Bungie shares what will be in store for Destiny 2 since the Shadow Bastion year ends. Trilogy of expansions, content optimization and next gen.
Bungie has outlined what’s on the horizon for Destiny 2 from its third major expansion. With Beyond Light on the calendar, the company explained to its guardians the future adventures they await during its life cycle. There is no place for Destiny 3; The objective is to create a sustainable future so that the community continues to enjoy the past, present and future of one of the most influential IPs of the present generation.
Beyond the added content, the new generation is a moment that the studio cannot avoid wasting. The cross-platform save ecosystem seen last year will expand, fortunately for the PlayStation and Xbox communities. In conclusion, Destiny 2 still has a lot of fabric to cut. We have collected all the information from the last few weeks about what will be in store for the players starting in September.
First stop: Beyond the Light
Bastion of Shadows established the plot line that would awaken the ancient pyramid ship. From the moon that we knew in the first Destiny we passed to another, called Europe, characterized by the extension of the glacial confines. The hive will give way to the return of the Fallen, specifically to the Eramis banner, a Kell fallen from the Dark who builds an empire of violence at the galactic level.
The images that we have seen of this new environment inevitably remind us of the faction on Earth. Those large industrial complexes as planetary scanners hide an evil that reaches even the Vex. How did they get there? It is a mystery; Their digital architecture has woven an underground structure similar to the metallic caverns that always accompany them.
We will have at our disposal a new power that will affect both Titans and Sorcerers and Hunters. Stasis, a new elemental power that will coexist with the already known arc, solar and void. As it says in the description, we will be able to “invoke impressive super” with multiple possibilities, such as “slowing down enemies using stasis fields until wrapping and fragmenting them with their destructive power”.
You will be given an opportunity to delve into the Crypt of the Profound Stone, the next foray. This Golden Age tomb has not been opened for centuries, so its threats remain dormant waiting for the guardians to enter it. We do not know at the moment what will be. What we do know is that, as usual, we will receive a complete assortment of exotic equipment and weapons.
It will arrive on September 22 on PS4, Xbox One, PC and Google Stadia.
Editions of Beyond the Light
Beyond the Light will follow the same post-launch plan designed by Los Renegados. Four seasons are included in a season pass that extends game content for one year. You can get hold of the expansion in multiple ways, including an exclusive collector’s edition of the Bungie Store.
All of them offer the exceptional Frozen Specter and a new legend emblem with the reservation. As if that were not enough, those who choose the Digital Deluxe Edition will receive an icy exotic gesture for immediate use.
Deluxe Digital Edition
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Destiny 2 Expansion: Beyond the Light
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Season Pass (4 seasons over a year)
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Exceptional Pulse Gun No Time For Explanations with exceptional catalyst and design
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Exceptional Hummingbird Other Skies
The expansion separately does not include the pass. To do this, you will have to purchase an intermediate edition called “Destiny 2: Beyond the Light + Season Pass”. If you prefer to have something physical, in the Bungie Store you can reserve its Collector’s Edition, which includes the following:
Collector’s Edition
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Digital Deluxe Edition of Beyond the Light (download code)
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Sliver of Darkness snap-on replica with lights
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Europe Explorer Bag
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Europe exploration canteen
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Mysterious Logbook
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More other discoveries from Europe
Finally there is The Stranger edition, which together with the Digital Deluxe Edition comes a 10 ”figure of the character. Its arrival in Spain is not confirmed and nor in which stores can it be purchased.
Xbox Series X and PS5: cross play in the same family
Bungie did not take long to confirm that he will bring Destiny 2 to the new generation. In this way, players who give way to Xbox Series X and PS5 will be able to continue their journey through the universe. Few data is currently known about technical aspects, except that both will run at 4K resolution at a rate of 60 images per second.
The company will join Microsoft’s Smart Delivery program, in which with a single copy you can enjoy versions for the rest of the Xbox family platforms at no additional cost. Despite the fact that PlayStation has not confirmed how it will make these changes, Bungie has gone ahead and will offer the upgrade to PS5 completely free.
There will be no rupture of the population in any case. For the first time in its history, cross-game features are added between the same family of consoles. In this way, PS4 players will be able to play with PS5 players, and Xbox One players with Xbox Series X players. No one is left behind.
It should be noted that all the content you have can be transferred to the new consoles without going through the box again. These next gen editions remain without a release date. It will be in the next weeks when we know his plans in full.
Destiny 2 in the future: optimization and expansion trilogy
Bungie fiddles with future unreleased intellectual property. Maybe that’s one of the reasons why we won’t have Destiny 3, at least for now. The team wants to create a sustainable future; It has reached such a point of growth that it is difficult to continue maintaining all the content equally, which causes, according to them, “multiple bugs and a lack of innovation”.
The new navigation chart from September 22.
Hence the Destiny Content Vault, a less played content repository that will rotate in annual cycles. This camera incorporates all the content that we saw in the first Destiny, which will transfer those adventures already visited to the second installment. Broadly speaking, we talk about optimizing the available resources and offering the best playable offer possible.
Starting on September 22, five planets and activities will be removed from the navigation chart: Mars, Io, Titan, Mercury, and Leviathan. These will give way to three rounds, the return of the Cosmodrome and Destiny’s first major foray, the Crystal Chamber.
The pieces of equipment linked to activities on these planets will be modified to be unlocked through new challenges. It’s not about losing features, it’s about choosing the best players can have at hand. Bungie comments that due to the constant growth in the size of the game on the hard drive, it becomes more difficult to introduce new patches, so this is a way to ease the load.
The new version of Destiny 2 will start with Beyond the Light and will be expanded each year with an equally relevant expansion in size. A trilogy of great content that will go through The Witch Queen (2021) and Lightfall, codename (2022). What do they add? It’s a mystery. What is clear is that they are the next two stops of a leading service game in this generation.
