iron in Destiny 1
I came back in Destiny 2 early on
I didn't bother keeping track of the knights, I just gradually brute forced the code every time I was flying from one destination to another. Took a long time, but it was actually kinda fun.
I just got the sleeper stimulant Catalyst yesterday from Nightfall strike
King Cobra-4fr, Man o' War and Tarantula were the first Linear fusion rifles released in D2 vanilla. There were no Linear Fusion rifles in D1.
The help that Sleeper needs, imo: Increase the number of ricochet bounces (maybe not 5 like in D1 but 2-3 might be reasonable), give tracking to its refracted shots so you don't need to be a trigonometry major to get mileage out of the perk (allows it decent add clear and in a lone boss room all the refracted shots can eventually find their way back to the boss, still have refracted shots deal minor damage to players so it doesn't become the scourge of Gambit again), either a flat increase to reserves or damage output so it can at least stand together with the heavy snipers, cuz even Darci is a more compelling pick at this point, and make it a "seraph" weapon, which it basically is as far as lore is concerned, so it can be a warmind cell generator. Maybe a lot to ask, but it certainly feels like it needs it.
I really want to use sleeper but until Bungie ties their shoes and doesnt fall face first into bad decisions I dont think I can.
I still remember staying up late patrolling mars trying to get that damn warsat public event to roll, it eventually came up on the last one I did. Good Memories.
Look I will never forget the sleeper, I played a ton of gambit in forsaken, less so now, but I will not forget that gun.
Omg I remember the public event apps, the nostalgia is hitting me like a truck.
It honestly started it all for me. It started my road to more power in d1and in d2.
And now I hope in 2 weeks that when I play vog and I ask what weapon should I use hopefully the awnser will be sleeper