Key conclusions
- Destiny 2 player recreates Moon Knight from Marvel Rivals, impressing many with its accuracy.
- Marvel Rivals has been gaining popularity since launch, drawing comparisons to Overwatch.
- The Hunter Guardian costume closely replicates the look of Moon Knight from Marvel Rivals.
The creative player took advantage of the growing popularity of the hero shooter Rivals of Marvel to create a very accurate Moon Knight costume Destiny 2. Created for a Destiny 2 Hunter Guardian, Moon Knight uses the hero suit Rivals of Marvel design as inspiration.
Fresh off its global launch on December 6th, Rivals of Marvel expects significant success. As a free-to-play team-based hero shooter, Rivals of Marvel registered hundreds of thousands of players on Steam alone, with many more joining the fray through cross-play on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles. At the beginning, the game offered to compare Supervisionhowever Rivals of Marvel differs from it in some key respects, such as its use of a primary third-person point of view. Players also had fun identifying and guessing who might be next to be added to the amazing wide Rivals of Marvel game registry, with some players only discovering characters like Hawkeye from gameplay footage shared during developer streams.
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Destiny 2 player iixVanquishxX dipped into this extensive list for the new Hunter Guardian costume, sharing Rivals of Marvel Moon Knight customization with the DestinyFashion Reddit community. Moon Knight has gained some notoriety in recent years, thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe series based on the character starring Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke.
Destiny 2's Moon Knight costume perfectly replicates his Marvel Rivals design
Destiny 2 Moon Knight Costume Parts (Hunter)
- Head – Mask of Virtue (Rival Shader Blacksand)
- Weapon – Tempered Basilisk Bracers (monochromatic shader)
- Chest – Spectral Displacer Cuirass (monochromatic shader)
- Legs – Exotic Star Eater Scales (digital dispersion ornament, monochromatic shader)
- Class Item – Parade Cloak (Gift of the Nine Shaders)
Using parts of the Huntsman in their costume, iixVanquishxX managed to recreate very accurately the signature look of the white-cloaked Moon Knight seen in Rivals of Marvel. Unlike recent Moon Knight designs that favor an all-white business suit or emphasize the connection between Moon Knight and the Egyptian god Honshu, Rivals the design highlights a superhero-style bulletproof vest and tech-enhanced accessories. The distinctive silhouette of the cloaked Moon Knight is recreated by combining the Virtuous Mask on the visor and the pointed hood of the Parade Cloak class item. Meanwhile, the more tactical style of the body armor is echoed by the bracers of the hardened basilisk, Dungeons & DragonsSpectral Displacer themed cuirass and Digital Variance ornament for Star-Eater Scales exotic armor.
Players praised the costume, praising how closely it recreated the Moon Knight's look, right down to the character's distinctive monochromatic color blocking. Some even joked that the model may have been “ripped off”. Rivals of Marvel game files and somehow hacked Destiny 2. Others responded with Moon Knight memes and applauded the use of bright white in an era largely dominated by costumes that used the popular Destiny 2 Superblack shader.