![]() Its new campaign is meaty enough to bring players back in and provide enough structure to get you reattached to the grind, but it doesn’t feel particularly special. The rest of the expansion, though, is a relatively standard fare as Destiny goes. Easily some of the best moments of the Lightfall campaign come when wielding the Strand subclass, and I’m excited to continue feeling it out and seeing how it evolves over time. ![]() Among its powers is a new grappling hook-type mechanic that allows you to zip around areas quickly and adds some more verticality to combat and new ways for Bungie to design clever puzzles and create new, massive scope platforming sections. With that said, the Strand subclass feels fantastic. It makes sense that the game tutorializes the new powers for a bit, though it does feel as though a significant portion of the campaign’s 8-mission, 6–7-hour campaign is dedicated to these tutorials. While it’s a new subclass that can be equipped full-time, the campaign gives you the opportunity to wield its powers in a few distinct instances. The biggest addition to gameplay is easily the new Darkness subclass: Strand. One welcome quality of life addition is the new inclusion of loadout management, which allows you to natively keep multiple loadouts primed and ready to deploy. There remains a great variety of guns to play around with, whether it’s a slow Heavy weapon, a fast-shooting SMG, or anything in between. While there have been some behind-the-scenes changes to weapon balancing and ability cooldowns, not much has changed with gameplay, and that’s probably for the best. As is the case with all expansions to this point, Power levels have been standardized and the Power cap has been raised, this time starting at 1600 with a soft cap of 1750 and an overall cap of 1810. On the gameplay front, Lightfall makes very few significant changes but maintains Destiny’s fantastic legacy of having some of the best-feeling gunplay in the genre. "The second-to-last full expansion planned for Destiny 2, Lightfall does feel at points like more of a proof of concept than a true core addition to the Destiny 2 experience, but nonetheless it’s some of the purest fun I’ve had playing Destiny 2, even if its story leaves something to be desired." This campaign certainly feels like a late-stage expansion to an already-complicated story, which deals with its entry to the lore by being an almost fully self-contained story in a separate location with few major crossovers to other stories already told, and it does ultimately suffer for it. ![]() Because of that, it’s easy to begin to tune out the story, especially when the core motivation is clear – retrieve the Veil before Calus – and there aren’t many twists and turns along the way. A few intricate and beautifully animated cutscenes aside, most of Lightfall’s story is told to you by the Ghost or the charming new character Nimbus. Destiny 2, especially when it diverges from its core conflicts that have been raging from the beginning, often gravitates toward telling over showing in its story, and Lightfall is no different. ![]() It centers around retrieving an artifact called the Veil, which is located in Neomuna and is being hunted by Emperor Calus and his Shadow Legion of Cabal. Following 2022’s The Witch Queen, Destiny 2’s latest expansion, Lightfall, is finally here and continues to build upon the ever-complicated Destiny narrative while adding in some great, if somewhat short-lived, new gameplay elements, including a new Darkness class, as well as a new raid, “Root of Nightmares.” The second-to-last full expansion planned for Destiny 2, Lightfall does feel at points like more of a proof of concept than a true core addition to the Destiny 2 experience, but nonetheless it’s some of the purest fun I’ve had playing Destiny 2, even if its story leaves something to be desired.Ĭontinuing a tradition of keeping expansions generally on their own unique planets, Lightfall takes place on the planet Neptune in the city Neomuna. Despite first launching more than half a decade ago, Destiny 2 has remained top of mind for many over the course of its life cycle due to developer Bungie’s impressive support and a run of meaty, high-quality expansions that bring new experiences and a whole lot of new content to the game. ![]()
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