With the Edge of Fate expansion for Destiny 2 now out in the wild, reason would stand that players would have Thoughts and Opinions about what’s been released. That leads us to this trio of headlines about various things within the looter shooter’s new expansion, specifically about how the new player experience has aged like milk, some noticed oddness around the voice of one of its major NPCs, and players’ presumptions of changes arriving on the slick.Play Destiny 2

We’ll start with the new player experience, which was a major topic of discussion in an interview held by YouTuber MrRoflWaffles with assistant game director Robbie Stevens, who acknowledged that starting D2 is in a very bad place right now. It doesn’t sound as if there’s an actual plan here, and he points out how Edge of Fate did away with the flood of pop-up messages that batter players when they fire up the game, but he does mention the need to widen and refine “the funnel” to activities as well as create “a more curated experience” that respects most gamers’ intelligence than the Beyond Light update provides.

Next up: Fans immediately noticed that the voice actress for the character Ikora Rey sounded different, and that’s because she is: Bungie did announce in May that some voices would be different, but confirmed earlier this week that re-recording for lines from Ikora’s original VO was underway. There’s no timing for when these lines will be replaced, but the not-quite-Ikora will be replaced soon enough.

Finally, the devs at Bungie have addressed player rancor over what was believed to be a series of stealth changes or quiet nerfs applied with the Edge of Fate expansion by explaining that information about changes was simply missing from the frankly enormous patch notes while assuring players that they’re being edited back in.

“We never intend to ship ‘stealth nerfs’ in Destiny 2. We would be completely out of our minds if we thought we could slip something under the rug without players noticing,” the announcement reads. “This was one of (if not THE) longest patch notes submissions we’ve had, and while we hoped we had every bullet buttoned up, we fully acknowledge we missed on some big ones here.”