Destiny 2Umbral Engrams and Prismatic Recaster from season 11 return to season 13, Bungie announced in this week’s blog post. This is great news, given that it made one of the best cakes in the game’s recent past.
Unlike most of the Legendary Engrams from Destiny 2, which are decrypted into random tools that you have no control over, Threshold Engrams can be “reoriented” in Prismatic Recaster (a strange soup magic magic tub) into specific pieces of tools more likely to have certain advantages or stats. There are still some RNGs involved, but it is far from the driving force behind grinding. In addition, the weapons that Umbral Engrams could decrypt were pretty great. The whole progression system was so popular, in fact, Bungie now intends to bring it back, but with added capabilities.
“Prismatic Recaster returns as a kiosk with the ability to change Engrame Shadows into Focbrate Engrame Umbrellas, which contain a smaller table of prey,” the studio writes. “Because Umbral Engrams is here to stay, the new Recaster will have different pages for each Season and you’ll be able to focus the Engrams on the Season of your choice.”
This is part of Bungie’s new commitment to reduce seasonal “FOMO” (fear of losing) and to ensure that new missions and activities added every few months remain valid throughout the year, rather than disappearing once. with the start of the new season. For example, Season of the Hunt’s Wrathborn Hunts and the corresponding story missions will continue until the end of the latest games. Beyond the Light expansion. Umbral Engrams and Recaster, meanwhile, will provide a new way to gain targeted prey from previous seasons, without being completely at the mercy of RNG. It’s great to see.
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At the same time, like all things Destiny 2, this news cuts several ways. Am I excited to be one of the best prey mechanics in the game? Of course. I want to work on upgrading the Recaster again to have a better picture of unlocking the exact equipment I want? God does not. It remains to be seen what prey Umbral Engrams will contain next season and what will be involved in redesigning the new Recaster, but I’m skeptical, it won’t feel like I’m repeating the repairs I’ve already finished. And of course, approaching all of this is the specter of the sunset, which offers all the prey you enter. Destiny 2 an expiration date.
The other important news this week is that Bungie adds a new level of titles to the game, which will allow players to laugh and “prestige” the basic titles – Flawless, Conqueror, Unbroken, Dredgen – that they have already completed. If you do this, a gold border will be added. However, at the end of the season, these boundaries will disappear, encouraging players to complete new challenges to reach super cool status again next season. I’ve never been very invested in titles and triumphs, but I’ve always admired those who also have the cute little badges that appear on the screen when you inspect the construction of a player who has one.
However, permanence makes them so special and the addition of a gilded achievement that resets every few months feels just like another symptom of Destiny 2 becoming too concentrated seasonally. Like the content of indoor and outdoor bikes and prey to the sunset, some aspects of the game are starting to feel more like a rat race than ever and I’m not here for that. But at least the Umbrals Engrams are back.