News - Destiny 2 Update 1.1.4

Destiny 2 Update 1.1.4

Strikes

• Nightfall strike unique rewards
• • Possible rewards include Legendary weapons and Exotic accessories
  • Drop rates increase in likelihood based on score thresholds
• Strike repetition reduction 
• • Players will no longer see the same strikes back-to-back in strike playlists
• Challenge Card
• • Increased the Power handicap maximum from 40 to 45
• Fixed an issue where “Tree of Probabilities” wouldn’t end immediately after Valus Thuun’s death if he was killed very quickly
• Fixed an issue where players could respawn below the boss fight of “A Garden World”
• Fixed an issue where vehicles were not rewarding points when destroyed
• Fixed an issue where Orbs granted points in public areas

Other

• Exotic repetition reduction
• • Protections were put in place that prevent back-to-back duplicate Exotics from Exotic Engrams
• Fixed an issue where some emblems were not displaying what statistic they track
• Prometheus Lens correctly appears in the Exotic weapon collection for players who acquired the item from Xûr without owning Curse of Osiris
• Reduced interaction time for patrol beacons and activity totems from 3 seconds to 1 second
• Fixed an issue where applying or previewing a shader on an item would return players to the top page of the shader inventory

Sandbox

Weapons

Abilities

• Increased Super regeneration rates from 6:40 minutes to 5:00 minutes 
• The output of every increment of the Mobility stat, from 2 – 10, has been increased allowing for a significant boost in player speed
• Vanishing Step (invisibility upon dodging) and Vanish in Smoke (Smoke Bomb invisibility) 
• • Dodging remains unchanged and still breaks both aim assist and projectile tracking for the duration of the actual dodge
  • The invisibility granted by Vanishing Step no longer breaks aim assist or projectile tracking in PvP (unchanged in PvE)
  • Increased the duration of invisibility granted by Vanishing Step by 1 second
  • Increased the duration of Smoke Bomb invisibility by 1 second
• Increased the movement speed of “melee Supers” (Fist of Havoc, Sentinel Shield, and Arc Staff) 
• • While these Supers are active, sprint speed is automatically set to the fastest possible sprint speed (no additional perks needed)
  • Characters automatically sprint when you request forward movement
  • Increased movement acceleration to reach max speed almost instantly 

Titan 

• Increased the distance the player travels with an untargeted airborne shoulder charge attack (Shield Bash, Seismic Strike, and Hammer Strike) back to 4.5 m
• Lift 
• • Strafe Lift 
  • • Increased top speed of Strafe Lift
  • Catapult Lift 
  • • Increased the initial horizontal acceleration gained from activating Catapult Lift
    • Increased the amount of time Catapult Lift can be active to allow for more control

Hunter 

• Arc Staff 
• • Increased the speed of the Arc Staff dodge animation
  • Increased the speed of all Arc Staff attack animations
  • For Arc Staff Super cast animation and all Arc Staff melee attacks, reduced the amount of time you’re locked in animations before you can move or attack
  • Increased the AoE range of all Arc Staff attacks 

Warlock 

• Glide 
• • Overall 
  • • Increased the initial extension of vertical speed gained from activating Glide to allow for quick, on-demand bursts of speed
  • Strafe Glide 
  • • Increased the top speed of Strafe Glide
    • Greatly increased the horizontal acceleration of Strafe Glide to allow for more in-air maneuverability
    • Increased Strafe Glide’s max height to match the other vertical movements
  • Burst Glide 
  • • Greatly increased the top speed of Burst Glide (higher than Strafe Glide’s top speed)
  • Balanced Glide 
  • • Recalibrated Balanced Glide to gain some of the added speed of Burst Glide and some of the added horizontal acceleration of Strafe Glide. 
    • Design Note: Our intent is for Balanced Glide to have some of the properties of both Burst and Strafe Glide without being as potent as either version.
• Dawnblade 
• • Decreased the cost of throwing sword projectiles with the Daybreak Super, allowing for one additional throw
  • Increased the Super duration extension gained from the Everlasting Flames perk (~+20%)
  • The buff granted by the Swift Strike melee ability now removes all in-air accuracy penalties while active
  • Decreased the Icarus Dash cooldown from 10 seconds to 6 seconds
  • Increased the grenade and melee energy that Heat Rises gives you per kill from 10% to 16%
• Fixed an issue where players could throw infinite numbers of Nova Bombs in Mayhem

Mods

• Mods that affect ability regen rates (i.e., for grenades, melee, and class abilities) now have increased output (16.667% per mod). They still cap at 3 mods (50% regen rate).

Crucible

• Weekly Featured Playlist (Rumble, Mayhem, Iron Banner)
• • Each week we will rotate among Rumble, Mayhem, and Iron Banner playlists in the Crucible
• Crucible repetition reduction
• • Enabled repeat map protection for Quickplay, Competitive, and Iron Banner playlists
• Quitter penalties
• • Incomplete matches in Competitive Crucible playlists will now result in a warning or temporary (30 minute) suspension from Competitive and Osiris Competitive playlists
• Added invisible physics and kill volumes to keep players inside the intended playable area on a number of maps.
• Iron Banner 
• • Now features 6v6
  • Time limit is 12 minutes
  • Score limit is 125 points
  • Respawn time is 7 seconds
  • All Control Zones start off neutral
  • Additional Guardians (max of 3) in a zone increases capture speed
  • Emperor’s Respite has been removed from the Iron Banner Control playlist
  • Power ammo
  • • Recurring side crate respawn times reduced from 90 seconds to 45 seconds
    • Initial side crate respawn times reduced from 90 seconds to 30 seconds
• Crucible gameplay/ammo improvements
• • Quickplay (Clash, Control, Supremacy) match length has been extended to 10 minutes, with score limits adjusted accordingly
• All modes
• • Increased assist and kill credit time from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds
  • Increased Super energy granted to players for both kills and assists
  • Players who are defeated while carrying Power ammo will lose all of their Power ammo and drop 50% of it on the ground as a brick
  • • This brick is visible to all players, and anyone can pick it up
    • The brick expires after 30 seconds
    • The brick requires a full .25-second interaction instead of a passive walkover
    • This interaction can be interrupted if the player takes damage

Quickplay

• All modes
• • Match length has been extended to 10 minutes, with score limits adjusted accordingly
  • Respawn time for all Quickplay game modes has gone down from 5 seconds to 2 seconds
  • Recurring side crate respawn times reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds
  • Neutral crates for Clash/Supremacy are unchanged
  • The player Super display has been removed from the HUD
  • • Players can still access this information in the death screen and while in Nav Mode (when their Ghost is out)
    • The player Super display remains unchanged in Competitive
• Control
• • Reduced initial side crate Power ammo respawn times from 90 seconds to 30 seconds
  • Changed the amounts of Super energy players get for capturing zones 
  • • Players on the capturing team get slightly less than before
    • Players participating in the capture itself get 2x that amount
• Clash/Supremacy
• • Initial side crate Power ammo respawn times reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds

Competitive (Includes Trials of the Nine)

• All modes
• • Tracker is now turned off
  • Design Note: This is to enable more flanking and expression of individual power.
• Survival
• • Reduced recurring neutral crate respawn times from 75 seconds to 45 seconds
  • Reduced respawn time to 7 seconds
• Countdown
• • Reduced recurring side crate respawn times from 60 seconds to 45 seconds
  • Lowered revive lockout time from 20 seconds to 7 seconds
  • Players no longer lose revive tokens on death

Crucible Power Ammo Crates

• Rockets
• • Now: 1 rocket
  • Was: 2 rockets
• Drum-Fed Grenade Launchers
• • Stays at 4 grenades
• Single-Shot Grenade Launchers
• • Now: 6 grenades (may be capped by weapon inventory size)
  • Was: 4 grenades
• Sniper Rifles
• • Now: 6 shots 
  • Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 6 
• Shotguns
• • Now: 5 shots
  • Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 4
• Slug Shotguns
• • Now: 6 shots
  • Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 4
• Fusion Rifles
• • Now: 5 bursts
  • Was: (variable) 4–5 shots based on mag size
• Wardcliff Coil
• • Stays at 1 volley
• Swords
• • Now: 6 swings
  • Was: 30% of total Energy, capped at 9 swings
• Linear Fusion Rifles
• • Now: 4 shots
  • Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 6 
• The Prospector
• • Now: 8 grenades
  • Was: 4 grenades
• Legend of Acrius
• • Now: 4 shots
  • Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 4
• Tractor Cannon
• • Now: 6 shots
  • Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 4
• The Colony
• • Stays at 4 shots
• D.A.R.C.I.
• • Now: 8 shots
  • Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 6
• Borealis
• • Now: 8 shots
  • Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 6