Destiny 2 is ready for what developer Bungie has known as “main modifications” as it really works to win again gamers amid troubling occasions on the studio.
The dwell service first-person shooter, presently seeing its lowest concurrent participant depend ever on PC platform Steam, will undertake a brand new mannequin transferring ahead that features the discharge of two medium-sized expansions and 4 main free content material updates yearly, Bungie mentioned.
“This evolution goals to improve the participant expertise by way of a brand new multi-year saga, introducing a non-linear story, extra systemic innovation, and important enhancements to core recreation actions and rewards,” Bungie mentioned.
This new growth mannequin kicks off with Codename Apollo, a nonlinear character-driven journey due out in the summertime of 2025. The winter 2025 growth is Codename Behemoth, with the fourth main replace of the 12-month interval following the discharge of Codename Apollo due out spring 2026. Every growth contains new tales, places, missions, weapons, gear, raids, and dungeons.
The information arrives following a interval of hypothesis and unrest throughout the Destiny neighborhood concerning the franchise’s future at Bungie. Uncertainty grew when the Sony-owned studio introduced it could reduce 220 employees in late July, with a further 155 staff deliberate to transfer from Bungie into Sony Interactive Leisure within the coming months. That left the developer with round 850 staff.
“I notice all of that is exhausting information, particularly following the success we now have seen with The Ultimate Form,” controversial studio head Pete Parsons mentioned in an announcement. “However as we’ve navigated the broader financial realities over the past 12 months, and after exhausting all different mitigation choices, this has grow to be a mandatory resolution to refocus our studio and our enterprise with extra lifelike objectives and viable financials.”
Bloomberg then reported that Bungie would transfer away from giant expansions and as an alternative give attention to smaller, probably free updates for Destiny 2. Bungie reportedly has no plans for Destiny 3 and has canceled a Destiny spinoff venture identified as Payback. Growth on its Marathon revival is claimed to nonetheless be ongoing.
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