What? (Destiny)

by kapowaz, Thursday, July 31, 2014, 08:40 (3768 days ago) @ Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)

I played the beta. During it I rapidly hit the level 8 cap on two characters... but I still gained new powers, attributes, and other stuff afterward even discounting new gear. Upgrading my grenades and knives, new powers for the Golden Gun, all those little circles underneath the main level indicator kept filling up as I played and I'd unlock new abilities. I don't know if they're tied to XP or to actual play (knives get better the more you use knives, frex) but my character kept getting more powerful without the level progression bar budging a millimetre.

It's difficult to know if that's how the final game will work though; by no longer gaining levels after 8 you saw your character continue to progress at the level cap, but it's quite feasible that by the time you hit level 20 all of those talent options will already have filled up. The next stage for choosing a character specialisation unlocks at level 15 (which locks in all your talent choices), after all, suggesting that you must have already unlocked them all by then.