Destiny 2 has done yet another experiment with its new episodic model that is sort of just an extended version of the seasonal model. After complaints about story spacing in Episode 1, three weeks on, three weeks off for each Act, Bungie has now dumped all Revenant Act story content into the first week, meaning effectively one week on, five weeks off. Or really, a few hours on, more or less six weeks off.
You can still grind activities and do reset things, but no story content week to week at login. Now, if you’ve forgotten when Act 2 is actually showing up again after a month and a half, you’re not alone. Not this week, but next, November 19 on Tuesday’s weekly reset. This Tuesday, however, there is a livestream about what’s coming in Act 2 which will likely be the re-done Inverted Spire strike and supposedly some sort of Prison of Elders-ish activity.
So how did this format work out? Better? My opinion is no, not better. The way this rolled out was that they cut out all filler of doing some of the seasonal content each week, which on the surface, I guess, is good, but it meant that the entire story content could be done in maybe two hours or so. I get that there is other stuff to farm, and I did do that running Onslaught a lot, but it felt very weird to log into the game each week and have literally no story progress for a month and a half. Now we’ll have two hours of content on the 19th and the same thing will happen again. I really do not even remember what was happening. Fikrul is turning alive Fallen into Scorn not just dead Fallen? I think that was the main thing.
To be fair, I also did not like the three week on, three week off idea either, albeit I think this is worse than that. There are no great options I don’t think, but at this point I would honestly go back to just doing 8-9 weeks of story content in a row, then a large back-half gap with seasonal events or special loot offerings or whatever.
This doesn’t really matter, however, because there is only one more Episode (ever?) after this, as then we are moving into the Frontiers format where Episodes and seasons don’t exist, only two small expansions a year and four “Major Updates” that have not promised any actual story content. So whatever the story rollout for next Episode, it’s the last time they’ll bother. Maybe more people like this format than I do, but I think it’s bad. My guess is we don’t see it next time.
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