RELATED: Things You Need To Know If You’re Just Starting Destiny 2 While the weapon is simple to obtain in Destiny 2, the Catalyst can be a little tricky. There are a number of steps to follow in order to unlock the Catalyst and it’ll take some time. For players wanting to know what the Witherhoard Catalyst is capable of and how to find it, here’s everything you need to know....
The Solstice of Heroes event also features a number of firsts this year, including a new PvE mode that takes place in a new area called the European Aerial Zone. In this mode, a fireteam of three will race to beat as many minibosses as possible before the timer runs out and the final boss battle begins. Additionally, this year’s Solstice armor won’t be left behind when Shadowkeep launches in September, as Bungie is adding the new Armor 2....
In addition to new content, this week also finally saw the hammer fall on the Stasis subclass across the board. While the first Darkness subclass has been a source of community debate since it launched inside of the Beyond Light expansion, Bungie has finally decided to retune the entire class, with most of the changes impacting the PvP side of the game. The Hunter’s Withering Blade was effectively nerfed as well as the Titan’s Glacial Quake attack....
First up, this E3 Bungie gave gamers a closer look at Destiny 2’s big baddie, Dominus Ghaul. As spotted in the E3 trailer for the game, Ghaul is a massive Cabal leader, which can also be seen in this concept of him. In addition to Ghaul, another concept piece shows off a Cabal ship, similar to what was shown in the Homecoming story mission, where players board one of these ships to face Ghaul as he moves in on the Last City....
Green observes how important bounties have become as a mechanic in Destiny 2, which has led some players to see them as “mandatory chores rather than opportunities to optimize.” He outlines several potential methods for cutting back on this, including replacing Weekly Bounties to cut back on “FOMO” from players missing a week, and making it easier for players to get bounties when they want them and not just at the start of a session....
The update will drop next Tuesday, October 30, after a short maintenance. Once Destiny 2 is back up and running, Guardians will see a number of QOL changes, ranging from inventory adjustments to the tweaking of certain weapons. Next week will also see a limited boost in Infamy XP and the implementation of the new refer-a-friend program. While there are quite a few changes coming with the update, these aren’t the only ones....
Update 2.0.4 Destiny 2’s 2.0.4 update is set to launch on October 16, and will fix a number of immediate bugs that the community has brought to Bungie’s attention, as well as some quality-of-life changes that will make the game better. It will include the following changes: Added the ability to hover over Lost Sectors to see their name once a player has looted them Players can now track up to three pursuits Added Through Fire and Flood, Zenobia D, and Crooked Fang-4fr to the world Legendary pool (to reduce Edge Transit drop rates) Increasing Scout Rifle damage in PvE and against non-player enemies in Gambit Fixed a bug where Prime Engrams were going straight to the Postmaster at the end of Crucible matches; they will now show alongside other end-of-match rewards Added transmat effects to Collections, under the Flair category Tracking for acquired transmat effects began with the launch of Forsaken on September 4; transmat effects gained (inventory or Postmaster), used, or dismantled after that date will be unlocked in Collections Transmat effects are unlocked when added to player inventory, NOT when you gain ships that have them pre-socketed Fixed a rare issue where the Gambit invasion portal will not reactivate once used, and we are currently developing a fix Fixed an issue where One Thousand Voices may cause loud screeching audio when fired while strafing or jumping....
Whisper of the Worm was introduced as part of Destiny 2’s 2018 expansion, Warmind, as the spiritual successor to the Black Hammer and Black Spindle sniper rifles from the original Destiny. Players could earn the weapon in what would become the first of several challenging exotic missions Bungie would drop into the game. Within the lore, the weapon is the form the Hive worm god Xol took following his defeat at the hands of guardians during Warmind’s campaign to feed off the destruction left in guardians’ wake....
Destiny 2 moved away from the primary, special, heavy format and shifted toward a two-primary system, leaving the heavy hitting-weapons in the power weapon slot. However, with Forsaken, players will be able to equip a variety of weapons in the kinetic and energy weapon slots. According to Bungie, players will be able to even equip three shotguns if they want to, which should make taking down raid bosses even more interesting....
On October 5th Bungie will open up the raid for all Shadowkeep players, and the race will begin. In preparation, today Bungie revealed the first details regarding the Garden of Salvation World First competition. RELATED: Destiny 2: Clan Be Bold Claims World First Crown of Sorrow Raid Clear To start, Bungie confirmed the limitations that will be placed on Garden of Salvation raiders for the first 24 hours after the raid’s launch....
To earn infinite ammo, players need to set their crouch to ‘Toggle’ in the settings and they must have a Titan present. With the Wardcliff Coil equipped, the Titan then puts down their Rally Barricade, spams the crouch button, and fires rockets at the same time. As the player is firing they will see their ammo count increase, even though they are using rockets. It’s not completely clear how or why this Destiny 2 glitch works, but it seems to interpret the mini rockets of the Wardcliff Coil as individual ammo “rounds," even though the pack counts as one shot....
Destiny 2’s matchmaking is only one of many components of the game that routinely suffers from glitches in-game. In the past, glitches affecting the matchmaking have resulted in Strikes that have more than 20 players at once, and although the experience isn’t easily replicated, players have since testified to their own multi-man Strike experiences. In either case, this specific type of glitch is one particularly loved by the community, and YouTuber Scrub revealed a version of it that is potentially accessible to anyone willing to give it a shot....
Still, there is a recurring problem that Destiny 2 has been dealing with since its release, and that’s how Bungie has to deal with space – or lack thereof. What this means is that there are many areas of the game where having more space to store things or to allow things to exist would make for a huge improvement overall, increasing the quality of life for players. This entails things like Vault space, the Postmaster system, Engram slots, inventory slots, the Destiny Content Vault, and much more....
Rasputin’s bunker finally appeared on Jupiter’s moon Io this week in Destiny 2. Typically, the first time through the bunker, players would need to battle their way to the final room where they’d then be given a small dose of story content from Ana Bray. Io was a bit different this week however as the bunker was completely clear of enemies. RELATED: Destiny 2 Dev Bungie Pokes Fun at Division 2 Exploit Bans...
Of course, data mines are always hard to confirm without tangible proof, so treat the rumors with a grain of salt. There are elements to the DLC 2 info that align with previous clues, rumors, and hints about the expansion, and others that don’t necessarily make sense. But for those that want to know more about Destiny 2’s next content drop, read on. According to the data mine, the next Destiny 2 DLC expansion will be called Heralds of Nezarec and will introduce a new destination on Enceladus, the sixth moon of Saturn....
So far, Bungie has confirmed that both The Drifter and Eris Morn will be coming into play for Destiny 2’s future plans. To announce their returns, the developer released two official teaser trailers featuring the characters and new locales. Unfortunately, from the quick deletion of the Eris teaser, it appears that Bungie unintentionally leaked some details on its own. The latest leak does not have an accompanying video, but it claims to know which character Bungie will unveil next....
After being teased earlier this year, Destiny 2 players can finally pick up the latest exotic quest which eventually leads to the hand cannon known as Hawkmoon. While this popular Destiny 1 weapon looks the same as it did all those years ago, it’s unique perks Holding Aces and Luck in the Chamber have been completely replaced by a new perk called Paracausal Shot as well as a randomized secondary perk....
This could be big news for the Xbox Game Pass, as more live service games may follow Bungie’s example allowing access to expansions through a separate, paid subscription. If this is the case, then Destiny 2 could be the first of many games to start making moves towards offering different options for players to access new content. RELATED: Destiny 2: Grandmaster Nightfall Cheese Lets Teams Instant Kill Boss Subscription MMOs Bringing Destiny 2 to Game Pass feels a lot like a callback to the origins of MMOs and the way that these massive games have always worked on a subscription basis....
One Destiny 2 player has now set out to answer that very question, using the Monte Carlo method (using random sampling to find a numerical answer) to figure out it. The player (a Reddit user who goes by moak0) is working with the idea that there are 13 possible pieces of Iron Banner loot (eight weapons and five pieces of armor), that Iron Banner rewards packages offer one piece of gear, and that there is an equal chance of each piece of gear dropping, regardless of what gear players already have....
Unfortunately, Bungie’s stream did little to convince Destiny 2 fans that the game’s rewards system has improved. While showcasing a new Public Event that sees fireteams unlocking areas of the Infinite Forest and completing some involved objectives, Bungie made it a point to say the activity would be more rewarding. Then, when the fireteam completed the Heroic Public Event, two chests appeared and the player on-stream earned two Mercury Tokens and one Rare (Blue) Engram....
