In their efforts to resolve issues such as exploits, weapons balancing and more, Bungie has officially released yet another patch to all Destiny users. It is available now for download.
A recent post to their blog singled out the Crota’s End Raid as one of the primary focuses of the update, although early reports suggest the fix was not 100% effective. We’ve also been provided an extensive list of other detailed changes which accompanies the new roll-out (which you can read below). Check out the development team’s support page for further details:
Activity Rewards
- Fixed an issue with Ascendant Materials no longer being a possible reward for Daily gold-tier public events
- In addition to other potential rewards, Weekly Nightfall Strikes can now award 9 or more Strange Coins
PVP
Maps
- Added to the rotation for Control, Clash, and Iron Banner* playlists:
- The Anomaly
- Asylum
- The Burning Shrine
Iron Banner*
- Starts 1AM PST, Tuesday, January 13th
- Playlist weapon drops
- Level 32 Sniper Rifle
- Level 32 Auto Rifle
- Gain event standing to earn Legendary gear
- Level 32 Hand Cannon
- Level 32 Rocket Launcher
- Level 32 Gauntlets
- Level 31 Chest
Weapons
- On the Sniper Rifle, Black Hammer, the Hive Breaker upgrade has been disabled until it is fixed to play nicely with the White Nail upgrade
Raids
Vault of Glass
- Exotic weapon drops (though still very infrequent) are now Level 32
Crota’s End
- Rewards
- Treasure chests now contain Radiant Materials
- The existing Pit treasure chest reward has moved to killing Ir Yut, the Deathsinger
- Pit Encounter
- Pillars of Light no longer launch players into the air when they explode
- Players will now be required to cross the bridge in order to complete the bridge encounter
- Players will now be required to wait for the bridge to be completed prior to crossing with the sword
- Fixed a rare case where the Shriekers would not spawn, preventing players from reaching the Deathsinger
- The Deathsinger now has a chance to drop Exotic weapons and armor, class pieces, and Radiant materials
- Two Swordbearers will no longer spawn at the same time at the outset of the encounter
- Crota will now recover from his kneeling state after a player quits
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to remove the “Presence of Crota” using a Radiance Warlock’s Fireborn ability
- Bridge Encounter
- Deathsinger Encounter
- Crota Encounter
- Fixed a bug that made the Oversoul appear destroyed to some players in a Fireteam when it was actually still active