A new patch for Destiny 2 has gone live and addresses a number of issues that have popped up since the start of the Lightfall expansion. One of the big changes in this update is an adjustment to the Guardian Ranks system, as Bungie has reduced the required Commendations score needed to climb up the ranks according to its patch notes.
The number of Commendation points needed was criticized by the Destiny 2 community for being excessively high, and Bungie previously mentioned that it would lower the requirements to complete objectives across all Guardian Ranks. Players can no longer offer Commendations to others following a failed mission activity, so if you’ve been spawning into the Wellspring with a fireteam and wiping out your squad with self-inflicted rocket launcher attacks, you won’t be able to farm Commendations any longer.
One of the other big issues affecting Destiny 2 was a problem that caused Guardians to become invisible due to them not being rendered correctly in the game, giving some players an unexpected advantage in PvP. This bug, which resulted in a delay to this season’s Iron Banner, has now been fixed just in time for the return of this week’s Trials of Osiris multiplayer event.
For the new Strand subclass, a number of changes are also being made here. The internal cooldown of the Thread of Ascent Fragment has been increased from two seconds to four seconds and detonations from the Broodweaver’s Mindspun Invocation Aspect should now have an effect on Unstoppable Champions.
For weapons, Bungie has made several tweaks to a number of firearms. Lightfall versions of The Inquisitor and Mindbender’s Ambition Shotguns had the incorrect magazine perks, so these have been addressed, and Titans using the Exotic Synthoceps gauntlets won’t deal the same level of bonus damage when wielding glaives.
An issue where the Radiant effect was not increasing the damage of Strand weapons has also been resolved.
This update comes hot on the heels of a separate fix that went live recently, which tweaked other aspects of the game. The first such fix decreases your chances of spawning into an empty Terminal Overload event, and the second fix has adjusted the Duality dungeon to make farming for Artifice armor less easy. For this week’s patch notes from Bungie, you can find them all below.
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