Destiny 2 Releases Gets New Update for November 2024

Key Takeaways

• Destiny 2’s update fixes issues with Mask of Fealty, weapon perks, and Crucible mercy rules.
• Mercy rule score limits have been increased in Crucible to prevent matches from ending too early.
• For most players, the biggest part of this update is that the perk weighting issue with weapons is now fixed.

Bungie releases update 8.1.0.4 for Destiny 2, addressing issues with the Mask of Fealty, weapon perk weighting, as well as improving the mercy rules inside the Crucible. While not a weekly occurrence, Bungie continually keeps Destiny 2 updated, addressing common issues as well as bigger issues that the community tends to highlight.

As expected, Episode: Revenant brought with it plenty of new weapons and armor, both of the legendary and exotic type. Unfortunately, not all of them arrived in perfect condition as the Destiny 2 Hunter’s Mask of Fealty exotic has been embroiled in controversy. Unfortunately, the exotic’s main perk wasn’t consistently spawning crystals as expected, effectively limiting the spread of Withering Blades as well. Thankfully, this latest Destiny 2 update manages to finally correct that issue, as well as numerous other pressing issues as well.

Mercy rules within Destiny 2 have always been a source of contention for players. Bungie made significant changes to Destiny 2‘s Crucible in Episode: Revenant and now with this update, the studio is tweaking the mercy rules a bit more by increasing the score limits for triggering mercy rules. As Bungie indicated, the mercy rule’s trigger window has been increased, so the score limits for modes like Control, Clash, and others have also been updated to prevent matches from ending too early when there’s a possibility for the other team to mount a comeback.

Obviously, the biggest piece of this update for many fans will likely be with the weapon perk weighting issue finally being resolved. Following the launch of the Vesper’s Host dungeon, players discovered that a highly sought after roll for the VS Chill Inhibitor grenade launcher wasn’t dropping. After some sleuthing, the community discovered a perk weighting issue in Destiny 2, where certain combinations much harder to earn than others.

Bungie not only confirmed the issue, but as a thank you to the community, they’re making certain god roll weapons available to Destiny 2 players. With the main issue now fixed in this update, Vesper’s Host will be offering double drops for encounter and activity completions from November 9 to December 3. Better yet, players can visit Banshee-44 at the Tower starting on November 19, where the exo will be offering god rolls for weapons like Rose, Indebted Kindness, Hothead (Adept), VS Chill inhibitor, and more.

Destiny 2 Update 8.1.0.4 Patch Notes

Crucible

• Increased the score limits for triggering mercy rules.
  • Previously, the mercy rule would trigger only during a small window in the match, so the score limit to trigger it was intentionally set low. We have increased the window within which the mercy rule can trigger and increased the score limit accordingly to prevent games which still have a chance to be competitive from ending early in a mercy.
    • Control, Iron Banner Control, Iron Banner Eruption, Supremacy – 60 to 70.
    • Zone Control, Iron Banner Zone Control – 50 to 60.
    • Clash – 40 to 50.
• Competitive rank adjustment now puts less weight on skill differential between player and lobby.

Trials of Osiris

• Fixed an issue where the Shaded Envy shader was not able to be equipped or viewed in Collections.

Raids & Dungeons

Vesper’s Host

• Fixed an issue where players could use terrain to skip straight to the first encounter.

Garden of Salvation

• Fixed an issue where secret chests only dropped armor. They can now also drop weapons.

Episode Echoes

Exotic Mission: Encore

• Fixed an issue where attempting a particular Secret Triumph could cause errors in the second half of the mission if reached without dying.

Breach Executable

• Fixed an issue where launching into the Expert version of the activity would cause errors.

Episode Revenant

• Fixed an issue where the Week 1 Seasonal Challenge “Onslaught Banes” did not correctly specify Expert Onslaught in the description.
• Fixed an issue where Eido’s featured tonic requests could include unobtainable tonics.
• Fixed an issue where players who unlocked the 10% tonic buff had it only app to the character that claimed the Act 1 Key Fieldwork item.

Armor

• Fixed an issue where Mask of Fealty would not consistently create crystals when defeating frozen targets with Withering Blade.
  • The spread of Withering Blades released now has slightly increased gravity to tighten the spread to account for this fix.

Perks

• Fixed an issue where some random perk combinations were harder to earn per legendary weapon perk set.
  • For more details, please see our previous update. We plan to do a deep dive on this in a future article, stay tuned.
• Fixed an issue where Foundry Weapons are dropping with more perks within certain columns outside of Master Lost Sectors.