Destiny 2 gets the Vault of Glass in May

The Vault of Glass
(Image credit: Bungie)

In September of 2014, the original Destiny received its first raid: the Vault of Glass. A co-operative FPS puzzle box that required a full team of six players, it featured multi-tiered boss fights as well as environmental challenges, and was billed as Destiny's hardest mission. Nothing else in Destiny or its sequel has captured the imagination of players to quite the same degree.

Which is presumably why Bungie is bringing it back. Last year it was announced that losing some old planets and raids, but that the first game's Cosmodrome and Vault of Glass would be added during Year 4. In the latest of Bungie's weekly updates we get a date for Vault of Glass's return, May 22, and discover that it won't be exactly the same.

"The story isn't changing," Bungie notes, "but you may notice other differences. Our goal was to keep the feeling similar to how you , but we have made some updates to bring this content up to Destiny 2 standards." Exactly what those changes are is not explained, though it is mentioned that the opening area will be a private instance rather than a shared space and you won't be able to wander off and explore the rest of the planet.

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Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he re having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.