Published on June 5th, 2019 📆 | 1546 Views ⚑
0Destiny’s New Menagerie Is One Of The Game’s Coolest Activities Yet
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A new season launched in Destiny 2 today, and with it came a brand new activity that ranks up with some of the best things the series has done: Menagerie, a gauntlet of light puzzles and tough encounters.
Like everything else in Destiny, Menagerie is all about shooting aliens, but itâs not your average horde mode. It feels more like a miniature raid, with a variety of interesting (and challenging) mechanics designed for six-person enemy blasting.
You unlock Menagerie by grinding through the Season of Opulenceâs first quest chain, which takes an hour or so. (Start it by talking to Mr. Broom Robot in the Tower.) Along the way, youâll learn how to use the Chalice of Opulence, a new item that lets you tailor what kind of loot you get at the end of Menagerie. Using a new currency called Imperials, youâll be able to upgrade your chalice and hook it up with runes that will drop specific rewardsâthe Rune of Joy, for example, guarantees you a class item. Rune of Jubilation will get you a Sniper Rifle. And so on.
Once you get into the activityâwhich starts at power level 690, but completing the aforementioned quest will get you a set of level-690 equipmentâyouâll start fighting your way through a series of themed segments in the labyrinthian tunnels of the Leviathan warship, presented in random order. Thereâs The Hunted, a creepy set of tunnels reminiscent of the old Crotaâs End raid, in which you have to capture lanterns and fight off Cursed Thrall. Thereâs The Gauntlet, which tasks you with fighting waves of Vex, then hurdling through an obstacle course as quickly as possible. My favorite is The Crystals, in which you have to pick up Vex orbs and use them to shoot laser beams at crystals and enemy aliens.
As you play through each of these sections, youâll rack up points and gradually fill up a meter. Once the meter is filled, youâll get to fight a boss, and then: treasure.
Hereâs perhaps the most unusual part: You canât lose. There are no timers or party wipes. No matter how bad your team is, youâll always get the reward at the endâthe only friction is that if youâre not earning a lot of points in each segment, itâll take you quite a long time to finish the whole thing. (I learned that the hard way on my first run!)
All in all, itâs a fantastic mode. Thereâs much more left to be discovered in Season of Opulenceâit just went live today, and people are already finding intriguing new secrets that may be linked to the next expansionâbut Menagerie is one very good reason to keep playing.
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