Destiny 2 Update 7.3.6 Patch Notes (Version 3.21)

Destiny 2 update 7.3.6 is available to download on PS4(Version 3.21), PC, PS5, Xbox One, and PC players. According to the Destiny 2 update 7.3.6 patch notes, the latest update introduces various improvements and fixes across different aspects of the game, including Crucible, Raids and Dungeons, Free Roam, UI/UX, Gameplay and Investment, Exotics, Perks, Crucible Only Changes, Abilities, and Bounties and Pursuits. Apart from this, Destiny 2 patch 7.3.6 also includes gameplay performance improvements.

Previously, Destiny 2 update 7.1 changes for the economy, weapon sandbox, abilities, exotic armor, quality of life, crucible, and enemy elemental shields. Today’s Destiny 2 update 7.3.6 will fix a few of these issues.

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Destiny 2 Patch 7.3.6 Notes (Version 3.21) – April 9, 2024

ACTIVITIES

CRUCIBLE

• Updated the playlist tooltips to correctly display which matchmaking style is used for each mode.
• Fixed an issue where the Special ammo crate location was incorrectly displayed in the announcement when picked up on Vostok.
• Added the Hardware modifier to Crucible Labs for testing.
• Added a sound effect for the “Special ammo incoming” announcement when a Special ammo crate is about to spawn.

Competitive

• Removed Survival and Countdown Rush from the Competitive playlist and replaced with 3v3 Clash and Collision.
• Collision
  • Updated the zone placements for Vostok and Dead Cliffs.
  • Updated several Special ammo crate placements on Altar of Flame, Anomaly, Endless Value, Eternity, and Multiplex.
• Clash
  • Replaced the Special ammo meter system with Special ammo crates for 3v3 Clash.
• Enabled a unified Competitive ruleset for Collision and Clash.
  • Game Length: 10 minutes.
  • Respawns: 7 seconds.
  • Revives: Enabled.
  • Special ammo spawns: 4 crates, 60 seconds, shared.
  • Heavy ammo spawns: Single crate, 120 seconds, not shared.
• Expanded the Not Swap modifier to cover changing ammo types in either your Kinetic or Energy slot mid-life.
• Reduced variation in Competitive rank adjustment on match completion.

Trials

• Post-game weapon drops will now reward the weekly weapon.
• For the first two weeks, Special ammo crate variants will be tested in Trials, alongside the Not Swap modifier.

RAIDS AND DUNGEONS

• Crota’s End
  • Fixed an issue where all players could die and wipe at the same time that Crota is defeated, awarding loot but not awarding completion of the encounter.
• Deep Stone Crypt
  • Fixed an issue where shooting the Atraks replication attached to a player would cause ammo to spawn.
• Warlord’s Ruin
  • Fixed an issue in the jail puzzle where Glaive projectiles and Bow arrows could not hit targets consistently.
  • Fixed an issue in the Ogre encounter where the Warden Knight on the right side of the stage wouldn’t spawn totems consistently.
  • Improved respawn placement in the room with the giant Taken orb and flying debris hazards.
• Vow of the Disciple
  • Adjusted some visual effects in the final encounter to mitigate some photosensitivity concerns.

FREE ROAM

• Fixed an issue that could cause players to crash after The Arsenal Walker public event.
• Fixed an issue where a loud volume spike could occur when exiting the Fynch vendor screen on Throne World.

UI/UX

GENERAL

• Fixed an issue where players had to spam click to give commendations to other players that left their activity.
• Fixed an issue where direct launching a quest from the Quest Details screen wouldn’t always launch players to the landing zone closest to the objective.

• Fixed an issue where the Dawning emblem icon displayed no background.
• Fixed an issue where the Legacy button on the Character Select screen was not working.

• Fixed an issue where Iron Banner Legacy ornaments were missing a reward acquire sound.

• Fixed an issue where the Stasis subclass category icons at the Exo Stranger/Elsie vendor were using Void iconography.
• Fixed an issue where the icons for the Trials Auto Rifle, Strike Grenade Launcher, and dungeon Pulse Rifle Relentless were facing the incorrect way.
• Fixed an issue where the icon for the Warlock Guardian Games class item was not accurately representing the armor art.

FIRETEAM FINDER

• Reduced the size of the Fireteam Finder banner in the Roster screen.
• Added an animation to a Listing when successfully submitting an application.
• Improved notifications for applications and join requests to Roster contacts when the players don’t own the required game content.
• Players will now be able to see all players that are included in an application to help make a more informed decision on applying or joining Listings.
• Improved the way Listing Settings and Filters are stored for quicker Listing creation.
• Fixed an issue where pressing Reset in the Join Settings Filter screen did not reset options.
• Fixed an issue where a random Select button appeared in the Fireteam Finder application screen.
• Fixed an issue where spamming buttons could load an empty Activity screen.
• Fixed an issue where the wrong selection screen appeared in Fireteam Finder when using the Activity Launch screen while already in a Fireteam.
• Fixed an issue where the Accept Application pop up would shift when attempting to Accept Applications.

LOCALIZATION

• Fixed issues with text overlaps and alignment for various languages in The Guardian Oath screen.
• Fixed font issues for some languages in the Summon Fireteam button.

GAMEPLAY AND INVESTMENT

ARMOR

• Extended the handling bonus granted by Lucky Pant’s Illegally Modded Holster buff by 2 seconds so that it lasts until the Out of Luck debuff is activated.
• Fixed an issue where a visual bump would occur when Overload Artifact perks were triggered.
• Fixed an issue where weapons that can change their element type were benefitting from multiple surge bonuses at once.
• Fixed an issue where the intrinsic perk Warlord’s Sigil used an incorrect term for Freeze.

WEAPON ARCHETYPES

• Auto Rifles
  • Precisions
    • Reduced base damage by 5%.
• Hand Cannons
  • Precisions
    • Increased base damage by 6%.
  • Adaptives
    • Increased body shot damage by 1% and critical hit damage by 4%.
    • Improved the stats of Luna’s Howl and Midnight Coup.
• Pulse Rifles
  • Rapid-Fires
    • Increased body shot damage by 3.5% and critical hit damage by 1%.
  • Lightweights
    • Increased body shot damage by 6% and critical hit damage by 3%.
  • Adaptives
    • Increased body shot damage by 5% and critical hit damage by 2%.
  • Aggressives
    • Improved the stats of Blast Furnace.
• Scout Rifles
  • Rapid-Fires
    • Increased base damage by 2%.
• Submachine Guns
  • Lightweights
    • Improved the stats of Recluse.
• Bows
  • Lightweights
    • Increased base damage by 6%.
      • Le Monarque and Wish-Ender are not affected in this change.
• Shotguns
  • Precisions
    • Corrected a rounding issue that was causing Precision Shotguns to require one extra pellet to kill max-resilience Guardians.
• Breech Grenade Launchers
  • Increased direct impact damage by 40%.
    • This works out to be roughly a 15% overall damage buff, though total damage varies depending on the blast radius stat.
  • Reduced Disorienting Grenade radius for both damage and the disorientation effect by 15%.
  • Increased The Mountaintop’s PvE damage to make it competitive with other Breech-Loaded Grenade Launchers.
  • Reverted a change from Season 12 that made The Mountaintop less accurate while airborne.
• Heavy Grenade Launchers
  • Increased the stats of Edge Transit.

EXOTICS

• Updated perk descriptions to include subclass verbs for the following weapons (these weapons already had this functionality, but it just wasn’t explained in the perk descriptions):
  • Sunshot, Polaris Lance, One Thousand Voices, and Leviathan’s Breath.
• Whisper of the Worm
  • Increased total ammunition from 18 to 24 (before reserves mods).

• One Thousand Voices
  • Increased total ammunition from 7 to 11 (before reserves mods).
• Quicksilver Storm
  • Increased the shots needed to trigger rockets by 50%.
  • Reduced grenade area-of-effect damage vs. combatants by 37.5%.
• The Last Word
  • Increased base damage by 6%.
• Forerunner
  • Increased base damage by 6%.

PERKS

• Reintroducing Dares of Eternity weapon perks that were previously removed. These can now roll on new drops or be added to shaped versions of the weapon.
• Master of Arms
  • Reduced damage bonus from 20% to 15%.
• Magnificent Howl
  • Precision final blows grant stacks, and reloading converts the stacks into Magnificent Howl rounds that deal greatly increased damage and have additional range. Getting a precision kill with a Magnificent Howl active converts an additional round.
• Micro-Missile
  • Redesigned this perk to be a weapon intrinsic. It’s rebuilt to do less direct damage vs. players, but with dramatically more self-physics impulse.
  • Retuned its PvE damage to be competitive with other Breech-Loaded Grenade Launchers.
  • Increased its reload speed slightly.
  • Since this is now an intrinsic on The Mountaintop, Micro-Missile has been replaced with Rampage in the first trait slot on old versions of the weapon.
• Permeability
  • Fixed an issue where this perk was causing the The Slammer Sword to get stuck on the Strand damage type.
• Omolon
  • Fixed an issue where overflowing the magazine could break the Omolon origin perk.
• Deconstruct
  • Deconstruct will no longer activate on Scorch, Threadling, Stasis Shatter, and Jolt damage.
• Slice
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Slice to lose stacks when shooting an enemy with a weapon that has a rapid rate of fire.
• Headstone
  • Fixed an issue where Headstone’s cooldown was using the wrong icon. Headstone now uses the standard cooldown icon instead of a Stasis buff icon.

CRUCIBLE ONLY CHANGES

• Reduced flinch taken by all Primary weapons by 15%.
• Sunshot
  • Increased precision damage by 11%.
• Wish-Ender
  • Reduced base damage by 5%.
• Forerunner
  • Removed the critical hit damage bonus that was supposed to be just for Primary ammo sidearms, and replaced that with the 6% global base damage bonus.
• Corrected several weapons getting the wrong ammo amounts from either the Special ammo crates or meter systems, including Buried Bloodlines and some Fusion Rifles.

OTHER FIXES

• Fixed an issue where reprised Dreaming City weapons could not obtain the Rare shader Burnished Dreams or the Legendary shader Blueshift Dreams.

• Improved the chance a player will obtain the Burnished Dreams shader when dismantling a weapon with the shader.
• Improved the likelihood of Blueshift Dreams appearing on Dreaming City weapons.

• Fixed an issue where the Last Rite Scout Rifle had an incorrect appearance.
• Fixed an issue where the Xenology quest incorrectly stated that having an Exotic cipher would prevent rewarding another, despite the player being eligible.
• Fixed an issue where Word of Crota was using the incorrect stat group.
• Fixed a photosensitivity issue with Outbreak Perfected.
• Fixed an issue where Mountaintop and Jotuun’s hip-fire reticles were not centered.
• Fixed an issue with Vengeful Whisper where an arrow was visible when holstered and stored on the players back.
• Fixed an issue where the updated Dreaming City weapons were not appearing in Collections.
• Fixed an issue where notifications specific to The Coil could appear in Riven’s Lair.

ABILITIES

• Reduced the cost of Strand fragments at the Pouka Pond from 200 Strand Meditations to 100 Strand Meditations.
• Fixed an issue where Overload or Antibarrier capabilities granted through artifact mods or subclass keywords could reduce ignition damage created by some weapons.

BOUNTIES AND PURSUITS

• Fixed an issue where completing the 2023 Moments of Triumph title did not count towards the appropriate Guardian Rank objectives.

GENERAL

• Fixed an issue where Dares and Wellspring Fireteam Finders would try to launch the Salvage activity.
• Fixed a visual issue causing the Chill Out finisher effects to persist after the finisher ends.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the Ascendant Realm sky to block out the Dreaming City skybox in certain areas.
• Fixed various world art issues in the Crucible Root and Crucible Ice
• Fixed an issue where players could regenerate Skimmer energy in midair by re-summoning their Skimmer.

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