A new glitch involving the exotic weapon Telesto has appeared in Destiny 2. The exploit is so powerful that Bungie is putting the brakes on it and rendering the weapon unusable. The exotic fusion rifle can no longer be used for now – especially since Xur is currently selling the weapon.
What kind of weapon is this? Telesto is an exotic fusion rifle. The weapon was introduced with “The Taken King” in the fall of 2015 and was then reused for Destiny 2. Bungie is known to do this in extremely rare cases, or so the rumors say.
The trick of the weapon is that the projectiles stick to the enemy and explode after a while. These are small fusion mines.
Telesto has always been somewhat of a cult weapon, surrounded by many sayings. One of the most famous is: “Telesto is da besto.” Because Telesto changes the playstyle, it is considered a prime example of a successful weapon exotic.
About a year ago, the weapon was last in the spotlight: Players could complete rounds particularly quickly in the “Blind Well” of Forsaken with Telesto.
Telesto gives players their Super back incredibly quickly
This is now the problem: Someone has found a game-breaking bug that affects Telesto.
With a certain mod that also drops in the current Iron Banner, kills with grenades cause huge boosts for Guardians’ Super activity. The Super always has to be charged in Destiny 2.
With a Telesto, it is possible to fire 4 shots on the ground, effectively placing small fusion mines. After that, you throw a grenade on these mines and blow them up.
The game interprets Telesto’s mines as enemies, and the explosion of the mines is counted as if you had just achieved 4 kills. This fills the Super.
It was therefore possible to continuously charge the Super with the combination of the Iron Banner mod, Telesto, and a grenade. According to Forbes, the Super could be generated every 5 seconds.
It is particularly concerning that Xur is also selling Telesto this weekend. Anyone with 29 legendary shards could exploit this issue.
What were the impacts? If you look at the usage rate of Telesto on the tracker, its popularity dramatically increased within a day as the glitch seemed to make the rounds in the community.
Telesto had a stable usage rate of about 0.2% since Shadowkeep – on October 18, it rose to 0.3%.
Until now, only smaller YouTubers had spread this bug – their videos had between 6,000 and 41,000 views. The usual suspects on YouTube with a large reach had apparently not discovered the bug yet.
Surely, the bug would have caused more frustration if people were constantly running around with a full Super in Destiny 2’s PvP.
This is how Bungie reacts: Bungie banned Telesto in all activities last night.
Bungie had also taken similar actions against 3 Exotics before the launch of the raids.
This is what’s behind it: The new mod system with Armor 2.0 brings a lot of new combos into play.
Some combination of exotic weapons, Guardian abilities, and mods seems to be constantly “game-breaking” right now.
