Imagine: you’re invited to the Met Gala and the theme is ‘Haunted Moon’. You know Rihanna will be a stunning spectacle. You concede you cannot beat Celine Dion’s glimmer or gags. You assume Marilyn Manson will do some gory ‘Le Voyage Dans La Lune’ lark with a model rocket stuck in his oozing eye. It’s a given that Kanye West will flout convention and wear jeans. If you really want to stand out with ‘haunted moon’ couture, mate, you couldn’t do much better than some of the astonishing armour coming when Destiny 2 returns to our haunted moon in the Shadowkeep expansion.

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Destiny 2‘s gearing up for a big year. A huge year, really. Maybe the biggest one it’s had to date. But that year of bigness will now start a little later, because Bungie are delaying Destiny 2’s free-to-play relaunch, New Light, and its next expansion, Shadowkeep. Previously due on September 17th, they’re now both lined up for October 1st. Bungie say they wanted a touch more development time and hey, they can give themselves that time now that they’re out from under Activision.

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Somewhere above the clouds over Europe, powered by spacemagic, a few ruined city blocks and a whole load of rocks are hovering as a new playground for Earth’s greediest heroes. This is the European Aerial Zone, host to a new cooperative mode in Destiny 2‘s Solstice Of Heroes event, which started last night and runs for a month. I adore the EAZ as a playground, leaping from rooftop to rooftop or barrelling through maze-like interiors while hunting bosses and treasure. It is a good place. So it’s baffling that the wider Solstice Of Heroes event offers rewards which strongly incentivise not> playing the mode.

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The Iron Lords will return to host Destiny 2‘s Iron Banner PvP event again next week but no, Bungie won’t have fixed the balance issues and bugs currently plaguing PvP. Chief among these is Lord of Wolves, a shotgun which has dominated on PC for six weeks now with ten-shot bursts of flame able to kill a spaceman at rifle range. It’s everywhere and it sucks. Bungie said they couldn’t rush a fix without crunching, and I respect that, but their lack of vision and attention for the PvP ‘Crucible’ modes is really showing. I’m disappointed to still be waiting for vital fixes for one of my favourite parts of the MMOFPS.

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