Destiny 2
We are heading for disaster in Destiny 2 this coming fall. Lore-wise, not like, the game falling apart (hold your Trials of Osiris jokes). The Pyramids are very, very likely arriving in the new fall expansion, but as they do, there might be some destruction at hand that we have literally never seen before in Destiny as a series.
There is a story component to this, and an IRL technical component. Bungie has said for a long while now that Destiny can’t simply keep growing forever. Their short-term solution to this has been to introduce seasons with events, activities and missions that disappear after three months, as in, the Sundial and Vex Offensive are just deleted from the game (as the bunkers probably will be).
And yet those all seem like tiny facets when you compare them to a new fall expansion that almost certainly will add a giant land mass or two to the game like we saw with Forsaken and Shadowkeep before it. So how exactly does that work?
Well, it may be time to delete some old stuff.
“Story-wise” the Pyramids should arrive to our inhabited zones by the start of next season, and it may actually be time for Bungie to consider wiping an entire planet from the game in order to make room for new stuff.
I’m going to go through my top five picks for the planets most likely to be destroyed, and before science types get mad, yes, I know not all of these are planets as some are moons or asteroids or whatever the hell Nessus is. This also is not necessarily what I want to see destroyed, but rather what I think would work on both the story side and technical side.
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5. Io
It’s the home of the Whisper mission, the Pyramidion, the new Festering Core strike and…frankly not that much else. It was a relatively minor chapter in the vanilla story, and as a moon of Jupiter, could be hit by the Pyramids as they draw closer. Io got a tiny bit of new relevance this season with its own bunker, but there’s really not been a reason to go there for ages now, and I could see it being sacrificed in the future.
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4. Mars
Mars was a DLC planet, and while it’s a zone I like, I can see it being blasted away, potentially. It’s the home of Rasputin’s main core, so it would make sense as a target for the Pyramids, as besides the Traveler, he’s our greatest weapon. But A) Rasputin can live on elsewhere, I’m sure, with all his forms and B) outside of him, there’s really nothing there currently relevant to the story (it is still very weird we’re still killing Hive worm gods in a strike on repeat all these years later). I also wonder why if this was supposed to be a Rasputin-focused season why almost no part of Worthy takes place on Mars, and Escalation Protocol wasn’t refreshed in the slightest. Maybe because the whole planet is going away.
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3. Mercury
I had to have Mercury high on this list because of the simple fact that everyone agrees it’s the most useless zone in the game by far. We’d lose two strikes, though half those strikes are Infinite Forest BS, but that’s really it. The downsides? There are zero story reasons I can think of why the Pyramids would destroy the planet closest to the sun if they’re approaching from the outer edge of the solar system. And also this wouldn’t even be that much of a space-saver, given that it’s so tiny to begin with. Which leads me to…
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2. Nessus
This is probably going to be controversial, but I can see it happening for a bunch of reasons. Yes, there is a ton of stuff on Nessus we would lose, but it’s one of the biggest zones in the game, if not the biggest, and cutting it would likely save a ton of space and making room for more new zones. Story-wise, Nessus is I believe the furthest out object in our solar system with its weird orbit, making it a potential target for the Pyramids. Also, the Leviathan has been trying to eat it for years now, and maybe one of these days it actually succeeds. Erasing Nessus would be a lot of lost old content, but it would be a lot of room freed up too.
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1. Titan
Ultimately, this is my top pick for the planet (moon) most likely to be destroyed by the Pyramids. The dots on the map literally have their path end at Titan at the beginning of next season. It’s a small zone, but deceptively so because there are huge areas like the Arcology we can’t land in and never go to. Lore-wise, this was also the first time the humans encountered the darkness the first time during the collapse, so it could easily happen again. There’s only one strike here, and it’s the worst voice-acted one in the game (Taeko-3 here!) and Titan’s NPC, Sloane, is probably the most forgettable in D2. Past that there’s the Ace of Spades mission, Greg the Ogre and…not much else. I think Titan is on the chopping block.
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Those are my picks. We can probably get in another debate about if Bungie can actually delete planets that were sold as part of paid content in the past, either through the base game or DLC. I also have no idea how Bungie would adapt the initial story campaign to simply ignore missions on planets that have been removed. So it’s a complicated problem.
But still, if it’s what has to happen for new places to explore, I say Death Star those space rocks.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2020/04/18/the-top-five-planets-destiny-2s-pyramids-could-blow-up-soon/
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