The icons in the new science-fiction shooter The First Descendant are very similar to those used in Destiny 2

Players have noticed striking similarities between the symbols and weapons used in the new free-to-play sci-fi shooter The First Descendant and Destiny 2 .

Forbes Author Paul Tassi – who describes similarities as “copying my homework without looking like you copied it” – has put some of the more impressive similarities together in a single image to show just how similar they are.

Forbes further suggests that some of The First Descendants’ weapons also resemble the design of some of Destiny 2’s iconic firearms, including the Sleeper Simulant, and that its “small freeze orb” looks similar to Destiny’s Ghosts.

‘The First Descendant’ uses a barely changed icon from ‘Destiny 2’
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Other players suggest that both games are based on an open-source icon collection called Orb Direction,

So far neither Bungie nor Nexon have responded to Forbes’ request for comment.

When Bungie revealed The Final Shape last August, it announced that 2024 would bring a new album. Important changes This is a very different way in which it presents content in Destiny 2. Instead of launching four seasons each year, it said it would release three “big, content-rich” episodes, each containing standalone stories divided into three six-week-long acts. The first of these, EchoesLaunched earlier this month, the series picks up immediately after the events of The Final Shape.

“Overall, The Final Shape is a fitting end to a story that’s been running for ten years, and that’s no small feat,” we said at Eurogamer. Destiny 2: The Final Shape review,

“It feels a little stuck at some points, particularly because of how the raids are integrated into the experience (or not), and because it adds yet more information and menu sub-screens to a game that’s already overloaded and cumbersome in terms of navigation. The Dual Destiny activity is an unexpected highlight and, along with the success of the Pathfinder tool, underlines the fact that the game continues to evolve and change, even though an era has ended.”