One in every of Destiny 2’s latest long-term actions, Onslaught, will see a brand new model, new maps, and some updates when the sport’s subsequent content material episode, Revenant, launches on October 8.
Bungie gave a have a look at the following main content material drop coming to the sport throughout a developer livestream, exhibiting off gameplay of a brand new model of Onslaught referred to as Onslaught: Salvation. It brings three new maps to the mode–including Widow’s Court docket, a multiplayer map set on Earth–as nicely as new batches of enemies and new defenses.
The brand new Onslaught is a model of the exercise centered on the episode’s story, which issues the Scorn–the undead alien enemies created by the Darkness again within the Forsaken growth in 2018. The story carries ahead the thread began on the finish of Destiny 2’s newest growth, The Remaining Form, and lined within the final episode, Echoes. The defeat of the Witness created highly effective artifacts referred to as Echoes, one in every of which was grabbed by Maya Sundaresh within the final episode and used to empower and uplift the Vex. In Revenant, one other Echo falls into the fingers of the Fanatic, the Scorn’s chief from Forsaken, and he is utilizing it to evolve the Scorn in new methods.
In sensible phrases, meaning Onslaught: Salvation will see you combating Scorn enemies, alongside their tenuous allies, the Darkness-aligned Cabal Shadow Legion. The Fanatic is attempting to develop his undead military all through the story, which implies he’ll want extra our bodies of Eliksni, the aliens in any other case referred to as the Fallen. In Onslaught: Salvation, you will not solely battle via waves of enemies like within the unique model of the mode, you will additionally tackle new goals that have you ever defeating Scorn bosses and liberating captured Eliksni–but what precisely the Fanatic is capturing them for, we do not know but.
Like the unique mode, Onslaught: Salvation will characteristic a 10-wave playlist model, a 50-wave full model, and a 50-wave Professional-difficulty model. You’ll be able to anticipate it to be just a little tougher than the unique Onslaught mode, too–Salvation is Energy level-enabled, that means the stats in your weapons and armor depend towards how highly effective and efficient you might be. Meaning the mode might be harder initially of the season as gamers work to degree up into the brand new Energy cap, which is 10 ranges larger than the present ones.
The mode will characteristic further and up to date defenses that will help you take care of the issue, although. These embrace a handbook turret gamers can use that hasn’t been seen within the sport because the moon in Destiny 1, an air strike you possibly can name in on enemies that is activated once they stroll over and set off it, and up to date journey mines that can now create Stasis fields, and when upgraded, Stasis crystals.
This could possibly be a reasonably emotional season, because the Scorn are the somewhat-inadvertent creation of Uldren Sov, who’s now the Guardian Crow. As Destiny logic goes, when somebody is resurrected as a Guardian, they lose the reminiscences of their former life, however due to earlier plot machinations, Crow has all of Uldren’s reminiscences, and he feels a deep duty to the Scorn and the terrible stuff they’re doing. It seems like Crow might be a significant presence on this episode due to all that story baggage.
Additionally exhibiting up fairly a bit in Revenant are our main Eliksni characters, Mithrax and his daughter Eido. You’ll be able to in all probability anticipate Eido to be this episode’s fundamental vendor, very similar to Failsafe was in Echoes. The primary new mechanical component of Revenant is crafting “tonics” with Eido which have particular results.
The tonics break down into two classes: fight and rewards. On the fight facet, the tonics you make will enhance the bonuses you get from this episode’s Artifact mods. The extra uncommon the parts you employ to make a tonic, the extra mods you may be capable of enhance directly, making it price chasing higher supplies and being attentive to what you are making.
The rewards tonics, in the meantime, will work equally to weapon attunement in Into the Gentle. Utilizing a reward tonic for a selected weapon will enhance its drops, and at larger rarities, you may be capable of get enhanced perks on these weapons. As in Into the Gentle, these attunements will not assure you will get the weapon to drop each time, however they will enhance the probability of favorable random drops as you play. Notably, although, the weapons on this episode should not craftable, so you will want tonics that will help you chase particular rolls.
As for the rewards in Revenant, anticipate quite a lot of weapons specializing in Stasis and synergy with Stasis builds. The livestream confirmed off the episode’s Season Go Unique weapon, a Stasis breech-loading grenade launcher, which is barely the second main ammo grenade launcher within the sport, after Preventing Lion. Its a robust launcher in its personal proper from seeing it in use on the stream, however its assist options is perhaps much more attention-grabbing. Racking up kills with the launcher generates floating “remnant” gadgets you possibly can choose up, very similar to with the Unique hand cannon Thorn, which costs up the weapon’s Unique perk. At 50% cost, you should utilize the weapon’s alternate reload characteristic to generate a brick of particular ammo in your teammates; at 100% cost, the gun generates heavy ammo.
Count on Stasis and grenade launchers to be a giant focus for the episode. Bungie confirmed off just a little little bit of what might be discovered on Revenant Act 1’s Artifact, and several other of the bonuses will enhance your Stasis builds and grenade launchers. One notable bonus is a revamped model of the fan-favorite perk Breach and Clear, now referred to as Concussive Reload, which causes your grenade launchers to inflict the weaken debuff on enemies.
Bungie additionally mentioned Ice Breaker, a robust Destiny 1 Unique sniper rifle that is lastly making its approach to Destiny 2. In its unique model, Ice Breaker would regenerate ammo over time however could not be reloaded, which was a bit messy for Destiny’s ammo financial system. The reprised model of the weapon seems to be to keep up the spotlight of getting a weapon with limitless up-time, however with out breaking the sport. In keeping with Bungie, the brand new Ice Breaker beneficial properties ammo whenever you get kills and assists with different weapons, so anticipate it to be a weapon you should utilize towards a boss for critical injury for an prolonged time frame, which you then generate ammo for by serving to your opponents slay enemies in between injury phases.
Bungie beforehand talked about that Revenant will see the addition of a revised Crucible map to the PvP rotation, and on the stream, builders famous a Strike is returning to the sport as nicely: the Inverted Spire on Nessus. The Strike has seen its encounters adjusted and revamped, and apparently, the addition of much more lasers to kill gamers.
Lastly, we acquired a fast have a look at one further component: a brand new skimmer board gamers can earn in-game. Skimmers are hoverboards that exchange your Sparrow as your private floor automobile, however they’re few and much between; the final time you may earn one in-game was throughout the Guardian Video games again in March. The brand new skimmer, dubbed The Xurfboard, might be purchasable from Xur for 97 Unusual Cash when the episode launches, so that you may wish to begin saving.
You’ll be able to watch Bungie’s full developer livestream, and see Onslaught: Salvation and different features of Revenant in motion, right here. In the meantime, Revenant launches on October 8, so if there’s something you continue to have to earn from Episode: Echoes, you solely have every week to take action.