Destiny 2 Cross-Play Details Revealed, Coming in Season 15

Bungie has finally announced that Destiny 2 is getting cross-play support in season 15, which is expected to start at the end of August. In a new blog post, Bungie revealed details of how players across PC, PlayStation, Xbox and even Stadia platforms will be able to play Destiny 2 together.

Destiny 2 Cross-Play Changes Player IDs to New ‘Bungie Name’

Bungie doesn’t want players to be segregated based on their platform of choice in season 15, and to make recognizing player names easy everyone’s name will be converted to a new ‘Bungie name’. Here’s how Bungie Names will work and look:

• “Bungie Name”: PlayerName#1234
• “Display Name”: PlayerName
• “Hash”: #
• “Numeric ID”: 1234

Bungie revealed that all player names will be filtered through a character filtration process and an offensive term moderation process. This means that certain special characters from player names may be removed. There won’t be a manual name change feature at launch, and an early version of the same will debut in winter.

Bungie Roster Now Called Bungie Friends, Fireteam Finder Explained

A new system to bridge all platforms called Bungie Friends has been created, which will also include a platform filter. There are three different ways to add friends from all platforms to Bungie Friends:

• Log into Destiny 2 on a device where you want to turn platform friends into Bungie Friends, and then issue requests via our Roster screen.
• Search for your friends using player search on the Invite screen.
• Use Bungie.net friends finder, where you can link all of your platforms, and then issue Bungie Friends requests to all your platform friends.

The Bungie.net friend finder will become available alongside Cross Play, and will be found at https://www.bungie.net/friends. Fireteam invites have also been updated, with an invite section under the Roster screen.

Bungie’s Fireteam Finder can be used to issue fireteam invites to all platforms, with the invite screen allowing players to search for each other and issue invites. A new blocking system has also been added with additional privacy tools, although its details were not revealed.

Destiny 2 Cross-Play – Competitive Matchmaking Pools Revealed

While PvE modes will have one unified matchmaking pool, cross-play in Destiny 2 will have different pools in the competitive modes, Here’s how cross-play will work in Crucible, Iron Banner, Trials, Gambit game modes:

• PC players will match with other PC players.
• Console players will match with other console players.
• Note: Stadia will be in the Console pool.
• Fireteams with any combination of PC players and console players will match in the PC player pool.

Bungie also revealed that voice chat between all platforms will not be available at launch, with text chat being only available for players on Steam. Support for USB keyboards on consoles will be added later, although it will only support text chat and not gameplay.

Destiny 2’s cross-play support will go live in early season 15, which is expected to start on August 24, 2021. Bungie is expected to release a new Destiny 2 showcase in August which will reveal more details about the upcoming Witch Queen expansion.

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