A Wolf at the Door: Destiny’s creative director on its second expansion

Editor’s Note: For detailed hands-on impressions on House of Wolves, check out our op-ed on why we love the new expansion. If you’ve put down your pulse rifle and decided to take a break from mowing down hordes of aliens in Destiny, now’s a pretty good time to come back. The game’s second expansion, House of Wolves, on May 19 will bring fresh game modes, new maps and, most importantly, sweet new gear to Bungie’s massively popular online shooter.

If you’re considering hopping back into orbit to help the Queen take down her Fallen foes, here’s everything you need to know about the expansion before it arrives on Xbox , Xbox One, PS3 and PS4.

With Destiny’s second expansion, House of Wolves, out this week, we speak philosophy behind the whole ‘no matchmaking in raids’ thing?

May, PoE is a 3-player co-operative mode featuring players vs environment. There is a level 28 event as well as levels 32, 34 and Only the level 28 event features matchmaking . ToO is a Player vs Player elimination mode: 3 vs 3 with no matchmaking at all. It is a very competitive PvP mode, as some of the best Crucible players will be teamed-up to earn the best weapons and gear that the trials have to offer.

Disclaimer: Some of the tips I mention here are known, others will be my own. Sometimes you get awesome drops, and sometimes you get useless drops. Nothing is guaranteed. Wait for HOW content to be added to the game.