Bungie has confirmed that cross-play for Destiny 2 will arrive next season, Season 15, scheduled to begin on August 25.
Cross-play has been in the plans ever since the looter-shooter have added cross-saves, and some players have spotted cross-play accidentally enabled earlier this year. But now it’s ready to go, for all platforms (PlayStation, PC, Xbox) you can play Destiny 2 on. Even Stadia.
When Season 15 rolls out, every player will need to have a Bungie Name that unifies your account name across platforms.
Bungie will convert your current player name on the platform you are on into a Bungie Name, though not all names will be retained in full. There’s a character limit so extravagantly long names on Steam will be truncated.
And if it turns out flag the character filtration process and the offensive term moderation process (which may happen through no fault of your own), you’ll be designated with the generic “Guardian#____” where the blanks are the numeric ID, seen in many new account names these days.
A name change feature will not be available on the launch of cross-play, that’s coming later this year.
You should be able to find all your friends across platforms and invite them to your fireteam.
There’s also a new block system and privacy tools to limit who can interact with you and protect yourself from targeted harassment, accessible in-game.
As for matchmaking, any PvE content will put all players regardless of platform into the same matchmaking pool.
However, for PvP, by default, PC will matchmake with PC players only, and console (plus Stadia) are in their own separate pool. Should a mixed fireteam of PC and console players, of any combination, matchmake, they will join the PC player pool.
Voice chat, and even text chat on consoles via USB keyboard, are coming later down the road because Bungie really insists Destiny is now an action MMO game.
Season 14, Season Of The Splicer, is now at the tail end. Outside of the new lore and content, the season added the ability to transmog gear, with mixed results.
Source: Bungie