Destiny 2 gamers have spent a very long time ready for solutions to a few of the loot shooter’s greatest questions. Bungie claims they’re coming in 2024’s The Final Shape growth, they usually received’t be dragged out throughout 4 seasonal story updates like a few of the most essential elements of Lightfall have been.
The studio has arrange Destiny for a large confrontation between gamers and The Witness, an historical alien entity intent on destroying The Traveler, the large sentient magic orb that set all the recreation’s occasions in movement. Lightfall introduced that battle to the cyberpunk metropolis of Neomuna on Neptune, the place followers hoped to uncover a few of the mysteries round a strong artifact referred to as The Veil and its connection to The Witness and what its final objective is. Instead, a few of the most substantial reveals have been drip-fed to the neighborhood in subsequent seasons. The consequence made Lightfall one of the crucial poorly acquired Destiny 2 expansions ever.
“We know there are some who would have most popular to expertise these tales throughout Lightfall’s marketing campaign,” recreation director Joe Blackburn wrote in Bungie’s newest state of the sport weblog publish in an try and reassure gamers that subsequent yr’s huge replace will ship what this yr’s didn’t. “With these gamers in thoughts, we consider the totality of this yr’s narratives will set the stage for The Final Shape in ways in which a single story beat by no means may. And to place issues to relaxation proper now: The Final Shape and its raid will present a climactic conclusion to the Light and Darkness Saga earlier than we look forward to what comes subsequent in Destiny 2.”
It’s a daring reassurance for a recreation whose long-standing relationship with its vocal and passionate neighborhood always rubber-bands between full adulation and melodramatic exhaustion. Destiny 2 has at all times been topic to the competing calls for of gamers desirous to get each uncommon piece of loot and excessive stakes lore revealed now and desirous to have a motive to maintain enjoying their favourite recreation endlessly for years.
Especially because it entered its fashionable seasonal mannequin with weekly micro-story updates, it’s typically felt like a Shōnen anime the place months of filler are punctuated by brief however dramatic plot progressions that inch the house opera ahead. Why let Gohan go Super Saiyan 2 immediately when you might milk the Cell Saga with a dozen preliminary fights and extraneous aspect plots first? Fortunately, it appears like gamers received’t have to attend months after The Final Shape launches to expertise the ultimate showdown of Destiny 2’s present, 10-year story arc.
