It’s time for Destiny 2’s Black Armory gear to come back
destructoid.comEven though sunsetting has technically stopped being a thing in Destiny 2 in 2022, the concept is still looming over the game’s proverbial head thanks to its long-term effects. Notably, the community still wishes for some of Destiny 2‘s vaulted content to return, with Black Armory spearheading the list.
Destiny 2‘s Black Armory is a unique piece of kinda-sorta seasonal content that came out before Bungie settled on the game’s current, transient seasons. Whereas modern seasons (e.g. The Season of the Wish) get entirely removed from the game upon the release of a new DLC (The Final Shape, in this case), pre-Shadowkeep seasons stuck around for years at a time, and Black Armory was one of them.
Infamous for its ridiculously hard Niobe Labs puzzle and beloved for its loot design and variety, Black Armory often gets brought up by nostalgic community members as an example of content that Bungie ought to bring back. Yet, so far, Bungie’s done little more than to pay lip service to the idea.
More specifically, it was back in November of 2022 that Bungie’s weapon designers spoke on the topic of Black Armory content coming back. “The moment there’s a Black Armory story beat or an Ada story beat or something, you can expect Black Armory weapons to come back,” they said, as caught by Paul Tassi. Indeed, as we wrap up the troublesome year of Lightfall, the tale of the head of Black Armory, Ada-1, has been almost entirely sidelined.
As problematic as it might be to pivot entire narrative beats to serve a “simple” community request, it’s hard to ignore the fact that people have been asking for Black Armory gear to return for years now. Case in point:
All of these Reddit threads are highly upvoted, with users often commenting how they’re still keeping around sunset, out-of-date versions of Black Armory weapons just for nostalgia’s sake. In the case of Reddit user Renolber, funnily enough, they got hate mail for using the sunset Black Armory pulse rifle in Quickplay PvP.
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