A new survey shows Destiny 2 is considering adding Sparrow Racing League, unvaulted campaigns, NPC sidekicks, new PvP and Gambit modes, and much more.
Destiny 2 is in a weird spot right now. The Edge of Fate expansion kicked off the new Fate saga with huge system changes: the Portal became the main activity hub, Armor 3.0 rebuilt stats and set bonuses, and everyone’s Power was reset to 10 with a new cap of 200 plus Seasonal Bonus Power on top.
In practice, a lot of that landed badly. Edge of Fate struggled to hit 100,000 concurrent players on Steam at launch, far below the 300,000-plus peaks of past expansions like Lightfall and The Final Shape. Since then, player numbers have kept falling. Destiny 2’s average Steam player count over the last 30 days dropped to just over 13,000, the lowest since the game arrived on the platform in 2019.
Bungie has already walked back some of its biggest decisions made in Edge of Fate, including a plan to reset Seasonal Bonus Power with Renegades, after feedback from the community. Now, it looks like Bungie is asking players what kinds of features might actually get them excited to log in again.
Destiny 2 survey asks about Sparrow Racing League, unvaulted campaigns, and NPC sidekicks
The Game Post has obtained a closed, invite-only survey Bungie sent to select Destiny 2 players earlier this week. The email says it is a one-time survey per account and offers 500 Silver in-game reward within four weeks of completion as a thank you.
Inside that survey, Bungie asks a long list of “potential features to be added to Destiny 2” and asks players to rank them. Some of the options are small quality-of-life ideas. Others would fundamentally change how Destiny 2 works. Let’s break down what Bungie is asking about.
New abilities, power prestiging, and Portal changes
Question: “Please rank the following potential features to be added to Destiny 2 in terms of their potential to improve your enjoyment of the game.”
Players are then given five options to sort:
- New Stasis & Strand abilities
- Gear Tier Enhancement, i.e., the ability to upgrade the tier of a weapon
- New, simplified Portal scoring system
- New Void melee abilities
- Power Prestiging (Ability to reset power to 10)
Fans have been asking for new Strand and Stasis abilities for years, so it’s clear why Bungie wants to know if players still want new subclass options. The “Power Prestiging” option is especially interesting. After players already had their Power reset to 10 with Edge of Fate, and after months of complaints about how seasonal Power and Portal grinds feel, Bungie is still at least considering an opt-in reset that could come with extra rewards or prestige visuals.
Sparrow Racing League, new PvP and Gambit modes, and Raid Nights
Another question focuses on raids, dungeons, events, and core playlists. The exact wording is similar to the first ranking question, asking players to order a list of potential features. The options are:
- A Sparrow Racing League event or playlist
- Raid Night: A day of the week where players can play the featured Raid for extra rewards
- A New Gambit mode or Gambit event
- New difficulty tiers to legacy Raids & Dungeons
- Raid Rotator: Legacy Raids that are included in the weekly Raid rotation that offer special rewards and unique challenges
- Added old campaigns and other activities to the Portal
- Rotating Portal activities each week
- Daily / Weekly Competitive PvE Event
- New PvP Modes (e.g., Combined Arms)
This is basically a wish list for long-term endgame and ritual content. A legacy raid rotator with unique rewards, featured raids for “raid nights” with extra rewards. Adding old campaigns and activities into the Portal would help fill the current gaps in replayable story content.
Then you get to the real nostalgia bait. A “Sparrow Racing League event or playlist” is explicitly mentioned, alongside completely new PvP modes and updates to Gambit, either as a full mode or a time-limited event. Bungie is clearly trying to measure how much appetite there is for a proper playlist return of SRL and for finally doing something meaningful with Gambit after years of neglect.
Clan upgrades, trophy room, unvaulted campaigns, and NPC sidekicks
One of the biggest blocks in the survey is another ranking list for potential features to be added to Destiny 2. The options are:
- Unvaulted expansion campaigns such as Red War and Forsaken
- New Clan Upgrade & Progression system
- An in-game Trophy Room
- NPC Sidekicks to equip and fight alongside your guardian
- More replayable, story-rich side quests for NPCs
- More random encounters with other players while adventuring
- New Vault with increased space
- New Onboarding Experience (for new and returning players)
- An in-game Destiny 2 Information Glossary
- An in-game Destiny 2 Tutorial Library
Taken together, this reads like Bungie stress-testing a much more social and approachable version of Destiny 2. A clan upgrade and progression system would finally give clans something real to work toward. An in-game trophy room could let players show off seals, maybe an exotic weapon collection, and more.
There are also clear quality of life pitches. A new Vault with more space is on the list, even though Bungie has already confirmed more Vault space in Renegades. Then there is the nuclear option: unvaulting entire expansion campaigns, with “Red War and Forsaken” mentioned by name, plus NPC sidekicks you can equip and bring into fights. That last idea would be a huge shift in terms of how the game plays right now.
Bungie directly compares Destiny 2 and Destiny: Rising
Two questions in the survey pull Destiny: Rising into the picture, the mobile game developed by NetEase Games. One open-ended question asks:
“What does Destiny: Rising do better than Destiny 2, in your opinion? If you don’t know enough to answer, please enter ‘N/A.'”
Another follows up with:
“What features from Destiny: Rising, if any, would you be interested in seeing added to Destiny 2? If you don’t know enough to answer, please enter ‘N/A.'”
So Bungie is not only checking how players feel about Destiny 2 in isolation. The studio is openly asking which parts of Destiny: Rising feel stronger and what systems should be imported into the main game.
Speaking of content vaulting, just days ago, Bungie fully settled a year-long copyright lawsuit with writer Matthew Kelsey Martineau, who claimed that the Red War and Curse of Osiris stories and related material copied his 2013 and 2014 work.
Because Red War has been vaulted for years, Bungie had to rely on fan videos and wiki pages instead of pulling its own campaign data to make its case, which did not exactly help in court.
Bungie is also expected to release a full multi-year roadmap for Destiny 2 next year, so these survey responses may be early indicators of what we’ll see in the coming seasons.
What do you think about all of this? Would Sparrow Racing League, a new Gambit mode, or a proper raid rotator get you to log back in? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
Zuhaad is a reporter for The Game Post. You can reach him anonymously and securely at [email protected].
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