• Torch has been passed from team who made Destiny 2 to the team that is maintaining it aka the Live Team.
  • Live Team's goals:
    • New reasons to keep playing
    • New pursuites, rituals, and challenges.
    • And more..
    • Examples: Iron Banner, Faction Rally's, etc.
  • Expansion 1 - Winter 2017 aka Osiris DLC
  • Destiny 2 year 1: 4 seasons total.

All About Seasons

  • Seasons have themes associated with them. They take feedback from the community for adding and adjusting things such as new emotes, rewards, etc.
  • Season Goals:

    • More predictable time tables (what to expect and when)
    • Destiny 2 year 1: 4 seasons
    • Make big changes to the game
    • Sandbox tuning, new features, more content
    • Big patches to change the meta, etc.
    • Meant so you don't feel like you have to play Destiny ALL the time but instead can take at your pace and show up for important events.
  • Season 2:

    • When: Winter 2017
    • The Dawning will make a return shortly after the launch of Season 2.
    • Ice Hockey will be enabled
    • You can have snowball fights, plus other Easter Eggs
    • Event affects will be throughout the world, not just the social space.
    • Armor, Weapons, Shaders, and possibly emotes will come
  • Iron Banner - What Bungie Learned:

    • 1,500 YEARS worth of time played between all guardians.
    • Learned how we interacted with the loot system. There will be changes to loot such as letting us direct purchase guns using tokens and legendary shards.
    • The token economy is not always the best way for everything.
    • For Season 2, there will be an ornaments slot requiring an objective to unlock to show that you completed a limited event objective. Such as winning 10 IB matches, Flawless in Trials of The Nine, etc
    • Heard community feedback of wanting rewards more meaningful.
    • One more Iron Banner in Season 1. Some new gear
    • Perks and stats will be updated.
    • There will be a matching energy and kinetic weapon so you can have one of each.
  • Trials of The Nine

  • Faction Rally

    • Data was tallied cross-platform.
    • One more in Season 1
    • Screenshot
    • For Season 2 there will be changes to promote playing with a fireteam more vs just solo. Meaning "I'm going to solo farm this as it's more efficient" won't always be the thing. This does NOT mean a nerf to solo, but rather a buff to fireteam aspects so that you can play with your friends instead of splitting off doing your own individual thing.

Season 2

  • Facton Rally
  • Clarion Call:
    • When: Before end of Season 1
    • What: Double XP while playing activities with your Fireteam
    • Pilot: Clan collaboration required
    • Screenshot
  • Bright Engrams
    • All the emotes, and other rewards from it will be updated and changed
    • Certain rewards from Bright Engrams will be retired making them limited/exclusive and not able to collect anymore, but if you already have it them you can keep it.
    • New Mic Drop emote (thanks /u/Mblim771_Kyle)
  • Fun Fact: Bungie has a recording studio that they record the emotes.
  • New transmat effects will be available
  • Exotic Ships
  • Exotic Sparrows
  • Ghosts
  • Shaders
    • Shaders stay season over season (Unless Bungie adjusts down the line, no plays at the moment)
    • They heard our feedback over deleting shaders in mass - On the to do list, no promises.
  • Armor
    • Changes in bright engrams when season changes
    • New armor with new seasons
  • Crucible Maps
    • When certain rituals complete special maps goes live to entire circulation - Example
    • Such as the Trials of Nine map (Eternity), Raid themed map (Emperor's Respite), Shores of Time (Destiny 1) themed map (Distant Shore), etc.

Sandbox Tuning

  • What is the sandbox? The playable space.
  • Diagnosing the Meta - Data view
  • They have data on basically everything you do such as most played subclass, weapon, what bullets fired from what weapon, usage of basically everything in game.
  • They are always collecting, analysing, and using the data. With seasons they hope to make more ongoing adjustments to allow the meta to constantly adjust and not be stale.

Clans

  • Clans have a max level so that smaller clans have a chance vs only larger more active clans to dominate. Keeps everything on a more fair level.
  • Clan rank resets at Season 2, as well as all season changes
  • New perks to earn, targeted at what the game goals are (based on the Season themes)
  • Clan rewards
  • You can change the staff/bar in the middle based on clan rewards from seasons.
  • Clan engram updates
    • Make sure loot pool updates

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