More and more players are reporting incorrectly displayed experience points in Destiny 2. Is this a bug – or intentional by Bungie?
To earn experience points in Destiny 2, you need to take down enemies or complete activities. These experience points are visually represented by a bar. The more you collect, the fuller the bar becomes. For each filled bar, there is then a Glimmer Engram.
However, more and more players are now reporting that the displayed experience gains do not match the reality. What’s going on?
Is there a cooldown for experience points?
The Redditor ibeLIEvel took a closer look at the experience points and conducted some tests. To ensure that the same conditions were present, he completed heroic public events in the EDZ consecutively and compared the experience points gained according to the in-game display with external sources like DestinyTracker and the Destiny Item Manager (DIM).
He neither went to orbit between events nor used fast travel. Additionally, various buffs were active:
- The “Well Rested” buff, which triples the experience points gained for the first three levels (Glimmer Engrams) after the weekly reset,
- A fireteam medallion for additional experience gains,
- An EDZ ghost that grants 10% more experience on Earth,
All activities were played solo. After the first heroic public event, the player was credited with more than 9,000 EXP, which was also visually reflected – the experience bar became significantly fuller:
After this event, the Redditor went to the next event and completed that one as well. Once again, he was supposed to have received more than 9,000 experience points, but the experience bar did not reflect this:
Afterwards, ibeLIEvel compared the experience points gained with DestinyTracker. While the first event still granted the correct number of experience points, the player was credited with hardly any EXP after the second event.
What is going on? Is there a bug? Did Bungie implement a cooldown on experience points? The Redditor reports that he completed both events within 5 minutes.
Once the issue became known, other Guardians conducted tests and discovered another inconsistency.
The experience points displayed in the game do not match
Redditor TheHawkNY conducted his own research based on ibeLIEvel’s findings to outline the problem more precisely. He also completed public events, but had no active buffs and did not kill any enemies. He only received the experience points upon completing the events.
According to the in-game display, the Guardian consistently received 2,500 EXP. However, both DestinyTracker and DIM only showed an experience gain of 1,250 EXP, which is always half!
But that’s not all. After completing an event, TheHawkNY teleported back to this event to collect the completion bonus again. Instead of half, the Guardian now received only about 40% of the experience points. However, the game still claims that 2,500 experience points were gained.
Something is wrong with experience points
The two independently conducted tests and observations confirm: Something is not right here. Obviously, the in-game display is presenting facts that cannot be corroborated by external sources. Fewer EXP are gained than the game informs us.
The exact circumstances under which the irregularities occur are still unclear. While Guardian ibeLIEvel reports that the first completion (with buffs) corresponds to the amount of EXP that the game also outputs, TheHawkNY paints a different picture.
Robert says: It cannot be denied that there are irregularities in the granting of experience points, as evidenced by the findings of several Guardians. Whether we are experiencing an ugly bug here, or Bungie is deliberately manipulating the numbers, remains purely speculative.
Because Bungie itself remains silent, although the issue has been known for several days.
In this context, the Double XP event “Clarion Call” becomes exciting, which has now been announced. Will you really receive double experience points, or significantly less than the game will display?
If Bungie is deliberately misrepresenting the numbers, this could cause some discontent. Because farming Glimmer Engrams is currently the only reason for many players to keep grinding.
What do you think about this whole issue? Annoying or a storm in a teacup brewing here?
