Summary
Destiny 2game director Robbie Stevens has revealed that Episode: Echoes, Act 3 will bring an Exotic Mission that is “one of the biggest Exotic missions” ever. Exotic Missions inDestiny 2consist of quests that offer Exotic Weapons or cosmetics upon their completion.
Earlier in June,Destiny 2received its third major expansion,The Final Shape, which acts as the culmination ofThe Light and Darkness Saga.The Final Shapebrings multiple new missionsand weaponry, among other things, adding hours of new content to the MMO game. Act 1 of its first episode, Echoes, launched on June 11, and its follow-up is set to go live soon on July 16. Meanwhile, Bungie has already started making big claims about what’s coming in Act 3 of Episode: Echoes.
In aninterview with GamesRadar, Robbie Stevens outlined the different acts in Episode: Echoes and stated that an Exotic Mission in Act 3 is “one of the biggest Exotic Missions” developer Bungie has ever built. Moreover, he highlighted that Act 1 represents the kind of new stuff the dev team has in mind, whereas Act 2 will bring a fresh “set of activities” and take the players “much deeper” into Nessus. Talking about the significance of shifting approach fromSeasons to Episodes forDestiny 2content drops, he said that building such a big Exotic Mission was only possible due to the “new content cadence” (basically, the frequency of new incoming content) and that pulling this off wouldn’t have been possible earlier.
Stevens Backs Destiny 2: The Final Shape’s Episodic Nature
Stevens opined that the scale of this particular mission is an example of the devs adapting to the new cadence and capturing the opportunity to “expand” Nessus. He likened Nessus to a world “expanding and changing through time” and said that its expansion wouldn’t have been feasible without the new Episode format. The director explained how the episodic content style allows players to “better understand” when “new and awesome things” are coming toDestiny 2. He added that Episodes allowed the team to put more focus on the story as well as maintain speedy content delivery. However, Stevens' feeling is somethingnot everyDestiny 2player resonates withas of now, as Episodes are somewhat divisive.
As fans await the next act of Episode: Echoes, Bungie is hard at work smoothening the rough edges with patches. Recently, the devs shipped an update that resolved certain issues and broughtGrandmaster Nightfalls inDestiny 2once again. The returning feature gives players a chance to face off against strong enemies and win high-quality loot ahead of the rollout of Act 2.
