Bungie Reveals Destiny Plans After Rise Of Iron

Game Informer: The new expansion launches on September 20, and we’ve got details on the additional content drops coming throughout the rest of the year.

[Drithe]

I will not buy Destiny 2 until at least 2 expansions come out.

[Erik7357]

I'll wait for reviews too I guess. Hopefully they have actually epic characters and a story like halo did. Universe is pretty solid, music was solid as well, and combat was great just needed more weapon variety!

[legionsoup]

I think the weapon variety was okay for me. It was the mission variety that started to bog me down. Doing the same missions, strikes, and raids over and over. The world needs to feel bigger. Give me something to explore. Not something to grind. Strike that - I'll gladly grind if the world is full of exploration while I'm doing it.

[FamilyGuy]

It may be cheaper to wait but the memories are worth getting in from the start. So much about the game changes over time, they're always reacting to the community, so you might miss out on something if you wait.

[jhpadilla]

Exactly. "Only" 4 expansions so far (counting Rise of Iron), but there have been more than 40 (yes, forty) updates to the game (not only nerfs and balance to weapons, but also content additions (strikes, missions, gear), fixes, quality of life improvements (tons!), and yes events (SRL, Halloween and Valentine themed stuff). Also now Bungie includes a Recruitment forum which is exactly a LFG site which makes it easy to find fire teams for literally ANY raid or activity (even just for doing bounties or the Moments of Triumph). This was an awesome addition, at least until they add matchmaking of some sort to raids.

The game is very much alive and its community even more so. And incredibly, growing.

[Kabaneri]

Just come out with the sequel next year.

[hillsht]

They probably will, but they want you to buy DLC now as well.

[hillsht]

No thanks...I know I'm probably not in the majority here but I could not get into Destiny. And then Luke Smith opened his mouth and I was too disgusted to even consider a Bungie product again unless it was utterly amazing. This is not utterly amazing.

[GrimDragon]

"New rare (blue), legendary (purple), and exotic (gold) gear help players ascend through those new tiers, and the system as we observed it for item drops appears to be very similar to what has been in the game for some time now."

Sigh.....the one major f$@king thing that needs to be fixed is still ignored I see. So it's another 100 raids and strikes for motes of light and strange coin and sometimes nothing at all with maybe an occasional legendary you don't need and a worthless exotic that has the same exact stats as a legendary but takes up a slot that won't allow you to use another at the same time.

I feel like bungie continues to restrain this game from being all it truly could. Giving and taking, teasing with the promise of something good just over the hill to only get there and never see it because it's promised just over the next hill, and the next, and the next. This horrible way of click baiting us into a phantom zone that never delivers the goods we follow like donkeys to a carrot stick. Truly an infuriating experience with how bungie handles this game and how they continue to give us more of nothing with the promise of something. It's to the point where I just want to ram the entire bungie dev team into one computer monitor head first.

I pray that mass effect andromeda is the game that gets me out of this abusive relationship with destiny gone two years too long already.

[FamilyGuy]

They force you into making strategic choices with your gear. Exotic gear has exotic perks and you're acting like they're the same as Legendary gear. If we could wear a full exotic set the game would be broken instantly. People have already found clever setups that are damn-near game breaking, full exotic sets in the creative minds of the destiny community would be pure chaos.

[GrimDragon]

That's all well and good but consider the hundreds and thousands of hours it would take to get these rare drops and when you do get it another batch of hundreds and thousands of hours to get the same drops with the perks you want. It's dam near impossible. Sure some players made the best of the gear they have but having a bunch of exotic gear isn't going to break the game for the simple fact that raids and heroic strikes have an insane difficulty that can constantly be modified to accommodate or surpas anyone's gear set and still need to rely on skill to survive. Furthermore crucible nullifies any level differences among players. You can get killed with a 160 light rifle just as fast as you could by a 335 rifle in the hands of skilled players.

Aside from one or two exotic perks on an exotic weapon, legendaries exist with the same exact stats. So your spindle can refill its mag with head shots big f&@king deal a legendary sniper rifle exist with equal or better stats but it's perk is only a mulligan and best of all doesn't nullify your other weapon slots because it's not an exotic that means instant weapon switching in the heat of battle without having to pause and look at your inventory. Having full exotic weapons and armor in no way would create chaos or break the game that's bs.

[UnHoly_One]

It's not THAT hard to get exotics.

I haven't played since about a month after Taken King, and I never played "thousands" of hours, but if the game allowed it I could wear an exotic in every slot.

Just running strikes and using the three of coins will get you more exotics than you know what to do with. I dismantled lots of them that were duplicates or were something I don't care for.

[FamilyGuy]

You seem to lack imagination so I'll give you an example
Plan C + any exotic primary
No Land Beyond is a primary sniper rifle, body shots do lots of damage but the reload is slow, say you shoot one body then use Plan Cs quick swap+fast charge to finish people off. Swapping is extra fast, the charge time is almost non-existent, the rounds are very powerful and it has a great range. If even one projectile hits they're gone.

Armor is even crazier
Hunter with Mask of the Third Man (arc blade uses less super energy)
Seal Ahamkara fist (extra melee charge)
ATS/8 Tarantella (Arc grenades and blades recharge faster)
Basically you're in Mayhem mode everywhere

Young Ahamkaras Spine (extra tripmine+ tripmine duration)
Lucky Raspberry (spawn with full grenade energy)
You could throw mines everywhere and even kill yourself with the mines to get both back
Add Knucklehead Radar to see people coming at all times

Warlock could use
The Ram (extra armor+ all melee triggers life steal)
Claws of Ahamkara (addition melee attack)
Voidfang Vestments (spawn with grenade and extra axion seeker)
Another Mayhem anywhere setup

A Titan with
Garrison and Stand asides would run circles around anyone.
Add Skullfort and it's a flurry of electric fist and shoulder charges
ACD/0 Feedback for good measure

All very fun setups but anyone without tons of exotics would be screwed
To top it off there's bound to be bugs/exploits that would be found with exotic setup

[GrimDragon]

Dude you forget that skill is the most important factor of all. None of those perks mean anything if you don't know how to use it. Bungie can easily rebalance everything if need be. So again your argument is moot. They nerf weapons constantly and change up armor perks as well in an effort to keep things balanced. So let's just agree to disagree. Still getting iron lords but not expecting it to perfect much if any of the glaring issues that some like yourself don't mind but I despise.

[admiralvic]

"I feel like bungie continues to restrain this game from being all it truly could. "

Honestly, all this would do is make anything purple obsolete. While they have some cool perks and other armor look better, there are a lot of people who look at its rarity and judge it by that. This is why you see a lot of people asking for advice automatically assuming you NEED an exotic, even though you could easily beat even the hardest content (ToO/HM KF) without a single exotic (ToO would require some luck though).

"That's all well and good but consider the hundreds and thousands of hours it would take to get these rare drops and when you do get it another batch of hundreds and thousands of hours to get the same drops with the perks you want. It's dam near impossible"

1) This is true for most MMOs and several RPGs. On ESO I ran Sanctum well over 150 times to get a second Infallible Aether ring and in that time I did not get a single people of VO jewelry, I still lack the stave with the right perk (I got two with the same perk and an ice one with the perk I wanted) and much more. However, unlike ESO where this stuff can make a major difference, the difference between an okay roll and a god roll with many guns/situations is not too terribly insane.
2) Exotics come with set perks for this reason and there are easy ways to get it absolutely perfect.
3) No one wants to play a game where you need exotics on every slot just to have a chance doing it. Hell, people struggle with this stuff now, so making it even harder to accommodate that would be overkill and result in many getting excluded.

[GrimDragon]

Thx admiral totally with you on the reply. But that's my point exotics aren't such a major difference from any legendaries as far as I see it the major difference is aesthetic at best. So why limit the slots and why make the dam things so hard to get even with 100 three of coins your lucky if you get one exotic (I swear that happened to me.) In fact I don't even care about exotics give me a steady stream of legendaries I can play and tinker with at least. The blue drops grossly out drop any of the other two. Though blues are useful for material give me a dam legendary along side it. Chances are the legendary will be useless as well but at least up my chances more than the virtually non existent chance of getting anything worthwhile.

Look I don't know about you but I think it's really really wrong that after finishing a raid or a nightfall not everyone gets a reward I've done Crota and VOG and walked away with literally nothing but strange coin, blues, and moldering shards and a few times nothing at all. That's not right. Considering the time and effort to get a team together and finish a raid or nightfall something worthwhile should be given not a slap in the face while one person gets a ghorn.

Crucible is the same issue random players getting random crap or nothing at all and one guy maybe will get nerwyns mercy. It's infuriating. No one could possibly defend this nonsense and justify the very thing that nearly broke this game and dropped it into the realm of grindfest as many have called it. Iam not saying I want something decent in every strike or nightfall iam saying I want less unneeded restrictions with exotics and more worthwhile drops that I can at least be infusing things with etc. a prime example of a drop problem is artifacts it took me weeks to finally get a 335 artifact. Same with ghost shell. It's rediculous it was to the point people went on forums asking how the hell you get a decent shell. Iam not saying we should level up to max uber killing machines in a day or even a week. But I'm saying the feeling of possibly getting there sooner rather than nearly never would be welcome.

Another example of an issue are bounties. After you go over light level 330 your vanguard rep or faction will still only give you 330 or less weapons not a single 335. Only exotics drop at 335. So your screwed if that boot or artifact at 330 is holding you back from 335 happy f$&king grinding. I mean there is sh!7 here I find flawed and in need of an overhaul but people want to defend it as if it's ok....but it's not! It keeps the game from being an enjoyment of possibilities and instead time very wasted. Time I don't have like a ten year old who might spend entire day's grinding for a soul stealers claw. If we don't look at what could be better honestly and objectively than destiny 2 will be more of the useless sh!7 destiny 1 currently is. Meaning a very shallow game much like a supermodel beautiful on the outside but not much to offer on the inside except a few wasted hours that may or may not be regrettable.

[cokzilla23]

after 5 days of farming Sanctum I finally got a ring of vicious ophidian last night. I really doubt I'll get the remaining two pieces of jewelry before the patch.

[InTheZoneAC]

I'm not sure it'll be content drops but more like free re-used seasonal "updates", like a new emblem or mask!!!!!!!

just their perfect plan to make you go 10 months without any actual content added.

repeat the last two years of destiny with destiny 2, stay tuned...

[Aenea]

I've read the article and it doesn't reveal any real plans after Rise of Iron. I loved Destiny, bought all the expansions, played almost daily until January this year but with no new content in sight until September I stopped playing. The small 'events' they planned weren't enough to keep me interested and all I read now is that they will do the same small events after this expansion until Destiny 2 arrives.

I think I might wait until Destiny 2 to dive back in...

[jhpadilla]

They already said (in a Bungie Weekly Update no less) that Destiny 2 is coming on 2017; there's no firm date yet though, only the year; probably because they want to ensure this time the engine is flexible enough to provide for more frequent and substantial content drops and features (like Forge and Cinema Mode).
If half of what other previous articles say are true -regarding the incredibly-hard-to-use game engine- it is an engineering miracle they have added and changed so much in the game since its release.
Anyways, September is looking good so far.

[Dirtnapstor]

The return of SRL, a Halloween themed event, and a "winter event"....
This is hardly any type of reveal. Nothing was really said as to DLC plans beyond ROI. This is not "upfront and open".

[jhpadilla]

Well, compared to last year when they said NOTHING at all (the Festival of the Lost and SRL were complete surprises), this time already saying that we will have them back is more open to what they are accustomed.
Also, they also stated in a Bungie Weekly Update that a sequel to Destiny is in the works and has a 2017 release. The exact date is to be disclosed later and I'm pretty sure Bungie doesn't really know when it will be ready, yet.

[TheColbertinator]

Bungie,can we get a new IP please? From the creators of Halo I hope for something better in the years to come

[jhpadilla]

They already said they are committed to the Destiny franchise for 10 years, this is the start of the 3rd year. Perhaps by the 8th or 9th year they will start to comment on future IPs.

[TheColbertinator]

Damn. WW3 will kill us all by then :(

[andibandit]

Halloween-themed:Festival of the Lost.
new masks.
Sparrow Racing League.

hmm

[ramtah]

never gonna support bungie after this

[Rippcity]

Dude I'm totally on your side. Destiny could have been so much more but it just ended up becoming a crazy grind fest to the top with nothing to do when you get there. Not to mention having to start all over at the beginning of each major expansion/update. If Destiny was just WoW in the form of an fps game I would have been much happier with it. Increase time to kill, make class differences more drastic, maybe even restrict certain gun types to certain classes to more clearly define player roles. Anything but what it is now. I love the group mechanics for bosses and raids, great idea on their part, but without clearly defined roles the majority of the game just feels like a super empty mmo that everyone has to play DPS in. Sparrows should have been the equivalent of mounts, trials should have been ranked and PVP and PVE drops should have been for their respective play type. Not everyone enjoys PVP over PVE and vice versa. Just a mini rant about what I hoped Destiny could have been. Hopefully Destiny 2 will fall more in line with that but if it's even remotely similar to the experience in the original, I am going to stay very far away.

[JeffGUNZ]

It is such a shame on how they handled this game. This had the potential to be epic, yet they stripped content away before launch, had a less than average story, and the post launch support has been terrible. The expansions/dlc they did provide was fun for two weeks then became stale. Not to mention when a new DLC came out, it completed voided all the other content that you just paid for three months ago. I think it is a really poor choice to not release Destiny 2 this year and will only push more people away from this game. I was a diehard Destiny fan and tried to hang in there but after last years expansion last September, after about a month, it too became stale and boring.

[GrimDragon]

Tell the truth bro you still play it now and again.

[JeffGUNZ]

Huh? I haven't logged in since last fall unfortunately. I plan on waiting to see how they approach Destiny 2.

[thekhurg]

Odd that all comments regarding poor tagging got flagged as inappropriate. Yet it's still wrong. Good job nineball

[3-4-5]

* Article Literally Does NoT talk about their future plans after Rise of Iron Expansion.

BS Article.....The one thing it does Not list is the very thing in the title.

Don't click.

[MazeRunner]

They need to use a new game engine for Destiny 2 (UE4), Also they should have randomized missions like the underground dlc for the division or at least something like that

[rye74]

Recap: After Rise of Iron there will be the same crap from last year, maybe a little better.