Bungie claims it’s conscious of gamer responses on “putting more secrets into Destiny 2” in the capillary of the Zero Hour, Presage, or Whisper objectives of previous years, and also assures a mix of some little and also huge tricks in the Lightfall age.
Assistant game supervisor Robbie Stevens fielded the subject in Bungie’s most recent regular blog site post (opens up in brand-new tab), considering in on conversations that have actually been simmering (and also in some cases steaming) considering that a November Reddit AMA (opens up in brand-new tab) where design head David Aldridge discussed that security prices make these objectives pricey to make.
“Like most things, it’s all solvable, it’s just expensive, and so far we’ve concluded that it makes more sense to spend on more cool experiences instead,” Aldridge claimed at the time. In a follow-up remark, he cleared up that “it just means that thus far we haven’t decided it was worth investing in the encryption. That could change in the future, and I haven’t seen presence/absence of encryption feed into decisions on whether to make secret missions.”
“Data mining and leaks are not unique problems to Destiny 2,” Stevens describes in today’s post. “Every live game deals with this issue because it’s one of the most challenging engineering problems in games today. That said, our communication was misinterpreted to mean that we were no longer building secret experiences, which is false. We’ve delivered hidden and secret story beats and content this year and will continue to do so next year.”
Stevens keeps in mind that “although we’re intentionally hiding things for you to discover in every release, not every secret can be something as big as a mission or puzzle,” which might dissatisfy the individuals for whom ‘secret’ methods “either a secret mission or a puzzle.”
“We know that we haven’t released a secret mission that scratches the same itch as Presage, Zero Hour, or The Whisper this year,” he proceeds. “Those missions were some of the most challenging content for our teams to build, which is why we’ve only released at most one secret mission within a twelve-month period. But as we’ve developed our plans leading to Lightfall and beyond, I want to reassure you that the community’s feedback is heard loud and clear, and ‘putting more secrets into Destiny 2’ is an initiative our teams have been working on for months before this conversation recently came to a head.”
With the Lightfall growth currently simply a couple of months away, Stevens claims Destiny 2 will certainly present extra tricks of differing dimensions and also extents, with some following year and also others evidently “right around the corner.”
“We’ve got a talented group of people who love this type of content and who know what it means for the community to discover and experience it,” he ends.
Missions like Zero Hour and also specifically the Whisper have actually never ever stopped working to obtain the Destiny neighborhood hyped up, likely extra so than raids and also perhaps even growths, which are constantly extensively teased beforehand. It’s tough to match the enigma and also exhilaration of a whole gamer base going down whatever to interact to defeat or resolve a significant difficulty that appeared of no place. Like numerous gamers, I have warm memories of finding out these objectives on the first day and after that running them time and again for months to truly understand them and also eject every last decrease of loot. Some pals and also I were discussing what we would certainly desire from the following Whisper- quality shock simply recently, actually, so Stevens’ remarks, though they do not validate a brand-new secret objective coming up, could not have actually come with a much better time.
The face of Destiny 2’s neighborhood, dmg04, is leaving Bungie.
.Source: gamesradar.com
.