Destiny 2: Beyond Light will be available in only a few short days and the community is eager to experience what Bungie has been cooking. Because of the expansion's delay, Season of Arrivals has unfortunately slowed to a lull. However, game director Luke Smith confirmed on Twitter that players should look forward to an end-of-season event to play out very soon.
Beyond Light is coming out on November 10 which is quite a late date from the typical Destiny expansion release window. The team needed a bit more time to focus on tuning and optimization to ensure a healthy launch for the much anticipated fourth year of Destiny. Recently, it was also officially stated that Beyond Light will be bigger and more ambitious than Shadowkeep, that latest expansion.
Those subscribed to the Bungie newsletter will receive an email every week detailing what to look forward to and what has been going on in the world of Destiny. This week's email accompanied the This week at Bungie article as usual but also vaguely highlighted the finale of the season. It encouraged Guardians to "catch the finale" that will officially close out Season of Arrivals and directly link to Beyond Light coming out a couple of days later.
For the past month, players had assumed that the Nokris edition of the weekly Interference mission was the finale of Season of Arrivals. It not only ended the weekly mission cycle but also included a unique boss, new dialogue, and most importantly, an exclusive epilogue room dedicated to the Darkness. The room has a pyramid ship tribute sat the center, surrounded by the many races of Destiny. This was a fitting end to the arc of this season, but the Darkness didn't stop there and explicitly beckoned Guardians to Europa, which just so happens to be where Beyond Light takes place.
Apparently, this wasn't the actual segue to the upcoming expansion. Luke Smith said that the team initially wanted the true concluding event of Season of Arrivals to be a secret. But he broke the silence and let the fans know that there will indeed be a live event in the Tower, much like that of Season of the Worthy, but it won't be anything ambitious or bombastic. In any case, the message suspiciously capitalized the word "Light" possibly indicating that the event's consequences will somehow involve the Traveler or the Guardians themselves.
Destiny 2: Beyond Light releases November 10, 2020 for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One with PS5 and Xbox Series X versions also in development.
Source: Luke Smith
