Category: Destiny 2 News

Bungie announced their Solstice of Heroes event will return to Destiny 2 in 2019, beginning on July 30 through August 27. Meanwhile, Shadowkeep is delayed.

Bungie recapped the past week as their Solstice of Heroes is nearly upon us, in a blog post yesterday.

Destiny 2 is set to receive increased Valor, Iron Banner, and more in a new blog post.

In this week’s Destiny 2 update, Bungie detailed some bad juju that has come to it’s popular looter shooter – and it’s not just talking about the pulse rifle.

During the annual Guardian Con Charity Marathon Stream yesterday, Bungie devs stopped by and participated for over four hours. While their, viewers were asked to make a donation and rewarded for doing so with a Sign of Gambit 2018 emblem code, signed collector’s editions, and even a studio tour for a complete 3-player fireteam. The goal was to raise $150,000 but viewers blew the fundraising initiative out of the water and raised over $400,000 instead!

Bungie is overhauling the Eververse in Destiny 2 starting with the Shadowkeep expansion coming this fall. Essentially, players will be unlocking a “transmog” system that allows them to change the look of any Legendary sets in the game, a cosmetic option that is separate from the perks on gear. These “universal ornaments” can be applied to all Legendary sets coming this fall. “They override the look of your equipped gear while preserving the perks, mods, & stats of the original item.

Pyro Gaming is reporting that Destiny 2’s player population is growing. Over the past weekend, over a million players were taking part in the game for the first time since the launch of the Forsaken expansion in fall 2018. Numbers had been sagging, at least according to Activision-Blizzard financial reports, and were cited as a reason for the split between Bungie and ATVI.

In the latest Destiny 2 update posted to the Bungie site, devs provide a lot more information about the free-to-play conversion of the game taking place this September. When Destiny 2: New Light launches, players will receive all of the Year 1 content including the base game, Year 1 raids and both the Curse of Osiris and Warmind expansions. Year 2 content free roam activities, Strikes playlists, Crucible playlists, Gambit & Gambit Prime playlists and other “select annual pass content”.

The Bungie Destiny 2 stream is in full swing and it’s started with a bang. Luke Smith has categorically said that it is an action MMO and, despite dodging the “MMO term for years”, it is what it is. The commitment is to continue to improve RPG and social elements in the coming years.

Ahead of today’s Bungie live stream event, it appears that an inadvertent “oops” moment at Engadget (& its WoW Insider URL) has revealed that a free-to-play announcement may be incoming for Destiny 2. The now-pulled article is titled “Destiny 2 is now free-to-play, including its year-one expansion”. In addition, the article’s first paragraph indicates that the expansion content would be landing on September 17th.