.Our company still possess extremely few concrete information concerning Destiny 2's following expansion, Codename: Beauty, however Bungie has actually supplied some new, if unclear, checks out what our company can easily assume along with principle art as well as a list of inspirations that include The Doors, Slaughterhouse Five, and Scavenger's Reign.Bungie talked a little regarding Codename: Frontiers, the following period of Destiny 2's content that'll begin in Summer 2025, on a current designer livestream that additionally covered Episode: Revenant, which begins on October 8. Narrative supervisor Alison Luhrs showed brand new idea art for the expansion's location and also offered some puzzling particulars concerning what players can assume as Destiny 2 techniques right into a brand new account. The following year of Bungie content, which are going to start after the last of its current episodes, Heresy, finishes in very early 2025, will definitely include 2 significant growths rather than one large tentpole release, as has actually been the case throughout Serendipity 2's lifestyle. These expansions are smaller and will definitely come with a more normal cadence, Bungie mentions, as well as be about the dimension of the original Destiny's Increase of Iron expansion. The initial, Codename: Beauty, are going to possess a nonlinear project construct, Bungie states, with a metroidvania gameplay method, allowing players to pick their course via the material as they uncover brand-new abilities.We recognize Apollo is going to consist of a new destination, yet Bungie has actually been exceptionally cagey on where it'll be actually. Yet Luhrs did give a couple of tips, mentioning during the flow that customers ought to picture the suggestion of entering the parlor of a manor, where the manager claims there's a top secret door. That door will be turned on through moving a book or a statuary-- something that resided in face of the individual's skin during, yet just tackled relevance once they knew what they were appearing for.Luhrs additionally discussed idea art that does not offer much brand new understanding yet could consist of some pointers as to what to anticipate from Beauty. The first reveals a team of folks relatively executing some type of practice involving blue energy (or even perhaps goo). The signs as well as various other elements observed in the graphic do not seem knowledgeable, however something that is familiar is actually the history-- the principle craft utilizes a photo of the Cosmodrome area on Earth to offer a rocky, tree-dotted yard only beyond the framework. Making use of an in-game image might merely be actually filler, but then again, it could recommend that this new location is really a hidden area on Earth.It is actually not clear where this concept craft takes place, yet whether considerable or otherwise, that background looks the Cosmodrome.The second piece of principle fine art might also participate in in to that idea. It resembles an underground site, somewhere in a significant cavern where apexes of stone dangle from above. The details listed below are actually thin, yet it is actually feasible to find frameworks one of the stones, like stairs, and possibly more of that blue power. So maybe our team are actually taking care of a concealed location on Earth, perhaps underground, as well as a group of individuals our company've formerly not faced before in Destiny 2. This part of idea art seems to propose at least component of the Codename: Apollo destination may be underground.Developers additionally discussed a couple of motivations for Beauty that are actually likewise particularly puzzling. These included the music of the 1960s, featuring The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and early progressive rock bands like King Crimson.They also pointed out Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five-- which is actually particularly about a male's adventures of the firebombing of Dresden in World War II and his opportunity as a prisoner of war. The lead character, Billy Explorer, likewise declares that he comes to be unstuck eventually, along with the anecdotal diving about to various factors in his lifestyle, and also he was actually a captive in an unusual zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, and also it is actually never ever made explicit whether these components are genuine or imaginary.Finally, Bungie called out Scavenger's Regime, a cartoon series originally on HBO as well as now offered on Netflix, that sees a team of humans marooned on an alien earth after their ship accidents. Assistant video game director Robbie Stevens discussed particularly exactly how Scavenger's Supremacy depicts the unfamiliarity and also puzzle of its unusual world.All that leaves our team with only rampant guesswork concerning Apollo, but factors like time trip are a bulk of the Destiny 2 world, especially after tales like that of The Witch Queen growth, where the world Mars was viewed with segments where earlier times appear right into the present. Yet definitely, as Bungie starts a brand new story after finishing the Illumination and also Night Legend in The Last Shape growth, pretty much just about anything is possible for the future of Destiny 2-- and it seems likely to obtain unusual.