No Land Beyond, Ice Breaker, and Invective aren’t coming to Destiny 2 any time soon

Destiny fans get ready for the Destiny 2 Showcase on Aug. 23 — which will likely reveal the next year of Destiny content — Bungie is getting smaller reveals out of the way. That’s the fan-favorite original Destiny Exotics No Land Beyond, Ice Breaker, and Invective won’t be coming to Destiny 2Soon.

Studio revealed Wednesday the complete list of changes that will be made to Arc Subclasses using Arc 3.0. Destiny 2’s 18th season. Weapons feature lead later on in the day. Destiny 2, Chris Proctor, went on the Destiny Community Podcast’s Firing Range show to discuss upcoming weapons changes.

The hosts asked Proctor a question about weapons that didn’t pan out as expected. After a moment in thought, Proctor mentioned Dead Man’s Tale, an Exotic scout rifle that was extremely dominant in PvP for some time after its release last year. One host joked that it was similar to No Land Beyond which is a hard-to-use sniper rifle with unlimited ammunition from Destiny.

“We’re not bringing No Land Beyond back for good reason,” said Proctor. “The idea that we would do something even in that direction [like Dead Man’s Tale] was ill-advised to start with.”

The hosts then joked that fans in the Twitch chat were sad to hear confirmation that No Land Beyond won’t be coming to Destiny 2 — as it’s one of only a handful of Exotics that haven’t been brought forward. Proctor was able to expand on this answer.

“So an infinite ammo sniper rifle, I don’t know,” joked Proctor. “Yeah, I think that if we ever end up redesigning the PvP special ammo economy completely, we could probably bring back some of those weapons like No Land Beyond, Ice Breaker, Invective or whatever. But the ammo economy would have to completely change before we could do that in a way that would be balanced.”

No Land Beyond used primary ammunition in the original DestinyThe spawning would be a match with many shots, so players will always be able to play. The special ammo weapon Ice Breaker was a limited edition, while Invective was a more powerful variant. Each weapon had an extra that would allow it to give back ammo, which made them great for PvE, but a disaster in PvP. The enemy Guardians were always able to shoot at other players.

While Proctor is leaving the door open for special weapons changes that could make bringing these weapons back feasible, it seems that they’ll almost certainly remain in Destiny’s past forever.