It’s been a tumultuous time for Destiny 2 currently, what with the XP scaling fracas, free trial launch and extra. On prime of all of that, the primary piece of DLC for it – Curse of Osiris – is due for launch on December fifth. As the FPS-with-MMO-gubbins formally strikes into its second ‘season’ of content material and updates, Bungie determined to skip out on a pre-launch livestream to advertise the Curse of Osiris growth in favour of sharing a lengthy roadmap blog post, detailing their plans for the subsequent few weeks.
In abstract: Bungie giveth grind, and so they taketh grind away.
On a much less snarkily summarised be aware, it does sound like they’ve obtained some fairly vital adjustments to the economic system of the sport set to roll out as staggered updates between now and December 12th, together with the choice to simply purchase Legendary-tier gear direct from faction leaders, decreasing the quantity of dice-rolling concerned in getting the baseline gear you need. Enigmatic dealer Xur can also be set to supply costly once-a-week Engrams that offer you one randomly chosen Exotic merchandise that you simply haven’t already discovered earlier than, superb for gamers wanting to complete off a set that’s lacking only a few gadgets.
For these misplaced deep within the Destiny 2 skinner field, the addition of a brand new Masterwork tier of weapons should sound like heaven, though for a semi-casual participant that might slightly not re-roll something, it appears like a minor nightmare. An improve over present Legendary class gear, Masterwork gadgets have built-in stat-tracking, in addition to an additional perk slot that comprises a randomly chosen buff to the weapon, just like the way it labored within the authentic sport.
Bungie’s plans additionally embrace stepping up the reward token payout on many actions, and (as a quality-of-life enchancment) have the respective NPC distributors that take these tokens solely begin blinking on the map as soon as sufficient have been collected to commerce in for an Engram. This change alone will save me from growling at my laptop in abject frustration as I discover out I’m brief by only one token for a weapon after a visit again to city.
They additionally partially addressed the XP-scaling controversy. After complaints have been raised in regards to the system they’d beforehand carried out (the place your XP earned scales down sharply if earned too rapidly, with out this being mirrored in any respect by the UI), they’ve admitted that some actions are simply not paying out as a lot as they need to underneath their new, extra clear mannequin, and are engaged on rebalancing payouts.
It’s not a part of the patch notes, however you probably have some number of Alexa private assistant gadget (not me, they bizarre me out), you can now chatter with your tiny virtual Nolan North in-game via speech recognition. There appear to be some genuinely helpful options there, like gear set swapping, in addition to a bunch of much less helpful questions you possibly can ask, which get absolutely voiced responses in-game. For those that actually can’t get sufficient Destiny 2, there’s even a collectors version Alexa microphone formed like a Ghost, which I have to admit appears to be like kinda cool.
All that, plus the growth on the best way provides as much as a reasonably large set of adjustments on the best way. Plus, later this December we’ll be seeing the primary Dawning (Space Christmas) of Destiny 2, which is ready to carry merry-making, gift-giving and snowball fights (no, actually) to the sport. Accompanying this would be the return of the Sparrow Racing League, a Wipeout-esque aggressive minigame that I want was accessible all 12 months spherical. For these nonetheless deeply dedicated to Destiny 2, it appears to be like to be an thrilling month.
