Destiny 2 Season of the Haunted is bringing Solar 3.0 and a return to Calus's Leviathan
Destiny 2 Season 17 is officially the Season of the Haunted, and it's packing the Solar 3.0 subclass update, multiple new Exotics, and fresh activities which take us back to the original Leviathan raid, now with Shadowkeep-like Nightmares lurking around the specter of Calus.
Bungie unveiled the new season earlier today, mere hours before its launch – an uncharacteristically late reveal, and the latest of the studio's experiments with timing and secret-keeping. The official product page is also live on Bungie's site.
Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted is led by Nightmare Containment and Sever, two new activities with a positively vicious look to them. Nightmare Containment will be free to all players and challenge them to "summon the challenging Nightmares and cleanse them with fire."
The whole fire cleansing thing involves a new scythe relic which looks achingly cool and comes paired with extra edgy armor and weapons, with some returning favorites – most notably the Menagerie's Beloved and Austringer – among them.
Sever, meanwhile, is tied to the new season pass and lets players explore the Leviathan's underbelly, chasing "the truth behind Calus’s sinister plan" and "the Nightmares he controls," according to Bungie.
It's clear that Calus, Destiny 2's first final raid boss, is back in a big way, as is the Leviathan raid itself. Sever seems to have taken most of the raid's assets out of the Destiny Content Vault and combined them with some familiar faces from multiple expansions, doubling down on the Nightmare theme established in Shadowkeep.
As players conquer these literal Nightmares, they'll master the new Solar subclass trees which have been expanded to match Stasis and Void 3.0. Bungie's keeping the details of
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