Destiny rumor mill: expansions after "The Dark Below"

[wittyscorpion]

www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2r2r1l/rumor_future_expansions_leaked_comet_vex_forge_of/

A leaked picture started the speculation, which seemed to be an old one dated back to October:



The gist is this:

After EP2 (House of Wolves), a "comet" will be released (which may have the 3rd subclass), followed by EP3 and EP4.

How real is this? Follow the breadcrumbs mentioned in the reddit post to judge yourself

[wittyscorpion]

Full speculations in text (copy&paste from a follow up comment in the reddit post):

Full credit goes to Eren Jäger on the Bungie forums for the translating of the pictures into readable text:

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EP. 1: The Dark Below - Release Date: December 9, 2014

New Missions: 3
New Strikes: 2
New Public Events: 0
New patrols: 0
New Raids: 1
New PvP maps: 3

It is not written here, but thanks to other leaks we know will add new equipment exotic and legendary.

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EP. 2: House of Wolves - Release Date: March 10, 2015

To the list of destinations included the ' Atoll (Reef). In fact, it seems that the ' Raid of this DLC will be right there!

New Missions: 3
New Strikes: 1
New Public Events: 0
New patrols: 0
New Raids: 1
New maps PvP: 4

Also here is not written anything about the weapons / armor, but it is almost certain that it will be added other. Now comes the interesting part. As was revealed by an old leak, before the game, in the contract Activision-Bungie was due out of expansion "Comet" or expansion bigger than a normal DLC and provided for in a split time between a chapter of the saga and the other; and here it reappears, and it looks very full of content, almost the same as Destiny to its output:

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COMET: Plague of Darkness * * - Release Date: September 2015

First, there appears to be a new destination, " Nave Hive "(Hive Ship) and certainly will be explored given the addition of a new Patrol.

New Missions: 12
New Strikes: 4
New Public Events: 1
New patrols: 1
New Raids: 1
New PvP maps: 6

And not only that, the expansion "Comet" goes beyond the addition of new activities, also including: (To be confirmed)

New Subclasses: 3
New types of weapons: 2 (To be confirmed)
Base Level: 30. The last item could mean that the exit of the level reached by the Comet XP gets up to 30 (and then 40 with the equip) or that the basic level of the missions will be 30, but it seems very possible the rise of the maximum level.

After the release of the expansion Comet we will see two more DLC, probably still in the early stages of development and where the contents are then to be taken even more with the pliers:

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EP. 3: Vex * illegible *

New Missions: 3
New Strikes: 2
New Public Events: 0
New patrols: 0
New Raids: 1
New Maps PvP: It is not clear, but most likely we will see some.

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EP. 4: Forge of Gods

This expansion is probably still in the early days of its development and therefore do not know anything, except the name.

[malgato]

Interesting. Although this leaves me concerned that the total content is going to be inadequate to maintain the player base past the March DLC.

[wittyscorpion]

Jan 2, 2015 13:57:09 GMT -5 malgato said:

Interesting. Although this leaves me concerned that the total content is going to be inadequate to maintain the player base past the March DLC.

If EP2 indeed comes out in March, then the player base will most likely remain engaged in March for normal raid and April/May for hard raid. By June the crowd will most likely thin out.

This might be off topic: how many bros here are interested in "Tom Clancy: The Division" in any manner? It is another MMO/Shooter mix (3rd person, survival, and Ubisoft did say that it is more RPG than FPS). It is rumored to have a release date of March, but I am not surprised if it gets pushed out to June and beyond, in which case makes it a potentially good candidate to be played side by side with Destiny.

[wings]

Jan 2, 2015 14:04:19 GMT -5 wittyscorpion said:

This might be off topic: how many bros here are interested in "Tom Clancy: The Division" in any manner?

Me.

Wonder if each DLC comes with a new level cap increase. Ha.

[wittyscorpion]

Jan 2, 2015 14:08:45 GMT -5 wings said:

Jan 2, 2015 14:04:19 GMT -5 wittyscorpion said:

This might be off topic: how many bros here are interested in "Tom Clancy: The Division" in any manner?

Me.

Wonder if each DLC comes with a new level cap increase. Ha.

Great! I am gonna go ahead and assume that you'll have an XONE by then since the game is next gen only

Also, correction for the rumored release date: March is rumored for an XONE only beta, not the official release. The game might be out during the lack-of-Destiny-content window of June - September.

[wittyscorpion]

Datto made a video which explained where the info came from:



His speculation on Destiny time line (which is my guess as well):

--Destiny 1--
09/2014: base game
12/2014: EP1
03/2015: EP2
09/2015: Destiny Comet 1 (think of it as Destiny 1.5)
12/2015: EP3
03/2015: EP4

--Destiny 2--
09/2016: base game
... (rinse repeat of the above with 2 EP -> Comet -> 2 EP over the next 21 months)

--Destiny 3--
09/2018: base game
...

--Destiny 4--
09/2020: base game
...

[markopolo]

Well, they're getting my money anyways so... Yea

[wings]

That hard drive space though.

[markopolo]

Jan 3, 2015 16:20:43 GMT -5 wings said:

That hard drive space though.

Upgrades happen

[wings]

Jan 3, 2015 16:34:24 GMT -5 markopolo said:

Jan 3, 2015 16:20:43 GMT -5 wings said:

That hard drive space though.

Upgrades happen

I was under the impression that XB1's hard drive was not upgradeable but the workaround appears to be a bit silly.

[wittyscorpion]

Solutions:

1) XB1 is compatible with most of the hard drives in the market. But a multi TB one when on sale and you are all set;
2) You don't have to keep all the content on the XONE. You can uninstall the ones you don't play to make room for others. You can always reinstall when you want to play them again;

I am not worried . I fully expect the price of Hard Drive to nose dive before I run out of disk space.

[wittyscorpion]

Tweet from Bungie to deny this rumor (sorta):

[wittyscorpion]

Busy day with news and hypes. Here is what ActiVision has to say about this particular topic: "HoW and major content release coming in 2015"

[bradman]

Gimme gimme gimme dat Destiny content. A-dub DLC not so much.

[wings]

witty is on commission, obviously.