Destiny Update 09/08/16

• Reduced the maximum magazine size for highest rate of fire auto family (all weapons in the Doctrine of Passing family)
  
• Increased damage to middle rate of fire Auto Rifles by 1.5%
  

• Increased rate of fire for Häkke pulse rifle Lyudmila-D
  
• Increased damage for middle rate of fire family pulses (Nirwen's Mercy) by 2%
  

• Fixed an issue where the hand cannon Zaouli's Bane's rate of fire stat would display incorrectly
  
• Fixed an issue where the Taken King Vanguard and Armsday Hand Cannons (Down and Doubt 00-0, Kumakatok HC4) stats would display incorrectly
  

• Immobius: decreased spread on Titan class Shotgun (0.1 zoom factor increase), increased base stability (60% increase)
  
• Increased high rate of fire and middle-low rate of fire Shotgun damages by 2%
  
• Reduced spread angle penalty on Shotguns with the perk Full Auto, Invective was not affected
  

Sniper Rifles

• Reduced damage on the middle-high impact (1000-Yard Stare family) of Sniper Rifles by 6.95%
  
• Middle-high impact snipers can no longer reliably kill high armor guardians in super
• No Land Beyond is not affected by this damage reduction
• Reduced Target Acquisition for LDR 5001/Y-09 Longbow Synthesis to bring in line with other snipers in the middle-high rate of fire family
  
• Increased the starting strength for aim deflection (aka Flinch) when players take damage while scoped in from 30% starting to 50% starting
  
• With every subsequent hit, the strength of deflection increases until you hit 100% max deflection
• Overall Sniper ADS aim deflection multiplier increased to 1.9x (was 1.85x)
  
• Fixed an issue where Eirene UI stat bars showed an incorrect rate of fire
  

• Unified damage for all Sidearm types
  
• Increased damage for existing Häkke Sidearm families by 3% for lowest rate of fire and 7% for higher rate of fire
• Decreased damage for non-hitscan Sidearms by 5% for Vestian Dynasty and Queen's Choice
• Minor extension of damage falloff point for Sidearms across the board (+0.5meter)
  
• Minor increase of stability for Sidearms across the board
  
• Added damage bonus in PvE (20-30% dependent on combatant tier)
  
• To accommodate two new faster firing Sidearm families releasing in Rise of Iron, all current Sidearm rate of fire bars will be slightly shorter
• This is to allow more bar space to display rate of fire differentiation
• Does not change the actual fire rate, just the stat bar representation

• Accelerated coils correctly reflects damage reduction now on the UI stat bars
  
• No change to gameplay effect, UI only
• Fixed an issue where stat bars on Techeun Rage displayed incorrectly
  

• Extended damage falloff distance on Cluster Bomb perk's explosions (should more reliably damage enemies now)
  
• Grenades and Horseshoes perk proc radius reduced (1.3->1meters), Truth is not affected
  

• Increased damage on highest rate of fire Machine Guns by 4% 
  

• Magazine perks now give range bonuses
  
• Removed impact stat bonuses that had no effect on base damage and only on the UI bars
• Armor Piercing Rounds: adds +4 range, reduces -4 handling
• High Caliber Rounds: adds +3 range, reduces -5 handling
• Skip Rounds: adds +5 range, reduces -3 handling, adds +5 inventory

• Now activates after 0.5 seconds of crouching
  
• Added flinch reduction (25%) and increased aim down sights speed by 25%
  

• Added an extra +5 seconds (15 seconds total) of effect time 
  

• Functional change: melee kills automatically reload a portion of the magazine
  

• Now increases carried ammo capacity
  

• Increased proc chance to 25% (was 20%)
  

• Increased stability and range bonuses by 200% (think of it as bonus Hammer Forged and Perfect Balance when the perk activates)
  

• Decreased efficacy of the perk from 25% flinch reduction to 15% flinch reduction
  

• Possible fix for crash related to special effects triggered by the Firefly perk
  

• Exotic Perk range bonus reduced by 75% (no longer guarantees maximum shotgun range)
  
• Increased rate of fire (decreased damage as a secondary effect) 
  

• Kills with this weapon now automatically load a portion of the magazine
  
• Increased base range by 16%
  
• Increased base stability by 44%
  

• Reduced base range by 25%
  

• Increased damage by 8%
  
• Increased magazine size by 3
  

• Touch of Malice’s self-damage infliction now removes Blessing of Light
  

• Added intrinsic perk Headseeker
  

• Added intrinsic perk High Caliber Rounds
  

• Fixed an issue where some enemies that were not designated as bipeds (i.e. vehicles, large objects, certain bosses), were unintentionally able to be damaged more than once by a single Sleeper Simulant shot
• Against bipeds, the behavior remains unchanged (multiple enemies can still be damaged by ricochet behaviors)

• Fixed a bug causing +1 armor perks to sometimes fail to function
  
• Class items can now accept shaders
  

Exotic Armor

MK44 Stand Asides (Updated 9/13/16)

• The activation window for Shoulder Charge when using MK44 Stand Asides has been reduced (-4 seconds)

Titan

Striker

Shoulder Charge (Updated 9/13/16)

• Time to charge Shoulder Charge has been slightly increased. (+1 second)
  
• Shoulder Charge attack speed and target tracking has been slightly reduced

Public Events

1st Daily Public Event Gold completion:

• 1x Legendary Engram(once level 40; upgrade engram before) 
  
• 15x Destination Materials
  
• 15x Legendary Marks
  
• 5x Motes of Light
  
• Very low chance of Exotic Shard
  
• 4k XP – core, subclass, gear
  
• 25x Vanguard Rep
  

Repeated Gold Public Events:

• 200x Glimmer
  
• Chance of 2-5 Destination Materials
  
• Chance of 1-2 Motes of Light
  
• 1.5k XP
  
• Green/Blue Engram
  
• 25x Vanguard Rep
  

Repeated Silver Public Events: 

• 100x Glimmer
  
• Chance of 2-3 Destination Materials
  
• 750 XP
  

Repeated Bronze Public Events: 

• 50x Glimmer
  
• Chance of 1-2 Destination Materials
  
• 500 XP
  

General 

• Legendary Engrams have been removed from the Crucible PGCR, so Crucible Legendary Weapons will drop significantly more often
  
• Fixed an issue where Crucible activity tooltips were showing the wrong icon
• Beowolf, Cicero and Gilgamesh Shaders can once again be acquired by completing Crucible matches
• Fixed some reward logic associated with vanity items from Shaxx Weekly package
• The Crucible Quest "Factions" New Monarchy will no longer ask the player to earn points in the Salvage playlist
• Crucible Quartermaster Weekly bounties have been removed
• Free Sterling Treasure from Weekly Crucible and Postmaster will be discontinued
• Sterling Treasure is still available from Prison of Elders and Eververse

• 3v3 gametypes gives slightly less Heavy Ammo per brick
  

• Trials of Osiris for Year 2 has ended. Trials of Osiris will resume in Rise of Iron on 9/30
  

• Heavy Ammo now only appears at one central location in Elimination matches
  
• Fixed a bug where the Heavy Ammo could persist through rounds if the Heavy Round ends before it can spawn
  

• Reduced initial Relic Capture spawn delay, from 15 to 10 seconds
  
• Reduced time between Relic spawns, from 25 to 15 seconds
  
• Reduced countdown time on enemy probe, from 45 to 30 seconds
  
• Increased interaction radius on enemy probe, from 3 to 5 meters
  
• Increased successful sabotage score from 150 to 200 points
  
• Changed scoring so that now only the interacting player gets points for a successful sabotage
  

• Added an overshield on player spawn to cut down on spawn-camping
  
• Extended runner damage resistance when picking up spark by a few seconds
  

• Added invisible physics to stop players from escaping intended playable area
  

• Added invisible physics to stop players from escaping intended playable area
  

• Rotated lower Heavy Ammo crate to keep ammo from falling off the map
  

• Added invisible physics to stop players from escaping intended playable area
  

• Moved Elimination tiebreaker zone indoors to avoid bias towards Bravo