Destiny 2’s new enlargement, The Fringe of Destiny, is bringing a complete lot of latest gear and actions, together with quality-of-life enhancements to how you will truly play and earn all that stuff. One large change is coming to how you will earn the brand new Unique armors coming to the enlargement, a minimum of for a short time, due to a brand new vacation spot exercise coming with the enlargement.
Throughout its Fringe of Destiny livestream on July 1, Destiny 2 assistant sport director Robbie Stevens mentioned–in fairly obscure terms–a new three-player, matchmade vacation spot exercise that’ll be accessible within the sport’s new location, Kepler. Stevens did not title the exercise, as an alternative saying Bungie had hoped its arrival would “shock and delight” gamers, however did give a number of particulars about what it’s going to be like and the way it’ll work. Most notably, the brand new exercise will provide a possibility to earn new variations of the brand new Unique armor gadgets you will get from finishing the enlargement’s Legendary marketing campaign.
That makes the Kepler exercise a dependable solution to get particular Exotics, one thing that has been uncommon in Destiny 2. Incomes the Exotics from the vacation spot exercise will provide you with an opportunity to seize copies with totally different distributions of stats, which could be obligatory for gamers seeking to good their character loadouts. It sounds such as you’ll nonetheless want to finish the enlargement’s Legendary marketing campaign to get the prospect at these extra copies, nevertheless.
Stevens shared a number of different particulars in regards to the new exercise as properly. Whereas he stated it’s going to be a novel exercise, he additionally likened it to multi-stage vacation spot actions like Wellspring in Savathun’s Throne World and Vex Incursion in Neomuna. Each these actions see gamers preventing hordes at totally different factors across the vacation spot map. In keeping with Stevens, the Kepler exercise is “horde mode-inspired,” however it’ll even have mechanical components and boss encounters. The exercise can even make use of Kepler’s new vacation spot skills. These embrace Matterspark, which helps you to flip right into a ball of Arc power, Mattermorph, which lets you use darkish matter to maneuver sure objects round, creating pathways and platforms, and Relocator, a giant gun that allows you to take over Fallen teleporters to your personal ends.
Notably, the Kepler exercise can also be “technically time-limited,” Stevens stated. A node will seem on the Kepler vacation spot map to tell gamers of when the exercise shall be accessible to allow them to farm it, which makes it sound prefer it’ll probably run for brief durations of time earlier than going away, after which coming again once more. Stevens stated the exercise is linked to the story marketing campaign that takes place on Kepler–specifically towards its end–which gives the look that it will not be accessible till someday after the launch of The Fringe of Destiny, in order that gamers have time to work via the story earlier than leaping into it.
Take a look at different particulars from the Fringe of Destiny livestream, together with information about Destiny 2’s subsequent raid race and a have a look at how Matterspark will allow you to sequence break puzzles.