Gaming: Ultimate Guide: In a bittersweet return to form, Destiny 2's final update is giving players reasons to roam its public zones once again

Gaming: Ultimate Guide: In a bittersweet return to form, Destiny 2's final update is giving players reasons to roam its public zones once again

After announcing the upcoming conclusion of its live service development, Bungie has started providing more details about Destiny 2's final update. In the first of its planned Dev Insights blogs covering what will be included in the coming last hurrah, Bungie laid out the loot and activity reworks accompanying the return of the Director. While the June update will ease Destiny into its indefinite hiatus with reprised fan-favorite weapons and the return of the Sparrow Racing League, the Monument of Triumph update's best—and most bittersweet—change is the reemphasizing of Destiny 2's long-neglected patrol zones, giving Guardians reasons to reconvene in its public spaces like we did in its early years. "Destinations have always been a foundational part of Destiny, whether you touch down briefly for a Public Event, roam areas for patrols and secrets, or find various factions moving against each other. Our first steps as Guardians were in the Cosmodrome and beyond that we've spent over a decade patrolling the wilds of our Sol system to protect the Last City," Bungie said. "With the return of the Director, we felt now was a better time than ever to thrust players back into these frontiers." In Monument of Triumph, those patrol zones will be fully incorporated into Destiny 2's current gear paradigm. Both public events and destination activities, like the Dreaming City's Blind Well and the Moon's Altars of Sorrow, will offer tiered loot pools like you'd find in Portal playlists, consisting of returning fan favorite gear that's been updated with new perks and set bonuses. Activities in the Cosmodrome, for example, will now offer retuned Rasputin weaponry like Seventh Seraph weapons that were originally available in Season of the Worthy, now boasting expanded perk rolls and a new origin trait. Other samples of the overhauled destination loot pools include Pluperfect joining a Vex-themed arsenal on Nessus and updated Braytech arms like High Albedo—now a kinetic micro-missi

Source: PC Gamer