14 DAY TRIAL // Video game developer Bungie has launched one major update for Destiny this week and a hotfix soon after to eliminate a major exploit, but the studio is continuing to stay focused on the future of the social shooter and is ready to offer gamers a glimpse into the way they plan to introduce more content for gamers to experience.
Eric Osborne, one of the main community liaisons at the company, explains in a new official site update that his team has thought long and hard about the future and about the best way to introduce new mechanics and modes that can keep the title feeling fresh.
He explains that "There’s a whiteboard in one of our meeting rooms filled with scribblings and sticky notes that represent the developments planned for Destiny’s not-so-distant future. Events, activities, content, and features designed to keep you happy, entertained and rewarded throughout the year to come: some events and some activities that will become additions to your Director.”
Bungie plans to start the next year with an event and content drop that will be on the scale of the Festival of the Lost that took place in time for Halloween.
The second one is set to be bigger in scope than anything that has been introduced since The Taken King expansion was launched, set to arrive before the end of spring.
Bungie is also working on another major game update for Destiny and more tweaks to the sandbox, although their exact nature is not yet specified.
Osborne is also encouraging gamers to deliver feedback on the recently introduced content and the Sparrow Racing mode to help the company improve the game in the future.
The statements from the company seem to suggest that Activision was mistaken when claiming that classic expansions are a possibility for the social shooter in 2016.
Bungie is also offering more details on Destiny weapon tweaks
The company explains that since the racing experience went live earlier in the week more than 12 million lives were lost, both Guardians and enemies.
Bungie is also offering an apology for the fact that it failed to deliver all the information related to weapon balancing tweaks in update 2.1.0 for Destiny in the patch notes.
Jon Weisnewski, a senior designer, explains that the list of changes has been updated with more details that should satisfy all members of the community and that more transparency is one of the main goals of the studio.
He also says that gamers should not confuse the raw base numbers associated with a weapon with those that they see in the actual game when taking on enemies because there are a lot of modifiers that tweak the values.
The designer also says that Bungie is tracking information about the impact of the modifications to the auto rifles and is already planning a future update that will improve weapon balance.
The Sparrow Racing mode for Destiny is live until December 29 and offers gamers a chance to get exclusive rewards.
Bungie will probably offer more details about the big content drops coming in 2016 after New Year's Eve.