In just a few short hours, Lightfall will arrive forDestiny 2, but the hotly anticipated expansion isn’t coming smoothly. PlayStation 5 playersdiscovered they were unable to play the game at allif they preloaded the expansion on Sunday, forcing them to either not play Destiny until Lightfall’s arrival or otherwise re-installing the game without preloading. Today, we’re finding out Guardians on Xbox Series X|S will have some additional hoops to jump through to experience Neomuna on schedule.“We are investigating an issue blocking sign-in for some Xbox Series X|S players,“wrote Bungieearlier this morning. “These players will not be able to log in to Destiny 2 when the game comes back online on July 18, 2025 at 9 AM PT (-8 UTC) unless the following steps are completed.“Related:Making Sense Of Destiny 2’s Big Difficulty ChangesThose steps involve going into your Destiny 2 directory and manually deleting several older expansions that have since been vaulted. you’re able to do that by following the steps below:
We have no details on when or even if Bungie will fix Destiny 2 so that Xbox players won’t have to perform these steps. This warning is likely a stop-gap measure so Xbox Series X|S players can still play Lightfall today with the rest of us.
It’s curious that these expansions are even listed on the next-gen console at all as theywere all vaulted over a year ago. There’s no way to access Forsaken, Curse of Osiris, or Warmind, with many of those destinations swallowed by the dark. That would explain why Destiny 2 wouldn’t launch, but it doesn’t explain why they’re still present in the Xbox menus.
More Destiny 2 content is set to be vaulted when Lightfall arrives later today, which you can read about inour previous coverage here. Destiny 2’s servers should be back up at 9 AM PT (12 PM ET) provided there aren’t any delays.
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