Destiny 2: Everything We Know so Far
Platforms
PC (via Blizzard App)
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Limited Editions
Important Dates
Beta Dates:
July 18th - 23rd (PlayStation 4)*
July 19th - 23rd (Xbox One)*
July 21st - 23rd (Public)
Late August (PC)
* = Early Beta access for those who preordered
Release Dates:
September 6th (PlayStation 4)*
September 6th (Xbox One)*
October 24th (PC)
* = was originally September 8th
Story Plot
The Red Legion, a faction of the Cabal, invades the Last City to capture the Traveler. They are lead by Dominus Ghaul (or Gary), a ruthless tyrant that’s jealous of the Guardians and feels the Traveler was wrong for choosing humanity over the Cabal to be Guardians. The Tower is destroyed and those who were able to evacuate must relocate and rebuild in the European Deadzone. Without the Traveler, Guardians must find a way to regain their powers.
Destiny 2 will also have sub-plots. After evacuating, the Vanguard split off to be on their own: Commander Zavala to Titan, Ikora to Io, and Cayde gets himself in a bit of trouble on Nessus.
New Subclasses and the Revamped Subclass System
Defender (Titan), Sunsinger (Warlock), Bladedancer (Hunter) will not be making a return to Destiny 2. They will be replaced by Sentinel, Dawnblade, and Arkstrider respectively. As well as that, the subclass system was changed in such that perks cannot be mixed and matched as seen below
Super Ability - The big central node. Your class' defining active ability. Requires a charge to use, which accumulates through combat and some other potential modifiers. Activated with L1+R1 on a controller.
Class Abilities - The two options on the left. These are cross-subclass abilities, from what we understand, meaning you'll always have a choice of those two on display within each class, regardless of your subclass. Activated by holding the Crouch button. One of the two can be active at a time.
Subclass Passives ('paths', or 'trees') - Two groups of four on the right. Passive class abilities. As things stand, one path seems to be focused on modifying your Super, and the other more on the class' gameplay in general. You can only choose one cluster of four passives to be active at a time, but all four of those can be activated together. It's not entirely clear how these are unlocked in-game, but they appear to require some kind of Ability Unlock artifact for each of the four nodes within them.
Grenades - Group of three nodes at the top. These modify or change the effects of your grenades. One can be active at a time out of the three.
Mobility - Group of three nodes at the bottom. These modify or change the effects of your mobility, usually in the form of how your subclass' jumping works. As with Grenades, only one of the three mobility modifiers can be active at a time.
Sentinel, or Void Captain America, is a more offensive/less supportive version of the Defender subclass. The Titan uses a shield to stop most on coming attacks and can throw it as an attack. In an interview with Luke Smith, he revealed that Sentinels can deploy a Ward of Dawn. How it will affect the Captain America shield is unknown at this time.
Dawnblade is the Warlocks’ Sunbreaker. The Warlock draws a solar sword and can smite enemies from a far. Solar projects can track enemies and could cause enemies to explode (that deals damage to nearby enemies).
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the same exact reason why non-Sunbreaker mains lost their collective shit and cried to Bungie to get Sunbreakers nerfed?
Also, say goodbye to Fireborn. Say goodbye to being reckless and having self-rez as an excuse to be retarded. Say goodbye to soloing raid bosses by killing yourself repeatedly. Say good to thinking you’re hot shit because you got a kill on someone after being killed yourself. You’re just like everyone else now.
Arcstrider is a quicker Bladedancer with a spear. That’s pretty much it.
Striker has became the Defender at heart with its new ability to spawn a particle shield. However, its super was updated in such the Titan is supercharged before being to rapidly use Fist of Havoc and/or Shoulder Charge.
Gunslinger has became McCree from Overwatch. The Hunter can tactical roll and fire up to six Golden Gun shots.
Sunbreaker, Voidwalker, Stormcaller, and Nightstalker will be making returns, but details for them have not been released at the time of typing.
New Weapon Classes and Weapon System
TO BE CONTINUED
