The Gamers Nation: Get Ready for Forsaken with Destiny 2 Update 2.0, Get All the Patch Notes Here

Friday, 31 August 2018

Get Ready for Forsaken with Destiny 2 Update 2.0, Get All the Patch Notes Here

Here we go! Destiny 2’s second year is about to begin. In preparation for the big Forsaken expansion on September 4, 2018, Bungie has released Destiny 2 update 2.0. More than just readying the next expansion’s worth of content, this update also comes with the biggest set of changes to date. If you haven’t played Destiny 2 since launch, now’s the perfect time to come back (especially being free with PlayStation Plus) to experience all of the new changes listed below.

Some of the highlights include a complete rework of the weapon system, giving players a lot more freedom to play the way that they want to. Due to these changes, the ammo economy has also been adjusted to account for the new loadouts. Tons of weapons, armor, and abilities were buffed, with just a few nerfs here and there to help iron out some of the wrinkles and power spikes that were overkill.

The Director has been updated to account for the new Forsaken locations in the Tangled Shore and the Dreaming City. It also changed the way that Strike playlists work, including the Nightfall, and added a Heroic Story playlist so that players can revisit campaign missions on a harder difficulty.

On particularly interesting change is an adjustment to the contrast and saturation to better fit the darker theme in Destiny 2: Forsaken. If you jump back into the Tower or run around Mars, you may notice a subtle shift in the way the game is visually presented now.

Perhaps most sad of all, Cayde-6 has left the Tower to make his last stand in the Prison of Elders, an event we’ll see come to fruition next week.

There is a known issue of Forsaken loot dropping early, but as the expansion itself launches on Tuesday, Bungie is unlikely to make any adjustments or fixes.

It’s a long list, so you’d better hop in and get reading.

Destiny 2 Update 2.0 Patch Notes

Service Announcements:

Destiny 2 Update 2.0 will bring many changes to the Destiny 2 experience in preparation for Forsaken. Some features may not be fully operational until September 4.
This is the final week of Season 3. Season 4, “Season of the Outlaw,” begins on September 4.

Player Character

General

Subclass screen updated in preparation for Forsaken

Weapons and Armor

Exotic Armor

Hunter

Orpheus Rig
- - No longer grants Super energy on bloom and damage sharing
  - Raised base Super amount that you receive from tethers to create a more consistent and less exponential experience
  - Super energy given is scaled up when more powerful enemies are tethered
  - When used with Moebius Quiver, grants additional tether shots
    - - Does not grant ability energy on tethering targets
Celestial Nighthawk
- - Now grants 33% of your Super energy back if the target is killed by the shot
Wormhusk Crown
- - No longer starts regeneration of health and shields
  - Instead grants a larger health and shield bump at the beginning of dodge instead of at the end
Knucklehead Radar
- - Enhanced radar resolution while crouching
Lucky Pants
- - Extended duration of Illegally Modded Holster
Shinobu’s Vow
- - Skip grenade returns some energy when it damages an enemy

Warlock

The Stag
- - Rift dropped from death now has standard rift duration
Eye of Another World
- - Ability recharge bonus increased
Nezarac’s Sin
- - Increased duration of Abyssal Extractors
  - Rapid kills extend the duration up to 20 seconds
Skull of Dire Ahamkara
- - Increased Super energy gained from Nova Bomb kills
  - Killing higher-ranked enemies now rewards more Super energy
Transversive Steps
- - Enhanced mobility
  - After sprinting for a short time, your currently equipped weapon is automatically reloaded
Winter’s Guile
- - Tuned damage and duration per stack to be more consistent

Titan

Mk. 44 Stand Asides
- - Overshield granted by sprinting appears faster
Hallowfire Heart
- - Base cooldown reduction when Super is uncharged in addition to CDR when charged
Helm of Saint-14
- - Grants allies an overshield for a short duration when passing through Ward of Dawn
Mask of the Quiet One
- - Increased energy gain from incoming damage
  - While critically wounded, health is granted from kills
Crest of Alpha Lupi
- - Healing pulse is more effective
Peacekeepers
- - Increased movement speed when wielding an SMG
Wormgod’s Caress
- - Tuned damage and duration per stack to be more consistent

Weapons
Developer Insight: With Forsaken, we’ve made a major change to the systems—the freedom to slot powerful weapons in either the Kinetic slot or Energy slot. This fundamental change necessitated a fresh look at a player’s damage output in both PvE and PvP.

Primary ammo weapons and Special ammo weapons may exist in either the Kinetic or Energy slot.
Heavy ammo weapons can exist only in the Power slot.
Ammo type and damage type are now fixed attributes of a specific weapon.
Ammo distribution models updated entirely to support weapon slot changes.
Energy weapons no longer deal bonus damage to active enemy Supers.

Ammo Economy

Primary Ammo Weapons
- - Hand Cannons
  - Scout Rifles
  - Auto Rifles
  - Pulse Rifles
  - Sidearms
  - Submachine Guns
Special Ammo Weapons
- - Fusion Rifles
  - Shotguns
  - Sniper Rifles
  - Trace Rifles
  - Single Shot Grenade Launchers
Heavy Ammo Weapons
- - Drum-Loaded Grenade Launchers
  - Rocket launchers
  - Linear Fusion Rifles
  - Swords

The following Year 1 weapons have moved to the Kinetic slot

Baligant
Shepherd’s Watch
Hawthorne’s Field-Forged Shotgun
Alone as a God
Perfect Paradox
The Frigid Jackal
Silicon Neuroma

The following Year 1 weapons are now locked to Solar damage

IKELOS_SR_v1.0.1
IKELOS_SG_V1.0.1

The following Exotic weapons did not change slot and still use Heavy ammo

Tractor Cannon
The Legend of Acrius
D.A.R.C.I.
Whisper of the Worm

Developer Insight: The tuning of Destiny weapons and abilities is inexorably tied to the systems that we build upon. Ultimately our goal is to still provide gameplay challenge despite a global increase in player damage output due to the new systems introduced. To properly support the higher uptime of Shotguns, Snipers, and Fusions, the following changes were made to all weapons in the game.

Primary Ammo Weapons

Increased precision damage output of Primary ammo weapons
Increased in-air accuracy
Decreased body shot damage in PvE
- - Decreased Auto Rifle damage required to stagger enemies to compensate for reduced body damage

Special Ammo Weapons

Reduced damage output of Special ammo weapons
- - Increased damage of Trace Rifles
  - Trace Rifles now disintegrate defeated enemies

Heavy Ammo Weapons

Grenade Launchers:
- - Increased damage and blast radius
Linear Fusion Rifle
- - Increased damage
  - Reduced time to charge and fire
  - Reduced aim assist
Swords
- - Increased ammo
  - Increased damage mitigation when guarding

Exotics

Sleeper Simulant
- - Fixed issue where charge time was not displayed properly on weapon
  - Magazine size increased
  - Reduced base damage
Borealis
- - Bonus damage after breaking a shield increased on precision hit
  - Still grants bonus damage on body shots
Prometheus Lens
- - No longer generates Special ammo on kill
Tractor Cannon
- - Repulsor Force’s Weaken effect now also increases non void damage by 33%, but no longer stacks with other weaken effects. (Shadowshot,Hammer Strike, etc).

Perks

Explosive Payload
- - Reduced bonus damage output
Ambitious Assassin
- - Increased time allotted between kills to earn bonus ammunition
Backup Plan
- - Decreased amount of time weapon must be stowed for perk to become available
Box Breathing
- - Reduced time required for perk to activate
  - Reduced precision bonus
  - Perk now resets after firing
High-Impact Reserves
- - Damage bonus granted earlier in magazine
Grave Robber
- - Now reloads your entire magazine
  - Primary ammo is granted directly to magazine
  - Heavy and Special ammo is transferred from reserves to magazine
Field Prep
- - Increased inventory reserves
  - Increased stow, ready, and reload speed when crouched
Auto-Loading Holster
- - Reduced time required for perk to activate when weapon is stowed.
Opening Shot
- - Increased falloff range (weapon does more damage at longer ranges)
Triple Tap
- - Grants ammo directly to the magazine; no longer pulls from reserves.

Mods

Starting with 2.0.0.1 (9/4/2018), Year 1 mods can no longer be inserted into gear or weapons. You will no longer be able to insert any mods into Year 1 gear or change the elemental damage type come next week.

Misc

Fixed an issue where Rocket Launcher stability stat was not working as intended
Fixed an issue where the Impact Casing perk on Grenade Launchers did not function
Swords now have the ability to accept shaders

Abilities

General

Visual layout of perks has changed in subclass paths
Increased base Guardian melee damage
It now takes two melee hits to defeat an enemy Guardian in PvP
Increased the base damage of Seismic Strike, Hammer Strike, and Shield Bash
Adjusted active Super bonus damage resistance values
- - Added a timer to the status effect for Healing Rift, Empowering Rift, and Rally Barricade to communicate the time remaining before they expire

Grenades

Axion Bolt
- - Increased base damage
  - Increased the amount of time it takes for the tracking strength to lower
Flashbang
- - Increased base damage
Incendiary Grenade
- - Increased base damage
Storm Grenade
- - Increased base damage
Scatter Grenade
- - Re-tuned range and falloff ranges for the detonations for more reliable damage
Magnetic, Fusion, and Flux Grenade
- - Increased base damage
  - Damage is now the same whether a target has been stuck or simply walked over grenade when detonating
  - Magnetic Grenade now detonates a second time only if it’s attached to a target
  - The second detonation no longer only occurs on the grenade itself and will now be applied to each individual target hit by the initial detonation
Skip Grenade
- - Increased impact damage of each Skip Drone impact for a higher total potential damage
Voidwall
- - Increased the damage of initial Void Wall wave

Hunter

General
- - Marksman’s Dodge is now considered a reload; it can interact with Kill Clip, Rat King, etc.
Gunslinger
- - Practice Makes Perfect perk now grants Super energy on throwing knife kills
  - Increased the duration of all versions of Golden Gun
Nightstalker
- - Once activated, the Shadowshot tether will find enemy targets more reliably within its search radius

Titan

General
- - Rally Barricade no longer requires players to take cover to reload—it now feeds ammo to your magazine over time
Striker
- - With Terminal Velocity enabled, the opening Fists of Havoc slam no longer leaves a lingering damage area
  - Lowered the health threshold for triggering Knockout so that it triggers sooner, to keep up with the PvP lethality changes
  - Increased the lunge range of the Fists of Havoc melee attack
Sunbreaker
- - Sol Invictus will now trigger on burn kills
Sentinel
- - Increased Ward of Dawn health significantly
  - Increased the amount of health provided by the Ward of Dawn overshield
  - Sentinel Shield Super
    - - Increased Shield Throw projectile speed
      - Shield Throw no longer loses damage after bouncing or ricocheting off targets
      - Faster attack animations for grounded melee attacks
      - Increased Sentinel Super damage in PvE

Warlock

General
- - Increased Healing Rift effectiveness
  - Empowering Rift now increases precision damage (previously, bonus damage was capped at the weapon’s precision damage in PvP)
Stormcaller
- - Increased the PvP damage of Stormtrance
  - Increased Arc Soul’s projectile speed
Dawnblade
- - Increased Dawnblade projectile speed and base tracking strength
Voidwalker
- - Significantly reduced the length of time that Blink disables your radar and HUD
  - Chaos Accelerant no longer costs Super energy to use
  - Increased the damage bonus granted by Chaos Accelerant for each Voidwalker grenade

PvE

Daily Heroic Story Playlist

Year 1 meditations have been retired and replaced with a Heroic Story playlist
These will share modifiers with Heroic adventures and strikes
Forsaken campaign missions will be featured at 500 Power, while Year 1 campaign missions will be featured at 200 Power

Destinations

Wanted escapees from the Prison of Elders now roam the open world
- - They will not drop rewards until September 4, 2018
Increased the difficulty of Lost Sectors
- - Example: EDZ Lost Sectors are now 240 Power

Adventures

Replayable adventures have been removed from destination vendors
Heroic adventures have been added to all destinations
Destinations without Heroic adventures before Forsaken will have them available during their Flashpoint weeks
A random Heroic adventure will be available each day
Mercury and Mars Heroic adventures are unchanged
Heroic adventures will share similar modifiers with daily Heroics and strikes

Strikes

Vanguard Strikes
- - Heroic Strike playlists have been retired for all players and replaced with a single content-appropriate playlist:
    - - Legacy
        
        Strikes playlist matches the legacy playlist that is currently available in Year 1
        
        Recommended Power 200
        
        Will have modifiers
      - Forsaken
        
        Strike playlist has three difficulties to select from:
        
        Recommended Power 300 (not available when your level is 40 Power higher)
        
        Recommended Power 400 (not available when your level is 40 Power higher)
        
        Recommended Power 500 (always available)
        
        Will have modifiers
Nightfall
- - Retired Prestige difficulty
  - Increased base difficulty for Nightfall activities
  - Players can choose one of three Nightfall strikes each week
  - Players may select only the strikes for which they own the appropriate expansions
  - Legacy players will still be able to enable modifiers via the Challenge Card, but scoring will be disabled in the 270 Power Nightfall

Raids

Developer Insight: Our goal with the changes was to provide players with an opportunity for heroic moments where they can carry the fireteam to victory at the end of the encounter. Players are still incentivized to resurrect their teammates as quickly as possible but brings back the chance for one player to bring down the boss while everyone else is dead.

Revive Mechanics

A fireteam has a total of 2:30 seconds to revive fallen team mates during a given Raid encounter
- This time is only refreshed if a fireteam wipes
If a player is not revived within the time remaining, the fireteam is wiped to “Shared Fate”
Each player has one token that they may use to revive a player
Multiple players being dead does not increase the speed of the timer

General

Escapees from the Prison of Elders now appear in strikes, Lost Sectors, and public areas

Crucible

General

New ammo model for maps to accommodate weapon slots

Items & Economy

General

Collections (emblems and Exotics) that are found in the vault will be unavailable during the week of August 28–September 4, but they will return with 2.0.0.1 in the upcoming Collections tab
Exotics will now always drop at or above your Guardian’s Power level
Year 1 challenges will no longer grant destination materials or tokens
Destination materials can be earned via bounties, available from their respective destination vendors
Anything that previously granted destination tokens or Rare materials will grant Common destination materials moving forward
Destination tokens and Rare destination materials are no longer granted, but they can still be redeemed for reputation if you have them in your inventory

Xûr

His will is not his own
- - No longer displays a vendor icon on destination maps
  - No longer tied to Flashpoints
He has a clear purpose but cannot explain it—forgive him
- - Fated Engrams grant only pre-Forsaken Exotics

Tower

Increased vault size to 500 slots
Players can now dismantle shaders in stacks of five in Master Rahool’s vendor screen

Cayde-6

Cayde-6 has left the Tower to investigate disturbances in the Reef
Removed Treasure Maps and Scout Reports

Technical

Localization

Added Korean language support to consoles

User Interface

Updated title screen to reflect Forsaken launch

Director
The Director screen has been updated to reconfigure the way challenges, milestones, Flashpoints, and quests are presented:

Challenges
- - The Year 1 challenge system has been removed and converted into bounties, which will be available through their respective destination and activity vendors on September 4
  - Bounties are displayed in the Pursuits bucket of the inventory screen
  - In Year 2 (Forsaken), “challenges” now refer to the bonuses that grant rewards on a daily or weekly basis
  - These can be seen in the Director via new indicators on a playlist or destination when available
Milestones
- - The milestone tray will now be limited to showing specific quests and quest steps
    - - One-time completion objectives, such as campaign missions, subclass missions, and strikes introductions will remain as milestones
      - Players who do not have any active milestones will not see a milestones blade being displayed
  - Many Year 1 milestones have been converted into challenges
    - - These challenges will continue to grant powerful rewards
Weekly and daily milestones
- - Previous weekly and daily milestones, such as strike completion and Crucible, will now appear as weekly or daily challenges on their associated playlists
Flashpoints
- - The Flashpoint milestone will now appear as a challenge visible on its respective destination vendor
    - - Flashpoint progress has been expanded to include Lost Sectors and Heroic adventures
Exotic quests
- - Exotic quests are now displayed in the Inventory tab under the Pursuits bucket
  - They can be recovered at the quests’ associated vendor if abandoned
  - Exotic quests now correctly use Exotic coloring in the UI
  - Icons for Exotic quests are now appropriately represented with Exotic rarity
World quests
- - World quests are now displayed in the Inventory tab under the Pursuits bucket
Updated the Director with a new theme and layout to better represent destinations for Year 2
- - Presell is in the Reef location
  - The “Leviathan” raid and raid lairs have been moved to Nessus

Character Screen

Weapon slots
- - Weapon tooltips now display ammo types
    - - White ammo icon – “Primary”
      - Green ammo icon – “Special”
      - Purple ammo icon – “Heavy”
  - The HUD will show a color based on the associated ammo type next to each weapon on the weapon tray
Subclass screen
- - The path name is now being displayed along the bottom of the character art
Collections
- - Collections are not available until September 4
Triumphs
- - Triumphs are not available until September 4
Gear tooltips
- - Perks are displayed by name only on tooltips for Ghost Shells, weapons, and armor
  - Exotic perks will display a short description

General

Adjusted contrast and saturation to match Forsaken theme, throughout Destiny 2
- Players may adjust their brightness manually through the Settings menu

Which change in Destiny 2 Update 2.0 are you most excited for? Will you be playing Forsaken next week?

Destiny 2: Forsaken launches on September 4, 2018.