Destiny 2’s highly anticipated Final Shape expansion has dropped, delivering an array of new exotics, weapons, and challenging enemies from the Dread faction wielding Stasis and Strand powers. Despite the expansion’s richness in content, fans have noted the absence of official Dread-themed armor sets. However, Bungie has teased more unique armor sets in future episodes like Echoes, Revenant, and Heresy, with additional gear unlockable through the season pass.
One talented fan artist, HueJackma, has even designed striking Dread-inspired armor for each Guardian class, capturing the new aesthetic introduced by the Dread enemies.
Highlights
- Destiny 2”s Final Shape expansion offers new armor sets based on the enemy Dread faction, but lacks official Dread-themed armor.
- The expansion introduces a variety of new exotics, weapons, and challenging Dread enemies with Stasis and Strand powers.
- Fans can expect more unique armor sets in upcoming episodes like Echoes, Revenant, and Heresy, with unlockable gear through the season pass.
The recently-released Final Shape expansion for Destiny 2 represents one of the biggest content drops the game has ever seen, and one talented fan artist has designed a new armor set for each class based on the aesthetic of the new enemy race introduced. While this new expansion does introduce plenty of new exotics, weapons, and armor sets for Destiny 2 players to try out, many agree that the lack of official Dread-themed armor is something of a missed opportunity.
Though quite a few fans had long given up hope of seeing a new enemy race introduced to Destiny 2, it”s safe to say that The Final Shape expansion exceeded expectations in a ton of different ways. The Dread faction present a whole new variety of minions loyal to the Witness, many of which are twisted and malformed versions of alien races already encountered in the Destiny 2 universe, such as the new Subjugator enemies which represent the unfortunate fate of many Lubraeans.
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With many Dread units taking on Destiny 2 players with the powers of Stasis and Strand, they make for genuinely interesting and often quite challenging opponents. Their unique appearances have even inspired one Destiny 2 fan by the name of HueJackma to design Guardian armor sets based on the race, with the creator showing off a distinct armor set for each class in Destiny 2. The Titan armor set is based heavily on the Tormentor”s appearance, featuring the enemy”s noteworthy shoulder pads. The Warlock set is adapted from the visage of the Subjugators, and the Hunter set appears to be a bit of a mix, borrowing the hood-like head structure from the Husk enemy type, but adapting the wings seen on the Grim as a sort of cape.
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The sets present a creative way of implementing the fantastic designs of the Dread enemies into a form that can be expressed by players, with the high-quality fan artwork itself almost feeling like it could be official key art. Speaking of armor sets though, players who aren”t fans of the new gear introduced with The Final Shape might instead find something they like among the new armor sets introduced with the freshly-released Episode: Echoes. This first episode of Destiny 2 brings in some pretty alternative gear sets, with all of this new armor being unlockable through the season pass.
Fans also got a good look at what to expect from Destiny 2”s upcoming episodes, Episode: Revenant and Episode: Heresy, in a recent video from Bungie which discusses what the future of the game will look like. While fans have a lot to get through in Episode: Echoes over the next few months, the future episodes also promise some incredible armor sets which many fans will no doubt be pleased with.
Destiny 2
Bungie”s Destiny 2 is an online FPS that blends single-player and multiplayer content. Constantly evolving, the shooter has established a strong following since its 2017 debut.
Platform(s)
PS5
, PS4
, Xbox Series X
, Xbox Series S
, Xbox One
, PC
, Stadia
Released
August 28, 2017
Developer(s)
Bungie
Publisher(s)
Bungie
Genre(s)
FPS
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