Destiny 2: The Final Shape

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Destiny 2: The Final Shape
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Cover art featuring the three Guardian classes (Hunter, Warlock, and Titan) with the Witness, a fleet of Pyramid ships, and the Witness's monolith in the Pale Heart of the Traveler in the background
Developer(s) Bungie
Publisher(s) Bungie
Director(s)
  • Joe Blackburn
  • Tyson Green
Composer(s)
Series Destiny
Platform(s)
ReleaseJune 4, 2024
Genre(s) Action role-playing, first-person shooter
Mode(s) Multiplayer

Destiny 2: The Final Shape is an upcoming major expansion for Destiny 2 , a first-person shooter video game by Bungie. Representing the eighth expansion and the seventh year of extended content for Destiny 2, it is scheduled to be released on June 4, 2024, after being delayed from its original February 2024 date. The Final Shape will revolve around the player's Guardian seeking out the franchise's major villain, the Witness, who had disappeared through a portal that it created on the surface of the celestial Traveler at the conclusion of Lightfall (2023). The Guardian and the Vanguard must stop the Witness from creating the titular Final Shape—the calcification and destruction of all life in the universe—and end the war between the Light and Darkness, concluding Destiny 's first major saga, the "Light and Darkness" saga.

Contents

In addition to new super abilities for the existing Light subclasses, a new subclass, "Prismatic", will be added, allowing players to combine and use Light and Darkness abilities in tandem. The expansion will also add new content across the game, including new missions, Player versus Environment locations, Player versus Player maps, player gear, weaponry, and a new raid. Unlike prior years, Year 7 will not follow the seasonal model in which the year is divided into four seasonal content offerings. Instead, there will be three large episodes, which will be standalone experiences, and each episode will be divided into three acts, telling the aftermath of the expansion. The episodes, titled Echoes, Revenant, and Heresy, were originally set to release in March, July, and November, respectively, but these were also pushed back due to The Final Shape's delay; the first episode, Echoes, will begin a week after the expansion's release on June 11 with the other two episodes tentatively set for October 2024 and February 2025.

Gameplay

The Final Shape will expand on the base Destiny 2 gameplay by adding a new free roam destination, the Pale Heart, located within the celestial being, the Traveler, with areas influenced by previous destinations explored throughout the history of the franchise. [1] New and existing story content will be expanded with a "Legendary" difficulty similar to that from the previous two expansion packs. Over the course of the year of content for The Final Shape includes one new raid releasing on June 7, 2024, which takes place in the Witness's monolith in the Pale Heart, two new dungeons, as well as one returning raid; the latter two activities will be released during the episodic content. [2]

The expansion will introduce a brand new enemy race since Forsaken (2018) called the Dread, who are the personal soldiers of the Witness. These include Grims, flying bat-like enemies that can shoot players from midair and can unleash a sonic scream attack to suppress and slow players; Husks, which are fast-moving and attack players using blades and unleashes a homing Geist enemy upon death; Attendants and Weavers, Cabal Psion-like enemies that respectively use Stasis and Strand powers; Omens and Harbingers, tall, slender, bipedal beings that use glaives as well as Stasis and Strand powers, respectively; as well as Tormentors, a singular enemy type that was first introduced in Lightfall (2023). [3] [4]

The Final Shape will introduce three new Light-based supers for each of the Guardian classes: "Twilight Arsenal" for Sentinel Titans, where they throw three Void axes at enemies which can be picked up by other Guardians from the ground; "Song of Flame" for Dawnblade Warlocks, where they imbue themselves with Solar energy to unleash unlimited powered melee attacks and grenades, similar to the Sunsinger Solar subclass in the original Destiny (2014); and "Storm's Edge" for Arcstrider Hunters, where they throw an Arc dagger at enemies and then teleport to it to unleash a spin attack. [5] In addition, the expansion will introduce a sixth subclass called "Prismatic", which combines both Light and Darkness powers together, allowing players to mix and match abilities and supers from the other five subclasses (Void, Solar, Arc, Stasis, and Strand). The Prismatic subclass introduces two meters that fill when damaging and defeating enemies with either Light or Darkness abilities; when both meters are fully charged, players can activate a super-like ability called "Transcendence", which grants supercharged melee and grenade regeneration, increased damage resistance, and increased weapon damage. Players can also unleash unique grenades of combined elements depending on their class while Transcendence is active—Electrified Snare (Arc and Strand) for Titans, Freezing Singularity (Void and Stasis) for Warlocks, and Hailfire Spike (Solar and Stasis) for Hunters. [6] Prismatic will also feature an increased number of Aspect and Fragment slots compared to the other subclasses.

The expansion will also feature the return of exotic class items since the original Destiny's final expansion, Rise of Iron (2016), with one for each class. These exotic class items work specifically with the Prismatic subclass and can mix and match exotic perks from other exotic armor introduced in the game from across all three classes, allowing for further buildcrafting.

Other significant gameplay changes include:

Episodic content

Episodes will be Bungie's new delivery model of ongoing content released between the major expansions, replacing the seasons that had been utilized since the Forsaken expansion. Previously, each year of content was divided into four seasons, typically lasting three months each (excluding delays), with the year's first season releasing simultaneously with the expansion, and the seasons narratively tied the previous expansion into the next expansion. Beginning with The Final Shape, there will instead be three large episodes released over the course of the year. Each will be a standalone story told in three acts, and each one will explore the "aftermath and fallout of the events of the conclusion of the Light and Darkness saga". There will also be more content and rewards than in the seasons. Although the episodes will be replacing the previous seasonal model, there will still be season passes for each episode with a free-tier and paid-tier of rewards. [9] The episodes for Year 7 will be titled Echoes, Revenant, and Heresy, and will focus on the Vex, Scorn, and Hive, respectively. [10]

Echoes, the first episode, will begin a week after the launch of The Final Shape on June 11, 2024. New and existing players' Power levels will be increased to the new minimum Power level of 1900, a soft cap of 1940, with the hard Power level cap set to 1990, and the Pinnacle reward cap at 2000—these Power level increases will take effect upon the release of The Final Shape itself on June 4. [11] This episode's story will focus on the Vex and will take place shortly after the events of The Final Shape and its raid.

Revenant, the second episode, is tentatively set to begin in October 2024, and will focus on the Scorn.

Heresy, the third episode, is tentatively set to begin in February 2025, and will focus on the Hive.

Plot

The Final Shape centers on the Witness, the main overarching antagonist of the Light and Darkness Saga (which began with the original Destiny) who was first introduced at the end of The Witch Queen . The Witness is an extremely powerful, primordial being of Darkness that commands the Black Fleet, and it is the product of an entire species having merged into one entity and a single gestalt consciousness through the mastery of the Darkness. It has spent eons chasing the Traveler as part of its eternal pursuit to impose "salvation" upon all reality through the titular Final Shape—the calcification and destruction of all life in the universe. The Witness has been ultimately responsible for humanity's Collapse, as well as for the destruction of countless civilizations across the universe throughout millennia, either by its hand or through the actions of its Disciples and other servants, such as the Hive.

During the events of Lightfall a year ago, the Witness and the Black Fleet attacked the Traveler in Earth's orbit, where it was granted a vision of the Veil, the counterpart of the Traveler, on Neptune; the player's Guardian was sent to the human city of Neomuna on Neptune to locate the Veil and defend it from Emperor Calus—the newest Disciple of the Witness—and his Shadow Legion Cabal; however, after Calus's defeat, the Witness used the Light from the Guardian's Ghost to perform an uplink with the Veil, allowing the Witness to use the Veil's power to open a portal on the Traveler's surface and enter its Pale Heart to begin enacting the Final Shape. During Season of the Deep , the proto-Worm God Ahsa revealed to the Guardian the origins of the Witness, and that Savathûn, the Witch Queen, needed to be revived in order to find a way into the Pale Heart. During Season of the Witch , the Guardian forces Immaru, Savathûn's Ghost, to revive the Witch Queen, who reveals a 15th wish upon her resurrection that could be granted by the spirit of the deceased Ahamkara Riven of a Thousand Voices in the Dreaming City. During Season of the Wish , the Guardian retrieves Riven's clutch of eggs which forces Riven herself to grant the wish, allowing singular passage into the Pale Heart; Crow volunteers to go through the portal and unlock the way for the Guardian and the Vanguard. While awaiting contact with Crow, the Last City comes under attack by the Black Fleet and the forces of the Witness, prompting the Guardian and the Vanguard to utilize Lord Shaxx's personal collection of powerful and dangerous weapons and gear to defend the Last City.

The Final Shape begins shortly after the events of Season of the Wish. The Guardian, Commander Zavala, Ikora Rey, and the rest of the Vanguard manage to enter the Pale Heart of the Traveler, an otherworldly dimension inside the Traveler where its landscape is influenced by the Guardian's numerous adventures and noble deeds throughout the franchise. Together, with the spirit of Cayde-6, the Guardian and the Vanguard fight through the dimension to stop the Witness from bringing forth the Final Shape and end the war between Light and Darkness.

Release

In June 2020, Bungie announced three expansions for Destiny 2: Beyond Light , The Witch Queen , and Lightfall , set for November 2020, late 2021, and late 2022, respectively. [12] However, in February 2021, it was announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the crowded release window of the fall, The Witch Queen had been delayed to February 2022, thus pushing Lightfall back to February 2023. Another expansion, The Final Shape, was subsequently announced for early 2024 as Bungie felt that they needed one further expansion to wrap up the story of Destiny's first saga called the "Light and Darkness" saga. [13] The Final Shape was originally scheduled for February 27, 2024; however, on November 27, 2023, after rumors of a delay following layoffs at Bungie the month prior, the developer announced that the expansion had been delayed by over three months to June, as they needed more time to deliver on their vision for the expansion. The three episodes for Year 7 were originally planned for March, July, and November, respectively, but were also pushed back with Echoes to release a week after the expansion on June 11, and then Revenant and Heresy tentatively releasing in October 2024 and February 2025, respectively. [14]

The Final Shape will be released on June 4, 2024, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S platforms. [15] It will be available as paid downloadable content (DLC), and there are various versions of the expansion. Pre-orders for any edition includes immediate access to the Tesselation exotic fusion rifle (as early as Season 22 in Year 6), as well as a Ghost shell, emote, and emblem. The standard version includes access to the expansion and first episode Echoes. "The Final Shape + Annual Pass" bundle includes the expansion plus access to all three Year 7 episodes, a dungeon key to access the two dungeons to be released during Year 7, the premium track of the season pass for each episode, and an exotic sparrow. All of the content can also be purchased separately. There is also a physical collector's edition which includes "The Final Shape + Annual Pass" bundle as well as a replica of the original Tower from the original Destiny, among other items. [16]

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