A delay of Destiny 2 Witch Queen has pushed the next expansion of the game until early 2022, and Bungie is also adding another annual version to the game’s long-term roadmap.
Originally planned for this fall, The Witch Queen was positioned as the second expansion in a trilogy launched last year by Destiny 2: Beyond Light. Bungie has chosen to move it to early 2022 to give more time in the oven, to set up a new release schedule for future Destiny 2 expansions, and to give the team more time to get on the live game this year to focus through features like crossplay and transmog. The studio is also prioritizing the health of its developers with this change, especially in the shadow of COVID-19.
“We have been thinking for a long time about moving Destiny’s annual release to the early half of the year, mainly for the health of the team, but being the Witch Queen and not being bound by the legacy expectations, has enabled us to do this. make an early choice, ” write assistant acting director Joe Blackburn.
“The Witch Queen represents a major evolution in the ongoing story of Destiny 2,” he explains. ‘Beyond Light built the foundation and enabled us to weave the world building of Destiny and Destiny 2 together, but The Witch Queen will ignite the fire in a strong interconnected story about Lightfall and beyond, unlike anything we’ve ever had before. tried before, with characters, bows, heroes and villains continuing over multiple future releases. More importantly, the closure of these releases will also conclude the ‘Saga for Light and Darkness’, the conflict we first introduced with the launch of Destiny many years ago. ‘
Light and darkness are merely the ‘first’ saga in Destiny’s history, Blackburn says, but Bungie is striving to continue Destiny’s next year. To begin with, the Beyond Light trilogy has now grown to four expansions, with an additional ‘unannounced chapter’ that will follow after Lightfall.
With the new version of the game, we can expect The Witch Queen in early 2022, Lightfall in early 2023 and the final chapter of Light and Darkness in early 2024. The exact timing of all three has yet to be seen, and while we do know that Bungie is targeting Q1 / Q2, Lightfall and the saga finale will not necessarily arrive in the same month as The Witch Queen or each other. For now, we’ll have to deal with the Witch Queen armor teaser above, which Bungie fiercely put out today.
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