It's been a rough couple of months for Destiny - developer Bungie's biggest ever project. Following the release of The Taken King, last year's big expansion, players have been becoming increasingly disgruntled with the game's offerings. Sparrow Racing League felt like an unfinished add-on or a prelude to something more significant, and the current event, Crimson Days, doesn't really provide anything new or exciting. In short, it's been difficult imagining events like these would be enough to keep people invested in Destiny.
Fortunately, Bungie has finally decided to give Guardians a glimpse of what the future holds for its sci-fi shooter - and not a moment too soon. To start with, the studio says that a major update is coming to the title this spring. It'll bring a "significant" light level increase along with new equipment and new challenges for PvE activities. It certainly sounds like a good start.
Next up, the developer's announced that a "large" expansion is hitting later this year. With any luck, this'll be another Taken King-esque expansion that builds and improves upon what we already have.
And, finally, Bungie has revealed that there is indeed a sequel in the works. It's scheduled to launch in 2017.
How do you feel about this? Has your confidence in Destiny been waning? Does this news help? Get your fireteam together and start dancing in the comments section below.
[source bungie.net]
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I really can't wait! Loved the Taken King. Got around 230 hours on Destiny.
Wait?? A sequel but I thought they said that Destiny had a 10 year lifespan??? I am confused now.
@Tasuki I assume Bungie always meant that Destiny was a 10 year 'project' rather than a single MMO-style experience that lasts 10 years.
I'd also assume that Destiny 2, or whatever it turns out to be called, will allow new players to jump right in, while letting verteran plyers carry their progress over somehow. On that basis, I guess a full sequel makes sense.
Personally, just literally dropped Destiny around when the Heroic King's Fall raid was released and have tried to go back to it on several occasions but haven't been able to get back into it.
Put 100s of hours into the vanilla game, and an insane amount into Taken King, was hoping for smaller DLC drops in December and May again like last year, but i guess not, looking forward to a Vex based Taken King sized DLC in September though
Won't bother with a sequel unless they deliver a truly excellent experience that doesn't have to be touched up on every so often with an expansion to make it passable. Make sure it actually has a story too, and a hell of a lot more planets/areas to explore.
I think at this point I'd rather just have a sequel, I've enjoyed my time with Destiny and especially the Taken king but it'll take more than a new number to grind to for me to get excited again. One thing they can't do again is charge full retail for a new expansion when newcomers essentially get it for free.
Nice! I'm at light level 299 and I seen to be stuck hopefully the new expansion can change that.
@ShogunRok Im sure I read somewhere they have scrapped or are scrapping that idea of carrying over guardians.
Personally, I havent touched Destiny in a good 7 months, mainly because I feel extremely ripped off.
For a game that had so much promise, it just failed to deliver.
I am skeptical any of this will be any good but hope to be proven wrong.
@Pink_Floyd ditto <guy five>
Well they need to make it more player friendly for solo player like myself! I don't enjoy the raids, so I suffered as I couldn't get the best gear and guns in the game I don't have many friends in the online world and am shy when it comes to the "finding a fire team online" I prefer to play alone as in happier that way but this game isn't made for single player at all, so I gave up, then there's the hole I paid over £100 for the game and all the DLC packs and then they kicked me "and others" by bring out a all in one £25 bundle! So I shall wait for a couple of years and buy "Destiny 2" with all the DLC for £25!, just hoping The Divsion will be more my kind of game
Woop, just what I wanted to hear. I really want to get back into Destiny for a bit but I've kind of hit a wall around 295 and cant be doing with grinding the end game to get up to level cap. I know I'm a wuss.
So can we assume Destiny 2 will contain all the missions and locations from the original, and build on that? To start again from scratch would be idiotic.
@PorllM That's what I'd hope. Can't see them throwing away content, after all. (That said they've been in no rush to bring forward certain aspects of the game such as old raids, PoE etc. so who knows!)
@kyleforrester87 HGow about we set up a raid to get you over 300 this weekend or such? I've let Destiny go for a while, catching up on other games, went in this week to try out Crimson Doubles, disappointing as hell, and thought that it would be great to get the old folks together to raid again, I've been picking up random groups since the heroic came out and people got off Destiny a bit, until I got off of destiny a couple of months ago.
Anyone else wanna run KF on normal sometime soon?
@PorllM seeing that the install size of the game as it is must contain most of the game anyway, I'd hope it builds on it as it is.
Meh.
@xX_RiscazZ_Xx ahh maybe valentines weekend n all I dunno if I could reasonably swing that....up for another time though, if we can get a nice crew of 6 (hope you are well btw)
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Don't worry I'll petition them to leave jumping puzzles out of any future content
@kyleforrester87
I'll help you guys out with the KF Raid - i'm up to 317 right now but i love taking people through the end game.
Hit me up a FR on PSN - japester79
I think Bungie should just move away from Destiny and make something good instead
Why do people keep thinking Destiny was one game updated for 10 years straight? if you even use your brain you know that won't work.
@AyeHaley Errr lets see...uses brain..Destiny releases on year 1..one large expansion per year until year 10. Boom.
@japester79 Will add
@AyeHaley Why, though? It's on the same hardware and they can patch and add new content to the base. They can't do anything with a so-called sequel that they couldn't do with expansions and patches.
I mean, the difference between a sequel and an expansion isn't really set in stone anyway. You could say a sequel is just a REALLY big expansion in cases like GTA: Vice City and San Andreas. Rockstar even seem to imply that with the numbering since it wasn't until the consequent gens GTAIV that they actually upped the numbering.
Anyway, point is, this is an odd decision. It seems like it's more of a marketing thing since "Destiny 2" sounds more exciting than "Expansion 3" or whatever they're on. On the flip side of the PR coin, it's basically saying "All that money you spent was wasted! HA! Now spend it again on Destiny 2".
I have a love/hate relationship with Destiny. I bought it twice...vanilla and Taken King. I've had a lot of fun with it, but I've never been able to do any of the raid content. I just couldn't be bothered to try to find a group for it. I hope that a sequel would be a lot more single player friendly with a great campaign and possibly matchmaking for raids without having to use third party sites to try and find a group. Hell, they could even incorporate a World of Warcraft type scenario where you can do a raid with randoms just experience the content on a lesser difficulty with inferior loot and a more hardcore mode for organized groups. I dunno, I'd just love to be able to definitively love Destiny, but because I can't experience everything the game has to offer I just can't. My main wish for an expansion would be for a full blown story campaign like the Halos of yesteryear.
@Bliquid It's a waste in the context of this "sequel" basically being a large expansion that makes all previous content redundant. Imagine if each expansion so far had been standalone and didn't import previous characters nor use any previous content at all. That's all this is.
It's like buying a house but when you want to build an extension on it, you can't; you have to move to a whole new house. Yes, you got to live in the house for a bit so it isn't totally pointless but it's still a waste of that house that you can't just build a larger kitchen on it, for example, but must now start again from scratch.
@Bliquid I work when Im at work and I play to relax.
I dropped Destiny just before TTK was released, due to my issues with pricing. I wouldn't go back to it now, but would consider playing a sequel. It would have to be a more substantial game from the get go than Destiny though, and with a more friendly pricing model for existing players; not like the TTK debacle. I think that Bungie really let themselves, and players, down with their pricing on Destiny DLC.
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