It’s been a month since Bungie announced its plan to un-sunset all of the old weapons in Destiny 2, and now that the dust has settled, it seems like there was never really much dust at all. Sunsetting was an extraordinarily controversial decision that made a lot of people very upset, and while it wasn’t the most controversial (that’s still the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Destiny Content Vault) I’m still surprised at the relati꧃vely mild reaction to the news that all of the sunsetted weapons are going to be𒁏 un-sunsetted come The Final Shape.
As a reminder, back in 2020 Bungie decided it had a power creep problem. Powerful weapons like Recluse and The Mountaintop were being used so ubiquitously that Bungie decided the only way it would 🅘be able to entice players to use new weapons in the future would be to either design stronger and stronger weapons forever, or soft remove the existing strong items by restricting their ability to be infused with higher power. It chose the latter, and with the launch of Beyond Light, every non-Exotic weapon was given a power cap, which over time made them obsolete.
Jump ahead 🌜to last month, when Bungie announced it was taking the cap off of all the old weapons to effectively un-sunset them. When The Final Shape launches, you can dig out your old Recluse, Luna’s Howl, or IKELOS SMG and use them in the new raid if you want to. You probably won’t do that though, since there are new, better versions of all those guns you can obtain fairly easily.
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At first I expected two opposite reactions to the news: people who kept all of their sunset weapons would be excited they could finally use them again, and people who deleted all of their sunset weapons after being told they weren’t ever going to be relevant again would be very upset that those guns are, indeed, relevant again. I fall into the first camp, and the first thing I thought of was digging out my Mountaintop to see how it feels🐻. Then I played the new game mode added during the Into the Light update, Onslaught, and immediately got a new Mountaintop with better traits than the old one.
Part of the reason for the lukewa🥂rm reaction to the un-sunsetting is that those guns would be irrelevant either way. Destiny has a new Fireteam Power system in The Final Shape that will make power level caps on weapons irrelevant, since the entire Fireteam will share the power level of the highest-powered player, but that doesn’t mean all those old Forsaken guns are suddenly meta. Many classic guns like the IKELOS line have been reissued over the years with new-and-improved traits that make them outshine the originals, and with Into the Light’s Brave Arsenal, almost all of the other heav꧒y hitters are back and better too. There’s nothing in my extensive sunset collection that is going to be relevant now even with un-sunsetting. I was just keeping them for sentimental value, and I guess I still am.
I think the other element keeping people from being up in arms over this decision is just the fact that, after all these years, getting mad at Bungie has gotten exhausting. Between sunsetting, the Destiny Content Vault, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:server issues and downtime, rollbacks, poor PvP support, weapon crafting, expansion delays, the new player experience, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:heinous monetization, Lightfall, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:last year’s callous layoffs, un-sunsetting is just one more offense to add to the pile. It’s almost fun♛ny to see the studio double back on something four years later after all the flak it got for the decision in the first place. I should be mad꧒, but all I can do is roll my eyes and say “Oh, Bungie!”
For what it’s worth, all of the other power-related changes announced alongside un-sunsetting sound great. Fireteam Power will make it much easier for friends to play together, and account-wide power level removed a barrier to playing different classics that has kept a lot of people, myself includeꦆd, away from enjoying the full scope of the game. The Final Shape is only a few weeks away and the excitement for a new Destiny expansion is building. I know there are more confusing and disappointing surprises ahead in Destiny’s future, but for now, I’m just glad there’s still a future for Destiny at all.
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