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Destiny 2 has gotten a big expansion every year since it released, but 2021 will be different. Bungie announced today that The Witch Queen, originally planned to launch in the second half of this year, will be delayed until 2022 due to its size and ongoing issues around working from home during the covid-19 pandemic.
“As we began to scale production on the Witch Queen last year, we made the difficult but important decision to move its release to early 2022,” the studio wrote. “[W]e also realised we needed to add an additional unannounced chapter after Lightfall to fully complete our first saga of
What you need to know
In a new blog post, Destiny 2 developer Bungie has announced that Destiny 2 s next expansion, The Witch Queen, has been delayed to early 2022.
The developer cites the impact of COVID-19, a desire to flesh out Destiny 2 s systems more thoroughly in 2021, and the need for additional development time as reasons for the delay.
At the end of the post, early concepts for The Witch Queen armor sets were shown off.
Destiny 2 developer Bungie has announced in a new blog post that the game s next expansion, The Witch Queen, has been delayed to early 2022. It was originally going to launch in 2021, but Bungie stated that the impact of COVID-19, a desire to more thoroughly flesh out Destiny 2 s core systems, and a need for more development time pushed the studio to move the release date back.
What you need to know
In a new blog post, Destiny 2 developer Bungie has announced that sunsetting is being removed from Destiny 2.
This system limited how long players were able to use loot they earned in-game in high-level activities like Nightfalls, Raids, and competitive Crucible modes.
Effective immediately, all weapons and armor that can currently be infused to the current Power Level cap can be raised to future caps as well.
Players should expect some more significant balance tweaks from season to season now that sunsetting is gone, as Bungie wants to keep the game s metagame fresh.
Destiny 2 developer Bungie has announced in a new blog post that sunsetting, the controversial system that limited how long players could use a given weapon or armor in high-level activities such as Nightfall Strikes or Raids, is being removed moving forward. Specifically, Bungie has confirmed that any weapon or armor piece that can currently be infused up to the current Power Level cap (1310
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The Witch Queen to 2022, partly due to complications arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. With COVID-19 keeping us away from the office, and the large amount of work on our plates, we needed to move the date in order to make sure that both this year s updates and The Witch Queen were both delivered at the quality we strive for, and on a schedule that made sense for everyone involved, assistant game director Joe Blackburn wrote. The studio also realized it needs to add another chapter after
Lightfall (the expansion that was originally planned for 2022) to round out the first saga of Destiny.