Today, on September 18th, the servers for Destiny 2 are down. Bungie is planning maintenance. While the servers are offline and not available, a new update is being deployed. This is patch 1.04.
Update 18:15: The servers are online again. Have fun! You can read the patch notes for update 1.04 here.
This afternoon and evening, your Guardians will have a multi-hour break. Bungie is conducting maintenance, which includes server downtime. During this time, you cannot log in or play.
Here are the important times:
- On September 18th at 4 PM, preparations for maintenance will begin. You will not be able to log in.
- An hour later, at 5 PM, all players will be removed from their activities. The servers for Destiny 1 and Destiny 2 will go completely offline.
- Around 8 PM, the maintenance should be completed. Then you can play again.
Keep in mind that Bungie is often vague with these times, and the server status may vary. There have been instances where servers went online hours earlier or later. The latter happened last week: the scheduled maintenance was extended by hours twice.
What changes today in Destiny 2? – Update 1.0.1.3 / Update 1.04
According to Bungie, after this maintenance, you will need to download and install the Update 1.0.1.3 before you can play Destiny 2 again. This update carries the version number 1.04 and is about 50 MB in size. The complete patch notes and download size have now been released.
Two things were announced by Bungie in advance regarding this update:
- It will fix several known issues
- It will remove the hate symbol from the gloves
Last week, several tweets from Bungie caused a stir, in which they announced that a hate symbol was discovered in the game, which they want to remove as soon as possible. They apologized profusely and emphasized that they distance themselves from it.
In the first few minutes, no one knew what was meant, but later, green gloves were found with two “K” on the sleeve. This is apparently the symbol of an ultra-right internet group, of which even the team at Bungie was unaware, and which is responsible for preventing such errors. With today’s update, this symbol is to be completely removed from the game.
More about this can be read here: How could a racist hate symbol end up in Destiny 2?
