Destiny 2‘s Season 22 is launching on August 22, and the community has some admittedly sensible expectations for some of its key content. Namely, one of Destiny‘s most important features has always been its trademark Bungie gunplay, which naturally ties into the game’s weaponry. One of the reasons why Destiny 2: Lightfall missed its mark was because the DLC’s main weapon set consisted of slightly remodeled and re-skinned Shadowkeep weapons, leaving a bad taste for some players.
Granted, Lightfall had way bigger problems than just reskinned guns, and those too are allegedly going to start being addressed as of Season 22, according to Joe Blackburn himself. In the time interim, with just hours to go before Bungie reveals Season 22 proper, the community has explained precisely what it wants and expects out of the season’s arsenal of new weapons.
What the community wants from Destiny 2 Season 22 weapons
Judging by r/destinythegame, the biggest and most prominent Destiny subreddit, the community has got two big expectations for Destiny 2 Season 22. The first is that Season 22 weapons ought not to be reskins of previously existent gear, and the second is that the new gear should be worth chasing. These are, once again, perfectly sensible in the context of a live-service game that needs to keep its loot treadmill going. As it currently stands, however, the previous two Destiny 2: Lightfall seasons have failed to deliver on these promises.
Notably, Season of Defiance featured a partial set of re-textured Season of the Lost weaponry, while the Season of the Deep mainly featured old Reckoning weaponry in two different variants. Aside from Exotics, then, it’s easy to see why the Destiny community might feel like the regular Legendary-tier weapons are being visually left behind, making them relatively uninteresting. The changes coming with Destiny 2 Season 22 should, therefore, include a more hands-on approach to the game’s lower-tier gear.
Whatever the case may be, the good news is that the Destiny community won’t have to wait long to see what Bungie’s got in store for Season 22. Its content has been locked in for some time now, however, so it’s entirely possible that Bungie couldn’t pivot this particular piece of content following the disastrous response to its latest State of the Game blog post.
