Marathon might be the Bungie game getting all the attention following last month’s big reveal, but the studio’s keen to remind everyone Destiny 2 is still a thing – and a thing it’s planning to support for a good long while. To that end, it’s now revealed Destiny 2’s next major multi-year story arc, which’ll include a paid Star Wars expansion before the end of the year.
Bungie first teased a major shake-up of Destiny 2’s release model last September, saying it would be ditching its traditional large-scale annual expansions and instead releasing two “medium-sized” paid expansions a year. And now, thanks to its latest developer stream, we’ve got a much clearer idea of what that’ll look like when the plan takes effect this July.
With Destiny 2’s decade-spanning Light and Dark Saga now officially concluded, Bungie has unveiled its next major story arc, the Fate Saga. It begins on 15th July with the Year of Prophecy and the launch of a new paid expansion, The Edge of Fate. “[This] is the start of a long journey,” the studio writes in its announcement post, “and we are taking our time to tell a new story that for now will leave you with many unanswered questions. Each expansion will help answer some, so having two a year will allow us to deliver those beats at a faster pace than before.”
Starting with The Edge of Fate, it takes players to a new destination known as Kepler, said to be inspired by “the puzzle-solving and pathfinding challenges of Destiny 2’s dungeons and destination design which encourages deep exploration, mystery, and player-driven discovery.” There’s talk of a new raid, plus new enemies, weapons, gear, and “destination-specific” abilities. The latter includes the Matterspark ability, enabling Guardians to change forms to navigate the terrain – with one of those forms looking a lot like Metroid’s Morph Ball.