For the second time in a fortnight, Destiny 2 was final night time taken down for hours of emergency upkeep after unintentionally wiping some gamers’ spacewallets of Glimmer, Bright Dust, and different spacecurrencies and crafting supplies. Turns out, the repair final time didn’t totally maintain. Bungie have as soon as once more rolled again characters to revive misplaced valuables, which suggests something your spacemen did between 4:30pm and 6:30pm GMT yesterday has been worn out. That’s a bummer should you logged on proper after the weekly reset to take pleasure in Crimson Days, the Valentine’s Day occasion, or to spend ages swapping timegems for guns. Though I’ve heard of worse Valentine’s disasters.
Destiny 2’s weekly reset got here at 5:00pm on Tuesday, bringing with it hotfix 2.7.1.1 with a number of bug fixes (not together with the infinite Dawnblade supers). Some gamers skilled a well-known sinking feeling after they noticed their spacebank steadiness and… oh no. Bungie took Destiny 2 offline for emergency upkeep at 6:30, to repair the bug and roll again characters, then it got here again minutes after midnight.
All in all, the game was down for five-and-a-half hours and gamers misplaced two hours of progress from them. Given that the weekly reset brings in a brand new set of bounties, new occasions like these right here Crimson Days, the weekly haul of Polarized Fractaline from the Empyrean Foundation restoration effort, and different newness, it’s a time plenty of individuals leap on at. And time they may have misplaced.
Seeing as that is the second time and gamers are riled, Bungie have given a surprisingly in-depth account of what the bug is, the way it occurred, and the way it occurred once more.
In brief, that they had tried to repair a bug within the game’s “clean-up process” when gamers log in, which was creating errors for gamers who kind their quest log chronologically. This unintentionally broke different elements of clean-up, like calculating the utmost quantity of sure assets gamers might have in a stack and deleting the whole lot above the cap – which, for some, turned out to be the whole lot. Bungie say they even noticed this concern in testing however “incorrectly concluded that it was caused by a tooling failure with debug workflows we use for testing, and not an actual bug within the game.” Oh pricey. So come January 28th and the launch of patch 2.7.1, a great deal of gamers had been robbed.
How did this occur once more? When Tuesday introduced replace 2.7.1.1 and Crimson Days, some servers crashed whereas beginning up then lastly got here again up with the the earlier repair unintentionally now not utilized. So the very same bug struck once more. Only “a small percentage” of servers had been affected by this but it surely was sufficient to wipe out the wallets of quite a few spacemen and ship Bungie again for one more time-rewind.
Bungie’s put up goes into masses extra element, together with about how their system of checks and balances failed in a number of methods, should you’re curious. They say they’ve improved their course of and it actually, actually shouldn’t occur once more. A everlasting repair to this specific downside will come quickly, they declare.
The builders additionally be aware {that a} new hotfix is coming this Thursday, 2.7.1.2, concentrating on issues together with the infinite Dawnblade supers. I believe I’ll wait a number of hours earlier than logging on after that hits.
While I really feel nice sympathy for individuals who misplaced great things within the rollback, fact be advised: it’s been fairly variety to me. I logged quickly on after reset, spent a small fortune in Glimmer and Fractaline on Timelost Weapon Frames, and scored none of my dream rolls. Now I’ve my Fractaline again and may do it once more – as soon as my clicking finger has recovered from over-exertion. Sorry.
Oh, and Crimson Days? It’s dwell now. Once once more, Lord Shaxx asks us to show our love by ultraviolence. The 2v2 Crimson Days mode is again in Crucible, with the standard buffs which grant higher skill cooldown occasions whenever you’re close to your pal or they die. This means sure, as soon as once more, grenade spam is wild.
Crimson Days matches and bounties reward Confectionery Hearts which you’ll swap with Shaxx for lovey-dovey Sparrows, the occasion bow The Vow, a pleasant little Beyoncé emote, and different rewards. The two Crimson Days weekly bounties give Bright Dust too.
The Crimson Days occasion runs till reset on February 18th. See the event page and guide for more information.
I can’t consider this very same bug struck once more.
