It’s the Destiny 2 News Roundup on 18th April 2024. Legend Onslaught is getting more rewarding, The Final Shape Raid date has been announced, plus Bungie details some clan changes and also what happens to the Into The Light content past June 3.

Making Onslaught more rewarding

Bungie took to Twitter yesterday to detail changes coming to Onslaught to make it more rewarding.

We’ve been following feedback that there should be better incentives to stay in Onslaught for the full 50 waves, so teammates don’t dip out after wave 10. We’re adding two additional weapon rewards to Onslaught and buffing Trophies of Bravery drops to help address this.

Change 1: A chance for one additional weapon to drop when you complete a wave. The drop chance will increase per wave until you get your weapon, and the drop will be guaranteed on wave 50.

Change 2: A bonus weapon will also drop after you complete wave 50 in either difficulty. This change along with the first means that completing 50 waves will guarantee two additional weapons.

We will also be increasing the number of Trophies of Bravery you receive from completing waves 40 and 50 of Onslaught and waves 30, 40, and 50 on Legend Difficulty.

Our goal with these changes is to make sticking it out into the later waves feel more rewarding.

We’ve also seen people ask if Shaxx’s vendor reputation will be able to be reset. Lord Shaxx’s vendor in the Hall of Champions was not meant to be reset and any text stating a reset is available is a bug. We investigated adding resets, but it wasn’t feasible at this time.

One of our goals with adding the additional chance for a weapon to drop when completing an Onslaught wave (as detailed above) is to increase the total rewards earned, as you can no longer earn BRAVE engrams from Shaxx after you hit his reputation cap.

We are targeting an update next week to get these changes live in the game.

The Final Shape Raid

After the launch of The Final Shape on June 4, Guardians won’t have to wait too long to tackle the raid. The new raid will launch on June 7 at 10 AM PT. So gather your fireteam, gear up, and get ready!

The Final Shape Clan updates

We’re also delivering some new content and quality of life improvements to clans that we hope will breathe some life into the system and encourage players to play with their clanmates.

First up, Hawthorne will be receiving a vendor reputation track. Guardians can earn clan reputation by completing activities, with higher difficulty activities giving more progress and playing with clanmates giving a large bonus to progression.

Clan bounties are also getting some love, with the Nightfall bounty no longer requiring clan level 6 to claim. There will also be two new bounty types, one for Seasonal content and one for dungeons. All clan bounties will also grant some clan reputation.

Lastly, clan XP is getting a rework on the backend to be more consistent along with some XP source tuning, so players should have an easier time consistently earning XP for their clans. If you’ve never been in a clan, now’s a great time to hop in and meet some new friends.

Fireteam Finder out of Beta

Earlier this week, we removed the beta tag from Fireteam Finder. We’re thrilled to reach this important milestone, with the feature set and performance reaching a place where we are comfortable moving it into its full release.

We first introduced Fireteam Finder in November with our raid stress tests. During those tests, the community showed up in droves to help us see how far we could push the system. We were happy to see how well the system performed under heavy use, and the testing helped us confirm that Fireteam Finder was ready for beta.

When we released the beta in December, we were pleased to see players immediately connect, forming fireteams and tackling all types of content together. We continued to work hard to make improvements and iterate based on your feedback including:

But we aren’t done yet. We’re going to continue to develop and improve Fireteam Finder, just as we have these past few months. In the near term, we have new features like voice chat and lobby invites that you can look forward to. We wanted to give a big thank you to the community. We couldn’t have done it without you. From your participation during our testing phases to your feedback these past few months, your passion for helping us make this a great experience has been instrumental in getting us to this point. Please keep sharing your feedback.

Into the Light and Year 10

With Destiny 2: Into the Light, we’ve introduced a variety of activities and rewards to celebrate the lead-up to The Final Shape. This includes a blend of limited-time content with activities and rewards that will continue to be available to players after the event ends. We’d like to give you a full breakdown of the content plan leading up to The Final Shape.

Limited time activities

To start, we want to highlight the content that will only be available during Destiny 2: Into the Light.

Pantheon activity

Pantheon is our raid boss gauntlet that will be available from April 30 to June 3. With Pantheon, we wanted to create a unique and challenging event that players could test their mettle against, prior to our big battle in The Final Shape. Pantheon will offer a chance to earn a variety of emblems, and similar to the limited-time emblems we’ve made available in past Contest Raids, we expect the exclusivity of these emblems will make them highly sought after.

We’ve been thrilled to see the response to our reveal of Pantheon and know players are eager to jump in and play. While our initial stab at a boss gauntlet was always intended to be a time-limited event, we are eager to see player feedback about the mode to inform future plans.

Into the Light and Pantheon Seal

The Godslayer title, earned through the Pantheon event, and the Brave title, earned through Destiny 2: Into the Light Triumphs, will also be limited-time rewards. As is the case with Moments of Triumph, these titles are meant to commemorate a unique moment of time and show others players your accomplishments during Destiny 2: Into the Light. When you see these in the future, you’ll know these are the Guardians that stood tall as we prepared to battle the Witness.

Limited Edition weapons

As we’ve previously mentioned, the limited-edition variants of the BRAVE arsenal weapons will only be available until June 3.

Hall of Champions

The Hall of Champions and associated content, such as the Arcite 99-40 quests, armor chests, and weapon attunement, will no longer be available after June 3. While the Hall of Champions will have served its purpose as a base of operations as we defend against the Witness’s forces before The Final Shape, some of the content associated with the Hall of Champions, like the Parade armor sets, will still be available in the future. Based on the reaction to Destiny 2: Into the Light, we’ve decided that the Superblack shader will return later on as well, but the best time to grab these rewards is before The Final Shape, while they have a deterministic path.

We really like the attunement experience so far, and while it won’t be available right at the launch of The Final Shape, we’re already working on bringing back a new attunement experience for BRAVE weapons sometime during Echoes.

Into the Light content after June 3

There are new features and rewards in Destiny 2: Into the Light that we plan to keep around after the event ends.

Onslaught and Brave weapons

The Onslaught activity and its BRAVE arsenal weapon rewards will move to Vanguard Ops as a dedicated playlist when The Final Shape releases. We are planning for weapon attunement to return in a new form sometime during Echoes.

PVP maps

All three of the new PvP maps arriving on May 7 will be sticking around after Destiny 2: Into the Light concludes.

Exotic missions

These reprised Exotic missions will continue to be available and move to the Legends tab after June 3. The Exotic weapons and catalyst rewards from these missions will also still be available to earn from Eris Morn and Ada-1.

Parade armor and shaders

Finally, as mentioned above, the armor and shaders added in Destiny 2: Into the Light will be available to earn after June 3. We’ll have more details in the future on the new ways you can earn these rewards, but for items that take a good deal of time to earn like Superblack, we want to make sure we honor that commitment when we bring it back.

We’re hoping the full details of these activities will help you prioritize where you want to spend your time and what rewards you’d like to prioritize.

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