Summary
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Destiny 2 players baked over 3 million Gjallardoodles for Commander Zavala during The Dawning Bake-Off.
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Bungie announced a Community Challenge for The Dawning with rare emblems for players to unlock by baking goodies.
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The Destiny 2 community exceeded its Week 1 goals, but recent player defections may pose a challenge to the future of the game.
Bungie provides Destiny 2 players with an update to the Bake-Off Community Challenge during the Breaking Dawn, revealing a massive number of cookies that Commander Zavala has already eaten. This latest community challenge is new to The Dawning this year, driving Destiny 2 players to continue engaging with the event while fans wait for Act 3 to drop for Episode Revenant.
The dawn in Destiny 2 is the game's holiday event, which usually arrives in December and runs through the new year while Bungie employees are off on winter break. This year's rendition is largely the same as it has been before, tasking players with gathering ingredients and baking cookies for the various NPCs throughout Destiny 2 universe. In return, players earn currency, items, weapons and more. But The Dawning 2024 comes with a unique challenge for players.

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Before the start of The Dawning, Bungie announced a new one Destiny 2 Community Challenge, which tasks players with baking specific treats for NPCs during each of the three weeks to unlock special rare emblems. Known as the Confectionary Commander, Epicurean Extraordinaire and Handcrafter Hunter, the three emblems feature the trio of Vanguard characters with unique colors and designs. The more objectives the community overcomes, the easier it will be to unlock these emblems from opening A Gift In Return.
The first week, which is now over, helped unlock the Confectionery Commander emblem and Bungie has revealed how many cookies Destiny 2 NPC Commander Zavala had to eat when the community worked together. As it turns out, players have submitted over 3 million Gjallardoodles to Vanguard Commander. Over the next few days, players will need to bake treats for Ikora, Eva Levante, and The Drifter to help unlock the Epicurean Extraordinaire emblem.
While the community smashed the goals for week 1, they'll have to wait a little longer to see if the goal was met for round two. Destiny 2 has entered a difficult phase of its life as players continue to leave the game for various reasons, as many have seen the population on Steam drop of late. The decline has been attributed to a few different reasons, whether it's due to the overall limit, the downtime between acts, or the fact that Episode Revenant has seen tons of bugs and issues. Either way, Bungie may have a bigger problem for the game's future.