New exotics weapons and armors, new abilities, a new season is upon us in Destiny 2. Except they aren't calling them seasons, they are Episodes now, even though they basically act like season with basically the same structure, embedded activities, power leveling and a bit a tired content loop. This Episode we're even bringing back small incremental increases to max power level, bumping the ceiling from 2000 to 2010. This is walking back comments made by the game's creators from a little more than a year ago that claimed to have stopped the practice due to player feedback. You see, no one likes hopping on the hamster wheel of RNG to hope for get a pinnacle engram to decode into just the right armor or weapon slot to make the number go up from 2000 to 2010; but I guess as players numbers dwindle Bungie is desperate to enforce as much of the grind as possible in the name of artificial player engagement.
But it's not all bad news, first off Bungie Twitter (https://x.com/destiny2team/status/1843323581356179495) has hinted the long-awaited Exotic Class Item focusing, which was intended to release "sometime" during this season Episode appears to be ahead of schedule. Also, the trailer for the new season looks pretty cool with the spooktacular Halloween theme.
Destiny is down but not out and I still enjoy it. Hopefully, it can reclaim some of its lost magic as the studio refocuses on their only real IP.
