Bungie shows off new Destiny 2 hub, which has a proper football pitch

Bungie has given us our first look at Destiny 2’s new hub location. The Farm will replace Destiny’s Tower, which (spoilers) is completely destroyed at the beginning of the sequel. In a short video with IGN First we get a look at some of The Farm’s features, including an actual football pitch.

The Farm seems to be the same size as the original hub, with a couple of familiar features, such as the Cryptarch where you’ll collect your new gear, a Postmaster for checking your messages, and other merchants. This is where the similarities end.The new hub has a distinctly more rustic and earthier feel than the futuristic Tower of Destiny. There’s also a football field (not soccer), which has goals and a scoreboard. Yes, you can play actually play football — so that’s me sold. There are also chickens, although it’s not confirmed if you can chuck them like in Zelda or Fable.

Another cool feature is how The Farm and its surroundings will evolve as you complete the campaign, with the addition of human survivors making a new home in The Farm and plot specific characters who will ‘come-and-go’. All this dynamism is to make the whole hub feel like it’s really alive and a proper little colony. Up to 26 players can hang out in the hub at any one time, with spaceships continuously coming and going dropping off other Guardians. There are plenty of other things going on around The Farm, but naturally much of this is being kept under wraps for now. 

Destiny 2 launches on September 6 on Xbox One and PS4 and PC on October 24

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