Please support Game Informer. Print magazine subscriptions are less than $2 per issue
Bungie Delays Destiny 2's Prestige Raid
All good things come in time. After stating last week that Destiny 2's higher difficulty prestige raid would launch alongside the Iron Banner event which begins tomorrow (Tuesday, October 10), Bungie announced today in a community forum post that the prestige raid has been delayed to Wednesday October 18.
The delay is due to an exploit "that causes the encounters to be stripped of their intended challenge," the post reads. According to Bungie, they don't want the fireteam that manages to complete the prestige raid first to have their victory questioned or doubted. The prestige raid will now go live at 10 a.m. PT on October 18. Iron Banner's first appearance in Destiny 2 remains unchanged.
For more on Destiny 2, check out an exploit one team has been using to beat the raid boss or read about how Destiny 2 took PlayStation 4 downloads by storm last month.
Our Take:
The raid is designed to be the hardest and most rewarding part of Destiny 2's endgame. It's great that Bungie takes this event seriously enough to dedicate extra time to ensuring that the prestige raid actually warrants the "prestige" label and that the World First status is rightly earned.
I’d like to ask you to support Game Informer’s continued coverage of games with a subscription. For less than two dollars per issue, we mail you a full year of 10 print magazines, each with cover stories and preview features filled with exclusive details about the most exciting upcoming games. We profile and interview game creators. We look back on the rich history of gaming, and we celebrate what’s next.
Here on the website, we offer much of our content for free, including game reviews, daily news, videos, event coverage, and more – all with minimal ads.
We do so with a small editorial team, alongside contributing paid writers from around the world – over 65 individuals from 9 countries around the world, just in the last couple of years.
It’s not possible without support.
In a time when game makers and games coverage have faced hard struggles and layoffs, the future of this 30+ year magazine and community is at risk. Our new standalone magazine subscription is the number one way you can keep us alive – and we believe you’ll get a pretty fantastic gaming magazine in your mailbox every few weeks for your trouble.
Thank you.
