At stupid o’clock this morning a small live event took place in Destiny 2 to signal the end of the current version of the game and prepare for the launch of Beyond Light. Check out the video below to see what happened.
Those who logged in saw the Traveller go all sparkly and begin healing itself, as did all the Guardians watching. That was about it until right at the end the game shifted to the map view and some dark swirls crept from the left side out the map, removing Io, Mars, Mercury, and Titan, before the Traveller glowed and stopped the spread of the darkness.
Honestly, I’m a bit annoyed. This was billed as a small event and it was in terms of theatrics, but as part of the lore it was huge and most players in Europe missed it due to the timing. Also, after months of build up, story missions, and saying goodbye to Brother Vance and the others, they just get removed from a map? That’s it? No cut scenes, no explosions, no last stand, they just get removed, what an anti-climax.
The game is now offline while Bungie get everything ready for Beyond Light which launches later today. Here are the details, remember UTC is the same as GMT.
- November 9, 7:00 PM PST (0300 UTC): Destiny 2 will be brought offline for expected maintenance. Players will be removed from activities and won’t be able to log back into Destiny 2 until 9 AM PST on November 10.
- November 10, 9:00 AM PST (1700 UTC): Destiny 2 Update 3.0.0.1 will be available across all platforms and regions. Players will be able to log back into Destiny 2.
- November 10 12:00 PM PDT (2000 UTC): Destiny 2 maintenance is expected to conclude.
You should be able to preload the new version of the game right now, Bungie warn that you should not delete your existing copy of Destiny 2 to make space for the new version.
Source: YouTube
MrYd
“Bungie warn that you should delete your existing copy of Destiny 2 to make space for the new version”
No, they said you shouldn’t delete it. I said you might want to consider deleting it and downloading it again.
I forgot to delete it, and somehow just had enough space for it to add another 70GB to the 100GB that was already there. And now it’s updated again overnight and shrunk to just 60GB or so.
Stefan L
Fixed the typo, but at this point, you could probably delete and redownload.
MrYd
Yes, at this point it’s a 60GB download if you delete it, and you haven’t got 100GB of old game hanging around using up the space while you download it. It’s not as if you could play it for the next 7 hours anyway.