The Witch Queen, Destiny’s 2 long-awaited fourth enlargement, will launch on February twenty second, 2022, Bungie introduced on Tuesday. The enlargement will pit gamers towards Savathûn. First talked about in 2015’s The Taken King, the titular Witch Queen is a foe Destiny gamers have been ready years to face. She’s the sister of Oryx, the Hive god gamers defeated within the aforementioned Taken King enlargement, and a personality Bungie has meticulously teased in strikes, in-game lore gadgets and extra.

In The Witch Queen, gamers will journey to Savathûn’s Throne World to face the Lucent Hive. Bungie is introducing a brand new crafting mechanic that may enable gamers to create their very own customized weapons, full with distinctive mods, shaders and stat combos. The enlargement may also add a brand new Glaive weapon kind that permits gamers to finish melee combos, hearth power projectiles and deploy a defend. You will not discover your first Glaive. Instead, you may make it your self utilizing the brand new crafting mechanic. 

Bungie had initially deliberate to launch The Witch Queen in 2021 however initially of the 12 months. By the time the studio introduced the choice, it had mentioned it was already contemplating pushing again the enlargement for the sake of “the health of the team.” In mixture with different plans the studio had for 2021, the coronavirus pandemic made that call simpler.

The Witch Queen will launch concurrently on Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, PS5, PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.