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A job posting for an Incubation Sandbox Designer may take revealed that Bungie has plans to once again take a shot at the competitive shooter marketplace and see if the company can leverage some infinite in the esports scene. In a section of the task posting chosen "Nice to have skills," the company states they are hoping to rent someone with "familiarity with the competitive gaming mural/esports". The news was first reported by the DestinyNews+ Twitter business relationship.

The posting also states that applicants should accept experience working on "character-focused action games," hinting at a potential hero shooter along the lines of Blizzard'southward Overwatch or Hi-Rez'southward Paladins. Since parting ways with publisher Activision, Bungie has been on a pretty ambitious path of expansion, potentially fueled by aggressive micro-transactions and pricing of new content for their spuriously claimed "gratuitous-to-play" tent-pole championship Destiny 2.

Destiny 2 players will almost certainly be shocked to larn that the company has plans to develop a competitive multiplayer shooter as that game's top-tier PvP activeness, and indeed PvP in the Destiny universe in general, has been allowed to languish almost to the point of obsolescence at this point.

The head-to-head multiplayer portion of the game, which had already been built on a rickety foundation of peer-to-peer connections, has suffered from extreme balance issues since information technology launched every bit Bungie has struggled to marry the PvP and PvE sandboxes together in a coherent fashion. Here is hoping that the assumed smaller scope of a hero shooter solves quite a few of those problems for them, as they would not need attempt and balance hundreds of different weapons, which is certainly a challenging task.