Sold separately." That means that players will need the game's prior two expansions, Curse of Osiris and Warmind, if they want to access the new quests in Forsaken. This follows the precedent that Activision and Bungie had previously set, as the original game's expansions also required the previous DLC content to be purchased by the player. The disclaimer at the end of the teaser read, " Destiny 2 game, Destiny 2 expansions I & II required. Related: Destiny 2 Devs Are Promising To Change The Shooter Genre With This Fall's Expansion Activision has been talking up the expansion, and President Cody Johnson said that it features a new mode " that introduces a whole new style of play for first-person shooter gaming generally and certainly for the shared-world shooter space that Destiny created." The Destiny 2 community has been debating a new type of bundle in the game this year, which treats two dungeons as a separate entities that must either be purchased in a pricey. The lead Guardian launches into a quest to mete out vengeance for the fallen Cayde-6, whose murder is a figurative death knell to Destiny’s more frivolous narrative tendencies. Both the Curse of Osiris and Warmind received a middling response from the player base, so a lot is riding on the third expansion. Forsaken takes a hard turn from the quippy characters of Destiny 2’s base game, opting instead for a story about grief and the way it drives us into questionable action. Bungie released a new teaser for the upcoming Forsaken expansion, which will see an official unveil later today at 9am Pacific, and a message at the end revealed that players will need the first-person shooter's first two expansions if they wish to play the latest content.ĭestiny 2 has featured two expansions since it launched in September of 2017.
The first expansion for year two of Destiny 2 content is set to release this fall, but players will need to buy more than just the new DLC if they want to play it.