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Destiny 2’s latest expansion, The Edge of Fate, introduces a new way to select and customize activities. The Portal, as it’s called, is an interface to better surface the best activities for different play styles and number of players.
The Portal lets you choose from a slate of events categorized as Solo Ops (for individual players), Fireteam Ops (Strikes and other quick activities designed for three players), Pinnacle Ops (more involved and longer activities like Exotic missions), and Crucible Ops (PvP playlists).
In addition to a new organizational scheme, the Portal also reconfigures how rewards and drops are allocated, with daily bonuses granted on a rotating basis, tied to particular missions. Additionally, the Portal boasts a customization system that allows players to directly control how challenging their activities are and, consequently, how many rewards they can expect. It’s reminiscent of the Halo series’ old Skull modifiers, and it adds a fun twist to make replaying missions more interesting.
In this guide, we will walk through how this customization system works. The image above shows how activities are presented in the Portal. The selected Fireteam Ops mission, The Glassway, has a daily “Bonus Focus” assigned to it that grants a sidearm for completion at a B grade. Finishing it will also grant three bonus drops for the next completion, alongside its base reward (the “completion reward”) that is granted every time.
