With his presentation of gameplay of the extension The Final Form of Destiny 2, Bungie amazed us last night and finally completely rekindled the flame in many Guardiansin addition to the launch following the big free update In the light. In short, a very good day for the community and it is good to highlight it as there has been so much negativity in recent months. At the very beginning of this showcase, a familiar figure came to say a few words and reassure us about the future. Luke Smith, executive creative director of the universe destiny whose appearances have become rare (the most recent was to discuss the appointment of Tyson Green as director of the game), therefore came to confirm that Bungie does not intend to put aside the license and that we will know more once the Witness defeated. It’s obvious, the studio is not going spoiler the end of its saga and distract attention from this big content by introducing in advance what will follow, although we know that there will be three Episodes instead of the seasons.
However, a certain ambiguity is present in his last sentence (both in the French textual translation and in English), because what is this something beyond Destiny 2 ?
Hey everyone, this is Luke from the Destiny team. The Final Form is the culmination of 10 years of adventure. An adventure that began in the Cosmodrome, sent you to the Moon, Venus, Mars, the Reef and beyond.
This adventure will end in the heart of the Traveler, when you face the Witness. But this fight won’t mark the end of Destiny 2 or Destiny in general. After your struggle against the Witness, you’ll find out what awaits you in Destiny 2 and beyond.
See you soon.
Well, it could be that Destiny 3 or whatever it is called could indeed become a reality in the future. Yes, Luke Smith himself mentioned in 2020 the fact that Bungie didn’t want to start from scratch by building a new game, which would have meant no longer being able to support Destiny 2. Since sunset non-seasonal content was stopped, as was that of our weapons, and everyone was able to see that the game is struggling to support all the new features (the Filobscure several people could crash everything when it was launched Neomuna For example). It would therefore not be surprising that these opinions could have changed. Moreover, Sony Interactive Entertainment now has a say.
But it’s not just that, because a rumor regarding the development of a Destiny 3 under the code name Payback was reported at the end of last February by a certain 32638272187 on Reddit. Why only talk about it now? Because this person had mentioned a game system called prism allowing us to combine the skills of our Doctrines. Yes, that’s what was announced last night, so barring a stroke of luck, it would seem that Bungie at one point began development of a sequel. A major change in the gameplay would be to no longer have a fixed class and simply compose our build with the available capacities. In itself, this would be a natural evolution of the license.
Does anyone here know if the prism has ever leaked?
Since there hasn’t been an answer yet, I guess I’ll divulge this: Bungie is working on a system called Prism that will allow players to mix and match abilities from different subclasses. This is one of the things that was worked on during the delay. Imagine throwing a flash grenade while in solar, or activating devour and going on a rampage with Storm Trance.
Destiny 3 is (was? I don’t know) in development under the code name payback. One of the big changes for Destiny 3 is (was, again, I don’t know) that classes no longer exist and allow any character to specialize in any abilitybecause lore-wise there’s no reason why you couldn’t do it (Hunters were explicitly taught to teleport from Warlocks and teleporting isn’t tied to a single element, d ‘where the logic here).
This person also precise that it was not speculation on her part, but that she was able to discuss with former employees of Bungie who spoke to him about it, hence the fact of still taking a grain of salt since this information is perhaps no longer current, the internal plans may have changed. And so as not to mislead the players, she also noted that the term payback (revenge) would not be related to the plot, just to the fact that Bungie would take revenge on himself by creating something in the hope that it would be liked by everyone.
If all this is ever true, another of his comments without a direct link to the subject is interesting to say the least. It indicates that the possibility of modify the appearance of our characterfinally allowed since the launch of In the light, would have been made possible thanks to the internal persistence of several transsexual developersbecause Bungie apparently thought it was not worth it in terms of allocated resources. The task would first have been entrusted to the managing team Eververse with the objective of an implementation for Eclipsebefore being entrusted to the one who designed the system of Guardian Rankwhich was therefore busy with this, because the first only develops paid content and the developers wanted it to be free.
In any case, we will have to wait to find out if a Destiny 3 will see the light of day or not. Bungie also develops Marathon, whose game director has changed and undoubtedly also the orientation, which does not particularly please the community. If only the team dedicated to the seasons Destiny 2 continues to power the game in the future, it would not seem inconceivable that the one behind The Final Form can participate in this possible sequel.
The expansion is expected on June 4 and can be pre-ordered at the house of Gamesplanet on PC for €44.99.
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