Bungie confirms that Destiny 2 will soon get more challenging

Destiny 2 is not a hard game. Thanks to the game’s movement and combat mechanics, simplistic enemy AI and snappy aim-assist, the game is highly satisfying to play – though perhaps not the most challenging in PvE environments. Ahead of Destiny 2’s massive Lightfall DLC, the team has confirmed some major changes are on their way.

Taking to their blog, the Destiny dev team published a lengthy and comprehensive post detailing the next 365 days of Destiny 2. One of the biggest changes set to arrive within the next year pertains to the game’s difficulty, with director Joe Blackburn explaining that:

“Last year, we spent a lot of time bringing all our subclasses up to the Stasis 3.0 standard. During that time, not only did our abilities become more powerful, but their synergy with weapons and gear raised the total Power tide for all boats. The result of these changes is a game with a more compelling RPG, but at times lower levels of challenge in our core content. With a player base as large as Destiny’s, the right level of difficulty is going to be different for everyone.”

Blackburn continued, “While we are still committed to offering multiple difficulty levels in content such as our campaigns, Nightfalls, secret missions, dungeons, and raids, we feel like the baseline challenge in most of our content is just too low.”

The Destiny team have decided to take a two-pronged approach to this issue, slightly nerfing players through an increase to the ability recharge time across a wide selection of abilities while also adjusting the amount of damage resistance granted by resilience and increasing the energy cost of resilience mods.

The second prong involves altering the way enemies have been scaled when compared to the Guardians, meaning you will not be able to be way overleveled compared to them moving forward (though exact details are still unknown).

The 5000 word blog post offers so much more, including discussions surrounding future seasons, weapon crafting, PvP and an upcoming Exotic mission rotator – to name just a few. The full blog post can be found HERE.

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