In Destiny 2, one-time shaders have been abolished today. Bungie is bringing permanent shaders into the game.
For over a year, Destiny 2 tormented the guardians with a terrible shader system:
- You could only apply one shader to an item, then it was consumed
- All shaders received ended up in an inventory that only had limited space. After a short time, this inventory was bursting at the seams
- Subsequently, you spent each day deleting new shaders because there was simply no room left for them. Many guardians hoped not to receive any shaders from rewards as they had no desire to dismantle them. This took an incredible amount of time.
With Forsaken, the situation did not improve. Although it was now possible to delete 5 shaders at once, many new shaders were added, so you were still constantly busy with the annoying dismantling.
The shader torture is over now: As of today, this old shader system is a thing of the past. The guardians immediately declared Shader Day, which will likely be celebrated for years to come. In the reddit forum, all rules are set aside. A whole community is celebrating.
The new shader system
This is how shaders work now:
- You no longer need to have dozens of shaders to completely customize a guardian. One shader is enough to dye as many items as you want. The shaders are “permanent”.
- Shaders no longer drop en masse. When you receive a shader, it is removed from the loot pool. You can withdraw it anytime from your own shader collection, should you have dismantled it. Only shaders that you do not yet have will drop.
- There are now exotic shaders tied to quests that may drop with a low probability from raid bosses or in new Trials of the Nine or may be available from Xur.
This further enhances Xur’s value, who has recently become a widely welcomed vendor as he now always brings exactly what the guardians wish and finally manages to make everyone happy.
Bungie’s community manager DeeJ says about the update: “We listen to the players as we always have.”
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