In case you didn’t know, Bungie held the first Destiny 2 livestream (the first of three) to showcase “Into the Light”, which is a major title update for the game set for release in April 9. While there’s two more livestreams set to air, there’s a ton of info revealed today, which includes the confirmation of a horde mode for the game called “Onslaught.”
Destiny 2 Into the Light Stream 1 – What Was Revealed:
- Horde Mode “Onslaught” confirmed
- Legend difficulty confirmed
- Tripwires, turrets confirmed.
- Wave 1 to 50 mentioned
- No matter the difficulty, losing it all and it will fail. Defensive game mode, not offensive
- Will be found in the Last City
- Witness doing all it can to stop us closing it down
- Shaxx is opening up his Arsenal (hear more next week) and is the vendor
- Gameplay shown during livestream
- Onslaught is three-player fireteam based. Matchmaking. (not confirmed for higher difficulties)
- Build crafters should be on notice
- Fallen enemy shown.
- Killing enemies grant scrap which can be spent on defenses
- Shaxx’s Redjacks will be there to help
- MIDNIGHT COUP CONFIRMED
- Lore point is that because we assault the Witness, earth is undefended so building this is essential to defend the Last City
- Lots of weapon information starting next week (Lots of new Lore attached)
- High Value Targets shown with Champions dropping materials and augments
- Onslaught map is PvP map Midtown with new decorations
- Defenses can be upgraded to be stronger. Tripmines and Turrets. Do more damage, health, fire rate
- Bonus objectives appear. One seen is complete wave in X amount of time. Rewards include heavy ammo crates. Bonuses scale with difficulty as you go further on
- Playlist version of Onslaught, 10 waves. Challenge version is 5 sets of 10 waves and you move around 3 different locations around the map
- Bosses confirmed in Challenge version
- One location is taking the fight to a Pyramid ship and dunking a spark like Rift
- 10 wave version is Onslaught playlist. Quick and easy going fun
- Upgrades increase in cost (Scrap) so choose upgrades wisely
- Throwing batteries at main ADU gives it health. Like Black Armory forges and rewards scrap. Don’t let enemies in the zone
- Boss in Pyramid taking fight to the Witness
- Has augments to help deal with bosses
- Playlist is matchmaking / fireteam. Challenge mode normal is matchmade, legend challenge pre-made (Says needs to confirm). Fireteam Finder on hand
- Hive shown. Hive, Fallen and Taken will be involved
- More weapons to be revealed next week
- Shaxx will be announcing during the mode to push us on
- Max level for defenses is 3
- If defense is destroyed, It will need to be re-bought and levelled
- Scrap is player based, not Fireteam
- 12K Scrap total to fully upgrade Turret
- Up to wave 20 on stream
- Every time you clear a boss; your previous defenses will remain. So if you move location they will remain at the last location but cannot be upgraded again until it’s the defense point
- Every 10 waves you get a chest. Challenge you’ll get 2 chests. Hard mode, additional rewards and double (Some surprises along the way)
- Possible variants to rewards
- Revives – on until you progress in challenge to a certain point which will turn into darkness zone and modifiers will also be added the further you go
- Can’t gift scrap. You can upgrade defenses other players place or upgrade first
- ‘Onslaught and chill’ will be great for catalysts, triumphs and bounties
- Bungie challenges the community do complete legend all 50 waves solo
- No timer. Only fail condition is to lose the defense
- Lore wise – Weapons Shaxx has been keeping. Ones that are frowned upon in the Crucible. Revealed next week
- Light level set to current level
For those that missed the stream, there’s also quite a bit of gameplay shown, but it’s portions. Thankfully, a Destiny subreddit compiled everything. You can catch each by clicking the link below.
If you want to rewatch the presentation, you can do so below. The info above is basically a recap of what was shown by Bungie during the stream.
Don’t forget, there are two more livestreams for Into the Light, with the next one set for March 26, and the last one at April 2. We’ll have info about the two livestreams on the site for those who want a more condensed version of what transpired.
In other Destiny 2 news, there was a patch released today (version 7.3.5.2) which features a slew of gameplay improvements and fixes.
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