New Video from Destiny 2 Game Director Sparks Hope for PvP Enthusiasts

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After a troubled couple of weeks for Destiny 2 followers — simply in advance of Bungie’s large disclose of The Final Shape expansion on Aug. 22 — game supervisor Joe Blackburn has actually involved the rescue.

On Tuesday, Blackburn posted a video of himself speaking on his individual Twitter, which is a style the workshop has actually never ever made use of prior to. In this 16-minute video clip, Blackburn discuss the State of the Game article from a couple of weeks earlier, what failed with it, just how Bungie is taking care of the discomfort factors in the future, and also what gamers can anticipate in following week’s disclose.

Trying something various, yall have 15 mins to talk? pic.twitter.com/wzB6xqJPGU

— Joe Blackburn (@joegoroth) August 15, 2023

The mass of Blackburn’s time in the video clip has to do with PvP, which has actually been a discomfort factor in the area for several years. According to Blackburn, Bungie currently thinks that producing one map a year isn’t excellent for the game — counter to what the State of the Game short article had actually recommended. Instead, Bungie will certainly function to launch several Crucible maps every year in a solitary map pack.

Blackburn likewise mentioned developing a “PvP Strike Team” whose work will certainly be to conceptualize solutions, interact them to the area, and afterwards execute them really rapidly. Bungie has actually utilized this type of strategy prior to when the game remained in a negative state in between the Curse of Osiris and also Warmind developments back in 2018.

On the subject of shield, Blackburn mentioned a number of various sorts of shield in the game, and also just how Bungie has actually selected to avoid shield that gamers don’t utilize a lot, like the collections discovered in the routine playlists (Strikes, Crucible, and also Gambit). This is practically stabbing in the back a pledge that Bungie made years earlier, to supply one brand-new routine shield established each growth. Bungie stopped working to interact this change far from brand-new routine collections prior to Lightfall, and also gamers have actually been making a have an odor regarding it because the growth’s launch previously this year.

To make up for the missing out on shield established from Lightfall, Bungie will certainly relocate a real-money-only collection initially slated for Season 22 over to the routine playlist swimming pool following period. However, Blackburn was clear that this is an apology for the miscommunication, which gamers shouldn’t always anticipate an annual routine shield established moving forward after The Final Shape.

Finally, Blackburn did provide some teases for The Final Shape disclose. He informed gamers not to anticipate any type of significant system adjustments to show up in the display, which it’s rather concentrated for a bigger target market. While doing this, nonetheless, he went down some information that Xur will certainly be obtaining a significant overhaul following growth (consisting of the reintroduction of Strange Coins), and also gamers will certainly obtain a revamped HUD that far better display screens lovers and also debuffs.

All of these adjustments appear to be looking at well in the area, and also Blackburn made it clear he plans to maintain the interaction headed right into The Final Shape with streams of himself playing the game and also attending to area comments.

 

Source: Polygon