HomeNewsDestiny 2
Bungie move the goalposts on Destiny 2’s new communal challengeNow it’ll actually get finished this season
Now it’ll actually get finished this season
Just over a day after settingDestiny 2players a new communal goal to grind towards, Bungie have made changes so it’ll be finished a whole lot sooner. A new quest, named The Lie, starts out with a goal shared between all players: complete the seasonalSeraphTower event nine million times. Given that most Seraph Tower attempts seem to end in failure, it is not a fun challenge. Progress was so slow, it looked likeit might take months to complete. So Bungie have made the event easier and boosted the progresses rate.
Without matchmaking, with so many failures, with the same ol' not-great rewards, and coming so soon after the boring grindfest of the Guardian games, it looked like a flop. After the first day of the challenge, players were barely 2% towards the target. The season will end in less than four weeks so, ah, clearly Bungie expected more. So they’re giving more.
Datamined leaks say The Lie is leading to us getting a decent shotgun returning from the first game, Felwinter’s Lie. I’m up for that. More story bits will come in across the quest too, though it looks like loads more grinding as well. At least now we’ll actually be able to reach the next step and see that.
Bungie community manager “Cozmo23” explained there were a few ‘switches’ they could flip to quickly make changes to the event. Hence the curious Champion change.
“Yea, it was one of the switches we had so we flipped it,” he explainedon Reddit. “The progress one should be the one that is more impactful.” But they have no option to so easily change the event’s time limit, headded, “or we would have likely also utilised it.”
He alsorecognised some of event’s problems. He added, “The point of this step wasn’t to challenge the community to complete something, and if they didn’t, they wouldn’t get something. It was to rally everyone to a single event to kick off ‘The Lie’.”
Bungie have become good at recognising mistakes they’ve made. They talk alotofgoodtalkabout future changes. But man, they keep making mistakes and some seem real obvious.
