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First teased over two years in the past, Bungie lastly dished on Destiny 2 Lightfall throughout its massive annual 2022 showcase, revealing new powers, threats, and mysteries all dressed up in a spiky, neon-infused cyberpunk artwork fashion. The Witch Queen turned the Destiny universe on its head, and the following growth seems poised to ship on that chaos in some massive methods when it arrives subsequent February.
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The penultimate growth in a nine-part epic, Lightfall seems on the floor like a radical departure from the long-running sci-fi shooter’s previous. It will introduce the beforehand rumored poison subclass, Strand, that faucets into the unseen cloth of house and features a new grappling hook skill (oh hey there Halo Infinite). Players will discover the brand new hidden metropolis of Neomuna on Neptune that exists in an alternate timeline, and take care of its personal model of Guardians known as Cloud Striders.
Today’s showcase additionally present’s Destiny gamers grappling with the implications of the Witness’ plans for destroying the Traveler and its Light hinted at within the remaining moments of The Witch Queen marketing campaign and raid. Mainly, that features a new military underneath the command of Calus that has the power to neutralize your powers, and mini-Witness disciples known as Tormentors that seem to behave like a very new class of mob enemy. Guardians must group up with Cloud Striders to repel an invasion of Neomuna, and scale a ton of futuristic skyscrapers utilizing their new Strand talents.
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Here’s the trailer:
Destiny 2: Lightfall – Reveal Trailer
Bungie outlined some main options coming subsequent yr as nicely, together with extra detailed participant histories, a commendation system, in-game looking-for-group instruments, and better of all: devoted loadouts. That’s proper! At lengthy final gamers will be capable of fine-tune their gear and and style after which reserve it to fit they’ll swap to on demand. Tired of continually altering mods between Nightfalls and raids, PVE and PVP? Well this technique ought to repair that. Bungie has been calling Destiny 2 and MMORPG for some time now, however with Lightfall it feels like its lastly investing in among the methods wanted to make good on that promise.
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Destiny 2’s annual expansions are the place the sport will get jolted again into life with new story-based campaigns, gameplay overhauls, and extra Exotic gear. For a very long time they used to drop each September, however starting with Beyond Light in the course of the pandemic the expansions began getting pushed again, first into late fall and finally into late winter. During these intervals, Bungie has been maintaining the sport contemporary with rotating seasonal updates each three months or so.
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The newest, Season 18, goes dwell at this time and is all about searching down pirates and their buried house treasure. It was beforehand leaked that it might be known as Season of the Plunder, embody two totally different units of actions and story missions, and convey again the beloved legacy raid King’s Fall from 2015’s growth, The Taken King. Bungie additionally confirmed a Fortnite collaboration that may see each video games change character skins, in addition to deliver Destiny-themed cosmetics to Fall Guys.
If new seasons are like tv mini-series, new expansions like Lightfall are the annual blockbuster film. Back in 2020, Destiny 2 was set to have three extra of them to cap off its Light and Darkness Saga. However, final yr Bungie introduced it wanted extra time and house to inform the story it’s been constructing since Destiny 1 launched. The result’s a fourth growth known as The Final Shape that may drop someday sooner or later. It’s anyone’s guess the place the sequence heads after that, and whether or not it would embody a Destiny 3.
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