Bungie to Undo Controversial 'Sunsetting' of Destiny 2 Weapons | Push Square
26.04.2024 - 10:45
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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).“
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Destiny will live on beyond The Final Shape
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.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
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?