Remember all those Destiny 2 guns you deleted after they got sunset? Bungie admits you shouldn't have done that: 'We regret we have no recovery mechanism'

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The Season of the Dawn weapon set was the last to be sunset, and I now wish I’d held onto some of them.(Image credit: Bungie)

Season of the Dawn

In what has come as an unexpected but huge W for those with a chronic hoarding problem, Bungie has today announced that it is undoing the last part of one of its most unpopular design decisions: Weapon sunsetting. Back in 2020, the studio made a huge call toremove huge swathes of contentfrom the game, including entire planetary destinations and raids, and also capped the power of all old weapons, meaning they could no longer be ‘infused’ to the current power cap, rendering them useless in many activities.

The entire sunsetting episode remained an open wound ever since, despite Bungieabandoning weapon sunsettinga year later and promisingno more expansions would be removedback in 2022. Like many in the community, I eventually accepted my old ‘god roll’ guns were essentially useless beyond sentimental value, and with constant pressure on my limited vault space, eventually broke them down for parts.

So it was quite the shock to read in the latestThis Week in Destiny postthat, yeah,probably shouldn’t have done that…

The upshot being that if you held onto, say, a Kindled Orchid hand cannon with the rare Rampage+Kill Clip combo, you’ll be able to slap it on your Gyrfalcon Hunter and go hog wild in The Final Shape. But I won’t be doing that, because despite loving many of these pretend guns like the children I will never have, they have all long since been deleted in the name of saving space. A situation Bungie is well aware many players will be in, and, well, it’s sorry:

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The Final Shape will inject a raft of weapons, including two new rocket-powered sidearms and an autorifle that can heal allies. These ones are themed after the Vanguard.(Image credit: Bungie)

The Final Shape weapons

The fact that it sounds like some beloved old weapons, like the remainder of the Black Armory gear perhaps, are coming back with modern perks is some small consolation. After all, what is Destiny if not re-grinding the same gear with slightly different perks? The addition of Origin Traits will also make these new versions technically better than their predecessors. But I can’t help being jealous of the hoarders who held onto some of this stuff despite every indication that it would ever be relevant again.

Bungie senior designer Josh Kulinski took to X this afternoon with a thread explaining the thought process around unsunsetting these old guns. He makes a fair point that it’s sometimes impossible to forsee the needs of the game in the future, and I imagine a lot of the people involved in the original sunsetting call are no longer even at the studio given how much time has passed.

Unsunsetting weapons or “sunrising” as many of us have been referring to it internally, was a big decision for us to make. We understand that many of you may have deleted weapon rolls that you loved, but let’s dig a little deeper 🧵April 25, 2024

Spare a thought, too, for hugely popular Destiny 2 content creator Datto, who for a couple of years now has run a ‘Vault Cleaning’ video series in which he helps fellow YouTubers sort through their invariably stuffed storage, berating them for all the rubbish and dupes they’re holding onto, until they finally deleted enough to satisfy his item-based bloodlust. TheReddit threadaccompanying Bungie’s blog on r/destinythegame pictures Datto falling to his knees in Walmart upon hearing the news. Sure enough, on X he’s already doing crisis management, and at least one old client is coming for him.

My legal team will be reaching out shortlyApril 25, 2024

If, like me, you performed a scorched earth-style cleanse on all the old guns, take a small amount of solace from the fact you can still pull a decent Breakneck with Subsistence+Onslaught, or 21% Delirium which has Overflow+Onslaught, from the collections section because those are the curated rolls, and then use them in The Final Shape.

Honestly though, we’re going to be swimming in so much new gear that I don’t think any saltiness over this decision will last too long. The broader changes to how guardian power level works have also been very well received so far, particularly as it should result in less grinding across alt characters just to make an arbirtray power number go up. Overall, if there’s a lesson to be taken here it’s that nothing in Destiny 2 stays gone forever. Just ask Cayde-6.

Oh, and: DON’T DELETE ANYTHING EVER, VAULT SPACE BE DAMNED!

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