Destiny 2: The Final Shape

The Final Shape expands on the base Destiny 2 gameplay by adding a new free roam destination, the Pale Heart, located within the celestial being, the Traveler, with areas influenced by previous destinations explored throughout the history of the franchise. The destination is the first patrol zone that can be explored solo, unless a player has a pre-made fireteam. New and existing story content was expanded with a "Legendary" difficulty similar to that from the previous two expansion packs. Additional content for The Final Shape includes one new raid, "Salvation's Edge", which released on June 7, 2024, and takes place in the Witness's monolith in the Pale Heart, as well as two new dungeons, "Vesper's Host" and "Sundered Doctrine", which were released during the episodes Revenant and Heresy, respectively. Upon the world's first completion of Salvation's Edge, the game's first-ever 12-player activity was unlocked called "Excision", the final story mission of The Final Shape in which players take on the Witness for a final time.

The expansion introduces the first new enemy race since Forsaken (2018) called the Dread, who are the personal soldiers of the Witness. These include Grims, flying bat-like enemies that can shoot players from midair and can unleash a sonic scream attack to suppress and slow players; Husks, which are fast-moving and attack players using blades and unleashes a homing Geist enemy upon death; Attendants and Weavers, Cabal Psion-like enemies that respectively use Stasis and Strand powers; Subjugators, which are tall, slender, bipedal beings that use glaives that are split between Stasis-wielding Omens and Strand-wielding Harbingers; as well as Tormentors, a singular enemy type that was first introduced in Lightfall (2023).

The Final Shape centers on the Witness, the main overarching antagonist of the Light and Darkness saga (which began with the original Destiny). The Witness is an extremely powerful, primordial being of Darkness that commands the Black Fleet, and is the product of an entire species having merged into one entity and a single gestalt consciousness. It has spent eons chasing the Traveler as part of its eternal pursuit to impose "salvation" upon all reality through the titular Final Shape—the calcification and destruction of all life in the universe. The Witness was ultimately responsible for humanity's Collapse, as well as for the destruction of countless civilizations across the universe throughout millennia, by its hand or through the actions of its Disciples and other servants.

A year prior to The Final Shape, the Witness attacked the Traveler in Earth's orbit, where it was granted a vision of the Veil, the counterpart of the Traveler, on Neptune; the player's Guardian was sent to the city of Neomuna on Neptune to defend the Veil from Emperor Calus—now a Disciple of the Witness—and his Shadow Legion Cabal. However, after Calus's defeat, the Witness used the Guardian's Ghost to perform an uplink with the Veil, allowing it to use the Veil's power to open a portal on the Traveler's surface and enter its Pale Heart to begin enacting the Final Shape.

The Final Shape received critical acclaim upon release, with many praising the campaign, and considering it a satisfying conclusion to the Light and Darkness Saga.

The game was nominated for the 2025 Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project.