After dragging its heels for a good whereas, the ‘living world’ of Destiny 2 has actually come alive once more as Bungie begin constructing to the subsequent enlargement. Four of its planets and moons can be faraway from the game when Beyond Light hits, and the continuing in-game occasions behind which might be beginning to get properly doomy. As of final night time, the huge and ominous pyramid ships of The Darkness are lurking over the 4 doomed locations, zones are bustling with lethal foes, and we’re being despatched on quests to verify that everybody’s, y’know, okay. It seems like an apocalypse brewing, and appears beautiful too.
The new quest line, out there from Zavala, sends us on a tour of the 4 soon-to-be-nonlocations, checking in on every’s resident NPC questgiver. Help them out with their new bounties and you may get new rolls on some previous weapons, together with the Ikelos SMG and sniper. Various bits of in-game textual content clarify that we’ll be returning later within the season to assist them evacuate. The new wee lore books unlocked by the quests are good too (particularly Brother Vance’s reaction to a Titan proud of his hard-farmed shotgun). While we’re nonetheless unsure what The Darkness is as much as, and Eris Morn continues to be considering perhaps it’s right here to assist, issues look grim.
On Io, the Jovian moon which has hosted the primary of our new pyramid guests, small pyramid ships now flit by means of the skies, casting jagged shadows beneath. Whatever’s occurring, it’s occurring a complete lot extra. The random spawns of Taken Disruptor and Savathun’s Marionette enemy occasions are extra frequent too, with one thing giant and terrible now at all times roaming round.
On Mars, the place the mighty AI warmind Rasputin has been felled, oh look, one other pyramid. Probably nothing.
Titan, Jupiter’s oceanic moon, is now internet hosting a pyramid too. It’s fairly calm, for now. It’s sitting a method off over the waves, simply watching, trying menacing. This week noticed the seasonal Contact occasion come to Titan for the primary time too, in order that’s kicking off too. The place is crawling with Taken now as properly.
As a lot as I wish Titan would be expanded instead of removed, I dig the way it’s going out.
And on Mercury, oh you betcha. All the opposite Lighthouses throughout the machine planet have lit up too, beacons to The Darkness. This aspect of the Lighthouse had been talked about in some wee lorebooks earlier than and yep, seems we undoubtedly have been gallivanting round a monument to incomprehensible forces. Mercury’s pyramid seems significantly robust, dwarfing the gateway to the Infinite Forest and blotting out the solar. Destiny continues to be nice at large sci-fi vistas.
I’m so glad to see Destiny come alive as Bungie begin telling its core story once more. For ages we’ve been taking part in whack-a-mole with threats which might be alleged to be dire however by no means really feel it. We’ve been so starved for significant plot developments that the tiny in-game lorebooks have been the one place that something was creating. Now Destiny’s plot is unfolding earlier than us within the game world. Starting with The Almighty’s destruction in a live event and rolling into the new season, it’s fairly thrilling.
Removing these 4 areas to place them in the Destiny Content Vault often is the answer to a technical and logistical downside for Bungie, however they’re actually rolling with it as a storytelling system right here. I’m immensely into this week’s apocalyptic vibe.
Destiny 2’s Beyond Light enlargement is due on September 22nd, headed off to the Jovian moon of Europa and giving us the brand new Darkness subclass of Stasis. Five raids are going into the Content Vault too, so Bungie have removed their weekly reward caps for the brand new Moments Of Triumph occasion so you possibly can rinse ’em of goodies earlier than they go. The authentic game’s Cosmodrome space can be introduced out of the Vault too, adopted by ye olde Vault Of Glass raid.
