Destiny Update - 12/08/2015 - 2.1.0 : The one with Sparrow Racing League

[The3rdWalker 1,271]

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New!

• The SRL event is live in the Tower until December 29th
• Talk to Amanda Holliday to get started on Sparrow Racing Quests and Bounties
• Race to unlock new SRL rewards
• Check out Eververse for a new stock of items

Classes
General

• Fixed some issues where the player could sometimes get stuck in a slow sprint speed
• Players can now use charged melee attacks while tethered by Hunter's Shadowshot ability

Titan
An in-depth overview of Titan changes

Sunbreaker
Melee

• Titan Melee: Extended Titan Melee range (+12.5%)
• Sunstrike: Decreased DOT Time (6.5s -> 5.5s)

Super

• Hammer of Sol: Reduced Damage Resistance during Super (-9.09%)
• Hammer of Sol: Slowed Hammer travel speed by (-1.32%)
• Hammer of Sol: Reduced the ability to create never ending chain of explosions

Passives

• Forgemaster: Reduced Splash damage detonation radius multiplier) (-20%)
• Flameseeker: Turned down Hammer tracking bonus (-25%)
• Flameseeker: Removed +1 Recovery, and +1 Agility stat bonuses
• Fleetfire: Addeded +1 Agility stat
• Firekeeper: Added +1 Recovery stat
• Cauterize: Added cooldown (0s->3s)

Movement

• Catapult Lift: Faster Initial velocity (+5%)

Striker
Melee

• Titan Melee: Extended Titan Melee range (+12.5%)
• Storm Fist: Increased base damage (+18.2%)
• Overload: Now also provides faster melee recharge (+50%)
• Discharge: Additional Damage (+7.69%)
• Discharge: Changed AOE to spherical shape
• Amplify: Increased Super energy bonus (+30%)

Passives

• Headstrong: Now also provides Faster Sprint
• Transfusion: Improved cooldown (5s->2s)
• Unstoppable: Now provides +2 Armor (+1 additional)
• Unstoppable: Increased damage resistance (+25%)
• Juggernaut: Improved Shield health (+14.3%)
• Juggernaut: Now works when airborne

Movement

• Catapult Lift: Faster Initial velocity (+5%)

Defender
Melee

• Titan Melee: Extended Titan Melee range (+12.5%)

Super

• Ward of Dawn: Recharged Grenade and Melee Abilities on Super cast

Movement

• Catapult Lift: Faster Initial velocity (+5%)

 

 

 

 

 

Weapons

An in-depth overview of Weapon changes

Auto Rifles

• Small increase to base damage
• Low RoF (Suros Regime, An Answering Chord): 3% increase from previous base damage
• Med RoF (Zhalo Supercell, Paleocontact JPK-43): 7% increase from previous base damage
• High RoF (Arminius-D, Necrochasm): 4% increase from previous base damage

Pulse Rifles

• Reduced base damage
• Low RoF (The Messenger, Spare Change): 9% reduction from previous base damage
• Med RoF (Hawksaw, No Time To Explain, Red Death): 8% reduction from previous base damage
• High RoF (Bad Juju): 8% reduction from previous base damage
• Highest RoF (Grasp of Marok): 2% reduction from previous base damage
• Reduced damage falloff to start between Auto Rifle and Hand Cannon ranges
• A low range Pulse Rifle will have shorter damage falloff than an average Hand Cannon
• A high range Pulse Rifle will have farther damage falloff than an average Hand Cannon
• Increased base damage against AI combatants by roughly 5%

Hand Cannons

• Increased ADS Accuracy for more reliable shooting at close to medium range

Shotguns

• Reduced damage falloff to start at melee lunge ranges
• Low range falloff starts at standard melee lunge
• High range falloff starts at Blink Strike lunge
• Final damage falloff extends 0.5 meters longer for a smoother drop
• Slower ready/put away time for all shotguns
• Additional recoil on weapon fire for all Stability values
• Slower reload speed for all Reload stat values
• Slower time to Aim Down Sights speed for all shotguns
• Slower movement speed when shotgun is held. Walk and Aim Down Sights movement is affected. Sprint is unaffected
• Add 2 frames delay when firing out of sprint
• Increased base damage against AI combatants by roughly 5%
• Fixed Kneepad perk on Hakke shotguns

Fusion Rifles

• Increased Charge Speed on fast charging Fusion Rifles. Reduce burst damage to compensate
• Fusion rifles behave more predictably based on player state
• Reduced Hip Fire Stability for all fusions
• Increased ADS and Crouched Stability for all fusions
• Reduction in carried inventory for all fusion rifles
• 10% increase to PvE damage bonus to offset

Sniper Rifles

• Extended Sniper Rifle damage falloff so damage only reduces on very long range shots
• Luck in the Chamber on Omolon Sniper Rifles now only buffs precision damage

Sidearms

• Increased ready speed for all Sidearms

Swords

• Arc and Void sword guard abilities can now survive a single Hammer of Sol

Exotics
The First Curse

• The First Curse perk now refills the magazine when activated, provides better Stability, better Target Acquisition, and damage falloff starts further out while the perk remains active
• +25 to First Curse base range
• Fixed a bug where The First Curse perk would deactivate if the player summoned their Ghost
• Boost to Imprecation base range and Magazine Size

Hawkmoon

• Reduced base Range by 20
• Lucky bullets from Luck in the Chamber and Holding Aces now deal 1.2x bonus damage (was 1.3x bonus damage)

The Chaperone

• Reduced base damage. Increase precision damage scalar.

Dragon’s Breath

• Remove Pyromancer and Tripod perks
• Replaced with Surplus and Who’s Next
• Add intrinsic perk Napalm: Rocket fires on a remote detonation trigger
• Hold to trigger to fire, release trigger to detonate
• Detonation drops a Solar Damage napalm canister
• Reduced projectile speed to help timing of the trigger release. Reduce detonation radius of initial rocket. Reduce mag size to 1, increase Inventory

Fabian Strategy

• Front Lines perk on Fabian Strategy no longer buffs Rate of Fire as a bonus modifier
• Front Lines now increases the base Rate of Fire stat to highest speed
• Damage per bullet is offset to match the High RoF archetype
• Remove Extended Mag perk and replaced with Flared Magwell
• Remove Small Bore perk and replaced with Rifled Barrel
• Increased base Reload and base Stability on the weapon to help offset the benefits the removed stat upgrade were providing

Black Spindle

• Removed scope upgrades from Black Spindle talent grid (Spindle only has one scope) and replaced with Barrel upgrades

Super Good Advice

• Reduced chance that SGA returns ammo on missed shot by 20%
• Added a chance for SGA to pull inventory ammo into magazine on landed shot

Sleeper Simulant

• Maximum inventory ammo buffed (from 7 -> 9)
• Ammo swap exploit removed (weapon no longer converts one ammo from a different heavy weapon to a full inventory)
• Inventory no longer benefits from Fusion Rifle armor perks, but does benefit from Heavy Ammo armor perks

Armor
General

• Exotic Collector's Edition class armor may now be Infused and now has the Life Exotic perk to permit use with other Exotic Armor
• Fixed an issue where some Rare Leg armor was not granting its bonus ammo perks to certain exotics
• Fixed an issue where the Warlock Helm armor Salicin Fen II so it no longer uses a leg armor talent grid

Exotics
Taikonaut

• No longer turns off tracking for rocket launchers that have tracking

ATS/8 Tarantella

• Arc Damage Reduction applies to vehicles

Achlyophage Symbiote

• Time you can have golden gun active is reduced

Nothing Manacles

• Slightly turned down the tracking on the scatter grenade

No Backup Plans

• Shotgun activating force barrier only works for defender titans

Skull of Dire Ahamkara

• Has been added to the Exotic Blueprint Collection

 

Activities
Hive Ship

• Various chests around the Hiveship will now grant Hadium Flakes instead of Wormspore

Strikes

• Will of Crota strike has been added to the Vanguard Strikes and Vanguard Heroic Strikes playlists

Nightfall

• Nightfalls now awards +500 Vanguard Rep on first completion per character per week

 

Crucible
General

• 3 of Coins are now applicable in Crucible playlists at match completions

Playlists

• Zone Control scoreboard now sorts players based on "Advantage Kills" (kills when their team holds 2+ zones)
• Inferno Rumble now has the correct tooltip information
• Mercy Rule no longer applies to the Rumble playlist
• Rumble playlist must now be entered as a solo player
• Classic rumble will continue to allow Fireteams up to 3

 

Bounties

• "Returning Victor" weekly bounty has been removed from rotation
• Fixed some issues where some bounties were not accurately reflecting the playlist/game type they must be completed in

 

Maps
Aslyum

• Heavy Ammo spawn locations have been moved away from the center of the map
• Fixed an issue with a small hole in the environment

Black Shield

• Adjusted Alpha Team's Rift spawn location to make it slightly easier for Bravo to score

Crossroads

• Fixed an issue where the teleporter would break for a player until they respawned

 

Frontier

• Fixed some issues where players were able to get out of environment

Memento

• Fixed some issues where players were spawning in bad locations
• Fixed some issues where players were able to get out of environment
• Adjusted spawn locations for Rift game mode

Pantheon

• Fixed some issues where players were spawning in view of an enemy

The Burning Shrine

• Fixed some issues where players were able to get out of environment
• Fixed some issues where players were spawning in view of an enemy

Vertigo

• Fixed an issue where some players able to perch in an unfair position on an interior wall
• Fixed some issues where players were able to get out of environment

 

Items

• Dead Orbit, FWC, New Monarchy, and Eris now accept certain planetary materials in exchange for their respective faction reputation
• Petra now accepts Etheric Light in exchange for her respective reputation
• Year 1 Dead Orbit, FWC, and New Monarchy ships may now be obtained from their respective faction reward packages
• Frontier Ghost Shell can now be infused

Inventory

• Discarding an Exotic Shard now takes longer button press time to prevent mistaken discards
• Audio
• Fixed an issue where all sound was too loud across the game

Technical

• Fixed a rare crash on Xbox One during sign on

 

News > Destiny Updates

[The3rdWalker 1,271]

This patch was surprisingly really good and gave some fixes to things people wanted. Reputation experience is added back to nightfalls made me happy, I will actually run them again.

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

Was that really 18+ Gb??

[The3rdWalker 1,271]

So that's actually a glitch. The patch was 200mb. The last patch we had showed 18gb for me also. I think it's a problem with the digital versions of the game. It tries to redo enlist everything- but I'm not sure.

[Sennex 1,903]

IDK why they keep messing with Hawkmoon

 

Also, while I am glad they are tweaking Fabian Strategy(Sadly, I still don't expect it to be good), I am sad that they tweaked Sunbreaker

[JsinOwl 644]

You don't play much Crucible man, Sunbreakers needed a nerf. When you hear that hammer sound, you fucking run, because you have zero chance. It's not so much the hammer as how incredibly indestructible a Sunbreakers is. They can soak a Golden Blast or an Arc Blade strike and keep right on trucking.

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

You don't play much Crucible man, Sunbreakers needed a nerf. When you hear that hammer sound, you fucking run, because you have zero chance. It's not so much the hammer as how incredibly indestructible a Sunbreakers is. They can soak a Golden Blast or an Arc Blade strike and keep right on trucking.

This in spades!

[Sennex 1,903]

Don't make me post my old gif

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

Don't make me post my old gif

Anything would be better than someone who can't figure out breaking a cookie to get it in the glass!!

[Sennex 1,903]

Anything would be better than someone who can't figure out breaking a cookie to get it in the glass!!

 

LOLZ

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