Destiny 2 announces major delays for Year 4 expansion \u2018Beyond Light\u2019 BungieBungie has confirmed the next Destiny 2 expansion, Beyond Light, has been delayed nearly two months due to \u201cdifficulties of development.\u201d The franchise\u2019s highly-anticipated \u2018Year 4\u2019 expansion was originally set for a September 22 release date. The Destiny 2 developers confirmed the news in a Bungie.net blog post on July 16. The devs explained the last-minute date which was \u201cbest for the game,\u201d after they realized the original date was a \u201cbig ask\u201d in the current climate. \u201cAs always, our goal is to make the coolest, most entertaining expansion we can possibly make for our fans. To that end, we are doing what\u2019s best for the game and moving the launch date,\u201d Destiny community manager David Dague said. \u201cThe past few months have been a challenge. We\u2019ve learned to create together in a new way, by having to work apart from one another. Despite these hurdles, we\u2019re still committed to the same level of quality that our fans expect.\u201d Destiny insiders have also suggested there\u2019s been a fair few problems with Beyond Light. Those issues have, in part, come from a new damage type being added to the series. New Statis abilities and balance decisions have also played a part. The first major expansion of the \u201cnew era of Destiny\u201d \u2014 a moniker Bungie slapped on the 2020 release after promising \u201chuge changes\u201d for their flagship franchise \u2014 is now penciled in to officially begin on Tuesday, November 10. The swap also means Destiny 2\u2019s current season, Season of Arrivals, will be sticking around for a little bit longer. Bungie has promised to reveal more information on the additional two months of content \u201cover the coming weeks.\u201d When Guardians do finally get to step into Destiny 2\u2019s fourth year with Beyond Light, they\u2019ll be thrown straight into a mysterious war with the Darkness. The Stranger, Eris Morn, and the Drifter look like they\u2019ll be coming along for the ride too. Beyond Light is the first of a new trilogy of Destiny expansions, which Bungie revealed earlier this year. It will call on players to \u201cbrave the unrelenting glacial fortress [of Europa], infiltrate a Golden Age Braytech facility, and uncover the secrets that lie deep under the ancient ice.\u201d There\u2019s not a lot that we know gameplay-wise about Beyond Light, however. There have been a few suggestions Bungie could finally add proper World of Warcraft factions to the franchise, but that\u2019s far from confirmed at this stage. Many are hoping Beyond Light will see Bungie finally flexing their post-Activision muscles in their sci-fi world. The publishing deal, which former composer Marty O\u2019Donnell admitted was \u201cbad from the start,\u201d ended early last year. Destiny 2: Beyond Light will now be available on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on Tuesday, November 10. The year four expansion will also be available on next-gen consoles once they launch these holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 announces major delays for Year 4 expansion \u2018Beyond Light\u2019 BungieBungie has confirmed the next Destiny 2 expansion, Beyond Light, has been delayed nearly two months due to \u201cdifficulties of development.\u201d The franchise\u2019s highly-anticipated \u2018Year 4\u2019 expansion was originally set for a September 22 release date. The Destiny 2 developers confirmed the news in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}