Category: Analysis

It’s been quite a busy week! Plenty of leaks have been making their way online, and while we covered most of the interesting news here, this article will recap all the other leaks and spoilers that have been revealed. Credit goes to /u/a_tortoise_IRL for translating the following information from the French Canadian source of the guide leaks. [divider] Campaign Let’s begin by looking at the leaked mission list for the Red War campaign, which features 17 main missions in total: Homecoming Adieu Spark – Pt. 1 Spark – Pt. 2 Combustion Hope Riptide Utopia Looped Six Sacrilege Fury Payback Unbroken

It’s been quite an eventful week, with plenty of new trailers, gameplay reveals, and a few spoilers… so let’s review everything we learned! Trailer Roundup Launch Trailer European Dead Zone Meet Cayde-6 Meet Hawthorne Meet Zavala [divider] Destiny 2 Pre-Load As of this week, Guardians who have pre-ordered Destiny 2 on Xbox One are able to download the game’s file. It clocks in at 29.15GB currently, with a day one patch expected. As for PS4 players, it was originally expected they would be able to pre-load the game beginning on September 3, however a tweet from Bungie on 8/21 mentioned

Edge Magazine recently released issue #310 and one of the features was an in-depth look at Destiny 2. The staff over at Edge had a chance to play through the entirety of the D2 campaign and they came away extremely impressed with it. They also revealed a few new pieces of information! [divider] Energy Improvements The energy weapons that we got to sample during the beta weren’t quite the finished products that will be awaiting us in the full game. In the full game, energy weapons that correspond with the shield of an enemy combatant will have a big effect.

Unrestricted Class Access There’s two components to this point: The first being that when we got hands on time with the beta, only half of the skill nodes were available. I’m eager to get my hands on Voidwalker’s lifesteal build, and the Sentinel being able to throw multiple shields. Secondly, third subclasses… what’s the deal with them? I’m hopeful we’ll see Nightstalker, Sunbreaker, and Stormcaller again! [divider] New Enemies We’ve gotten a close look at the revamped Cabal in Destiny 2. We’ve seen the new units added, like the Incendior, Gladiator, and War Beast. We’ve also seen the new updates

After completing the limited-time taste preceding the wait for D2, I wanted to follow up with some final thoughts… Classes After playing on all three classes, reading thoughts from people who have played all three classes, and talking to people have played all three classes, some very obvious trends of thought emerged. I’ve broken them down here by Guardian type: Titans feel great. They, more than the other classes (perhaps only slightly more than Warlocks) feel powerful. Combined with the most versatile movement ability in the Beta – the strafe jump – the Titan wall ability is a force to