In the MMO shooter Destiny a special Trials weekend is coming, and they want to solve the “Wrapper of the Pit” problem. They’ve also shown a lot of images of new weapons.
On the night from Thursday to Friday, Bungie will release the Weekly Update. The developers explain what happened during the week, address community complaints, or present future plans. This week had a bit of everything. It’s like the lukewarm buffet of Weekly Updates.
Wrapper of the Pit is set to be fixed next month
Attentive readers of our site have noticed: The “Wrapper of the Pit,” a weapon that serves as a precursor to the Necrochasm, is currently not in the game. It just doesn’t drop. Bungie wants to change this with a hotfix, significantly increasing the drop chance compared to before.
The hotfix will also bring digital rewards that are due to the Nepal helpers. This will be Patch 1.2.0.5: It is set to be released within “next month”.
Special Trials of Osiris and the August Iron Banner have a date
There has been a lot of discontent recently surrounding the Trials of Osiris: Only 6 maps are available, which could get boring. Therefore, they’re bringing in some variety: This weekend all 6 maps will be active. One will be randomly selected per round. It’s an experiment.
Starting next week, on July 28, a new Iron Banner will be active.
Exciting look at new weapons
The main part of the Weekly Update focused on new weapons. They are set to come with The Taken King in September. Here they showcased 3 weapon manufacturers, each with its own style. There will be different weapon types from these manufacturers – they showed 3 weapons from each manufacturer along with the corresponding concept art from the talented model makers at Destiny:
- Häkke specializes in rather conventional weapons, where functionality is a priority. The guns have balanced stats and are solid – their design resembles weapons from our time.
- Omnolon, on the other hand, manufactures experimental weapons and specializes in everything related to energy. The perks of these weapons tend to focus on enhancing player attributes rather than increasing weapon stats.
- Manufacturer SUROS is committed to elegant design and offers various upgrade options for its weapons, allowing users to customize the weapon to their needs.
Additionally, Bungie announces that there will be more weapons through quests, factions would have their own weapons, the gunsmith has developed “methods to involve players in his business” – and: There will even be class-specific weapons. All interesting approaches, but not explored in depth.
This time, it’s worth taking a look at the original Weekly Update: Not only are there more images of weapons and artwork. Bungie has also released the heat maps of the Trials of Osiris maps: This shows where guardians particularly like to gather.
It’s a little questionable whether Xur will adapt to the wishes of the players on Friday, July 24, at his appearance at 11:00 AM, as much as a model from Suros, but he’s still got some making up to do: Last week he had no weapon available: Here we report on his inventory.
