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Review: Destiny 2: Shadowkeep
2026.03.01 09:46
Destiny campaigns have always been mind-numbing thanks to heavy-handed writing and mission design that overly relies on mundane busywork. The stories nearly always end up being vague, open-ended and unsatisfying. Forsaken changed that by making the story more personal and finding new and engaging ways to push that narrative forward. Shadowkeep, on the other hand, is content with regressing all that hard work. Aside from strong opening and closing missions, Shadowkeep barely delivers any meaningful revelations or character development. You, Eris Morn and the remainder of the Vanguard remain blank slates with surface-level characterizations. With the most emotive member of the cast, Cayde-6, dead, Destiny desperately needs NPCs with some personality. Unfortunately, that isn't found anywhere in Shadowkeep.
"Our plan is to use these new items to bolster the service provided by our live team for another full year, as they grow and create more robust and engaging events that we’ll announce later this year. It has been, and continues to be, our goal to deliver updates to the game. Going forward, our live team is also looking to grow beyond vital updates and improvements to focus on world events, experiences, and feature requests."
With Armor 2.0, Bungie is fully embracing the RPG potential of its franchise. New weapon and armor mods allow players to mess around with different elements and stats to build a character that fits their play style. Players can not only tweak little things like Resilience but also stats like how fast your abilities recharge. It's an exciting system that hardcore players will love tinkering with. It's also available for every player, regardless of whether or not you purchased Shadowkeep.
After you attack for 20 seconds, Kell Echo will become immune and you will have to sink into the sand to enter another room with pillars. Repeat the process until he dies, and your team will teleport to a treasure room where the Emissary is with a chest of Pinnacle gear. If you’re a Titan, you will receive a Crushing Set, if you are a Warlock you will receive a Channeling Set, if you’re a Hunter you will receive a Flowing set, and all classes will receive a Moonfang-X7
Now that guardians have to directly pay for this content too, how exactly is there any justification whatsoever for keeping the Eververse around? As it currently stands: there isn’t. The Eververse now exists for the sole purpose of extracting extra money from eager players. This isn’t a free to play game like Fortnite. It’s a $60 premium AAA experience game. That price goes up to ~$170 for those who bought Destiny 2 strikes 2, its individual expansions, and who will buy both the $40 Forsaken and Bungie’s $30 Annual Pass. No matter how one slices it, that same old scumminess is still very present.
Excavation Site II - Heading straight east from the Giant's Scar travel point, the player will end up at the second excavation site. In the excavation site's cave system there will be an electrical room. An eye is sitting in this room atop a shelf near the entra
Shotgunning here might be a bit tougher unless players are confident in their ability to move into range without being demolished. Medium range and long range are fantastic here, but don't feel quite as oppressive as in Vostok, since snipers have to pick a very specific line of sights to shoot, and don't have a near-full view of their surroundi
Terrabase Charon - Northwest of the Giant's Scar or north of the Warmind Vault Jys. II lies the Terrabase Charon. An eye is waiting in one of the indented scars left behind by the excavator that has become a low pathway through the a
As a fan of Halo-era Bungie and of Destiny in general, it sucks having to point this out now that Bungie has finally shown some signs of passion for Destiny. Forsaken has all the hallmarks of a product that’s had some real love and care put into it, and the team behind it deserves all the praise and kudos that they’re currently enjoying for it. If it manages to meet the sky-high expectations this past week’s reveal has no doubt inspired in the Destiny community, then they’ll deserve even more. Forsaken and it’s team aren’t the issue here, but rather Destiny in general and specifically Bungie’s incessant need to squeeze its player base for all they’re worth. It can be done better. It is being done better by several others. So what exactly is Bungie’s excuse for treating their fans like a bunch of simpletons with bottomless wallets? Do they even think they need one? Hopefully they’re not that far-gone, but since they’ve been employing these same practices for almost three years now and are now escalating even further, refuting such an impression is difficult to say the least.
The third Destiny 2 dungeon, the Prophecy Dungeon has a recommended Power Level of 1040 , and some of the enemies have Power Levels of 1060. Before starting the dungeon, rank up your characters to the max Power Level to increase your chances of walking out of this dungeon al