A Destiny 2 clan has completed The Final Shape expansion’s raid, unlocking a final mission for all players that brings to an end the series’ decade-long story that began back in 2014.
This article does not include any spoilers for Destiny 2 The Final Shape.
PC Gamer has a great rundown of events up to and including this moment, but for our purposes, we’ll just say that clan Parabellum completed The Final Shape raid before any other and in the process unlocked a 12-person final mission called Excision that acts as a fitting end to everything that has proceeded it over the last 10 years.
The Witness has retreated from the monolith - but, an important battle awaits.
— Destiny 2 (@DestinyTheGame) June 8, 2024
We'll need all Guardians available to help us defeat the Witness, once and for all.
Rally with us and launch into Excision, a newly unlocked 12-player activity. pic.twitter.com/HhIky06Vpc
But it looks like there is an issue with Excision that is causing players in fireteams to be unable to view all cutscenes upon completion of the Excision activity. In a post on X/Twitter, Bungie recommended players complete the activity solo to ensure they experience all the cutscenes.
At this time, we recommend playing the Excision activity solo to experience all the cutscenes. Players who missed the cutscenes can select the Narrative version of Excision to replay them. https://t.co/lM40N6O4yC
— Bungie Help (@BungieHelp) June 8, 2024
Now that The Final Shape’s main story has come to an end, Destiny 2 players are wondering what’s next. Excision leaves a number of story threads hanging out there in the galaxy, threads Bungie will probably pull at over the coming months. The developer has already announced a showcase set for June 10 at 8am PT in which it will reveal the next year of Destiny 2. That could mean it will touch on The Final Shape’s upcoming three episodes, the first of which kicks off next week. But perhaps Bungie will also hint at bigger things to come.
It all begins with a single step.
— Destiny 2 (@DestinyTheGame) June 8, 2024
Join us on June 10 at 8AM PT to learn about the next year of Destiny 2.
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In previous videos, Bungie developers have teased that The Final Shape is not the end of Destiny 2 or even the series, with the developer — now owned by Sony — also working on multiplayer game Marathon. This week, in a series of X/Twitter posts marking the release of The Final Shape, Bungie executive creative director Luke Smith discussed the road to The Final Shape’s release and the effort its developers put in to make it happen. In one of the posts, Smith mentioned the word Hope three times, each capitalized, which was enough to spark Destiny 3 theories within the community.
Our Hope is always the same with Destiny games, expansions, seasons, DLCs, exotic missions, secret missions, in-game events, merchandise, et cetera - we genuinely Hope you enjoy the time you spend with it. Anything we've made or will make, that's the Hope.
— Luke Smith (@thislukesmith) June 3, 2024
Make your own fate.
For now, The Final Shape is going down well with fans, despite initial server problems Bungie ended up apologizing for. Check out IGN's The FInal Shape review in progress to find out what we think.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
