Destiny 2 Season of the Lost will need more content to avoid losing players BungieDestiny 2\u2019s latest season, Season of the Lost, is here \u2013 but will it keep players satiated until the Witch Queen? Despite traditionally revealing Destiny 2 seasons sometime before release, Bungie tied the Season of the Lost reveal (formerly known as Season 15) to its Witch Queen event. Destiny 2: Where is Xur this week? – With few details revealed prior to the season\u2019s start date on August 24, there was genuine excitement about this season \u2013 and much of it was justified if the first two weeks are anything to go by. Spoilers ahead for the start of Season of the Lost \u2013 you\u2019ve been warned. Bungie\u2019s writing is back to its best With Season of the Splicer culminating with confirmation that something was going on with Osiris, it was refreshing to see Season of the Lost essentially open with the reveal that yes, Osiris has been Savathun in disguise for quite some time. Hearing Saint-14\u2019s reaction felt genuine, despite him often feeling comically over-the-top last season. In fact, it led to another one of Destiny 2\u2019s excellent \u201cstoryboard\u201d style cutscenes. Check it out below: As Savathun so excellently puts it when speaking to Crow, she\u2019s been Osiris as long as he\u2019s known him, and hearing the former Prince Uldren question all of the life lessons (and dead Ghost collecting) that \u201cOsiris\u201d made him do has been one of the more subtle high-notes of the season so far. Read More: Everything we know about The Witch Queen – Speaking of our floppy-haired Crow, he\u2019s been bought back into the fold after having relatively little to do last season only to be met with Queen Mara \u2013 his sister. I still think their relationship borders on being a bit creepy at times, but I\u2019m curious to see if Mara can unearth any of Crow\u2019s memories of his life before. Reach for the stars As with Override and Expunge last season, we\u2019ve got a pair of new activities this time around \u2013 Astral Alignment and the Shattered Realm, and it\u2019s a bit of a mixed bag here. Firstly, Astral Alignment is nice, but the main boon is that it\u2019s not simply depositing items into a central repository as we\u2019ve been doing pretty much some variation of since Forsaken came out. There\u2019s also the fact that it\u2019s set in the Dreaming City, which in my mind remains one of Destiny 2\u2019s most beautiful locales. I mean, just look at it, it\u2019s like high fantasy and sci-fi had a gorgeous, lilac-tinged baby. As lovely as it is, though, the soft-lock bug certainly made it feel like players were overstaying their welcome \u2013 but it appears to have been fixed in the latest patch. The Shattered Realm, though, I\u2019m much more torn about. On the one hand, I love that each week seems to be giving us a small open-world hub full of secrets. On the other, roaming the pitch-black areas of the map doesn\u2019t feel as exciting when we\u2019ve done it countless times in strikes like The Corrupted, only now there\u2019s an irritating \u201cslow\u201d debuff in certain areas. Here\u2019s hoping an upgrade to the Wayfinder\u2019s compass will alleviate that somewhat. Stasis right there While Stasis has, undoubtedly, been contentious among the community, the new Stasis weapons are pretty great. The hand cannon, Vulpecula, is a particular highlight, and Fractethyst (a shotgun), isn\u2019t bad either. Sadly, though, Lorentz Driver (the new Season Pass weapon), feels a little\u2026 dull? Following on from Ticuu\u2019s Divination and Cryosthesia, both of which had pretty unusual exotic properties, it\u2019s a little on the tame side \u2013 it marks enemies behind obstacles, and can cause Void implosions. Maybe I\u2019ll grow to love it (with the catalyst), but at present, the best thing about it is the sound effect it makes. Where we\u2019re going, we don\u2019t need roadmaps The big question mark hanging over the Season of the Lost is in its ability to mix things up. The update marks an unprecedented six-month season that will run until the Witch Queen, after all. With prior seasons running out of steam with a few weeks to go, here\u2019s hoping Bungie has enough up its sleeve. I wonder if the continued lack of the developer\u2019s traditional roadmap for the season is an indication that there are surprises in store, while the Bungie 30th Anniversary pack will certainly add more content for those that are happy to pay for it. Still some questions, then, but as long as Bungie keeps leaning into its characters and its underused locales, I think there are exciting days ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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