In the MMO shooter Destiny, the servers will be offline for maintenance on the evening of October 13th. A patch will be deployed.
This evening, Update 2.01 will be released for Destiny. The servers for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox 360 have been offline since 6:00 PM local time. The patch will be deployed. Bungie expects it will take approximately 2 hours before Destiny can be played again. That would be at 8:00 PM local time.
As a reminder Destiny will be offline for maintenance starting at 9 AM PDT. Expected completion is 11 AM PDT – https://t.co/Ocy0lEVMfq
— Bungie Help (@BungieHelp) October 13, 2015
The patch notes for Update 2.01 are not available yet. As soon as they are available, we will translate them into English and publish them here.
Confirmed for patch 2.01 this evening:
- The 18 new emotes in the Destiny in-game shop
- Shotguns lose the sardine can
- The Iron Banner starts with Lord Saladin
We will keep you updated on everything else.
This is the role of the light level in the Iron Banner
Bungie has just released a graph that clearly shows how the “light level” in Destiny affects events like the Iron Banner or Trials of Osiris. Here, the level advantage is activated.
It is such that a difference of 10 “light points” in light level counts as being “1 level” below the player. For each level that you are below the opponent, you lose about 2% damage to them. At least for the first few light points. It’s still quite close.
Here is what the graph looks like (the red line is decisive).
So, if you are 50 light points under the opponent, you deal about 10% less damage to them. The curve is significantly flatter than before.
Patch notes 2.01 – Black Spindle weaker, re-rolling of armor, less Strange Coins
The patch 2.01 introduces Tess Everis and the emotes, the Iron Banner begins, and the sardine can for shotguns disappears.
However, there are also some unexpected changes:
- Thus, the Black Spindle loses its +20 bonus on attack. That was not intended.
- There is also a new way to “reroll” nodes on exotic armor pieces: This requires glimmer, armor pieces, and a glass needle. The glass needle is only available from Xur.
- The first chest in the King’s Fall raid is supposed to become a bit more lucrative.
- Light particles should now occur more frequently from public events (100% more) and also more often from XP gains after level 40, but less frequently from faction packages, from dismantling items, or from daily strikes or crucible bounties.
- Strange Coins will be overall scarcer – there are still 4 instead of 5 in faction packages, and only half will come from daily strikes or crucible bounties.
- Now there should be 25% fewer weapon parts from dismantling green or blue weapons.
- The Iron Banner and Trials of Osiris will change as already presented. Items will now drop less from vendors and much more directly from the battles. The bounties from Saladin and Vance give legendary marks.
- The Iron Banner is live – weapons and armor are at 280, when bought from Saladin they cost 40 (armor) or 90 (weapons) legendary marks.
- The weekly quest from Lord Shaxx will now be unlocked on all characters of an account when one has completed the quest line that leads to it.
- Destiny players will receive 400 silver, a blue emote costs 200, a legendary emote 500 silver. So, if someone wants to do the Carlton dance or clap slowly and sarcastically, they will have to “buy in.” The smallest package is 4.99€ for 500 silver.
- As always, there are a lot of smaller changes and bug fixes.
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