Destiny 2 is also paying close attention during the winter break to what the loot shooter needs to satisfy everyone. For this reason, there is a new update today that specifically addresses your wishes and brings several improvements. MeinMMO has the details that Destiny 2 players should not miss.
6:25 PM: In our Weekly Reset, you will learn what is happening in Destiny 2 this week. Meanwhile, the patch notes have also arrived. We will link them at the end of this article.
6:00 PM: The update is here. It is 182.3 MB on PC. After downloading, you can restart the game and try to log in.
3:25 PM: Bungie’s servers have just gone offline for the update a bit later than planned. Players have been removed from all activities and must now wait until the Weekly Reset. You can find the complete schedule further down in the article.
This is what you need to know today: While Bungie is officially still on winter break and players should not expect major announcements until January 18th, that doesn’t mean the Destiny 2 team is sitting idle. Accordingly, an update has been announced for today that brings some important changes to the game and relates to your wishes and hints.
- The modifier
Belonging
will be removed from the rotation of the seasonal activityThe Twisting
due to community complaints because it made the activity unnecessarily tedious for solo players. - Moreover, based on player feedback, several changes will be made to the PvP mode
Checkmate
.
There could be further changes that are currently still on Bungie’s to-do list. So keep an eye on this article, as MeinMMO will keep you updated during the downtime.
For the Guardians, everything is at stake in June in the new DLC The Final Shape
:
Maintenance on January 9 – All times for server downtime
These times are important today: Bungie always keeps you informed via Twitter/X about any planned downtime for Destiny 2. Today, the servers will be unavailable for 2 hours and 45 minutes.
Here is the exact schedule for the maintenance:
- The background maintenance starts at 2:00 PM on all platforms.
- At around 3:15 PM, the servers will go offline. Players will be automatically kicked from the game.
- During the downtime, Bungie will gradually roll out update 7.3.0.5 so that players on all platforms can download and install it.
- At 6:00 PM, the shooter MMO should be back online, and you can log in again.
- The maintenance will continue in the background until 8:00 PM.
Also, third-party apps and the official companion app may not be correctly accessible for a certain time.
What changes with update 7.3.0.5 in season 23
What changes today: Every Guardian can report bugs or dissatisfaction directly to Bungie. The developer adds these and its own bugs, errors, and issues to its to-do list. There, the things that will soon be fixed are noted.
The following items are currently on Bungie’s to-do list:
- Bungie’s text chat filters are currently being tested. Players who encounter unexpected filtering behavior are asked to report it via a special form.
- With the release of update 7.3.0.1 on December 5, a bug was fixed that allowed Guardians to jump out of an activity without a corresponding user interface or full fireteam support.
- This fix is scheduled to be undone in a January update, allowing for the status quo for vault access to be maintained.
- Bungie’s goal is to allow the entire fireteam to access the vault from anywhere in an update after
The Final Shape
.
- The health of the bubble created by the glaive “Blade of Action” is lower than intended.
- Guardians currently do not receive health from devouring while they have a Nova Warp super activated.
- Healing rifts can stop healing players after applying a shield.
- There is a stray champion in the Vanguard Ops version of the Psi-Ops Battleground: Cosmodrome.
- Buying gifts of the dragon in Riven’s hideout while other players activate the portal leads to an extremely loud noise.
- Defeating Broken Knights too quickly in the Warlord’s Ruin can prevent players from progressing in the encounter.
- The tracker for flawless solo completions of the Warlord’s Ruin uses an incorrect name for the dungeon in the description.
- Weapons Master engrams obtained by Guardians do not appear in the engram tracker.
- “Find fireteam…” appears on the screen for verifying a friend’s invitation, even when the fireteam finder is not being used.
- Checkpoints are not always saved when returning to orbit in activities with fireteam finder.
- Characters in the chat of the fireteam finder may appear somewhat blocked.
- Some texts of the fireteam finder are not visible in languages other than English.
- Some menu items in the fireteam finder may sometimes appear empty.
- The weekly 100,000-point challenge in the Twisting may not reset successfully.
- Guardians on the level of the Polysemy activity of the seasonal quest cannot start or enter the activity together with other Guardians who have already completed it.
- The Exotic Dragonbreath Catalyst quest does not progress as expected in seasonal activities.
- Certain triumphs in the Warlord’s Ruin grant incorrect rewards. Guardians who have earned these triumphs will receive the corresponding rewards in a future update.
- Blinded Source runs of level 4 grant less progress on the seasonal challenge “A City Built by a Wish” than lower-level runs.
- Weapons Master engrams do not appear in the engram tracker.
- Last but not least: Player name changes are not indefinitely customizable through bungie.net. Many “number guardians” are also still waiting for the return of the option to change their player name again, rather than receiving the message “You have no name changes available.”
Patch Notes for update 7.3.0.5 in Destiny 2
What is in the patch notes? Bungie will publish the official patch notes with a list of all changes of the update. A complete overview of all fixed problems and improvements will therefore only be available this evening after the update is live.
As soon as this happens, we will update our article for you and link to the patch notes. Because these may change retroactively or be corrected by Bungie.
That was all the information about today’s update. The winter break may be a quiet time, but Bungie proves that they are also actively working on the development and improvement of Destiny 2 during this time. The community also thrives on the diversity of player experiences, so let us know how you find the latest improvements for the world of Guardians. Or would you rather give your opinion on the major boss of darkness who is currently not well-received because he prefers to chill in the Traveler: Destiny 2 fans expect more from the big boss of darkness: “Has done nothing but open a portal”
