A busy livestream has introduced an entire lot of Destiny 2 information right now. Bungie introduced the subsequent enlargement, named Beyond Light, for launch in September. Today in addition they begin the subsequent season, named Season Of Arrivals, and launch a brand new dungeon. Looking into the far future, they’ve an additional introduced two expansions for 2021 and 2022. And to maintain the game manageable, they plan to beginning biking out some older content material right into a ‘Destiny Content Vault’ – but in addition use that Vault to carry again older bits from the primary game, with one space and a raid already confirmed. Whew.
SO. Beyond Light. This yr’s massive autumn enlargement will launch September 22nd. It will introduce the brand new space of Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. There we’ll discover an historical facility of Clovis Bray, the place the morally doubtful megacorp created the Exos, Destiny 2’s race of robopeople. Darkness, Exos, mysterious Clovis Bray connections? This requires a gaggle of superfriends: Eris Morn, the Drifter, and the ‘Exo Stranger’ not seen for the reason that first game (the “I don’t even have time to explain why I don’t have time to explain” woman).
The enlargement’s story revolves round Eramis, who has united the scattered homes of the Fallen because the Kell of Darkness. “Abandoned by the Traveler and left by the Light, Eramis is on her own journey into the Darkness, and towards a collision course with Guardians,” Bungie say.
We’ll dabble in Darkness too. We’ll get a brand new subclass, Stasis, which Bungie say is Stasis is “rooted in Darkness”. As effectively as a subclass with new skills, Stasis will probably be an entire new common harm kind, becoming a member of Arc, Solar, and Void. It’s no shock we’ll get a bit Dark. Numerous tales, notably the Drifter’s, have instructed hey possibly it could be actual helpful to make use of the Darkness – if we are able to keep away from being consumed by it.
Beyond Light’s new six-player raid will enterprise into the Deep Stone Crypt, the place Exos had been made – and which nobody has ever instructed was remotely nice. I’m effectively up for that.
The enlargement can even begin Year 4, which Bungie have some long-awaited plans for. They swear blind we’ll see less FOMO-inducing content, and so they’re engaged on a correct transmogrifcation system for fashionistas like me.
Before then, Season Of Arrivals is because of begin at 6pm right now. Those massive nasty Pyramid ships have been creeping nearer since their discovery in Shadowkeep, and now one has come to casually hang around over Io, no massive deal. A brand new seasonal public occasion, named Contact, can have us combat baddies it summons. The season additionally brings new Exotic gadgets, new seasonal armour units, and new weekly missions.
Arrivals does additionally introduce a brand new dungeon for the season, named Prophecy. We’ll head into the spooky realm of The Nine to combat Taken, and it appears to be like correct mint. The new Daito Foundry armour set will probably be earned by it, and Bungie say some outdated Trials Of The Nine armour is reprised for it too.
Arrivals additionally brings the brand new system of ‘Focusing’ Engrams, which can allow us to spend seasonal forex to affect the drops within the new Umbral Engrams or legacy Engrams. Bungie went into extra particulars on this in May. You may, they mentioned, in the end Focus an Umbral Engram to solely include high-stat rolls of Arrivals armour.
This is all going off what Bungie have mentioned earlier than launch, thoughts. I’ll be cranking Destiny to see the total extent of every part tonight. The season began at 6pm, and the replace is 3.3GB on Steam.
You should purchase a Season of Arrivals cross in-game for 1000 Silver (£8.49). If you got the Deluxe Edition of Shadowkeep with its yr of season passes, you have already got it. More information on what’s free to everybody and what you must pay for will probably be on the season page as soon as it goes stay (which it hasn’t but).
Looking means into the long run, Bungie additionally introduced an additional two expansions: The Witch Queen for 2021 and Lightfall for 2022. The Witch Queen presumably will lastly pit us in opposition to Savathûn, the Hive sister who’s pulled the strings behind occasions together with corrupting Riven, cursing the Dreaming City, and giving Calus the cursed hat which led to the Crown Of Sorrow raid. Then Lightfall will, director Luke Smith mentioned, “drive this all to a moment.”
But whereas quite a lot of newness is coming, a few of the outdated might want to go. Bungie have mentioned for some time that they’ll’t maintain including to Destiny without end, lest it grow to be so sprawling they’ll’t maintain it in good nick or just match it on arduous drives. “The fact is, the game is too large to efficiently update and maintain,” Destiny 2 basic supervisor Mark Noseworthy mentioned right now on the stream. “We’re on track to be 115GB on PlayStation alone, and our updates to the game are huge, and we’re starting to reach the limit of our ability to patch.” They say it’s slowing growth too. So they’re launching a plan named the ‘Destiny Content Vault’, the place they’ll take away older, less-played content material to make means for the brand new. But they’ll additionally use the Vault to carry again older content material, together with bits from Destiny 1.
Bungie affirm in a blog post that Mars, Io, Mercury, the Leviathan, and god damn it, Titan will cycle out when Beyond Light launches. However, Destiny 1’s Cosmodrome will return as a daily vacation spot space when Beyond Light launches, and the Vault Of Glass raid will return later in Year 4. Other areas and actions will be capable of return too. Oh positive, I’ll commerce Titan for VoG.
It is bizarre that this may explicitly break and outright take away components of the story. But if it’s a select between this and Destiny 2 bloating a lot that Bungie must make a separate sequel, ah, yeah, that is the higher choice. And contemplating Destiny 1 by no means got here to PC, I’m desirous to see a few of what I missed. I’m glad to know for sure that Bungie have a years-long dedication to this game.
Season Of The Worthy successfully wrapped up on Saturday with the destruction of the Almighty, Destiny 2’s first stay in-game occasion. It was sluggish, but I quite liked that. Fingers crossed for some livelier stay occasions in future.
Here’s the archived stream for the entire every part right now:
