Destiny 2: Beyond Light

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3.9

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 91 Ratings

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  1. Sl1m_UA
    Nov 18, 2020
    1
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  2. Daveee_19
    Nov 22, 2020
    1
    It is bad and it makes me sad
    For the people who don't want to read my whole review: Do not buy it under any circumstances! Invest the 40 Euros in a good game and don't fall for Bungies trailers and vidocs!
    Beyond Light looked promising, I thought this DLC will be just like Forsaken or even better (A new Destiny experience). After the roadmap was released and I watched the interview    It is bad and it makes me sad
    For the people who don't want to read my whole review: Do not buy it under any circumstances! Invest the 40 Euros in a good game and don't fall for Bungies trailers and vidocs!

    Beyond Light looked promising, I thought this DLC will be just like Forsaken or even better (A new Destiny experience). After the roadmap was released and I watched the interview with Luke Smith I realized that the hype for the new DLC was for nothing. Of course Covid-19 makes things harder and that they have fewer developers was also clear but that they deliver so little content for the same money as Forsaken is a rip-off!

    This review is only about Beyond Light. Some people said to wait, because the new season will bring the whole content. The Season is not part of the DLC and you have to pay 10 Euro extra. Spoilers: The season is just like the others before (3 exotics, 10 legendarys, some story missions, boring wrath born hunts that feel like patrol missions where you have to kill a boss)

    Let's talk about the bad things first because they clearly overshadow the good things:

    -The story is just a Forsaken 2.0 (kill barons to kill Uldren, kill lieutenants to kill Eramis)

    -The Empire Hunts are only small Strikes (There are only 3 hunts that get boring quickly. But you have to play them to get ahead with Varikis-System, which works just like the obelisks, Seraph Bunker and Prism converters. Very innovative)

    -Europa has little to offer (Lost sectors and public events are nothing new and quickly become boring. However, I think that with time more secrets will be discovered, which fill Europe a bit more)

    -Many bugs and overpowered new stasis focuses at the beginning in PVP not in PVE (September 22 would have been the actual release! Bungie what have you done in the 2 months, bug fixing and fine-tuning definitely not!)

    -Sunsetting was done badly (Bungie made hundreds of weapons and armor useless and only introduced a few new ones)

    -The new loot is missing (25 new legendary weapons have been added, if you count the reskinned iron banners and trials weapons, that's not even half of Forsaken's!)

    -No new vendor refresh (Bungie can't even create new armor and weapons for the Crucible, Gambit and Strikes)

    -All destinations, except Europa, are dead (Still the same loot and the same activities since D2 launch. There is no reason to visit Nessus and other planets)

    -Powerleveling is boring (The system has to be renewed from scratch: Playing the old Strikes for the hundredth time is annoying. Mtashed talked about this in his review)

    -PVP and Gambit don't get any new content (PVP is one reason why I still play Destiny 2 after 3 years, because it brings alternation from the other PVE activities. Gambit was left to die, I hope they don't do the same with PVP)

    -Eververse is still a problem (Bungie wanted the Eververse content to be accessible by playing activities. Last season you could get the Eververse armor in the dungeon and this season the new eververse armor is back in the store for real money! Bungie is **** with us)

    The good things in Beyond Light:
    -Europa is a huge destination and looks pretty good

    -The raid will probably be good (this time without reskinned armor like in Shadowkeep...wow)

    -Storytelling has been improved (cutscenes that tell the story are always good)

    -Stasis is fun in PVE and the fragments and aspects are a welcome innovation

    -You don't get the exotic armor for free, you actually have to do something to get it

    After 3 years of Destiny 2, a Destiny 3 should have come, but for some reason Bungie decided against it. The release of Beyond Light clearly shows that the separation from Activison was a bad decision... Bungie lacks innovation and the will to develop something new that the game desperately needs.
    I think after 3 years it is time to move on. I have lost all hope and trust in Bungie.    … Expand
  3. FlareFL
    Jan 16, 2021
    4
    The game was turned into a trash heap: a bunch of cut content, a completely moronic sunsetting system introduced by the notorious Luke Smith, an almost complete lack of new content except for the planet Europe, where there is almost nothing to do, an imbalance with new abilities in PvP and an absolutely devil-may-care attitude of Bungie towards its players, especially in taking intoThe game was turned into a trash heap: a bunch of cut content, a completely moronic sunsetting system introduced by the notorious Luke Smith, an almost complete lack of new content except for the planet Europe, where there is almost nothing to do, an imbalance with new abilities in PvP and an absolutely devil-may-care attitude of Bungie towards its players, especially in taking into account wishes and also fixing existing problems in the game. Short verdict: I do not advise anyone to buy this game, as now it is absolutely not worth the money. Better buy Destiny 1 with all the add-ons - get a lot of fun and a full-fledged gaming experience, not like a pathetic stub from Destiny 2. In 6 years of playing this franchise, I have not seen its state as bad as it is now. Good luck to everyone and do not forget to value your time and spend money wisely.… Expand
  4. DamoUK
    Dec 13, 2020
    0
    Garbage. This game just gets worse and worse for people that want to play solo. Have to grant it to the developer an expansion that removes content is a novel idea.
  5. Hemphiz1
    Feb 4, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Don't waste your money. It's an absolute drab of a play and overall depressing to even try… Expand
  6. Warhawk115
    Feb 9, 2021
    1
    The relationship between Bungie and the Destiny playerbase has been a story of a dog and its owner for years now. Bungie likes to kick the dog until it cries then give it a treat and act like nothing happened. Well, I've been kicked for 5 year now. The Taken King was the last great thing to come out of Destiny (content wise). Forsaken was alright, cool lore additions, a good raid, andThe relationship between Bungie and the Destiny playerbase has been a story of a dog and its owner for years now. Bungie likes to kick the dog until it cries then give it a treat and act like nothing happened. Well, I've been kicked for 5 year now. The Taken King was the last great thing to come out of Destiny (content wise). Forsaken was alright, cool lore additions, a good raid, and above all an interesting destination that kept me coming back for a time.

    This issue I have with Beyond Light is that it DESTROYS the lore building and first-time-player experience. So many Strikes, Raids, Crucible maps and more were removed and all that's left in it's place is a shamble of a DLC. Not to mention, the "vaulting" of WHOLE DESTINATIONS is quite possible the most destructive thing a developer can do to a MMORPG.

    Bungie, I'm not coming back. No matter how many haunted moons you promise, I know I'll just get let down again.    … Expand
  7. engineofruin
    Nov 22, 2020
    0
    Bungie popped champagne bottles when they left Activision because their main goal was to become even more greedy. Bungie want a seat at the table of EA as they charge their loyal fanbase 40 dollars (and an extra 10 dollars for the season) for the absolute bare minimum. A looter with no loot, a game gutted of your paid content as Bungie have their hands out for more money, literally nothingBungie popped champagne bottles when they left Activision because their main goal was to become even more greedy. Bungie want a seat at the table of EA as they charge their loyal fanbase 40 dollars (and an extra 10 dollars for the season) for the absolute bare minimum. A looter with no loot, a game gutted of your paid content as Bungie have their hands out for more money, literally nothing new to experienced outside of a terrible 2 hour campaign and 1 singular strike and a store full with microtransactions and broken promises.....when Luke Smith said no more armour in the store how long did that last?? Oh yeah...one season. Bungie should be ashamed of themselves and the more people praise this the less you will get in the future the more you pay. Disgusting.… Expand
  8. Keifereef
    Nov 18, 2020
    1
    We paid for most of this stuff before! Come on bungie give us some real new content!
  9. peslak
    Nov 18, 2020
    0
    What is this exactly? Bungies split with Activision was supposed to be a steer in the right direction, this seems completely the opposite. I purchased D2 on launch day, the deluxe edition that was promised to contain all the DLC. There was no truth in that. I ended up paying nearly $100 to date for additional DLC not including beyond light and the new "season pass". The game separatesWhat is this exactly? Bungies split with Activision was supposed to be a steer in the right direction, this seems completely the opposite. I purchased D2 on launch day, the deluxe edition that was promised to contain all the DLC. There was no truth in that. I ended up paying nearly $100 to date for additional DLC not including beyond light and the new "season pass". The game separates itself from other mmorpg's and is a unique experience within itself, a really fun one. This is what mustered me to keep opening my wallet to them. When cross save came to light, I jumped at the opportunity to be able to play with my character on my PC. The one blockade that stood before me was that all the DLC you had bought prior does not follow. Yes, I indulged into buying all of their DLC content two times over. Eagerly excited for this hyped up expansion "Beyond Light", I did as I always do, research videos spotlighting & reviewing new content. Beyond Light has very little to offer for the price point of $40, in fact they should be the ones paying you for this new update. A whole lot of previous DLC content has been removed. Whole planets, strikes, missions, weapons, etc. They have implemented sundowning which renders all of your previously obtained items basically useless. That perfect rolled gun you spent hours upon hours getting, that 300k kill count you have on your favorite gun? Useless. 3 hours of new story mission content and all throughout you obtain randomly rolled items from old content. What else is there to say about this? This is a horrible DLC and unfortunately they have decided this new DLC is the new "base game". I don't recommend anyone spend their money on this. Its really unfortunate that when it comes to Destiny, the game makes you feel like you need to purchase new DLC's to be on the proper path in-game. No one should have to buy this content if they dont wish to keep enjoying the game as it was.… Expand
  10. MephistosGhost
    Nov 11, 2020
    4
    The expansion adds some QOL features, a new power tree and advances the story somewhat, but there is a serious lack of content when compared to prior expansions. With the simultaneous vaulting of old content along with a minimal offering, there are fewer and fewer reasons to play Destiny.
  11. setanta15
    Nov 18, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. In short: they removed a lot of items and gear, planets and missions. They gave back a lazily crafted, half-assed and uninspired insipid 3hourish lacklustre storyline involving nothing anybody would ever remotely care about.

    The new stasis powers, arguably the only thing this expansion gave, are not quite as wonderful as expected. They suffer, in large part, due to being broken beyond reason in crucible. Nothing makes you feel like a winner like doing the same irritating tactics to others.

    New Hunts: I have found 2 options here. The first is it'll take about 3-5min of not even remotely trying to kill because they're so damnably easy. The second is that the major boss will teleport away endlessly and hide which turns a 3min mission into a 20 minute "get back here!" Shout-a-thon from a knight-dropped circle.

    New exotics: Did you like the chaperone when everyone else was wielding it against you because you didn't want to do the Guardian kill quest? Great news, Duality is basically the same thing and it's catalyst requires more guardian killing.

    New exotic (No Time to Explain): do you like the way bad juju refills it's mag, boosts it damage, and generates your super? Then you won't care about the scuffed version that after 10 precision shots summons a small shooty beside you for 15sec. It refills(ish) on precision/against slowed or frozen but the super gains from juju just put this to shame.

    New gear: LOL. The Lure; okay, meet the reason it's got a 1-star and not 0. While the hunts are garbage that the devs should hang their heads in shame about (and no remote detonation on stasis grenades? Why, lemme make it go boom), the lure is actually an excellent addition. Not because it leads to these trash-tier hunts, but because you can weed out which mods you want that will drop FROM the hunts.

    TLDR; don't waste your money or your time on Beyond Light because right now this xpac is bordering on Beyond Saving.    … Expand
  12. Dexter358
    Nov 18, 2020
    1
    Stasis is cool but that’s it. Very few new weapons, less content, same world loot drops that are already sunset...
  13. Cookiecrisp
    Nov 12, 2020
    2
    Lost 75% of weapons due to sunsetting, stasis in PvP makes the game unplayable, only one new strike, a 3 hour campaign, and barely 20 new weapons to obtain. This is by far the worst "expansion" (if you even want to call it that). I can't believe I actually paid $40 for this garbage. Save your money and time.
  14. Thant0
    Nov 12, 2020
    3
    Didn't finish the expansion yet, but I'd like to share my observations so far:

    - 1st thing was that Bungie took away content many of us payed for. I understand that those parts were made free to play by the time Beyond Light(BL) came out, but in that case why is there no compensation at all. - 2nd I know it always plays out like this but its tragic to see all the gear I have wasted    Didn't finish the expansion yet, but I'd like to share my observations so far:

    - 1st thing was that Bungie took away content many of us payed for. I understand that those parts were made free to play by the time Beyond Light(BL) came out, but in that case why is there no compensation at all.
    - 2nd I know it always plays out like this but its tragic to see all the gear I have wasted milennia in grinding out go to waste compared to some random blue drop (even though I can infuse these to increase power level)
    - 3rd and this is my biggest pain point: I have observed a huge amound of server issues while playing the story mission on Europa. What hurts the most is that I'm playing through the story alone and when I'm getting kicked out multiple times in a row at 66% of a mission, well that is no fun at all.
    I have preordered this dlc as well, but don't recommend buying it(yet)
    - as a short summary: I feel like both quality and "quantity" of the game has decreased since BL came out    … Expand
  15. Darren_35
    Nov 13, 2020
    0
    This DLC is extremely overpriced and is lacking content beyond the very short campaign bungie really made a huge error with weapon sunsetting and beyond light adds very few new options destiny feels like a shadow of its former self save your money for a better game.
  16. Lee133444
    Nov 18, 2020
    1
    This game deserve to die now, worst expansion ever made for a video game. Bungie **** on players and their game
  17. gums007
    Nov 12, 2020
    0
    Beyond light ON CONTENT! Its definitely fun for a day or 2 until you realize that you're right back to where you were before the expansion...with nothing else new and exciting to do. If you already have game pass, then play it. If not, it's a hard pass.
  18. Geriglifico
    Nov 15, 2020
    0
    EDITED 14.12.2020: OK, now is even worse. Is not just they deleted content you paid for, but they don't care about content you paid for and IS IN THE GAME CURRENTLY. Forsaken is having lot of bugs, and so is Shadowkeep. Beyond light is 25% cheaper only a month after its release. Just ask why. You better spend your money in of the hundred better options available.

    Why a 0/10? Because, to    EDITED 14.12.2020: OK, now is even worse. Is not just they deleted content you paid for, but they don't care about content you paid for and IS IN THE GAME CURRENTLY. Forsaken is having lot of bugs, and so is Shadowkeep. Beyond light is 25% cheaper only a month after its release. Just ask why. You better spend your money in of the hundred better options available.

    Why a 0/10? Because, to me, Beyond Light adds absolutely nothing and remove almost everything. Please read more if you wanna understand why.

    If you are waiting for some free Beyond light content instead of the """old""" removed content, just forget it. Zero. There is barely nothing to do unless you pay. The worst thing (or the best, depending on if you have bought BL or not) is that there's not much more content for those who paid. I am not including Cosmodrome as new content, I mean, if you have D1 you can play Cosmodrome on it if you want to.

    Besides, if you started playing, like me, less than one year ago, you are gonna fell like the game itself is pushing you out instead of inviting you to keep playing, as all your progress have been suddenly deleted, and you won't probably see it anymore anywhere. That feels ridiculous.

    Summarizing:
    Free content:
    -Europa.
    -Europa local material.
    -New enemies
    -New strike if you used Vanguard strikes list. Otherwise, forget about the strike.
    -New Public event (if someone else start it, cuz you can't)
    -Introduction mission of story quest.
    -Some new weapons.
    -Some new armor? (Not sure about this one)
    -D1 Cosmodrome
    -Minor minor minor minor changes on new light mission and D1 Cosmodrome strike.

    Paid content (40$)
    -Free content
    -New storyline. (Looks like it is long but grind-based)
    -New strike.
    -New Raid
    -New Public event
    -New weapons.
    -New armor
    -Some exotic quests (or just quest)

    Removed content (xxx$):
    -A lot. It would take a lot of time and space to list all the removed content the same way I did with the new one.

    Extra garbage
    -Some weapons are not useful anymore as they cannot reach the new max light level.
    -Of course all the quests related to removed content have been removed too, but also new light quests on dreaming city and tangled coast. But I have got the Nessus new light quest, again.
    -Stasis is extremely hilarious in PVP, and you'll be frustrated. You'll be too in PVE, sometimes, when you start to see how, time after time, a lot of ice walls appear in front of you and block your movement or your shots.

    Why a 0/10? Because it's not possible to give negative ratings.    … Expand
  19. chriswaffles
    Nov 16, 2020
    0
    Boring story, empty new planet, lost several other planets and also many weapons and hard earned masterworked armor pieces due to sunsetting. No new weapons in the vendor lootpool. Boring quest design (kill 5 captains, kill 20 vex....). Rose bugged, witherhoard bugged, damage bug with stasis super (almost oneshots raidbosses). Stasis in PVE is ok, but it ruined PVP. Every 10sec you getBoring story, empty new planet, lost several other planets and also many weapons and hard earned masterworked armor pieces due to sunsetting. No new weapons in the vendor lootpool. Boring quest design (kill 5 captains, kill 20 vex....). Rose bugged, witherhoard bugged, damage bug with stasis super (almost oneshots raidbosses). Stasis in PVE is ok, but it ruined PVP. Every 10sec you get frozen. Nerfed sniper aimassist, left arbalest aimassist untouched. I simply dont know how you manage to unbalance the game more and more. Bungie, im done with the game, i had so many hopes after a boring and way too long season without content...beyond light is simply not enough.… Expand
  20. getwokegobroke2
    Nov 17, 2020
    0
    Very very underwelming. Short, boring and shallow. Simply not worth the time.
  21. The_Baron
    Nov 15, 2020
    4
    "Crippling Mediocrity" and "industrial level recycling of ideas" sprung to mind more than once playing through Beyond Light. Destiny 2 as a whole currently has a series of ongoing hot button issues that have soured people. Removing the majority of the content in the game being a clear example and i imagine its hard to detach from that. However personally judging the expansion itself in a"Crippling Mediocrity" and "industrial level recycling of ideas" sprung to mind more than once playing through Beyond Light. Destiny 2 as a whole currently has a series of ongoing hot button issues that have soured people. Removing the majority of the content in the game being a clear example and i imagine its hard to detach from that. However personally judging the expansion itself in a vaccum it is a middle of the road experience where there are positives and negatives but not in equal measure.

    On the positive side the new region and returning region both look great. The voice acting is serviceable and the new Statis powers are -in PVE at least- very fun to use.

    Unfortunately these get buried under the constant negatives. The greatest of which is simple to describe as the mission designers running out of steam. Have you played Destiny before? do you enjoying holding Square to interact with a progress wall to fight waves of the same enemies you have fought for 7 years? Do you enjoy rewalking the same corridors as an enemy you have never met heckles you over your radio about how they are the biggest bad guy ever and your situation is hopeless only for them to be another slow moving bullet sponge in an arena that spawns waves of adds because thats the only way the developers know how to try and add difficulty and feed you new ammunition to use on the aforementioned bullet sponge?

    Well thats the entire campaign.

    Its the worst parts of House of Wolves, The Taken King and Forsaken again on repeat. Every so often an enemy with statis shows up a new vex that, in the height of original design, jumps up and down to slam and knock you back, and thats about it. Everything else is just the same monotony you will have experienced before.

    Beyond that its more of the same bounties, lost sectors and chasing incremental power level increases to do the same content faster while grinding out a battlepass for uninteresting, often time limited rewards that also are just more of the same.

    This is more destiny 2 at full retail price and i don't think it would be worth it in a vacuum without the games greater flaws included.

    This feels like the work of a studio where everyone is putting in the work but the campaign designers and they drag the whole experience down. I cannot recommend this at full retail price and quite honestly can't really recommend it in general. We have been down this path before and there is nothing new to be learned.    … Expand
  22. Firewing2
    Nov 11, 2020
    0
    Hey, you know what's not okay? Removing content I paid 100$ after a couple of years in the name of "advancing the story". This game is only 3 years old! I loaded it back up to see if it was still fun and contemplate ponying up for another expansion only to find out that all story content was cut. I have better access to Destiny 1 content than to Destiny 2 now because Bungie decided itHey, you know what's not okay? Removing content I paid 100$ after a couple of years in the name of "advancing the story". This game is only 3 years old! I loaded it back up to see if it was still fun and contemplate ponying up for another expansion only to find out that all story content was cut. I have better access to Destiny 1 content than to Destiny 2 now because Bungie decided it was "bloat". There's no reason, in the *world* why story content shouldn't be in an archive and still accessible for those who enjoyed it the first time around, to say nothing of having *paid for the game*.… Expand
  23. Heldens
    Nov 12, 2020
    0
    Es una burla que despues de pagar 100 dolares por la edicion coleccionista se les ocurra que es bueno eliminar todo ese contenido... Tambien es una verguenza que me quieran cobrar 40 dolares por continuar la historia con cada expansion que sacan con un solo destino destino nuevo que no tiene la cantidad de contenido acorde al precio. La historia no es nada mala, pero solo se burlan deEs una burla que despues de pagar 100 dolares por la edicion coleccionista se les ocurra que es bueno eliminar todo ese contenido... Tambien es una verguenza que me quieran cobrar 40 dolares por continuar la historia con cada expansion que sacan con un solo destino destino nuevo que no tiene la cantidad de contenido acorde al precio. La historia no es nada mala, pero solo se burlan de nosostros con los precios que manejan.… Expand
  24. Eagle16
    Nov 12, 2020
    1
    Avoid this game like fire. It's another 70€ game with battle pass system and heavy microtransactions that plays to be free to play. If you decide to buy this game bear in mind that you'll finally get the content that you paid for months after your purchase because of game trying to hold you a hostage with their weekly micro content drops. Game isn't in a state to feel like a hobby butAvoid this game like fire. It's another 70€ game with battle pass system and heavy microtransactions that plays to be free to play. If you decide to buy this game bear in mind that you'll finally get the content that you paid for months after your purchase because of game trying to hold you a hostage with their weekly micro content drops. Game isn't in a state to feel like a hobby but rather a second job.… Expand
  25. LifeLongGamer8
    Nov 17, 2020
    0
    The story is amazing, post story content gives you a lot of awesome lore. And Europa is just a next gen destination. People give this a bad review because theyre mad at sunsetting, and thats valid. BUT this was suppose to be destiny 3, you were suppose to lose everything and start from scratch, I give this a 10/10 not just for how great the content and story for this DLC is, Im giving it aThe story is amazing, post story content gives you a lot of awesome lore. And Europa is just a next gen destination. People give this a bad review because theyre mad at sunsetting, and thats valid. BUT this was suppose to be destiny 3, you were suppose to lose everything and start from scratch, I give this a 10/10 not just for how great the content and story for this DLC is, Im giving it a 10 because its really setting up a strong base for the next gen to expand off of.… Expand
  26. Robzandona
    Nov 13, 2020
    2
    Realmente a loja do EVERVERSO acabou com o jogo depois disso todo mudou, essa expansão é muito pequena e o stasis que é outro nome pra gelo não funciona bem no PVP achei pobre medíocre está na cara que é mais uma DLC para a Bungie ficar rica milionária.
  27. nickojeda612
    Oct 15, 2021
    0
    I paid full price for this game and the first few dlcs so I was pretty surprised to find that it was all deleted and that there is practically nothing to do in the game. Not only do I feel robbed of my money but they took a good game and shat all over it. It's a shame but I doubt I'll ever spend money on Destiny every again. It's too bad that gaming companies no longer care about their customers.
  28. Husseindk
    Dec 30, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Disclaimer: English is not my 1st language so please forgive me for grammatical errors.
    I am a Destiny player since D1 ttk so i stuck with the game for quite a while. I bought the digital deluxe edition for 70€ with all seasons.

    I will start with everything positive about this DLC and end with the negatives.

    Positives:
    At first I really loved the new patrol zone called Europe and got pulled in by the story/campaign mission very quickly. I loved the story and how it was told. Europe is beautiful and the dynamic weather conditions are really cool and great, the music of Europe is also just great, you can "hear" the harsch weather if i have to describe it. The new strike is also absolutely great and the new exotics also are just awesome (especially that new raid rocket launcher). The loading times got faster for any activity which is a much needed and appreciated change, even on older consoles you can clearly see how much faster the game loads. The raid is great, thumbs up!

    Negatives:
    Story is unfortunately very short and as always way to easy, in every boss fight you basically get unlimited stasis supers, grenades and melees. You can melt them without even trying. The loot, there is none. There is 1 set of a couple of lackluster loot from Europe, all the good stuff you grinded for weeks and months are basically useless. They deleted more than half of all strikes and gave us 2 new, one of which is an old strike from d1 which they ported to d2. They removed a bunch of pvp maps while not adding a single new one. So the leveling to get to the needed power level is even more boring than ever as we have fewer strikes and pvp maps. Europe may be beautiful but it is empty, there is no reason to go out there to discover things as there is nothing. The main core issue for me is that there is next to no loot in a game based around loot. To give you an idea about how bad the loot lacking situation is, i can give you a good argument, which is that we basically have not a single LMG or a 140 energy Handcanon that are widely available to farm for. Then we got the start of season of the hunt, with the i believe it's called wrathborn hunts which is just boring, it's not fun, it's not interesting and the season of the hunt weapon set is actually one of the least "hunted" (see what i did there) loot there ever was in destiny, they are just awful. Same goes for the europe armourset, those are actually the worst looking armour sets I've ever seen in destiny. Let's talk stasis, it ruined pvp for many, it's was clearly not well planned and tested as stasis is so extremely more powerful in pvp so you are more or less forced to play it if you don't want to lose every game. Then we got pretty cool new exotic armour pieces, but guess what you'll be doing to get one, heroic lost sectors, over and over again. Also once again bungie show why they are known and notorious for being an environmental friendly company..... Just not in the positive way as they once again recycled much of stuff we had been doing for years, 1 of the new patrol zone is recycled, the raid boss is recycled (for the 7th time), public events on the planets are recycled, even this season specific pursued weapon is a reskinned 'beloved' sniper which is the exact same weapon but just with a longer zoom. The titans stasis super is a reskinned striker. Once again all the actually cool cosmetics are behind a paywall which is just absurd given the fact that i already paid for the base game back then, all dlcs after vanilla d2 and 70 Bucks for this dlc. All in all they cut away so much from the game but gave us not nearly enough to compensate that, especially the weapon sunsetting hurts my Playstyle the most. I really tried to love this dlc and support bungie but if i really have to give a final judgment about the expansion then it's a clear don't get it or wait until it's cheaper, it's simply not worth 70€, not even 30, maybe 20€.
    If you made it to here then I thank you for your time reading this review and hope that i helped you to make a decision    … Expand
  29. KingRabbitPT
    Dec 5, 2020
    4
    Destiny Franchise with this $50 update ($40 Dlc plus $10 season pass) have fee arguments to convince. Once more the lack of content is very obvious and lets down all destiny hardcore gamers that see their dollars being robbed for a promise of a better future content.

    A couple of missions, one strike and one raid...that is it. With the cutted content, this tastes too little, too late...and    Destiny Franchise with this $50 update ($40 Dlc plus $10 season pass) have fee arguments to convince. Once more the lack of content is very obvious and lets down all destiny hardcore gamers that see their dollars being robbed for a promise of a better future content.

    A couple of missions, one strike and one raid...that is it. With the cutted content, this tastes too little, too late...and very short.
    Destiny has survived this long because all the fans always say: “next update will be the good one, the one Bungie fixes all issues”, mainly because of one aspect: Friends.
    Gamers want to login, join their mates and have some fun together, and they are willing to pay dor that to happen...as long as patience lasts, and it seems that it already started to fade for a lot of players.

    Destiny is not fighting for their future at this point, more for survival and the last cash-in before hope of the fans finally runs out.

    Europa as a new location is pretty, but rather empty, and with no new enemies.
    How long can tou kill the same targets hours on end, for all this years?

    Worth to wait for future news on destiny franchise, until then, maybe it is time to (for now) let tour ghost well stored away.    … Expand

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 16
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  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. GameMAG
    Dec 30, 2020
    70
    Destiny 2: Beyond Light is not a revolution in the gameplay department and world of Destiny 2, but it can pleasantly entertain you for a while – basic shooter formula of the game still works perfectly.
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  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Dec 14, 2020
    80
    Come for the change of scenery, stay for the change of abilities. Even if you don’t usually enjoy the grind, you should end up warming to this chilly package.[Issue#183, p.97]
  3. 3DJuegos
    Dec 6, 2020
    80
    Beyond Light presents itself very much in the same fashion as the previous couple of Destiny 2 expansions: rough, but extremely lovable. No one can blame you for crying over your sunset Mountaintop or the inability to run the Menagerie, sure, but hey, there’s a bunch of really cool questlines ahead, a fantastic whole side drama for the Clovis Bray family and a really fun raid experience. So, at the end of the day, that’s just how Bungie makes content.
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