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Destiny’s Loot Is Great Because It Usually Has A Story To Tell
18.9.2024
I really miss Swordbreaker, a shotgun from the first Destiny game that became a staple of my loadout back in the day. Over the three years that I played Destiny, no part of my loadout felt as central to my identity as it did. I changed subclasses depending on the task before me, and I shuffled...
Bungie Outlines 4 Major Changes For The Future Of Destiny 2
9.9.2024
It’s been a confusing and chaotic year for Destiny 2. There have been delays, multiple rounds of cuts at Bungie, and a constantly shifting content roadmap of what we’ll be rolled out when. The Final Shape capped off 10 years of storytelling in a way that dazzled diehard players, but now everyone’s...
Destiny 2 Accidentally Nerfs Exotic Loot Drops As Morale Craters
8.8.2024
Prismatic exotic class items are some of the most powerful gear in Destiny 2: The Final Shape because they can randomly roll with special perks from other loot, letting players mix-and-match them to craft extra powerful builds. But thanks to a recent update, their drop rate has once again hit rock...
Destiny 2 Is Still Trying To Figure Out Its Post-Final Shape Rhythm
9.7.2024
Bungie recently shifted away from Destiny 2’s seasonal model for something the developer is calling episodes. These episodes are supposed to differ from seasons—which delivered weekly narrative beats via a mixture of cutscenes and repeatable activities— in a number of ways, such as the ability...
Destiny 2 Fans Upset The Final Shape Didn’t Fix The Tired Seasonal Model
27.6.2024
It’s a strange time for Destiny 2 at the moment. The game is coming off of a surprising victory lap with The Final Shape. The latest expansion culminated the game’s ten-year story and set our beloved cast of Guardians on new journeys, which will be explored in “episodes” rather than the seasons...
Destiny 2 Should Do More Quests Like Dual Destiny, Not Less
14.6.2024
Like many other Destiny 2 players, I’ve been slowly digging into The Final Shape’s post-campaign offerings, especially as I get ready to take on the expansion’s especially demanding raid. Unsurprisingly, many of these quests, which center around the acquisition of rare and powerful armor...
Destiny 2’s Next Year Includes Vampire Hunting And Brings Back A Fan-Favorite Destination
10.6.2024
Destiny 2’s Light and Darkness saga has come to an end. Players are jumping into the raid, beating the Witness, and finishing the final mission of The Final Shape, closing the book on years of storytelling. But as one book closes, another opens, and Bungie has taken this opportunity to...
The Final Shape Will Be Destiny 2's Big Moment Of Truth
28.5.2024
Destiny 2 players have conquered a planet-sized computer simulating the multiverse, earned wishes from space dragons, and slayed alien gods. But one of the loot shooter’s most enduring fictions is that its creators had a decade-long master plan to deliver a transformative story and re-shape...
Destiny 2 Is Reversing Its Most Controversial Change
25.4.2024
Four years ago, Bungie implemented one of the most controversial things in Destiny 2's history: sunsetting. All existing loot players had earned would slowly become obsolete with each passing season. The studio eventually ditched the poorly received system, but all the old gear was still useless....
Destiny 2: The Final Shape Debuts New Subclass, Enemy Type, and Class Items
9.4.2024
Bungie’s latest Destiny 2 showcase was a big blowout for its upcoming expansion, The Final Shape. Though the studio’s been relatively mum on the expansion, which will close out the ten-year story the studio’s been telling since the first Destiny launched in September of 2014, it finally revealed...
Into The Light Has Me Cautiously Excited For Destiny 2’s Future
3.4.2024
Destiny 2 is a game I’ve gotten used to quitting on. For as long as I’ve played it, I’ve always found reasons to put it down. As much as it wants to be a game people keep coming back to, everything about the way it’s been built makes it bristling, thorny, and off-putting. The longest stretch I’ve...
Destiny 2 Players Convince Bungie To Change Into The Light Weapon Rollout
29.3.2024
Late last year, it was reported that Destiny 2’s upcoming expansion, The Final Shape, was getting delayed amidst struggles and layoffs at Bungie. The expansion, which was initially supposed to release by February, was then officially pushed back to June, leaving a tremendous gap of time between...
New Destiny 2 Bundle Contains 5 Years Of Content For Just $40
14.2.2024
Destiny 2 ain’t no spring chicken. Bungie’s popular intergalactic looter shooter has been around since 2017, and in that time, the game has received numerous updates and expansions. Now, a new deal collects almost all of those expansions and updates into one $40 Steam bundle making it easy...
Destiny 2 Players Are Roasting Its New 'Starter Pack'
29.11.2023
The hardest thing about Destiny 2 is getting any of your friends to play it. Fans of Bungie’s ambitious and imaginative sci-fi shooter have long hoped for a simple on-ramp that would make it easier to get lapsed players and newcomers back into its universe. Destiny 2’s new “Starter Pack” might...
Destiny 2 Promises More Content To Fill Void Left By Big Expansion Delay
27.11.2023
Bungie has finally confirmed that The Final Shape, Destiny 2's major expansion 10 years in the making, has been delayed, and will now arrive June 4 instead of on its previously planned release date of February 27. More importantly, the studio explained what players will be doing in the meantime....
Destiny 2 Just Had One Of Its Wildest Weekends Ever
18.9.2023
It’s beautiful when video games break. It can also be incredibly fun for players, and a nightmare for developers in charge of making sure everything keeps humming along without issue. Over the weekend, Destiny 2 players discovered a wonderful glitch that let them craft god-like weapons and tear...
Destiny 2 Ditching Seasons For 'Episodes' Amid Player Burnout
22.8.2023
For years now, Destiny 2 has followed a similar pattern: release a big annual expansion followed by four individual seasons with familiar loot grinds and a predictable pace of narrative beats. No longer. After The Final Shape drops in early 2024, Bungie revealed the game will move to a...
Destiny 2 Ditching Seasons For 'Episodes' Amid Player Burnout
22.8.2023
For years now, Destiny 2 has followed a similar pattern: release a big annual expansion followed by four individual seasons with familiar loot grinds and a predictable pace of narrative beats. No longer. After The Final Shape drops in early 2024, Bungie revealed the game will move to a...
Destiny 2 Promises It Won’t Drip Feed Upcoming Expansion’s 'Climatic Conclusion'
3.8.2023
Destiny 2 players have spent a long time waiting for answers to some of the loot shooter’s biggest questions. Bungie claims they’re coming in 2024’s The Final Shape expansion, and they won’t be dragged out across four seasonal story updates like some of the most important parts of Lightfall...
All The Big Changes Coming To Destiny 2 Later This Year
3.8.2023
It’s been a messy time for Destiny 2 as players burn out on existing content and revolt against some of the game’s increasingly pricey microtransactions. Five months after Lightfall’s troubled launch, Bungie took the opportunity to update players on the state of the game and what’s to come...