Destiny 2 News

The Destiny 2 Wicked Implement scout rifle is the newest Exotic weapon to arrive in Season of the Deep, and as expected, it's tied to the seasonal Deep Dive activity. The Wicked Implement perks are pretty cool as scout rifles go; it slows enemies with rapid precision hits and creates stasis shards that reload the gun if you kill an enemy while doing it...
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t a recent roundtable Q&A session with Bungie for Destiny 2's Season of the Deep, I asked why the bosses in its latest dungeon have so much damn health. And sure, I know what you're thinking: get good. But it's not just me. On release, plenty of the player reaction—particularly from those who like to solo Destiny 2's dungeons—was about how many phases it takes to bring down its two bosses...
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There's been an argument raging in Destiny 2 lore communities for years, ever since Bungie revealed the Witness—the big bad that's been working behind the scenes throughout the game's Light and Darkness saga—at the end of The Witch Queen campaign. The question, fiercely debated, is this: Is the Witness the same entity as the Winnower, the cosmic force described back in the Shadowkeep expansion lore book Unveiling?..
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Bungie has grown itself into a studio that's capable of handling more than a single game. As the developer continues to pump out content for Destiny 2, there's no end in sight for when support for the long-running loot shooter is going to end - even if The Final Shape expansion sounds like the end of the road for major content.

As work on Destiny 2 continues, an off-shoot team (made up of many former Destiny developers) has been working on Marathon, an extraction shooter that carries the name of a classic Bungie game. Marathon was just announced in May, and the developer said it would be going dark for a long while, and re-emerge later to talk specifics.

But if you've been keeping up with Bungie, you may be familiar with another mysterious new project it has in the works: Matter. Bungie trademarked Matter back in 2018, and the studio has been dropping very brief hints about the nature of the project, referring to it as a "whimsical" loot game in job ads.

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In its latest This Week in Destiny post, Bungie explained the online architecture issues that have led to a recent uptick in cheeky animal-named connection errors. Bungie also provided a roadmap of what fixes players can expect and when, but the promising-sounding "large set of improvements" won't be coming until the start of Season 22 at the end of August...
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