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Destiny 2 Has Too Much FOMO, Bungie Director Admits


Fear of missing out.

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Destiny 2 Taken Offline (Again) Over Material-Deleting Bug


Don’t adjust that dial, folks. Destiny 2 has been taken offline once again due to a catastrophic bug deleting currencies and materials from player inventories. The bug surfaced a couple of weeks ago resulting in extended downtime and a rollback and it looks like exactly that same thing is happening once again.

Bungie’s customer service confirmed the re-emergence of the bug as the servers came down at 1:27p.m. EST for emergency maintenance.

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All player accounts will be rolled back to 11:30a.m. EST when the game comes back online later tonight, meaning players will only lose roughly two hours of progress assuming you played from the moment the servers came up to the moment they shut down.

We have identified the issue causing loss of materials and currencies after Hotfix 2.7.1.1. All player accounts will be rolled back to the state they were in at 8:30 AM PST, with maintenance expected to last until 7 PM PST.

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Destiny 2 Offering Six Twitch Prime Bundles


Destiny 2 is the latest game to offer Twitch Prime rewards.

Starting today you can get the first of six Twitch Prime bundles. The bundle includes the following items;

  • Suros Regime Auto Rifle
  • Coup de Main Weapon Ornament
  • Skyline Flipside Ghost
  • unsecured/OUTCRY Ship

You’ll need to head to this page and link your Twitch account to your Destiny 2 account, after which you can find the rewards at Amanda Holliday in The Tower the next time your log in to Destiny 2. For more information, check out the link above.

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Destiny 2 Suffers Rollback After Major Bug Wipes Inventories


Destiny 2’s update 2.7.1 was the source of a whole lot of problems yesterday after players logged in to find that some of their inventories and achievements had just been straight up wiped. The servers were quickly shut down so Bungie could investigate the cause and roll out a fix, however the extent and reach of the glitch meant that accounts would have to be rolled back to where they were at 8:30 a.m. PST.

The good news is that players will lost at most nearly two hours of progress assuming that they played from the moment the server came up through the moment it went offline. Not a huge loss for the grand majority.

Today, Update 2.7.1 introduced an issue that affected currencies and pursuits. We immediately brought the game offline to mitigate any loss of materials while we investigated. We have identified the issue and the good news is that we were able to deploy an update to the server and will not have to update the game client.

We have rolled all character data back to our most recent backup at 8:30 a.m. Pacific before the issue was introduced. This will restore any lost materials caused by the issue, but players will lose any progress they made if they played between 8:30 a.m and 10:20 a.m. when we brought the game down for maintenance. Any purchases made using Silver or Bright Dust during this window will need to be repurchased. Any Silver spent or purchased will be restored.

The server update is complete and we are beginning to bring the game back online now. Stay tuned to @Bungiehelp for updates.

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Destiny 2: Devil’s Ruin Exotic Sidearm Available


The Devil’s Ruin Exotice Sidearm is finally available in Destiny 2, and the process to get your hands on it is…surprisingly short.

1. A Lost Relic

First step in getting your hands on the Devil’s Ruin is to actually start the quest by completing a run of the Sundial on Mercury and defeating champions. You don’t actually have to defeat a certain number of champions, just finish the Sundial and the quest step will be available in the same window you pick your reward weapon from at the end of the run. Turn in the quest to Saint-14 at the tower and he’ll give you your next assignment.

2. A Tour Through History

For this step you’ll be sent to a crucible map, but don’t worry! You won’t actually be playing a crucible match. Instead your job is to collect weapon fragments in the Twilight Gap. Head over to the Earth Defense Zone and click on the quest popup in the lower left hand corner. You’ll be taken to an instance zone where you will need to hunt out and find robot corpses scattered throughout the level.

You’ll hear some interesting chatter between Saint-14, Osiris, and Shaxx as friends catch up with each other and talk about the old days.

3. Enjoy The Gun!

Is that it? I told you the quest line was short. No padding, no killing a battalion of enemy troops, nothing. Just a quick trip and a fun conversation.

Devil’s Ruin has the Close The Gap trait which lets you hold the fire button down to charge a staggering laser. It also has the pyrogenesis trait that causes a fully charged laser to refill the magazine from reserves. It is a versatile weapon that should be powerful in either PvE or PvP.

Diaries From Destiny 2: Milky Vex Nipple Christmas Cookies


The MMO Fallout lawyers have informed me that I cannot legally say that the Vex in Destiny 2 have nipples. But I’ve seen them. Up close.

I wanted to talk about Destiny 2 because I’ve been playing this game quite a bit since the new season launched. Destiny 2 is in the midst of what you might refer to as a “Christmas Event,” notably because the event is taking place around Christmas and includes such things as sleighs and other Christmas-themed delights. In addition to the Christmas event, Destiny 2 is also knee deep in Season 9 and the accompanying storyline.

For today, let’s go through the Christmas event since it is what I based the title of this article around. The Dawning 2019 is the latest edition of the winter-themed event and has you once again going around collecting ingredients to bake up cookies in your Destiny-themed Easy Bake Oven®. You get ingredients based on what creature you killed and how you killed them, like “delicious explosive” is from explosive weapons and chitin powder comes from the Hive mobs. You also get rather disgusting ingredients, like cabal oil. I’m not sure what I find more off-putting, the fact that the Vex (a race of time-traveling robots) drop milk or that the Taken drop their milk pre-churned into butter. Or maybe it’s the idea of taking these ingredients and baking delicious cookies out of them.

Thankfully my automated Vex nipple-plucker will take care of the need to farm that resource. Patent pending. You can milk anything with nipples. The good news is that the Holiday Oven 2.0 app has evidently retained all recipes that you baked last year, and includes something new to get those appetites whetted. Vex milk.

All of this is a fancy way of getting you out into the world and completing activities, and you’ll need to complete those activities because every recipe is founded in one common ingredient: Essence of Dawning. The only way to get that ingredient is to complete events. Lots and lots of public events, as each event grants 5 essence and you’ll need 15 per cookie. 10 per cookie if you bake every recipe and upgrade your oven, and I would recommend putting a priority on completing your recipe list. You don’t need to complete last year’s recipes again if you already did that.

The holiday event is fine, by which I mean it is absolute bull shee-ite once you are hundreds of kills deep and still can’t convince the game to drop one of those Personal Touch ingredients that is rarely dropped via melee kills. In my humble and expert opinion, the Dawning event is best completed as a side-thing that you make progress toward while doing the main grind which is Sundials and leveling up your obelisks for the current season.

Destiny 2 Updates Credits To Include Everyone Who Worked On Game


And now something heartwarming.

Generally when stories about credits come up, it’s because someone got snubbed and didn’t receive recognition for their work. Games, movies, the press, it happens a lot more than it reasonably should. This week however, we have a story coming out of Bungie regarding Destiny 2 that should warm the hearts of our readers.

Bungie’s Drew Tucker took to Twitter to note that Destiny 2 has received an update which credits everyone who has worked on the game since launch.

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The sentiments were echoed by other Bungie staff including Steve Dolan who apologized that the credits had taken so long and expressed his happiness that the people involved could finally see their names.

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Both Destiny Titles Are Offline As Bungie Hurries To Figure Out Why


Destiny 1 and 2 have been down pretty much all day today, and Bungie is trying to get to the source of why. Servers for both titles went down at about 7:30 eastern this morning. Bungie has not publicly stated what the source of the downtime is, just that they are investigating the issues preventing people from logging in.

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Is this a conspiracy by the Undying Mind to prevent players from racking up kills during the final offensive event? Your guess is as good as mine.

Destiny 2: Vex Offensive Final Assault Closes Out Season


The Season of the Undying ends in just a couple of weeks and Bungie has dropped what should be the final bit of content progression as of today.

This season’s story focus has been mainly on the Vex, a skeevy group of time-traveling terminators hell bent on merging all realities into one singular timeline where the Vex rule all and there is no light or darkness. The Guardians (players) of Destiny’s story have repeatedly thwarted the plots of the Vex, culminating in the Curse of Osiris expansion where Guardians rescued Osiris from the Vex and virtually crippled their forces.

As of the start of the season Guardians had opened a portal to the Black Garden, birthplace to the Vex, and killed two very important pieces of the Vex hive mind. Kicking off the season in response, the Vex launched a mass invasion of the moon. Over the course of the season, Guardians have been working with Ikora Rey to handle the Vex invasion on two fronts; shutting down gate portals as they appear on the moon itself, and running raids on the Black Garden in order to put a stop to it once and for all. The raids on the Black Garden led players to the Undying Mind, and thus where the story is today.

Being creature that exist on multiple timelines and realities, the Undying Mind can’t just be destroyed once, it must be destroyed in all of the timelines that it exists. Therefore players must act as a community and kill the Undying Mind over, and over, and over again. The final offensive is virtually identical to the prior version except slightly more difficult. You go through the same motions of defeating two areas of Vex while simultaneously grinding Ikora’s daily missions, and instead of another giant Vex creature you have to bring the shields down on before you can kill him you get a different giant Vex you need to do the same on.

Regardless, it appears that the conclusion of this season will somehow lead into or become the catalyst for the next season that Bungie has planned. What could it be? Maybe the Drifter will become corrupted by the darkness he harnesses and end up going evil (as seems to be common with people who wield darkness in Destiny’s universe).

Only time will tell.

Destiny 2 Explodes On Steam, Six Figure Traffic


This may come as a massive surprise, but Destiny 2 has launched on Steam alongside its free to play update and players are flocking to the game in droves. The PC servers have attained over 220,000 peak concurrency in the past couple of days and people seem to be pretty happy.

Current review scores for Destiny 2 put the game at a 75% “mostly positive” rating with a lot of the negative feedback surrounding players whose characters didn’t transfer over properly or people who have a problem with Bungie’s changes to characters (everyone starts out at 750 power now). Destiny 2 is currently #12 on the Xbox most played list and is no doubt doing just as well on PS4 if not better.