Destiny 2’s Big Summer Hangout Gets A Major Overhaul

One of the paid rewards is a scorching dog-eating contest emote. It seems Guardians love binging on nitrates too. They’re similar to us!Image: Bungie

Destiny 2’s summer time “Solstice” seasonal occasion is true across the nook, and forward of this yr’s loot celebration Bungie has outlined some massive modifications. Just a few of them I really like. Others not a lot. The proof shall be in how the occasion’s total grind is balanced, however for now I’m intrigued in a means I haven’t been in years.

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In instances previous, the Destiny 2 Solstice was simply a very acquainted grindfest stricken by annoying wrinkles. Bungie is making an attempt to shake issues up this time round, and right here’s how. As beforehand teased, the Solstice festivities will now be organized round a single Event Card to make all the things simpler to trace. Like the present weekly challenges tab, it is going to enable you keep on high of all of your long-term targets. It’s additionally being monetized.

Throughout the Solstice occasion you’ll earn tickets, and in case you pay $10 to unlock the premium tier of the Event Card, you can begin buying and selling these tickets in for unique new rewards. Some Solstice cosmetics will even be offered via the common Eververse microtransaction store, however others shall be locked behind the Event Card. This is meant to avoid wasting gamers cash, with the overall earnable rewards exceeding $30 in worth in the event that they have been offered within the store. It’s successfully a brand new mini season cross.

But the actual meat of Solstice is armor, and the modifications there are much more intriguing. There is an elaborate new forex financial system and it’s all geared round upgrading gear so you possibly can re-roll it for larger customized stats. It’s extraordinarily complicated and in addition extremely on model for Destiny 2. Here’s how Bungie breaks it down:

Earn Kindling by finishing Solstice Event ChallengesSpend Kindling to improve your armor stat roll potentialEarn Silver Leaves by finishing actions all through the gameTransform Silver Leaves into Silver Ash by finishing the brand new exercise: Bonfire BashSpend Silver Ash to reroll armor stats from the armor mod display screenImage: BungieG/O Media could get a commissionStill 32% off for publish prime day salesApple AirPods Pro

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There are three improve tiers for armor. Every time a brand new tier is unlocked, it applies to each piece of that armor. Once you unlock all tiers, you can begin selecting which stats to maximise when re-rolling (the armor will even begin to glow, although the most effective glows will nonetheless be locked behind a microtransaction). The concept is to allow you to chase armor with a sure construct in thoughts, whether or not for Trials, Grandmaster Nightfalls, or another end-game exercise. It sounds nice, in concept not less than.

In follow there are some methods it might actually suck. The most evident means is that if this new system runs into bottlenecks and makes it exhausting to go at your individual tempo. There is successfully no cause to reroll armor earlier than you’ve maxed out the upgrades, however these upgrades are predicated on finishing Event Card Challenges, resulting in the likelihood you attain the cap on Leaves or Ash earlier than you are able to do something significant with them. Hopefully that doesn’t occur, and hopefully the actions are beneficiant in awarding the brand new currencies.

I say hopefully as a result of I’m truly trying ahead to Solstice this yr. It’s been some time for the reason that final time I wrote about Destiny 2. Things are a bit love/hate proper now, which is saying one thing contemplating Bungie’s loot shooter has been inspiring combined feelings for nearly eight years. Season of the Haunted has been an actual disappointment for me to this point, particularly coming off the excessive that was The Witch Queen.

Traditionally I’ve burned out on the annual Solstice occasion in a short time, however after some longer breaks from the sport than standard this yr, I’m actually desperate to get again into it and have one thing to do moreover one other dreaded run via Nightmare Containment. The summer time launch calendar is barren (with just a few notable exceptions) and I want one thing to fill the gaps. I’m additionally in determined want of extra chill. Grinding three totally different currencies and one other paid cross to max out rewards may not sound like that, however when Destiny will get it proper, that may be pure bliss.