Destiny 2's Live Event Has Let Players Into Its Gorgeous Last City

Destiny 2 servers are set to shutdown tonight for maintenance ahead of tomorrow’s launch of the Beyond Light expansion, but just before they do Bungie decide to treat players to a nice relaxing stroll through the game’s breathtaking Last City.

Players have been anticipating some sort of live in-game event to cap of the game’s latest season for a while now, but no one was sure exactly what form that would take. After an errant email from Bungie to players let the cat out of the bag late last week, Destiny 2 director Luke Smith officially announced on Twitter that there would be a “small event” to close out the game’s current Season of Arrivals. “It’s nothing too crazy, just a little time to chill in the Tower before the Lights go out,” Smith wrote.

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While the event kicked off around 7:00 p.m. ET with strange new streaks of light appear around the Traveler as seen from the Tower, it wasn’t until later in the hour that an actual mission popped up on the Tower map allowing players to investigate a disturbance in the Last City (Bungie says this is where players should go to witness the live event finale). Destiny 2's servers are clearly dealing with a lot right now, and some folks haven’t been able to get the mission to load. Those who have are currently able to touch down into the city streets and explore at their leisure. I’m there right now and I’m not sure I ever want to leave.

Ever since the first Destiny came out back in 2014 players have wanted the chance to go down into the Last City and see it for themselves up close and personal, rather than being stuck gazing from afar up atop the Tower. Players spend dozens, if not hundreds of hours, protecting humanity’s last settlement from countless alien threats but never get the chance to visit and see who or what it is exactly that they’re working so hard to defend. Tonight players finally got that chance. There have been multiplayer PVP maps set there and other pseudo-visits, but nothing that’s put the extent of Destiny 2's dazzling art and world building on display quite like this.

Source: Kotaku