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Destiny 2’s upcoming Into the Light free content material drop is getting one other new exercise for gamers to tackle with their groups: a boss-rush mode referred to as Pantheon.
Bungie revealed just a few particulars in regards to the new mode, together with details about returning Unique missions, throughout its closing livestream detailing what to anticipate from Into the Light, which releases on April 9. In Pantheon you will “face grueling raid bosses in a weekly problem escalating problem and rewards,” in accordance with Bungie. That sounds prefer it’ll embrace a rotating listing of bosses, and you can take them on both with a staff you type or one you get from Destiny 2’s on the lookout for group characteristic, Fireteam Finder. That final bit means that, like raids, you will not be capable to publicly matchmake into Pantheon, doubtless as a result of it will be too powerful with random teammates.
What is not clear, at the least proper now, is the place these bosses will probably be sourced from–whether they will be bosses from at present obtainable raids or embrace these we have seen in raids which are not within the recreation, like Leviathan, Scourge of the Previous, or Crown of Sorrow. GameSpot has reached out to Bungie for clarification and can replace this story when we’ve extra info.
As for rewards, the livestream urged you can pull some high-quality and even extraordinarily uncommon objects from Pantheon, together with rewards you might need missed prior to now. Bungie talked about Exotics, adept weapons, and “emblems you won’t have gotten your arms on,” which makes it sound such as you’ll have entry to raid-specific rewards. That might additionally embrace rewards from previous raids, giving gamers an opportunity to get some weapons and symbols that have not been obtainable since earlier than the discharge of the Past Light enlargement in 2020.
Bungie mentioned it will launch extra details about Pantheon in an upcoming This Week at Destiny weblog put up, which is more likely to reply these lingering questions, however we do not know precisely when these solutions will come. We do know that the Pantheon exercise will probably be obtainable on April 30, three weeks after the launch of Into the Light–so you will have a while to gear up for it.
Into the Light can be bringing just a few different modifications to how Destiny 2 works, which Bungie introduced alongside the Pantheon mode particulars. A giant one for gamers becoming a member of the sport for Into the Light forward of Destiny 2’s subsequent massive enlargement, The Remaining Form, is a change to the new-player onboarding course of, referred to as New Light.
At present, new gamers can work by means of the New Light storyline with a purpose to study the ropes of Destiny 2 and unlock character subclasses and some Unique weapons and armor. Into the Light gives you the choice to skip New Light if you be a part of the sport, and as an alternative go on to the “entrance traces.”
While you select to skip New Light, you can unlock a personality subclass and go on to Into the Light’s new social house, the Corridor of Heroes, the place you possibly can decide up the Reward of the Thunder Gods, a chest filled with high-level armor and the Unique machine gun Thunderlord, which is able to immediately carry your character as much as the mushy stage cap. At that time, you will be in combating form for a lot of the new Into the Light content material.
With Pantheon releasing just a few weeks later, it appears doubtless the extent for that content material will probably be nearer to the exhausting stage cap, so new gamers will nonetheless have to grind Pinnacle rewards with a purpose to increase their energy to tackle the brand new high-level exercise.
Lastly, Bungie introduced that Into the Light is getting its personal Triumph seal, which gamers can earn forward of the discharge of The Remaining Form. Incomes the entire seal’s Triumphs will get you a brand new title: Courageous.
Bungie is perhaps executed with Into the Light livestreams, however there’s yet another stream coming quickly, which is able to cowl gameplay in The Remaining Form. That stream is slated for 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET on April 7 on Bungie’s Twitch channel and on YouTube.