Bungie nonetheless haven’t even revealed the title of the brand new Destiny 2 season beginning in three weeks, not to mention what’s new in it, however they’re opening up about what it’ll do to the outdated meta. On high of the sword changes mentioned just a few weeks in the past, they’ve large plans for weapons together with sniper rifles, long-range fusion rifles, and the exotics Lord Of Wolves, Izanagi’s Burden, and The Last Word. I’ll be sorry to stow some present favourites in my vault however I’m theoretically glad for the freshness of a brand new meta for a brand new season.
The adjustments revealed in the latest ‘This Week At Bungie’ post are focusing on each PvE’s big-hitters and the PvP monsters. Go learn that for full particulars on every part, and I’ll briefly skim over all of it right here. First, the exotics.
Lord Of Wolves, the fire-spewing Fallen shotgun, can have “significantly” lowered accuracy when the 10-round-burst Release The Wolves mode is lively. Good. To hell with that awful gun. “With this change, Release the Wolves should be used at extremely close ranges against large targets instead of just being a better version of the default behaviour,” Bungie say.
The Last Word, the hip-firing cowboy hand cannon, is being pushed to focus extra on close-range gunslinging. Expect much less vary, much less stability, and even much less incentive to intention down the sights. I like TLW however yeah, it’s too robust in Crucible.
Izanagi’s Burden, the present favorite boss-bashing sniper rifle and common PvE celebrity, is getting toned down a bit. The reload-speeding perk Outlaw is being launched with the aim-stabilising No Distractions, and reload pace perks gained’t increase cramming a number of bullets into one Honed Edge shot. And certain, I settle for it. Izanagi’s chews via Champions with out a second’s afterthought and offers rad sustained boss DPS. It’s nice at every part. It sounds prefer it gained’t turn into pure trash however will now not be ubiquitous, so certain.
More broadly, a great deal of weapon sorts are getting tweaked.
In what seems like an assault on the Erentil FR4 and any kids it might bear, fusion rifles are getting nerfs to range-range violence and the Backup Plan perk. Bungie are at the very least fixing a problem with intention help that made sprays typically piss injury away bending in the direction of heads however scattering round them, thoughts. As the ashamed proprietor of an Erentil with 88 vary and Backup Plan, yeah, I can not defend this ridiculous gun. Rest straightforward, you courageous little vooper.
Sniper rifles will lose the 20% PvE injury increase towards large baddies that that they had acquired with Shadowkeep. Adaptive frames will deal much less headshot injury too, and Rapid-Fire frames lose 10 base injury. Both PvE and PvP nerfs right here. “Sniper Rifles have a lot of utility and safety due to their range and the increased damage was giving them too much of a leg-up on their closer range counterparts,” Bungie say. “That gulf only widens as the difficulty of any given encounter goes up.” Aggressive sniper frames come off pretty nicely on this, so possibly I’ll use my Trophy Hunter with Triple Tap and Vorpal Weapon extra subsequent season.
In the realm of grenade launchers, Aggressive frames have gotten Raid-Fire frames with much less injury however elevated reserves. GLs which use Power ammo will deal 10% much less injury to Major enemies and executives too. I suppose with the sniper rifle nerfs, they don’t need everybody going proper again to Spike Grenade spam.
With non-slug shotguns, Bungie are fixing the same subject to the fusion sprays, the place “at certain distances between players, the aim assist system would prioritise the head, causing the entire spread to deviate from centre mass and make the player miss out on the kill.” Then with that fastened, they’re nerfing them a bit “to give other weapons a little more time to react to them.” I’ll need to dig my slug shotguns again out.
As for Auto Rifles, every type are getting a little bit extra headshot injury and some are getting a little bit further bodyshot injury too. Okay, certain?
Bungie point out a number of instances that they’re not thrilled with high-end PvE being so reliant on long-range weapons. Buddy, that’s as a result of I don’t need to get stomped to loss of life or kicked into partitions so laborious that I burst. You can’t nerf snipers and strip extra vary off shotguns and fusions with out fixing enemy melee strikes, particularly in probably the most punishing PvE modes.
More stability adjustments are coming for Exotic armours and Super talents, and Bungie say they’ll gab extra about these quickly. A couple of different weapon tweaks are deliberate too. I’d actually hoped to listen to a gentle reversal of Shadowkeep’s hand cannon vary nerfs. And do do not forget that seasonal armour mods won’t just be limited to new armour, which is good.
At this level, I don’t have a transparent picture of the brand new meta. It doesn’t sound prefer it’ll be massively totally different however I’m curious to see the way it’ll shake out. Will Aggressive body snipers take over? Will slug shotguns be a cool new Crucible alternative? Are we DPSing bosses with Firing Line linear fusion rifles? Will the auto rifles I’ve been stockpiling for ages be value utilizing? Dunno! But I’m up for a meta shift. I don’t need the game to remain the identical endlessly. I do know I’ll miss sure issues however I hope others will make up for it.
Oh! One element of subsequent season they do verify is {that a} Grandmaster tough stage is coming to Nightfalls. Alright.
Destiny 2’s Season Of Dawn will run till March 10th, then the yet-unnamed new season (leaks counsel it’s Season Of The Worthy) will start. Before then, do cash in your Fractaline. This week additionally noticed Bungie slip in a wee new cutscene with Osiris confronting the mighty AI, Rasputin. This might be a touch in the direction of subsequent season’s plot or yet one more strand Bungie toss out then gained’t return to for years.
