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Report Says Destiny 2 Will Be A Massive Overhaul, Might Not Bring Your Characters Over And Is Coming To PC

Published Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:59:21 -0500

Rise of Iron seems to be going down fairly decently right now, as everyone is just excited to have a bunch of new content to play through in Destiny. However, everybody knows the currently unannounced Destiny 2 is incoming next year.

Well, a bunch of information seems to have just leaked from a few places. This started on NeoGAF with information someone heard from a friend, Kotaku seemed to corroborate quite a lot themselves (and they have an excellent track record with this franchise), before serial leaker Shinobi then waded in dropping a whole bunch of information too

There is a lot to wade though, but firstly, and most simply, they all say Destiny 2 is coming to PC. That opens the franchise up to the platform and that is a great thing.

On top of that, it seems the game is getting a huge overhaul in its engine. This is to move away from the original game that was marred by last gen consoles.

Shinobi said:

They're going to do more open playspaces that incorporate towns, outposts, etc into more common areas. This means fewer hardlines for areas and having them be gated by menus. Goal is to have players conducting things & making activity decisions while still in control of their character, instead of having to exit out into an activity hub. Think of how in WoW, you hit a button and queue into activities you want to do all while still playing your character.

Kotaku say these changes are so drastic, that it's possible that characters players own in the first game may not even carry over.

Shinobi also says that old areas could come back, but they don't really work in the framwork of Destiny 2 in their current state. He also says that Destiny 2 will take Guardians to Saturn, and that the planet is currently as big as all the other areas currently in the game combined.

Now, take all of this with a grain of salt, but these outlets of information have a proven track record for stuff like this. Every one has little differences on what they are saying, so it's worth keeping that in mind. Shinobi for example doesn't say anything about losing your Guardians, which I know would be a huge issue for a lot of people.

This is a lot of information to pour over, and I like some and not other things here. What ever happens, even though Destiny isn't the game many thought it would be at launch, it has now forged its own unique DNA. I hope it doesn't lose that with such a drastic overhaul.

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