[Mini News] Bungie rumoured to be bringing Destiny 2 to PC

[Master Disaster]

This rumour comes, as all of them seem to, from Neogaf where people are claiming to have seen an Activision report on the sequel which states the game will get a PC launch this time around. Kotaku have since chimed in and said they've seen the same report lending weight to the rumours. 

 

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The basest of base discussion, as your mum told the postman in the sauna the other day. At least, that’s what I hear. I also hear that maybe, just maybe, console online FPS-come-hamster-wheel Destiny [official site] might be incorporating PC into its sequel plans.

 

The rumour comes via Kotaku and NeoGAF, the former alleging that they’d previously heard similar to what was expressed on the latter. Specifically, that Bungie’s Destiny 2 will come to PC as well as console. The GAF poster’s alleged source is a friend from Activision who saw an internal report claiming the sequel would hit PC. From a business point of view, this seems sensible. It’s a huge audience cut off for no good reason (development resources not withstanding), and Activision’s sister company Blizzard have had huge success by putting out Overwatch on everything they can.

Bungie are apparently giving the sequel a major overhaul and not opting for the "bigger and better" approach. 

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Also alleged is that Destiny 2 will be a major rethink of the first game, as opposed to the The Same But Bigger approach taken by add-on The Taken King. Reportedly the project was “rebooted earlier this year.” Given how much flak vanilla Destiny caught for its storytelling and world-building (albeit improved somewhat in The Taken King), tweaks to that side of things seems likely whatever platforms the thing comes out on.

 

For me, getting on board another Sparrow will require something more meaningful than an endless loot hunt. Destiny’s shooting is good, but the MMO rinse’n’repeat formula rarely gets its hooks into anymore. And by ‘meaningful’, I don’t mean ‘heavy with consequences and gravitas’, but rather something I can have a satisfying experience in for a few hours here and there, as opposed to needing to make the loot hunt a daily way of life.

 

Kotaku offer this: “The plan, from what I’ve heard, is for Destiny 2’s planet areas to feel more populated with towns, outposts, and quests that are more interesting than the patrol missions you can get in Destiny.” Appealing in concept: Destiny as-is is very evidently just wide-open spaces that any number of players can be thrown into, rather than a universe that feels at all lived-in, while quests are obtained in a mechanical rather than organic fashion. The idea of a place that I can wobble my own way through, picking up goals and challenges here and there, sounds far more appealing. In theory.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/09/28/destiny-2-pc/

 

Pretty good I guess, I mean I like the sound of the changes. It's just that Destiny was so, MEH. 

[Bsmith]

That would be amazing, was tempted to get a concolse for the game, but didn't do it in the end, couldn't justify it for just a single game.

[Master Disaster]

Just now, Wedsea040 said:

This is awesome! I'm hyped!

It's a rumour dude, take with a healthy dose of salt! 

[nobelharvards]

If Destiny 2 will be on the PC, it needs to receive the full PC treatment.

 

Adjustable FOV (upper limit of 110 at least).

 

Granular sensitivity control. Like Valve has done with Source, you can adjust sensitivity to 6 decimal places. Valid inputs for "sensitivity" cvar from 0.000000 to 1000.000000. Overengineered, but that's the point. Give the end user freedom.

 

Unlocked frame rate. Nothing in the game logic dependent on frame rate. Let 144, 165 and 240Hz monitor users get the most out of them AND it should still allow the frame rate to be uncapped. Don't cap it at 300 or 500, completely unlocked. Again, overengineered, but that's the point.

 

Dedicated servers in every region of the world. Look at GTA Online. I've never had an experience where player models were smooth. Every interaction with a player always involved minor choppiness at best, and cross map warping at worst.

 

Proper raw mouse input. Not like the shit they pulled with Halo 1 PC and Halo 2 Vista where there was built in mouse acceleration that you couldn't turn off. Even if you tried turning off mouse acceleration via the Halo 1 console, it would revert after every game start AND it didn't fully turn off mouse acceleration.

[TrigrH]

Halo 3 first plz and UWP gtfo.

[suicidalfranco]

too bad the game is just as boring as the division 

[RS2007GOD]

28 minutes ago, Bsmith said:

That would be amazing, was tempted to get a concolse for the game, but didn't do it in the end, couldn't justify it for just a single game.

This is my feeling about the ff7 remake.. Xbox/ps4 release but no pc... Feelsbadman

[raphidy]

Bungie...PC games...it's more probable that HL3 releasing than Bungie porting to PC.

[dragosudeki]

I'm surprised they didn't do this for the first game. It had so much hype leading up to it, and if it released on all platforms at the same time, they would've earned more. Its too bad that I already know exactly what Destiny is like, and if the sequel is any similar, I'm likely not going to hop on. I've already got Warframe, another sci-fi instance-based online shooter, which has gotten slow, steady updates to the game since it launched years ago.

[wrath]

Great news, hope it's true

[jaggysnake57]

id buy it in an instant

 

[Prysin]

8 hours ago, Bsmith said:

That would be amazing, was tempted to get a concolse for the game, but didn't do it in the end, couldn't justify it for just a single game.

as a owner of the game, i can tell you, no matter what, that game isnt worth it.

 

If Destiny 2 is the same way then it will be horrible.

 

Destiny is all the grinding of every MMO ever made x2 + shittier loot and slow as fuck balance changes.

[TheSaint]

How about a Bungie Marathon series remake? I'd pay for that!  

[AlwaysFSX]

10 minutes ago, Prysin said:

as a owner of the game, i can tell you, no matter what, that game isnt worth it.

 

If Destiny 2 is the same way then it will be horrible.

 

Destiny is all the grinding of every MMO ever made x2 + shittier loot and slow as fuck balance changes.

Plus it was waaay over promised and under delivered for how much content they said would be in the game.

[Misanthrope]

That's cool but why would I care, already have 3 different Borderland games available, kthxbye.

[Magnetorheological]

Well that's good. I sure as hell wouldn't pay even more money just to play it online on consoles. Maybe now I'll finally try it out.

[RagnarokDel]

Isnt it a mmorpg?

[lkarej]

15 hours ago, nobelharvards said:

If Destiny 2 will be on the PC, it needs to receive the full PC treatment.

 

Adjustable FOV (upper limit of 120 at least).

 

Granular sensitivity control. Like Valve has done with Source, you can adjust sensitivity to 6 decimal places. Valid inputs for "sensitivity" cvar from 0.000000 to 1000.000000. Overengineered, but that's the point. Give the end user freedom.

 

Unlocked frame rate. Nothing in the game logic dependent on frame rate. Let 144, 165 and 240Hz monitor users get the most out of them AND it should still allow the frame rate to be uncapped. Don't cap it at 300 or 500, completely unlocked. Again, overengineered, but that's the point.

 

Dedicated servers in every region of the world. Look at GTA Online. I've never had an experience where player models were smooth. Every interaction with a player always involved minor choppiness at best, and cross map warping at worst.

 

Proper raw mouse input. Not like the shit they pulled with Halo 1 PC and Halo 2 Vista where there was built in mouse acceleration that you couldn't turn off. Even if you tried turning off mouse acceleration via the Halo 1 console, it would revert after every game start AND it didn't fully turn off mouse acceleration.

ftfy

 

if it doesn't have 120 FoV it isn't worth playing

[Notional]

Dat gif.

 

Honestly though. Are we even missing out on the grindy crap that is Destiny? I'm all for games being on as many platforms as makes sense, but in this case: Meh.

[Gullerback]

they said that when destiny 1 was just rumors and promo trailers/pictures.   Believe it when I SEES it.