Bungie’s first unvaulting pass brings back the Red War, Forsaken, Curse of Osiris and Warmind campaigns, along with the strikes, raids and raid lairs from those releases and the Menagerie, per its October 2026 Bungie Community Update. There is no date yet: Bungie expects pre-production to run until roughly January or February, followed by about 12 months of full production. Below we cover that plan and Bungie’s original commitment, alongside the full list of what the Destiny Content Vault removed, what has already come back, and what is still unknown.
What Bungie Has Actually Committed To
The promise comes from The Next Chapter for Bungie, a post signed by studio head Poria Torkan and head of product Josh Deane, which we covered when it landed in our news story on the vaulted campaigns returning. The key sentence reads: “we are beginning the work of bringing vaulted Destiny 2 campaigns, destinations, and raids back into the game, where they will be available to all Destiny 2 players.”
The post also explains why it will take a while. “Bringing this content back is not as simple as restoring old files. Changes made to Destiny 2 since Beyond Light require us to update lighting, encounters, combatants, and other underlying systems.” Bungie says “that work will take time” and that more details on “our unvaulting efforts” will come “in the coming months.” It frames the restoration as “the first step” toward “new stories and games,” and states outright: “we are not done with Destiny.”
Bungie named the first pass in its October 2026 Bungie Community Update, a question-and-answer post with head of product Josh Deane. That pass, “available to all players,” covers:
- Campaigns: the Red War, Forsaken, Curse of Osiris and Warmind.
- Strikes: the strikes from those four releases.
- Raids: the raids and raid lairs from those releases.
- The Menagerie: the activity returns with reprised rewards.
Bungie lists free-roam destinations (public events, Lost Sectors, Escalation Protocol), seasonal activities from the Sundial (Season 9) to The Coil (Season 23), raid weapon updates and PvP maps as stretch goals “at unvaulting launch or after.” It says an updated New Light experience, seasonal story missions, the Kell’s Grave Gambit map and seasonal hubs such as the Eliksni Quarter currently have no path back.
What Left in November 2020 (Beyond Light)
The first and largest deposit into the Destiny Content Vault happened on November 10, 2020, when Beyond Light launched Year 4. Bungie’s Destiny Content Vault help article lists exactly what went in:
- Campaigns: The Red War (the original 2017 story), Curse of Osiris and Warmind, plus the Season of the Forge, Season of the Drifter and Season of Opulence narratives.
- Destinations: Mercury, Mars, Titan, Io, The Farm and The Leviathan.
- Raids: Leviathan, Eater of Worlds, Spire of Stars, Scourge of the Past and Crown of Sorrow.
- Activities: Escalation Protocol, the four Black Armory Forges, Zero Hour, The Whisper, Niobe Labs, The Menagerie, The Tribute Hall, The Reckoning, Gambit Prime (merged into Gambit) and the Prophecy dungeon.
- Strikes: A Garden World and Tree of Probabilities (Mercury), Savathun’s Song (Titan), Pyramidion and Festering Core (Io), Strange Terrain and Will of the Thousands (Mars).
Bungie’s June 2020 announcement, Building a Viable Future in Destiny 2, gave the reasoning: a 115 GB install, with the Warmind campaign taking 5 percent of it for 0.3 percent of time played.
What Left in February 2022 (The Witch Queen)
The second big cut came on February 22, 2022, with The Witch Queen and the start of Year 5. Per Bungie’s Destiny Content Vault Update from October 2021, the Forsaken campaign and the Tangled Shore destination entered the vault, along with the Year 4 seasonal narratives (Hunt, Chosen, Splicer and Lost) and the Presage and Harbinger Exotic missions.
The Dreaming City stayed, and with it the Last Wish raid and the Shattered Throne dungeon, which is why Forsaken’s endgame survived while its story did not. Bungie made the Forsaken campaign free for everyone from December 7, 2021 until it left.
In August 2022, Bungie announced that expansions would no longer be vaulted. From Year 6 onward, only seasonal content moved into the vault at each new expansion, most recently the three Episodes and Rite of the Nine on July 15, 2025.
What Has Already Come Back
The vault was always sold as a cycle, and some of it did rotate out. The Cosmodrome returned from the original Destiny on the same day the 2020 cuts landed, and the Vault of Glass raid followed during Year 4, exactly as the 2020 post promised. The Prophecy dungeon “returned in a future update,” per the help article. The Whisper and Zero Hour Exotic missions came back as reprised versions in Into the Light on April 9, 2024, per Bungie’s Into the Light guide.
What has never come back: any of the four vaulted campaigns, any of the six vaulted destinations, or any of the five vaulted Destiny 2 raids. Bungie’s Monument of Triumph support guide lists the destinations available today, and Titan, Io, Mercury, Mars, the Leviathan and the Tangled Shore are not on it.
What Is Still Unknown
Bungie has named the first pass but not a release date. Its October update says the work is in a pre-production, proof-of-work stage that Bungie expects to last until roughly January or February, and that full production should take about 12 months after that. By our math, those estimates point to the full port finishing around early 2028; Bungie itself has given no date, and it plans its next major Destiny update for February. It has not said whether the campaigns return together or one at a time. Destinations are a stretch goal, not a promise. And “available to all players” is not the same as “free”: neither post uses that word, so pricing is unconfirmed either way.
Where Destiny 2 Stands Right Now
Destiny 2 received its final live-service content update, Monument of Triumph (Update 9.7.0), on June 9, 2026. Bungie’s May announcement stated that “active development may be concluding” but that “Destiny 2 remains playable, just as the original Destiny is today.” The support guide adds that hotfixes may still ship “for the health and stability of the game,” that the API and Companion App remain supported, and that the four seasonal events are retired.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Red War campaign coming back to Destiny 2? Yes. Bungie’s October 2026 community update names the Red War in its first unvaulting pass, alongside the other three vaulted campaigns: Forsaken, Curse of Osiris and Warmind. It has not given a date.
When will vaulted content return? No date has been given. Bungie expects pre-production to last until roughly January or February, then about 12 months of full production, and it plans its next major Destiny update for February.
Will the returning content be free? Bungie says it “will be available to all Destiny 2 players.” The post does not use the word free, so treat pricing as unconfirmed.
Which raids were vaulted? Leviathan, Eater of Worlds, Spire of Stars, Scourge of the Past and Crown of Sorrow, all removed on November 10, 2020. None has returned.
Is Destiny 2 still playable after the final update? Yes. Bungie’s May 2026 announcement said the game “remains playable,” and the June 9, 2026 Monument of Triumph update is designed to stay in the game indefinitely.