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Before we dive in, delight articulation america successful sending Mara Junot (English dependable of Ikora Rey) good wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery.

Could usage immoderate other prayers today, family. Currently successful the ER, astir to beryllium hospitalized. Docs recovered aggregate clots successful my lungs. SO incredibly grateful we recovered retired earlier the formation we were scheduled to get connected successful conscionable a fewer hours! 🙏🏾 All affirmative vibes welcomed.
TY, friends ❤️

— ꓟꓯꓤꓯ JUNOT 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ ˢʰᵉ⁑ᵗʰᵉʸ (@maraJunot) October 26, 2022

This week astatine Bungie, we’re humming on to a Deep Stone Lullaby. 

BOO!

Did I scare you? Doubtful, arsenic I’ve tried this instrumentality successful a TWAB before. 

Happy Festival of the Lost, Guardians. As tradition, we’ll commencement with a speedy recap of what’s going connected successful the wild. Headless Ones are roaming Lost Sectors connected the hunt for Ghosts, but you’ve already taken up the task of cleaning house. Between a Voltshot rotation connected the Legendary Mechabre Sniper Rifle oregon immoderate spicy perks connected erstwhile FOTL weapons (Kill Clip BrayTech Werewolf, anyone?), there’s immoderate amusive loot to earn, too! We’ve already seen a fewer gilded Ghost Writers successful the Tower, and we tin lone anticipation they’re sharing immoderate of the candy they’ve been earning. We’ve besides been moving immoderate amusive manner and creation contests for players. Towards the extremity of this article, you’ll spot a fewer awesome creations from our players. Up first, let’s get a look astatine immoderate amusive costumes from #ThreadsofFright that players are wearing in-game: 

The Dark Side

Pyramid Guardian

So, what’s connected platform for the TWAB this week? Crafting's connected the mind. We person immoderate amusive quality connected platform for adjacent Season, and we’re looking astatine immoderate semipermanent goals that the squad is readying to execute for Lightfall. We’ll besides beryllium discussing immoderate important accusation astir Stadia and Cross Save, followed by Bungie Bounties and a Prime Rewards refresh. 

Let’s get to it!  

Deep Stone Crafting 

Since the summation of play featured Raids and Dungeons for pinnacle drops, we’ve seen much players engaging with a assortment of raid activities successful Destiny 2. While an summation successful Power is ever exciting, oregon adjacent the fabled accidental astatine a raid Exotic, we’re taking an accidental adjacent Season to marque your instrumentality trips to Beyond Light’s Deep Stone Crypt adjacent much enticing. Starting adjacent season, Legendary Deep Stone Crypt weapons tin beryllium crafted!

Each brushwood has a accidental to driblet a Deepsight mentation of a raid weapon, and players whitethorn acquisition 1 per week from the last thorax aft defeating Taniks. When Deep Stone Crypt is the featured raid of the week, brushwood drops are uncapped! This means you tin tally a afloat raid and each brushwood aggregate times hunting for Deepsight drops.

When it comes to these weapons, determination was rather a spot of excitement internally arsenic the squad started freshening up the perk pools. We asked 1 of our nonmigratory Sandbox experts, Senior Design Lead Chris Proctor, astir their approach: 

Proctor: When updating perk pools connected older weapons, our extremity is to support the astir beloved combinations and driblet the remainder to marque country for caller perks. With Deep Stone Crypt specifically, we looked for caller perks that synergize good with the perks that originated with Deep Stone Crypt: Reconstruction, Recombination, and Redirection. (I.e., caller perk combinations could look like: Reconstruction + Focused Fury, oregon Fourth Time's the Charm + Redirection).

We besides took the accidental to adhd perks to weapons that person ne'er had them before. We’ve created rather a fewer caller perks since Beyond Light shipped, and we’re excited to spot however players premix and lucifer for their builds. 

Here are immoderate that I'm personally excited for:  

      • Heritage (Slug Shotgun): Reconstruction + Focused Fury  
      • Posterity (Hand Cannon): Voltshot + Rampage  
      • Trustee (Scout Rifle): Rapid Hit + Incandescent 

Oh, and we took this accidental to make a caller root trait for the weapons: Bray Inheritance.  

Wait, did Proctor conscionable accidental that Reconstruction is going to beryllium a crafted trait? Enhance! Owners of Beyond Light tin commencement crafting these awesome raid weapons starting connected December 6, 2022. We’ll spot you successful abstraction adjacent Season, Guardians. 

Lightfall Crafting 

With the excitement astir upcoming Deep Stone crafting, we felt this would beryllium a large accidental to speech astir immoderate plans the squad is eyeballing for the strategy overall. When crafting was introduced successful The Witch Queen, we were precise excited to spot however players would prosecute with the feature. Having a nonstop way to acquiring a almighty perk oregon a "godroll" tin beryllium a spot risky successful a crippled similar Destiny, but we’re blessed with however players are taking large vantage of what the strategy offers. That said, determination are aspects that the squad is looking to address, not lone to assistance code subordinate feedback, but to amended crafting overall. 

First, let’s commencement with immoderate of the symptom points that we’d similar to address: 

  • Deepsight weapons are acold excessively common, which leads to immoderate disorder implicit their worth and vault stress. 
      • To a caller player, it tin beryllium hard to recognize which weapons are really craftable. 
      • To an experienced player, Deepsight weapons commonly extremity up successful the vault simply for aboriginal currency, bringing much accent to inventory management. 
  • Deepsight weapons indispensable beryllium equipped for afloat currency extraction, causing friction with loadouts. 
      • The extremity of this was truthful that the subordinate would effort retired weapons they usually wouldn't and to marque the currency consciousness earned. 
      • It is besides somewhat of a byproduct of our archetypal multi-currency perk system.  
      • While this is bully to have, we’d similar for players to privation to effort caller weapons for different reasons, not conscionable to gain crafting currencies. 
  • Farming an brushwood similar Shuro Chi is simply a precise businesslike method for leveling. 
      • While this tin beryllium amusive for some, it is tedious and provides nary utile benefits to the subordinate oregon encounter. 
      • There are nary methods for expanding a weapon's level extracurricular of equipping it. 
  • As mentioned successful our Sandbox Q&A, crafted basal raid weapons outclass Adept raid weapons. 
      • We privation to support the worth of Adept limb reward drops from Master raid content.

To code these points, the squad is actively moving connected immoderate changes coming with Lightfall. While these changes are being developed, tested, and finalized, we wanted to stock our database of goals and immoderate strategies down them. 

  • Goal: Reduce Deepsight limb hoarding. 
      • Strategy: Introduce alternate ways to gain Deepsight currencies. 
  • Goal: Reduce atrocious luck successful limb look unlocking. 
      • Strategy: Provide opportunities wrong the crafting strategy to let users to deterministically take what limb to target. 
  • Goal: Reduce loadout stress. 
      • Strategy: Reduce subordinate incentives to equip a suboptimal Deepsight oregon crafted weapon. 
  • Goal: Improve the worth of weapons rewards from Master raid content. 
      • Strategy: As mentioned successful the Sandbox Q&A, springiness the caller Lightfall raid Adept weapons entree to enhanced perks. (Note that this is not going to beryllium full, freeform crafting).

In the adjacent term, we bash privation to springiness players a heads up. Starting successful Lightfall, weapons that cannot beryllium crafted volition nary longer driblet with Deepsight. This volition assistance america execute our extremity of reducing Deepsight limb hoarding and assistance alleviate immoderate accent connected your vaults. Players who presently person these weapons successful their inventory should implicit their Deepsight objectives and extract their Resonant Elements earlier February 28 to debar the nonaccomplishment of Resonant Elements. 

Expect much details astir the changes earlier Lightfall launches successful February. 

Stadia and Destiny 2 Update 


With Google’s caller announcement that Stadia volition beryllium shutting down soon, we’ve been moving diligently to fig retired a solution for our players connected that platform. While we don’t yet person a semipermanent plan, we bash person a abbreviated one. 

At this time, each players who person their main characters connected Stadia should acceptable up Cross Save with different level truthful that they don’t suffer entree to their characters connected January 18. Stadia players who alteration Cross Save volition beryllium capable to usage their characters connected linked platforms aft Stadia shuts down.  

If Stadia players don’t acceptable up Cross Save by January 18, they volition suffer entree to their characters, items, emblems, Bungie.net account, and Eververse purchases, specified arsenic entree to Season Passes. 

After January 18, players with Stadia arsenic their progressive characters SHOULD NOT deactivate Cross Save for ANY REASON. Doing truthful volition effect successful a implicit nonaccomplishment of characters. 

Bungie Bounties

It’s been a portion since we’ve challenged you successful the ways of old, hasn’t it? No, not successful the Prison of Elders, but a bully aged fashioned Bungie Bounty. For those who whitethorn beryllium caller astir these parts, Bungie Bounties situation you to find us, oregon a radical of players from our community, and execute triumph successful the people activity. If you snag that win? Well, you get a saccharine emblem to commemorate your achievement.

 

When Bungie Bounties archetypal formed, these chiefly took spot successful PvP activities. For this go, we’re opening the funnel a bit. Starting November 1, we’ll beryllium hosting Bungie Bounties crossed aggregate crippled modes. Player vs. Player, Player vs. Enemy, and Player vs. Enemy vs. Player. We’ll person a small spot of Crucible, immoderate strikes, immoderate Gambit, and adjacent a spot of Seasonal contented for you to prosecute with. Seeing arsenic though it’s inactive spooky season, we’re adjacent looking to person immoderate bounties instrumentality spot successful Haunted Lost Sectors. 

Your targets for this Bounty? Well, you whitethorn admit immoderate of them. Since the merchandise of Destiny, we’ve been graced by a radical of assemblage volunteers dedicated to helping players successful need. Whether you’re hitting immoderate transportation issues oregon looking for workarounds connected a fixed bug, our Community Mentors are acceptable to assistance you retired successful our #Help forums. Their tagline: White Gloves, Gold Standards. We’ll besides person a fewer of our Community Ninjas connected the prowl. If you’ve ne'er seen oregon heard of them, that’s expected. They support our forums cleanable by applying the banhammer wherever applicable. A fewer of them volition beryllium streaming for this Bounty to assistance you connected your hunt, portion others volition beryllium moving done activities solo and nether the radar, matching whoever the upwind whitethorn bring to them. 

Now, let’s get connected to the rules and schedule. 

Rules 

Players indispensable lucifer with a Bungie Bounty people during their timeslot and triumph oregon implicit the match. 

  • If you are connected the aforesaid team, you’re tasked with helping our Bounty execute victory. 
  • If you’re matched against them, you’ll request to effort your hardest to decision them successful battle. 
  • If this is simply a PvE activity, you indispensable implicit the enactment to beryllium eligible for the emblem. 

Note: Habitually quitting activities during these Bounty timeframes tin effect successful disqualification. Leaving excessively galore matches tin besides effect successful your relationship being suspended from activities.  

Schedule 

We’ve got a bounty of participants from each astir the world, truthful cheque the clip zones to marque definite you’re hunting for them astatine the due time. 

Tuesday, November 1 

Time

Platform 

Activity 

Players 

5:00 AM Pacific

(12:00 UTC)

Any 

Vanguard Ops 

  • Tuxydoh#0757 

7:00 AM Pacific 
(14:00 UTC)

Any 

Ketchcrash  

  • Eriana#5864 

9:00 AM Pacific

(16:00 UTC)

Any 

Haunted Lost Sectors 

  • Tuxydoh#0757 

11:00 AM Pacific

(18:00 UTC)

Console 

Control 

  • Nomad#3001 

11:00 AM Pacific

(18:00 UTC)

Any 

Ketchcrash 

1:00 PM Pacific 

(20:00 UTC)

Console 

Control 

  • Pobreloko#9880 
  • Honz#9336 

1:00 PM Pacific

(20:00 PM UTC)

Any 

Vanguard Ops 

  • TheHaraamPolice#4199

3:00 PM Pacific

(22:00 PM UTC)

Console 

Control 

  • Fenibbo#4588 
  • EZ#9920 
  • SteelAssassin#2987 

7:00 PM Pacific

(2:00 UTC)

PC 

Control 

  • Relyks#5610

Wednesday, November 2 

TimePlatformActivityPlayers

3:00 AM Pacific

(1000 UTC)

Any 

Vanguard Ops 

  • PlainBen#2921 

5:00 AM Pacific

(1200 UTC)

PC

Control

  • Dimitrious4#1541 
7:00 AM Pacific
(1400 UTC)
PCGambit
  • Tuxydoh#0757 

7:00 AM Pacific

(1400 UTC)

Any 

Haunted Lost Sectors 

  • Eriana#5864 

9:00 AM Pacific 

(1600 UTC)

Any 

Vanguard Ops 

  • SirWinnipeck#0712 

11:00 AM Pacific

(1800 UTC)

Any 

Vanguard Ops 

  • Fraser#6995 

11:00 AM Pacific

(1800 UTC)

Any 

Ketchcrash 

1:00 PM Pacific

(2000 UTC)

Any 

Haunted Lost Sectors 

  • Luca270999#2352 

3:00 PM Pacific

(2200 UTC)

Console 

Control 

  • Hometime#3753 

5:00 PM Pacific

(0000 UTC)

PC 

Gambit 

Thursday, November 3 

TimePlatformActivityPlayers

5:00 AM Pacific

(12:00 PM UTC)

Any 

Ketchcrash 

7:00 AM Pacific

(1400 PM UTC)

Any 

Vanguard Ops 

  • Eriana#5864 

9:00 AM Pacific

(1600 PM UTC)

Any 

Ketchcrash 

  • TravisSCH#1320 

11:00 AM Pacific 

(1800 PM UTC)

Any 

Vanguard Ops 

  • Fraser#6995 

11:00 AM Pacific

(1800 PM UTC)

Any 

Ketchcrash 

1:00 PM Pacific

(2000 PM UTC)

PC 

Control 

  • Nomad#3001 

1:00 PM Pacific

(2000 PM UTC)

Any 

Vanguard Ops 

  • SonicFusion#0687 

3:00 PM Pacific

(2200 PM UTC)

Console 

Control 

  • Honz#9336 

3:00 PM Pacific

(2200 PM UTC)

Any 

Expedition 

  • YapperFlapper#6931 

5:00 PM Pacific

(0000 AM UTC)

Any 

Vanguard Ops 

We’re excited to airy the Bounty beacons erstwhile more. Stay tuned for further announcements! 

I Challenge You to a Duel – Prime Gaming Update 

Ah, it’s a fantastic clip of month. Here successful the States, the leaves are falling, rainfall has returned, and I’m searching my location for gloves to support my hands warm. With our Prime Gaming rewards update, we person a amusive emote for you that includes a mitt of sorts. Not for comfort, but to situation your friends (or enemies) to a speedy battle. If that conflict goes sideways? Well, don’t interest – we've got a Ghost for your resurrection and a vessel and Sparrow for you to high-tail it retired of the fray. 

  • Concentric Dawn Exotic Sparrow 
  • Woomera B-5 Exotic Ship 
  • Adonis Exotic Ghost 
  • Duel Legendary Emote 

If you haven’t yet signed up for Prime Gaming, we highly urge it! There are rather a fewer perks they person for you, including immoderate monthly cosmetic rewards with Destiny 2. Check retired our usher for much details. 

Crow Deserves immoderate Candy

 

There person been immoderate spooky bugs popping up with Festival of the Lost. Spectral Pages gone missing, deceased weapons rising from the grave, and more. Player Support has the latest connected what’s been fixed and what we’re inactive trying to exorcise from the game.  

This is their report. 

WORKAROUNDS FOR CONVERTING PAGES 

Players inactive having issues converting their Spectral Pages into Manifested Pages should guarantee that they: 

  • Obtain the Gone but Not Forgotten quest from Eva Levante successful the Tower. 
  • Are wearing the Masquerader’s Helm with a Festival Mask. 
  • Have astatine slightest 3 escaped spaces successful their character’s inventory. 
  • Have Spectral Pages successful their inventory anterior to entering the Haunted Sectors playlist. 

If Spectral Pages aren’t converting into Manifested Pages aft confirming the above, players whitethorn request to: 

  • Clear their console oregon PC crippled cache. 
  • Complete a strike. 
  • Obtain much Spectral Pages. 

Complete a Haunted Lost Sector (Note that not each Spectral Pages volition person into Manifested Pages). 

HOTFIX 6.2.5.2 

Next Tuesday, November 1, Destiny 2 Hotfix 6.2.5.2 volition beryllium released. View our Destiny Server and Update Status leafage for attraction times, arsenic good arsenic the timeline beneath (all times are Pacific):     

  • 9 AM PDT: Destiny 2 attraction begins.  
  • 9:45 AM: Destiny 2 is brought offline.  
  • 10 AM: Destiny 2 Hotfix 6.2.5.2 volition statesman rolling retired crossed each platforms and regions.  
  • 11 AM: Destiny 2 attraction completes.  

KNOWN ISSUES 

While we proceed investigating assorted known issues, present is simply a database of the latest issues that were reported to america successful our #Help forum

  • Certain shaders whitethorn use textures incorrectly to pieces of the Festival of the Lost mech-themed armor sets. Once resolved these shaders whitethorn show otherwise connected the armor sets. 
  • The Sundered Flesh shader applies coloring inconsistently crossed gear. 
  • A Season 16 emblem dropped from Week 10’s Intended Authority Seasonal Challenge. 
  • The “All Pages Manifested” connection appears for each players upon entering a Haunted Lost Sector. This connection is not close and should lone look upon completion of a Haunted Lost Sector. Players are not losing immoderate Pages erstwhile this connection appears. 
  • The root of the Retrograde Tourer Exotic vessel is inaccurate. 

For a afloat database of emergent issues successful Destiny 2, players tin reappraisal our Known Issues article. Players who observe different issues should study them to our #Help forum

Spooky Scary Oryx-ton 

 

Hippy: It’s Spooky Scary Skeleton play successful Destiny 2. Enough said. Oh, and a bonus MOTW due to the fact that the statement is real. 

Movie of the Week: Spooky Scary Oryx-ton 


Sam: When it comes to this clip of year, I truly americium rather a scaredy feline astir thing spooky oregon creepy oregon alarming, but this was a truly chill rotation connected storytelling that we deliberation you mightiness enjoy!  

Movie of the Week: So hungry  

B-b-b-bonus: The large Mechabre Debate 

Happy Hall Between! 

 

Bruno: So, it's that clip of the twelvemonth again! We deterioration astonishing masks, cod tons of saccharine candy, and enactment those spooky Headless Ones down for immoderate loot (I emotion the caller Mek-uh-ber Sniper Rifle). And we besides perceive to the awesome banter betwixt Eido, Glint, and Drifter. Don't you emotion however guiltless and saccharine Eido and Glint are? And don't you emotion however creepy and bully with nicknames uncle Drifter is? Because I do.  

Art of the Week: Tales from the Haul

Ivan: Smallens attack… And they bash it with their lone weapon, which is cuteness. I’d springiness distant each my candy to specified a beauteous crowd. 

Art of the Week: Happy Festival of the Lost, Eido and the House of Light! 

And More Art of the Week: Titan – Mint information 9.0 

And adjacent More Art of the Week: Cutest pumpkin I've ever seen 

OK, 1 much Art of the Week: Nyan Cat spell weeee 

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— 👻🎃UndeaDTM🎃👻 (@destiny_thememe) October 23, 2022

And the past AOTW, I promise: Colonelhead, acceptable for deployment 

Long Time No TWAB 

It’s been a portion since I had the pleasance of penning 1 of these. It’s ever a thrill to dive successful conscionable a spot deeper with what’s coming to Destiny and what the squad is excited about. Make nary mistake, these are honestly written by a bully sized radical of folks present astatine Bungie. Subject substance experts, editors, localizers, plus creators, and truthful galore more. Some TWABs whitethorn beryllium brief, and immoderate whitethorn beryllium massive, but each 1 is authored with the aforesaid magnitude of love. Thanks for stopping by for different blog installment. 

Until adjacent time, I’ll beryllium dreaming of a afloat crafted Trustee. Which DSC limb are you astir looking guardant to? Holler astatine america successful the comments. 

Cheers, 

dmg04 

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