The core race is at one of its best moments. AMD has its Ryzen Threadripper, and Intel didn't wait long to announce its Core i9 Extreme Edition. Now, what we need is a much more robust response from the software side, and although it will take time, we can already find some projects that promise superior adaptation. One of them is Destiny 2, the new MMO from Bungie and Activision. The console version will have a month's advantage, but once it reaches PC, it will be able to squeeze every available core and thread.
After Ryzen's debut, the deficiencies of some games in using processor resources were immediately exposed. Not far off, Ashes of the Singularity gained 25 percent performance with just a patch, and more and more developers are working on their code to take advantage of such a large number of cores. Of course, this doesn't only affect AMD, but also reaches Intel too. Its new Core X series has a ceiling of 18 cores thanks to the Core i9-7980XE, and if someone plans to pay two thousand dollars for a processor, it's because they want to see it running at full capacity. Is there a game capable of unleashing such a beast? At the PC Gaming Show at E3 2017, Bungie and Activision gave an answer: Destiny 2.
Destiny 2 Clears the Table
Destiny 2 serves as a sequel to Destiny... and at the same time “clears the table”. Despite its impressive commercial success and subsequent efforts, Bungie never managed to fix the balance issues and weak story of the first game, not to mention that its console exclusivity left many players out. Destiny 2 attacks those three points simultaneously, delivering a much more solid plot, better combat situations, and a PC version with 4K support, frame rates and 21:9 format. During the presentation, Destiny YouTuber and streamer on Twitch, TeftyTeft, revealed that Bungie is modifying the Destiny 2 engine to use all cores at once. That should benefit every multi-core chip out there, not just the latest generation.
Destiny 2 will arrive on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on September 6, while the PC-compatible build is scheduled for October 24. What's the catch? The game will not be available via Steam, but will be distributed through the Blizzard App (formerly Battle.net). Personally, it doesn't surprise me: putting a game on Steam means giving up profits to Valve, and Blizzard is a subsidiary of Activision. Money, money, money.
