Bungie rolls back another unstable Destiny 2 system added in Edge of Fate
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Key points
- Bungie is removing Unstable Cores from Destiny 2.
- The rollback comes after months of player frustration with the currency’s excessive costs.
- Players will get reduced high-end costs and a free chest of 777,777 cores to smooth the transition.
Bungie scraps Unstable Cores in Destiny 2, promising a simpler system in Update 9.1.5.1, once again fixing the problems that flooded the game with the launch of the Edge of Fate DLC.
The studio has announced that it will completely remove Unstable Cores, a temporary currency introduced with the Edge of Fate expansion, and replace it with a new, yet-to-be-detailed system. It is worth noting that Unstable Cores replaced Enhancement Cores (used by players to infuse gear up to their power level), which took about seven years of balancing to gain the game’s community acceptance.
The new system, which dropped with Edge of Fate DLC in July 2025, required thousands of cores for even minor upgrades, quickly draining resources for those experimenting with builds or trying to level multiple armor sets.
Despite player backlash, Bungie initially pledged not to delete cores between seasons, but now the currency will be fully removed. To ease the transition, high-end costs will be reduced and players will receive a free chest containing 777,777 cores.
This move follows Bungie’s previous rollback regarding the exhausting power grind, which will no longer force players to restart from baseline with the upcoming Renegades expansion.
Both reversals highlight Bungie’s ongoing struggle to balance its loot, leveling, and currency systems.
The news comes on the heels of Destiny 2’s player count dropping to its all-time low of about 275,000 daily online players (across all platforms), according to popularity.report.
Set in a mythic sci-fi universe, Destiny 2 features a multiplayer environment with elements of role-playing games and, like its predecessor, is divided into PvE and PvP environments.
Destiny 2 was originally published by Activision until, on December 31, 2018, Bungie acquired the publishing rights to the franchise. The first-person shooter serves as the sequel to 2014’s Destiny. The game was initially released as a pay-to-play title for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 6, 2017, and for Windows PC on October 24, 2017. Simultaneously with the launch of the Shadowkeep DLC, Destiny 2 became free-to-play on October 1, 2019. The game was also ported to Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service on November 19, 2019, and later received versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on December 8, 2020.
The Edge of Fate became the tenth DLC following Curse of Osiris, Warmind, Forsaken, Shadowkeep, Beyond Light, The Witch Queen, Lightfall and The Final Shape.
