Summary
At long last,Destiny 2’s upcoming expansion, The Edge of Fate, has been revealed, with its July 15 release date kicking off the Fate Saga — a brand-new overarching narrative for the game that will unfold over multiple years and across several different expansions. During the recent showcase for The Edge of Fate, Bungie divulged a vast number ofchanges coming toDestiny 2with the launch of the expansion, including some new customizable difficulty options that ultimately show the developer’s love and attentiveness to its fans.
For many years now, theDestiny 2community has been largely split between two camps: those asking for an experience that respects their limited time and those who want a much deeper, more prolonged experience that rewards them for the time they spend in the game. Now, with the introduction of customizable difficulty options launching alongside the upcoming Edge of Fate expansion,Destiny 2aims to bridge that gap. In the end, this shows that Bungie has been listening to its fans and doing what it can to improve the overallDestiny 2experience.
Destiny 2’s Customizable Difficulty Options Show Its Love for All Types of Players
Destiny 2’s Customizable Difficulty Options Grant Players Plenty of Agency
At the heart ofDestiny 2’s upcoming customizable difficulty options is an emphasis on player agency to ensure players can play the way they want to play, regardless of what they’re doing in the game. For starters,The Edge of Fatewill bring a ton of new difficulty levels (Normal, Advanced, Expert, Master, Grandmaster, and Ultimate) for players to choose from when starting an activity. This massive expansion of difficulty options ultimately opens the door for players to have even more control over their experience, especially if they really want to challenge themselves or if they are on a time budget and need something to be quick and painless.
It’s currently unclear whether these difficulty options will apply to every activity in the game, but players can count on them being available in activities like Strikes, Dungeons, and Raids.
In addition to thesedifficulty optionscomes fifty new modifiers, along with all the old modifiers, which players can also customize depending on the difficulty setting they’ve chosen. As usual, lower difficulties will offer less valuable rewards, whereas higher difficulties will offer the best rewards, and modifiers can alter this even further. All of this eventually culminates in an overall Grade and Score forecast that determines the player’s rewards. This ensures players will be that much closer to getting the rewards they’re playing for, rather than relying solely on rewards that have been predetermined by the chosen activity.
Destiny 2’s World Tiers System Lets Players Customize Entire Locations
One of the biggest new additions coming inDestiny 2’s Edge of Fate expansion is the planet Kepler, as it is bringing with it several new features to the game — one of those features being the new World Tiers system. Essentially, World Tiers allow players to customize the difficulty of entire locations, with higher difficulties granting them better loot and lower difficulties doing the opposite. As players progress through the main story of The Edge of Fate, they will unlock higher World Tiers that can even transform puzzles and activities within Kepler itself.
At the heart ofDestiny 2’s upcoming customizable difficulty options is an emphasis on player agency to ensure players can play the way they want to play, regardless of what they’re doing in the game.
Destiny 2has always been at its best when it finds ways to meet players where they are, and the new customizable difficulty options show it is serious about letting players enjoy the game their way. Whether someone wants a quick and painless run or a more intense challenge, everything seems to finally be in place to make that possible. With World Tiers, modifiers, and a full range of difficulty levels,Destiny 2’s upcoming Edge of Fate expansionhas written a love letter to fans many have been waiting for.
