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This Week At Bungie – 1/30/2020

This Week at Bungie, we had to fix the timeline.

Earlier this week, when we deployed 2.7.1, we discovered an issue causing players to lose various currencies. Our team immediately took action and brought the game down for maintenance while we worked to discover the source of the issue. We did this to minimize any further impact to players. We ended up doing the first-ever character rollback in Destiny’s history to ensure that no one lost any of their hard-earned materials. We’re sorry for any inconvenience caused by the unexpected maintenance and appreciated everyone’s patience while we worked to get the game back online.

We’ll continue to improve our efforts to minimize issues and downtime. Even though some bugs are always going to crawl through the cracks, we’ll be waiting on the other side with a swatter.

Empyrean Foundation

Next week, the Empyrean Foundation rebuild effort begins. Saint-14 will ask all Guardians to contribute to building a beacon that will be a foundation for things to come next Season. The Tower Obelisk will be the focal point of this event, so make sure you have it unlocked and ready to go as it’s going to have some hefty benefits to take advantage of.

Players will need to come together and contribute resources towards a common goal. To participate, players can donate their Fractaline using the Tower Obelisk. The event will have seven stages, each requiring increasing amounts of Fractaline to progress through. There will also be a hologram at the Tower Obelisk where you’ll be able to track the community’s progress in game.

Of course we aren’t going to ask you to fork over your hard-earned Fractaline without providing some benefits. Here’s what’s in it for you:

Contributing to the Empyrean Foundation costs 100 Polarized Fractaline.
Contributing generates a 25% flat progression for all Timelost weapon bounties in your inventory.
Your Tower Obelisk will generate Polarized Fractaline for you each week equivalent to its Resonance Power.
Increase its Resonance Power by upgrading other Obelisks
Players who donate more than 5,000 Polarized Fractaline before the end of the Season will earn a Triumph and emblem.

Everyone in the community will also receive a shader when all stages are completed. Here’s a look at community goals for the seven stages.

Stage 1: 400,000,000

Stage 2: 700,000,000

Stage 3: 1,200,000,000

Stage 4: ???

Stage 5: ???

Stage 6: ???

Stage 7: ???

Everyone is welcome to contribute. This event will be available to all Destiny 2 players and doesn’t require the Season Pass. You can start prepping this week by stockpiling Fractaline and making sure that your Tower Obelisk is powered up and ready to go.

Prime Time

Yesterday, we announced that we are teaming up with Twitch Prime to deliver in-game rewards to Destiny 2 players with an active Prime membership. We are planning to have six monthly drops, with each drop containing four rewards.

The first gear drop is live now and will be available until February 25. It includes the SUROS Regime Auto Rifle, the Coup de Main Ornament, the Skyline Flipside Exotic Ghost Shell, and the unsecured/OUTCRY Exotic ship.

Guardian Giveaways

This week, the Bungie Store is celebrating Guardians everywhere with a giveaway contest featuring curated collections of Destiny gear, including sold-out Shadowkeep Collector’s Editions signed by the Bungie team. For a limited time, a variety of discounted merchandise bundles are available on bungiestore.com and eu.bungiestore.com.

To enter, follow @BungieStore on Twitter, retweet the current giveaway post and add #GuardianGiveaways. The contest ends February 4, 2020 8:59 AM PST. Entries from EU, UK, USA, & CN only (see Rules for excluded provinces and states). 18+ to enter. Please see the Official Rules for more information.

Guardians for Australia

Our “Guardians for Australia” T-shirt is still available for pre-order on the Bungie Store and Bungie Store EU. Half of all profits generated by these T-shirt sales will be donated to NSW Rural Fire Service. The second half will be donated to WIRES, Australia’s largest wildlife rescue organization.

Purchase of the shirt also includes an exclusive Destiny 2 “Star Light, Star Bright” emblem. Thanks for helping us support Australia’s firefighting and animal rescue efforts.

Rollback to the Future

Player Support has a key role of working with the entire team to make sure you are aware of deployments and efforts to restore service during outages.

This is their report.

UPDATE 2.7.1 AND ROLLING BACK ACCOUNTS

After Update 2.7.1 went live on Tuesday, January 28, the Player Support team began noticing a trend of topics where users had lost various Destiny 2 currencies and infusion materials. After verifying this issue, it was decided by several Bungie teams to take the game down in an attempt to prevent more players from being affected.

Due to the rollback:

Any progress or quest that completed between 8:30 and 10:30 AM PST would have to be redone.
Any item gained during that timeframe would have to be earned again.
Purchases made during that timeframe would have to be redone, and Silver spent would be restored.
Platform store-purchased Silver bundles would not be affected since they are completed on the platform’s end.

After the rollback completed, Destiny 2 server came back online around 7:00 PM PST. We are continuing to investigate why this issue occurred and may provide more information about it in the future.

TWITCH PRIME SUPPORT

To receive the gear drops mentioned in the Prime Time section above, players will need an active Amazon Prime account, Bungie.net account, and a Destiny 2 account. Once these accounts are linked, players can claim their drops on the Destiny 2 Twitch Prime website, then log into Destiny 2 and speak to Amanda Holliday in the Tower Hangar to claim the drops.

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 Pigeon and the Phoenix lore book triumphs can no longer be viewed by players who unlocked them. This will be resolved in a future update.
Tower load times have increased after Update 2.7.1.
The Green With Envy quest is not properly recording Infamy rank for some players after Update 2.7.1.

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.

Year of the Rat Kings

You ever see a video so funny that you sprayed milk out of your nose? I haven’t, but I have a strict no-drinking-milk-while-watching-videos policy. Take a look at our winning movie this week (and careful with the milk!)

Movie of the Week: Rat Attack

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj1vjarEP70?wmode=transparent&rel=0&fs=1&w=1136&h=641]

Honorable Mention: Awakening

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8il7bURWIVE?wmode=transparent&rel=0&fs=1&w=1136&h=641]

Movie of the Week winners will find a new emblem in their collections. Just make sure to put a link to your Bungie.net profile pages if you win so we know where to send them. We’ll pick our favorite video from anywhere on the safe-for-work internet where Destiny videos are posted. But if you really want that emblem, the best place to submit your video is the Community Creations page.

When you read this, I’ll be traveling to visit family in Texas and Oklahoma next week. But don’t worry, the Community team has been growing fat with strength and will have everything covered while I’m out. I won’t be fully out of action though. I’ll be contributing to the Empyrean Foundation community event from the road using Stadia.

We look forward to watching the community mobilize in force to answer our challenge. We always try to set the bar high, since you have crushed our expectations in the past. Let’s see what you got this time.

<3 Cozmo

Posted on January 29, 2020 by sick skills — Leave a comment

Twitch Prime Rewards

Twitch Prime Rewards are now available in Destiny 2!

Bungie has teamed up with Twitch Prime to deliver in-game rewards to any player with an active Twitch Prime membership. Once you have your membership (if not, start your free trial here), visit this page and link your Bungie.net account to start receiving your six monthly gear drops. Each drop will contain four rewards, including Exotic weapons, Ghosts, ships, Sparrows, emotes, and weapon ornaments from previous Seasons.

The first gear drop will run from now until February 25 and will include the SUROS Regime, the Coup de Main Ornament, the Skyline Flipside Exotic Ghost Shell, and the unsecured/OUTCRY Exotic ship.

When a gear drop is available, eligible players can claim the rewards here. Once claimed, follow a visual indicator to Amanda Holliday in the Tower’s hangar. Amanda will have the rewards available in her inventory. As long as you claim the rewards on the Twitch Prime page by 10:00 AM on the last day of the drop, the gear will still be available from Amanda after the deadline.

Still have questions? We have a Help article with more details on how everything works.

Posted on January 28, 2020 by sick skills — Leave a comment

Destiny 2 Update 2.7.1

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Pit of Heresy

Improved some performance issues in the Chamber of Suffering encounter that could reduce framerates.

Fixed an issue where players could die when transitioning from the Necropolis encounter to the Tunnels of Despair.

Fixed an issue where players could get out of the environment in the Tunnels of Despair.

Garden of Salvation

Improved a performance issue that could occur when chunks of land return, or are removed during the Sanctified Mind encounter.

Improved the visual indication for when a tether source hub is on or off.

Added text notification when a Vex sacrifices on a relay.

Nightfall: The Ordeal

Reduced weekly completions needed to bring it in line with other challenges.

Players now need three completions on Adept, two completions on Hero, or one completion on Legend or Master.

Director

Players can now shortcut directly to their Roster by selecting their empty fireteam slots, or by invoking the Roster shortcut on Director Map screens.
When an activity is selected, fireteam leaders can navigate left and right to get to Quests and Roster respectively, then back to return to the selected activity.

Rewards

Weapons

Seasonal Bow mods should now work reliably with Hush.

Fixed an issue where Onslaught would reduce damage at 2x Rampage stacks despite not increasing Rate of Fire.

Adjusted scope feedback and camera shake on Hard Light firing.

Eriana’s Vow no longer gets more ammo when swapping from other Special ammo weapons in Gambit. Starting ammo in Gambit increased from six to ten.

Fixed an issue where swapping from Two-Tailed Fox to another Power weapon would generate more ammo than intended.

Fixed an issue where Leviathan’s Breath started PVE activities with more ammo than intended.

Fixed an issue where Xenophage started PVE activities with more ammo than intended.

Armor

The Empowered Finisher Dawn mod will no longer consume Super energy if you do not have a mod equipped that is capable of benefiting from the Charged with Light buff.

The Ever Ready Dawn mod will now stack correctly with weapon dexterity leg armor mods applicable to the weapons it covers.

The Heavy Handed Dawn mod will no longer trigger after the death of Telesto bolts. Increased the number of enemies that must be near the player to trigger the ammo-granting benefit from two to three.

Several class item armor mods will now correctly provide diminishing returns when multiple copies of the mod are equipped. These mods include Perpetuation, Innervation, Invigoration, Insulation, and Absolution.

Wormgod Caress and Winter’s Guile no longer retain the status of their buff if the armor piece is unequipped.

The perk on Synthoceps now deactivates immediately when the armor piece is unequipped.

The Transcendent Blessing Outlaw mod will now correctly appear in players’ inventory; previously, it would only be visible in the mod flyout when socketing a mod.

Grenade Launcher Scavenger will no longer award Special ammo for Grenade Launchers when the player picks up Primary ammo bricks.

The last finisher removed from favorites will no longer override the fallback default class finisher.

Giddy Laugh rare emote now has a valid icon and can be selected for equipping on the emote wheel.

Shadowkeep campaign Exotic armor no longer has a potential to show up in Xur’s weekly inventory.

Gunsmith now properly assesses the owned status of Unflinching Machine Gun and Unflinching Hand Cannon mods.

Power and Progression

Fixed an issue that caused the amount of XP earned not to show up next to the XP progress bar.

NOTE: This issue may still exist for players after they reach Seasonal Rank 100, but all XP earned will still apply to Seasonal Ranks above 100.

Changed the progress bar description on the Weekly Strike challenge from “Bounties completed” (which was incorrect) to “Strikes completed”.

Completion values for some of the destination Obelisk Weekly Bounties have been reduced.

Fixed an issue where the “Green with Envy” pursuits could stop progressing correctly.

Players who were in this state should have their progress updated retroactively.

Combat

Gameplay

Fixed an issue in which Roaring Flames was buffing Solar Weapon Damage while standing in a Well of Radiance.

Fixed an issue in which Sunbreaker Titans were able to self-heal by bouncing a Throwing Hammer off a wall.

Fixed an issue that prevented Warlocks from using Blink after switching weapons or cancelling sprint.

Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the Sunbreaker Titan’s Mortar Blast to deal little to no damage.

Fixed an issue that allowed Sunbreaker Titans to gain stacks of Roaring Flames by destroying Telesto projectiles.

Increased the Sunbreaker Titan’s Mortar Blast damage by 70 percent in PvE.

Players will remain in spaceflight instead of going to a black screen when they load into a PvP match faster than their peers.

Bounties and Pursuits

Fixed an issue that could prevent players from obtaining the Black Armory Key Mold quest from Ada-1 on multiple characters.

Acquisition of Black Armory rare bounties significantly improved.

Players that complete all available weekly and daily bounties will acquire a rare bounty within five days.

Black Armory Keys taking up space in Pursuits will be removed if a player has already completed the Mysterious Box Izanagi’s Burden quest chain and unlocked the Exotic in their Collections.

The Gambit Prime “Collector” bounty will now progress from picking up Luna destination materials.

Fixed an issue affecting the “Newest” sorting option in Pursuits.

Newly acquired quests, or quests that get updated, will now be properly sorted to the top.

General

In Collections, the “Playin’ the Odds” Gambit emblem will now properly register as unlocked and can be reacquired accordingly.
Fixed an issue that was impacting the Unveiling Triumph.

Eris is now ready to present her final Lore entry to players who need it.
The Unveiling Lore Triumph now correctly reads #/11 Lore pieces and will unlock upon obtaining the final Lore piece.

Fixed an issue where certain randomized dialogue would play more or less frequently than intended.
Fixed an issue that was causing notifications to appear again after transferring items using the Bnet D2 API.
Improved performance when receiving certain messages from the server.

Largest impact will be in the Tower, but should help everywhere.

Fixed an issue that caused FOTL items to be stuck in the postmaster as invisible items for some players.

Posted on January 23, 2020 by sick skills — Leave a comment

This Week At Bungie – 1/23/2020

This Week at Bungie, the path was found.

The Corridors of Time have been charted. Guardians from around the world took on the monumental challenge of navigating time itself, some losing their minds in the process. We’d never shipped a puzzle of this size before, and watching the community engagement was a thrill in itself. We’ve seen a few requests for commentary on the creation and development of this puzzle. As always, we’re happy to invite you behind the scenes and share some of the thinking that goes into the experiences you play.

Destiny Dev Team: Over the past week, we’ve watched in awe as the community came together to solve one of Destiny’s most complex puzzles to date. Everyone who took the time to participate in the solution will be remembered for years to come – whether you submitted a screenshot, transcribed puzzle pieces, generated maps, wrote code, worked the data, or cat-wrangled this monumental team effort. Please take a moment to congratulate yourselves. Your efforts and accomplishments were truly inspiring. Watching the first players solve the puzzle in the early hours of Monday morning was a career highlight for many of us on the Development Team.

With the puzzle solved and the Corridors of Time closing next week, we wanted to take a moment to talk about our goals and early designs for this puzzle.

When we started planning the puzzle, we created a few goals to guide our development:

Create a time maze through which any player can dive to discover secrets and lore
Serve as a shared community puzzle that rewards the Exotic Fusion Rifle
Celebrate community achievement and invite all players to partake in the reward

With these goals in mind, we took inspiration from multiple sources in creating the early designs for the puzzle.

The bones originated several years ago with the discovery of the Sleeper Simulant and the ensuing quest to unlock it. At the time, we recognized that the moment of discovery was reserved for the few people that happened to be online at the time when that hidden content unlocked. Similarly, the secret missions for The Whisper and Zero Hour were also moments of discovery reserved for the few people online within a limited time window to experience first. By contrast, this puzzle was meant to be experienced by everybody who wanted to be included.

As is tradition at Bungie during our annual studio Pentathlon (which was held last Friday), many of us spend the entire day solving puzzles crafted by some of our brightest minds. This always culminates in a meta-puzzle that cannot be solved without the contribution of all of the smaller solutions. Similarly, the Corridors of Time puzzle was designed from the start to be very simple in nature, but also require that all of the little bits come together in harmony before revealing its solution.

The delivery of this puzzle came together as the team began exploring the concept and narrative for Season of Dawn. The puzzle seemed to fit well with the idea of the Corridors of Time, with players meandering and weaving through time to find a very specific reality. The early ideas for this space were roughly based on the idea of the cult-classic movie Cube, where you would leave one door and end up in another identical room with a new death trap waiting for you. As always, our artists delivered a mind-bending and stunning visual language that simply brought the whole experience together into something that inspires the imagination. Much like other classic movies, such as Alice in Wonderland or the Matrix, this space and the way it was connected together was done so to invoke questions like “Just how deep does this rabbit hole go? Can you just keep going on forever?”, and “Is there even an end to this?”

Again, we want to thank everyone who participated in this puzzle or cheered from the sidelines. We’re actively monitoring and collecting your feedback, from the puzzle itself to the rewards contained, to inform how we build experiences like this again in the future.

Now, we look ahead. We’ve got a rundown of performance issues that are currently under investigation, and another patch note preview for next week’s update!

Performance Pass

Over the last few months, we’ve been gathering feedback associated with game performance. This translates to moments when you may see framerate drops during activities or long load times when accessing a menu. The team has been deep in the code, looking for potential causes of these issues.

Next week, we’ll have a few performance issues addressed in Destiny 2 Update 2.7.1, including:

Improved some performance issues in the Chamber of Suffering encounter.
Fixed an issue where players could die when transitioning from the Necropolis encounter to the Tunnels of Despair.
Improved a performance issue that could occur when chunks of land return, or are removed during the Sanctified Mind encounter.
Improved performance when receiving certain investment related messages. This could be reward acquisition, placing tributes, or interacting with Obelisks.

The largest impact will be in the Tower, but this should help everywhere.

Players who load into Crucible matches faster than their peers will no longer be put in black screen. Rather, they will remain in spaceflight until all players have loaded into the match, as before.

Some proposed fixes are currently in development for the below items. These need to pass through rigorous testing before they’ll find their way to a future edition of patch notes:

UI stuttering and framerate drops when loading or applying mods
Framerate issues in Gambit and Gambit Prime
Framerate issues during the Sanctified Mind encounter of the Garden of Salvation Raid
Framerate issues in the Pit of Heresy Dungeon, specifically in tunnel encounters
General improvements to performance on PC when a lot of debris is on the ground

While our goal is to address these at the beginning of the next season, these fixes may be delayed if further issues arise. We’ll be sure to keep you updated as we approach Season of [Redacted]. There are also other performance issues we’re currently investigating that aren’t listed above. If you’ve been encountering framerate drops or stuttering issues during gameplay, please make sure to post a report to the #Help forum on Bungie.net. Please include which platform you were playing on, what activity you were in, and a video if possible.

Patch Note Preview, v2

Last week, we had a short and sweet preview of what’s coming in Destiny 2 Update 2.7.1. While Hard Light is creating some excitement, we have a few more patch notes addressing Quests, Seals, Exotic perks, and more.

Investment

Fixed an issue that is preventing Eris from granting her final Lore entry
Fixed an issue where the “Green with Envy” Quest was not progressing for some players
Fixed an issue where the “Playin’ the Odds” emblem was not unlocking correctly for players

This could prevent some players from fully unlocking the Dredgen title

Improved Black Armory Rare Bounty acquisition

Chances increase as you complete weekly and daily bounties
Guaranteed to drop from bounty completion after 5 days if completing all Ada-1 bounties

Sandbox

Fixed an issue where the Heavy Handed mod could trigger from Telesto bolts
Fixed an issue where players could retain buffs from Wormgod Caress, Winter’s Guile, and Synthoceps even after swapping armor

Equip restrictions on Wormgod Caress and Winter’s Guile will be lifted once this patch has shipped

We’ll have a few more notes to share; expect the full list on Tuesday when Update 2.7.1 becomes available.

A Memento in Time

Keeping track of every timetable in development could make your head spin. Luckily, you have Destiny Player Support at your service, and they don’t shy away from the task. Known issues, release timelines, and more can be found below.

This is their report.

PASSAGEWAY OF THE AGES

With the Destiny Community changing the timeline, the Corridors of Time have become unstable and will only be available until the weekly reset on Tuesday, January 28.

Players have until this time to collect the 19 “The Pigeon and the Phoenix” Lore pieces and the “Savior of the Past” emblem, along with a heartfelt message from Saint-14.

UNLOCKING BASTION

We have noticed that some players are having issues getting their Bastion Exotic Fusion Rifle quest from Saint-14. To claim the quest, players need to fully complete the Saint-14 storyline. This includes completing the following quests that can be claimed from Osiris:

Recovering the Past
An Impossible Task
Completing An Impossible Task

After completing these three quests and claiming their triumphs, players can visit Saint-14 in the Tower to pick up the “Memento” quest located in his inventory.

UPDATE 2.7.1 AND RESOLVED ISSUES

Next Tuesday, January 28, we will release Destiny 2 Update 2.7.1. This update will resolve some issues currently affecting players. Here is another preview of some of the issues that will be resolved:

Players who have the Leviathan’s Breath Exotic quest will now be able to access “The Arms Dealer” Strike. This quest will become available to all Season Pass owners, regardless of which Season Pass they own. Players can pick this quest up from Banshee-44 in the Tower Courtyard after reaching Power 800.
Progress will now count toward the Season 9: Challenges, Season 9: Rituals, and Season 9: Engagement Triumphs and the requirements for each one have been reduced so they can be completed during Season of Dawn.

8:00 AM PST (1600 UTC): Destiny 2 maintenance will begin. Players may experience sign-on issues during maintenance.
8:45 AM (1645 UTC): Players will be removed from activities and will be unable to log in until 9 AM.
9:00 AM (1700 UTC): Destiny 2 Update 2.7.1 will be released and players will be able to log in.
11:00 AM (1800 UTC): Destiny 2 maintenance will end.

CURRENT KNOWN ISSUES

Here is a list of the latest known issues that were reported to us in our #Help Forum:

The Efrideet’s Gift triumph isn’t unlocking for players who collect 50 Iron Banner packages from Lord Saladin.

When resetting Infamy rank, progress gets reset for the “Get Closer” step for the Green With Envy quest.

The Sundial Fractaline Extractor III, obtained from the Nessus Obelisk, incorrectly states an increased chance to find Polarized Fractaline when completing Vanguard Strikes. The enhancement actually increases the chance to find Polarized Fractaline when completing the Sundial and the Menagerie.

The three Dreaming Tokens given to players during the Wish-Ender quest, sometimes do not all go into a player’s inventory and cannot be reacquired on that character.

The Warlock’s Arc Web no longer chain-lightnings enemies.

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.

Precision and Focus

This week, our selections are keeping an eye on their respective battlegrounds. In one, the slightest movement can result in a headshot. For the other, coordinating flesh and metal to produce an amazing musical cover, something you could headbang to as you march to victory.

Movie of the Week: Revocation

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LSLkC3K5ZI?wmode=transparent&rel=0&fs=1&w=1136&h=641]

Honorable Mention: Zulmak Metal

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwnlzEonJOU?wmode=transparent&rel=0&fs=1&w=1136&h=641]

Winners will find a shiny new emblem in their collections within the next 365 business days! Really, I’ll get to it as soon as I can. If you’d also like a chance for the emblem, submit your video to the Community Creations page.

That’s a wrap for this week. As we near the end of the season, we’ve got a few final stops on the roadmap. Next week, Cozmo will bring some details concerning the Empyrian Foundation, which is just under two weeks away.

We’ll see you again soon.

Cheers,

-Dmg04

Posted on January 16, 2020 by sick skills — Leave a comment

This Week At Bungie – 1/16/2020

This week at Bungie, Osiris requests your assistance.

I’m currently writing this TWAB from the warmth of my home office. There’s been an abundance of snow in the greater Seattle area, so many of us with long commutes have been keeping up the pace through the miracle of the internet and conference calls. The show must go on.

There’s a mysterious new quest being offered by the wily Warlock who’s always messing about with time itself. The community’s already on the case and working together to explore the Corridors of Time. We don’t want to spoil anything, but do want to let everyone know that this one’s a marathon, not a sprint. We’ll keep an eye on things and so far we’re impressed with your progress!

Iron Banner

The Dawning has come to a close, and that clears up some room in the Tower for Lord Saladin to return and kick off the next Iron Banner.

Iron Banner and Valor Bonus

Start: 9 AM PST on January 21

End: 9 AM PST on January 28

Based on feedback collected during the first Iron Banner from this Season, we’ll be auto-completing everyone through the portion of the quest that requires Rocket Launcher defeats. We weren’t able to deploy a change to this step, but we can complete it for anyone who hasn’t already done so. This gives us time to consider changing or removing this step for next Season.

Guardians to the Rescue

Last week, we pledged to support Australia’s firefighting efforts and animal rescue and conservation efforts due to the ongoing bush fires devastating parts of the country. Today, we shared the full details on how you can support these efforts by purchasing a limited-edition “Guardians for Australia” T-shirt that also comes with a free “Star Light, Start Bright” emblem as a thank you for your donation.

The shirt is now available for pre-order on the Bungie Store, and here is a quick preview of what it looks like.

Patch Note Preview

When the 2.7.0.2 update slipped, we were reminded that sometimes our plans have to shift a bit. But we were able to release it today with only a 48-hour delay! So far, 2.7.1 is on schedule and here’s a small preview at a few of the changes coming in it.

Orbit/Director

Players can now shortcut directly to their Roster by selecting their empty fireteam slots, or by invoking the Roster shortcut on Director Map screens.
When an activity is selected, fireteam leaders can navigate left and right to get to Quests and Roster respectively, then back to their selected activity.

Weapons

Breakneck now has higher damage per second at Rampage x1 and x2, from 2170/2120 to 2190/2410.
The screen shake on Hard Light firing has been adjusted.

Armor

Several class item armor mods will now correctly provide diminishing returns when multiple copies of the mod are equipped. These mods include Perpetuation, Innervation, Invigoration, Insulation, and Absolution.
Grenade Launcher Scavenger will no longer award Special ammo for Grenade Launchers when the player picks up Primary ammo bricks.

SUPPORT RAPPORT

We launched Season of Dawn last month and we scrambled the fighters to shoot down some new bugs this week. Player Support has the details.

This is their report.

DESTINY 2 HOTFIX 2.7.0.2

Destiny 2 Hotfix 2.7.0.2 was released to the world today, January 16, and resolved several known issues, including:

The EDZ Obelisk could sometimes not be accessed.

The flashing notification icon for Eververse did not stop flashing above Tess’s head.

Banshee-44’s weekly bounty was disabled and displays “You have already completed this”.

The full patch notes are posted here.

SOLAR SUBCLASS EMOTES

Earlier this week, we identified an issue where the Solar Subclass Emotes were being sold for an incorrect price of 800 Silver on the Eververse Featured page. These Emotes were removed from the Featured page, but are still available for purchase at the correct price of 500 Silver on the Seasonal page.

We will follow up with affected players at a later date who purchased these emotes at the incorrect price.

TRACKING KNOWN ISSUES

Over the past few weeks, new issues have surfaced that our Player Support team has been tracking. Below is a list of the latest known issues that were reported in our #Help Forum:

Armor 2.0 Transcendent Blessing mods are not appearing in players’ inventories.

Transitioning between areas in the Pit of Heresy Dungeon may result in unintentional character death. This will not prevent players from completing flawless dungeon runs.

The Sundial Fractaline Extractor III obtained from the Nessus obelisk incorrectly states an increased chance to find Polarized Fractaline when completing strikes. The enhancement actually increases the chance to find Polarized Fractaline when completing the Sundial and the Menagerie.

As always, players encountering service issues should follow @BungieHelp on Twitter or monitor our support feed on help.bungie.net for the latest info. Players encountering other issues are encouraged to report them to the #Help forum.

Silence Your Phones

It’s time for Movie of the Week. This is our chance to seek out our favorite community-created videos and literally force you to watch them here. Ok, maybe you don’t have to watch them, but why wouldn’t you? They’re great!

Movie of the Week: This is the Way

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AMCRItPFU8?wmode=transparent&rel=0&fs=1&w=1136&h=641]

Honorable Mention: Knives Out

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMgkPkC4YwQ?wmode=transparent&rel=0&fs=1&w=1136&h=641]

These auteurs just won a cool emblem as evidence of their filmmaking prowess. Please allow a few days for them to arrive. Thanks for using our game to express your creativity! It’s just one of the reasons why we love this passionate community.

It’s a light TWAB week. This new year is taking its time to roar back to full speed and the weather isn’t helping at all. The current activity is hush-hush, so we’re going to step back and watch as you work together to solve it.

Happy hunting.

<3 Cozmo

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Destiny 2 Hotfix 2.7.0.2

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Fixed an issue where Wish-Ender’s Broadhead perk was dealing more damage than intended
Equipping both a Fusion Rifle Scavenger mod and a Linear Fusion Scavenger mod will no longer cause Heavy ammo to be gained from Special ammo boxes
Using Telesto with the Heavy Handed obelisk mod will no longer generate unintentional extra Special ammo

Activities

Fixed an issue that would cause the EDZ Obelisk interact component to despawn

Rewards

Fixed an issue that could cause the Sundial reward currency to be issued to players twice

Eververse

Eververse waypoint notification has been disabled
The Season 9 Seasonal Starter Bundle will no longer appear as owned for players who bought the Season 8 Seasonal Starter Bundle

Bounties

Gunsmith weekly destination bounty will be re-enabled and properly rotate weekly (instead of daily)
Crucible daily bounties will now rotate daily

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Guardians for Australia

The bush fires currently ravaging Australia have been devastating. Many people have lost their homes, firefighters are risking their lives daily, and an estimated hundreds of millions of wild animals have fallen victim to the fires. We have created the Guardians for Australia fundraising campaign to support both Australia’s firefighting efforts and the country’s animal rescue and conservation efforts.

Beginning now, the Guardians for Australia fundraising campaign is live on the Bungie Store and Bungie Store EU. As we mentioned last week, we have developed a limited time T-shirt, with an additional in-game emblem code to show support for those in need.

Star Light, Star Bright Emblem

The T-shirt, which comes with an exclusive Destiny 2 “Star Light, Star Bright” emblem redemption code with purchase, will be available for pre-order on the Bungie Store and Bungie Store EU between Thursday, January 16 and Tuesday, February 18 at 9 a.m. Pacific, ending with the weekly reset and the end of Crimson Days.

Half of all profits generated by these T-shirt sales will be donated to NSW Rural Fire Service. The second half will be donated to WIRES, Australia’s largest wildlife rescue organization.

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This Week At Bungie – 1/9/2020

This week at Bungie, the Devils were reminded of their ruin.

Hello, and welcome back to your weekly roundup of Bungie and Destiny 2 related news. We’ve entered our final week of the Dawning, so get to baking if you haven’t already earned your Sparrows. You have through next Tuesday to complete as many double XP bounties as you can! Additionally, the Sundial has been kicked up a notch with a Legend difficulty. If you’re looking to get the Savior title or round out your Pinnacle power drops each week, get your fireteam together and challenge these Psions in the ways of old.

A new Exotic has also made its appearance, packing a little bit of Unstoppable heat, so to speak. Load up the Sundial and start your quest to acquire the Devil’s Ruin Exotic Sidearm.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZnOdjIC5mc?wmode=transparent&rel=0&fs=1&w=1136&h=641]

We’re still warming up from our holiday hibernation, but we’re hitting the ground running! This week, we have an update from our Game Security team, an announcement for a fundraiser to help send aid to Australia, and news on a hotfix coming early next week. Let’s get to it.

Keep it Clean

The Game Security team has been improving Destiny’s anti-cheat functionality which detects players violating any of Bungie’s restrictions and bans policies. The anti-cheat improvements will result in more players receiving restrictions and bans.

Historically, Bungie has not given players the ability to appeal a restriction or a ban because all restrictions and bans are already reviewed by a trained Bungie employee. However, going forward we will be providing a resource for players to appeal a restriction or ban. More details will be available on our Appeal Contact Form, which can be found here.

If you encounter any players suspected of cheating, please be sure to use the in-game reporting tool, as well as the Report Suspected Cheating contact form on Help.Bungie.net. Bungie will never issue a restriction or ban based purely on player reports, but player reports do help us corroborate other evidence.

Frivolous appeals will not be considered. Additionally, not all appeals are guaranteed to be responded to by a Bungie employee. As always, we’ll be closely monitoring our security systems to ensure a healthy and fair experience for players who are not violating any of Bungie’s restrictions and bans policies.

Helping Australia: Star Light, Star Bright

In the last few weeks, you may have heard about the bush fires that are currently impacting Australia. With every Bungie Foundation effort, we are reminded of how much good can come from the gaming community. Sr. Foundation Manager Christine Edwards has details on our upcoming efforts to assist those in need, opening an avenue for Guardians around the world to lend a helping hand.

Christine: Over the past two decades, the Bungie community has been an amazing force for good in our world by raising millions of dollars to assist those in distress. In addition to supporting thousands of children through our iPads for Kids Program, you have helped victims of hurricanes Katrina and Harvey and have donated to those affected by earthquakes in Haiti, Japan, and Nepal. Time and time again, you have been Guardians to others in their greatest time of need.

The bush fires currently ravaging Australia have been devastating. Many people have lost their homes, firefighters are risking their lives daily, and an estimated hundreds of millions of wild animals have fallen victim to the fires.

We are developing a limited-edition T-shirt fundraising campaign to support both Australia’s firefighting efforts and the country’s animal rescue and conservation efforts. The T-shirt, which comes with an exclusive Destiny 2 “Star Light, Star Bright” emblem redemption code with purchase, will be available for pre-order on the Bungie Store and Bungie Store EU between Thursday, January 16 and Tuesday, February 18 at 9 a.m. Pacific, ending with the weekly reset and the end of Crimson Days. The team is currently hard at work on the T-shirt design and we’ll share a preview early next week.

The first half of all profits generated by these T-shirt sales will be donated to WIRES, Australia’s largest wildlife rescue organization. The other half will be donated to NSW Rural Fire Service, which services the state of New South Wales, where the fires have been especially devastating and are in dire need of containment.

Be sure to check out next week’s edition of This Week at Bungie for more details on how you can support Australia through this fundraiser. In the meantime, our hearts go out to all that are impacted and we are wishing for clearer skies ahead.

Hammer Down

So, let’s talk about Titans. You know, the ones that like to punch everything into oblivion. The class that sometimes throws their weapon aside in favor of a good ol’ headbutt. This week, Destiny Player Support has some vital information concerning a specific exotic that could amplify the damage of a throwing hammer to game-breaking values.

This is their report.

WORMGOD CARESS DISABLED

Earlier this week, we identified an issue with the Wormgod Caress Exotic Gauntlets where the “Burning Fists” perk could retain increased melee damage after its intended timer countdown, allowing players to easily defeat raid bosses.

The Armor 1.0 and 2.0 versions of these gauntlets have been disabled until a fix can be deployed at a later date.

DESTINY 2 HOTFIX 2.7.0.2

Next Tuesday, January 14, we will release Destiny 2 Hotfix 2.7.0.2. This hotfix will resolve a few known issues, including the EDZ Obelisk accessibility and Eververse waypoint notifications. Please see below for our rollout timeline.

8 AM PST (1600 UTC): Destiny 2 maintenance will begin.

8:30 AM PST (1630 UTC): Players will be removed from all Destiny 2 activities and will be unable to log in until 9 AM PST.

9 AM PST (1700 UTC): Players will be able to log in again and Destiny 2 Hotfix 2.7.0.2 will begin rolling out to all platforms and regions.

12 PM PST (2000 UTC): Destiny 2 maintenance is expected to conclude.

TRACKING KNOWN ISSUES

Over the past few weeks, a few more issues have surfaced that our Player Support team has been tracking. Below is a list of the latest known issues that were reported in our #Help Forum:

The Leviathan’s Breath Exotic Bow currently cannot be acquired due to an issue with ‘The Arms Dealer’ strike where it can only be completed in Season 8.

The Tower Obelisk can sometimes not be accessed. Players encountering this should return to orbit and launch back in to The Tower.

The Giddy Laugh emote keeps loading in the Emote Collection and can’t be unequipped if slotted.

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

UNTIL NEXT DAWNING

As the holiday season comes to an end, so too does the Dawning. The Dawning ends this coming Tuesday, January 14, at the weekly reset. Players have until then to create their holiday gifts, upgrade their Dawning Sparrows, and earn double XP from Eva’s bounties.

That’s a lot of Crucible

This week’s winner features eight-minutes of pure Crucible carnage with a variety of weaponry, abilities, and straight up skill? Bows, throwing knives, Arc Beam, Hand Cannons, Sidearms… you name it. Legend of Acrius even snuck in for some love. Language warning for the final moments. Frostbolt, you’d better wash your mouth out with soap!

Movie of the Week: Mastery of Destiny

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j03J81kp1yI?wmode=transparent&rel=0&fs=1&w=1136&h=641]

Honorable Mention: Solo Flawless Pit of Heresy using Two Sidearms and a Sword.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HhfQX019C4?wmode=transparent&rel=0&fs=1&w=1136&h=641]

Cheers to each submission, as they’ll both be taking home a Movie of the Week emblem. If you’d like a chance for the emblem, submit your video to the Community Creations page.

First TWAB of a new year. Prepare for things to ramp up here in the next few weeks. Season of Dawn still has more in store with an upcoming Exotic, Empyrean Foundation, Crimson Days and more.

Before we go, we need to give some spotlight to AGDQ2020, otherwise known as Awesome Games Done Quick. For years, this speedrunning event has been yet another source of positivity within the gaming community, bringing people together in the fight against Cancer. Later today, the Last Wish speedrun will be on stream with commentary provided by a few familiar Destiny raid experts. The current time is projected to be around 7:30 PM Pacific, but things may change. Be sure to check their schedule for the most up to date information.

Have a wonderful weekend, and we’ll see you again next Monday.

Cheers,

-Dmg04

Posted on December 20, 2019 by sick skills — Leave a comment

This Week At Bungie – 12/19/2019

This week at Bungie, we’re closing out 2019

It’s been quite a year. While we continued to build Destiny 2, we began the journey to publish it as well. Since then, we’ve invited Guardians to master the Menagerie in Season of Opulence. We returned to the Moon to reunite with a familiar friend and confront new Nightmares. We repelled a Vex invasion and set off a chain of events that are currently being discovered by Guardians in Season of Dawn. With the passing of each Season, Destiny 2 has evolved.

On top of all that, we welcomed new Guardians to Destiny 2 and unified the community across all platforms with Cross Save. None of this would have been possible without you—thanks for sticking with us throughout the years. It’s hard to believe we find ourselves in the fifth year of Destiny. We’re celebrating the end of this amazing year with The Dawning, which kicked off this week.

Eva is back with her new Holiday Oven as well as new recipes and treats to deliver across the solar system. Perhaps you’ll even want to gift some to an old nemesis. Be sure to grab some Dawning Bounties; they reward both Bright Dust and Double XP! Check out this introduction to The Dawning for more info on what to expect during the event.

Dawn of Iron

Next week, Lord Saladin will hold the first Iron Banner of Season of Dawn.

Iron Banner and Valor Bonus

Start: 9 a.m. PDT on December 24

End: 9 a.m. PDT on December 31

There will be an Armor 2.0 version of the Iron Truage set available this season. The Seasonal Pursuit to earn this armor will work similar to last Season but we have changed some of the steps and what weapons are required to gain progress.

In case you are just joining us, here is a refresher of how it all works.

There is a new Seasonal Pursuit which must be completed prior to being able to turn in tokens to purchase packages from Lord Saladin.

This pursuit is character based and rewards a Season of Dawn armor set.
Each step of the pursuit awards Iron Banner weapons or armor.
Most of the objectives within the pursuit track progress at any point during Season of Dawn, even if you have not yet acquired the pursuit.

Until the Seasonal Pursuit has been completed, all rewards will be obtained from completing matches and bounties.

All of the rewards will be weapons until the Seasonal Pursuit has been completed.
There will be seven bounties offering Pinnacle rewards (970 Power Max,) but only four are available per event.

If you were paying close attention to the Season of Dawn calendar you may have noticed an Iron Banner-themed Bow. That image will also show up as director dialogue in the game when Iron Banner starts next week. We were hoping to have the new Iron Banner Bow available this Season, but it had to be pushed to Season 10. Sorry about the delay, but we wanted to call it out to avoid any confusion.

We also made a change to the An Arsenal of Tricks bounty. The ability final blow requirements has been reduced by half.

Put on your most powerful gear and go control those zones!

Breaking Dawn and Time

We launched Season of Dawn last week and we scrambled the fighters to shoot down some new bugs this week. Player Support has the details.

This is their report.

A Cold Front

Eva Levante is visiting the Tower once again and has brought The Dawning with her. All players can use her Holiday Oven to gather and combine materials to form gifts for vendors across the solar system. The Dawning began on December 17, 2019, and ends at the weekly reset on January 14, 2020.

Hotfix 2.7.0.1

This past Tuesday, Hotfix 2.7.0.1 was released to the world and resolved several issues found at the launch of Season of Dawn, including:

Destiny 2 PC settings would not save after quitting the game.

Dynamo mods granted more Super energy than expected.

Launching Forsaken Baron adventures would cause a Honeydew error.

Resonate Stems, Escalation Protocol chests, and other impacted rewards wouldn’t be granted.

Known Issues

Our Player Support Team has been monitoring player reports in our #Help Forum to find the latest issues impacting gameplay. Below is a summary of the latest reported issues.

The EDZ Obelisk can sometimes not be accessed.

The Green With Envy and Heart of the Dragon quests sometimes don’t update while playing and completing Gambit or Crucible matches, respectively.

Players need to reach Mythic Infamy rank to progress the Gambit “Green With Envy” quest step, not Fabled.

Warlocks cannot Blink jump after switching weapons or canceling Sprint.

Players who accept or complete a quest from Osiris will need to back out of his menu entirely and interact with him again to continue picking up other quests. This must be repeated for every quest picked up.

A flashing notification icon appears constantly above Tess’ head in the Tower.

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

Holiday Support

As the winter season begins and 2019 comes to a close, our Player Support Team will be around throughout the holidays to review player reports and investigate the latest known issues. If you encounter issues over the holidays, be sure to follow @BungieHelp on Twitter or monitor our feed on help.bungie.net.

Players encountering other issues are encouraged to report them to the #Help forum.

Great Dawning Bakeoff

Welcome to another edition of Movie of the Week. This is our ongoing tradition of picking a few of our favorite community created videos and sharing them for all to see. The creators also get a brand-spanking new emblem for being featured. When submitting a video, remember to link your Bungie.net profile in the description of the video so we can give winners their hard-earned digital goods.

Movie of the Week: That’s not how the force works.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdS0FwMHuMY?wmode=transparent&rel=0&fs=1&w=1136&h=641]

Honorable Mention: The Future is now.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C62iGuK5ppc?wmode=transparent&rel=0&fs=1&w=1136&h=641]

Today, we started a holiday sale on Shadowkeep and Forsaken. You can grab either for up to 40% off. The Upgrade Edition is also on sale and is the best deal if you want to pick up both. Pricing and offer availability determined by retailer.

Well, here we are, the last TWAB of the year. We’re going dark for a few weeks around the holidays, but don’t worry, we aren’t leaving the ship without a crew. Player Support will be monitoring the Help forums and community managers will be around to respond to anything that pops up. You have Season of Dawn and The Dawning to keep you warm until we kick off the new year with the next TWAB on January 9. Don’t start any countdowns, we aren’t planning a major announcement, just enjoy the Season and your holiday.

This year has been an exciting one and we have a bunch of cool stuff lined up next year too. Thanks for making Destiny the awesome evolving world it’s become.

Happy holidays.

<3 Cozmo

Posted on December 17, 2019 by sick skills — Leave a comment

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Fixed an issue where Dynamo mods were granting more Super energy than expected
Fixed an issue where swapping between Hand Cannons with Explosive Rounds could result in higher damage than intended
The fixed-roll of Pyroclastic Flow no longer has Tap the Trigger as a perk
Fixed an issue where Symmetry’s arc seekers would unintentionally stagger Unstoppable Champions

Note: this perk is meant for an Exotic weapon that is coming out later in the Season

Fixed an issue where finishers could yeet bosses off the map and cause other shenanigans

Activities

Fixed an issue where attempting to launch Forsaken Baron adventures would cause a Honeydew error

Rewards

Resonate Stems, Escalation Protocol chests, and other impacted rewards will now be granted properly
Fixed and issue where some Sundial rewards could be infused without dismantling the item

Eververse

Fixed an issue where the Sunbreaker Titan armor ornament bundle could still be purchased at full price even if some items where owned

PC

PC video settings now save correctly and do not get reset when launching the game