Destiny Rising Patch Adds New Event and Character Balance Adjustments

Destiny Rising weekly patch released on Sept. 4, with a four hour maintenance period. To compensate for the maintenance period, the developers rewarded accounts created prior to the patch with 200 Lumia Leaves. The Efforts Rewarded event made its debut as well, during which players can complete challenges to earn event tokens, which can be exchanged for the Exotic weapon: Patridge Sky. 

The rest of the patch catered towards gameplay adjustments, including lowering the difficulty for Gauntlet: Onslaught and Strike – Nexus Interface. Character abilities for Xuan Wei and Tan-2 have been adjusted as well. 

Here are the full Destiny Rising Patch Notes, according to the official update blog post: 

Combat & Balancing Adjustments

• [Activity Difficulty] Lowered the difficulty of Gauntlet: Onslaught – Issakis’s Tabernacle.
• [Activity Difficulty] Lowered the combat intensity in Strike – Nexus Interface.
• [Combatant Adjustments] Weakened Ogres’ “Rampage Recovery” ability, making it easier for Lightbearers to deal damage and trigger Knockout while the ability is being cast.
• [Event Mechanics] If a Front Line event is not completed within 30min, combatants will now reset.
• [Activity Mechanics] Gift of the Nine: Boxer has been changed to deal additional fixed damage.
• [Weapons] Improved the display of Exotic weapon Heir Apparent’s heating up progress.
• [Weapons] Added damage effect descriptions to weapon perks’ vector allocation display.
• [Weapons] Fixed a balancing issue in which the DPS of Sidearms was lower than weapons of equivalent range.
• [Game Performance] Improved the screen-shake/vibration effect when taking blast damage from combatants.

New Features & System Improvements

• [New Feature] Added an artifact archive.
• [New Feature] Added activity and feature unlock previews to the Acclaim system.
• [System Improvement] Improved the tips displayed for character-exclusive emotes and weapon-exclusive sprays. Improved the filter logic for character recommendations in Realm of the IX activities.
• [System Improvement] Improved the Black Market bounty issuance mechanic and increased the Black Market merchant’s Favor cap.

Characters & Narrative Content

• [Character Customization] Added a fourth skin tone to character creation.
• [Narrative Content] Added lore entries related to character quests for Tan-2, Finnala, etc.
• [Character Abilities] Adjusted Xuan Wei’s Weapon Mastery. Once Aftermath is triggered, Xuan Wei will deal an additional instance of weapon damage as opposed to gaining increased weapon damage.
• [Character Abilities] Added a 0.1s cooldown to the Flare Energy mechanic of Tan-2’s Phosphorus and Efficient Conversion abilities.
• [Character Abilities] Changed the unlock requirement for Weapon Mastery Lv.5 to Acclaim Lv.25.

Economy & Resource Cost Adjustments

• [Pinnacle Rewards] Significantly increased the chance of receiving Exotic weapons from Pinnacle Rewards in certain activities. Affected activities include Strikes, Gauntlet: Blitz, and Shifting Gates, all at Reward Lv.6 or higher. The rate at which Legendary Campaign missions drop Exotic weapons as Pinnacle Rewards has been similarly adjusted.
• [Basic Rewards] Added a chance to receive Exotic weapons as Basic Rewards in certain activities. Affected activities include Strikes, Gauntlet: Blitz, and Shifting Gates, all at Reward Lv.5 or higher.
• [Basic Rewards] Added a chance to receive Exotic weapons as Basic Rewards in certain activities. Affected activities include Singularity: Chaos at Reward Lv.6 or higher.
• [Basic Rewards] Increased the Basic Rewards for Morgran’s Prey (Heroic). At Reward Lv.6 or higher, Basic Rewards now grant Mod Fragments. Basic Rewards for Normal difficulty have also been adjusted accordingly.
• [Basic Rewards] In addition to the core adjustments listed above, we’ve also slightly increased the Basic Reward quantity for all activities across the board.

Artifact System Improvements

• [Weapon Boost] The Weapon Boost attribute has been changed from “granting XX% weapon damage bonus for 10s after swapping weapons or using a Sword heavy attack” to “grants XX% weapon damage bonus.”
• [Quick Equip] Added a “Wishlist” button at the bottom right of the Quick Equip screen. Using this applies the recommended loadout for all 4 artifact slots directly to your Singularity: Chaos wishlist (while also adapting to your current character’s Exotic artifact element).
• [Artifact Attributes] The “high-value artifact” marker for artifact attributes has been changed from the original, single Gold tier and split into two tiers: Gold and Silver. Silver is good, while Gold is the best.
• [Artifact Refactor] When a refactor result’s Power is higher than the character’s current Power, selecting “Refactor Again” will now show a pop-up warning to help prevent missing out on a higher-Power artifact due to clicking/tapping through too quickly.
• [Artifact Dismantle] Added “Equipped” and “Unequipped” tabs to the dismantle screen to help better distinguish artifacts (and avoid mishaps). Dismantling equipped artifacts is also now supported (be careful).

Fixed Issues

Environment & Level Issues

• [Destinations] Fixed issues affecting the experience of some destination quests.
• [Public Events] Fixed an issue that would cause tracking Public Events to forcibly cancel other quests.
• [Sparrow Racing] Fixed an issue in which Sparrow Racing rankings might be displayed incorrectly.
• [NPCs] Fixed an issue in which Lightbearers would need to be tracking a quest in order to interact with its relevant NPCs.
• [Game Performance] Fixed an issue on iOS in which using a controller after activating “Device Vibration” would result in incorrect performance.

Character & Ability Issues

• [Character Models] Fixed an issue in which Ning Fei’s cloak would be stuck in the air after colliding with a weapon.
• [Character Quests] Fixed an issue with cutscene lines in Kabr’s character quest.
• [Character Abilities] Fixed an issue in which Ning Fei’s Signature Ability: Lightning Strike would overpenetrate high-tier combatants.
• [Character Abilities] Fixed an issue with the ability mechanic icon displayed by Attal’s reticle; now, it will show the number of times her Weapon Mastery effect can currently be triggered.
• [Character Abilities] Fixed the tracking mechanic for Wolf’s Signature Ability: Wolf’s Flames to ensure consistency between tracking time and cast time.
• [Character Abilities] Fixed an issue in which Tan-2 would gain unintended excess energy from the weapon perk “Allocation Vector.”
• [Character Abilities] Fixed an issue in which, with Weapon Mastery activated, defeating defeat a low-health combatant would result in the Weapon Mastery effect’s extra damage being lower than intended.
• [Character Talents] Fixed an issue in which Ning Fei’s Talent 6: Astral Projection had a chance to not activate as intended.
• [Talent Tree] Fixed an issue in which, after unlocking Wolf’s 6th Talent, the dynamic avatar unlock prompt would display incorrectly.

System & Feature Issues

• [Artifact System] Fixed an issue in which some artifact descriptions were obstructed.
• [Artifact System] Fixed an issue in which the artifact dismantle list would display incorrectly.
• [Results System] Fixed an issue in which failing a stage would result in clear time being displayed incorrectly.
• [Acclaim System] Fixed an issue in which Acclaim rewards could not be claimed in real time.
• [Payment] Fixed an issue in which accounts in Japan would be blocked from paying due to age verification.
• [Redemption Codes] Fixed an issue in which some bundles could not be redeemed.
• [Events] Fixed an issue in which rewards from completing Event: Memento Mori could not be claimed.

Developed and published by NetEase Games and officially licensed by Bungie, Destiny Rising is a free-to-play mobile first-person sci-fi shooter set in the Destiny universe surpassed 1 million downloads on Google Play alone.