In the MMO shooter Destiny there is a way to improve items through Infusion by dismantling other items. Through Infusion, players increase their Light.

The mechanic of sacrificing items to strengthen or feed others is called “Infusing” or “Infusion” in Destiny. This was newly introduced with The Taken King.

This mechanic is important for later increasing in Light level. With Infusion, you can still get something good out of items that you would otherwise delete. And you can actually take items that are too weak but that you like to the maximum level.

Infusion is important for achieving a higher Light level and you can obtain a unique gear this way. Through this mechanic, all exotic and legendary weapons and armor pieces from Year 2 in Destiny can reach the maximum value of 310.

This is how Infusion works in Destiny

The basics are clear:

• You sacrifice an item with a higher attack value (weapons) – or defense value (everything else) to help a weaker item reach a higher attack or defense value.
• Beneficiaries of such infusions can only be legendary or exotic items that have the property to do so, which all TTK items have.
• Rare (blue), legendary (purple), and exotic (gold) items can be “sacrificed.” They must be “unlocked,” in your inventory, and they must have a higher value than the item you want to strengthen.

• The item that is “sacrificed” and the one that is “fed” must fit into the same item slot: Chest armors feed chest armors, primary weapons strengthen primary weapons. It does not matter whether the Guardian can use the item: A Hunter can also feed Titan armor.
• In addition to the weapon or armor piece itself that is being sacrificed, you also need some items such as weapon parts (weapons), armor parts (for everything else), Glimmer (always), Light particles (legendary items), legendary marks (always), or exotic shards (exotic items). This depends on the item that is to be strengthened.

How much stronger does a weapon or armor piece become when Infusing in Destiny?

There is still debate about the exact formula. That is where some nuances still need to be worked out.

Currently, it is assumed that legendary items become 80% of the difference to the sacrificed item stronger (if you feed a 300 weapon with a 310 item, a 308 weapon results). However, exotic items become only 70% stronger (they would only reach 307 in the example). Thus, the Light increases through Infusion.

If the difference between two items is only 6, the item to be strengthened gets the full value. However, that is still somewhat in doubt.

Some say: For Exotics, the difference may only be 4 for the maximum value. Others say it has to do with whether the weapon that is sacrificed is upgraded or not.

This video describes the Infusion of special weapons with the Black Spindle, as it comes with 300 attack value from the weapon blueprints, you can easily get any special weapon up to 300 – that is supposed to be fixed soon:

Here is a page that calculates for you how Infusion will work in practice

A reddit user has created a page that calculates what the result of Infusion in Destiny should look like. Here is the page with the Infusion calculator.

Related to the topic: Our guide for Light levels in Destiny.

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In the MMO shooter Destiny , players have discovered a secret room in the Kingsfall raid. However, they have no idea how they got there or how to proceed from there.

In the night from yesterday to today, strange events occurred in Destiny again.

The community has found secrets in the Destiny raid

We remember: Since the Black Spindle was found on a daily mission, half of the community has been in a frenzy: Everywhere they smell secrets. The developers encouraged players to walk in Indy’s footsteps, hinting that there is still a lot hidden, directing players’ attention to the raid.

Now Brazilian Guardians have indeed found a secret room in the raid that looks entirely like “secret.”

We neither know how we got here nor what we are supposed to do here

The spicy part: How the room opens is still not clear to anyone at the moment. What can be done in the secret room is also unclear. And how to proceed from there is completely a mystery.

In the Hive ship, 6 pylons need to be lit in the correct order at a specific spot. In some configuration, they open the door to a room. Players are putting their long-time Bungie expertise on the table, saying: This must have something to do with the 7! It was the same in Halo 3; you had to play the theme song… but no one really knows for sure.

If that is somehow accomplished, a Blade Dancer with the sword has to perform a complicated jump glitch to get into this room. Then platforms form, and other players can now enter the secret room.

In the secret room itself, a relic spawns that can be “dunked” just like in the rest of the raid. If you do that 6 times, the players receive an Overcharge; beyond that, nothing more is known.

The US fan site Planet-Destiny has made a video summarizing what is known. They shrugged and said: This is as far as we have come. If you have any ideas on how to proceed, let us know. If more people gather data, we might solve the mystery as a community faster.

Update: The secret sequence seems to have been figured out, at least according to a poster on Reddit. For PlayStation: 165243. For Xbox: 416523.

What does all this mean? Is the room even finished? Is it intended for Guardians to find it? We don’t know.

What we do know: There are 3 chests in the raid that have already been found and are findable. In this article, you will learn where they are.

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The MMO shooter Destiny is now receiving some love from gaming magazine testers. The rating aggregator Metacritic is climbing by 10 points.

“The best 6 out of 10” of all time, was joked in between. Because when Destiny was released in September 2014, the sales success was enormous, but the testers’ enthusiasm was not.

Ratings for the base game came in quickly and harshly

The ratings settled at 76 out of 100 (PS4) on Metacritic. That’s not exactly something you can triumphantly parade around with. With the rating systems that circulate in the gaming industry, that’s approximately a 3, maybe a 3+. Disappointing given the effort and high expectations.

The first reviews came early, even before the first raid opened, and they showed the weaknesses of the game: Confusing story, no satisfying conclusion, falling short of expectations. 60 positive reviews were met with 34 mixed and one negative from the professional testers.

Major and important US sites like Gamespot or Polygon even gave the game a 6 out of 10. The equivalent here would probably be “Well, it’s not that terrible.”

Destiny: The hottest 6 out of 10 of the year

This very 6 out of 10 was later worn by the Destiny developers in a kind of defiant statement on T-shirts. The nickname “the hottest 6 out of 10 of the year” circulated. Subtly, Bungie made it clear that they felt poorly treated and reduced to the weak story. They hinted that many of the testers who rated it so poorly had spent hundreds of hours in Destiny after their tests, and their ratings would look very different now.

But, the mood changed increasingly: Even the sites that wrote weak reviews reported essential information about Destiny throughout the year and found themselves in a dilemma explaining how a “6 out of 10” could receive so much attention.

Expansion of Destiny “The Taken King” receives more love

A year after the release of the base game, “The Taken King”, the new expansion, has now been released. Bungie has expanded the story, extended the campaign, addressed some of the weaknesses. Now the reviews look very different.

Metacritic has seen an 8-point rise. It is slowly settling at 84 (PS4). 53 professional reviewers give a positive rating, with only 4 having a mixed review, and there are no more negative ratings.

That’s quite good. A solid 2, perhaps a 2+. From major US sites like IGN, it now receives a 90. Game Informer, who rated the base game strong at 88, has gone up to 95, Polygon to 85.

And as is customary in such cases, they took bold and praising words from critics and the highest ratings and stitched together a “The critics love it! Buy it, it’s great” trailer. That would have been difficult a year ago.

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