Destiny 2 News

It’s been a long week for everyone at Bungie, our community, and most importantly, for all the amazing and talented teammates we had to say goodbye to. Last Wednesday, we delivered a message detailing a reduction in force that affected a large portion of our team. We appreciate all of you who’ve shared your kindness and empathy toward everyone who was impacted, and patience with everyone here at Bungie as we process these changes. We cancelled the TWID last week, and several other planned comms across our channels out of respect for everyone affected, but we don’t want to leave you in the dark for an extended period of time. Today’s TWID will open back up our weekly communication cadence as we regroup to push ahead.

To set some expectations here, we remain dedicated to supporting our community with transparency and delivering regular updates about the game. All of our previously communicated game content plans remain unchanged.

The recent changes within Bungie will present challenges that we’ll need to work through, so please pardon our dust over the next few weeks. We may experience a few bumps here and there, but our teams are committed to keeping you in the loop and hearing what you have to say.

Now, here are the TWID topics for this week.

• Solstice is here
  
• Destiny 2 Update 8.0.5 weapon and armor tuning details
  
• Pathfinder feedback and limited time weekly Bright Dust
  
• Bungie Day 2024 wrap-up
  

You can read the rest of the TWID here.

Post-layoff justifications are fast becoming their own brand of technobabble. In case you're out of the loop, Bungie laid off 220 employees late last month due to "rising costs of development", "economic conditions", and all the things you're used to hearing by now...
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It turns out that if you fire a bunch of your QA staff, the game you're making will tend to run into quality issues. I'm not saying the problems with Destiny 2's latest patch are a direct result of last week's drastic headcount reduction at Bungie, but it can hardly help...
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Fortunate Star is the newest weapon to be added to Destiny 2 as part of the Solstice event, and it's good news for all you bow fans who enjoyed sniping unsuspecting players with Lethophobia. Fortunate Star is another void lightweight bow that can get Kill Clip and Archer's Gambit, two perks that were only available on Whistler's Whim and Hush previously. And that's not all: thanks to double draw time reduction perks, it should be the best bow in the game for those of you looking to main the Legolas-on-crack playstyle...
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Crowning Duologue is one of only two Strand rocket launchers in Destiny 2, the other being Semiotician from last year's Season of the Witch. Since The Final Shape released, however, that weapon has become a lot harder to get, leaving you with few options if you're a new player looking for a Strand rocket launcher...
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