Category: Bungie News

This Week At Bungie, we’re streaming… for the kids!

Another Patch in the Pipe

This week has been a pretty active one in terms of patches. On Monday, a change was made to require players to re-queue for Forges in hopes of removing idle players from the activity. Tuesday, we had some fixes go live for energy and Umbral Engrams. Today, Hotfix 2.9.0.1 went live with fixes to Sprint Cancelling, the Lighthouse, and more. But we aren’t done yet.

We have a laundry list of other issues that the team is currently investigating. Our next update is planned for early July, so stay tuned for another Patch Note Preview in the coming weeks.

Beyond Light Pre-Order Bonuses

Farmers Market

You may see Player Support team members on the #Help forums frequently, but they’re constantly fighting the good fight behind the scenes. Since well before launch, they’ve been helping the teams triage issues, representing your voices in the meetings that matter most. This last week has been no different, as they’ve been tackling each newly discovered issue from Season of Arrivals.

This is their report.

FORGE MATCHMAKING UPDATE

Earlier this week, we implemented a change to the Forge activity where players now return to orbit after completing the activity. This change was implemented after seeing a large amount of players entering the activity and being inactive, ruining the experience for other players.

RAID GEAR AND MAX POWER LEVELS

In our May 14 TWAB we announced that gear would begin to have a Max Power Level starting in Season of Arrivals, but that weapons and armor from the Last Wish and Garden of Salvation raids would be granted exceptions. Currently, this gear doesn’t indicate that, but it will in a future update. Both armor and weapons from Last Wish and Garden of Salvation will be updated retroactively with the Season of Arrivals watermark and will have a Season 14 Max Power Level.

Additionally, all armor from all other Destiny 2 raids will be updated retroactively with the Season of Arrivals watermark and will have a Season 14 Max Power Level.

Players can read more about Max Power Levels in our Help article.

EMOTE BUNDLE AND PRE-ORDER ITEM LOCATION

Players who purchased the Season of Arrivals Silver and Emote Bundle will find their Emote in the inventory pages of Master Rahool, the Cryptarch, in the Tower Courtyard.

Players who pre-ordered Destiny 2: Beyond Light will also find their items in Rahool’s inventory pages.

UPDATES AND UPCOMING HOTFIXES

On Tuesday, we issued a server-side fix to resolve a few issues:

Tuning In

If I had a dollar for every time my Guardians have fallen to the Architects, I’d have no less than two thousand of them. This week’s winner has been keeping track of some hilarious defeats. Take a moment and be thankful that you aren’t them.

Movie of the Week: Guardian Down

Honorable Mention: More Metal Covers

Thanks for stopping by for another week of Destiny 2 and Bungie news. Releasing TWAB’s early is always a fun time, especially when raising money for charity on the GCX stream. By the time you’re reading this, DeeJ and Nicole may have had a few lore readings. I may have eaten a piece of bread or two. Cozmo may have lost his mind, again. Who knows, maybe we’ve already unveiled some Destiny 2: Beyond Light concept art. Either way, it’s all for the kids. 

Oh, and before we forget! If you all somehow reach 500 thousand dollars in donations, Cozmo and I are going to get matching tattoos. I have no doubts you have it in you, but will you hit the mark within our four hour block? You’ve been challenged in the ways of old.

See you in chat.

Cheers,

-Dmg04

Last season, we posted an article showing off some of art created for Season of Dawn. Now that Season of Worthy just wrapped up we wanted to look back at some of the gorgeous art that went into bringing this past Season to life. We have a few of our artist highlighted below who have chosen a piece to share with you and there are also links to more of their art you can check out as well. Go shop for your new wallpaper. 

We’d like to thank all of our talented Bungie artists for uploading their work so we could share it with you. We plan to keep doing these each season if possible so check back again in the future to see some of the cool art in Season of Arrivals.

This Thursday, it will be our turn.

GCX Fundraiser Marathon – Bungie’s Block

June 18, 9AM – 1PM Pacific

This year, we’re hosting a celebration of Bungie art and Bungie artists. Come and check out some of the talented hands that help shape the world you explore and defend or create the imagery you see right here on Bungie.net. If you’re a fan of the game, you’ll be able to see some familiar faces come to life in real time. If you are an aspiring artist or designer, you’ll find some inspiration for how to create art in different electronic mediums.

All the while, we’ll be tabulating your donations. In keeping with the ritual, here are some incentives to inspire you to take action.

$50 Emblem delivered this Season.

This week at Bungie, we launched a whole bunch of missiles.

It’s been an action packed week. Over the weekend, we watched as Rasputin sent literal ordnance into the sky to take down the Almighty in Destiny 2’s first live in-game event. We followed that up with a mighty salvo of virtual launches in the form of media, articles, and a stream to showcase the future of Destiny. Season of Arrivals has started building a bridge to this fall, when Guardians will wield the Darkness for the first time in Destiny 2: Beyond Light.

Here’s the full stream in case you haven’t had a chance to watch yet.

Don’t have time to watch the full stream? Here are a couple of the first looks at Destiny 2: Beyond Light.

Since Season of Arrivals acts as a prelude to Beyond Light, we have held our plans for the Season close to our chest until the reveal this week. The Pyramid ships have begun to arrive on Io and Eris is hard at work trying to decipher their intentions. She needs your help.

Oh, and did we mention there is a brand new dungeon? Prophecy is free to all players and transports you into a strange dimension to seek out the IX. It’s got some real Rainbow Road vibes too. Here’s a peek. 

The future is bright and full of new challenges to tackle. We hope to see you out there.

Match Made in Heaven

By the time that this TWAB is published, a few changes to Crucible matchmaking will be live. Matchmaking based on player skill has been removed from all playlists except Elimination, Survival, and Survival: Freelance. Trials of Osiris will continue to be matched based on the number of wins on your Passage. 

We are doing this to:

The pursuit of Glory Points in Survival and attempting to go Flawless in Trials of Osiris will allow those playlists to reinforce that the outcome of matches are important and keep the stakes high. We want the rest of the Crucible to be less of a high-stakes environment where players can have a more relaxed experience and just enjoy the Destiny multiplayer sandbox.

We will continue to monitor feedback and game data around these changes. If we decide to make any further adjustments, we’ll let you know.   

Counted You One of My Crew

The Destiny Dev Team has a quick update on a change we are making to the Dredgen title. 

Destiny Dev Team: Hey everyone,

As you may have read here, we made some changes to the World Loot Pool. As a result, a few of the legendary weapons in the Playing for Keeps Collection badge no longer have a reward source in the game.  

While we still strongly believe that gear collection is a critical part of what it means to earn and wear a title, we’re going to remove the Playing for Keeps badge from the Dredgen title requirements in an update next week. While not trivial, the badge didn’t represent the challenging portions of earning the title. We feel removing this requirement doesn’t reduce the meaning of wearing Dredgen over your head. That said, we don’t like making changes to titles as their complexity and depth is what gives them meaning, but in this case, the long-term weapon health outweighs a small change to the title. 

We know you have a lot of questions about how our Destiny Content Vault announcement this week will affect other Triumphs and titles. We will have more details for you soon. 

Thank you, and keep sending us feedback as we strive to make a meaningful, evolving world in Destiny.

New Threads

We will have be adding more Bungie Rewards during Season of Arrivals so keep an eye out. 

Ground Control To You

When new content is released, the Player Support Team is carefully watching to identify any new issues that emerge so we can get fixes in the works.

This is their report.

SEASON OF ARRIVALS AND BEYOND

With the launch of Season of Arrivals on June 9, and with the announcement of Destiny 2: Beyond Light, Destiny Player Support wants to make players aware of resources that are available regarding said content. This includes:

Please note that past Season Pass rewards from the previous Season, Season of the Worthy, are available to claim here. Past Season Pass rewards from Season of the Worthy will be unable to claim when Season of Arrivals ends

HOTFIX 2.9.0.1

CHARGED WITH LIGHT

Shortly before the launch of Season of Arrivals, DPS became aware of a bug regarding the seasonal Charged with Light armor mods. This bug allows players to equip all of the current seasonal Charged with Light armor mods on any of the Season of the Worthy armor pieces without having previously acquired them. While this bug will be fixed in Hotfix 2.9.0.1, the team has decided not to disable the mods until then to allow players to try out the mods for this week.

UPCOMING RESOLVED ISSUES

Below is a list of issues that will be resolved with Hotfix 2.9.0.1:

• The Guardian Angel artifact armor mod is not granting its perk when the mod is slotted.
• The Breach Resonator artifact armor mod is not granting its perk when the mod is slotted.
• On controllers, Sprint will cancel if players press the Sprint action again.
• Players will a full engram inventory of Umbral Engrams may be blocked from completing the Season of Arrivals opening quest.
• Visible holes are present in the EDZ terrain where the Seraph Towers used to be.

BEYOND LIGHT PRE-ORDER ITEMS ON XBOX

In order to receive their pre-order bonus items players who have purchased the Destiny 2: Beyond Light or Destiny 2: Beyond Light + Season pre-order bundles on XBOX need to manually download the “Destiny 2: Beyond Light Pre-Order Pack”. 

Players who have purchased the Destiny 2: Beyond Light Deluxe Edition pre-order bundle on XBOX will need to manually download both the “Destiny 2: Beyond Light Pre-Order Pack” and the “Destiny 2: Beyond Light Exotic Emote” 

• From the Xbox dashboard, highlight the Destiny 2 image
• Select “Manage game & add-ons”
• Navigate to the “Ready to install” section on the left
• “Destiny 2: Beyond Light Pre-Order Pack” should appear on the right. For Deluxe Edition owners, “Destiny 2: Beyond Light Exotic Emote” should also be listed.
• Select “Destiny 2: Beyond Light Pre-Order Pack” on the right, then select Install
• Deluxe Edition owners should also select “Destiny 2: Beyond Light Exotic Emote” on the right, then select Install
• Wait for the console to report the DLC is installed
• Start Destiny 2, and visit the Cryptarch in the Tower to acquire all pre-order items.

Some players who have already pre-ordered may run in to an issue where the Pre-Order Pack and Exotic Emote are not showing in the “ready to install” section. For those players, these are the next steps:

• Open the Microsoft Store app and navigate to the specific bundle they purchased
• Select the “Install” button. This shouldn’t take long, it’s no more than ~30 MB
• “Ready to install” for Destiny 2 in “My games & apps” should now be populated with the missing DLC.

If re-installing the bundle doesn’t populate “ready to install”, players should try these steps:

• Open the Microsoft Store app
• Search for “Destiny 2: Beyond Light Pre-Order Pack” and select it from the search results
• On the product page, select Install
• For Deluxe Edition owners, repeat the above steps for “Destiny 2: Beyond Light Exotic Emote”
• Wait for those download(s) to complete and then try the game again

CURRENT KNOWN ISSUES

While we continue investigating various known issues, here is a list of the latest issues that were reported to us in our #Help Forum:

• The Almost Mighty Exotic Ghost Shell and the Saint’s Vocation Exotic ship appear invisible.
• The Tommy’s Matchbook catalyst quest has been removed from player inventories.
• The Destiny 2: Beyond Light pre-order emblem does not appear in the Collections.
• Amanda Holliday has two Legendary ships in her inventory that can’t be purchased.
• Console players may experience blacked out emblems, invisible ships, and a Power Level of 0 in orbit.
• Dying to Environmental Hazards or The Architects will sometimes show a recommended Power Level of 1880947200.

For a full list of emergent issues in Destiny 2, players can review our Known Issues article. Players who observe other issues should report them to our #Help forum.

Picture This

Welcome to the first Movie of the Week for Season of Arrivals. Does that make this one more special? Not particularly. But sometimes asking a rhetorical question like that is a fun way to start a paragraph. If you’re new here, Movie of the Week is where we highlight videos we like from the community. All videos below will guarantee their creators a special emblem. If you win, just make sure you have your Bungie.net profile linked in the description. 

Here are the winners!

Movie of the Week: Horses in the Back

Honorable Mention: Close Call

<3 Cozmo

The High Priest knelt before his withered god, mired in the ambivalence of shattered ideology; his faith replaced by the reality of Xol’s failure. No wisdom or debased ritual buried in decrepit tomes could restore what was lost, nor was he inclined to attempt such an act.

Disillusion swept over—the Will of Thousands, silenced by Light and code. He would have called this an act of heresy once, when the truth had not yet been revealed:

There are no gods. There are only chains, and those at either end.

Nokris had been the ignorant staring into the sun, for what is divinity but a star that blinds? A statue to be toppled, that it may galvanize the wailing masses who seek power in the death of old things. Gods, broken by pawns, brought low and driven into the mud.

Nokris drifted in the heart of winter, at the northern pole of Mars. He lacked the strength to raise what remained frozen beneath the surface. He closed his eyes and reached into the tucked corners of existence with his mind, searching for remnants of Xol’s power, only to find his communion denied by months of disconnected indifference.

Through his outreach, he had come to know that Xol lived, burrowed deep and forgotten within the crust of another world. He had grazed the edge of confirmation with his old god, only to feel it wriggle away, apathetic and eager to break ties. Nokris, too weak to fulfill his purpose, was abandoned. The Worm sought to be wielded by another, to fill their hands with power as self-justified servitude in the bowels of Io.

Despite the many traces of Xol’s influence remaining on Mars, none would serve him better than the scrap of Worm-hide he gripped within his claws. He may be unable to produce the death necessary to feed its appetite and coerce paracausal change from it, but he knew those who could foster the necessary violence. A plan began to form in his mind, whispered from deep recesses he had not explored in many years.

He had held the scrap taken from Xol’s remains for so long that it had eaten grooves into the bone plating on his hand. With it, he intended to force open that which had always been kept from him by the logic of the Sword. He meant to craft his own Ascendant gate from the grave-corpse legions of his risen brood. Fetid ranks of Thrall, rotted beneath rime on cracked chitin, encircled him and awaited the ritual. Their refurbished flesh: soulfire kindling.

He drew upon the Deep and let the latent tethers clinging to Xol’s slough guide his will until he could mold reality around it. The bait was set. Agents of the Sky were expected, and so they came with fury and the fuel of death. They did as they were built to do; obsequious and domineering, they knew no other way but to cleanse that which stood in opposition to their arresting Light. Their righteous carnage berthed Nokris’s transition, and his snare drew watchful eyes from the Taken Throne.

The Sky’s vassals stormed the Penumbral Depths, as they had done many times before. Their fear of Xol’s resurrection drove their furor like searing irons at their back. Fear he had twisted to his purpose. His death: an offering that would seal the spell and create a pinprick piercing through which his soul could slip into the Ascendant Plane.

But guile was the language of a more ancient player, and she had taken notice of his cunning. She directed Nokris away from his destination to instead wash upon the shores of her court. As his vision cleared, his eyes strained to see the Taken Queen, cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizon.

A singularity throne perverted the space before him. The Queen of lies, wrapped in distortion and gravitational lensing, sat within its inestimable depth. Her voice was distant red-shift discord and all around him. Her presence: the realm itself, boundless and willing to take.

Savanthun’s words spewed forth. “Breaker of pacts. A heretic stands here. What denial has yet to be given that you would return to me?”

“I fed the Worm, and still it faltered,” he said. Nokris stared directly into the empty point of space, continually caving in on its form. He could barely define her silhouette within the warp.

“To falter is its nature,” Savathun’s words were tinged in curiosity, “though not by your efficacious methods.”

Nokris preened the flesh of his face back to display a skeletal smile. “The Sword bears no truth. The Worms are gods of thin ambition and reign vast nothing.”

“Brave words in this place. Do you not think they are watching?”

Nokris bowed his head for the first time since he was drawn here. “The Queen is clever. You did not share my father’s single-minded ambition, nor my brother’s taste for glory.”

“You wish to serve me?” The thin image twitched within the backlit accretion glow.

“My life is spent: servitude to those who cast me away. Our blood is all that remains of the old pact.”

“Then let us make use of each other.”

Nokris raised his gaze. “What use would I be to a god?”

“No gods.”

He nodded. “So it has always been.”

Savathun’s voice converged onto him from every direction. “You, a usurper: the first tug at the end of the chain.”

“To act as distraction or await slaughter?” Nokris’s voice sunk with disappointment.

“No. As a thorn, you have circumvented the Deep through forbidden sacrament, and so you shall continue. The Deep fears me, as we feared you. Ignorance keeps. Knowledge usurps. In this, you have found purpose in my court.”

The High Priest’s shoulders straightened. “You feared me?”

“In a younger time, intents were narrower. I see your value, as we should have then. All who denied you, blinded by the Sword, let them fall away as grains from the scythe.”

“I am the implement?”

“You are the mechanism by which we sever their chain.” Savathûn’s voice filled his skull with silken promise. “Teach me your necromancies, usurper of the ordered way, so that together we may circumvent the anchored logic that drags us into the depths. Serve as foil to scatter the pieces of their grand game across the cosmos.”

“As Xol did for my heart, I offer a trade. Knowledge for knowledge. Grant me sight into the Dreaming Mind’s talent, and I will teach what you ask.”

“A rebellious bargain in the midst of Dark tides; it is bound. Under my symbol, reborn and made in my image, our bargain will set new beginnings in motion.”

“The Masters convene here?” Concern dripped from Nokris’s words. “Do we mean to move against them?”

“Not so directly. Arrival is imminent. A Shadow will reach out and make itself known.”

“I am to obscure the connection?”

“Where Sky meets Deep, you shall be the screen that sows dissonance, and for it… we will walk unhindered by the parasitic inclinations of those who believe themselves mighty.”

Nokris saw the scheme. “The will of many bent to our hand. No longer do they draw upon us.”

“Freedom. They are beset against each other. We walk the space between.”

“An accord is struck.”

“Speak my name.”

“Savathûn, Subjugant to None, Sword-Breaker, and Queen to the Taken Throne.”

“To me, you are bonded. Go forth an enact my will.”

Nokris was cast out of Savathûn’s court as suddenly as he had been ripped into her presence. He drifted in the Ascendant Plane, no longer directionless.

Behind him, the court faded, and its shimmering illusion fell like curtains upon a stage. The dark core of the singularity wavered; sunken within its gravitational well was a lone Thrall and no other. Its death spread over eons of deterioration, mouth agape to utter words at the Taken Queen’s whim as patsy, and nothing more.

Her presence had been but a mirage, soaked and sold by the lie of her mouthpiece puppet to whom Nokris unknowingly spoke. In truth, only a Thrall stood within orbit of the singularity, for the Queen would not be so foolish to reveal herself.

Savathûn looked upon her charlatan court from distant transcendent hollows. Her nascent alliance had produced power twin-fold, in that of Nokris’s devotion, as well as his deception through her mouthpiece Thrall positioned within the singularity. She breathed in his desperate agreement and prepared for the struggle to come.

Activities

Trials

Nightfall: The Ordeal

UI/UX

Controller Button Remapping

PC & Stadia Settings

Gear Details Subscreen

Wrapped Items Container

Gameplay and Investment

Weapons

Armor

Finishers

Power and Progression

Bounties and Pursuits

Raid Rewards

Vendor

Added the ability to use an Exotic Cipher to purchase a second Fated engram from Xur each week.

Platforms and Systems

General

• Destiny 2 is too large to efficiently update and maintain.
• The size and complexity of the game are also contributing to more bugs
  and less innovation.
• Instead of building a Destiny 3 and leaving D2 behind, each year, we
  are going to cycle older, less actively played content out of the live game and
  into what we’re calling the Destiny Content Vault (DCV).
• This will allow us to add to and support D2 for years, including the three
  new annual expansions we announced today, starting with Beyond Light this
  fall.
• The DCV will include all content from Destiny 1 and anything that
  cycles out from Destiny 2. 
• We will bring back (or “unvault”) activity and destination content
  from the DCV each year. 
• Unvaulting starts in D2 Year 4, with the Cosmodrome coming back, as
  well as its three strikes and the return of the Vault of Glass raid.
• The primary D2 content leaving the game and going into the DCV this
  fall are the destinations – Mars, Io, Titan, Mercury and Leviathan – and their supported
  activities.
• There will be new ways to earn the Exotics originally linked to content that
  has entered the DCV.
• When Beyond Light ships, the Director will have the following
  destinations: 
• Europa (new)
• Cosmodrome (unvaulted) 
• Moon 
• Tangled Shore 
• Dreaming City 
• European Dead Zone 
• Nessus
• This approach allows us respond to player feedback more rapidly,
  enable more innovation, and will keep Destiny 2 and your characters thriving for
  years to come.
• More details to come
  soon and throughout the year.

Earlier
today, we laid out a vision for Destiny’s future, built right inside of Destiny 2. A future where we maintain your
characters, accounts, and continuity with our game systems and build on each of
them for years. This fall ushers in a new era in Destiny’s journey, launching
off a trilogy of expansions where your Guardians will explore the true nature
of Light and Dark:

Put plainly, we are investing in Destiny 2 for years to come. But to
continue your Guardian’s journey and deliver on this roadmap, we need to make
some changes to our ever-growing world so it can flourish.   

The Limits of Growth

Over the
past couple months, we’ve mentioned the problems that come with maintaining a
game the size of Destiny 2; and we’ve said that it cannot grow infinitely.
After three years of non-stop growth, the scope and complexity of Destiny 2 has
ballooned to unprecedented scale.

As of this
writing, Destiny 2 features nine destinations, 40 story missions, 54
adventures, 42 Lost Sectors, 17 strikes, 31 PvP maps, 12 one-off special
activities (like Menagerie or Zero Hour), seven raids, six Gambit arenas, three
dungeons, many, many
quests, patrols, public events, and of course, thousands of associated rewards.
All of that, plus hundreds of game systems which layer on top of that content.

This
unrelenting growth has resulted in a game that requires players to download up
to 115GB to play, as well as huge patches tied to frequent updates. And those numbers
are rising rapidly, as we’ve been adding approximately 25GB of content each
year to Destiny 2 since launch. Those sizes not only stress hard drive capacity
but also push the limits of patching capability. It also makes the time to
generate a stable update for the game after all content is finalized, tested, and ready to go balloon to literal days instead of hours.

Worse
still, that 115GB includes a lot of content that isn’t relevant anymore – and
can’t remain relevant – as we evolve the world and introduce new experiences
that will take center stage instead. For example: Warmind’s campaign represents
only 0.3% of all time played in Season of the Worthy and yet the Warmind
Expansion accounts for 5% of our total install size. This dramatic
imbalance between player engagement and overall cost to maintain is found in a lot
of our legacy content.

Impact on the Live Game

Our
ambition is for Destiny 2 to be the best Action MMO in the world and that means
being far more agile and nimble than we are today. But the simple fact is that our
game’s size and complexity prevents us from improving Destiny as fast as we –
and you – would like. 

The “Destiny Content Vault”

To set a
new maintainable foundation for the game this fall and to create room for Beyond
Light and the future roadmap, the first Destiny 2 deposit into the DCV will
be larger than those to come in the future.

Curating the Vault

Going
forward, our explicit goal will be to try to keep the scope and scale of Destiny
2 at a relatively consistent size in order to increase our agility and to be
able to properly support and maintain the game. Over the course of each year,
the game’s content scope will grow as we add new destinations and activities in
our expansions and Seasons. As we approach the next expansion, another cycle of
content will go into the DCV to make way for a new influx of destinations and
activities. 

We will
always do our best to give early notice of what’s being cycled into the DCV, to
help you and your friends plan around how you want to complete your collections
and build up your account before the new Destiny year starts. The vast majority
of content we choose to vault will also be from destinations and activities
that have been free for all players for several months prior to their
departure. For example: the Curse of Osiris campaign, which has been free since
Shadowkeep launched in October 2019, and part of the Destiny 2 experience since
December 2017, will go in the DCV later this year. 

Year 4 Destiny Content Vault
Preview 

Here is an early
preview of some of what’s going into the Destiny Content Vault (DCV) and what’s
returning in Year 4.

Returning from the DCV

– Destiny 2
Dev Team

This Week At Bungie, Season of the Worthy is ready for departure.

Before we talk about anything else, we’d like to maintain your focus on the events unfolding around the world. You may have seen demonstrations in your town, or like many of us here, down the street from the place you call home. 

Support does not end with a single statement or action. We’ll continue to use our games and our shared voice to make the world a better place. We hope you’ll join in supporting these efforts by visiting the following resources noted above, and more, by getting directly involved.

Diversity Comittee: Our Pride pin was specifically designed to include black and brown stripes, in an effort to be inclusive and show support for people of color within the LGBTQIA+ community. In that spirit we want to continue our support for all intersectional communities; including LGTBQIA+ individuals who are also part of the Black community currently fighting against racial oppression, demanding justice and equality. We can support the Black Lives Matter movement and the LGBTQIA+ community at the same time, because without the leadership and heroism of Transgender Black and Brown individuals, like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, today’s LGBTQIA+ rights would not exist. And so now is a time to do more to help both, rather than dividing our efforts.  

If you snag a pin, you’ll also receive a code for the True Colors Emblem to show your support in-game when playing Destiny 2.

We’ll continue sharing Bungie initiatives to support LGBTQIA+ communities throughout the month of June, so stay tuned. Our commitment to racial justice is just getting started, so you can expect to hear more soon.

Within Destiny 2, you may have been watching the approach of the Almighty. You’re itching to see the conclusion of the Season, but you’re also starting to hear whispers of what’s coming next. Join us on Tuesday, June 9 at 9 AM PDT to learn about the future of Destiny 2.

See you soon.

Preview 2.9.0

Destiny 2 Update 2.9.0 will become available next week, meaning we have a pile of patch notes to get through. Let’s take a quick moment to look through some of the changes.

We’re expecting to have an update later in Season 11 on further changes to Bright Dust acquisition, so keep your eyes peeled.

Sandbox

NOTE: Drop chance begins at 10% and increases to a max of 50% over 20 clears.

Trials Rewards

Hope you enjoyed this appetizer. Full course (and more) coming on June 9. See you then.

Mixing a Green Thumb with a Bumper Jumper

So, we heard you like patch note previews. They’re short, sweet, and to the point. This topic, though, needs a bit more time to get through. Today, Staff Designer Lisa Brown takes center stage to walk us through the upcoming Controller Remapping feature that the team has been working on.

Lisa: Greetings, Guardians! I’m Lisa, a staff designer on the sandbox team here at Bungie, and I’m going to give an overview of the controller remapping feature for gameplay actions that will be coming to Destiny for all players in the Season of [REDACTED].

Although we have controller presets in Destiny, these aren’t enough to meet basic accessibility guidelines for motor control and mobility. We’ve been working with some amazing accessibility consultants – Cherry Rae Thompson (https://www.cherryrae.com/) and Ian Hamilton (http://ian-hamilton.com/blog/) – to create support for remapping buttons on the controller. Here, I’ll give an overview of how to use the feature, what it can and can’t do, and then share some setups that have been used by various Bungie employees as examples. As a quick note, all of the below examples will be shown using Xbox button layouts.

Overview

Players can create a custom controller layout by going to the Controller section of the Settings screen and choosing Button Layout. A “Custom” option is available in the list.

On this screen you’ll be able to customize mappings for gameplay actions on your character, in vehicles, and in general settings (like emotes and interacting with prompts).

If you’re like me and you typically use a preset other than Default, you can use the “Reset” button to start from one of those presets.

To rebind a button, select the button mapping next to the action you want, and the next screen will allow you to input the button you want to remap to.

Verbs, Verbs, Verbs

One of the challenges with controller remapping in Destiny is that we have a LOT of player verbs. Think of verbs as actions – throwing grenades, triggering your Super, jumping, sprinting, sliding, etc. With PC remapping, there’s a whole keyboard at your disposal to map buttons. On the controller, though, there’s only so many buttons, and we have many more verbs than buttons.

To solve this, we allow the player to map an action not just to a button, but also a type of input. Our three supported input types are:

As an example, some of our Exotic weapons (Borealis, Symmetry, Hard Light, etc.) have an alternate weapon action, which has typically been activated by holding the reload button. Now this can be mapped separately, to a different button or different input. For example, I like to change it from long press X to double press X. Now when I want to switch Symmetry’s firing mode, I double press the X button.

For the Double Press input type, you can also increase the amount of time between button presses for it to register as a double press. This option is on the main controller page.

Chord Support

In addition to mapping actions to an individual button, we also support mapping to Chords, meaning two buttons pressed simultaneously. In the default layout in Destiny, pressing the Left and Right Bumpers together to execute your Super is an example of a Chord.

Here’s a custom layout example where a player has mapped some of the basic character options to just the face button using Chords:

We’re excited to bring another form of accessibility to Destiny 2, and will be watching as this first iteration goes live.

Last Call

It’s pretty much closing time. You don’t have to go home, but you should definitely get your Triumphs done before the servers go offline next Tuesday. Player Support has a full roundup.

This is their report.

CLOSING OUT SEASON OF THE WORTHY

When Season of the Worthy ends at the weekly reset on June 9, 2020, there will be a number of items, activities, and Triumphs that will no longer be available to players. Some of these items include:

For a full list of emergent issues in Destiny 2, players can review our Known Issues article. Players who observe other issues should report them to our #Help forum.

Last Screening of the Season

This is our final MOTW of the Season. How time flies, eh? We’ve featured hundreds of creations in this space, and this week had the most individual contributors of any creation we’ve selected so far. Congrats to all of the Guardians who are taking a W home as Season of the Worthy comes to a close.

Movie of the Week: Quarantine Guardians

There are so many important things going on in the world, it’s difficult to maintain focus on much of anything right now. I’ve been spending a lot of time with friends in Discord servers while hitting weekly milestones, talking to them about their health, thoughts, and feelings concerning current world events. Much of our attention has been on what’s happening right outside our windows. The thing is, this isn’t new. This has been happening since well before many of us were born. It’s time to listen and learn from our neighbors and communities. Check in with your fellow Guardians, friends, and family. Take action to help them out if or when they need it. It’s perfectly OK to press pause, put your controllers down, and focus your attention elsewhere – especially if you’re going out there to demand justice and to support the Black community. You may find many of us out there with you in the greater Seattle area. Destiny will still be here when you want to sit down for a few games. It isn’t going anywhere.

Be well, be safe, and we’ll see you starside.

-Dmg04

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