Bungie Wants To Hear The Giant ‘Destiny 2’ Changes You Want To See, Here Are Mine

In the midst of some tough instances at Bungie and for Destiny 2 this previous 12 months, Bungie has now blown open the doorways and is now checking off an inventory of issues that gamers have been asking for, fairly actually for years, if not a full decade, from the sequence.

Horde mode? Done. Returning basic unique missions? Here. Cross-account energy positive factors? Yup. Friends auto-powering as much as play collectively? Coming. Unsunsetting each outdated weapon within the recreation? Check. Hell, favorting shaders? They obtained it.

Now, Community lead Cozmo is asking gamers what else they need, as Bungie has now shifted into genie-granting want mode with executives now seeming open to listening to each gamers and the builders relaying these issues, beforehand seeing many ignored.

So, what ought to be subsequent on the listing? I imply they’ve finished an absolute ton recently however:

Unlimited Transmog – Time to eliminate the goofiest transmog system within the business, a cap on earned transmog every season and a proposal to pay $10 per armor set to transmog the remainder. Just no. Stop. This jogs my memory of once they had been promoting consumable shaders, and neglect it. Just make it so whenever you discover armor, you possibly can transmog it. Stop with this absurd system simply to attempt to squeeze extra cash from a stone.

World Drop Armor – I’m uninterested in getting world drop armor at this level, which is probably not as prevalent or annoying as blues had been, however they could as nicely be blues on condition that they’re 100% not helpful for therefore many gamers. I get that still-leveling gamers may want it however once more, when you hit the cap to make blues cease dropping, you must make world armor cease dropping too. Don’t scale back drops, however change them with weapons.

Armor/Weapon Encounter Chests – This may very well be one thing in dungeons or raids pulled from how The Coil has dealt with this. Allow gamers to choose a reward between getting armor from an encounter or getting weapons, which might make farming a lot much less annoying for these actions on condition that they’re two totally separate grinds.

Ping System – Another quite common request and one that may be roughly 50 instances extra helpful than simply vaguely emoting whenever you need different gamers to do factor with out a mic. Emotes ought to be in a wheel anyway and never taking on your entire D-pad.

Return The Missing Planets – Bungie is doing a little good work taking quite a lot of issues out of the vault like these unique missions, but it surely’s time to start out getting the outdated zones again within the recreation that had been beforehand deleted, ideally with their strikes in tow. If we’re undoing outdated errors, that’s one among them. I don’t know if asking for each single marketing campaign mission and raid is viable, however the zones themselves? Yes. Specifically, lore-wise, after The Witness is defeated, that may make sense.

Tribute Hall – Perhaps not the precise one (however certain why not) however we do want a spot for weapon testing that isn’t pinging these little floaties within the crafting chamber. We misplaced plenty of issues on Leviathan however that was a very vital one.

More Face Cosmetic Options – If you’re going to hassle letting gamers re-do their faces and genders now, for the love of god, add extra choices there. Many of those are unchanged from a full decade in the past, as nearly all of it was ported from Destiny 1. Time for an replace if facial re-arranging is now a factor (and sure, additionally time for beards).

New Gambit Maps – I’ll die on this hill. Gambit remains to be enjoyable. It’s the perfect state it’s been in. It can be a useless skeleton on the backside of the pool. It wants any quantity of assets dedicated to it and ought to be allowed to exist as a viable ritual exercise as a substitute of 1 that has been hamstrung with actively eliminated maps over time. Returning one deleted map isn’t sufficient (is that even nonetheless occurring?).

New Onslaught Maps/Modes/Loot – I’ve spoken about this earlier than, but it surely’s clear Onslaught is successful, and it’s undoubtedly going to be value much more funding over time. Bungie shouldn’t ignore it long-term like they did with Dares simply because it’s free. You want good free actions!

Trying to keep away from monster issues like “unvault every piece of content” or “build a bunch of sparrow racing courses,” however that is what I obtained. Tell Cozmo you personal.

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