Category: Destiny 2 News

The latest “This Week at Bungie” article has been posted with a ton of nifty information about what the Destiny 2 team has been working on most recently as well as providing more information about certain features. In this week’s newsletter, you can learn more about faction rallies that will begin on September 25th at 2:00 am Pacific / 5:00 am Eastern. Players can volunteer with their favorite faction and earn some sweet faction-specific loot for the effort.

For fans of the intense PvP action found in Destiny 2’s Crucible, a new Competitive map called “Eternity” is now available in the playlist. Eternity cam as part of the Trials of the Nine event. It’s an icy looking, very odd looking map.

Bungie and Activision have released some pretty impressive numbers for a console launch with Destiny 2. It has scored the largest ever Day 1 sales in the PlayStation Store as well as the all-time high concurrent player record as well.

The latest This Week at Bungie has been posted that dishes up some really nice goodies with regard to Destiny 2 including the recent world first celebration around the first clearing of Leviathan, PvP / Crucible, interesting notes fro the Support Team and a sneak peek at the Trials of the Nine. In addition, the team offers a lengthy explanation about the events surrounding the storm regarding the removal of gauntlets thought to too closely resemble a symbol co-opted by a hate group.

A Destiny 2 Fireteam has completed the first raid in about six hours. Bungie made the announcement that the first Fireteam had made its way through Leviathan and that “Shaxx isn’t far behind”. They additionally announced that “Emperor’s Respite is now available for all in the Crucible”.

Bungie has been called out by Destiny 2 players for the Road Complex AA1 gauntlets that have a stylized version of the word Kek emblazoned down the sleeve over a green background. Many felt that this was eerily close to a similar symbol used by a white supremacist group that was seen during the recent Charlottesville rally where a woman was killed by a car that plowed into a crowd of counter protesters.

Destiny 2 servers will be coming down later today for approximately four hours. This is part of the routine maintenance for the game. Log in to both Destiny 2 and Destiny 1 will be unavailable beginning at 8:00 am Pacific / 11:00 am Eastern. However, players will be unable to log into the game beginning an hour earlier, though anyone playing at that time will be able to remain in game until servers come down.

Destiny 2 servers will be coming down later today for approximately four hours. This is part of the routine maintenance for the game. Log in to both Destiny 2 and Destiny 1 will be unavailable beginning at 8:00 am Pacific / 11:00 am Eastern. However, players will be unable to log into the game beginning an hour earlier, though anyone playing at that time will be able to remain in game until servers come down.

Destiny 2 has achieved a pair of statistical milestones over the week that was. On Friday evening, Bungie confirmed that 1.2M players were taking part in the game concurrently. This includes both XBox One and PlayStation 4 players and at a time when D2 had been in release for a scant three days. Secondly, the number of physical copies of Destiny 2 is down significantly over Destiny 1. According to NeoGAF, D2 has only sold 175k physical editions as compared to 417k for D1.

Updating our story from last week, it appears that the rumored Destiny 2 expansion, Curse of Osiris, is indeed true. The XBox Store is featuring a page for the expansion with details, though no pricing information.