Destiny 2’s present content material season, the Season of the Wish, is not fairly accomplished with its story. Regardless of seeming to wrap up its narrative final week, in response to developer Bungie, there’s extra to return on the finish of January.
Bungie dropped just a few hints about what we will anticipate from the continuing Season of the Wish in its weekly This Week In Destiny weblog submit. The particulars, as all the time, are a bit of skinny, however Bungie mentioned explicitly that the story for the season is just not but accomplished. Extra story content material is coming “earlier than you suppose,” in response to the submit. That is following final week’s story beat, which appeared to conclude the weekly missions and story content material advancing the sport’s seasonal narrative.
Gamers may even get a brand new twist on the season’s actions beginning on January 30. Along with the bounties you’ll be able to full within the Riven’s Lair and The Coil actions, Bungie says it is including Riven’s Needs, a brand new weekly pursuit, to your choices. Full the week’s goals and you will get to decide on your reward from a loot pool. There will likely be a brand new pursuit every week for six weeks, taking gamers all the way in which into March.
Additionally launching on January 30 is Moments of Triumph, Destiny 2’s annual lookback at gamers’ biggest achievements by way of the final yr. That’ll embrace 30 challenges spanning all of the actions of 2023, so anticipate to revisit dungeons, raids, and seasonal actions. Doing so will earn you new Triumph rewards, which normally embrace glowing, customizable armor, in addition to some real-world Bungie rewards you can buy.
With the delay of Destiny 2’s subsequent growth, The Closing Form, from February to June 4, the Season of the Wish has been stretched into the sport’s longest, which has the potential to depart numerous downtime as gamers wait for brand spanking new content material to hit the sport. Bungie beforehand introduced it had plans to maintain the neighborhood engaged with Into The Mild, a “two-month content material replace” scheduled to drop in April.
Nonetheless, issues are in a significant lull for Destiny 2 for the time being. The Season of the Wish had an attention-grabbing story, however the recreation at present feels prefer it lacks the stakes that needs to be constructing because it nears the conclusion of its 10-year story arc. With The Closing Form nonetheless far sooner or later, Bungie could have a tricky time maintaining gamers engaged over the following 4 months.