But confidence in a studio isn’t enough to tell friends, family, or even you, dear reader, that you should drop 100 bucks on the next unproven year of Destiny 2 just for early access to an Exotic. Bungie has been crushing it recently, with Destiny 2 getting better and better year after year, and there’s nothing in the Lightfall reveal that has me worried about the game taking a nosedive in 2023 - quite the opposite, in fact. With Quicksilver Storm, however, there is no Lightfall to judge - to get the gun now, you need to operate on faith alone. So, for example, if you jumped into the base version of The Witch Queen when it launched in February, fell in love with it ( because it’s excellent), and decided you wanted to invest further in Destiny 2, you could’ve upgraded to the annual pass and gotten Osteo Striga as a reward.
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That’s a key change, as players could still upgrade to the Annual Pass after the expansion launched to get their cool gun. However, usually these weapons launch alongside the new expansion, not with the pre-order. The studio typically offers exclusive access to special expansion Exotics - like No Time to Explain in Beyond Light or Osteo Striga in The Witch Queen - that are only accessible for Annual Pass owners. This isn’t an uncommon practice for Bungie, but it is a slightly different approach. There’s just one small problem: Quicksilver Storm is locked behind the $99.99 pre-order for Lightfall’s Annual Pass, which contains the expansion as well as the four seasons and two dungeons coming to Destiny 2 in 2023. It’s the perfect Exotic, and I’m already in love with it. It’s just so damn fun, versatile, and sleek as hell.
And I’ve used the grenade launcher to devastate minibosses without the need to switch to a special weapon. I’ve shredded individual enemies and blasted small groups with rockets across the Sol System. I’ve used it in old raids, new seasonal content, and even a Master difficulty run of the new Ketchcrash activity. I’ve barely unequipped Quicksilver Storm since I got it. When I have at least one grenade available, I can hold down the reload button to transform the gun into a grenade launcher, which does some pretty excellent damage considering Quicksilver Storm is a primary weapon and has unlimited ammo. That’s already pretty sweet, but each rocket that connects also loads a grenade into my Quicksilver Storm for later use. But every couple of bullets that connect with enemies cause the gun to also launch a micro-missile, which homes in on targets and explodes. Holding down the trigger, Quicksilver Storm fires like a normal auto rifle. And I experienced just that when I logged into my Titan on Tuesday and picked up Quicksilver Storm, the new Lightfall Exotic auto rifle that is also a rocket launcher… and a grenade launcher. At the 2022 Destiny 2 Showcase, Bungie revealed the game’s 2023 expansion, Lightfall, Season of Plunder, the return of the beloved King’s Fall raid, in-game loadouts and group-finder, the end of sunsetting expansions, and more.īut no level of Destiny expansion hype compares to the excitement of instantly connecting to a new Exotic weapon.
That’s been the question raging inside my brain since Destiny 2: Season of Plunder launched on Tuesday: Is the Quicksilver Storm Exotic really worth pre-ordering a $100 edition of an expansion? Even as someone who doesn’t recommend pre-ordering games, it’s harder to answer than you might think.
Would you pay $100 for early access to a Destiny 2 Exotic? Surely not! But eight years spent in Destiny - after shooting every Dreg, boss, and god that Bungie has thrown at me, using every weapon I’ve been offered - Quicksilver Storm is already one of my favorite Exotics of all time after only two days.
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