And here it is, the highly anticipated developer blog post from Bungie, supposedly detailing the future of Destiny 2. The shooter's been under a lot of fire over the last few months, and as you'd expect, the developer is quite keen to win back some good will. The question is: will this single post be enough to kickstart some positivity throughout the title's community?
To be fair to the studio, it's a big post. The bottom line is that Bungie is currently working on a lot stuff, and a good amount of that stuff is apparently coming soon. It'd take ages to relay every point in this news article, so we're just going to quickly go over the most important points.
First off, Bungie wants to make content availability a lot more clear so that players are always aware of what they have access to and what they don't. Below is a quick breakdown from the studio.
Next on the agenda, the Eververse -- Destiny 2's microtransaction store -- is getting reworked. It's nothing too dramatic -- it seems as though its overall purpose won't be changing -- but the developer says that it wants to make the Eververse less intrusive overall. Eververse exclusive rewards are being adjusted pretty much across the board so that things don't feel as stingy, and loot like ghosts, sparrows, and other items are going to be obtainable through activities. It's about time.
Past that, Guardians can look forward to masterwork armour as well as the currently available masterwork weapons. Raid gear is also being tweaked so that it's more "interesting".
Meanwhile, a planned February update promises a bunch of things like score tracking in Strikes, and a completely reworked mods system that aims to give them more importance.
Beyond that, the competitive Crucible is getting ranks, giving players new goals to work towards. Private matches are also happening, and perhaps most importantly, Bungie is reintroducing six-on-six multiplayer playlists -- just like in the original Destiny. Much better.
And that's about it for the big points. You can find the rest by clicking through to the official post.
So, like what you see? Did you expect more, or do you think this is a real step in the right direction? Feed us your thoughts in the comments section below.
[source bungie.net]
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To me this just kind of reads like "hey, we're gonna try and fix a lot of the stupid mistakes we made in the first place and add stuff that should have probably been in the game since the beginning."
Not saying it's bad that Bungie's actually doing something, but I think there's such a mass of negativity around Destiny right now that it needs something more than this. Problem is, I don't see how Bungie could actually pull it off even if it tried.
And to be clear, I'll still be playing Destiny 2, and I'm glad to see a lot of this stuff is being addressed. But Bungie desperately needs to not screw up from this point going forward if it wants to make the game popular again — and that's a big ask for a studio that's been screwing up over and over again for months now.
This all sounds like stuff that would sway people, myself included, to come back even if they haven't touched the game since launch week.
Which, well, that's nice, but it needs to be a proper "relaunch" of the game, with a decent promotional push. Not just a few social media posts and a community blog post. Probably not treated with the same level of fanfare as something like The Taken King, which was really did feel like a "relaunch" of the first Destiny as "the game we should have released to begin with"; but you get the general point, surely?
Of course, this could all be horribly mismanaged and backfire, but I'm cautiously optimistic, and hope Bungie has a massive reversal of fortune that sends them back into people's good books.
While I have hardly been on it since christmas I am wanting to get back onto it and look forward to the changes they claim will be made to the game.
However I do not feel the need to flame them and abuse them like some other people have done I feel they are listening and are trying to atone for their mistakes which is good not many other devs will come out and admit that things are wrong with their game.
Here is to season 3 and see what changes they bring in and hopefully a good expansion in Gods of Mars in spring
“Too little too late”
Today, I wiped my bunghole with my d2 game and threw it out the window
Destiny 2 Crucible makes me sad that I don't play it anymore...the rest is just mediocre
Never bought it probably wont anyway no time for servicegames anymore.
The bungee cord has snapped. Quite a few of my Destiny friends have already said they'll wait for reviews first before pre-ordering anymore of Bungie's games.
Nothing special in that blog. Can't wait for Monster Hunter to take Destiny's place in my daily life.
I haven't touched destiny 2 for a while and this hasn't inspired me to go back. In the back of my mind I know that when the next expansion comes out they'll have cocked something up again. The fact the platinum is still unobtainable without paying for the overpriced season pass is still a big turnoff.
I've read the update in it's entirety and unfortunately the sweeping changes it needs are not present. - reduced cool downs, old weapons system, more options in perk trees, armor that matters and not just raid perks, random rolls, crucible playlist, strike specific loot.
I never wanted to see this game flounder, but I'm glad I took a wait and see approach.
At last, fireteam members location on the map.
Completed the Expansion story and messed around with it for a few weeks and got bored.
Now spending more time binge watching Suits on Netflix
Unfortunately this just isn't enough. I'll wait for the next expansion before giving it another go.
Some things are good, like 6vs6 and no time limit for nightfalls
but the rest .. just warm words
On of the problems is not that more coins or blues are needed, but you need loot which counts. And there is yet none. And I did not see anything in the "plans" which says otherwise.
Another is that we can use the supers no often enough for "space mages" .. there is nothing in the "plans" to chang this.
We want to be able to choose the play-mode for PvP ... etc.
sorry but this is not enough
@tatsumi yeah as soon as MH is out I do not need any more destiny .. I will have a new one.
To me this reads like..."We can't polish a turd so we'll roll it in glitter".
Meh I have a back log of games and then the new games coming this year.
All still sound more appealing
A lot of the fixes they have proposed is putting back things that they took out from Destiny 1. Nothing in there proposed changes will entice me back at the moment. In 18 months time could be a well rounded game.
I'm sorry to say but Destiny 2 is and forever will be a disaster same as 1 but that got to place after the rise of iron and taken where released. But D2 can't recover it's litterally a loot box fest of a game I have the game I play it for about an hour here and there but I won't buy the expansion not until it's a bargain bin price.
Nope not today Satan.
I bought Destiny 2 before Christmas but it never really hooked me, and to be honest, all the negativity kind of put me off getting into it further because it felt like any time sunk into it was possibly a waste. The gameplay is great from what I played and I will probably get back into it. I don't think I'm made for service based games - I ended up getting swallowed by TW3.
It is good they are trying to rectify but at the same time, it feels kinda clear to me that this game launched too early and they really should have expected almost all the feedback that they have received.
The game is ok but I do not see a reason to carry on playing unless you get the expansions. Not enough core content once you have levelled up your charcters.
Great start--maybe there's truth to the rumors that D2's development had hit a snag and that's why it seems to ignore all the evolution D1 went through to get to it's final form.
... like many here... I echo the sentiment that nobody wants it to fail... but how have they not learnt anything from D1? I maxed all three characters within a week or so on D2 and then there was literally nothing to do after that bar repetitive raids...
:/
... the minimum D2 should have been was containing the same amount of content that D1 GOTY version had.. instead of a complete reset and bare-bones features...
They don't know how to be sincere or look even remotely like they actually care about looking after their player base, it's all very alien to them. But you know they would love to get the money that genuine goodwill sometimes generates.
Awesome! Now I can spend 40hrs to unlock that sparrow I always wanted.
Games as service = $60 Free to Play
Nah. I'm not gonna slag them off, but the bottom line is that they tried to treat us like mugs, and it backfired. I don't trust them. Also, there was a lot about the game I didn't like compared to Destiny 1. So no loss to me, and I have moved on to better games.
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