Destiny 2 Witch Queen Pre-Load Begins Today, Servers Going Down For Maintenance

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This week will be a big reason to celebrate for Destiny fans when The Witch Queen expansion launches, but a new era of Destiny 2 does require some downtime for some necessary maintenance. You won't be able to play the game for several hours as the work is done behind the scenes. The scheduled timeline for The Witch Queen launch will see servers go offline from 6:45 PM PT / 9:45 PM ET on February 21, and maintenance is expected to last until 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET on February 22. The full timeline will look like this:

Destiny 2 players on PS4 will be required to download all associated Destiny 2 required content before playing The Witch Queen, which can be done by launching Destiny 2 after the 4.0.0.1 patch is released. This will essentially reinstall the entire game and its related content, but Bungie noted that the game will have a smaller installation size once the download is complete, which in turn will help improve the download and installation of future PS4 patches.

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