Destiny 2 Focusing on Witch Queen Content Instead of Expanding Cosmodrome – GameRant

In the latest This Week at Bungie blog post, the Destiny 2 development team clarifies its plans for the expansion of the Cosmodrome experience.

This week Bungie launched the second season of Destiny 2 Year 4. It's called Season of the Chosen and brought with it much anticipated features. A fan favorite system from last summer, Umbral Engrams, have returned and they tie into the new activity, Battlegrounds. This is a new playlist activity that sits alongside Strikes. Speaking of Strikes,three have been added this season with one of them being brand new. The other two are there to flesh out the Cosmodrome experience. While this is great news for veterans, Bungie recently clarified the future of this zone.

Cosmodrome was added to the game in Destiny 2:Beyond Light and accompanied Europa, a new zone. In the reveal stream, the studio also announced that future expansions will always feature never-before-seen zones such as Europa. In addition, areas from the Destiny Content Vault also have the potential to return. Cosmodrome was one such zone, and the studio had initially planned to expand the this destination to roughly match its statefrom Destiny 1.

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However, the dev team'sgoals have changed since them, andit apologized for not updating the community earlier. Long story short, with the addition of The Devil's Lair and the Fallen S.A.B.E.R. Strikes, the team feels that Cosmodrome has enough content to stand on its own as a zone. Thus, they have halted the process of unvaulting any more Cosmdrome content to be brought into Destiny 2.

While massive add-ons like the Plaguelands were likely never going to happen, some of the possible additions were the remaining original patrols spaces, the subsections of Cosmodrome added in Destiny 1 Year 1 DLCs,and the colony ship that The Taken King players got to explore. In the end, these were deemed not vital in telling the story of the Cosmodrome and most importantly, having a fulfilling New Light experience.

Right now, the team is focusing on bringing back the Vault of Glass and fleshing out the upcoming destination of the game's next expansion,The Witch Queen. They believe that the community values new experiences more, thus, resources have been shifted to developing new areas rather than preparing Cosmodromecontent for Destiny 2. This doesnot mean that noother Destiny 1 content will return to Destiny 2. The team still thinks thatbringing content from the vault is a good way to add variety to the live game. Thus, beyond Year 4, more of the Destiny classics may make a comeback.

Destiny 2is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.

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Source: Bungie

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