Happy Friday, Guardians! Welcome backmost to 1 of our favourite segments connected Bungie.net, this week’s Community Focus! This week we are chatting with a contented creator who has a beauteous rad time job, Kujay!   

Hi Kujay! Thank you for taking the clip to chat with us! So, let’s get started with a small background. Who are you, what are your pronouns, and wherever are you from?  

Hello, my sanction is Kujay (he/him). I’m an craft decorator by time and a Destiny content creator by nightfall! I grew up successful a tiny municipality successful eastbound Kansas earlier yet moving retired to Southern California aft college.  

Wait, craft designer? Yeah, we are going to person to interaction connected that successful a moment. But first, what got you into gaming and contented creation?  

I got into gaming astatine a precise young age, erstwhile I was conscionable 4 years old. I had conscionable started going to daycare, and determination was a Super Nintendo that each the kids could play with. The archetypal crippled I ever played was Yoshi’s Island (still an astonishing crippled to this day!), and bully lord, I was hooked immediately! Fast guardant astir 20 years, and aft moving to SoCal, I recovered myself with a LOT much escaped clip than I was accustomed to during schoolhouse (aerospace engineering coursework is nary joke!). Then, soon aft the motorboat of Rise of Iron, a person of excavation that was streaming started poking maine astir trying retired streaming for myself. After pushing him disconnected for a fewer months, I yet gave successful and bought a PS4 webcam. I recovered retired that streaming is simply a ton of amusive (and thing I’m truly bully at), truthful overmuch truthful that I’ve been doing it for astir six years now! 

That sounds similar my benignant of daycare. 😊 Alright, large question present — however successful the satellite bash you equilibrium some a full-time occupation and contented creation? 

Over the years it has been hard to equilibrium my nonrecreational vocation with the contented instauration broadside of my life. In the aboriginal years, I utilized to watercourse a LOT more, getting successful streams each Friday done Monday (usually involving tons of Trials of Osiris assistance!). However, arsenic the years went by and the responsibilities for my time occupation started mounting, I began to standard backmost the magnitude of contented I was pushing out. I’ve started focusing much connected YouTube successful the past 2 years, arsenic it's thing that I tin bash “piecemeal,” arsenic opposed to having the camera rolling for a unrecorded stream. And connected the Twitch broadside of the house, I’m mostly a “weekend warrior” now, with streams lone connected Saturdays and Sundays. It’s been pugnacious to juggle the 2 sides of my life, but besides IMMENSELY rewarding. How galore radical get to plan airplanes during the week, and past travel location to a palmy watercourse and YouTube transmission connected the weekend? It’s thing that I don’t instrumentality for granted! 

Gosh, that conscionable sounds similar specified a chaotic ride, and you look to person done specified a large occupation astatine maintaining it. So, you mentioned Yoshi’s Island, but however did you find Destiny?  

So, interestingly enough, I had really taken rather a agelong interruption from gaming erstwhile Destiny came calling. After binging the hellhole retired of Skyrim my elder twelvemonth of precocious school, I didn’t crippled overmuch astatine each during my freshman oregon sophomore years of college. However, I got pulled backmost successful by the PS4 remaster of The Last of Us (AMAZING crippled btw!), which I ne'er got the accidental to play erstwhile it primitively launched. And then, arsenic if by “destiny” (wink wink), a fewer days aft finishing up The Last of Us, I got an email from Sony inviting maine to play the upcoming Destiny alpha. I was ever much of a Call of Duty kid increasing up, but galore of my puerility friends were MASSIVE Halo fans. When I asked them astir Bungie’s adjacent task with Destiny, each of them encouraged maine to effort it, describing the crippled arsenic a mashup of Call of Duty, Halo, and “Space Skyrim.”  I decided to effort retired the alpha soon thereafter, and I was instantly hooked. The gunplay was acold and distant the champion I had ever experienced. And now, implicit 8 years later, I’m inactive arsenic helplessly addicted to Destiny as I was the archetypal clip I ever landed successful the Cosmodrome. 

A time 1 player, emotion to spot it! What benignant of contented bash you similar to absorption connected erstwhile you’re streaming oregon making videos?  

I similar to absorption connected endgame contented wrong Destiny, with a absorption much truthful connected the PvP side, beryllium it Trials of Osiris oregon Iron Banner. I besides emotion GM Nightfalls and raids, and I particularly savor time 1 raid experiences with my group!  

That is ace awesome! Endgame contented tin beryllium truthful challenging, truthful having contented creators similar yourself to assistance thatch and shepherd others is truly chill to see. For those newer players, what is thing you privation you knew earlier starting, oregon astatine slightest successful the opening of, your Destiny journey? 

Honestly, I privation that idiosyncratic had told maine conscionable however thoroughly I was going to beryllium absorbed into the Destiny universe and the wider Bungie community. How americium I inactive playing the aforesaid crippled aft 8 years?!  Hahaha, conscionable kidding =). But successful each seriousness, I privation I knew however important it was to find a coagulated radical of radical to play Destiny with. I played solo for a decent chunk of clip during vanilla D1 earlier uncovering my mode to LFG (Looking for Group) websites. If I hadn’t been captured by the magic of OG Vault of Glass, there’s a bully accidental I whitethorn person stopped playing Destiny during those aboriginal days. The crippled is immensely much amusive to play erstwhile you person friends to leap into harder contented with and bounce builds and ideas disconnected of. Because of this, I americium incredibly excited for Guardian Ranks and in-game Fireteam Finder coming to Destiny 2 adjacent year. I deliberation those volition service arsenic catalysts for thousands of players to commencement forming person groups of their ain and unlocking the existent “endgame” of Destiny. 

Heck yeah! With endgame contented being your focus, bash you person immoderate proposal for players looking to amended their skills arsenic a player? 

If you’re idiosyncratic who wants to dive deeper into the endgame experiences successful Destiny and amended your skills, the implicit champion happening you tin bash is scope retired to different players and commencement gathering a person radical that you tin play Destiny with. While Destiny can beryllium played solo, the game’s afloat potential  is realized erstwhile you person an established radical of radical that you tin thin on, some successful casual PvE environments and heavy successful the trenches of Trials. Teamwork truly makes the imagination work, and you’ll go a amended subordinate erstwhile collaborating with different like-minded players implicit time. 

Alright, it’s clip to ask, what is your main quality and favourite subclass? 

I’ll astir apt gully a batch of ire here, but Hunter is my main character, and I person been hopelessly addicted to Stompees for the amended portion of 5 years now. Going each the mode backmost to Modern Warfare 2, my favourite mode to play FPS games has ever been astir speed, speed, and much speed! To that end, I americium perfectly IN LOVE with Arc 3.0 Hunter. The Speed Booster is conscionable *chef’s kiss* and Gathering Storm mightiness conscionable beryllium the coolest Super successful the crippled now. I utilized to main Arcstrider from Seasons 2 done 8, truthful coming location to my aged babe with Arc 3.0 has been amazing! 

Oh yes, going accelerated successful video games is ever fun! 😊 What benignant of vibe does your transmission maintain? 

My transmission tends to locomotion the enactment betwixt some entertaining AND educational. In 1 moment, we’ll dive heavy into the lore of Destiny’s universe and commencement speculating astir aboriginal stories to come. Then successful the next, thing wholly ridiculous volition hap wrong a Crucible lucifer (at the disbursal of my hostile OR myself, some hap often!). We’ll often speech astir builds oregon the authorities of the crippled arsenic a whole, each portion keeping things beauteous light-hearted with tons of laughs on the way. Just similar the equilibrium betwixt my enactment beingness and contented creation, my transmission thrives successful its duality betwixt acquisition and entertainment. 

Entertaining and acquisition portion keeping it light-hearted? Sounds similar my benignant of place!  

Alright, it’s astir clip to wrapper up our interview, but I did privation to inquire due to the fact that you person been truly inspirational truthful acold successful our conversation. What is thing you privation to marque definite each New Light knows arsenic they articulation the Guardian ranks? 

With the existent New Light experience, it tin consciousness overwhelming erstwhile you wrapper up your instauration successful the Cosmodrome. You’re summoned to the Towe, and you’re presented with quest aft quest aft quest. My proposal would beryllium to take conscionable ONE of those quests and perpetrate to it alone. By the clip you decorativeness up that archetypal quest, there’s a large accidental you’ll person gotten to effort immoderate caller weapons, accrued your Power a bit, and successful general, person gotten a consciousness for the gameplay loop of Destiny. And erstwhile astir radical get that far, the gameplay unsocial is usually capable to get them hooked! 

For much circumstantial tips, 1000% commencement utilizing Destiny Item Manager for a massively improved inventory experience. That, and marque definite to cheque successful with Ada-1 each time for those sweet, saccharine combat mods! 

And finally, wherever tin radical find you?  

I watercourse implicit connected Twitch every Saturday and Sunday morning, with the occasional video upload implicit connected YouTube. I americium besides precise progressive implicit successful the onshore of Twitter, with plentifulness of blistery takes and shenanigans to support conscionable astir anyone entertained! 

Thank you truthful overmuch Kujay for hanging retired with me! Please marque definite you spell cheque retired his channels and springiness him a travel if you vibe with his content. If you haven’t checked retired our astir caller Community Focus with Leyla, you tin bash that now! And until adjacent time, support tagging america with your Community Focus recommendations implicit connected our societal channels. 

Stay crafty, Guardians!   

Sam