#Destiny 2 beyond light quests ps3#

For the supers, the Titans get the short end of the stick as the new Stasis power, Ground Control, is essentially the same as the Arc Smash – activate it and slam the ground to freeze or destroy enemies in front of you. The Stasis grenade, which causes ice to grow from all surfaces, is particularly fun and can be used to block doorways or create new platforms, bringing new life to the old PvP maps. Some (like myself) love them, some loathe them.

The new Stasis powers have been contentious, especially in PvP. It verges on turning in to something you would see on Eastenders but just about manages to avoid being overly dramatic. While that is going on, a subplot about a dysfunctional family is also playing out. During the adventure you too will gain the power of Stasis, bringing a new Super to each class along with new Stasis grenades and weapons. This ice-like power has spread throughout her followers and you need to stop her and her minions. The new big bad, the Fallen Kell Eramis, wants revenge on The Traveller who abandoned her and her people, so she has turned to the mysterious Pyramid ships that have just eaten two planets and two moons, and has been granted a new power, Stasis. The story boils down to, “Hey you know that thing that all the NPC’s in Destiny have been saying is really bad since 2014? Turns out it not.” The longer, more complicated version won’t make sense to anyone who isn’t up to date on their Destiny lore, but here goes anyway. It would have been nice to liven things up a bit more.īeyond Light’s story take a surprising amount of time to complete, previous expansions could be whipped through in a couple of hours, but here the tale unravels more slowly.

#Destiny 2 beyond light quests ps3#

Design decisions made with the PS3 and Xbox 360 in mind, back in the day, leave something that seems rather empty compared to other open world areas in Destiny 2. There are also new enemies wandering the landscape which come as a shock when you first load in as they have a high power level, meaning that for the first time since launch you can’t just battle them from day one, you have to sneak past.īy contrast, the Cosmodrome is broadly similar that version that was on in Destiny 1, right down to seemingly identical enemy spawns.

The Fallen City and the Clovis Bray facility leading off from the main map with tunnels twisting leading to new locations and, unlike many previous non-Raid Destiny 2 locations, a surprising amount of verticality. The second impression is that it’s bloody big, with huge open areas fill with secrets to discover and snow storms that reduce visibility to almost nothing. I’ve lost the use of my beloved Breakneck which has been my main for many years, but it means I’m trying new weapons, new combinations, and that is what Bungie were trying to encourage.īeyond Light gives the first impression that Europa, the new map, is big. Around 75% of the existing weapons have also been made redundant – you can still use them but their light level is now locked to pre-Beyond Light levels, so they are only really useable in The Crucible. The Raids are more of a loss as you can only ever play them with six friends and they were run a lot less regularly. If you are a regular Destiny player then you will have run the same strikes and missions hundreds, if not thousands of times and will be bored sick of them. The removal of four locations, their Strikes, stories and more do affect the overall game, but personally I am not that fussed about the vaulting of content. That said, a huge amount of content has been added and secrets are being constantly discovered, but now the new Deep Stone Crypt Raid has been unlocked we have a good idea just how much Beyond Light gives us.

Its launch saw Bungie cleave a huge amount of content from the game and put it in their Vault, leaving the new areas of Europa and the Cosmodrome to fill the literal black space where Titan, Mars, Mercury and Io once were. When you think about it, it’s strange to call Beyond Light an expansion.