Bungie’s Destiny 2: Lightfall plans include new season details and improved game modes

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Lightfall, the next expansion for Destiny 2, is only a couple of weeks away. And in the lead-up to it, Bungie has released a new blog post that details changes and additions for the next season. The post focuses on the new season to come, and some structural changes coming to Destiny 2 in a few weeks. Suffice it to say, there are a lot of details to look through before Lightfall comes out for Destiny 2.

To kick things off, the post begins with Bungie outlining some key goals for Destiny 2 moving forward. These goals focus on adding difficulty to Destiny 2, enriching the game’s content, as well as expanding “players’ imaginations” in the future. These are fairly big goals and Bungie admits that it may take a while to achieve them. But we’re already seeing steps towards these goals. In fact, a few weeks ago, Bungie confirmed that the infamously powerful Resilience stat was getting a nerf.

Lightfall‘s core content isn’t going to be the only thing to arrive in Destiny 2 on February 28. Alongside it is Destiny 2‘s next season, called the Season of Defiance. And Bungie says there are “substantial iterations to our current model coming to shake things up,” which means a couple of things. A key step towards this is that progression will be simplified. There will be fewer currencies to earn, and there won’t be any Umbral Engrams or Umbral Energies to unlock. Instead, there will be Seasonal Engrams stored on Seasonal Vendors as opposed to your inventory.

There are also some more details about Seasonal Activities in Destiny 2‘s next season. First up is a change coming to how you unlock chests at the end of a Seasonal Activity. Right now, you need to earn a certain currency and use that to unlock a chest at the end of the mission.