Destiny 2 Update 9.0.0.4 Patch Notes Details on July 29, 2025

Destiny 2 update 9.0.0.4 is rolling out on PS4, PC, PS5, Xbox One, and PC players. According to the Destiny 2 update 9.0.0.4 patch notes, Arms Week begins with a focus on Hand Cannons, introducing the powerful Phoneutria Fera, limited-time mods, and exclusive rewards. Apart from this, Destiny 2 patch 9.0.0.4 also improves ammo flow and addresses major bugs.

Destiny 2 Patch 9.0.0.4 Notes – July 29, 2025

Destiny 2 Patch 9.0.0.4
Destiny 2 Patch 9.0.0.4

Destiny 2 9.0.0.4 Summary

  • Arms Week Event Begins: Focuses on Hand Cannons with unique weapons, mods, and challenges.

  • New Weapon: Phoneutria Fera, a Solar Spreadshot Hand Cannon with One Two Punch.

  • Trials of Osiris Returns: Featuring new armor sets and tiered weapon rewards.

  • Fireteam Ops – The Coil: New activity with three rotating paths.

  • Ammo economy improvements and several bug fixes across platforms.

Activities

The Edge of Fate

  • Fixed an issue where The Sieve would not backfill players that leave.

The Portal

  • Players can now start Master and Grandmaster activities when they unlock Expert difficulty at Power 170.
    • Reminder: enemies 100 levels above the player are immune.
  • Players will no longer be able to select the Surge boon and Anti-Surge challenge of the same element.
  • In the Solo Ops Quickplay Playlist, the ‘Return to Orbit’ prompt during post-activity has been changed to “Continue” to more accurately describe the behavior.
  • Fixed an issue where quickly launching a Master activity could remove its activity modifiers.

Crucible

  • Portal reward preview for Crucible Ops now displays the correct Power per performance grade.
  • B Great and B Greater challenges now properly give progress for Crucible Ops activities.
  • Fixed an issue where old Trials passages were not being deleted in the player’s inventory on weekly resets.

Exotic Missions

  • Fixed an issue where some players couldn’t damage enemies in Dual Destiny.

Firing Range

  • Changed difficulty scaling of Firing Range, replacing forced three-player posse scaling with single-player scaling.It now matches solo campaign content and freeroam.

Gameplay and Investment

General

  • Fixed an issue where hit markers were not appearing in the HUD when players dealt damage.

Stats

Health

  • Fixed an issue where high Health stat values could cause shield and health values to become desynchronized across the server, leading to unexpected deaths.

Weapons

  • Reduced the maximum damage bonus from the Weapons stat against players from six percent to five percent.

Grenade

  • Rescaled passive and active ability regen to hit 100% of pre-The Edge of Fate levels at 70 stat, then scale up to 115% at 100 stat.

Melee

  • Rescaled passive and active ability regen to hit 100% of pre-The Edge of Fate levels at 70 stat, then scale up to 115% at 100 stat.

Super

  • Rescaled damage-based energy regen to hit 100% of pre-The Edge of Fate levels at 70 stat, then scale up to 115% at 100 stat.

Armor

Hunter

  • Fixed an issue where the Exotic Class Item perk Spirit of the Liar was providing an unintended bonus to melee damage other than Combination Blow or non-Glaive unpowered melees.

Weapons

  • Fixed an issue where the Truth Exotic Rocket Launcher was increasing Grenade damage.
    • How!?
  • Fixed an issue where the Choir of One Exotic Auto Rifle could be fired faster than intended semi-auto when using a macro.
  • Fixed an issue where High-Caliber Rounds were giving the Crucible Slug Shotgun Pure Recollection greater than intended range against players.
  • Fixed an issue where Seasonal Fragile Weapon Mods were not dropping for some players.
  • Fixed an issue where Persistence Weapon Mods and Masterwork were not increasing Crossbow bolt lifetime.

Ammo

  • Increased ammo meter progress with low investment by 50% in PvE.
  • Fixed and reenabled Brick Scanner functionality with the new ammo system.
    • When you are very low or out of ammo for a period of time, this system will scan the encounter space for bricks that you have missed and, if any exist, will automatically collect them for you.
    • This can help to get bricks that have fallen into unreachable positions, but it will not always work with bricks that have fallen off the map as sometimes they are destroyed.
      • We are working on a more permanent solution to this problem in a later release.
  • Increased the amount of ammo in PvE bricks for the following weapons:
    • Lightweight, Micro-Missile, Wave Frame, and Ex Diris Special Grenade Launchers – Base bricks three to four.
    • Rocket Pulses – Base bricks two to three, enhanced bricks four to six.
    • Heavy Linear Fusion Rifles – Base bricks two to three, enhanced bricks three to four.
    • Microcosm – Base bricks 39 to 58, enhanced bricks 58 to 77
  • Increased the amount of ammo in PvP bricks for New Land Beyond – one to two.
  • Increased the following weapons base Ammo Generation stats:
    • SUROS Regime – 0 to 90.
    • Bad Juju – 15 to 80.
    • Eriana’s Vow – 0 to 75.
    • Fighting Lion – 0 to 40.
    • Choir of One – 0 to 15.

Abilities

Matterspark

  • Fixed an issue where the camera would constantly flicker to its safe position while playing at high FOV.

Quests and Pursuits

Guardian Ranks

  • Guardian Rank objectives for completing Conquests now properly credit players who do them before the Guardian Rank is available.
  • Fixed an issue where Famine modifiers in the Portal did not credit the correspondent Guardian rank objective.

Titles and Seals

  • Players who gilded Dredgen or Glorious Seals in the current season will no longer gain +1 to their gilding counter when entering orbit.

General

  • Fixed an issue where the amount of XP earned through gameplay and objectives was not appearing on the right side of the Reward Pass rank progress bar.
  • All Destiny 2 accounts have been issued one Nonary Engram as compensation for the one-day disable that occurred during Rite of the Nine.
  • Fixed an issue where Seasonal Fragile Weapon Mods were not dropping for some players; these mods will now have a chance to drop from enemies within Portal activities.
  • Fixed an issue where purchasing some Exotic armors from Xûr did not give progress towards Favor of the Nine.

Arms Week Event – Focus: Hand Cannons

Event Details

  • Duration: One week starting July 29.

  • Initiation: Visit Ada-1 at the new Shooting Range via Tower map.

  • Main Activity: Complete challenges using Hand Cannons to earn Telemetry.

  • Progression: Earn Event Track rewards including currencies, Holofoil weapons, and Event Tokens.

  • Currency:

    • Event Tokens: Redeem in the Event Shop.

    • Reroll Chips: Available from the Event Track or purchasable with Event Tokens/Silver.

Weapons & Rewards

  • Featured Weapon: Phoneutria Fera

    • Solar Spreadshot Hand Cannon

    • Uses primary ammo with perks like One Two Punch.

  • Other Weapons:

    • Ribbontail: New Strand Adaptive Trace Rifle with Proximity Power and Detonation Beam.

    • Legacy Hand Cannons: Available for collectors.

Volatile Weapon Mods (Hand Cannons Only)

  • Chaotic Munitions: Precision kills trigger random effects.

  • Cowboy Grip: Greatly enhances hip-fire performance.

  • Fragmentation Rounds: Precision kills release explosive submunitions.


Trials of Osiris Returns

  • New Armor Sets: Available as rewards.

  • Tiered Weapons: Includes a second Spreadshot Hand Cannon.


Fireteam Ops: The Coil

  • Activity Type: Launches in Fireteam Ops playlist.

  • Rotation: Features three distinct paths weekly.


Patch 9.0.0.4 – Bug Fixes & Tuning

Ammo Economy Updates

  • Improved Ammo Drop Rate: Especially at 0 stat/mods.

  • Buffs to Exotic Weapons: Faster ammo generation for underperformers.

  • Ammo Brick Adjustments: Increased ammo per brick for some weapons.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed hitmarkers not registering.

  • Resolved relaunch issues in The Edge of Fate missions.

  • Corrected Masterwork issues for Mataidoxia and Wishful Ignorance Exotics.

  • Fixed animation bugs for Heart’s Purity ornament.

  • Addressed HP desync at high Health stats.

PS4 Crash Workaround

  • Identified armor pieces causing PS4 crashes:

    • Warlock: Techsec Chest

    • Hunter: Techsec Cloak, Bushido Cloak

    • Titan: Techsec Mark, Twofold Crown Mark, Last Discipline Mark

  • Temporary Fix: Unequip items via the Destiny 2 Companion App.


Upcoming Fixes in Patch 9.0.0.5

  • Improve visibility and recovery of ammo drops.

  • Enhance assist-based ammo generation.

  • Add new sandbox tools to specialize in ammo support roles.

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 3.68 will fix a few of these issues.

Related: Destiny 2 servers are down for maintenance. Check the Destiny 2 server status here.

Download free Destiny 2 update 9.0.0.4 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

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