In Destiny 2, Bungie has new plans for the Prestige Raids. A loadout mode is set to increase replayability!
For weeks, many Guardians have been wondering what is happening with the Prestige mode of the World Eater Raid. It should have gone live by now, right?
Recently, Bungie addressed this: The World Eater content will not be available in Prestige mode until May. It will therefore take a little while longer.
Now Senior Designer Joe Blackburn explains why the Prestige mode has been postponed to such a late date.
Loadout mode is set to enhance the raid content
The reason for the delay: Bungie does not want to release the Prestige mode of the World Eater track in its current form. They want to take a few steps further and create new ways to increase difficulty and replayability.
This is the new plan:
- In the future, all raid activities will have a normal mode that is always active
- and each week, one raid activity will have a special loadout mode
This loadout mode represents the new version of a Prestige raid. You will still face deadly enemies, but you must also meet certain loadout requirements. Modifiers are also active.
Blackburn mentions three hypothetical examples for such loadout mode raids:
- Raid Activity: World Eater
- Modifier: Master Marksman: Precision damage is increased. With each precision shot, ammunition is added to the magazine.
- Required Loadout:
- Kinetic: Hand Cannon
- Energy: Scout Rifle
- Power: Linear Fusion Rifle
- Raid Activity: “Expansion II” Raid Track
- Modifier: Gladiator: Melee damage is increased and melee kills recharge your super.
- Required Loadout:
- Kinetic: Handgun
- Energy: Submachine Gun
- Power: Shotgun
- Raid Activity: World Eater
- Modifier: Leadership: Each kill before reloading or switching weapons grants ability energy.
- Required Loadout:
- Kinetic: Auto Rifle
- Energy: Risky
- Power: Grenade Launcher
This is not the actual content plan, as Bungie is usually reluctant to provide information about raid content in advance, but the examples give an idea of what this mode could look like.
The World Eater raid track will not receive any special changes to encounters. The Prestige version has no new raid mechanics to offer.
All Prestige changes in the Leviathan raid will be active when you play the loadout difficulty.
The goals of this new Loadout Prestige mode according to Blackburn are to
- provide Guardians with new experiences with raid content every week,
- give them new reasons to try out different weapons
- and deliver new rewards to chase.
These changes are planned for May. However, it may also happen that they get pushed back further, as they are significant changes.
What do you think about this loadout mode?
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