As the end of the current phase of Destiny 2 draws to a close, with The Final Shape out in just a month and a change, it really does seem like Bungie is putting it all on the line. A new faction, the first in years, will be introduced, as will the ability to mix and match subclass powers. Now, the developer has announced that it will do away with Power limits, deeming them incompatible with Fireteam Power.
Bungie announced the news in its weekly blog post, admitting that changes needed to be made: "As we close out the Light and Darkness saga, we want to rally all Guardians (active, returning, and new) to help fight the Witness, and there is no better way to play Destiny than with your fireteam. As we pursued this goal, it became apparent that Power limits were fundamentally incompatible with Fireteam Power.”
As IGN reminds us, a few years back, Bungie announced they'd make older weapons in Destiny 2 essentially obsolete by imposing a maximum Power limit. While some saw this as an invalidation of their previous efforts, others saw it as the only real way to combat power creep, which is always a concern in a game that's been around as long as Destiny.
Continuing, Bungie explains that by this point, many players may have already dismantled Power-limited items, but that it plans to reintroduce them in the future: "We regret that we have no recovery mechanism for these. Going forward, we intend to reintroduce sources for most or all of these, updated to modern Destiny sandbox standards with added properties such as Origin Traits and build crafting perks (as we have started to do with the BRAVE arsenal in Destiny 2: Into the Light)."
Will you be returning for The Final Shape? What do you think of Bungie seemingly throwing chance and balancing to the wind? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source bungie.net]
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I am happy to see the playerbase active again and some positivity back. Upset that they always get complacent and mess stuff up before going back and winning people over.
I'm done with online in general so I will not be back but Destiny has been there for so long that I hope they stick the landing and people look back at the game with more positivity than negativity.
Only coming back if the reception for final shape is good, until then it stays deleted.
How about unlocking the vault? And giving us back everything we paid for
@TheFakulty Or the Seasons for that matter that had important lore or scenes.
Screw the weapons: let us play through the entire campaign from start to finish. There is no good reason they keep it all vaulted away.
Still not returning the paid content they took away from people. Until they do that wont touch a Bungie game. One the worst decisions Sony made buying Bungie
@Nepp67 @TheFakulty yup... they don't even need to keep the whole season, just the story missions... The vaulting of paid content will always be one of the weirdest moves Bungie have made... especially the base campaign of D2
I jumped into Destiny 2 right before The Witch Queen. The game quickly jumped to my most played game ever on Steam. I really enjoyed the game, but it got repetitive. Also, starting as a new player when I did was confusing because they locked off most of the campaign. For that reason, I had to go to YouTube to learn about the lore and things that happened before I jumped in. Destiny 2 is an incredible game, so I hope they stick the landing, but Bungie has made some very bad decisions with it along the way that I hope they learn from with their next games.
I just got into Destiny! Really enjoying it. One thing I would love them to update is exotic acquisition.
There is a really good bow called Wish Ender. I am considering getting it as I am done with every campaign and doing the bounties and getting items… the thing is this item requires doing an outdated dungeon that basically nobody does ever, and you need to do specific actions in that dungeon.
I like the idea of older items still being useful, but maybe have us do the current dungeon instead? Otherwise newer players are in a paradox where one of the better items for entry level endgame content was best obtained years ago.
I can tell you that this sort of conundrum is exactly why games like WoW just reset the loot every expansion. You don’t feel like you needed to be there 6 years ago to get the statistically good items.
It is not make or break for me, but its one of those things where the only challenge in getting something like Wish Ender is that now you basically have to solo a group dungeon with no respawning allowed… when it was current I imagine every single player ended up with it by nature of everyone doing the current dungeon daily.
Wonder if they'll bring back the Black Armory Forges? Spent a ridiculous amount of time in there grinding for god rolls. I've still got some insanely good rolls on Kindled Orchid, Blast Furnace, Ringing Nail etc that I held on to. Good to know I can use them again if I ever go back to D2.
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