Bungie has announced that Destiny 2 will allow players to change their character’s appearance in a long-requested feature.
Up until now, characters made in Destiny and Destiny 2 had their appearance locked in upon creation, leaving those who invested significant time into their Guardians stuck with their faces and body types.
The ability to change your Guardian’s look is coming to Destiny 2 as part of an update scheduled before the release of The Final Shape expansion, due out on June 4, 2024. When this feature goes live, it will be available for free. However, you will not be able to change an origin (e.g., you cannot switch from Awoken to Exo).
In an official blog post, Bungie explained:
“Let’s see if this sounds familiar: you created a very edgy Awoken when you were a teenager. Maybe you chose some regrettable markings on your Human’s face, or you didn’t coordinate the colors of your Exo’s mouth and eyes. Or perhaps your character’s body type no longer represents who you are.
“No matter the reason, you’ll be able to change your Guardian’s look when character customization goes live in an update before the release of The Final Shape. To do so, you’ll only need to launch Destiny 2 and you’ll notice a new option when you hover over a character on the character selection screen.
“You will be able to modify the appearance of your Guardians anytime, without cost or limit to the number of changes. Just take into consideration that while you can change the body type, face, hair/head, and markings, it won’t be possible to change from one origin to another (i.e., Human, Exo, or Awoken).
“In a March update, we’ll be resetting the Synthweave bounty cap to give everyone even more opportunities to customize their look when this feature goes live. We hope being able to customize your characters freely will help you refine — or redefine — your beloved Guardians for years to come.”
It is a change that has been welcomed with open arms by the Destiny 2 community. Fortunately, it’s not the only one coming soon. In the same post, Bungie added it will be doubling the Glimmer cap for all players, allowing them to now carry 500,000 rather than 250,000.
“Glimmer will still drop from the usual sources, and it will be spent the same way, like crafting weapons, focusing engrams, Masterworking weapons and armor, etc. Your Glimmer wallet will just have an increased capacity. It won’t even weigh more when it’s full.”