Bungie Wants To Hear The Giant ‘Destiny 2’ Changes You Want To See, Here Are Mine

In the midst of some rough times at Bungie and for Destiny 2 this past year, Bungie has now blown open the doors and is now checking off a list of things that players have been asking for, quite literally for years, if not a full decade, from the series.

Horde mode? Done. Returning classic exotic missions? Here. Cross-account power gains? Yup. Friends auto-powering up to play together? Coming. Unsunsetting every old weapon in the game? Check. Hell, favorting shaders? They got it.

Now, Community lead Cozmo is asking players what else they want, as Bungie has now shifted into genie-granting wish mode with executives now seeming open to listening to both players and the developers relaying those concerns, previously seeing many ignored.

So, what should be next on the list? I mean they’ve done an absolute ton lately but:

Unlimited Transmog – Time to get rid of the goofiest transmog system in the industry, a cap on earned transmog each season and an offer to pay $10 per armor set to transmog the rest. Just no. Stop. This reminds me of when they were selling consumable shaders, and forget it. Just make it so when you find armor, you can transmog it. Stop with this absurd system just to try to squeeze more cash from a stone.

World Drop Armor – I’m tired of getting world drop armor at this point, which may not be as prevalent or annoying as blues were, but they might as well be blues given that they are 100% not useful for so many players. I get that still-leveling players might need it but again, once you hit the cap to make blues stop dropping, you should make world armor stop dropping too. Don’t reduce drops, but replace them with weapons.

Armor/Weapon Encounter Chests – This could be something in dungeons or raids pulled from how The Coil has handled this. Allow players to pick a reward between getting armor from an encounter or getting weapons, which would make farming much less annoying for those activities given that they are two entirely separate grinds.

Ping System – Another very common request and one that would be roughly 50 times more useful than just vaguely emoting when you want other players to do thing without a mic. Emotes should be in a wheel anyway and not taking up the entire D-pad.

Return The Missing Planets – Bungie is doing some good work taking a number of things out of the vault like those exotic missions, but it’s time to start getting the old zones back in the game that were previously deleted, preferably with their strikes in tow. If we’re undoing old mistakes, that’s one of them. I don’t know if asking for every single campaign mission and raid is viable, but the zones themselves? Yes. Specifically, lore-wise, after The Witness is defeated, that would make sense.

Tribute Hall – Perhaps not the exact one (but sure why not) but we do need a place for weapon testing that isn’t pinging those little floaties in the crafting chamber. We lost a lot of things on Leviathan but that was a really important one.

More Face Cosmetic Options – If you’re going to bother letting players re-do their faces and genders now, for the love of god, add more options there. Many of these are unchanged from a full decade ago, as almost all of it was ported from Destiny 1. Time for an update if facial re-arranging is now a thing (and yes, also time for beards).

New Gambit Maps – I will die on this hill. Gambit is still fun. It’s the best state it’s been in. It is also a dead skeleton at the bottom of the pool. It needs any amount of resources devoted to it and should be allowed to exist as a viable ritual activity instead of one that has been hamstrung with actively removed maps over time. Returning one deleted map is not enough (is that even still happening?).

New Onslaught Maps/Modes/Loot – I’ve spoken about this before, but it’s clear Onslaught is a hit, and it’s definitely going to be worth a lot more investment over time. Bungie should not ignore it long-term like they did with Dares just because it’s free. You need good free activities!

Trying to avoid monster things like “unvault every piece of content” or “build a bunch of sparrow racing courses,” but this is what I got. Tell Cozmo you own.

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