Warmind Launch

• Warmind is now available

• Season 3 has begun

Player Character

General

• Players who own Warmind may now reach level 30 and Power level 385

Emotes

• Multi-emote is now available, and players can now configure all four emote options with player-selected emotes

• Emotes are now stored on the Multi-Emote page of the character inventory

• The emote collection has been removed from the Vault, as emotes are now stored on the character

Sandbox

Abilities

• Additional grenade charges granted by some Subclass trees or Exotic Perks now charge at the same rate as the primary grenade (was considerably slower)

Exotic Weapons – General

• Implemented Exotic Masterwork weapons

Exotic Kinetic Weapons

• Sweet Business

• Increased the ammo gained when players pick up Kinetic ammo

• Increased ammo inventory

• Vigilance Wing

• Recovery is set to maximum while the Last Stand perk is active

• The Jade Rabbit

• +20 stability

• Rat King

• Enhanced the total stat benefits of running with a pack

• Benefits are front-loaded; there are now larger damage benefits when two people equip the Exotic, with slight damage increases for each additional player

• The Rat Pack perk can now activate and stack while Rat King is stowed

• Added HUD notification text for when the Rat Pack perk is active

• Increased ammo inventory

• Added full auto

• Crimson

• Refined damage, rate of fire, and recovery time between bursts

• Increased ammo inventory

• Sturm and Drang

• Sturm

• Increased base stability stat

• Overcharged rounds from Drang now deal 80% bonus damage

• Added HUD status notification and visual feedback for when the magazine is overcharged

• Drang

• Kills with Drang reload Sturm and add one overcharged round even if Sturm's mag is not full

• Increased magazine size

• Now has the Rampage perk

Exotic Energy Weapons

• Hard Light

• Can now be manually reloaded to change the damage type

• Hits after its rounds bounce now deal double damage

• Graviton Lance

• Now fires two-round bursts

• Increased stability

• Reduced recoil on its final round in a burst

• Cosmology explosion deals more damage

• Cosmology explosion now spawns secondary Void projectiles

• Enemies eliminated float up and back, detonating closer to their death location

• Improved aim assist

• Skyburner’s Oath

• +10 aim assist

• +30 increased handling

• Now has the Explosive Payload perk

• Hip fire now lobs slower-moving projectiles with tracking

• Riskrunner

• Now deals more damage while Arc Conductor is active

• Enhanced Arc damage resistance to 50% while Arc Conductor is active and Riskrunner is in the player’s hands

• Arc damage resistance is now enabled against Guardians in the Crucible

• Arc Conductor can be activated while the weapon is stowed

• Added Arc FX to the player while Arc Conductor is active

• Sunshot

• Increased damage and radius of kill explosion

• Coldheart

• Damage now ramps up faster

• Reduced incoming flinch

• Increased precision modifier to 1.4x (was 1.05x)

• Prometheus Lens

• Increased magazine size to 100 rounds

• Deals more area damage and less beam damage

• Increased precision modifier to 1.4x (was 1.05x)

• Fighting Lion

• Deals more blast damage and less direct hit damage

• Increased ammo inventory

• Increased spawn ammo

• Kills with this weapon guarantee Energy ammo drops

Exotic Power Weapons

• Tractor Cannon

• Weapon damage now suppresses targets

• Weapon damage now makes targets more susceptible to Void damage (+50%) for 10 seconds

• D.A.R.C.I.

• Reduced flinch

• Reduced zoom on scope

• Increased precision damage to locked-on targets (up to 4x)

• Increased aim assist

• Borealis

• Reduced flinch

• After breaking the shield of an enemy (a combatant or a Guardian using a Super) with the matching elemental damage type, it deals double damage for the remainder of the magazine

• The Prospector

• Grenades now stick to surfaces

• Grenades now cause burn damage over time

Weapon Perks

• Pulse Monitor

• Now reloads 35% of the magazine (up from 17.5%)

• Now can activate while the weapon is not equipped

• Precision Frame

• Fixed an issue that was causing inconsistent recoil reduction on precision-category weapons

• The pattern is now more consistent as the weapon kicks

• Lightweight Grenade Launchers

• Adjusted breach-load Grenade Launchers so that they can fire sooner out of a reload, and fire sooner out of a sprint cancel

Legendary Weapons

• Precision Hand Cannons

• Adjusted the ADS firing animation

• Linear Fusion Rifles

• Increased precision damage modifier to 2.0x (was 1.5x)

Activities

PvE

• Changes to outgoing player damage scaling vs. higher-level combatants

• Higher-level combatants take longer to kill if you’re below their level

• Increased the outgoing and incoming damage scaling, from capping at a 40 Power level delta to a 50 Power level delta

• Over-level combatants continue to increase in difficulty up to 50 Power levels above the player

• When enemies are 50 Power levels or higher above a player, they will be immune to damage

• Over-level, immune combatants will display a “??” icon in their nameplate

• Updated the damage dealt to combatant Energy shields from the following weapon damage types:

• 3x damage dealt from Energy weapons of a matching damage type

• 2x damage dealt from Energy weapons of a nonmatching damage type

• No bonus damage from Kinetic weapons

Strikes

• Heroic strikes now feature rotating modifiers:

• At any given time, the following will be active on the Heroic strikes playlist:

• 1x Elemental Burn (weekly rotation)

• 1x Advantage (daily rotation)

• 1x Disadvantage (daily rotation)

• In addition to the above, the baseline difficulty of Heroic strikes is boosted to be closer to Nightfall difficulty

• Legendary Nightfall Strike Challenge Card

• Can be obtained from Xûr (at no cost) by replacing your Rare Challenge Card

• The Legendary tier adds additional slots for new Advantages and Disadvantages

• Fixed an issue in which scoring did not add points for killing the bosses in the Nightfall strikes “A Garden World” and “Savathûn’s Song”

• Fixed an issue where the Nightfall score summary was only displaying kills since last death

• Now displays the score for entire activity completion

• Fixed an issue in which the Unbroken Challenge completed for all fireteam members even if the clear criteria had not been met

• Fixed an issue where strike scoring granted points for players in public bubbles, Lost Sectors, or other unintended areas

Raid

• Weekly lockouts for raid rewards are now class-based

• Players running multiple instances of the same class will receive rewards only the first time they run the raid in a week

Tower

• Seasonal Ranks are now available for the Vanguard, Crucible, Trials of the Nine, and Iron Banner

• Increased Vault size from 200 items to 300 items

• Fixed an issue with collections where event emblems would not show up unless players owned Curse of Osiris

• Fixed an issue where Cayde-6 refused to offer all three Treasure Maps for Mercury

Items and Economy

General

• Milestones now award a more balanced distribution of Exotics between weapons and armor, but overall they award Exotics less often than before

• Fixed an issue where powerful engrams could not draw from Exotics released at Destiny 2 launch

• Fixed an issue where the first powerful engram opened after each sign-in was guaranteed to produce an Exotic

• Fixed an issue with slow load times for Uncommon gear

• Mods and shaders can now be dismantled from the Item Details screen

• Items can now be dismantled from the Postmaster and the Vault

• Season 2 Exotic Ghost Shells that use destination perks now have a chance to have Hellas Basin destination perks when initially awarded

Character Inventory

• Created a “Pursuits” category in the character inventory to contain pursuit tracking items, such as those associated with Exotic quests

• Items in the Pursuits category are specific to each character and not shared across the account

Eververse

• Players now may receive one Bright Engram per character (account limit of three) from Tess for the seasonal milestone

• Increased the number of items available for purchase via Bright Dust from 14 to 18

• Additional slots will feature shaders and transmat effects

• Fixed an issue where players could purchase bundles or engrams when their inventory and Postmaster were full

• Fixed an issue where items rewarded from Eververse Gleaming Boons would not display the correct icon within the Postmaster screen

• Added the Prismatic Matrix to Eververse

• At launch, 10 Eververse items from Season 3 are featured each week that the Prismatic Matrix is available

• An account's first well-rested level-up each week grants one Prismatic Facet, allowing one free use of the Prismatic Matrix

• Players may hold up to three Prismatic Facets at a time

• Additional activations may be purchased for 200 Silver each

• This item inventory is based on a knockout list and will not drop duplicates

• Items earned via Bright Engrams, Bright Dust, or previous Matrix activations will contribute to the knockout list

Clans

Progression

• A new set of clan perks is available for you to earn in Season 3

• A new Clan Banner Staff has been rewarded to those who hit clan rank 6 in Season 2

Clan Engrams

• Trials of the Nine and raid clan engrams no longer grant Trials of the Nine or raid weapons

• These now grant Crucible and Vanguard rewards

• Clan Engrams no longer grant rewards above the player’s level when reaching 340 Power

• The Nightfall and Crucible clan engrams will grant rewards up to 340 Power

Guided Games

• A new set of Guided Games tickets has been granted to all players

• Players can earn a Leviathan Guide emblem that tracks the number of raid encounters and raids they complete as a Guide

• The emblem rewards an aura for 14 days when completing a raid as a Guide

• Once a week while the aura is active, guiding a raid to completion grants a Bright Engram

Crucible

General

• Private Matches are now available to all players

• Players must own Curse of Osiris or Warmind to play maps from those respective releases in Private Matches

• Added a Crucible ranking system (see details here)

• Added a fireteam matchmaking system (see details here)

Maps

• Curse of Osiris and Warmind maps are now available to all players in matchmade Crucible playlists

• New Warmind maps: Meltdown and Solitude

• Added spawn points to Altar of Flame, the Dead Cliffs, and Endless Vale

• Added kill volumes to the Burnout to prevent players from escaping the intended playable space

• Fixed a cinematic camera point on the Dead Cliffs for 6v6

Game Modes

• Added “Doubles” to the Weekly Rotating playlist

Audio

Settings

• Added and revised in-game audio options that can be accessed through the Settings menu in Destiny 2: (Help Article)

• SFX Volume

• Dialogue/Cinematics Volume

• Music Volume

• Chat Volume

PC

• Key Mapping

• Secondary key mappings can be assigned through the Settings menu in Destiny 2.

• Key Mappings are now stored per-account by default. There is a setting in the Settings menu to store Key Mappings per-machine instead.

• Text Chat

• Incoming Text Chat messages are now visible by default. There is a mappable key (defaults to 'L') to toggle Text Chat to a minimized state.

• Incoming Text Chat messages now play an audio cue while text chat is in the minimized state. This can be disabled in the Settings menu.

UI

General

• Fixed an issue where the cursor sometimes failed to appear on destination maps

SOURCE

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