A Destiny 2 Live Event Is Coming Today – Heres When To Expect It – GameSpot

Destiny 2 is about to enter its next big chapter with the release of the Beyond Light expansion on Tuesday, November 10, and it’s made some big story moves in the last season. One more thing is on the way before servers go offline on November 9 to make way for the expansion: another in-game live event.

Bungie has been cagey about the event but has suggested that it’ll be pretty small-scale. A small update is now live in the game, which you’ll need to download before the event starts.

Once you’re in, check the Tower map in the Director for a blue banner at the top, which will let you launch a limited-time mission. It looks as though it’s set in the old Tower. We’ll have more details once we’ve tried it.

If you’re having a hard time getting into Destiny right now, though, you’re not alone. With so many players attempting to log in to see the live event, Destiny 2 servers seem to be struggling and producing a lot of connection errors.

There also seems to be something going on with the Traveler. It looks like sections of the giant robot god are glowing; some players have speculated we’d see the Traveler healing itself during the event, and that might be what’s going on here.

The story of the Season of Arrivals has seen the in-game run-up to several Destiny 2 locations being “vaulted,” or indefinitely removed from the game. Titan, Io, Mercury, Mars, and the Leviathan are all being removed in Beyond Light, and those destinations have seen story beats throughout the season as an explanation for that happening, in which you’ve tried to help prepare to evacuate those planets. It seems like the live event might be a capper on that story ahead of the launch of Beyond Light and its big changes to Destiny 2.

It’s also worth noting that Destiny 2 servers go offline at 7 PM PT / 10 PM ET Monday night for maintenance ahead of Beyond Light. They’re expected to go live with the new expansion at noon PT / 3 PM ET on Tuesday.