A futuristic Exotic, which players could exclusively receive as a pre-order item for Lightfall in Destiny 2, proves to be an extremely complex challenge for Bungie. MeinMMO tells you which Exotic just doesn’t want to work and when a fix for it is planned.
Which Lightfall Exotic is currently causing problems? The exotic and exclusive weapon “Vice Stinger” was supposed to sweeten the waiting time for pre-orderers of Lightfall. The kinetic nanite auto rifle not only has a futuristic design but also features homing missiles and can even transform into a grenade launcher.
Many players therefore took the offer in August 2022 and pre-ordered the expansion for 100 € to receive the item first and exclusively. But as soon as they had the item, it only caused frustration among its new owners.
- Just a few days after pre-orderers could first pick up “Vice Stinger” in August 2022, Bungie had to completely disable the weapon in all dungeons, raids, the crucible, and Gambit.
- The weapon was also unusable in the world-first run of the King’s Fall raid due to its locking.
- After the release of Lightfall in February 2023, “Vice Stinger” then received a catalyst that was buggy again and caused the weapon to lose its damage bonus of 40% against enemies with red bars.
Meanwhile, the Lightfall Exotic “Vice Stinger” is still broken and not fully usable five weeks after the release.
Much worse than the bug itself was the fact that Bungie confirmed the bug upon the Lightfall release, but has since shared no further information about what the cause of the problem is or when a solution will come. Only when players publicly pressed for it did the developer respond.
From exclusive anticipation to pure frustration: Many players spent 100 euros for a pre-order to get the exclusive weapon of the new DLC and are now disappointed that their exclusive item simply does not function properly.
Some have even demanded that Bungie refund their money, as they did not receive what they paid for.
In addition, Bungie has not made an official statement about the issue for a long time after the Lightfall release. Therefore, there was no information about what had happened to the weapon and when the problem was to be resolved.
This has led to a lot of frustration, which players have now made public and shared through social media.
The Reddit thread of user xSpectre_iD has received 8.5K upvotes so far and criticizes exactly this. He expresses his surprise that Bungie has not provided any new feedback on this bug, as is usually the case.
Bungie admits that it’s very complicated
A fix is already planned: Meanwhile, Bungie has commented on the issue with the Lightfall Exotic “Vice Stinger”. Both on Reddit and on Twitter, the developer has now informed the players that fixing this issue is very complicated and has taken more time than expected.
On Twitter, Bungie even got more specific and provided an exact date for the fix of the Lightfall Exotic.
For the upcoming patch this week, a fix is planned to address a problem that caused “Malicious Touch” and “Vice Stinger” to deal less damage to smaller enemies than intended. Red bar enemies will once again live in fear of this Exotic, as nature intended. After the update: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
the Destiny 2 team announced via Twitter
This means that on Thursday, March 30, 2023, after the planned downtime with patch, the weapon should function properly again. One can only hope that the last sentence in Bungie’s message is really only meant for the enemies and not as an omen for the weapon owners.
However, it cannot be ruled out that a new option will be available in the near future to make the weapon accessible to other players who joined the DLC later or do not own Lightfall.
Tell us: Are you among the affected players who couldn’t use Vice Stinger properly? Or do you not care because you secretly enjoy that some players with their Lightfall pre-order have gotten into trouble?
However, there are also items in Destiny 2 where the bugs are less technical, but rather optical in nature, that bring a smirk to some Guardians’ faces, such as the “Bondussy”:
Destiny 2 silently alters a bracelet that looked too much like a genital organ
