Destiny 2 Into the Light revives the chase for weapons with Pokemon-like shinies BungieDestiny 2 Into the Light has introduced a much-needed sense of chase back into the game with new cosmetic weapons to chase for a limited time. A lot has changed in Destiny 2 over the years in terms of how Guardians acquire weapons. At launch, there weren\u2019t even random rolls. Thankfully with Forsaken that was rectified, but even then the cadence and the intensity of the chase for god rolls has varied over the years. The biggest change was undoubtedly our ability to craft weapons, eliminating that chase for a god roll on a decent portion of weapons once you\u2019d gotten all the patterns you needed. Because of that Destiny 2 has lost that, \u201cI got it!\u201d moment of euphoria that came with finding the roll you were after. For the most part, that\u2019s now reserved exclusively for Raid Exotic drops. However, the Into the Light update has brought some of that thrill back, albeit in a different way. It\u2019s not a chase for the best god roll in the Brave Arsenal \u2013 the new horde mode Onslaught is too giving for that. No, instead Bungie has struck gold by making it about vanity. When a weapon from the Brave Arsenal drops from a chest, it has a low chance of being a holofoil version of the gun \u2013 or as the community is calling it, a shiny. These weapons have an awesome-looking gold sheen and will grant players double perks on the weapon. The chase for these weapons is strong as they are quite rare \u2013 and even when they do drop, you have to hope that they do so with a good perk combination. However, the thrill of that grind brings back memories of when it was strongest in previous versions of Destiny 2\u2019s past. Datto mirrored this too, remarking on Twitter: \u201cI experienced being genuinely excited for a loot drop for the first time in probably 4+ years thanks to the holofoil (shiny) versions of weapons. Forgot what that was like.\u201d Making this more urgent, is the fact these weapon variants will go away with the launch of The Final Shape. If you want one, you need to start farming now. It\u2019s great to have this kind of incentive back, and Bungie should continue to explore this avenue of chase built into limited-time grinds for cosmetic weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 Into the Light revives the chase for weapons with Pokemon-like shinies BungieDestiny 2 Into the Light has introduced a much-needed sense of chase back into the game with new cosmetic weapons to chase for a limited time. A lot has changed in Destiny 2 over the years in terms of how Guardians acquire […]<\/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-40121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40121","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=40121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}