Destiny 2: The Final Shape [PS4/PS5/XB1/XBS/PC] - Y8, The Dark Age Returns

[Demosthenes]

Timing could be worse, but barely.

[Qalbert]

re: this week's story

Spoiler: show

someone on twitter said "imagine if after the explosion ghost rezzed the player in the cutscene" and oof that would've been brutal

in other news, make sure to get the Erebos Glance shader, on some pieces it's damn near Superblack

[6souls]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheG...cap_on_emotes/

Emotes cap out at 512. Anything after that pushes out the older green and blues.

[carlweathers]

Ah man, that's touching that Lance Riddick was actually a player. I knew he actually promoted the game at event but thats really cool that he participated in the game. RIP

Spoiler: show

Not really liking the loss in the story. There are barely enough human characters in the story so to kill off one from D1. I don't like it.

[Demosthenes]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheG...cap_on_emotes/

Emotes cap out at 512. Anything after that pushes out the older green and blues.

Bit/Byte counting strikes again!

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/Destiny2Team/sta...49859627708416
https://twitter.com/DestinyTheGame/s...15766793592853

[Obsidian]

Interesting that a lot of that blog post was in the leaks that have been circulating around twitter recently. Makes you wonder what else might be true from them.

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/leopardstealth/s...35200431325184

that's real shitty if true

[Obsidian]

They certainly didn't. I still haven't had it happen to my group yet though.

No fix for Quicksilver Storm yet is also kind of annoying.

[Qalbert]

do you try to synchronize activating the nodes or just go as quickly as possible? we find we don't encounter it as often if we try to sync up, but if that's an intended mechanic it's not conveyed well, and it seems like it should result in a wipe not a softlock if we are just 'doing it wrong'

[Obsidian]

We don't go out of our way to synch them up, we just have two teams of 2 people working each set. One person takes the buff across the gap every time and the other person just stays on their side and hits the other nodes while helping with adds. We end up finishing around the same time unless someone dies, but I wonder if it breaks if you finish both sides too close together.

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/BungieHelp/statu...63135670542337

Lol. Idk how patching works but I doubt they could reactively yank the colony thing last minute, maybe they had a fix for it, realized the optics and decided to wait, but didn't communicate it to the patch notes guy?

[Serra]

Weekly Update:
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/twab_03_23_23

[Obsidian]

Big buncha nothin'.

I do wonder what they mean about Nezarec's AI though. Do they mean he ought to be teleport slamming people even when they have an elevation advantage, but isn't because people are just sitting in a Well?

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/mislead/status/1639107697063731200

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/destinytrack/sta...296537600?s=20

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/Destiny2Team/sta...79948547964928

[Serra]

Weekly Update:
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/art...2-twab-3-30-23

Here’s what we’re going to be digging into this week:

A preview of our mid-Season update from the team.
Answering a question about one particular weapon players are searching for.
A behind-the-scenes look at placeholder animations regarding that gun.
Update from our Player Support team on known issues and coming updates.
The community’s favorite #AOTW and #MOTW picks of the week.

[Qalbert]

REFLECTING ON LIGHTFALL: LAUNCH AND BEYOND

Artifact Perk Refunds

In Season 21, we’re adding the ability to refund and apply individual Artifact perks with a single click. We wanted to get this in for launch, but technical limitations prevented it until next Season. This will make overall buildcrafting much faster, as you’ll be able to adjust your passive perks on the fly without having to reset the entire Artifact.

Exotic Armor Focusing

We’re adding Exotic Armor focusing to Rahool in Season 21. When this goes live, all Exotic engrams aside from drops from activities that award Exotics (i.e. Lost Sectors, Vex Strike Force, Nightfalls) will no longer auto-decrypt. These will sit in your engram inventory and can be focused at two different tiers:

Advanced Decryption

Focus an Exotic engram to a specific entitled release (Shadowkeep, Beyond Light, The Witch Queen, etc.)
Just like now, Exotics that came out alongside seasonal releases are always included in the previous yearly entitlement.
Cost is one Exotic engram, one Ascendant Shard, and 30,000 Glimmer.

Precision Decryption

Directly focus the Exotic armor you want!
Therefore, it will have a higher cost: one Exotic engram, three Ascendant Shards, 60,000 Glimmer, and one Exotic Cipher.
Note: We plan to raise the Exotic Cipher stack limit from one to five.

As before, you’ll still be able to decrypt them at Rahool with no focusing for free. Note that you can't get new pieces of Exotic armor from focusing, so you’ll need to collect them from the Vex Strike Force event or Lost Sectors in the meantime. In the future, we are looking to move acquiring new armor to a more accessible location.

[Serra]

Weekly Update:
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/art...ungie-04-06-23

Today's TWAB is all about:

A recap of this week’s “Reflecting on Lightfall” article
Grandmaster Nightfalls start next Tuesday
A preview of the weapons coming and leaving in Season 21
New Prime Gaming rewards
Our Player Support Report, followed by some community creations