Many players are furious in Destiny 2: The faction tokens can no longer be farmed quickly, there are secret throttles. What’s going on?
The third faction rally has finally started, after being delayed by a good month. However, currently this event is failing to bring happy guardians and positive headlines: Because already in the first hours, players have encountered inconsistencies.
- It is reported by several guardians that no new faction weapons are dropping, except for a new pistol. Bungie has not yet commented on this, the situation is quite opaque. Read more about it here.
- And a huge barrier has been put up against faction token farming. There may even be a bug here that many users are complaining about. Bungie has already addressed this issue.
What is happening with the faction tokens?
Bungie fixes former farming method / exploit
In the previous two group fights, the guardians discovered farming methods within a very short time, with which one could earn hundreds of tokens per hour. It was possible to loot the chest in a lost sector on Earth, then quickly change the area and loot the chest again a few seconds later.
Bungie reacted and already fixed this in mid-December. Meanwhile, it is known how this fix affects:
- If a player loots more than two chests in lost sectors within 10 minutes, they will not receive rewards from these chests for the next ten minutes. All lost sectors are affected by this. Milestones tied to lost sectors are not affected by this throttle.
This information is official, it comes from community manager dmg04, after many guardians complained that they could no longer farm tokens quickly.
On reddit, there are some “test results”: The cooldown is not exactly 10 minutes, but rather 10-15 minutes. Furthermore, the timer is not reset when traveling quickly from planet to planet. However, if you close and restart Destiny 2, the timer is said to be reset. These details are not officially confirmed.
Are public events also affected?
The fix just described is intended by Bungie, apparently it works as planned. However, there seems to be another throttle: The top thread in the reddit forum currently complains that there is also a lockout for public events.
A user writes that they played four public events. Only the first event awarded tokens, the other three did not. Several thousand users agreed with him, while others said that they did not experience this problem.
Community manager Cozmo has since spoken up: This annoyance is currently being investigated. It seems to be no problem that affects all players.
In other words, it is not intended for public events to have a cooldown for faction tokens.
How can one quickly obtain faction tokens?
An “exploit” for farming faction tokens has not yet been discovered. According to the YouTuber xHOUNDISHx, however, you can get tokens the fastest by completing activities in the open world on Nessus. The other activities are less worthwhile:
- For a strike, you only receive 5 to 9 tokens,
- for a nightfall strike 10 to 18 tokens (on the first completion per character)
- and for a crucible match 2 (loss) or 5 (victory) tokens.
By playing heroic public events, which go significantly faster than strikes or PvP matches, you receive 5 tokens. The lost sectors grant 3 tokens per fireteam member. So run around on Nessus and alternately loot the chests of the lost sectors and public events.
Are you affected by this possible “public event” bug?
We predict: This faction will win the 3rd group fight in Destiny 2
