The Destiny 2 beta looks great on PC

August 30, 2017
Technology

The Destiny 2 beta for PC is live right now, up through August 31. If you havenâ€™t played it yet and you have a PC that can handle games at all, itâ€™s worth checking out. I dove in to see how it looked and played, checking out the story content, as well as the quickplay multiplayer the three-player strike mission. Joey Davidson and I checked out the originalÂ Destiny at launch and found it to be a great looking game with not very much to do. That changed quite a bit over the years, and I have friends who have put easily hundreds, maybe thousands of hours into the game since its release back in Fall of 2014.

When the firstÂ Destiny released, it had a few barriers keeping it from looking as good as it could have. First and foremost, this was back when developers were still making games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and Destiny was among those. While it looked noticeably better on modern consoles, things like environments and encounter makeup were held back by those limited systems. The game also saw no PC release, as developer Bungie chose to focus on consoles entirely. This time, though, things are different. The old guard is dead, both consoles have souped-up versions either on the market or just months away, and perhaps most importantly,Â Destiny 2 is coming to PC.

My gaming PC is currently sporting a very nice GeForce GTX 1080 FTW from EVGA powering the graphics, 16GB RAM, and a pretty outdated Intel Core i5-4590S. Despite that last part, the 1080 kept the game looking absolutely stellar, and the game automatically set pretty much everything to high.

If you have a gaming PC, then that is absolutely the place to playÂ Destiny 2 when it hits this fall, even if you have to wait a bit longer.