Bungie Weekly Update – 10/15/2015

[Aranea Highwind]

Some of the more important details on this weekly update are the following:

 

King's Fall Heroic mode will launch Friday, October 23 10 AM pacific

ToO will be cancelled this weekend due to a bug that let's Hunter's spam unlimited Shadowshot

Nightfall rewards will receive a buff next week

 

 

This week at Bungie we’re talking about your rematch with Oryx, the return of Trials of Osiris, and (you guessed it) we’re talking about Shadowshot.

 

A funny thing happened on the way to the Lighthouse. It turns out that there’s a particularity nasty bug that would undoubtedly conspire to create a less competitive return to form for Trials of Osiris. We’re going to be intentionally vague here, for what we hope are obvious reasons!

 

We’re going to disable that bug before we invite you to take your next run at a 9-0. We’re also working on a final fix for the bug itself as soon as possible. As soon as we have a solid commitment for Brother Vance, we’ll make a formal announcement on when Trial of Osiris will begin again. We hope that most of you recognize the impact a limitless Nightstalker would have on the competitive landscape.

 

Thanks for your patience.

 

Another group that has been eager for a new challenge ever since they sent Oryx careening toward Saturn is our seasoned six-player Raid teams. If you’ve managed to slay the Taken King aboard his own fortress, you’re off to a good start, but your fight is far from finished. That battle is about to get a lot harder.

 

Originally, we’d planned to introduce King’s Fall Hard mode on October 30th, but the Raid team is ready to go, and we’ve decided to launch a little bit early.

 

King’s Fall Raid: Hard Mode

Friday, October 23rd

10 AM Pacific

 

Right about now, some of you are wondering what you can do to prepare. We won’t give you hints, but we’ll plot the difficulty incline. Recommended Light for Hard Mode is 300 – 320. The loot that will drop will be between 310 – 320. Gear up and mark your calendars.

 

Before the race for World First begins, we’ll share some more insights from the Raid design team that’s about to bring the real pain.

 

 

After Update 2.0.1

 

This week we deployed another update to Destiny. If you’ve downloaded its contents, you’ve very likely already discovered what’s new in year two. We brought Tess back to teach you some new moves. Lord Saladin is holding court in the Traveler’s Walk. We’ve also made some essential changes to the player experience.

 

We’ve been listening to the conversation over the past few days. Here are some answers to some of the most frequent questions you’ve been asking.

 

“Sunbreakers?”

 

Indeed, we hear you. We’re looking at the data, as well. It’s too early to dig in and make any promises. We’ll talk more soon, once we get a full picture.

 

“Why am I not getting my Iron Banner rewards?”

 

Iron Banner has been both a test of skill and your best gear, as well as a way to get a new set of gilded armor and weapons. Legendary items won’t drop until you reach Rank 2 with Lord Saladin, and the pool expands as you continue to climb the ranks.

 

The premiere items we believe you’ll want to obtain are also available for purchase from Lord Saladin himself. Subsequent Iron Banner events will include additional pieces of gear.

 

“What are you doing about the lag in Iron Banner?”

 

If you’re manipulating network traffic, or if your connection is so bad that you’re unintentionally compromising the experience of other players, we’ll issue a temporary restriction from all Crucible activity. The first round of these restrictions went live yesterday. The second wave is happening as we speak. As always, we start small to ensure our tools are properly calibrated, and widen the net as we become more confident that we’re ensnaring the actual perpetrators of shenanigans. Fair Warning: We will also permanently ban repeat offenders!

 

When Trials of Osiris is live, we’ll be utilizing the same policy and technology. Play nice, and please make use of our in-game reporting tools should you come across a player you believe needs some extra time and attention from our team.

 

Our matchmaking engineers are also monitoring the overall health of the matchmaking pool writ large with an eye toward making improvements across the board. You’ll be hearing from that team about their progress in the weeks to come.

 

“How about those Nightfall rewards?”

 

There is another update inbound as soon as next week that will deliver more frequent and more powerful Legendary rewards to the Nightfall loot tables. We’ll save the specific numbers for the Patch Notes. And, of course, the best reality about the nature of those rewards will be found in your feedback.

 

“Someone datamined files that prove Tess will be selling King’s Fall consumables! You said you wouldn’t do that! Why are you doing that!?”

 

We’re not doing that. The files in question were actually first uncovered some time ago, well before the launch of Eververse Trading Company. They weren’t ever intended to be sold in exchange for Silver. What you’re seeing are remnant files for Three of Coins or Moldering Shard like items that would have been available from Xûr. Ultimately, the team decided that they didn’t have a place in the game, and cut them from the experience. You’re seeing some dust and echoes from the cutting room floor. 

 

Files that get datamined aren’t official sources of news, though we understand why they are intriguing.

 

“Why did you change the economy for Strange Coins and Weapon Parts?”

 

In Year 2, we took steps to streamline and simplify the economy for players, with hopes that providing more direct paths to gear and the stuff you needed to upgrade that gear would just be more satisfying across the board. Changes to economy of the game are made in the interest of preserving the value of the items in your inventory and ensuring that you have good uses for the things you’re saving. 

 

Weapon Parts, specifically, have been particularly vexing. Some players use a LOT of Parts, whereas others use almost none. Still, we are very aware that this is a choke point for some players, and further adjustments may be in order. 

 

In all cases, we're still watching our reports and listening to feedback, and we will continue to react to how things are going. 

 

Thanks for playing, and keep sounding off. Update 2.0.1 is not the first time we’ve made changes to Destiny, and it’s guaranteed not to be the last. You’re a part of that process, so keep the conversation lively wherever you’re having it.

 

 

 

https://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=13762

[kidson2004]

Man, they are on it when it comes to fixes for this game. Glad to see they care for their people.

[TheYuriG]

Why didn't they cancel Iron Banner instead? Iron Banner happens once a month, ToO happens every weekend, failing IB because of the hunter glitch is worse than losing ToO, as much as you can keep buying tickets until you don't find one glitcher.

[Aranea Highwind]

Why didn't they cancel Iron Banner instead? Iron Banner happens once a month, ToO happens every weekend, failing IB because of the hunter glitch is worse than losing ToO, as much as you can keep buying tickets until you don't find one glitcher.

 

Kinda agree, but the difference between IB  and ToO is that Trials of Osiris is a very stressing mode. The rewards for going flawless are some of the best the game has to offer and the last thing Bungie wants is people to lose a match when they are 8-0 due to someone abusing a glitch. Currently those cheating on Iron Banner are being banned from Crucible activity. Also Bungie found out about the glitch after Iron Banner already started.

Edited October 16, 2015 by Paige

[soniq]

I wish they'd either fix the Agonarch Rune event or make tier 3 runes a guaranteed drop on the Weekly Nightfall or the Oryx bossfight in the raid. I'm stuck on 44 calcified fragments and can't get my Touch of Malice. :/

[Willstown]

Glad they are doing something about Nightfall, The S.A.B.E.R this week got extremely brutal at times and for the pain I got a woeful 280 autorifle.  Nightfall used to be something I would always do for the rep and buff.  I get the buff skewed people into doing it 1st thing but there needs to be more incentive to do the Nightfall over a regular heroic strike.

 

That being said, last weeks Nightfall on the Shield bros was a cakewalk compared in comparison.

[TheYuriG]

Kinda agree, but the difference between IB  and ToO is that Trials of Osiris is a very stressing mode. The rewards for going flawless are some of the best the game has to offer and the last thing Bungie wants is people to lose a match when they are 8-0 due to someone abusing a glitch. Currently those cheating on Iron Banner are being banned from Crucible activity. Also Bungie found out about the glitch after Iron Banner already started.

I agree it is, I normally don't get hatemail when playing, but I did got some when I got my flawless passage in 4/8 matches, which is funny since none of us were using shotguns.

Are they, still?

If they can ban the IB cheaters, why not ban the ToO cheaters as well? Hm.

Hm, maybe it's just me, but the only thing I thought was worth in ToO was the armor, because both messenger and jewel of osiris I got there sucked. Any idea of the power stuff gonna drop at?

 

On a side note, this whole Trial of Osiris thing saddens me. ToO is part of the HoW expansion, but unless you have TTK, you can't play that anymore. :/ It's like if they raised Skolas/Crota/Atheon to 41. While it makes the game more challenging for everyone who has TTK, who doesn't just lose more and more content.

[Rowdi]

Some really good fixes here. Sunbreakers need to be tweaked a little and I'm glad they've noticed. Also, I'm starving for weapon parts as I like to upgrade everything to try it out and infuse it if I like it. I just hardly ever get any weapons to break down and I end up saving the ones with high attack values for infusing.

 

I feel like I'm being trolled when it comes to IB though. I'm almost level 4 on one character and level 2 on another and I only gotten one sublime engram so far and it wasn't even IB gear. This loot table just isn't as rewarding as previous IB's. Hopefully it gets better soon.

[Aranea Highwind]

I agree it is, I normally don't get hatemail when playing, but I did got some when I got my flawless passage in 4/8 matches, which is funny since none of us were using shotguns.

Are they, still?

If they can ban the IB cheaters, why not ban the ToO cheaters as well? Hm.

Hm, maybe it's just me, but the only thing I thought was worth in ToO was the armor, because both messenger and jewel of osiris I got there sucked. Any idea of the power stuff gonna drop at?

 

On a side note, this whole Trial of Osiris thing saddens me. ToO is part of the HoW expansion, but unless you have TTK, you can't play that anymore. :/ It's like if they raised Skolas/Crota/Atheon to 41. While it makes the game more challenging for everyone who has TTK, who doesn't just lose more and more content.

 

I have yet to receive a hate message after beating another team on ToO, my friends however have received a couple of those. The Messenger is an excellent weapon for PVE/PVP (Jewel of Osiris sucks i agree with that) On PVP The Messenger can two-burst kills a target if all of the shoot land on the head. I might make The Messenger my primary for PVP once i obtain it. The weapons & armor will be sold at 280 light level, but those that drop after completing matches will drop at a higher level just like on Iron Banner

 

If you are looking for a good shotgun on PVP i'd recommend picking up Conspiracy Theory-D. The fire rate and reload animation are very bad, but most of the time you will be able to 1 shoot kill a target on PVP if you are close to them.

[TheYuriG]

I have yet to receive a hate message after beating another team on ToO, my friends however have received a couple of those. The Messenger is an excellent weapon for PVE/PVP (Jewel of Osiris sucks i agree with that) On PVP The Messenger can two-burst kills a target if all of the shoot land on the head. I might make The Messenger my primary for PVP once i obtain it. The weapons & armor will be sold at 280 light level, but those that drop after completing matches will drop at a higher level just like on Iron Banner

 

If you are looking for a good shotgun on PVP i'd recommend picking up Conspiracy Theory-D. The fire rate and reload animation are very bad, but most of the time you will be able to 1 shoot kill a target on PVP if you are close to them.

Got a couple, guess they couldn't stand a 3 man with Plan C and Pocket Infinity.

Oh, yessss, that's right, messenger is so annoying on PvP. My red death used to 2 burst shot to the head as well, but I seem unable to land all shots to the head like I can do with handcannons and most autorifles. I guess ToT will also be useless for who has already played a lot of TTK since all that equipment is worthless now for infusing-sake. Might be usable for their perks and to get them infused instead? I believe the boots give extra heavy ammo, but CE and VOG boots also did, in a way lower light level.

 

Nah, I hate shotguns with passion, they were the most unskilled way to kill someone before TTK and some people still find ways to abuse that. I've died a lot to the shotgun you mentioned and Felwinter's Lie. I would love to get a good fusion rifle though that has fast recharge rate. My warlock fusion rifle from the armsday rank 2 quest is wonderful, been completing several VoG runs with all the damage it does to oracles. I saw your legend video and got really jealous over your precision kills, wish I knew how to snipe as much, but my practice with Praedyth's Revenge is slowly getting me there.