Community Focus: Kujay > News
Completely satisfied Friday, Guardians! Welcome again to one among our favourite segments on Bungie.web, this week’s Group Focus! This week we’re chatting with a content material creator who has a reasonably rad day job, Kujay!
Hello Kujay! Thanks for taking the time to speak with us! So, let’s get began with just a little background. Who’re you, what are your pronouns, and the place are you from?
Hi there, my identify is Kujay (he/him). I’m an plane designer by day and a Future content material creator by dusk! I grew up in a small city in jap Kansas earlier than ultimately transferring out to Southern California after school.
Wait, plane designer? Yeah, we’re going to have to the touch on that in a second. However first, what bought you into gaming and content material creation?
I bought into gaming at a really younger age, after I was simply 4 years outdated. I had simply began going to daycare, and there was a Tremendous Nintendo that every one the youngsters may play with. The primary recreation I ever performed was Yoshi’s Island (nonetheless a tremendous recreation to this present day!), and good lord, I used to be hooked instantly! Quick ahead about 20 years, and after transferring to SoCal, I discovered myself with a LOT extra free time than I used to be accustomed to throughout college (aerospace engineering coursework is not any joke!). Then, shortly after the launch of Rise of Iron, a good friend of mine that was streaming began poking me about making an attempt out streaming for myself. After pushing him off for a couple of months, I ultimately gave in and acquired a PS4 webcam. I came upon that streaming is a ton of enjoyable (and one thing I’m actually good at), a lot in order that I’ve been doing it for almost six years now!
That seems like my form of daycare. 😊 Alright, huge query right here — how on the earth do you stability each a full-time job and content material creation?
Over time it has been troublesome to stability my skilled profession with the content material creation aspect of my life. Within the early years, I used to stream a LOT extra, getting in streams each Friday by means of Monday (often involving plenty of Trials of Osiris help!). Nonetheless, because the years glided by and the obligations for my day job began mounting, I started to cut back the quantity of content material I used to be pushing out. I’ve began focusing extra on YouTube previously two years, because it’s one thing that I can do “piecemeal,” versus having the digital camera rolling for a reside stream. And on the Twitch aspect of the home, I’m largely a “weekend warrior” now, with streams solely on Saturdays and Sundays. It’s been powerful to juggle the 2 sides of my life, but additionally IMMENSELY rewarding. How many individuals get to design airplanes throughout the week, after which come dwelling to a profitable stream and YouTube channel on the weekend? It’s one thing that I don’t take with no consideration!
Gosh, that simply seems like such a wild trip, and also you appear to have achieved such a fantastic job at sustaining it. So, you talked about Yoshi’s Island, however how did you discover Future?
So, curiously sufficient, I had really taken fairly an extended break from gaming when Future got here calling. After binging the hell out of Skyrim my senior 12 months of highschool, I didn’t recreation a lot in any respect throughout my freshman or sophomore years of school. Nonetheless, I bought pulled again in by the PS4 remaster of The Final of Us (AMAZING recreation btw!), which I by no means bought the prospect to play when it initially launched. After which, as if by “future” (wink wink), a couple of days after ending up The Final of Us, I bought an e-mail from Sony inviting me to play the upcoming Future alpha. I used to be at all times extra of a Name of Responsibility child rising up, however a lot of my childhood buddies had been MASSIVE Halo followers. After I requested them about Bungie’s subsequent mission with Future, all of them inspired me to strive it, describing the sport as a mashup of Name of Responsibility, Halo, and “House Skyrim.” I made a decision to check out the alpha shortly thereafter, and I used to be immediately hooked. The gunplay was far and away the perfect I had ever skilled. And now, over eight years later, I’m nonetheless as helplessly hooked on Future as I used to be the primary time I ever landed within the Cosmodrome.
A day one participant, like to see it! What kind of content material do you prefer to concentrate on whenever you’re streaming or making movies?
I prefer to concentrate on endgame content material inside Future, with a spotlight extra so on the PvP aspect, be it Trials of Osiris or Iron Banner. I additionally love GM Nightfalls and raids, and I particularly savor day one raid experiences with my group!
That’s tremendous superior! Endgame content material may be so difficult, so having content material creators like your self to assist train and shepherd others is actually cool to see. For these newer gamers, what’s one thing you would like you knew earlier than beginning, or a minimum of at first of, your Future journey?
Actually, I want that somebody had informed me simply how completely I used to be going to be absorbed into the Future universe and the broader Bungie neighborhood. How am I nonetheless enjoying the identical recreation after eight years?! Hahaha, simply kidding =). However in all seriousness, I want I knew how necessary it was to discover a stable group of individuals to play Future with. I performed solo for a good chunk of time throughout vanilla D1 earlier than discovering my approach to LFG (In search of Group) web sites. If I hadn’t been captured by the magic of OG Vault of Glass, there’s a very good probability I could have stopped enjoying Future throughout these early days. The sport is immensely extra enjoyable to play when you’ve buddies to leap into tougher content material with and bounce builds and concepts off of. Due to this, I’m extremely excited for Guardian Ranks and in-game Fireteam Finder coming to Future 2 subsequent 12 months. I believe these will function catalysts for hundreds of gamers to start out forming good friend teams of their very own and unlocking the true “endgame” of Future.
Heck yeah! With endgame content material being your focus, do you’ve any recommendation for gamers trying to enhance their expertise as a participant?
In the event you’re somebody who needs to dive deeper into the endgame experiences in Future and enhance your expertise, the very best factor you are able to do is attain out to different gamers and begin constructing a good friend group you could play Future with. Whereas Future may be performed solo, the sport’s full potential is realized when you’ve a longtime group of individuals you could lean on, each in informal PvE environments and deep within the trenches of Trials. Teamwork actually makes the dream work, and also you’ll change into a greater participant when collaborating with different like-minded gamers over time.
Alright, it’s time to ask, what’s your most important character and favourite subclass?
I’ll most likely draw lots of ire right here, however Hunter is my most important character, and I’ve been hopelessly hooked on Stompees for the higher a part of 5 years now. Going all the way in which again to Trendy Warfare 2, my favourite approach to play FPS video games has at all times been about pace, pace, and extra pace! To that finish, I’m completely IN LOVE with Arc 3.0 Hunter. The Pace Booster is simply *chef’s kiss* and Gathering Storm may simply be the best Tremendous within the recreation now. I used to most important Arcstrider from Seasons 2 by means of 8, so coming dwelling to my outdated child with Arc 3.0 has been superb!
Oh sure, going quick in video video games is at all times enjoyable! 😊 What sort of vibe does your channel keep?
My channel tends to stroll the road between each entertaining AND instructional. In a single second, we’ll dive deep into the lore of Future’s universe and begin speculating about future tales to come back. Then within the subsequent, one thing fully ridiculous will occur inside a Crucible match (on the expense of my opponent OR myself, each occur typically!). We’ll typically discuss builds or the state of the sport as a complete, all whereas protecting issues fairly light-hearted with plenty of laughs alongside the way in which. Identical to the stability between my work life and content material creation, my channel thrives in its duality between schooling and leisure.
Entertaining and academic whereas protecting it light-hearted? Appears like my form of place!
Alright, it’s about time to wrap up our interview, however I did need to ask as a result of you’ve been actually inspirational up to now in our dialog. What’s one thing you need to be sure each New Mild is aware of as they be a part of the Guardian ranks?
With the present New Mild expertise, it might probably really feel overwhelming when you wrap up your introduction within the Cosmodrome. You’re summoned to the Towe, and also you’re introduced with quest after quest after quest. My recommendation could be to decide on simply ONE of these quests and decide to it alone. By the point you end up that first quest, there’s a fantastic probability you’ll have gotten to strive some new weapons, elevated your Energy a bit, and usually, have gotten a really feel for the gameplay loop of Future. And as soon as most individuals get that far, the gameplay alone is often sufficient to get them hooked!
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And at last, the place can folks discover you?
Keep artful, Guardians!
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