As is turning into custom in direction of the top of a content material season, Destiny 2 has set one other large communal aim for gamers. This time, fairly than dump all our leftover seasonal sources right into a magic field or no matter, we’re being challenged to finish Seraph Towers. A complete lot of Seraph Towers. This appears maybe for only a cool reward fairly than the massive season finale, one thing separate to y’know the miles-long spaceship that’s about to crash into Earth however everybody has apparently forgotten about. For now, ah, Seraph Towers suck so sit again and await diehards to finish the communal aim stage of the search? If they full it. Which… it’s trying like they won’t.
Pay a go to to Ana Bray and he or she’ll provide the quest The Lie, telling us it’s for Rasputin. Apparently the AI desires to check our resolve to do tedious issues, as if the grindfest of the Guardian Games wasn’t sufficient. For step one, he’s asking us for 3 million completions of the Seraph Tower occasion on Earth, three million on the Moon, and three million on Io. Sheesh. It’s fortunately counting private completions not occasion completions, Bungie have confirmed, however it’s nonetheless an enormous quantity.
Ever since Seraph Towers acquired kicked up a problem notch mid-season, it’s been mighty uncommon to see random teams really full them. Having to defend and cost a number of towers without delay takes coordination and firepower that usually received’t be discovered with random teams of whoever occurred to be passing via the general public zone on the time. I’ve not accomplished a single one with randos for the reason that bump. It’s means simpler when you type a gaggle with expert and well-armed gamers however sheesh, 9 million. It’d be fairly completely different if Seraph Towers had matchmaking, like different latest seasonal occasion modes, however they don’t.
Looking at progress thus far, I don’t know if we’ll hit the aim this season. After in the future, the EDZ aim is 5% accomplished, the Moon aim is 0.7%, and Io is barely 0.4%. The season ends in 27 days. Unless gamers get actually into Seraph Towers, or Bungie fudge the numbers, or this runs over to subsequent season, I don’t see it taking place.
Folks poking in information recordsdata have found that this questline will result in some new storybits and a weapon getting back from the primary game, the Felwinter’s Lie shotgun. Alright, cool. I’ll get on that after different individuals grind out the Seraph Tower aim. What we will guess of the plot growth sounds nifty too, although it’s much less urgent than another present considerations.
At least forcing individuals to run Seraph Towers does tie into the season’s core aim of stopping an unlimited derelict spaceship from smashing into Earth and destroying the entire planet. That acquired waylaid by the house Olympics for a number of weeks. AND YET it’s wild that we’re casually ignoring the truth that, based on sensors in Rasputin’s bunkers, the pyramid ships of the Darkness look like pushing into our photo voltaic system in nice numbers. A spaceship is about to destroy the planet, and if that doesn’t then an historical enemy probably will – and no characters are actually speaking about this. Wild.
While this season has been a bust thus far, Bungie are saying good issues about future Destiny plans. They’ve acknowledged the current seasonal model sucks with an excessive amount of FOMO. They’re planning to keep seasonal activities around for several seasons and ease up on bounties. They’re additionally lastly engaged on an precise correct transmogrification system for armour and slicing again on grubby microtransaction cosmetics. I’d like all that.
That’s all nonetheless a means out. When Bungie speak about studying classes and correcting errors, they’re largely speaking about Year Four onwards. It takes time to do all this, and present growth plans had been already in movement. We’ve nonetheless acquired not less than yet another season to go earlier than we must always begin anticipating to see significant modifications.
