The summer season is now in full swing in Destiny 2, as the looter shooter has officially begun its Solstice summertime event, which offers up some new activity modifiers and, naturally, new guns to chase after between now and August 19th.Play Destiny 2

Players can dive into the Portal to take on missions that introduce Solstice-specific modifiers in the hopes of getting the new Yeartide Apex Solar submachine gun, the new Festival Flight Strand grenade launcher, and the returning Fortunate Star Void bow. Players can also use the Solstice Forge to create event armor and apply a unique glow to it, and the event card has additional goodies to earn.

Players are likely going to want to chase these new weapons, as all of them are +1 gear tier while rare holofoil versions of the same weapons could also drop that are +2 gear tier. This is important considering climbing ranks in the revamped power and gear system introduced with Edge of Fate has been effectively pared down to just two missions by players in the name of efficiency.

In tangential D2 news, Bungie’s former CEO and founder of ProbablyMonsters Harold Ryan has ruminated on the live service games model in an interview with GamesIndustry. Readers might recall that ProbablyMonsters was the backing force behind Concord developer Firewalk Studios before it was sold to Sony – and then atomized shortly after Concord’s undignified end.

“Would I ever make another service-based game? Sure. If I see the right game idea and the right audience. […] But I think [for] sustainable careers, I think for the industry, it’s pretty clear that we can’t just pick a business model and say that’s a reason to make a game,” Ryan says. “You want to pick a player experience and then build the game that delivers that experience to the audience where they’re at.”