Bungie has announced maintenance for Destiny 1 and Destiny 2 on Father’s Day. However, the server downtime on May 30 will be significantly longer than usual: The servers are expected to be offline for 7 hours, find out here how long you need to wait, when you can play again, and what is included.
How long will the maintenance take? According to a tweet from the official “Bungie Help” account on Twitter, the maintenance today, May 30, 2019, will last a full seven hours.
The start time is 4:00 PM, the expected end time is 11:00 PM German time (7 AM-2 PM PDT).
This is unusually long, considering that the maintenance for update 2.2.2/1.35 on May 7 only lasted three hours.
Update: At around 6:55 PM, Bungie reported that the maintenance is over.
So it went significantly faster than originally anticipated.
What exactly is Bungie working on? So far, Bungie has only communicated that there are “backend maintenance works” for Destiny 1 and 2. A larger patch will probably not be deployed, and there is no information yet about a potential download and its size.
During the maintenance, all services will be unavailable. These include:
- Companion app features
- Web and mobile applications
- Third-party apps
More information about the course of the maintenance in detail can be found on the official help page of Bungie.
What do the major maintenance works entail?
What fans suspect: Although there are no officially confirmed dates for a potential update yet, fans are already discussing on Twitter what Bungie could actually be working on. Among the possibilities are:
- that the Stingray errors that are currently ruining the game for many players are being worked on
- that Destiny 2 may receive features from Destiny 1. A loading screen from Destiny 1 has already found its way into part 2 through a glitch
Furthermore, some players are already anticipating that Bungie is looking to deploy data for the upcoming Season 7 “Season of Opulence” to the servers. The season will be launched on June 4.
Players hope that on the actual patch day of the new season, the servers will come back online faster.
What do you expect from the maintenance? What will you play in the meantime?
If you want to pass the waiting times, why not play something with a buddy:
