A new DLC “House of Wolves” will be released for the MMO shooter Destiny in a good week. It will bring a fresh Strike for three players: Shadow Thief. We will take a look at it in the video.
In addition to the Crucible maps, Trials of Osiris, and Prison of Elders with “House of Wolves” comes a new Strike. It is called “Shadow Thief” and is expected to be relatively short. Experts estimate it should last about 10 minutes. We have a video from you, where YouTuber Datto tackled the Strike with 2 buddies during his visit to Bungie:
The three players are playing the “normal variant”, so it is not extremely challenging. However, the Strike could become the new “Nightfall” as early as next week. That is at least the expectation. And then it will probably be tougher. Whether it is also the new “Heroic Weekly”, by the way, is still unknown. From next week on, they are supposed to be separate from each other. One Strike will be Nightfall, another “Heroic Weekly.”
- It looks like Dinklebot also has no text for this expansion; the announcements are made by Variks, who also commented on the “Prison of Elders”, but Variks only has a few lines of text and then a pause, the communication is disrupted – typical Starship Enterprise problem.
- In the Strike, you will encounter Taniks several times, the final boss, similar to Omnigul, who appears multiple times along the way to the end. He engages in shootouts with the Guardians and challenges them. The life energy you take from him during the first encounters is missing at the end.
- In the first passage of “Shadow Thief”, there is a reunion with the Hive, the dominant enemies from the first Destiny DLC; the rest of the way, Fallen appear as opponents.
- The first boss battle is against a blue Walker, the ones with the design flaw: The legs are Monday models. During the fight, exploding Shanks will also appear for the first time, a type of suicide drone.
- The final boss is just as you would imagine: While you have to fend off waves of enemies, you also get the chance to chip away at the HP of Taniks, who is shooting rockets, after his demise, you will have a brief moment to play with his Scorch Cannon, the relic weapon.
All in all, according to the experts, it is a normal, action-oriented, typical Destiny Strike that is fun but doesn’t blow you away. Maybe it will be different with modifiers. By the way, there will most likely be no “PlayStation-exclusive” Strike this time.
The new DLC House of Wolves is set to shine on May 19 at 7:00 PM. There are now crazy amounts of news about Destiny. If you want to stay up to date, check out our Destiny theme page, so you won’t miss anything.
