Last summer, Bungie introduced the Destiny Content Vault as part of its roadmap for the popular game going forward. The vault was presented as a way to reduce the game size both in terms of maintaining the title and also the space it takes up on players' hard drives, among other things. The company is back with an update about the DCV and how it'll be used with the game's next big update.
If you've encountered cheaters during your time with Destiny 2, then here's some good news for you: the game is getting anti-cheat in the near future. Fans have apparently been asking for some form of anti-cheat to be implemented after encountering cheaters in Destiny 2's multiplayer modes. While Bungie has taken efforts to curtail cheating in Destiny 2, those efforts have traditionally stopped short of implementing anti-cheat software.
Destiny 2 fans have been waiting a long time for The Witch Queen, which is the game's next expansion. The expansion was originally supposed to arrive sometime this year, but like so many other in-development games, it was eventually delayed because of the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. While The Witch Queen won't be launching until early 2022 now, it may not be very long before we learn more about it.
It seems that Microsoft isn't the only company getting into the appliance game. Bungie is joining Microsoft in rolling out an appliance of its own, today opening up pre-orders for the official Destiny toaster. Destiny fans were promised that Bungie would look into offering a Destiny toaster last year after a fundraising live stream hit a certain donation goal, and now what was once a meme has become a reality.
Earlier this month, some lucky Destiny 2 players got a brief glimpse that the cross-play functionality that's heading to the game, but as cross-play was sent live as part of a bug, it was quickly clawed away from them by Bungie. If that makes you, as a Destiny 2 player with friends spread across platforms, sad, then here's some good news: Cross-play will soon be coming back to Destiny 2 for a limited-time beta test, and this time it'll be arriving intentionally.
MMOs have never really gone away but they have definitely moved on from cookie-cutter RPGs. Some of the most popular ones like Destiny 2 do have RPG elements but focus more heavily on the cooperative and competitive aspects of gameplay. As massive as these worlds may be, however, some of them are still confined within the worlds of their respective platforms, even if they're actually available on multiple ones. Destiny 2 finally breaks down those barriers with Cross-Play support that just went live well ahead of its estimated launch date.
This week Bungie reaffirmed their dedication to Destiny 2 and the entire Destiny IP in a major way. They've revealed that they'll be expanding their Bellevue, WA headquarters, investing in new key talent, and welcomed new members to the Bungie Board of Directors "from the Entertainment and Media Industry." Keep this moment in your mind - it may be a key point at which Bungie pushed Destiny beyond the borders of a traditional game, into the multi-media stratosphere.
Destiny 2 has seen a lot of major changes in the last 23 months alone. After it split from Activision, Bungie quickly recovered ground to make the controversial launch of the game nothing more than a distant memory. It will be competing for attention and gamer time with all the new games have that launched in the past few weeks, especially Cyberpunk 2077, but fans of the online sci-fi shooter still have a lot to look forward to, like the upcoming crossplay support. Before that happens, though, Bungie is addressing the white elephant in the room and requiring SMS verification on PCs in an attempt to curb cheating.
It's a big day for Destiny 2, as Bungie is rolling out the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 enhancement patches for the game. Not only that, but the company has finally confirmed that crossplay is on the way, allowing fans to play with friends on other platforms. Unfortunately, it sounds like there could be quite a wait yet for crossplay despite this confirmation, so you might want to settle in for a little bit.
Destiny 2 is now free to play via Google Stadia. Google announced today that they released Destiny 2 to their Stadia system for all to play. This includes both Stadia Pro and the free tier Stadia, which means you could potentially play Destiny 2 right now, free and clear. Just so long as you have a mobile device, or you have an Xbox or PlayStation controller, or you have a laptop, you can, potentially, play Destiny 2 as of now, with Stadia.
This week Bungie released a major update to Destiny 2, including changes to Rewards, Player Identity, Combat, Activities, and more. In the "more" category are a bunch of items for PC gamers - like NVIDIA cards adding the ability to take advantage of NVIDIA Reflex, "reducing click-to-display latency during gameplay."
We've known for a while now that Destiny 2 is going to launch on next-generation consoles, and today, Bungie announced just when those next-generation versions will arrive. In addition, the company detailed what we can expect out of each next-gen version of the game, detailing resolution and framerate targets for the Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PlayStation 5.