The seasons of Destiny 2 will work differently this year

Destiny 2 is about to get big changes with his next Shadow guard extension, released on October 1st. So big changes that developer Bungie has chosen to tell us slowly, step by step, through long blog posts of the director of the game, Luke Smith.

Smith published this week an article describing destinyNew approach to its seasonal structure and its changes are substantial. Here is what the landscape of the country will look like Shadow guard launches:

• The seasons will now have a more predictable structure, each with a unique activity that will bring you seasonal loot and some effect on the game world. In the everlasting season that begins Oct. 1, for example, Vex will invade the Moon, presumably for reasons related to history, and when this season is over, they will be gone and this story will be complete.
• There are now four seasons a year instead of three, every 10 weeks. In addition, players can buy individual seasons for $ 10 instead of having to buy an annual pass if they wish to participate.
• The seasons will now come with seasonal ranks that will reward specific loot at specific levels. There is a free track and a bonus for buyers of the season. Naturally, the bonus offers more rewards that you can earn faster.
• Only paid players will have access to every seasonal event, where the best loot of the season will fall – or at least, better reels of this season's loot.
• The new Seasonal Artifact (which all players will receive) allows players to unlock seasonal mods that apply to the entire account, allowing them to choose from a set of unique buffs that, while currently mysterious, could be a little more experimental than standard mods improves recharge times or improves the accuracy of weapons. The artifact can also be upgraded to increase the power it adds to your character and has no level limit. Each season will have a new artifact, and the old will become obsolete.

Throughout the message, Smith notes that some of these plans are very fluid and subject to change – such as the speed at which free players can gain loot, and how Destiny 2 could offer seasonal ranking increases to allow you to catch up with other players. (Smith says that it is currently planned to offer late adopters rank increases in the last weeks of the season.) There is reason to be wary, but little about destiny It never really sounded like a paper, especially when Smith is frustratingly referring to new anonymous features that can not yet be revealed because of the spoilers.

All this might seem a little more logical with an example. Here's how Smith sees things unfold, using the previous year Destiny 2 content to illustrate future changes. It all starts with a countdown to the beginning of a season, which culminates in the arrival of Ada-1 and the season of the forge.

The Director's Season Pass is up-to-date, the rewards are revealed and now, Ada and his players are starting a long-standing experience refining forges around the world, completing bonuses, finding hardware, working on Black Armory armor and taking charge the new raid, Scourge of the past. In a twist, Datto and his group are the first to finish.

As players work together to forge weapons early on the track, forge and build new ones, the room around Ada begins to change. Schematic data of the players' work gives rise to new weapons and mods that players can create. Not all of these weapons and mods need to play seasonal activities – some of them end up in new encounters with strikes, others are forged in Last Wish (like Blackwing Lair's Alchemy Lab). .

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Very late in the season, players realize that the Ada room looks to be packed. She goes. The patterns behind it have disappeared. In a few weeks, she stores her equipment and disappears during an event similar to that of her arrival. Ada, her goods and her forges are gone.

Banshee-44 reminds the players that even though Ada is gone, she has left him drawings of his weapons and armor and will change them over time.

We have another full month to go before Shadow guard. It's a long time to learn even more things, such as how they will repair Strike playlists, so that I do not have to run the arms dealer every time.