Destiny 2 brings back Shadow Engrams, adds golden titles for Season 13

In Bungie’s weekly blog post, the studio showcased two new features for Destiny 2 13th season, coming early next month. Players will be able to earn more Shadow Engrams – a much loved feature of the Arrivals Season – and they’ll benefit from a new feature called “Gilding,” which will allow dedicated players to win back titles in-game to make them equal. more special.

The Destiny 2 Arrivals season introduced the Umbral Engram, a special item that dropped enemies and certain activities. Players could simply open their new Engrams to get Arrivals Season items, but the loot pool was quite large, making it unlikely that they would get exactly what they wanted. So instead of opening it right away, players could bring those Shadow Engrams to a tower station called Prismatic Recaster. There, they could spend money to concentrate their Shadow Engrams, thus limiting the number of items they could become.

Instead of being a piece of armor or weapons, players could focus their Umbral Engram to be just weapons. Or, after upgrading the system, they could focus their default Ombral Engram on one that could only drop a sword or bow. It basically became a way for dedicated gamers to remove some randomness in their quest for the perfect weapon.

This system will return in Season 13 – the theme Bungie has yet to disclose. Players can obtain Shadow Engrams from:

• Patrols
• Strikes
• Crucible
• Gambit
• Nightfall: the ordeal
• Public events
• Blind well
• Nightmare hunts
• Exo challenges
• Empire Hunt
• The new seasonal activity
• The enemy kills

While there are plenty of ways to get Shadow Engrams, Bungie promises there won’t be as many of them as Arrivals Season. Starting in Season 13, players can take these Shadow Engrams to a new Prismatic Roulette wheel – which requires a one-time quest to teach players how to use it – to decode them into this season’s new weapons. The stated objective here is to give players a chance to get hold of new weapons regardless of the type of game they are playing.

But Umbral Engrams and the new Prismatic Caster won’t just exist as part of Season 13. Bungie plans to update the system throughout Year 4, even adding new pages for each season, so that the players can get new rewards whenever they want. There will also be a new currency called Prismatic Lense, which will allow players to further focus their Shadow Engrams.

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In addition to Shadow Engrams, players will finally have a chance to “brown” their Title Seals. In Destiny 2: Forsaken, Bungie has added Seals and Titles to the game. After players complete a set of objectives, they unlock a Seal, which grants players a title that displays under their in-game username. These titles are currently a one-time reward – once you have it, you have it. But starting next season, players can upgrade some Seals to really show off.

For the four seals that are linked Destiny 2The main activities of the offering – Unbroken, Dredgen, Conqueror and Flawless – players can complete new Triumphs each season, earning this seal. Gilding a Seal adds a new border around it in the UI, tracks the number of times you’ve gilded the Seal in previous seasons, and changes the title color in-game.

In the blog, Bungie used Flawless as an example – the title Trials of Osiris. Going forward, players who complete Flawless will be able to complete new Triumphs or repeat for Flawless Gold, granting all of the rewards mentioned above. Some of these Triumphs are identical to the Base Seal, while others require you to obtain a certain number of Saint-14 rewards before the season ends. Players will have until the end of each season to earn their favorite title. At the end of the season, the gilding progress will reset and the new title color will revert to purple.

The new Umbral Engram system and Title Seal gilding will appear in Season 13, which is set to go live on February 9, according to the in-game clock.