tl;dr: [b]RIP Mercury [i]orbit[/i] and [i]orbit-load[/i] screens, pls fix :/[/b] [b]Definitions:[/b] For clarity, I am labeling the three different Orbit Screens as such: -[i]orbit[/i] (sitting idle above the destination); -[i]orbit-load[/i] (flying into a destination you were already above); -[i]ftl-exit[/i] (flying into a destination you were not already above). & -[i]loading-cutscene:[/i] (for special activities: after [i]orbit-load[/i] or [i]ftl-exit[/i], but before your player is spawned in. Some are capped at 30 fps, others are uncapped) I encountered no [i]ftl-exit[/i] issues, but did find a handful of [i]orbit[/i] and [i]orbit-load[/i] issues, in one form or another. ------- ------- ------- [b]Scope:[/b] I am currently unable to test the Pinnacle Ops destinations (see at end), but I did test some RaDs, PvP/Gambit, and otherwise special missions. ------- ------- ------- [b]Testing results as follows:[/b] [b]Destinations:[/b] [b]Mercury:[/b] -any Mercury source (Crucible/SRL) [u]incorrectly[/u] puts you in [i]orbit[/i] above Earth ([i]ftl-exit[/i] is present, [b][u][i]orbit[/i] and [i]orbit-load[/i] are fully missing!![/u][/b]). [b]Luna:[/b] -Duality dungeon [u]incorrectly[/u] puts you in [i]orbit[/i] above Earth, not the Moon. [b]Venus:[/b] -Vault of Glass [u]correctly[/u] puts you in [i]orbit[/i] above Venus, but: -SRL's Venus course [u]incorrectly[/u] puts you in [i]orbit[/i] above Earth. It will fly you to Earth when already above Venus, and if already above Earth, will descend to Earth before having the [i]orbit-load[/i] screen cut to Venus, à la Destiny 1 Crota's End. [b]Rings of Saturn:[/b] -King's Fall [u]correctly[/u] puts you in [i]orbit[/i] above Saturn, but: -Mission: The Sunless Cell [u]incorrectly[/u] puts you in [i]orbit[/i] above Earth. Additionally, that mission's [i]orbit-load[/i] screen has you incorrectly flying as if you were already above Saturn, even if you are elsewhere. The second part is a fun bug, however, as flying above Saturn's Rings is a rare loading screen :) [b]The Reef:[/b] -[u]correctly[/u] uses all three screens for Warden of Nothing. Why not Mercury? :( [b]Io:[/b] -[u]correctly[/u] uses all three screens for Javelin-4. Why not Mercury? :( [b]Titan: [/b] -[u]correctly[/u] uses all three screens for Ghosts of The Deep, Crucible, and Gambit. Why not Mercury? :( [b]IX Realm:[/b] -any IX destination puts you in [i]orbit[/i] above Earth. To be fair to this one, I am unaware of Unknown Space ever having anything but [i]ftl-exit[/i], even in Year 1, so I suspect the art for [i]orbit[/i] and [i]orbit-load[/i] was not created to begin with. ------- ------- ------- [b]RaD [i]loading-cutscenes[/i]:[/b] -[b]capped at 30 fps[/b]: Deep Stone Crypt -[b]capped at 30 fps[/b]: Ghosts of The Deep -uncapped: Vault of Glass (the first to be uncapped) -uncapped: Vow of The Disciple -uncapped: King's Fall -uncapped: Root of Nightmares -uncapped: Crota's End -uncapped: Salvation's Edge -uncapped: The Desert Perpetual / Epic -none: Last Wish -none: Shattered Throne -none: Garden of Salvation -none: Pit of Heresy -none: Prophecy -none: Grasp of Avarice -none: Duality -none: Spire of The Watcher -none: Warlord's Ruin -none: Vesper's Host -none: Sundered Doctrine -Equilibrium: (unavailable to me yet) ------- ------- ------- My testing capability concludes. I would be most [u]interested in anyone gathering data for:[/u] [b]Pinnacle Ops:[/b] -[u]The Whisper[/u] (Io) -[u]Contest of Elders[/u] (Reef) (I believe this works?) -[u]Kell's Fall[/u] (Reef) -[u]Derealize[/u] (Ascendant Plane?) -[u]Starcrossed[/u] (do you load elsewhere first to then portal into The Black Garden?) -[u]Presage[/u] (did it have a special asteroid [i]ftl-exit[/i]? Is the [i]loading-cutscene[/i] capped at 30fps?) -[u]Vox Obscura[/u] (Mars) -[u]The Coil[/u] (The Dreaming City) [b]Arena Ops:[/b] -[u]Nightmare Containment[/u] (would this be Moon?) -[u]Ketchcrash[/u] (Is supposed to have special asteroid [i]ftl-exit[/i]). -[u]Astral Alignment[/u] (The Dreaming City?) Proposal: Should Presage and Ketchcrash [i]orbit[/i] be Reef rather than Earth, given that their destinations are in the asteroid belt? In that case, always [i]ftl-exit[/i] to asteroid (as already happens now) rather than [i]orbit-loading[/i] Reef. ------- ------- ------- Thanks to u/AtlyxMusic of the Destiny Music Archive for bumping this issue back into my mind. their reddit post: [url]https://old.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1u6w5bk/rip_the_mercury_orbit_screen/[/url] privacy-preserving reddit frontend: [url]https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1u6w5bk/rip_the_mercury_orbit_screen/[/url]