Destiny 2.0 Patch Notes: Quest, Bounties, Inventory 9-8-15

World

• Year 1 Activities have been converted into Quest system
  • Year One Questlines do not require ownership of The Taken King
  • You can replay the story for more experience and reputation by looking at the Quest Collections in the Tower
• The Ghost is now voiced by Nolan North
• Fallen Wolf Hunt Patrols will retreat in anticipation of the arrival of Oryx in our solar system
• Fixed an issue where “Medic” and “Blast Shield” PVP medals displayed while playing PVE activities

Strikes

• Players now are required to participate in the boss fights to be eligible for end-of-activity loot.
• Bonus Loot and Reputation can now be earned via Vanguard Streak Bonuses for players who continue to recycle back into the Strike playlist without exiting to Orbit
• Burn (Arc, Void, Solar) Skulls now only increases player damage by 2x (down from 3x). Combatant damage to player is unchanged at 3x.
• Fixed an issue where the incident for completing a strike (i.e., earning the “Strikes Introduction” grimoire card) was not triggering in Strike playlists

Prison of Elders

• Fixed an issue where the “Servitor Bonds Weakened” buff did not clear when Skolas is pushed into phase 2
• Fixed an issue where the web mine FX extended beyond effect area
• Fixed an issue where the rewards for Skolas’s Revenge does not grant “Hildian Seeker” to players who already have Ceres Galliot
• Glimmer Consumable drop rates reduced drastically from the Arena chest
• Removed the Elder Cipher exotic bounty
  • These exotics now have a chance to drop from the large chest in the Queen’s Arena
  • Players who were on any step of the elder cipher should receive a token to redeem at Variks for their choice of House of Wolves exotic weapon

King’s Fall

King’s Fall Raid will unlock on 09/18/15, 10AM Pacific

General

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Factions

• Faction Emblems are no longer purchasable but will come from faction packages instead
• Former Vanguard emblems are now unlocked at level 10 and 20 of their respective class quest chains

Crota’s Bane

• Eris’ bounties have been retired as her ire shifts from Crota to Oryx and his Dreadnaught
• Eris reputation can now be earned weekly by killing bosses in the Crota’s End raid, or through new methods to be discovered in The Taken King’s new destination
• Eris’ reputation requirements for each rank have been adjusted to be faster
• Characters will retain any rank they currently have with Eris
• Eris’ reputation is no longer capped at Rank 4, and players will receive reward packages for Rank increases
• Players will be able to earn rewards by continuing to level up the Crota’s Bane reputation

Queen’s Wrath

• With the launch of The Taken King, Petra will have new bounties available in the Reef upon completing a new quest
  • These bounties will also drop a Treasure Key the first time one is completed each week

Preview Event

• The Taken King maps will be available for all players to preview for free 09/08 until 09/15
• Rift game mode will be available for all players to preview for free 09/08 until 09/15
• Crucible Daily will not be available on 09/08 and will resume on 09/15
• Mayhem Clash game mode will be available for all players to preview for free from 09/11 until 09/15

General

• House of Wolves maps (Widow’s Court, Black Shield, Thieves’ Den) are now available to all Destiny players
• Year 1 Platform-exclusive maps (The Timekeeper, Exodus Blue) are now available to all Destiny players
• Added a new Mercy rule that will end blowout games early
  • When the Mercy Rule hits, Shaxx will call out the end of the match. We immediately disable join in progress to prevent any additional players from joining the game (if anyone has dropped already) and reset the game clock to 10 seconds. After those 10 seconds, the match will end normally. All players will receive their end of match rewards and return to matchmaking.
• Legendary Loot drop rates have been increased
• PVP post-game scoreboards now use abbreviated names
  • Hover over these stat headers to see more detailed information on what each stat tracks
• The PGCR now does not display the “Score” column if the mode does not have individual player scores
• Shaxx will now comment on multi-kills and kill streaks
• “Victory Imminent” voice-over will no longer play when there is less than 30 seconds remaining in Crucible matches

Director

• Salvage and Rift are now core Crucible playlists
• The Taken King maps are now included in the core Crucible playlists

Medals

• Added set of new Crucible medals
• Buckshot Bruiser, Machine Lord, Sharpshooter, and Master Blaster medals can now be earned multiple times in a row (if you’re awesome enough)
• Fixed an issue where “First Place Kill” score bonus (which triggers the “Uprising” medal) was awarded when killing the highest scoring player on the winning team, instead of the highest scoring player in the match

Maps

Widow’s Court

• Added invisible physics to keep players from hiding in the ivy overlooking the courtyard Heavy Ammo

Game Types

Salvage

• Reduced Salvage score limit from 10000 to 7500, as our data showed too many games were ending to the time limit
• Modified the base 3v3 options to have a 7-second min respawn timer

Skirmish

• Modified the base 3v3 options to have a 7-second min respawn timer

Inferno

• Changed special ammo crate timing for Inferno Clash, Inferno Control and Inferno Rumble modes to 2 minutes (small team modes will remain at 3 minutes)
• Removed heavy ammo crates from all Inferno playlists

Rumble

• Placing in the top 3 in Rumble playlists now counts as a win for Quest Step purposes

Control

• Bastion, First Light, and Skyshock have been added to the core Control playlist with Pikes and Interceptors disabled
• “Zone Captured” and “Zone Neutralized” scoring messages in Control will now display the zone being captured, i.e. “Zone A Captured,” “Zone C Neutralized”

Trials of Osiris

• Trials Passage Coins are now discarded by the stack rather than by the item