Reddit Rumor: Destiny II: Forge of Hope, November 2017

[ethomaz]

Yeap I can and I will create this thread

The next installment in the DESTINY franchise will be revealed as " Destiny II: Forge of Hope".
Will be launching in Q4 2017 with an estimated window release of November 4th to November 18th.
The next installment will be launching on five platforms: PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, Xbox Scorpio (TBA) and PC.
Console Exclusivity will remain with PlayStation but the exclusive period will be reduced to 3 Months.
The game has a whole new engine built from the ground up with the ability for Bungie to rapidly create and ad new content to the world of Destiny.
Bungie is scheduling for an event release every 1-2 months centering around a theme similar to Overwatch while also delivering new narrative paths and new game play mechanics.

Story

The sequel will heavily focus on chronological events set after the Fall 2015 Expansion The Taken King. The cabal forces attack the city leaving the civilians and mentors of the tower defenseless. It is the guardians job to fight back the cabal and reclaim the city. While doing so the guardian will discover the long lost stories of Queen Mara Sov and The Exo Strangers motives. The story will culminate with the tower and city fighting back the Cabal empire resulting the guardian defeating the leader of the Cabal in the new Raid.

Future

Bungie is planning to release a substantial content updates for each quarter (Similar to the April Update)
Bungie already have a small team working on the first major expansion to be released in Fall 2018. Details are limited but it is aimed to be centred around the Vex and the Origins of Kabr and Praydeth.

Character transfer

Due to the new engine Bungie had to make the hard decision of previous Characters being left behind. The upside to this is the new release will have a more customization character creation including facial hair and class themed face paint and tattoos.

Information regarding the future of Destiny : DestinyTheGame

[Xevross]

Sounds interesting. I find it really odd that they built a new engine for this, but I'm very happy if characters aren't brought forward. I don't want to be at a disadvantage because I didn't buy the expansions for Destiny.

[BananaKing]

Yeah I'll be waiting on the "full edition" that comes out next year, or the "full full edition" that comes out on the year after it.

Also it's a battleship move to make the story of the expansions essential to the sequel. They are extremely over priced and expansions shouldn't be part of the main series story.

Sounds interesting. I find it really odd that they built a new engine for this, but I'm very happy if characters aren't brought forward. I don't want to be at a disadvantage because I didn't buy the expansions for Destiny.

Kutokau (or however they are spelled) released an article once about the games development. Apparently their engine was dog shame. Literally dog shame. The development on it was hell. To boot up a scene to make even the slightest of changes took half a day or so. It was horrible. Making a new engine would have been top priority for bungie.

Though it is exciting to see how this will look. Last games had magnificent art, but the tech wasn't so great. But this one isn't held back by last gen, so it will be interesting to see how this shapes up

[Aura7541]

I'm interested to see what Bungie will accomplish with the new engine.

[Xevross]

Kutokau (or however they are spelled) released an article once about the games development. Apparently their engine was dog shame. Literally dog shame. The development on it was hell. To boot up a scene to make even the slightest of changes took half a day or so. It was horrible. Making a new engine would have been top priority for bungie.

Though it is exciting to see how this will look. Last games had magnificent art, but the tech wasn't so great. But this one isn't held back by last gen, so it will be interesting to see how this shapes up

Oh I didn't know that. Well if that's the case I'm not surprised there's a new engine

[Legend]

Kotaku thinks the leak is fake , right?

[ethomaz]

It is confirmed to 2017.

Kotaku thinks the leak is fake , right?

Well Activision confirmed the sequel for this year few hours ago.

[ethomaz]

Kotaku says now...

Destiny 2 Is Still Coming This Year, Activision Says

[BananaKing]

Kotaku says now...

Destiny 2 Is Still Coming This Year, Activision Says

In the leak they had last year they mentioned that destiny 2 will be coming this year. I think its a no brainier.

Though I doubt the Nov release. Too close to CoD. A September release worked perfectly for acti last time. I doubt that they will change that

[ethomaz]

Destiny question in the Q&A!

"Development is going great and is indeed on track for this fall. Big reveal plan, we're going to let the game do the talking. Our team and great partners at Bungie are doing a great job at two fronts"

"Great cinematic story, great cast of rememberable characters" "More accessible to casual players, not removing stuff that core players like"

"Coming this fall"

Credits to Midas.