Destiny 2: The Final Shape is quick approaching, and we’ve reached the purpose the place each weekly weblog submit has some bombshell to shake up the group. However on Thursday, Bungie dropped among the greatest information that veteran gamers have ever seen: Destiny 2’s weapons are getting un-sunset.
Sure, when The Final Shape rolls round, Bungie will take away energy limits from all legacy gear. Gamers can be in a position to improve any legacy gear to present energy requirements, that means that every one weapons can be usable within the growth’s new content material and the remainder of the sport.
A short historical past lesson for the brand new Guardians on the market or for those that stopped enjoying earlier than Past Mild. In 2020, Bungie launched what the group calls “weapon sunsetting.” The thought was that, so as to entice gamers to use new issues, Bungie would take away the flexibility to infuse (energy up) gear of a sure age. So, weapons from the previous Leviathan raid, Forsaken, and even seasons like Daybreak ultimately grew to become out of date. This wasn’t as a result of new weapons have been higher (though that’s actually the case now); Bungie blocked the participant’s capability to infuse these weapons up to the brand new energy ranges, that means they only did much less harm than different choices.
Sunsetting was met with lots of backlash in the course of the Past Mild period, and Bungie shortly circled and introduced that it might not be sunsetting any gear coming to Destiny 2. Nevertheless, the harm was executed to the legacy objects from earlier than Shadowkeep and Season of the Daybreak, and people weapons have remained “sunset” ever since.
With this new replace, Guardians can now infuse each piece of substances up to the max energy limits in the event that they’d like. This is extraordinarily thrilling for longtime gamers, as beloved weapons which have sat dormant for years and years of their vaults can be obtainable to use within the combat in opposition to The Witness.
Nevertheless, there are two main issues right here. First, many gamers — myself included — have deleted a few of these beloved weapons, as Vault house is restricted and the weapons didn’t actually have a use anymore. As an illustration, I’ve solely stored two weapons from that period, purely out of nostalgia: my authentic Midnight Coup and my Inaugural Tackle, each from the Leviathan raid.
The second drawback is that these weapons simply aren’t as highly effective as new weapons. They don’t have entry to the newer, extraordinarily highly effective perks Bungie has added since 2020. They usually straight up don’t have an Origin Trait, which is a brand new perk slot that ties weapon households collectively that Bungie added in The Witch Queen growth.
Bungie did provide excellent news on each of these fronts, nonetheless. Whereas there aren’t any methods to assist gamers recuperate beloved weapons that they’ve deleted, Bungie does have plans to introduce new sources for gamers to get “most” of those previous weapons again. They usually’ll all be up to date to fashionable Destiny 2 requirements, together with with new Origin Traits.
The cause for this modification is the brand new Fireteam Energy system, which Bungie additionally mentioned on this weblog submit. Beginning in The Final Shape, the best Energy participant within the Fireteam will elevate everybody else to simply 5 Energy beneath their stage. Below sunsetting, this might’ve allowed the boosted gamers to bypass that mechanic completely, therefore its removing.
The studio additionally introduced quite a lot of handy Energy adjustments coming in The Final Shape on June 4, together with account-wide Energy to assist gamers with a number of characters stage up sooner, and clearer indicators of how tough an exercise can be. You possibly can learn extra about these options in Bungie’s weekly blog.
