Expansion 2: Warmind launches May 8 (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 16:49 (2207 days ago) @ cheapLEY

Bungie just posted an updated Development Roadmap.

Reveal stream on April 24.

It looks like they're target Season 4 for all the big changes.

The community has been talking a lot about some of the things we’re developing for Season Four. Our goals for these features are to give you more control over how you configure your loadouts in Destiny 2 and give you more reasons to play the game over time. We also want to bring back those exciting moments when you acquire the perfect weapon. To make this happen, updates like Weapon Randomization, Weapon Slot Changes, Gear Collections, and Records will be delivered to all players.

Great news, though I'm not 100% in love with the weapon randomization.

Private matches are coming with Season 3. Crucible maps will be free and available in matchmaking for everyone, you'll need to purchase the DLC in which they were released to access them in private matches. Seems fair.

Yup. I'm glad that Bungie's finally hopping on the "PvP maps should be free" train. Three benefits:

-It makes sense from a playerbase perspective, since it no longer segments the players and limits maps in rotations.
-They are no longer locked into a "new maps available mostly only during DLC drops" issue that we had with D1. D2 was a tiny bit better about this with two non-DLC maps being released outside of the base game (Shores and Burnout). Hopefully they can reach Respawn's level with a new map or two being released with every new content drop (even if they're D1 remakes).
-And finally, it removes the "minimum viable product" problem that plagues their content releases, where they can coast off of poor content by saying "it's got three Crucible maps!". Sounds a bit cynical, but it really puts pressure on them to add value to the content they make.