Bungie lays out Destiny 2 unvaulting plan: old campaigns, raids and Menagerie return

Hot off the wire: Bungie has put real names on the Destiny 2 unvaulting, and the list is longer than most players dared hope.

The first pass “focuses on getting our campaign slate whole again,” Bungie head of product Josh Deane wrote in a blog post.¹ That means the campaigns pulled from the game in 2020 come back: The Red War, Curse of Osiris, Warmind and Forsaken.¹

The strikes, raids and raid lairs tied to those expansions are returning too.¹ Eater of Worlds, Spire of Stars and Scourge of the Past are named. The Scourge of the Past finale is already playable through Pantheon, but it gets restored all the same.¹

Then comes the headline act. The Menagerie seasonal activity is coming back, along with its rewards.¹ Players have kept asking for the reissued Black Armory weapons for years, and the activity is still a touchstone whenever fans argue about their favorite seasons.¹

There is a second tier of goals, set for “at unvaulting launch or after,” which tells you some of this may arrive in stages.¹ That list covers patrol destinations (Escalation Protocol among them), seasonal activities from the Sundial to the Coil, updates to raid and raid lair weapons, and PvP maps.¹

Bungie was just as direct about what it won’t do. No overhauled new player experience. No new Gambit maps. No returning seasonal story missions. No seasonal hubs like the Eliksni Quarter.¹ Deane’s reasoning: chasing those could come at a cost for what the studio wants to build for players later.¹

Now the part where I tape a note to the calendar. The post skips a proper roadmap. Full production is expected to start in January or February 2027, and from there it looks like roughly another year until launch, which points to early 2028.¹ Bungie says that timeline is not final, and I treat any date without a hard commitment the way I treat a stranger offering a free ride.

Deane called the original vaulting, even if rooted in real technical challenges, a moment that “fragmented our experience and broke faith” with the community.¹ That is a blunt thing for a studio to put in writing. The post also reads like it is teasing a Destiny 1 remaster and a possible Destiny 3, though that is Destructoid’s read of the tea leaves, not a Bungie announcement.¹

This builds on the earlier word that the unvaulting was coming; see our earlier report on the plan. What’s new is the shopping list, and the list of things left off it.

Our read: This is the most concrete thing Bungie has said about restoring cut content, and the honesty about what won’t make the cut helps its credibility. Still, a name on a list is not a game on a disk. With production not starting until early 2027 and a launch roughly a year after, I’ll believe the Menagerie is back when I’m shooting my way through it. Until then, the case stays open.

Footnotes

1. Destructoid, “Destiny 2 details ambitious plans to make the game ‘whole’—and yes, that activity is returning”. Retrieved October 30, 2026. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³