Bungie's weekly update is out, and this week the developer has detailed refinements coming to the core experience of Destiny's Raids and Strikes with the 1.1.2 update.
For Raids, some longstanding bugs have prevented certain enemies from taking damage from certain weapons. At other times, the big bosses Atheon and Crota can be a little unresponsive to interaction.
Bungie has addressed both of these issues in this update along with many others, several of which are based on player feedback.
Updating Strikes has been a complex and painstaking process, because the issue Bungie has focused on is why some Strikes are less popular than others.
In other words, why do Destiny's players choose to spend more time on certain Strikes instead of other ones?
Developers said that based on their research, the longest and hardest Strike in the game is Cerberus Vae III. That's probably why it has one of the lowest completion rates of any Strike. When it shows up as the Nightfall Strike, it's always the Nightfall that the least amount of players finish. To address this problem, Bungie decided to lower the difficulty for the least-completed Strikes. This was primarily done by making major enemies and bosses a little weaker, so that now they have less strength and start with less health.
A third major component to this week's update sees squatters finally being penalized for inactivity. In a nutshell: Sometimes a handful of Destiny players will enter a Strike or a Crucible level, find themselves a nice, cozy corner to get comfortable in, and then do nothing while other players determine the outcome. In the end, the squatters get to reap some of the same rewards that successful players do, while putting in none of the effort. Not very fair.
Bungie is enacting restrictions on "a small number of the most toxic players" which will make matchmaking impossible for them. Bungie stresses that this is a temporary measure only, and doesn't apply to every play mode across-the-board — only the modes in which those gamers remain "chronically idle." The restrictions come with a warning that if the squatting continues, harsher and more permanent actions will be taken.
Sadly, there's no new information about House of Wolves, the second major DLC update to Destiny, which still has no firm release date. But Bungie promises that those details are coming soon. You can read Bungie's entire weekly update here.
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