How to take your Guardians across multiple platforms in Destiny 2.
Destiny 2 cross saves allows you to carry your progression between multiple platforms – whether it’s PS4, Xbox One, PC and eventually, Google Stadia.
How to cross save in Destiny 2 should be relatively straightforward, though there are some cross save details – including various restrictions – you should be aware of when you make the leap.
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Destiny 2 cross save release date: When are cross saves coming to Destiny 2?
Destiny 2 cross saves have a release date of August 21st, allowing you to start moving your progress to any platform you’re playing on.
UPDATE: The original Destiny 2 cross save release time was at 6pm BST / 10am PDT (in other words, the usual daily reset time) but it has been postponed, first until 8:30pm BST / 12:30pm PDT, but has been “extended” again until account authentication issues have been sorted – so who knows when exactly it’ll arrive.
Today?s maintenance has been extended as we investigate an issue with account authentication on https://t.co/4ucwiEYycJ, resulting in ?500? errors for some players. Stand by for updates.
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— Bungie Help (@BungieHelp) August 21, 2019
How to cross save in Destiny 2 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Before you can use cross save in Destiny 2, once the feature goes live, you need to do some set up so Bungie knows which of your accounts are connected together.
First, you need log into Bungie.net, sign into your Bungie account, then link that together with the platforms that you wish to play on – so that might include your PSN account, Xbox Live account, Blizzard account and when they launch, Steam and Google Stadia accounts.
Next, you need to specify which account you want to play on other platforms. You cannot cherry pick a mixture of characters and progress between accounts – only one set of progress from one platform can be shared with the others.
For most players who have been playing on one platform until now this is straightforward, but if you have been double dipping on say both PS4 and PC, then you need to choose just one to play on the rest.
With that done, you can then confirm the set of characters and progress that’ll be available on each of those linked accounts. When you next log into one of those accounts, your characters will then appear – including all the gear, loot and progress you unlocked along the way.
Other details to know about how Destiny 2 cross save works
Destiny 2 cross save has some restrictions due to the way you may have purchased content on one platform or another. They are as follows:
- Silver will be locked to the original account you bought it from, and can only be accessed again on that original platform. However, anything your purchase with that Silver – including various Eververse cosmetics – will be available on other platforms.
- DLC – including expansions, the Annual Pass and seasons – will be locked to the platform you purchased it with. To play that content on other platforms, you have to purchase it again on those platforms. This includes Forsaken, the Annual Pass and when it launches, Shadowkeep.
- If you play the base game without expansions or the Annual Pass, you can equip your higher level gear but drops will be at a lower level. For example, if you own Forsaken and can receive drops up to the level cap of 750 on one platform, playing that same account on another without expansions will see drops become capped at 380. This will change when the free-to-play version of the game, New Light, launches, when everything will reset at 750 power level.
- You will only be able to be part of a single clan with a cross save – meaning your current clan will be available on all platforms you play on. Also, you can only play with clan mates if they are playing on the same platform as you are. You can see whether someone is using cross save on the roster screen (thanks Imgur via CapnTopDeck on reddit for this sneak peak:)
- Though you can connect your Bungie.net account to Steam when cross save becomes available, it won’t go live on Steam until free-to-play version First Light launches. Until then, you have to cross-play on Battle.net. Don’t worry, progress – and DLC purchases – will carry over when the platform change happens with no extra cost.
- It is possible disable cross save – useful for revisiting characters not tied to a certain platform after the cross play move. Once you have, you have to wait 90 days before you re-enable it again – which Bungie says is to discourage “activity like account recoveries by other players”.
- We don’t know whether cross save will unlock achievements per platform when you log in. Will we, say, unlock all earned PS4 Trophies after playing on Xbox Live previously? We’ll wait and see!
- If there was any doubt, the ability to use Destiny 2 cross saves are free – you just need to own the base game (until New Light launches, which is free-to-play) and any DLC on top.
August’s big new feature is the introduction of Destiny 2 cross saves, while the Moments of Triumph and Solstice of Heroes are soon to draw to a close.
We’ve seen several other Exotics added to the game recently too – including Lumina, Truth, Bad Juju and Outbreak Perfected.
The start of this season saw the introduction of The Invitation quest steps, Imperial Treasure Map locations, Imperials and an increased Destiny2 power level cap.
As always, Forsaken activities are still worth checking out – including the Ascendant Challenge this week and Blind Well and Oracle Engine Offering activities.
Does Destiny 2 cross save include Destiny 2 cross play?
Finally, its worth explicitly stating Destiny 2 cross save and cross play are different things. Though you can, say, play your PS4 progress on a PC, you cannot play with your PS4 friends while on a PC. To do that, you need to log back in on PS4, or have them join you on PC.
With the free-to-play version of Destiny 2 New Light launching on October 1st, this should be easier to achieve since you can freely access the base game on any platform – but until then, you will need to have everyone own the game on the platform you wish to play them with.
