Tonight, on Monday, June 22, there will be several hours of maintenance for the MMO shooter Destiny . There is no talk of a patch or update so far.
The E3 is over, “The Taken King” is still a long way off, “House of Wolves” has been released – and Bungie has decided to take the servers offline for maintenance, expected to last about 6 hours. This was communicated via Twitter.
Destiny is offline tonight, June 22
As far as we know, a patch is actually not pending. There is no major feature prepared that would take so much time. Nothing has been announced. What will happen tonight is a mystery.
The tweet regarding the 6-hour downtime only contains the note “Future Plans.”
Spread the word. Destiny will be offline for maintenance tomorrow, starting at about 8AM PDT. Downtime could last for 6 hours. Future plans!
— Bungie (@Bungie) June 21, 2015
Will there be a patch or update tonight? And what will it bring?
The servers are scheduled for maintenance from around 5:00 PM our time until about 11:00 PM. The 6 hours are likely the maximum assumed. This likely means: No Destiny for many tonight.
Fans are speculating about what could take so much time. Whether they are resolving some technical issue, the “Weasel” error code. Some very optimistic individuals (probably hyperactive Hunters) even talk about “dedicated servers” to solve the lag problem in PvP. Mockers, on the other hand, refer to “more balls in the Tower” or similar jokes that have established themselves in the history of Destiny.
But all of that is speculation at the moment. Most likely, “Future Plans” could refer to some patch that will activate much later, perhaps even containing gameplay content for “The Taken King.” Should something be deployed that includes further gameplay content for the future, data miners are surely ready to dig for hints about the distant future of Destiny.
We now know the immediate future: No Destiny tonight. Adjust your plans accordingly.
Update 16:00: Bungie has temporarily disabled the Trials of Osiris. They are supposed to be reactivated after the patch.
Update 16:40: The patch today, June 22, will not change anything at all, but will simply lay the “foundation” for further updates in Destiny, Bungie just tweeted. That sounds suspiciously like a “preload patch like before the last expansions.”
Update 22:10: About 50 minutes before the end of the downtime, the maintenance is officially over. Destiny is back online. There are no patch notes, nothing is changing as far as we know. According to Bungie, it was an update “behind the scenes.”
While you wait, we recommend our special on “Light Levels”: From 50 to 0 to ? – The Light Level of the Expansion
Or this article on the great expansion: Boom, Bang, Sizzle – New Expansion Introduced in an 8-Minute Video
Or check out new weapons here: Take a look at 6 new weapons and hear Bungie’s plans
