Destiny

[GamingJones]

Re: Destiny

http://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=12433

[Pezell04x]

Re: Destiny

PATCH NOTES

1.1 : The one about Exotics. And the Raid!

Today's patch includes the long-awaited arrival of Exotics weapon buffs, additional acquisition paths for destination upgrade materials, along with additional changes to exotic gear node upgrading in preparation for the soon-to-be-released expansion, The Dark Below. We're also correcting issues induced by our more recent update to the Raid.

Weapons
Exotics

Exotic Weapons are designed to look, feel, and sound overpowered. At the same time, they are not supposed to break the balance of the game. We hope these weapons challenge the way players think about their loadouts. Exotics will be a constant work in-progress!

General
In preparation for the Dark Below, Exotic Armor and Weapons no longer require Ascendant Materials to upgrade
The final upgrade node of all Exotic Gear will require an Exotic Shard
Exotic Shards can be obtained by one of the following means:

• Dismantling unwanted Exotics
• Purchased from Xur for 7 Strange Coins
• Exotics now start at a higher base Attack value and have a narrowed upgrade range to compensate

Thorn

• Projectiles now briefly highlight targets on impact
• Mark of the Devourer DoT (damage-over-time) upgrade increased against PvE enemy targets
• Reload Speed increased
• Magazine Size increased
• Ammo inventory size increased
• Stability and Weapon Handling increased

Bad Juju

• Magazine Size increased to 8 bursts (was 5)
• Ammo inventory size increased
• String of Curses now also decreases the cooldown of your Super on kill
• Adjusted effects to not block first person reticle

Hard Light

• Stability increased
• Perfect Balance upgrade replaced by Fitted Stock (increases maximum possible weapon Stability)

Suros Regime

• Lowered total damage at the end of the mag on SUROS Regime upgrade to be more in line with the Glass Half Full perk on Legendary Auto Rifles

Monte Carlo

• Stability increased
• Range slightly decreased
• Monte Carlo Method upgrade now also has a chance to fully charge melee ability on kill

MIDA Multi-Tool

• MIDA rounds now have increased knockback against targets in both PvE and PvP

Hawkmoon

• Send It upgrade (which was redundant) replaced by Speed Reload
• Red Death
• Rate of Fire increased slightly, but Burst Damage reduced to compensate

Plan C

• Weapon Handling speed increased
• Player Speed increased while Plan C is in hand

Pocket Infinity

• Speed Reload upgrade replaced by Extended Clip which allows the option to increase magazine size (5 bursts)

Vex Mythoclast

• Attack Power increased to 323 (from 300)
• Base Damage increased, fixing bug we introduced in previous patch
• Enhanced Battery upgrade by Extended Mag (this change still allows for a significant upgrade to Magazine Size, but less than before)

Invective

• Reload Speed increased significantly, auto fires slightly slower

Ice Breaker

• Send It upgrade replaced by Lightweight (which was redundant as Icebreaker already had maximum range)
• New effects for enemies killed by Ice Breaker upgrade

Patience and Time

• Snapshot upgrade replaced by Custom Optics (provides a lower zoom option)

Super Good Advice

• Stability increased

Truth

• Magazine Size increased to 3 (was 1)

Activities
Raid

• Fixed an issue we introduced in a previous patch, in which Atheon did not correctly send 3 players through the time gates
• Fixed an exploit where the Templar could be forced off its platform

Daily Heroic Story

• Destination Materials now drop from completing the Daily Heroic

Bounties

• Removed the ‘Relic Hunter’ Bounty
• Destination Materials now drop from completing the Daily Patrol Bounty

Vendors

• Reduced Cryptarch reputation gain from Engrams, but reputation reward packages now have an increased chance for Legendary Engrams
• Players will now be able to use Vanguard Marks and Crucible Marks to purchase Spinmetal, Relic Iron, Spirit Bloom, and Helium Filaments from the Vanguard and Crucible Quartermasters in the Tower
• Xur now sells a new material, Exotic Shards, to upgrade the final node of Exotics for 7 Strange Coins
• Faction Class Items (ex: FWC Cloak, Dead Orbit Mark, etc.) are now replaced by Faction Emblems in the rank-up reward packages from Faction Vendors

Technical

• Networking fixes, which should reduce the instance of the Bee family of KTOs
• Fixed an issue in which using Xbox One party chat induced a slower frame rate

[Burns11]

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Changing exotics to needing shards we can't get yet is bull****

[DanH35]

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I like that they addressed the party chat slowdown.

[Pezell04x]

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I've only done the raid twice and I've never beat the Templar the correct way.

[Burns11]

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I've only done the raid twice and I've never beat the Templar the correct way.

Only bad thing about templar is that it's going to take longer, the cheese chest only gave shards and they've nerfed the usefulness of those. Also probably means gjallarhorn and weapons of light will be the new method.

[Burns11]

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Only bad thing about templar is that it's going to take longer, the cheese chest only gave shards and they've nerfed the usefulness of those. Also probably means gjallarhorn and weapons of light will be the new method.

Oh, and finally no more chest farming needed, and you now have a solid use for those stupid vanguard marks

[GamingJones]

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I definitely like the way this sounds.

[fishepa]

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Changing exotics to needing shards we can't get yet is bull****

Exotics don't need ascendant materials any more at all. They just use the exotic shard at the final upgrade which can be purchased from Xur for 7 strange coins. The legendaries still need shards/energies to upgrade.

[brent3419]

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10 crucible marks is needed for 20 of the materials like spinmetal


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[Burns11]

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That's my point, if they were going to do this they needed to announce it beforehand and have xur sell the shards before the change went into effect. As it stands, you have the better part of a week before you can upgrade an exotic unless you are sitting of a hoard of exotics to dismantle.

Edit: patch is small, btw, took no time to dl

Edit 2: the patch is two stages, a client update through psn and a 75mb update through client

[The_Wise_One]

Re: Destiny

This update looks like it was taken straight from reddit suggestions. I love the changes on paper.

[Cusefan]

Destiny

This update looks like it was taken straight from reddit suggestions. I love the changes on paper.

Only thing I don't like is the Templar cheese fix, that whole stage already takes way too long as it is. Will be interesting to see how difficult it is on the hard mode, I'm sure if you raiders wait until Friday there will be a new cheese method...

I also wonder of Bad Juju will still be worth it, the low clip size was only half the problem; the low impact made it pretty useless.
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[Pezell04x]

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I wish I didn't break down my Invective Friday night. I would've done it today for an Exotic shard.

[Burns11]

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You only need one exotic shard to upgrade an armor or weapon, up to then they upgrade like the rest of the defense/damage upgrades.