{"id":23676,"date":"2020-06-11T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2593553"},"modified":"2020-06-11T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:49:00","slug":"bungie-outlines-next-two-years-of-destiny-2-says-no-plans-to-make-another-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/11\/bungie-outlines-next-two-years-of-destiny-2-says-no-plans-to-make-another-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bungie outlines next two years of Destiny 2, says no plans to make another sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span>Image: Bungie<\/small><\/p>\n

Game developer Bungie detailed the future roadmap of its sprawling online shooter Destiny 2 <\/em>on Tuesday in a Twitch live stream packed with news about where the game is going this fall and how the studio plans to support it once Microsoft’s and Sony’s new consoles arrive. Perhaps the biggest news was the announcement of not just one, but three new major expansions keeping the game active until at least 2022.<\/p>\n

Typically, Bungie’s Destiny <\/em>series, which first launched back in 2014 as the first new property from the creator of Halo<\/em>, has followed a somewhat consistent release cadence. It has involved smaller updates that are peppered in once every few months, all leading up to a major fall expansion. For Destiny 1<\/em>, the cycle lasted four years. The same has stayed true for Destiny 2<\/em>, which launched in 2017 and has had two major fall expansions since and a seasonal update model that Bungie has been tweaking to find the right formula.<\/p>\n

That appears to be changing, at least in a big picture sense. Bungie has rarely talked about its plans beyond the immediate year ahead. But game director Luke Smith announced today that Destiny 2<\/em> will see the Beyond Light <\/em>expansion this fall, releasing September 22nd, as well as The Witch Queen <\/em>in 2021 and Lightfall <\/em>in 2022. There are no release dates for those last two expansions, but we can assume they’ll also be in the fall, and Smith said Bungie will continue revamping how it keeps the game active and engaging in the months in between.<\/p>\n

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All three expansion names were shown on-screen as being part of Destiny 2<\/em>. So while Bungie has not explicitly announced that it is not planning to release another proper sequel — which in turn forces many players to migrate to a new game and lose all of their progress on the existing one — it does seem fairly certain there is no Destiny 3 <\/em>on the horizon, at least not until well after 2022. Although in a Q&A with streamer Ben “DrLupo” Lupo following the reveal, Smith did say, “We’re not planning to make one,” when asked about another sequel.<\/p>\n

The big focal point of the fall expansion, Beyond Light<\/em>, is players gaining control of the Darkness, a kind of primordial evil that is the series’ primary antagonist and the antithesis to the protagonist’s source of supernatural powers (called the Light). It will involve a new destination, the icy Jovian moon Europa, and a new enemy to face that is in some way intertwined with the ongoing Darkness narrative. It will also bring back a popular Destiny 1 <\/em>character, the Exo Stranger, and pull together a number of other story threads that Bungie has been building for some time now.<\/p>\n

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