Destiny 2 | Lightfall: No Carpenter Brut, no Sale

The expansion revolves around the exiled Cabal emperor Calus

now a Disciple of the Witness,

the Witness

Shadow Legion Cabal and Tormentors

attack the secret, technologically advanced human city of Neomuna on Neptune

But amid this quality and consistency, Destiny 2 can sometimes feel too predictable. While some consistency is necessary for us to be able to regularly update the game and prevent players from having to relearn Destiny every three months, as well as to maintain our team health and sustainability, it is clear that too much predictability has created a lack of surprise and delight by the time some of our major game updates get into your hands.

Aside from predictability, we sometimes still hear a refrain that has been sung since the beginning of our journey: “There’s just not enough to do.” While there is plenty happening at the start of an expansion or seasonal drop, by the end of a season we often see our most engaged players lamenting that they have run out of things to sink their teeth into.

This is not a problem that one more strike or an additional map can solve. Destiny 2 has an incredible amount of content. But sometimes not all our content is as rewarding or engaging as we’d like, and sometimes you just can’t find anyone to play it with.

So, with the issues laid out in front of us, we created four big goals for Destiny 2 leading up to The Final Shape:

[*]Expand players’ imaginations
[*]Bring challenge back to Destiny
[*]Enrich our content
[*]Connect our Guardians

[*]To create independent chases for both crafted and non-crafted weapons starting with Lightfall, fewer of our total weapons will be craftable and more of our weapons with long term sources will get value from random perk rolls.
[*]To allow these non-crafted weapons to stand toe-to-toe with crafted weapons in Lightfall, in the year of Lightfall more and more of our non-crafted weapons (starting with new raid Adepts this year) will have the ability to be enhanced.
[*]Enhancing allows your dropped weapon to start leveling up, use mementos, and gain access to both enhanced perks and enhanced intrinsic properties, but only the enhanced versions of the perks and Masterwork that are already on the version of the weapon you are enhancing.
[*]Simply said, with some time and resources, enhancing allows you to take the random rolled weapon you’ve obtained and enhance its existing roll to match the full power of a crafted weapon.

In Season of Defiance, we’re looking at getting Countdown back into the game along with a respawn variant of the game mode we call Countdown Rush, where players must detonate/defuse both bombs on the map before the round ends. We also aim to run a series of Crucible Labs, including a mode where the player sandbox is dramatically changed. Weapon damage, ability uptime, and even ammo are all adjusted in a new mode tentatively titled "Checkmate Control." This mode will reward players who use their smarts and their skills. So, if the only way the enemy has been able to shut you down in the past is a solo Blade Barrage, they might be in trouble. This isn’t all we have planned for modes, so keep your eyes on Labs for more classic and all-new modes later this year.

In matchmaking, we still don't feel we have nailed the trade-off between fair matches and good connections. We still need to get features like Dynamic Skill Ranges in-game to allow for players across all skill levels to get consistently high-quality connections in their matches. As we continue to adjust algorithms to improve connection qualities, we are also turning our eyes toward lobby balancing, where we aim to construct matches with a more consistent skill spread amongst players on both teams.

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Bungie embraces the use of external accessibility aids that enable an experience the game designers intended but will take action, including bans, on people who abuse these tools specifically to gain an advantage over other players.

“External accessibility aides” are any device or input that augments the player’s ability to control the game beyond what the game itself normally provides. This includes, but is not limited to, programmable controllers, keyboard and mouse adapters, advanced macros, or automation via artificial intelligence.