Destiny 2 Echoes Act 2 Will Drop All Story Beats At Once Following Player Feedback
The upcoming second act of Echoes, Destiny 2’s current “episode” that continues the story of its latest expansion, The Final Shape, is changing how the game dishes out story. Instead of a new story beat becoming available each week, as in Act 1, all three Act 2 story beats will be available when it becomes available on July 16.
Bungie announced the change during its Echoes: Act 2 live stream, which gave a look at the changes and additions coming to the game. The pacing of the story is something players have complained about for some time, in fact. It was one of the major reasons many disliked Destiny 2’s seasons, the game’s previous approach to delivering new stories between major expansions.
Seasons would break up stories into weekly tidbits that could usually be finished up within an hour or two, forcing players to wait days for the next installment like a weekly TV show and often feeling artificially drawn out for no good reason. The new Episode structure was meant to replace the season approach by dividing stories into larger six-week acts that would change the game up more often. In Echoes Act 1, however, the story was still dished out in small bits week by week, making it feel like a season by another name.