Bungie has officially announced a new content model for Destiny 2 starting in 2025, replacing one bigger annual expansion with two smaller expansions per year, codenamed “Apollo” and “Behemoth”.
Bungie has officially revealed its plan for the future of Destiny 2, confirming that starting in 2025, the game will no longer follow the annual expansion model. Instead, players can expect a more frequent content release cycle, with “two medium-sized Expansions” per year.
With this new model, Destiny 2 will also be moving away from the Episodic model. Instead, there will be four Major updates a year, “one every three months”. According to Bungie, each expansion “will launch alongside a Major Update at the start of a Season, and then a second Major Update will follow three months later to refresh the Core Game with new and reprised content”.
Check out the full roadmap for Destiny 2’s 2025 expansion releases below.
The mid-season major update will refresh a list of in-game content, including:
- Activities: Strikes, Exotic missions, or entirely new modes like Onslaught
- Rewards: weapons, armor, Artifact Mods, Exotics, and more
- New weekly events
- New features
- Combat meta and balance updates
Destiny 2’s Next “Multiyear Saga” Begins in 2025 with Expansion 1: Apollo
According to Destiny 2 narrative director, Alison Lührs, the next big multiyear saga for Destiny 2 is “also based around a core theme, much like Light and Darkness did.”
“It will introduce plenty of new characters, factions, twists, and more.
Our first expansion, Codename: Apollo, is a nonlinear character-driven adventure. Previously, in stories like The Final Shape, you experienced the story as A to B to C to D in a nice straight line.
“In Codename: Apollo, our story takes place over dozens of threads you’ll explore and discover. So, when you land on our brand new location, the story starts at A, and then you can choose if you want to explore C first, or try and get into B, or maybe investigate D.”
“And the options you didn’t choose? Don’t worry, those other options are still open for you to go back and play through. You’ll need to!”
Here are some new concept art shared for Destiny 2’s 2025 expansions.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about this. Last month, several reports hinted Bungie would move away from large, resource-intensive expansions to smaller “content packs”.
Apart from that, recent reports suggest that a new Destiny mobile game is still in development, titled “Destiny Rising”. This game appears to be a completely separate project from Destiny 2, with hero characters instead of allowing players to create their own.
