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I’ll admit my experience with the original Destiny pales in comparison to many of its avid fanbase, but there was one thing that annoyed me about it – one thing that annoys me in general about some video games – and that’s dead ends with no rewards. Find a cool little nook, nothing in it. Oh my, look at that cranny over there, nowt in it! It’s like getting a lump of coal in an empty laptop box for Christmas. Thanks, mum!
Destiny 2 is looking to break that trend from the original though, rewarding those who choose to venture into the darkest depth of every cave with a plethora of secrets galore. This come in the form of what Mark Noseworthy, Destiny 2’s Project Lead, is calling “Lost Sectors.”
Talking to our sister site, PlayStationTrophies, Noseworthy said, “Lost Sectors are like mini dungeons that are hidden in the world. If there’s a door somewhere and looks like there might be something behind it, then there probably is. At the end of that spot behind the door, there’s a boss with a key, guarding a cache of treasure. There are dozens of these hidden across the destinations.”
Noseworthy said the open-world areas in Destiny 2 were designed to be “places you can inhabit” with tons of things to do from patrols, treasure maps to seek out and what not, with there being a possibility for hours of entertainment, all with no loading times either.
“Going back and forth between those activities, there’s no loading, you don’t have to return to orbit, you can just be there. You can spend hours and hours in the European Dead Zone just exploring all the spaces, getting all the things.”
Destiny 2 is scheduled for a September 8th launch on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with the PC release coming at a later date.
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