Destiny 2 will change along with the endgame! Bungie lists 11 new features they are currently working on!
Christopher Barrett is the Game Director at Bungie, who has previously been responsible for the Destiny expansions “House of Wolves” and “The Taken King”. In Destiny 2, he has a lot to do again, as he is working with the live team to ensure that Destiny 2 will challenge and reward you in new ways soon.
In other words, he is bringing adjustments and innovations to the endgame to ensure that Guardians have something to do again.
These innovations are coming in the future
According to Barrett, Bungie has played a lot of Destiny 2 itself over the past 7 weeks, listened to community feedback, and thought about where the game will develop next.
He then lists some changes that Bungie is currently working on. He emphasizes that there are still no fixed dates for when these changes will be implemented in the game, but they want to give you a glimpse of what is coming:
- New systems and rewards are coming to provide the most dedicated players with additional goals / activities
- Better incentives are being created to tackle the challenging prestige activities
- Better rewards and higher replay value for strikes, adventures, and lost sectors are coming
- Private matches in the Crucible are on the way for the competitive community (Bungie aims for early 2018)
- A Crucible tuning is planned, such as adjusted control scoring and a better spawn system
- Better incentives are coming to complete Crucible matches (and there will be penalties for players who leave competitive games)
- Improvements to the Iron Banner and Faction Rally will continue, including unique rewards
- Changes are coming to make mods more interesting and meaningful
- Improvements to exotics, including reduction of duplicates
- New ways to spend excess currencies will be introduced (specifically legendary shards)
- A new emote interface is coming, allowing you to equip Salty, Spicy Noodles, Six Chambers, and Flip Out all at once. Community Manager Cozmo confirms that this applies not only to exotic emotes but to all.
Barrett states that there is more that Bungie is currently working on. They will talk about it soon.
Ttime says: At first glance, all this sounds fantastic. The endgame is improving, the Crucible is getting better, the exotics are improving, requested features like private matches and a new emote interface are coming. All things the community has been asking for since launch – and about which they have complained.
However, this list only shows that Bungie is aware of these issues and requests. Which changes will come concretely is still unknown. What will these systems and rewards look like in detail that will keep us engaged in the endgame? We will only find out in the future.
By the way: Next week, an update is coming that will bring 3 important changes to Destiny 2.
