Bungie have lastly unveiled the second enlargement for his or her MMO-lite FPS Destiny 2. In Warmind, gamers are headed to Mars to satisfy up with a brand new cutscene-featured heroine named Ana Bray (see her within the fancy trailer inside), and assist her get an previous pc again in working order. With weapons. There might also be historic undead transdimensional insect-people concerned, so pack a can of bug spray or two.
Warmind appears to be like to be similar-ish in scale to the earlier enlargement, Curse of Osiris, though with maybe just a little extra new terrain to discover. The major new location is Hellas Basin, a frozen patch of hell on Mars’ chilly north pole. Somewhere beneath this ice lies the interminably lore-teased Rasputin, an historic planetary protection AI, in all probability with a liquid-cooled CPU. Also, wasn’t this a plot level in Doom 2016, too?
Outside of getting your marching orders from the brand new protagonist stand-in, there are a number of new issues to do out within the galaxy as an entire. Probably the addition to see probably the most use is the Escalation Protocol mode, which appears to be like to be a reasonably normal horde/survival game-type that mixes boss battles in with the rank-and-file capturing enjoyable. From the appears to be like of it, you’ll principally be capturing at The Hive for this enlargement, so anticipate suicidal bugs and large eldritch crystals that scream at you numerous.
There’s additionally a brand new Raid Lair occasion set on Leviathan. It’s referred to as Spire of Star, and can in all probability be the one place you may earn absolutely the fanciest, shiniest, most trendy gear of the enlargement, so anticipate loads of gamers queued for it at any given time. It can even undoubtedly be the toughest factor within the recreation for a while to return, so bragging rights come as normal.
Next on the feature-list is three new Strikes (standalone co-op missions), with a fourth set on Nessus remaining PS4-exclusive till presumably autumn this 12 months, when it ought to open up for all. On high of all this, there’s additionally the same old bucketload of recent outfits, weapons and fancy beauty objects for these deep into Guardian vogue.
All in all, it’s about par for a Destiny 2 DLC pack. More locations to go, barely reskinned enemies to shoot, and a handful of recent co-op particular missions. One characteristic I’m a bit saddened to nonetheless see the dearth of is a correct Hard Mode. While I respect that for a lot of, a lot of Destiny 2’s enchantment lies in its virtually hypnotically rhythmic fight, I might personally stand to be shot at by a minimum of 50% extra.
Warmind is out on May eighth, and is offered both standalone, or as half of the present Season Pass.
