Bungie announced transmog in May, saying that at some point in Year 4 of Destiny we’d get the ability to copy an item’s look into a Universal Ornament we can apply to other gear, making it much easier to have good-looking outfits with decent stats. They said the a process would require either “in-game effort” or paying the premium microtransaction currency, Silver, but were vague beyond that. Oh how I’ve pleaded for specifics. Luke Smith finally revealed one crucial detail during a stream yesterday:
“What we’re doing with transmog is you’re not gonna have to have the copy in your inventory,” he said. “You can just delete all that shit. We’re gonna scrape your account data and the things that are eligible for transmog will be things that you’ve collected across your journey. It’s not gonna be what you have at that moment. As you’re getting ready for Beyond Light, if you wanna delete a bunch of old shit that you were keeping because you wanted to look sweet - this old Ego Talon IV Warlock helmet, still probably my favourite Warlock helmet in the game - I can delete that, I don’t need to keep that around.” A Bungie community manager explained it more simply: “You don’t need to have armor pieces in your vault when Transmog goes live for them to be eligible. Collections based.” Allowing transmog from Collections would have been the obvious best way to do it. Would’ve been the obvious kindest way. Would’ve been weird to do it any other way. But I wasn’t willing to take a leap of faith that Bungie would do the obvious kind thing. Which is why my Vault has been full to 499/500 for months. I’ve been deleting guns to make room for jackets. I’ve been filling my pockets with trousers. I’ve been letting clothes stack up in my postbox. I had no more room for clothes, but by god I’d make room every time something good dropped. Transmog isn’t coming at the start of Year 4 with Season Of The Hunt, mind, rather in some later season. In another Bungieblast, last night they announced more changes coming with the launch of the Beyond Light expansion on November 10th. The important ones from this latest trickle of info: AND hey look it’s the Beyond Light launch trailer:
