First teased over two years in the past, Bungie lastly dished on Destiny 2 Lightfall throughout its massive annual 2022 showcase, revealing new powers, threats, and mysteries all dressed up in a spiky, neon-infused cyberpunk artwork fashion. The Witch Queen turned the Destiny universe on its head, and the following enlargement seems to be poised to ship on that chaos in some massive methods.

The penultimate enlargement in a nine-part epic, Lightfall seems to be on the floor liek a radical departure from the long-running sci-fi shooter’s previous. It will introduce the beforehand rumored poison subclass, Strand, that features a new grappling hook potential (hey there Halo Infinite). It additionally present’s Destiny’s solid grappling with the results of the Witness’ plans for destroying the Traveler and its Light hinted at within the ultimate moments of The Witch Queen marketing campaign and raid. Players will discover the brand new hidden metropolis of Neomuna that takes place in an alternate universe, and take care of its personal model of Guardians known as Cloud Striders.

Here’s the trailer:

Destiny 2‘s annual expansions are the place the sport will get jolted again into life with new story-based campaigns, gameplay overhauls, and extra Exotic gear. For a very long time they used to drop each September, however starting with Beyond Light throughout the pandemic the expansions began getting pushed again, first into late fall and finally into late winter. During these intervals, Bungie has been conserving the sport contemporary with rotating seasonal updates each three months or so.

The newest, Season 18, goes reside at this time. It was beforehand leaked that it could be known as Season of the Plunder, embrace two completely different units of actions and story missions, and convey again the beloved legacy raid King’s Fall from 2015’s enlargement, The Taken King. Bungie additionally confirmed a Fortnite collaboration that can see each video games trade character skins.

If new seasons are like tv mini-series, new expansions like Lightfall are the annual blockbuster film. Back in 2020, Destiny 2 was set to have three extra of them to cap off its Light and Darkness Saga. However, final yr Bungie introduced it wanted extra time and house to inform the story it’s been constructing since Destiny 1 launched. The result’s a fourth enlargement known as The Final Shape that can drop someday sooner or later. It’s anyone’s guess the place the sequence heads after that, and whether or not it can embrace a Destiny 3.