Currently the rampaging bushfires in Australian have wreaked major havoc, so far having claimed over 2000 homes, at least 25 human lives, and over a billion animals.Destiny 2developers Bungie have decided to lend their support as well through an upcoming fundraiser. In the latestThis Week At Bungiepost, Foundation manager Christine Edwards made an announcement about how the company would aid in this urgent cause:
We are developing a limited-edition T-shirt fundraising campaign to support both Australia’s firefighting efforts and the country’s animal rescue and conservation efforts. The T-shirt, which comes with an exclusiveDestiny 2"Star Light, Star Bright" emblem redemption code with purchase, will be available for pre-order on the Bungie Store and Bungie Store EU between Thursday, January 16 and Tuesday, February 18 at 9 a.m. Pacific, ending with the weekly reset and the end of Crimson Days. The team is currently hard at work on the T-shirt design and we’ll share a preview early next week.
The first half of all profits generated by these T-shirt sales will be donated toWIRES, Australia’s largest wildlife rescue organization. The other half will be donated toNSW Rural Fire Service, which services the state of New South Wales, where the fires have been especially devastating and are in dire need of containment.
Edwards then states that they will be revealing more details about the campaign in next week’s blog post. Meanwhile check out this piece fromCNETif you want to start supporting the efforts to combat the fires.
Not only did the game’s latest expansion,Shadowkeep, end up releasing, butDestiny 2also launched in a newfree-to-play model calledNew Lightin addition to coming to Steam. Despitesome server issues throughout the day, it looks as though players on PC were eager to jump into the game for either the first time or the thousandth.
According toGitHyp,Destiny 2hit a peak ofover 200,000 concurrent playersback in October 2019 on PC. More specifically, the game’s height throughout the day nearly hit 219K players at one single point.
Recently on Twitter, Bungieshared a new infographicthat detailed the exact offerings ofDestiny 2: New Light, which adapts the game to a free-to-play format.New Lightwill start players out at Power Level 750 (with the ability to level up to max Power), and will provide free seasonal ranks and rewards. On the campaign side of things,New Lightwill include The Red War (the base campaign ofDestiny 2) along with theCurse of OsirisandWarmindexpansion campaigns.Destiny 2: New Lightwill also include access to all Year One Exotic Weapons and Armor, the Crucible, Strikes, Year One Raids (and accompanying weapons and gear), in-game events, and more.
