Destiny 2 fans are all-too familiar with the weekly milestones, the activities that bring players back every week to get new powerful gear. However, Destiny 2’s big Forsaken expansion is changing up how milestones work, especially for the Flashpoint milestone. According to this month’s Game Informer magazine, the Flashpoint milestone will now be on a four-day cycle, meaning that the Flashpoint planet will be changing before each weekly reset.

In the Game Informer article, Bungie stated that Flashpoints, along with Crucible, Vanguard, and Gambit-related nodes, will refresh on a four-day cycle, while the raids will still refresh on a weekly basis. The article did not specify what the Crucible and Vanguard node refresh meant for milestones, so perhaps Nightfall strikes and Call to Arms tasks may be seeing a quicker turnaround. All will be featured on the new in-game director, which will also contain the returning daily heroic story missions.

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Bungie did state that with Forsaken, milestones will not be the primary focus when trying to progress through the game, but it did not elaborate on what that means for the milestones as a whole. Bungie states that the goal is to let players progress in whatever ways they like to play, a notion that is familiar to veteran Destiny fans. Locations, like the new Tangled Shore patrol zone, will be flashing on the map when activities or events are happening, so players can jump right in and earn new loot.

What the changing milestones means in regard to turning in Flashpoints is currently unknown, but if they are still turned in to NPCs, then Bungie needs to add a replacement for Cayde-6 so players can turn in their four-day Flashpoints. It is also not currently known if the more frequent milestones will have an impact on the power level that the gear drops at. Hopefully Bungie will give more details on these changes as Forsaken gets closer.

Destiny 2: Forsaken launches September 4 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

Source: Game Informer