This Week At Bungie – 2/04/2021

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Cult of Aeon 

Destiny Dev Team: In redesigning the Aeon Cult Exotic armor pieces, we wanted to lean hard into the idea that these are the Exotics you and your fireteam wear when you really want to work together as a team. With that in mind, we had three main goals for the revamped mechanics: 

• Create role-based mechanics that reward you for doing the things that your role is supposed to be good at. 
• Create mechanics that reward other players on your fireteam when you fulfill your role. 
• Give your fireteam incentive for each player to take on a different role. 

Instead of having a single, monolithic Exotic perk to handle this, we opted to take a page out of the Armor 2.0 book and give the Aeon Cult Exotics their own, unique mod socket and mods, which are all unlocked as soon as you acquire the Exotic and each of which is tied to one of the different Aeon Cult roles. These mods are identical across the Exotics for all three classes, so you can choose any role regardless of what class or subclass you are playing. 

The three Aeon Cult mods, and their associated mechanics, are as follows: 

Each of these mods has one perk that focuses on the user, and one perk that grants benefits to their allies. Additionally, the second perk includes an extra benefit for anyone in your fireteam that has not chosen the same role, so for maximum efficiency each member of the 3-player fireteam should choose a different mod to reap the most benefits. 

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ALL GOOD THINGS… 

 

SEASONAL TITLES AND BUNGIE REWARDS 

Season of the Hunt ends on February 9. View our Update 3.1.0 timeline below for what time it will end, and Season of the Chosen begins. 

Before the Season ends, player who earned the Flawless and Conqueror titles should claim and equip them to ensure that they don’t get removed.  

Multiple items from Bungie Rewards should also be earned in-game before February 9, 9 AM PST, and claimed on the Bungie Rewards site by February 12, 9 AM PST: 

• Free Stranger Papercraft Figure 
• Stasis T-Shirt 
• Warden Seal Pin (players should equip the title to ensure that it’s earned) 
• Hawkmoon Mini Replica 

ITEM AND QUEST REMOVAL 

As we announced earlier this week, before Season of the Hunt ends on February 9, it’s recommended to turn in the following items and quests or they will be removed from player’s inventories or will no longer be able to be used: 

• Weekly Bounties: Strikes, Crucible, Gambit, Gunsmith, Crow 
• Crucible Tokens and Crucible Token Gifts 
• Memory Fragments for Stasis 
• All Crow Bounties
• Planetary materials: Alkane Dust, Phaseglass Needles, Seraphite, Simulation Seeds 
• You will be able to turn these into Spider for Glimmer.
 

SAVE YOUR HALO DATA 

A few weeks ago, we announced that on February 9, the halo.bungie.net website will be taken offline permanently. As a result of this, personal custom Halo avatars that are currently used on Bungie.net will be removed due to the functionality living on halo.bungie.net. We welcome everyone to go to their Bungie.net profile and save their avatars to their computer as we’re exploring options to possibly allow them to be uploaded to your profile in the future. 

Additionally, we welcome everyone to save their Halo stats and files on halo.bungie.net however they wish, such as using screenshots, saving the pages to your PC, or using third-party archive sites. 

SDR CONSOLE UPDATE 

Steam Datagram Relay is coming to consoles during Season of the Chosen, but we need to do more testing and fixes before it's ready to go live. 

SDR is used to mitigate against DDOS attacks. You can learn more about it from a previous TWAB. 

UPDATE 3.1.0 AND MAINTENANCE TIMELINE 

Next Tuesday, February 9, maintenance for Update 3.1.0 will begin. Below is a timeline of events: 

• 8 AM PST (1600 UTC): Maintenance begins.   
• 8:45 AM PST (1645 UTC): Players are removed from activities. Destiny 2 is brought offline. 
• 9 AM PST (1700 UTC): Update 3.1.0 will be available across all platforms and regions. Players will be able to log back into Destiny 2. 
• 10 AM PST (1800 UTC): Destiny 2 maintenance is expected to conclude. 

Below are some issues that will be resolved with Update 3.1.0. A complete list will be shared when the update goes live. 

• The Crucible Valor and Gambit Infamy New Light quests can now be completed after resetting ranks. 
• Ahamkara Bones will now spawn in the Agonarch Abyss and Cimmerian Garrison Ascendant Challenges. 
• Triumphs: Lore of Luna, Wisdom of the Witch, Run the Gauntlet in Cimmerian Garrison. 
• The Altar of Sorrows bosses will now rotate each day. 
• The Warsat Public Event in the Cosmodrome’s Mothyards will now count toward bounties. 
• The lift tube in the Warden of Nothing strike will now open for every player. 
• The boss from The Insight Terminus strike will now always teleport away after scanning the Vex terminal. 
• Lake of Shadows will no longer become blocked if players bypass trigger volumes. 
• Sturm will once again reload any equipped Energy slot weapon on kills. 
• Merciless will once again increase its charge rate on non-lethal hits. 
• Thunderlord, Reckless Oracle, and other weapons will once again render their scope and/or reticle. 

KNOWN ISSUES 

While we continue investigating various known issues, here is a list of the latest issues that were reported to us in our #Help Forum: 

• We continue to investigate PC FPS and Stuttering issues. 
• The Lightseeker Triumph is not unlocking after players have found all weekly feathers for the "Bird of Prey" quest, and feathers no longer appear after completing the Bird of Prey quest. 
• The black Blight Orbs left behind by the High Celebrant won't open portals if shot by Sidearms, and sometimes won’t open when in a fireteam. 
• We’re continuing to investigate various error codes, including ARUGULA and PRUNE. 

For a full list of emergent issues in Destiny 2, players can review our Known Issues article. Players who observe other issues should report them to our #Help forum. 

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