Bungie announced on September 21, 2026 that it is beginning work to bring vaulted Destiny 2 campaigns, destinations and raids back into the game, where they will be available to all Destiny 2 players. The news came in “The Next Chapter for Bungie,” a post and video from new studio head Poria Torkan and Josh Deane, head of product and general manager of Marathon, which also states plainly: “we are not done with Destiny.”
The Details
Bungie removed large parts of Destiny 2 from the game starting with Beyond Light in 2020, a practice players call “vaulting.” Restoring them is not a simple switch: per the post, changes made since Beyond Light “require us to update lighting, encounters, combatants, and other underlying systems,” and “that work will take time.”
What Bungie has not said yet:
- Which campaigns come back first. The post names none.
- When. There is no date or window, only “more details on our unvaulting efforts in the coming months.”
- Price. The wording is “available to all Destiny 2 players,” not “free.”
It also lands three months after Destiny 2’s last planned content: Bungie’s support guide says that after Update 9.7.0 on June 9, 2026, the game would receive no more live-service content updates but would remain playable. Today’s post calls the restoration “the first step to lay the foundation for how we reforge into new stories and games,” without naming any new game.
On Marathon, the post is unusually candid: it “did not reach as many players as we had hoped,” and “the game needs to evolve,” toward “a deeper survival experience.” The October Nightfall Refresh and the December Symbiosis update stay on the schedule, with more from the team promised later this week. And on the studio itself: “We lost trust, we lost incredible colleagues, and we lost sight of what we should be prioritizing most, our players.”
What This Means for Players
If you walked away from Destiny 2 when the Red War or Forsaken campaigns disappeared, this is the first official sign you may get to replay them, but not soon. Rebuilding old content for today’s game is real engineering work, and Bungie is deliberately not promising dates. Do not reinstall expecting it this month.
For current players, the game stays online and playable either way, and this is the clearest statement yet that Destiny is not being wound down. What “new stories and games” means is not specified, so treat any Destiny 3 talk as speculation for now.
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Source: Bungie, “The Next Chapter for Bungie,” September 21, 2026.