Destiny 2 1.24 Update Patch Notes for PS4 and Xbox One Released

• Raised character level cap to 50 for Forsaken owners

• Year 1 Sony exclusive Exotic and legendary rewards are now available for all platforms

• Riskrunner
  • • Increased inventory size
• Whisper of the Worm
  • • Replaced Armor Piercing Rounds with Accurized Rounds to prevent accidental perk failures for White Nail

• Year 2 weapons now provide random perks when acquired
• Year 2 Masterwork weapons have revamped system
  • Allows players to reach +10 bonus stats
• Year 2 mods are now available
  • Can be acquired by dismantling Year 2 weapons
  • Can be purchased from the Gunsmith
  • Year 1 weapons no longer accept modifications

• Increased the blast radius penalty for Concussion and Blinding Grenades from single shot grenade launchers

• Hunters
  • • Golden Gun
      • • Increased Golden Gun damage against base and elite enemies
• Titan
  • • Magnetic Grenades
      • • Grenades should now detonate a second time even if the initial detonation kills the target

• The Vanguard Strike Playlist is now available
• Nightfall strike scoring has been re-enabled
• Base-level strikes are available through destinations
• Year 1 Sony exclusive strikes are now available to all platforms

Exodus Crash

• Analyzing the Fallen device in Prodromus Down
  • • The objective progress rate increases based on number of Guardians standing near Ghost
• Thaviks encounter
  • • Decreased thaviks’s teleport frequency
      • • Was three long teleports and six quick teleports
        • Now two long teleports and three quick teleports
    • Increased Thaviks’s quick-teleport speed increased
    • Reduced enemy waves to match teleport frequency
    • Added additional enemies per wave
    • Damage to Thaviks is preserved when Thaviks switches weapons

Daily Heroic Story Missions

• Daily Heroic story missions now available

• Destiny 2 update 1.24 fixed an issue that sometimes triggered the Quitter Penalty after completed Competitive Crucible matches
• Starting in Season 4, Iron Banner will be updated to enable Power level advantages, beginning on September 18
• Destiny 2 1.24 removed Mayhem temporarily from the weekly featured playlist until a future update
• Trials of the Nine is now on hiatus
  • • Trials of the Nine reputation tokens cannot be redeemed until the activity returns

• Retribution and Wormhaven are now available on all platforms
• Retribution has been reworked and enlarged to support 6v6 matches

Rumble

• Earning a place in the Top 3 in Rumble will now count as a win
• The correct number of Valor Rank Points will be granted

• Glory
  • • Retuned Glory Rank Points gained and lost have to reduce the overall climb to higher ranks
    • Destiny 2 version 1.24 fixed the weekly award and doubled its gains
    • Fixed and returned weekly Glory decay
    • Players who competed in Season 3 will earn bonus rank points for completing their first match in Season 4
    • Destiny 2 1.24 removed loss streaks
• Valor
  • • Losses in the Competitive playlist no longer reset your Valor win streak
• Game Modes
  • • Control and Clash modes have been added to the Competitive playlist
• Rewards
  • • Pinnacle Crucible rewards are now awarded via quests
      • • These quests will not be removed at the end of the season
    • Redrix’s Claymore has been retired in Season 4 as a seasonal reward
      • • Players who earned Redrix’s Claymore in Season 3 will receive additional bonuses

• Destiny 2 update 1.24 added the option to adjust the respawn timers for Survival
• Score-to-win options have been updated for several modes
  • • Control
      • • Added 25 and 150, removed 10 and 20
        • 150 is the new default
    • Clash
      • • Added 25 and 150, removed 10 and 20
        • 100 is the new default
    • Supremacy
      • • Added 25 and 150, removed 10 and 20
        • 150 is the new default

• The Gambit playlist is unlocked
  • • Requires Forsaken
    • Requires completion of mission “Spark”
• Infamy ranks now available

• Zavala
  • • The Season 4 vendor progression system has been updated with two separate progressions
      • • Vanguard Rank
          • • Like in previous seasons, Vanguard rank can be increased by turning in Vanguard tokens to Zavala
            • Increasing your Vanguard rank will provide Vanguard engrams, containing new Year 2 weapons and armor with random rolls
            • You can continue to acquire items found in Vanguard engrams beyond the season end boundary
            • Seasonal exclusive items that are purchased via Vanguard rank have been moved to their own row for clarity, and will only be attainable until the end of Season 4
        • Nightfall Rank
          • • Increased by attaining score on various Nightfall strikes
            • Items are now available for purchase from Zavala by increasing in Nightfall Rank
• Shaxx
  • • Updated reputation reward packages for Season 4
    • Updated bounties for Season 4
    • Added pursuits to Shaxx’s inventory
    • Added new rewards for Valor ranks
• Gunsmith
  • • No longer exchanges Year 1 mods; these can be safely dismantled
    • Now sells two mods (one armor, one weapon) a day.
    • Gunsmith packages now require 100 Gunsmith Materials
    • Updated repuation reward packages for Season 4

• General
  • • Between levels 20 and 50 challenges provide a source of Legendary items and experience
    • When you reach level 50, an entirely new set of challenges activates and the leveling ones are no longer available
    • After you reach level 50, these are the main avenue into the powerful rewards that previously lived within milestones
    • Level 20 challenges with progression will be converted to a new challenges at level 50
• Daily challenges now available
  • • Specific challenges offered each day
    • Individual daily challenges reset on a four day cadence
• Weekly challenges now available
  • • Reset each Tuesday

• Destiny 2 1.24 increased experience rewards for completing strikes and nightfall
• Reduced experience rewards for completing normal and heroic public events
• Iron Banner, Vanguard, and Crucible tokens earned in Season 3 may be redeemed with their respective vendors in Season 4
• Players are no longer able to delete mods or shaders from an items details screen

• Masterwork reward chances are being reduced in some activities
  • • Pre-Forsaken raids will still offer a higher chance for Masterwork acquisition, but that chance has been lowered from 50% to 10% to be in line with Masterwork drops inForsaken
• Year 1 armor will always dismantle to one Masterwork Core
• Year 1 weapons can dismantle to one or two cores, but no longer three

• Activity rewards now respect your Power
  • • If you complete an activity while severely under-leveled, rewards will offer a larger Power upgrade
    • If you complete an activity while heavily over-leveled, rewards will be a lower Power level

• Forsakenshaders do not drop in the wild; instead, they come from dismantling gear with that shader applied
• Rare-quality shaders are often applied to drops, but have a low chance of being granted by dismantling
• Legendary-quality shaders appear much less frequently on gear, but have a high chance of being granted by dismantling
• It no longer costs anything to apply shaders to gear

• Infusion for all pre-ForsakenandForsakengear is capped at 600 Power
• Weapon infusion is now slot-based rather than archetype-based
  • • Example: Any Kinetic weapon can be infused into any other Kinetic weapon, but you can no longer infuse an Energy Hand Cannon into a Kinetic Hand Cannon
• Infusing duplicates of the same item is much less expensive than using two different items

• Reduced drop rates of destination materials from some destination activities

• Includes any weapon, armor piece, Ghost Shell, ship, Sparrow, emblem, or shader players have earned sinceWarmind’srelease on May 8
• Except for Year 2 legendary armor and weapons with random rolls, all items can be reacquired through Collections, for a fee
  • • The cost to reacquire an item scales based on what the item dismantles into

• Three of Coins have been deprecated
  • • Converted into “Faded Cards”
    • Can be safely discarded for Legendary Shards

• The Prismatic Matrix is now scheduled out for the full season
• The Prismatic Facet (free weekly account roll) is now obtained via a special Tier 1 Eververse bounty, rather than being tied to leveling, which can be acquired for 250 Glimmer and that does not require an Eververse Bounty Note
  • • This permits players at all levels to obtain their free weekly roll

• Each Seasonal Bright Engram now grants one Bounty Note
  • • These Bounty Notes can be exchanged for a variety of weekly Eververse Bounties, which come in three tiers:
      • • Tier 1: Cost = 1 Eververse Bounty Note: Rewards 20 Bright Dust
        • Tier 2: Cost = 3 Eververse Bounty Note: Rewards 70 Bright Dust
        • Tier 3: Cost = 6 Eververse Bounty Note: Rewards 150 Bright Dust
• Players can acquire as many Eververse bounties as they have Bounty Notes
• Eververse bounties expire seven days after acquisition

Bright Dust Dismantle Yields

• Bright Dust, which you gained from dismantling types of Eververse items, is now a fixed amount
  • • Example: Shaders will always yield 10 Bright Dust

• Reward probabilities are now displayed on bungie.net
• Destiny 2 1.24 added new Legendary weapon ornaments to the Bright Engram
• Added new Ghost Projection category to the Bright Engram
• Weapon and armor mods are no longer available in Bright Engrams

Eververse Armor and Perks

• With the addition of random perk rolls on armor, we have made some changes to how perks are applied to Eververse armor
  • • Eververse armor acquired from non-deterministic sources (i.e., the Bright Engram) will include random perks
    • Eververse armor acquired from deterministic sources (i.e., the Prismatic Matrix or Bright Dust storefront) will have fixed perks

• Starting inForsaken, you will no longer earn Bright Engrams each level until you reach the level cap
  • • Players progressing through the campaigns will receive an Eververse gift at the end of each campaign once per class with a variety of items and some Bright Engrams included
    • This includes players who use a Character Boost
• Once you reach the level cap, Bright Engrams will once again be awarded at the same rate as they are in the current game

• Silver transaction history is now displayed on bungie.net
• Bundles that have not been opened can be refunded for seven days after purchase
• Gleaming Boons of the Vanguard and Crucible have been updated to drop the current season’s items
• To make room for bounties, Bright Dust offerings have been moved to the second page of Eververse

• The Season 3 Clan Staff reward has been granted to all clans who hit max rank this season
• Gambit now offers a clan engram when a fireteam from your clan wins a Gambit match

Season 4 Clan Progression

• Clan experience is now earned by completing clan bounties available from Hawthorne
• When a player reaches level 50, three new clan bounties become available

• Players have the option reconnect to Guided Game activities if they encounter a disconnection from an active Guided Game

• Destiny 2 patch 1.24 adjusted ambient audio in the Tower

• Destiny 2 version 1.24 fixed an issue where having a certain number of unique items in the vault was causing items to not load
• Fixed an issue where text would hitch on multiple screens when players are playing on a PlayStation Pro