Destiny 2 News

Despite releasing an incredible expansion at the start of the year, the mood around Destiny 2's player base—at least, the part of it that gathers in places like Reddit, the Bungie forums and Twitter—has changed in recent months. Season of the Plunder, which ends tomorrow, was not well received. Players were unhappy with the drip-feed of week-to-week quests, the seasonal challenges, the core activities, the resource economy, the balance. You name it, there's a heavily upvoted post unhappy with it...
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Destiny 2 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla are getting a small crossover next week, with some cosmetics themed around each other coming to both games.

Bungie announced the crossover earlier this week, where it showed off the costumes players will be able to find in both games. On December 6, Valhalla players will be able to pick up the Destiny-2 themed character pack, "which includes armour sets, swords, a scout skin and a mount skin," as outlined in a blog post from Ubisoft, all of which look like a mildly mediaeval take on Destiny's sci-fi look. There will also be a weapons pack on offer, "which includes four unique spins on Destiny's iconic subclasses, each with their own gameplay perks and custom effects."

For Destiny 2 players, the Assassin's Creed-themed pack will be available when the next season kicks off, also on December 6, where they can head to the Eververse store to "get their hands on Assassin’s Creed-themed ship, Sparrow, Ghost, and finisher cosmetics, as well as three armour ornament sets." The armour sets are based on Assassin's Creed as a whole by the looks of things, rather than Valhalla specifically, with one set resembling the classic white-hooded look from the earlier games.

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Four days before the end of Destiny 2: Season of Plunder is set to end, players have found themselves completely unable to matchmake, along with some additional pesky server issues rising to the surface...
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Bungie and Ubisoft have announced a crossover between Destiny 2 and Assassin's Creed, which will see themed cosmetics coming to the shooter and Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. Players of the latter can buy a Destiny 2 character pack from December 6, which includes armor sets, swords, a scout skin and a mount skin, and a weapons pack with four spins on Destiny's subclasses that have perks and custom effects. A warlock in ninth century England, eh...
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Now that we’re back from Shanksgiving, we’ve got a few more things we need to wrap up before the new year ahead. Not only are we talking about our latest adventure into unknown lands, this time channeling incredible characters from one of Ubisoft’s most iconic franchises, we’ve also got a sneak peek at even more weapon tuning ahead, a fresh look at some new gear, and the community weapon ornament voting has begun with a special sit-down with the artist herself to talk about the process coming later this week.


Here’s a quick rundown on what we’re going to be chatting about this week before diving right in:

• More on the exciting new collaboration with Ubisoft.
  
• Iron Banner, Trials of Osiris, and Nightfall loot pool updates, plus a sneak peek at Season 20’s gear. .
  
• Weapon philosophy and more on upcoming changes with Senior Design Lead Chris Proctor.
  
• An important update on Hunter Void invisibility.
  
• Season 19 artifact preview.
  
• Time to vote for your favorite Arbalest ornament, as well as an interview with the chosen community artist behind the craft that will drop on Friday!
  
• New Prime Gaming drops.
  
• Known issues update.
  

Let’s get into it. Full TWAB can be read here: