Season 2

[GazzaGarratt 11,053]

On Friday 20th October, there is going to be a live stream from Bungie letting us know all about Seasons.

 

I'll dig out the questions more specifically they're asking when I can, but there's expectations building to see what are they going to reveal and more importantly what new content / variety in gameplay will we see from Season 1 to Season 2.

 

There's also a side chance we'll know more about the first DLC too. I'm gonna guess we'll get quite a bit of info on the community feeling that the game seems lost in most places when it comes to endgame.

 

What do you people want from Seasons?

 

I definitely want some new modes introduced and new milestone books created to map what you do each season and see it in game. Hopefully can be fleshed out with different challenges.

 

I also wouldn't be surprised if they extended the EDZ further as a 'free' update coming as part of the new season.

[TigerBurge 2,375]

If I had to guess all you will get as a season reward will be a few shaders or a emblem. 

[GazzaGarratt 11,053]

4.30pm Pacific Time the stream goes live. Big stream that is pretty significant future for the future of this game I reckon.

[Baabcat 1,646]

26 minutes ago, GazzaGarratt said:

4.30pm Pacific Time the stream goes live. Big stream that is pretty significant future for the future of this game I reckon.

 

New shaders I reckon 

[GazzaGarratt 11,053]

Okay. So some decent news to come but If i'm honest, most people I see here may not think its great news because its not coming quickly and there wasn't mention of endgame content. They'll get hammered to bring Ice Hockey to the tower and not releasing new missions.

 

Summary

• 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

  • There will be ornaments as well, not shown yet but "They look really cool"
  • Updated weapons, both visual look and perks

• 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
  • Faction Rally Armor can be earned by just playing and repping your faction.
  • Dead Orbit
  • NM
  • FWC
  • Weapons
• 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
  • Season 1
  • Season 2 - The Dawning
  • Season 2 Example 1
  • Season 2 Example 2
• Exotic Sparrows
  • Season 1
  • Season 2 Example 1
  • Season 2 Example 2
• Ghosts
  • Example 1
  • Example 2 - Rotating the ghost causes a solar system effect to rotate behind it
  • Example 3
  • Example 4 - Dawning Exclusive
• 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

More Info

• Bungie will be at Paris Games Week next week
• https://Twitch.tv/Bungie will be going live soon^TM with more info

[GazzaGarratt 11,053]

Deej has confirmed there won't be a Festival of the Lost for the first time in any Destiny year.

 

I'm not bothered about it, it was only a few masks for fun and what they seem to be working on for Season 2 (The Dawning) looks promising as we'll have new armour and guns for the first time in regular dropped content.

 

This game will turn around and I think it's naive to blow the game off this early.

[Baabcat 1,646]

I think the Dawning is mainly sparrow racing isn’t it? I didn’t see the stream so not sure if anything else was announced.

 

Sparrow racing was fun so it’s a welcome return

 

But for the long term future they still need to fix the end game. There is a rumour the first DLC won’t have a raid, which would be a total killer for me

[Capn_Underpants 401]

No Festival of the Lost? Well damn. I wanted my Eris mask.

Via the FG App

[GazzaGarratt 11,053]

52 minutes ago, Capn_Underpants said:

No Festival of the Lost? Well damn. I wanted my Eris mask.

Via the FG App
 

Yeah, I personally think they fucked it up in the first Destiny because the first year was great but the years after they messed it up so it was something like 1 challenge, 2 masks and then you'd have to buy eververse to get the rest.

 

With effectively a 2/3 month cycle for next available content alongside DLC, it sounds good as The Dawning looks like a decent event  (don't think I ever did the first one in D1), but hoping a light level increase comes near it, even if its DLC.

 

@Baabcat, haven't seen anything being mentioned about SRL. I wouldn't be surprised though as we've not had it for a while.

[GazzaGarratt 11,053]

Season 2 will start on December 5th, the same date as the DLC. We will quite a ton of content from that date forward as The Dawning will significantly bring new stuff to grab alongside an enivitable sandbox configuration so we'll have to see what gets nerfed and whats the new OP gun.