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The Hive are up to their tricks again, the dead walk the lunar surface once again and a buttload of new changes are on the way as Destiny 2 doubles down on its RPG experience more than ever before. Here’s a trailer for the October 1 launch, to get you in the mood for descending into a pit of unspeakable horror that defies human logic and wants to rip your soul apart with arcane rituals.

Destiny 2’s expansions aren’t just…well, expansions. They’re massive slices of content they may add new worlds and weapons to discover, but they’re also mood-setters that shape the direction and tone of Destiny 2 for an entire year. With just a mere two weeks to go until Shadowkeep launches, Bungie is looking to move beyond the Forsaken era and its tale of revenge, and settle down for a year of spooky action that appeals to the hardest of core fans.

Between your primary death-dealers and more exotic fare, Destiny 2’s guns are in a good place right now. So good in fact, that they’ll be largely untouched come Shadowkeep.

Just like every year before it, Bungie has a few BIG changes in store for Destiny 2. Some of these changes are good! With an eye on growing the fanbase by making a large chunk of the base game free and tailoring events to give the series a soft reset for newcomers and veterans alike, the Shadowkeep era will be Bungie’s biggest effort yet at ensuring that Destiny has a future without the lucrative purse of Activision steering the franchise. Some of those other changes…are not so good.

With a large portion of its base game being completely free to play in October, but how does Bungie plan to keep Guardians invested for the long run for Destiny 2? By dipping into the hottest item to hit the gaming industry since EA tried to curb secondhand sales of games with online access codes, the humble Battle Pass.

It’s Gamescom week, October is almost here and I’ve got a hunk of desire to see more details on Destiny 2: Shadowkeep that pertains to Artifact mods and how they’ll impact on the main game. Fortunately, Bungie delivered on this front last night during the Inside Xbox livestream as they took to the stage and showed off the fancy new gadgets that’ll be making armour that much more special in the months to come.

The Destiny 2 multiplayer suite of PvP activity should be a highlight of the product that will create a foundation for the sequel once it goes free to play…right? Not exactly, because ever since it first launched in 2017, Destiny 2’s PvP has not been in a healthy shape. It’s not that it isn’t fun from time to time, but it seldom reaches the highs of Destiny 1’s amazing multiplayer. Time to change all that, as Bungie has some big plans for the future of its multiplayer mode.