Latest TL;DR: Lightfall and the Year Ahead
On Seasons:
- Season name revealed: Season of Defiance
- Umbral Engrams and Umbral Energy is going away. Seasonal engrams will stay on vendor, as to not clogging inventory.
- Holding large stacks of seasonal currency is going away. Keys instead. (More of a bonus than requirement)
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Fewer, more potent seasonal upgrades (reduce the grid)
- Second Season name: Season of the Deep
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This season will have no grid-based vendor upgrades (same with season after this one)
- Number next to username no longer Season Pass ranks, now shows Guardian Rank.
On Weapon Crafting:
- Less total patterns, more good random rolls, and the ability to level up and enhance certain random rolled weapons.
- You will only see red-bordered weapons for weapons you need pattern progress for.
- There will be a way (in the season after (Deep)) to activate deepsight on any craftable weapon you don’t have the pattern for.
On Keeping Secrets:
- Generally, more details will be shown ahead of time. (Think how Haunted was revealed day of, less like that in the future)
On Bringing the Challenge Back to Destiny
- Abilities will be tuned, see previous blog posts. (TL;DR abilities too strong, will be tuned)
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Some mod costs are being tweaked.
- If you liked the difficulty of the Heist Battlegrounds playlist, you’re going to like this:
- The same difficulty tweak will come to the Season of Defiance’s Battleground playlist and the Vanguard Ops playlist. (Though not as much in Vanguard Ops obviously.)
- Basically adjusting how over-leveled the Guardian can be compared to enemies.
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Also will apply to Neomuna’s patrol area.
- Power: Will be changed in Final Shape, but…
- After a normal power jump at the start of Lightfall, there are no plans to raise the Power or Pinnacle cap for the Season after launch (Deep).
On Enriching Content
- PVP:
- Countdown returns and a new Countdown Rush mode.
- More labs + maps (Meltdown in second season, new Vex map in S22, Citadel returns in last season)
- There will be three Iron Banners per Season.
- More details in post.
- EXOTIC MISSION ROTATOR
- Arrives in Season 22 (ref: 19 is Seraph)
- Will start with Presage, Vox Obscura, and Operation: Seraph’s Shield.
- Weekly rotation.
- More missions in the future? (Hopefully)
- Strikes
- Lake of Shadows and Arms Dealer are being majorly reworked.
- Exodus Crash and The Inverted Spire are getting reduced appearances in Vanguard Ops playlist and removed from Nightfall rotation. (Returns to normal when updated)
- Still can be directly launched.
- Current Battlegrounds (Seraph and PsiOps) will join the Vanguard Ops playlist.
- AND some Battlegrounds will join the Nightfall rotation. (Starting with Mars Heist for launch season (Defiance))
- In future seasons: (Slow burn over the year)
- Moving earning exotic armor back to ritual playlists. (At least for initial earning)
- No longer asking for all three pursuit weapon ornaments for Seasonal Challenges
- Allowing players to earn more new rewards and complete more of their weekly challenges by playing content of their choice, not just in the newest seasonal activity playlist
- Connect our Guardians:
- Commendations will have special ones for certain modes.
- Nice Chat
- Game-wide text chat is moving to opt-out, from opt-in.
- There will be an opt-out setting and a temporary opt-out as well.
- Planning to invest in more features for text chat.
- Fireteam Finder:
- Delayed to last season of the year with the dungeon
- They want to make sure it’s good.
All TL;DRs in chronological order
Other posts
| Date | Post |
|---|---|
| Jun 18th, 2021 | Introducing TWABL;DR |
What?
These are summaries of blog posts from the video game developer Bungie. This site mainly focuses on the weekly This Week at Bungie series, but other blog posts are summarized when desired. There summaries are targed towards Destiny 2 players who are familar with the game. I will do my best to put spoiler tags on any major reveals that happen in a given week, but I would always recommend being caught up on any weekly story quests before reading a TL;DR or TWAB.
Why?
I write these for my clan every week and post them in our Discord, figured others would want a TL;DR as well. This is also a chance for me to learn more about GitHub Pages and Jekyll.