Destiny’s Next Big Step Is a Whole New Mobile Game

For implicit a decade, the Destiny franchise has taken players connected adventures passim the postulation connected console and PC. The sci-fi shooter’s successful an unusual spot close now, but Bungie is committed to expanding it successful caller ways successful the hopes of reaching caller audiences.

Enter Destiny: Rising, the series’ first-ever mobile title. Developed by NetEase Games (of Marvel Rivals fame), players volition erstwhile again instrumentality connected the relation of a Guardian and combat the forces of the Darkness with a plethora of guns and cosmic powers. The main quality is, Rising is acceptable successful the post-Dark Age epoch successful the aboriginal days of the ever-familiar Last City of Earth. Not lone that, it’s acceptable successful an alternate timeline abstracted from the 2 mainline games.

You wouldn’t cognize that from the trailer, though: there’s a batch that’s acquainted here, from the enemies and locations to the series’ subject phantasy aesthetic. But the differences are besides easy apparent, specified arsenic a fig of caller characters who look similar they’ll instrumentality connected cardinal supporting roles successful the communicative adjacent to the likes of Zavala, Osiris, and Saint-14 successful Destiny 2. Most importantly, players are taking connected the relation of the Guardians’ predecessor, Lightbearers.

According to plan pb Murty Wu successful vidoc, Rising is acceptable good earlier the series’ iconic classes of the Hunter, Titan, and Warlock were formed. As such, the “path of Light is ambiguous and unclear. Back then, determination were nary guides arsenic to what it meant to beryllium a Lightbearer.” So instead, Lightbearers volition person chiseled combat styles: the trailer shows caller Supers similar a Void Scythe and Arc Shield. What different powers await, and what this means for newer subclasses Stasis and Strand (plus the Transcendence state) is up successful the air, but they decidedly look and consciousness like Destiny.

If each this sounds similar your cupful of radiolaria, Destiny: Rising will person a closed beta opening connected November 1, which you tin motion up for here.

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