• Shifting focus on activity rewards instead of Bright Engrams (ghosts, sparrows, ships will be moved to achievement reward pools)
• provide a gameplay path to earn bright engrams and all contained rewards (including event engrams)
• Give players more direct purchase options and make adjustments to bright engrams so players can get what they want.

• Completing the Nightfall (Legendary Emote), the Raid (Weapon Skin), and the Crimson Days milestones (Exotic Sparrow) during the event will reward you with exclusive gear.
• Earn both the Crimson Engram and the Illuminated Engram on level-up.
• Crimson Engrams can also drop from completing the Crimson Days match and from completing the Crimson Days milestone on each character.
• Each Crimson Engram is very strongly weighted to new rewards when decrypted until all new items have been obtained.

• Basically saying that they think it's too slow and lopsided towards grinding specific activities. They are still figuring a way to do this without nerfing the xp on the easier activities.

• Masterwork Armor - Intrinsic perk is increased damage reduction during Super. You can re-roll stat type using the Masterwork Cores and shards.
• Raid Reward Rework - Raid rewards will now feature mods with Raid specific perks. Raid items will drop from each major encounter. The raid vendor will also directly sell leviathan and eater of worlds armor and weapons for purchase with raid tokens and legendary shards. Also adding a new Ghost with raid specific perks that has a chance to drop from the final encounters.

• Stirke Scoring + High Score Tracking - Scoring is replacing the time limit mechanic in Nightfalls. Scoring is similar to D1 but with adjustments to emphasize competitive execution of Strike Objectives and support for player selectable score modifiers. High Scores will exposed in=game via new emblems and will unlock rewards. Also, there are plans for Clan and Community High Scores in the works.
• Mods 2.0 - Full rework. Focus on reducing redundant mods, more unique theming, and greatly increasing their impact on your power. This may come in Feb. or Spring.
• Quickplay Improvements - Adjusting game mode rules to increase the pace of game play and power ammo acquisition in Quickplay.
• Exotic Repetition Reduction - Prevents you from getting 2 duplicates in a row. (Meaning you can still get duplicates just not the same one back to back.)
• Fireteam members on Destination Map - Finally.

• Crucible Ranks. 2 types of ranks. Valor - Rank goes up by completing matches and no loss penalties. Glory - Rank goes up when you win and down when you lose.
• Private Matches
• 6v6 Playlist (in addition to the current 4v4 ones)
• Mayhem Event - Return as a limited time event.
• Planning changes to make quitting less common and improving security behind the scenes.

• Weapon and Ability Balance Pass - Info released leading up to Season 3
• Exotic Weapon and Armor Balance Pass - Each exotic is getting a look at to ensure it stands out from the rest of the gear and offer new exting ways to play.
• Seasonal Reputation - Vendors will have seasonal rank for seasonal rewards.
• Improved Iron Banner and Faction Rallies - focus on making them unique.
• Playlist Repetition Reduction - Reduces chances of dropping you in the same strike or crucible map as just completed.
• End Game Player Pursuits - Shift rewards from Bright Engrams to the end game
• Multi Emote - Customize all 4 emote slots.
• Vault Space - Short term solution is adding 50 slots. Still working on it. Adding exotic accessory slot so exotic sparrows, ships, and ghosts don't take up inventory slots.
• Heroic Strike Changes - adding modifiers.

• Item Collections and Records
• Weapon Slot and Archetype Improvements
• Additional Crucible Playlists (like Rumble)
• Better Clan Rewards
• Masterwork Exotics
• Pinnaclcle Weapon and Gear Improvements
• Shaders and Dismantling
• The Future of Guided Games
• Address Solo vs Fireteam Matchmaking.

• Moving Ships, Sparrows, and Ghosts out to the world.
• Guaranteed raid rewards on major encounters.
• Replacing the Nightfall Timer with point scoring.
• Fireteam members on the map.
• 6v6 is good.
• No more loading into the Garden World 3 times in a row.
• Multi-emote: I want all the Chicken Dances
• Even just the mention of changes to the weapon system (Primary, Special, Heavy Please)
• Masterwork Exotics: Could you imagine the Riskrunner chaining orbs like crazy.

• Masterwork Armor: Boring Perk but masterwork armor needed to be a thing (bonus perk should be if it's exotic: When you're shield breaks (get in the red) you generate an orb and major increased protection in super; helmet: increased orb production when in your super; Gauntlets: increased recovery when in your super; Chest: increased resilience when in your super, Legs: increased mobility when in your super).
• Vault space: 50 by itself isn't much but they are still working on a more permanent solution. Don't know why collection kiosks aren't a thing since weapon rolls are static.
• Exotic repetition reduction: They've worked on it before but I think 6th times the charm (the solution should be making 40% or so of the exotics as quest rewards and then the rest should be drops like they are now but at a much slower rate and without ANY duplicates).
• New Crucible Ranks: Really not a bad idea but since I'm not much of a crucible player I don't see the draw of it. It's not even a leaderboard, just another ranking up to higher level.
• Private Matches: Something that should have been there from day 1 so that I can choose never to use it whenever I want like in D1.
• Mayhem Event: Loved Mayhem, sad it's leaving but hopefully it'll come around once or twice a month. (Should be a last week of the month or weekends or even just the day before weekly reset.)

• Heroic Strike Modifiers: Depends on if they add D2 or D1 type modifiers.
• Additional Crucible Playlists being in the "Fall 2018 (or sooner)" section. Better be the sooner.
• Shaders and Dismantling being in the "Fall 2018 (or sooner)" section. REALLY better be the sooner.
• Absolutely no mention of adding collectibles back in. That was a rumor yesterday I was most excited about. I mean...Dead ghosts lying around just makes so much damn sense.
• No strike specific loot: Maybe they are moving the ghosts, ships, and stuff to strikes but I want weapons damn it.

FightinTexasAg15 said:

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These updates are great and all... but I feel like 90% of them are either getting us back to where we were with D1, or undoing a stupid decisions (Eververse).

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FightinTexasAg15 said:

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These updates are great and all... but I feel like 90% of them are either getting us back to where we were with D1, or undoing a stupid decisions (Eververse).

Masterwork armor just providing extra armor in supers is very lackluster. 50 extra vault spaces isn't much.

Destiny 1 was great. I just don't think Bungie/Activision is serious about making Destiny 2 great. I don't feel a need to jump back in.

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MBAR said:

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I think Bungie had their shot and blew it. I don't think they'll ever get a sizeable portion of the player base back. Especially not when changes are rolled out so damn slowly.

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Beezy2389 said:

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Well here is the most important update I can give you. The season 2 faction gear isn't dropping, only season 1 stuff. Bungie...Good GOD, please put the shovel down.

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• 1st (this one) - The only new weapons are the winner's rewards (autorifles). (1 winner's reward, no loot pool)
• 2nd - Another weapon type will be the winner's reward (not autorifle). Autorifles and one other weapon are added to the faction rewards engram. (1 winner's reward, 2 loot pool)
• 3rd - For the final faction war, there will be another winner's reward (not autorifle or the second winner's reward). They will add the remaining weapon type to the loot pool in addition to the winner's reward of the second faction rally. (1 winner's reward, 4 loot pool)

Beezy2389 said:

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...and Eververse has the "increased faction rewards in strikes and crucible" exotic ghost as the featured purchase this week.

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Beezy2389 said:

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...and Eververse has the "increased faction rewards in strikes and crucible" exotic ghost as the featured purchase this week.

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