Opinion
Bungie wants to make your Destiny 2 weapons matter more in The Witch Queen
Bungie is on the point of launch what could possibly be one of many largest expansions to Future 2 we’ve ever seen later this month, The Witch Queen. Whereas the enlargement will comply with the story of Savathûn, it additionally introduces new unique weapons, weapon crafting, and massive modifications to the Future 2 sandbox.
Bungie is previewing a few of these weapon modifications at the moment, alongside detailing precisely how Future 2 gamers will be capable of craft their very own weapons in The Witch Queen. Gamers of the brand new enlargement will likely be given the chance to forge a brand new Glaive weapon sort early on, together with all the required supplies to craft this preliminary weapon.
Weapon crafting in Future 2 will enable gamers to select the barrels, frames, and weapon traits on a subset of weapons and archetypes with out the entire RNG wanted for an ideal weapon drop. A number of new weapons will likely be obtainable at first, and Bungie says extra will likely be added sooner or later. Crafting will contain discovering patterns (basically weapon blueprints), gathering supplies wanted for crafting after which leveling your new weapon up through the use of it to defeat enemies.
The quicker you stage a gun up, the extra enhanced traits you’ll be capable of unlock. This consists of enhanced stats, traits, and bonuses to weapon capabilities. It appears much more just like the way you used to stage weapons within the unique Future recreation, with a give attention to fight for unlocking perks. Bungie can be introducing a mementos system that may embrace activity-specific trackers and beauty aptitude for weapons.
Whereas we don’t have the complete listing of weapons that may help this new crafting system, it is possible for you to to craft the upcoming Osteo Striga unique submachine gun and the three class-specific unique Glaives. Current weapons you at the moment personal received’t be supported on this weapon crafting system, so this looks like a gentle push by Bungie to get Future 2 gamers to step by step sundown their very own weapons in favor of crafted ones all through 2022. That’s loads higher than making present weapons ineffective.
The Future 2 sandbox can be getting some main shakeups for The Witch Queen. Bungie has experimented with pursuit and pinnacle weapons from actions previously, with distinctive traits that had been typically overpowered. In The Witch Queen, it’s transferring in the direction of origin traits as a substitute, which is able to seem as an extra third perk on new weapon drops. You’ll get distinctive ones relying on the place the gun originated from. In Trials of Osiris, the endgame player-vs-player exercise, the Alacrity perk will enhance reload, stability, purpose help, and even vary if all of your teammates are lifeless and also you’re attempting to avoid wasting the spherical alone. It’s loads just like the Celerity, however with a variety and purpose help buff now.
Equally, Dusk strike weapons will drop with Beautiful Restoration, a perk that partially refills your journal and triggers well being regeneration and improves restoration. That might make ending a champion a bit of simpler or help with survivability simply once you’re diving behind cowl. The general world loot pool can be being changed with 12 new weapons within the fashion of the 12 months one foundry weapon units. Every of those foundries consists of distinctive origin traits, too.
In complete, Bungie is promising a staggering 42 new legendary weapons and all returning Trials, Iron Banner, and Dusk weapons. There are 14 origin traits delivery with The Witch Queen, with extra to come back all through the seasons in 2022. In comparison with the mediocre loot in Past Mild, there’s loads to play for in The Witch Queen.
It wouldn’t be a Future sandbox replace with out some nerfs, buffs, and modifications, although. I’d extremely advocate studying all of Bungie’s newest This Week At Bungie (TWAB) for the entire sandbox and weapon modifications coming to Future 2, however listed below are the massive ones for PvP:
- Gamers now solely drop one particular ammo on loss of life, and the utmost you possibly can choose up is one for shotgun, fusion rifles, or sniper rifles. You possibly can nonetheless use scavenger mods to spice up this, however you received’t be selecting up 5 – 6 photographs anymore.
- Faucet the set off, the perk obtainable on the Principal Ingredient Fusion rifle offered by Xur, is getting nerfed to make it far much less secure so it’s much less overpowered in PvP.
- Felwinter’s Lie, the shotgun that also dominates in PvP, is getting a 15 % improve in its unfold angle, which appears like a hefty nerf to make it much less deadly.
- Chaperone, the unique shotgun favored by controller gamers, will see its passive vary buff diminished from 2 meters to 0.5 meters.
- Useless Man’s Story, a complete nuisance in PvP, is having its catalyst’s hip-fire price diminished from 150rpm to 130rpm. This could make it tougher to spam hip-fire photographs from throughout a map.
- Lorentz Driver and Arbalest will get extra flinch to make it simpler to counter them, however I’m not satisfied it will assist, contemplating the large quantities of purpose help these linear fusion rifles have.
The Witch Queen enlargement launches on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and Stadia on February twenty second.
