'Destiny 2' Is Now Giving Away Osiris And Warmind When You Buy Forsaken By Itself

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Forsaken is good, as most any current Destiny player will attest to, barring the kinds of minor issues that will never stop plaguing the series. But it’s as good as Destiny 2 has ever been, and arguably the expansion puts the series in a better state than it’s ever been, even in the D1 era, depending on who you ask.

The problem is getting people to play it.

While Bungie did their usual base game, DLCs, fall expansion $60 bundle for Forsaken, it was a somewhat taller order to get players who did buy Destiny 2 to play Forsaken. And one of the key barriers has now been removed to making that happen.

Bungie has announced that when you buy Forsaken on its own, it will now include both the Curse of Osiris and Warmind DLCs. Both of these DLCs have been required to play Forsaken to date, but given that Destiny 2’s launch was so-so and Curse of Osiris was flat-out bad, many original D2 owners gave up on the series, and didn’t really feel like buying 1-2 DLCs just to get to the “good” expansion in Forsaken. This removes that issue, and will hopefully get more people to jump into Forsaken straight away.

It’s a somewhat unusual move, given that Forsaken just launched without this kind of bundling a mere month ago, but it appears Bungie wants to slam down the accelerator and convert more existing D2 players into Forsaken owners, though we don’t know what the exact attach rate is. Definitely not as high as they’d like probably, if this kind of bundle is happening.

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It never really did make all that much sense as to why you needed both DLCs for Forsaken, given that you don’t ever visit either Mercury or Mars during the Forsaken campaign or for any of its special content. But there are issues with Crucible and Strike playlists, which use Osiris/Warmind maps and missions, and things like the weekly Flashpoint or Spider Wanted bounties, which do send you to those planets.

It speaks to how hard it is to keep up with Destiny unless you’re keeping on top of all these releases. Granted, D2 was a fresh start, but even in the past year it’s easy to feel “behind” if you missed one or two of the DLCs, and it was literally impossible to play Forsaken unless you had them.

If you are about to take advantage of this Forsaken bundle (which launches October 16), my advice is probably to skip Osiris and Warmind and jump into Forsaken. Use the level/power boosting items that Bungie provides, and go straight into Forsaken, which is easily the best content, even if I did appreciate some aspects of Warmind. If you get hooked, sure, go back and run through those other DLCs, but I’d start with the best one, given that this is the entire point of this bundle.

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As for us suckers who bought all the DLC separately? Bungie knows that they had to give us something, and so we’re getting emblems, shaders, exotic emotes, boons and masterwork core consumables. I’m not sure how much of each, but hey, free stuff. I would be a little salty if I had decided to purchase both season pass DLCs and then Forsaken a month ago and then this happened, but I also understand why Bungie felt they probably had to do this.

We won’t deal with a situation like this again until at least Destiny 3, given that year two is full of three smaller content releases and not full DLCs, and I don’t imagine they’ll be required for whatever 2019’s fall expansion is.

The more players in Forsaken, the better, I say, and just remember, SHOOT THE TAKEN ENVOYS IN GAMBIT.

