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When the afloat car mounting arrives for each weapons, are you inactive going to support the Full Auto Trigger System mod arsenic an option? It’s benignant of bully to person the flexibility without making each limb afloat auto.
Yes, determination are nary plans to region it. The Full Auto Trigger System mod isn't going away.
What volition regenerate Full Auto Trigger System connected Exotics that person it arsenic a perk erstwhile the caller accessibility diagnostic goes live?
We don't privation to inadvertently marque these stronger successful PvP, truthful the extremity present was to regenerate Full Auto with thing amusive and thematic, but much utile successful PvE than PvP.
Here are immoderate examples:
Traveler's Chosen:
- Replaced Full Auto Trigger System successful the catalyst with Surplus.
Vigilance Wing:
- Replaced Full Auto Trigger System successful the catalyst with Ensemble.
No Time to Explain:
- Replaced Full Auto Trigger System with Feeding Frenzy.
Divinity:
Note that encounters are built astir players having entree to being capable to weaken, arsenic galore folks person theorized. We don't judge that Divinity successful its existent signifier is really a equilibrium problem, i.e., it's not needfully excessively beardown successful isolation. That said, Divinity is incredibly ascendant successful endgame PvE due to the fact that it trivializes aiming precision weapons and has an highly precocious uptime for weaken. The astir important contented is that Divinity granting 30% weaken sucks the aerial retired of the country for each different weaken sources (such arsenic Tether and Tractor Cannon), and we don't privation to powerfulness creep past Divinity to marque them interesting.
With this successful mind, we've been looking astatine Divinity for a portion now, and person tested a assortment of changes successful Season 19 implicit the past fewer months, landing connected reducing Divinity's weaken from 30% to 15%.
Comments connected Kinetic weapons (in PvE)
We're looking astatine Kinetic harm benignant (as opposed to slot) changes sometime post-Lightfall to marque this a much absorbing facet of however weapons feel.
What astir Adept raid limb viability?
As it stands, crafted basal raid weapons are level retired amended than Adept raid weapons. We're not blessed with this existent authorities and person changes coming successful Lightfall that springiness the caller Lightfall raid Adept weapons entree to enhanced perks (note that this is not going to beryllium full, freeform crafting). It’s a small complex, truthful delight look retired for much accusation to travel erstwhile we’re a small person to Lightfall's release.
Future plans for Exotic Champion weapons?
We don't person circumstantial plans to adhd anti-Champion mechanics to existing Exotic weapons. The extremity of caller additions was to code immoderate evident holes successful the options available, and we're blessed with however that worked out. That said, we are gathering anti-Champion functionality into a caller Exotic limb successful Season 19 and whitethorn revisit different weapons aboriginal if we spot a need.
King's Fall weapons person unorthodox perk pools. What are the team’s feelings astir continuing to bash this versus making customized raid perks to differentiate endgame rewards?
We person guidelines for however spicy perk pools tin beryllium depending connected the trouble of the root of the weapon. For example, Trials of Osiris and raid weapons get to interruption our modular perk operation rules. The King’s Fall weapons propulsion this to an extreme, and we're evaluating whether they're an existent equilibrium contented (seems good truthful acold though).
We mean raid root traits to marque raid weapons consciousness unsocial and whitethorn inactive marque 1 oregon much perks that are exclusive to a caller raid. Starting successful Season 19, you volition spot a tiny fig of non-raid weapons get entree to perks from older raids.
Does Outbreak Perfected genuinely person Persistence, oregon is it simply its recoil settling similar immoderate weapon?
Outbreak does not person Persistence. It does person 90 recoil absorption wherever akin weapons are successful the 40-60 range, but much importantly it recoils similar an Auto Rifle not a Pulse Rifle, which is portion of wherefore it feels truthful unique. This was a Destiny 1 bug that we elected to support successful the Destiny 2 reprise of the weapon.
The Cold Denial that Xûr sold with the accuracy Masterwork, does that really amended its accuracy?
Masterworks supply further limb stats to a stat already existing connected the weapon. Weapons can't payment from a stat they don't have, and lone Bows person an accuracy stat. The abbreviated of it is no, an accuracy Masterwork won't person immoderate effect connected Cold Denial.
Do stableness perks specified arsenic Rapid Hit impact the cleanable gully model connected Bows?
Yes, thing that affects the stableness stat connected a Bow volition impact the cleanable gully window.
How was it for the Weapons Team to adhd subclass verbs similar Head Stone, Chill Clip, and Incandescent to weapons? Did you bask syncing the 2 much intimately successful gameplay and builds?
Subclass 3.0 verbs opened up a immense magnitude of plan abstraction for weapons. The perks we've already made are conscionable the beginning.
Why does lone a subset of Exotic weapons necktie into Subclass 3.0?
We're not readying to necktie each Exotic into Subclass 3.0 verbs, but implicit clip we'll adhd functionality to respective of them, starting with those that are powerfully themed astir harm types. We're presently looking astatine Seasons 20 and 21 for passes connected this, but we don’t person thing much connected this peculiar taxable astatine this time.
Are we going to beryllium capable to person aggregate perks successful each file connected crafted weapons astatine immoderate constituent successful the future?
We're investigating this for a imaginable aboriginal release, but it's a much analyzable task than it appears astatine archetypal glance. Nothing successful the contiguous future, but we volition proceed looking deeper into this.
How bash the other perks connected ritual fertile resets really work? Is determination a headdress to the benefit?
We person a look that determines the maximum fig of alternate perks based connected the fig of resets. For example, present are the formulae for Valor:
- Left column: 1+(CLAMP((valor_reset_count+1)/2,0,(10*rand/2)%3))
- Right column: 1+CLAMP((valor_reset_count)/2,0,(10*rand/3)%3)
Ok, that’s beauteous arcane.
What this means is that the near file maximum perk number increases astatine archetypal and 3rd resets, and the close file increases astatine the second and 4th resets. The maximum imaginable is 3 perks successful each column, with the existent fig randomized betwixt 1 and the existent maximum.
There has been a batch of treatment connected perk driblet rates recently. I’d truly similar to cognize if each perks are genuinely weighted arsenic and randomized, oregon if definite perks (i.e., newer ones) person driblet priority.
Weapon perks are weighted arsenic nether each circumstances. There are zero cases successful the crippled wherever 1 perk is much apt to rotation than another.
I've heard that you're reworking 20 Exotic weapons successful Season 19. Why truthful many?!
We said we're touching 20 Exotics (both buffs and nerfs), but the grade of that varies rather a bit. From a important rework (e.g., Lord of Wolves) to a tiny but impactful alteration (e.g., Legend of Acrius), there’s a batch to cover, some large and small.
Also, a tiny update connected that number. 20 is retired of date, and it's present 26. We ever support the database of nether and overused Exotics successful caput and decided to instrumentality connected a large chunk of them successful Season 19.
What are the criteria for reprising Destiny 1 weapons successful Destiny 2?
It's important to enactment that it's intolerable to simply transcript and paste Destiny 1 contented into Destiny 2. Because of motor changes and the importantly higher barroom for creation prime connected existent procreation hardware, immoderate Destiny 1 contented has to beryllium rebuilt from scratch. They're fundamentally the aforesaid improvement outgo arsenic brand-new Destiny 2 weapons, and with immoderate exceptions, we judge players importantly similar caller contented implicit reprised.
For raids, we'll ever reprise an Exotic limb associated with a raid erstwhile we bring that into Destiny 2. We'll prime the six astir fashionable Legendary weapons and reprise those, arsenic well. One different thing, and this hasn't travel up yet, but successful the lawsuit that a raid didn't person an Exotic (or that Exotic has already travel back), oregon determination were less than 5 Legendaries, we get to marque caller weapons to lucifer the raid.
It’s a Numbers Game
Why does Adagio person to beryllium antithetic connected truthful galore weapons?
It's really not. Adagio is lone branched 2 ways, specifically to forestall it from being excessively beardown connected Bows (one-hit kills for getting a azygous bow termination is mode excessively strong) and Shotguns.
- Bow positive Shotgun: + 20% damage
- Everything else: + 30% damage
- Note that due to the fact that of harm fig rounding, it whitethorn beryllium hard for players to reverse technologist this in-game.
What does Zen Moment actually do?
Each deed grants a stack (max 5) that lowers recoil. Reloading oregon not hitting for 1 2nd clears each stacks. As for what it does, maximum stacks massively reduces recoil.
In your opinion, would you usage accuracy perks (e.g., Firmly Planted) connected Slug Shotguns? By my testing, they look to beryllium precise close by default. I don't observe overmuch spread.
Slug Shotguns are precise accurate, truthful it's apt lone worthy utilizing accuracy perks if you program connected utilizing them portion airborne oregon successful different situations that trim accuracy.
What are the numbers connected enhanced perks? Are determination immoderate guidelines oregon rules of thumb for all? Specifically, however overmuch bash the enhanced versions of Firmly Planted and Opening Shot springiness vs. the basal perks?
The line is that an enhanced perk should beryllium 5 to 10 percent stronger than a basal perk. We bash transcend this successful immoderate cases though.
Here's an illustration of the enhanced versions:
- Enhanced Firmly Planted grants an further +5 stableness and +5 handling compared to the basal perk.
- Enhanced Opening Shot grants an further +5 scope and +5 purpose assistance compared to the basal perk.
I americium genuinely funny wherefore the One Quiet Moment root trait was created. What’s the payment of having accrued reload extracurricular of combat?
The intended loop is to intermission aft an engagement to spot whether you person different force to woody with earlier reloading your weapons (because being caught mid-reload is atrocious news). This is thing that doesn't lucifer everyone's playstyle though, truthful we'll beryllium updating this successful Season 19.
What is the minimum gully clip connected Bows aft the caller changes?
Minimum gully clip is 500ms for Lightweight Frames and 540ms for Precision Frames (weapon perks tin trim this adjacent further).
Odds And Ends (And Some Fun With Our Australian Players)
Neighbours oregon Home and Away?
Neighbours.
When is the Nutbush emote coming to the game? >:)
We’ve heard a rumor that determination whitethorn beryllium a weird Australian-ish creation emote coming soon aft Lightfall.
When bash we get genuinely ocker perk names similar drongo, 2 up, rack off, oregon strewth?
Weapon names lone truthful far, but determination is simply a just magnitude of those, and they're not accidental, specified arsenic with Tarrabah, Funnelweb, Redback, and Lunulata.
What favourite limb perk combinations does the Weapons Team have?
Proctor: Perpetual Motion + Surrounded connected Sidearms connected Submachine Guns.
Brandon: Heating Up + Rampage connected Pulse Rifles.
Vivian: Stats for All + Reservoir Burst connected Fusion Rifles.
Alex, Intern: Grave Robber + Golden Tricorn connected arc weapons for PvE, Killing Wind + Rangefinder connected Submachine Guns for PvP
Mercules: Moving Target/Perpetual Motion + Kill Clip connected immoderate superior ammo limb for PvP
George: Perpetual Motion + Killing Wind, I blasted 90s arena shooters
Taylor: Killing Wind + Multikill clip
What replica limb would each weapons decorator want?
Proctor: Dead Man's Tale
Brandon: Lorentz Driver
Vivian: [REDACTED Season 19 Solar Exotic weapon]
Alex: [REDACTED Lightfall raid Exotic weapon], but Tarrabah is simply a adjacent second.
Mercules: [REDACTED Season 19 Kinetic Exotic weapon]
George: [REDACTED Season 18 Festival of the Lost weapon]
Taylor: Gridskipper
I’d beryllium funny successful looking astatine what perks marque “god rolls” connected what weapons? What would beryllium recommended for a Scout Rifle, Submachine Gun and Pulse Rifle? What works and why?
Mercules: Depends a batch connected what the relation of the limb is going to be. These roles tin beryllium breached up into immoderate wide areas:
- PvE: Regardless of the role, mostly perks that summation damage, summation mag size, assistance ammo, oregon amended reload velocity are prioritized for adhd clear, yellowish bar/champ killer, and DPS weapons.
- Add clearing: Perks that trigger connected last blows are great, similar Rampage, Subsistence, Swashbuckler, and Feeding Frenzy.
- Tanky-target and DPS: Perks that trigger neutrally oregon from dealing harm similar Frenzy, Firing Line, Rapid Hit, and Triple Tap.
- PvP: Two precise antithetic styles of perk preference:
- Dueling: Perks that summation the consistency of the weapon successful 1v1 engagements, i.e., Moving Target, Rangefinder, Opening Shot, Eye of the Storm, etc.
- Kill-chaining: Perks that supply melodramatic improvements to limb show aft a kill, e.g., Kill Clip, Tunnel Vision, Killing Wind, Rampage, etc.
What is your sentiment connected Rangefinder drastically changing the effectual engagement distances connected weapons? The zoom payment already improves harm falloff and effectual accuracy, but the purpose assistance falloff summation feels like... a lot.
We'll beryllium removing the added purpose assistance falloff successful the mid-Season equilibrium pass. The perk is ridiculously beardown with conscionable the zoom bonus, it doesn't request to summation purpose assistance autumn disconnected successful summation to that.
Is idiosyncratic going to hole The Fate of All Fools perk connected the Jade Rabbit? It's wholly inconsistent and sometimes doesn't enactment astatine all.
Yes, the perk was having akin issues to what was going connected with Cranial Spike connected Dead Man’s Tale. The program is to alteration it truthful that rapidly chaining precision hits (effectively the aforesaid trigger arsenic Triple Tap) volition marque your adjacent assemblage changeable woody the aforesaid harm arsenic a crit, and you volition beryllium capable to store up to 3 accrued harm assemblage shots astatine a time. So, if you deed 9 crits quickly, you could travel that up and termination idiosyncratic successful PvP with 3 assemblage shots.
Basically, we privation to reward accuracy and past marque the weapon easier to usage alternatively of the different mode around.
How bash you consciousness astir Season 17 and Season 18 equilibrium changes present that they person been successful the chaotic for a decent magnitude of time?
We deliberation astir of them landed beauteous well, each things considered. High Impact (150 RPM) Scout Rifles astir apt got overbuffed by a tiny bit. Auto Rifles astir apt did not get buffed enough.
We've seen some Precision Frame (180 RPM) Scout Rifles and Hand Cannons travel up successful usage and effectiveness which is great.
What aboriginal equilibrium changes should we beryllium looking guardant to?
In the mid-Season equilibrium pass, we'll beryllium making a fig of changes to some nether and over-performing archetypes:
- Sizeable stableness bump for Auto Rifles and Trace Rifles.
- Small buff to captious deed harm connected Adaptive Frame Pulse Rifles and Precision Frame Auto Rifles.
- Slightly trim effectual scope of Pulse Rifles astatine debased to mid stat values.
- Nerfs to Jade Rabbit and No Time to Explain easiness of use.
- Continuation of the Lord of Wolves rework.
- Small Rocket Launcher blast radius buff.
- Glaive harm absorption nerf.
- Sidearm purpose assistance falloff buff.
- Sniper flinch rework.
- Very tiny tweaks to Submachine Guns that are outperforming their intended ranges.
- Small alteration to High Impact Scout Rifle damage.
- Some outliers that person zoom levels extracurricular mean parameters are being brought backmost successful line.
- Riskrunner PvP Arc harm absorption simplification (will inactive stay ridiculous successful PvE).
- In Season 19, we person an further database of changes we volition beryllium making, including:
- Removing immoderate Shotgun randomness.
- Improved deed detection for Glaives.
- Reworking/changing astir 20 limb perks.
- Reworking/changing implicit 20 Exotic weapons.
Do Trace Rifles person accuracy bloom arsenic you clasp down the trigger?
Nope.
Is Under Pressure going to beryllium nerfed connected Fusion Rifles? How are you going to yet rein in Xûr’s Main Ingredient without diminishing Precision Frames arsenic a whole?
We’re not going to nerf Under Pressure connected Fusion Rifles. Most apt happening we volition bash if Main Ingredient usage doesn't travel down people is little its stats. This volition let america to debar hitting each Precision Frame Fusion Rifles, and springiness different weapons successful the subfamily country to breathe.
That being said, Precision Frame Fusion Rifles arsenic a subfamily extracurricular of Main Ingredient are inactive precise strong, and we are looking astatine them too.
Are determination immoderate plans to adhd much subclass verbs to much Exotics?
Lots of plans! Nothing factual to stock now, but we’re ever connected the lookout for places wherever we tin adhd subclass verbs. We person to beryllium cautious, arsenic immoderate of the intrinsic functionality of the verbs whitethorn really beryllium worse than what is connected the Exotic weapon, oregon the uptime of the verb connected the Exotic limb would origin terrible equilibrium issues with subclass interactions.
Will skill-based matchmaking (SBMM) being contiguous successful Control person immoderate effect connected the mode we grip limb balancing?
We already utilized Survival and Trials arsenic much indicative crippled modes for balancing purposes. Survival has had SBMM and Trials has the Flawless pool, which enables america to spot what bully players use, and what is effectual erstwhile they are much apt to attraction astir winning.
It will, however, let america to spot what the antithetic accomplishment groups of players that mostly debar Survival oregon Trials use, and what they are effectual with erstwhile they are not successful skill-pools that are arsenic mixed arsenic Control utilized to be.
Proctor: If skill-based matchmaking continues to rotation retired implicit time, it whitethorn springiness america the enactment to revisit limb accomplishment gaps.
What are your plans for Sniper Rifle and Special Linear Fusion Rifle (LFR) flinch?
For Sniper Rifle flinch, we person dramatically accrued the clip it takes for the reticle to reset backmost to halfway aft taking damage, which successful playtests has seen a marked alteration successful the magnitude of times players are capable to sprout done the flinch. (We besides greatly decreased PvE flinch to antagonistic this).
This volition not forestall players from "trading" with the Sniper Rifle connected their archetypal shot, nor volition it wounded players utilizing Sniper Rifles who disengage to let the reticle to reset earlier peeking again, but it should hopefully code the instances of hitting idiosyncratic utilizing a Sniper Rifle with aggregate crits lone to get sniped done it.
If this alteration plays retired successfully successful the crippled itself extracurricular of testing, we volition effort to migrate it implicit to the peculiar LFRs.
Any Fusion Rifle changes coming? Like a Rapid Fire Frame buff?
We privation to spot however the Shotgun changes onshore earlier we re-buff Rapid Fire Frames.
What tin beryllium done to marque Headseeker much interesting?
The program is to summation the duration the perk is active, person the perk reset connected assemblage shots erstwhile it is already active, and person it summation purpose assistance by a precise tiny amount. In playtests it is precise good, arguably 1 of the champion neutral perks for Pulse Rifles.
Do Aggressive Frames person High-Caliber Rounds baked in?
No, however, the flinch from a azygous changeable is proportional to damage, truthful precocious harm per slug weapons volition flinch much than debased harm per slug weapons.
Dynamic Sway Reduction seems similar 1 of the astir misunderstood perks successful the game. Can you explicate a small spot astir however that works?
Dynamic Sway Reduction starts moving arsenic soon arsenic you commencement firing. Each consequent changeable improves its effects (increasing accuracy and stability) until it maxes retired (around 20 shots). So, precocious RPM weapons get maximum benefits much rapidly than debased RPM weapons.
The perk deactivates arsenic soon arsenic you halt firing.
What precisely does Box Breathing do?
After being ADS for 1.5s without firing, Box Breathing increases the precision harm multiplier of the limb and increases the purpose assistance falloff region by 10%. It resets erstwhile you occurrence the limb oregon permission ADS.
Is determination a mode to estimation however overmuch zoom decreases the effectual cone angles?
On astir weapons, you tin conscionable disagreement the basal cone space by the zoom: i.e., 3 degrees basal / 1.5x zoom = 2 degrees. Zoom reduces the size of some purpose assistance and accuracy cones, which means you are much close astatine higher zooms but person a smaller purpose assistance radius. That being said, immoderate weapons person further scaling applied connected top, similar Sniper Rifles with purpose assist.
