If you’ve been playing a lot of Destiny, it’s likely you’ve come face to face with some locations that seem to indicate the presence of something cool to do or explore, but for one reason or another, that location remains blocked to your guardian. I’ve been wandering the planets for months, and it’s only made me more curious about the locations Bungie has yet to flesh out into fully fledged gameplay locations.
Recent weeks have brought a number of potential leaked details about upcoming expansions, as well as glitches that have allowed some players to explore incomplete zones, but without any clear confirmation of how old or accurate those leaks and glitches might be, I’m not assuming anything as confirmed. Instead, here are the areas that we’re most curious about which are already visible inside the game.
Kings’ Watch
Head over to the Rocketyard on Earth, and proceed to the back right corner. Several Fallen soldiers seem to be guarding a mysterious building. Blast past those protectors, and you find yourself climbing through some twisty corridors until you come to a set of locked doors. Looking like a set of mall push doors, they don’t strike anyone as the type of gates that would serve as an impediment to super-powered guardians. Nonetheless, these doors remain locked and barred.
The oddest part of this location is that upon arriving at the doors, a notification pops up that you’re entering a new zone. Kings’ Watch clearly lies beyond the doors, but it’s hard to say what might be there. Many players expect that Kings’ Watch is where we will one day encounter more Fallen soldiers that are a part of the House of Kings – one of the many splintered houses of the alien nomads. How soon will the doors to Kings’ Watch open?
As the first enemies you fight in Destiny, the Fallen sometimes feel underpowered compared to some of the other alien threats. I’m hoping Kings’ Watch one day swings its doors wide, and gives us some truly deadly new Fallen enemies to confront.
The Reef
Everyone sees this one every time they open their map, but it bears calling out, especially given recent rumors that suggest The Reef may indeed become a playable area sometime soon.
In the storyline of Destiny, you only visit the Reef a couple of times, and never in a gameplay capacity. Instead, we get cinematics in which our guardian interacts with the enigmatic Awoken Queen. However, it’s certainly odd that Bungie has The Reef selectable from the top level director menu, almost as if one day selecting that locale will bring up a map with multiple locations to visit.
I’m crossing my fingers for a new high-level zone that not only includes a new asteroid-themed backdrop, but also high-level patrols and encounters that match my guardians’ high-level abilities.
The Vex Citadel
The Vault of Glass took us deep into the bowels of Venus, but the more imposing sight has always been the Vex Citadel. Looming over the entirety of the playable area of Venus, the cyclopean architecture soars high into the sulfurous sky.
In addition, a cursory venture towards the front of the citadel sends you headlong into a couple of powerful Vex minotaurs. Beyond them, guardians can venture into a vaulted interior space called The Juncture that includes several more defenders, along with a mysteriously inactive energy lift. The lift sits directly below the towering citadel, and seems to suggest an obvious path of entry.
If the Vex Citadel doesn’t turn out to be a future Vex raid, I’ll eat my guardian’s exotic hat.
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