Bungie's broken its silence on what's in store for Destiny - namely the shooter's final live event and, of course, Destiny 2, which is due out later this year. Let's get the former out of the way first: 'Age of Triumph' will be Destiny's last hurrah, an event that the developer will be explaining in further detail through a series of upcoming livestreams.
"We intend for it to be a fun and memorable celebration that will bring the first major chapter of our Destiny adventures to a fitting close," Bungie writes, adding: "We'll look back upon the three incredible years we've shared as a community, and look ahead to some final challenges and rewards that await you in the weeks ahead." We'll be getting our first proper look at Age of Triumph on the 8th March.
Moving on, the studio has confirmed that your progress in Destiny won't carry over to Destiny 2. However, your actual characters will - and by characters we mean their appearance. "The class, race, gender, face, hair, and marking selections for all characters that have achieved Level 20 and completed the Black Garden story mission will carry forward. We also plan to award those veteran accounts with honors that reflect your Destiny 1 accomplishments," Bungie clarifies. That means Destiny 2 will at least have a similar class system, right?
"We believe this is the best path forward. It allows us to introduce the major advancements and improvements that all of us expect from a sequel, ensuring it will be the best game we can create, unencumbered by the past. We're looking forward to sharing more details with you later this year for how we will honor your legacy in the future," the developer concludes.
What do you make of all this? Does the future of Destiny look bright? Anticipate E3 in the comments section below.
[source bungie.net]
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Cool. I'm actually pretty hyped for Destiny 2. The first was a lot of fun. Can't wait to see what the sequel has in store..
@kyleforrester87 me too, I'm just hoping it will leave me enough time to play all the other great games due out over the course of it. Hopefully it won't be so much of a grind as the first one.
Jumped back on this last night, strangely enough. Enjoying the Iron Banner currently and will watch the announcements closely. I really hope they will listen to all of the feedback since the release of the first game and get it right this time...and not listen to Activision.
@shaggywingnut Yeah, Destiny taught me a bit about "when to stop" to be fair. It's so much fun until it really isn't, and I found it was always a sudden change. So yeah, when it got too grindy I'd stick it on the shelf for a couple of months.
To be honest though I've not played D1 much since Rise of Iron and I only did the story missions on that.
@kyleforrester87 I played it for a solid year after the initial release not touching any other games! I gave it a rest when fallout 4 arrived but then went straight back when I finished that. Not played now though since I completed the rise of iron add on. And I'm pretty happy with myself for that!
@shaggywingnut Hope we get more Vex related stuff, their lore is awesome and the Vault of Glass is one of the best places to visit in a video game IMO. I read somewhere D2 will be Cabal based, which kind of sucks.. Cabal are boring as hell. And I'm fed up with Fallen and Hive.
@kyleforrester87 I'm still hoping they up the light level for vault of glass in the last big update so I can play through it again and it still be a challenge.
@shaggywingnut I think all the raids are coming back for a last hurrah. There's clues to that on today's update puts tinfoil hat on
@DrClayman more good news!!
I hope to see more deeper differences between classes rather then having one super power.
I'm hoping for an actual plot that's in the game and not on the dumb grimoirre cards on a website I have no use for. Plus get rid of the grind, have an actually open world on all the different planets w/ towns, dungeons and the like, etc., plus PvP of course, with some new modes and improvements/balances right off the bat. It's cool our characters from the first are playable. It would be ignorant for our high leveled gear to transfer over too. Everyone would breeze through the game in a millisecond if that happened. (Exaggeration, but you should get what I mean)
Doesn't make much sense, I'd rather they carried over stats etc blah blah via my ghost and got to create new guardians or at least alter current.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi I imagine you'll be able to bring your character in from Destiny and THEN alter them using new customisation options. They have to add beards, right?
@ShogunRok To be honest the helmet always on option in the social spaces was the best update Bungie ever did, my Titan looks like Joey Essex
@shaggywingnut Definitely! Would love to revisit the old raids with friends who have never played through them. I might actually be able to get a cohesive 6 man team this time round! Never understood why they didn't do this before. Looking forward to the sequel, went back to play Iron Banner for the first time in awhile this week.
@kyleforrester87 @ShogunRok space beards and matchmaking for all (edit) butt* raids
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