Bungie has confirmed a Destiny 2 solar 3.0 rework as part of the FPS game’s upcoming season 17, now revealed to be ‘Season of the Haunted,’ which begins today (May 24) at 6pm BST. The new Destiny 2 update also features the return of Emperor Calus’s world-eating ship the Leviathan from the Destiny Content Vault, which longtime players will remember as the site of the game’s first raid. Though we’ve seen Destiny 1 locations return, this will be the first Destiny 2 content to be ‘unvaulted’, so it’ll be interesting to see how it’s changed.
Probably the most anticipated news from the new season is the confirmation of solar 3.0 – a rework for all solar subclasses, following the void 3.0 subclass rework in Destiny 2’s The Witch Queen expansion. This reworked kit will be available to all players regardless of whether or not they purchase the Season of the Haunted pass.
The Leviathan’s return signals the narrative direction of the new season, with the once-opulent ship returning from – well, wherever it’s been – now corrupted and crumbling. Earlier in the game we learned that Calus made contact with an entity of the Darkness during his exile in deep space, which, following its reveal in the events of the Witch Queen, seems likely to be The Witness, the commander of the ‘Black Fleet’ of pyramid ships. With Calus returning from the vault and his sights set on the Moon pyramid, we can clearly expect a ton of story in the new season.
Season 17 also sees the return of nightmares through the ‘Nightmare Containment’ activity aboard the Leviathan, which pits Guardians against apparitions taking the form of past enemies and bosses in scaling encounters.
Nightmare Containment is available to everyone, while those with the season pass also
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