Summary
With the upcoming The Final Shape expansion slated to be the finale of the entire Light and Darkness sagaDestiny 2, there’s a lot of pressure forDestiny 2to bring closure to the ongoing storylines and character arcs. With it being the latest method for providing crucial information about the universe and timeline thatDestiny 2takes place in, the Veil Containment mission isn’t quite what players expected. Not to mention, it’s also likely that many players aren’t even aware of both the mission and its lore implications.
Following the many unanswered questions from the Lightfall expansion andSeason of Defiance,Destiny 2’s Season of the Deep has introduced a new lore drop in the game. This lore drop is available as the replayable Veil Containment mission on Neptune that has revealed significant information about the current story, as well as new perspectives on past events inDestiny 2. Given how impactful the lore from this mission has proven to be, it suffers from being incredibly easy to miss and having an anticlimactic method of storytelling compared to some of the recent forms of in-game lore reveals.
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One of the main issues with the Veil Containment mission is that it doesn’t communicate to players that the mission can and should be repeated on multiple weekly resets following the initial completion. Most activities inDestiny 2compete for the player’s time each week with rewards, likePinnacle gear Engrams, that are advertised when selecting the mission, except this isn’t true for Veil Containment.
Repeating the mission each week will earn players no additional rewards after the first completion. Instead, repeated completions are generally for lore enthusiasts who wish to learn more of the fine details surroundingDestiny 2’s ongoing story. At this point inSeason of the Deep, it’s possible to enter the Veil Containment mission after the first completion and experience all the lore in one visit, since all the weekly timegates have already passed for now.
Even before players complete Veil Containment for their first time, the mission itself still isn’t very clearly advertised either. Veil Containment comes from Cloudstrider Nimbus and initially involves players completing the mission as part of a quest to earn a weapon that was advertised in the Lightfall expansion. With theEpochal Integration weaponfinally available, most players who earn this gun will likely never consider repeating the Veil Containment mission at all, especially after additional weekly resets.
Another issue with Veil Containment is that the mission isn’t exactly replayable. Loading into the mission after having initially completed it will place players at the end of the mission with the only thing available to interact with being the terminal that initiates the lore reveals. The replayability of the mission isn’t particularly problematic, although some ofDestiny 2’s seasonal storylineshave hit a rough spot within the community for having underwhelming methods of storytelling, and Veil Containment is no stranger to this.
Compared to recent seasons inDestiny 2, the lore from Veil Containment has been a lot more substantial than the implications of certain past Seasons inDestiny 2. The information revealed in Veil Containment generally explains more about the Veil by relating it to Neptune, the Vex, Exos, Siva, Savathun, and other topics.
Destiny 2is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
