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What’s next for Destiny 2 after The Final Shape? Bungie teases Year 11 with Codename: Frontiers

After wrapping up a ten-year-long saga in The Final Shape expansion, developer Bungie has just laid out what’s coming up next in its shooty-looty MMO Destiny 2.

Destiny 2:The Final Shape debuted with a bang last week with a raid that took players 19 hours to clear and a narrative conclusion that seems to have pleased long-time Guardians across the system. As one era ends, another starts, however, and Bungie hasbothdetailed upcoming seasonal content and teased mysteries coming in Year 11.

During a recent developer vlog, the studio announcedsomething calledCodename: Frontiers without elaboration. Seriously, all we got was the working title.Though, the videodoes clarifythat Codename: Frontiers will besomethingcoming to Destiny 2, as opposed to aDestiny 3, which doesn’t seem to be on the company’s radar for now.(It’s also working on a Marathon reboot, don’t forget.)

Bungie’s last three expando-DLCs – The Witch Queen (2022), Lightfall (2023), and The Final Shape (2024) – released on an annual basis, so Codename: Frontiers might be our first glimpse into whatever the next expansion ends up being. Many fans have guessed that Frontiers mightjusttake us beyond our solar system, but either way, Bungie is seemingly kicking off the next long-term arc next year.

For now, the developeris focusedon its new Episodes, which are replacing traditional seasons.Bungiepreviously explained that “Episodes willbe splitinto three Acts, with a new Actreleasingevery six weeks—containing new stories, quests, activities, weapons, artifact mods, pass ranks, and rewards.”Destiny 2’s firstEpisodeEchoes comes out tomorrow with new Vex variants and a three-player “arena-style offensive” activity.

Episode Revenant will follow soonthereafterwith a focuson the Fallen, “dark fantasy themes,” and vampire-slaying, surprisingly.Revenant is also introducing potion-crafting to the series (we love some thematic cohesion), which allows players to make both “combat potions” and “loot potions” that modify the rewards you’re chasing.

Next, we have Episode Heresy, centered on the Hive Pantheon and a mysterious eldritch threat that’s “bubbling up to the surface.” However,the most exciting part of Heresy is probably the return of the Dreadnought, which served as the Hive’s main spaceship in the Taken King, a real high point for the original Destiny.

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