Forsaken is Officially Out With Destiny 2 Update 2.0.0.1, Patch Notes Here

Last week may have set the stage with update 2.0, but Destiny 2 update 2.0.0.1 marks the official launch of the Forsaken expansion and the start of Season 4. If you’ve got the expansion already, you’re no doubt trying to log in and play right now. If you’re stuck at work or away from your console for the day, enjoy these patch notes to see what changes Bungie has made to the game as we lose our favorite Hunter Vanguard.

Most of these changes were announced well in advance, but Bungie slipped a few surprises into the patch notes. The Exodus Crash Strike has been fixed and is now re-enabled in the game, with Thaviks teleporting less frequently than he used to. Competitive Crucible ranking has been completely retuned to be far less punishing to players. Eververse has also been revisited to make the pursuit of cosmetic items more of a chase for players without having to pay money.

Destiny 2: Forsaken reworks most of the game’s economy, grind, and chases, so many of thechanges outlined in the Destiny 2 update 2.0.0.1 patch notes have to do with the reworked economies of items. If you want to know exactly what you’re getting into with Destiny 2’s second year, we’ve got the full patch notes right here for you to peruse.

Don’t miss last week’s update 2.0 patch notes, as there are a lot of big changes that happened there too.

Destiny 2 Update 2.0.0.1

The Season of the Outlaw has begun.

Player Character

General

Raised character level cap to 50 for Forsaken owners

Sandbox

General

Year 1 Sony exclusive Exotic and legendary rewards are now available for all platforms

Exotic Weapons

Riskrunner

Increased inventory size

Whisper of the Worm

Replaced Armor Piercing Rounds with Accurized Rounds to prevent accidental perk failures for White Nail

Weapons

Year 2 weapons now provide random perks when acquired

Year 2 Masterwork weapons have revamped system

Allows players to reach +10 bonus stats

Year 2 mods are now available

Can be acquired by dismantling Year 2 weapons

Can be purchased from the Gunsmith

Year 1 weapons no longer accept modifications

Perks

Increased the blast radius penalty for Concussion and Blinding Grenades from single shot grenade launchers

Abilities

Hunters

Golden Gun

Increased Golden Gun damage against base and elite enemies

Titan

Magnetic Grenades

Grenades should now detonate a second time even if the initial detonation kills the target

Activities

Strikes

The Vanguard Strike Playlist is now available

Nightfall strike scoring has been re-enabled

Base-level strikes are available through destinations

Year 1 Sony exclusive strikes are now available to all platforms

Exodus Crash

Analyzing the Fallen device in Prodromus Down

The objective progress rate increases based on number of Guardians standing near Ghost

Thaviks encounter

Decreased thaviks’s teleport frequency

Was three long teleports and six quick teleports

Now two long teleports and three quick teleports

Increased Thaviks’s quick-teleport speed increased

Reduced enemy waves to match teleport frequency

Added additional enemies per wave

Damage to Thaviks is preserved when Thaviks switches weapons

Daily Heroic Story Missions

Daily Heroic story missions now available

Crucible

General

Fixed an issue that sometimes triggered the Quitter Penalty after completed Competitive Crucible matches

Starting in Season 4, Iron Banner will be updated to enable Power level advantages, beginning on September 18

Removed Mayhem temporarily from the weekly featured playlist until a future update

Trials of the Nine is now on hiatus

Trials of the Nine reputation tokens cannot be redeemed until the activity returns

Maps

Retribution and Wormhaven are now available on all platforms

Retribution has been reworked and enlarged to support 6v6 matches

Rumble

Earning a place in the Top 3 in Rumble will now count as a win

The correct number of Valor Rank Points will be granted

Competitive

Glory

Retuned Glory Rank Points gained and lost have to reduce the overall climb to higher ranks

Fixed the weekly award and doubled its gains

Fixed and returned weekly Glory decay

Players who competed in Season 3 will earn bonus rank points for completing their first match in Season 4

Removed loss streaks

Valor

Losses in the Competitive playlist no longer reset your Valor win streak

Game Modes

Control and Clash modes have been added to the Competitive playlist

Rewards

Pinnacle Crucible rewards are now awarded via quests

These quests will not be removed at the end of the season

Redrix’s Claymore has been retired in Season 4 as a seasonal reward

Players who earned Redrix’s Claymore in Season 3 will receive additional bonuses

Private Matches

Added the option to adjust the respawn timers for Survival

Score-to-win options have been updated for several modes

Control

Added 25 and 150, removed 10 and 20

150 is the new default

Clash

Added 25 and 150, removed 10 and 20

100 is the new default

Supremacy

Added 25 and 150, removed 10 and 20

150 is the new default

Gambit

General

The Gambit playlist is unlocked

Requires Forsaken

Requires completion of mission “Spark”

Infamy ranks now available

Tower

Vendors

Zavala

The Season 4 vendor progression system has been updated with two separate progressions

Vanguard Rank

Like in previous seasons, Vanguard rank can be increased by turning in Vanguard tokens to Zavala

Increasing your Vanguard rank will provide Vanguard engrams, containing new Year 2 weapons and armor with random rolls

You can continue to acquire items found in Vanguard engrams beyond the season end boundary

Seasonal exclusive items that are purchased via Vanguard rank have been moved to their own row for clarity, and will only be attainable until the end of Season 4

Nightfall Rank

Increased by attaining score on various Nightfall strikes

Items are now available for purchase from Zavala by increasing in Nightfall Rank

Shaxx

Updated reputation reward packages for Season 4

Updated bounties for Season 4

Added pursuits to Shaxx’s inventory

Added new rewards for Valor ranks

Gunsmith

No longer exchanges Year 1 mods; these can be safely dismantled

Now sells two mods (one armor, one weapon) a day.

Gunsmith packages now require 100 Gunsmith Materials

Updated repuation reward packages for Season 4

Events & Rituals

Challenges

General

Between levels 20 and 50 challenges provide a source of Legendary items and experience

When you reach level 50, an entirely new set of challenges activates and the leveling ones are no longer available

After you reach level 50, these are the main avenue into the powerful rewards that previously lived within milestones

Level 20 challenges with progression will be converted to a new challenges at level 50

Daily challenges now available

Specific challenges offered each day

Individual daily challenges reset on a four day cadence

Weekly challenges now available

Reset each Tuesday

Items & Economy

General

Increased experience rewards for completing strikes and nightfall

Reduced experience rewards for completing normal and heroic public events

Iron Banner, Vanguard, and Crucible tokens earned in Season 3 may be redeemed with their respective vendors in Season 4

Players are no longer able to delete mods or shaders from an items details screen

Masterworks

Masterwork reward chances are being reduced in some activities

Pre-Forsaken raids will still offer a higher chance for Masterwork acquisition, but that chance has been lowered from 50% to 10% to be in line with Masterwork drops in Forsaken

Year 1 armor will always dismantle to one Masterwork Core

Year 1 weapons can dismantle to one or two cores, but no longer three

Power

Activity rewards now respect your Power

If you complete an activity while severely under-leveled, rewards will offer a larger Power upgrade

If you complete an activity while heavily over-leveled, rewards will be a lower Power level

Shaders

Forsaken shaders do not drop in the wild; instead, they come from dismantling gear with that shader applied

Rare-quality shaders are often applied to drops, but have a low chance of being granted by dismantling

Legendary-quality shaders appear much less frequently on gear, but have a high chance of being granted by dismantling

It no longer costs anything to apply shaders to gear

Infusion

Infusion for all pre-Forsaken and Forsaken gear is capped at 600 Power

Weapon infusion is now slot-based rather than archetype-based

Example: Any Kinetic weapon can be infused into any other Kinetic weapon, but you can no longer infuse an Energy Hand Cannon into a Kinetic Hand Cannon

Infusing duplicates of the same item is much less expensive than using two different items

Destination Materials

Reduced drop rates of destination materials from some destination activities

Collections

Includes any weapon, armor piece, Ghost Shell, ship, Sparrow, emblem, or shader players have earned since Warmind’s release on May 8

Except for Year 2 legendary armor and weapons with random rolls, all items can be reacquired through Collections, for a fee

The cost to reacquire an item scales based on what the item dismantles into

Three of Coins

Three of Coins have been deprecated

Converted into “Faded Cards”

Can be safely discarded for Legendary Shards

Eververse

Prismatic Matrix Schedule

The Prismatic Matrix is now scheduled out for the full season

The Prismatic Facet (free weekly account roll) is now obtained via a special Tier 1 Eververse bounty, rather than being tied to leveling, which can be acquired for 250 Glimmer and that does not require an Eververse Bounty Note

This permits players at all levels to obtain their free weekly roll

Eververse Bounties

Each Seasonal Bright Engram now grants one Bounty Note

These Bounty Notes can be exchanged for a variety of weekly Eververse Bounties, which come in three tiers:

Tier 1: Cost = 1 Eververse Bounty Note: Rewards 20 Bright Dust

Tier 2: Cost = 3 Eververse Bounty Note: Rewards 70 Bright Dust

Tier 3: Cost = 6 Eververse Bounty Note: Rewards 150 Bright Dust

Players can acquire as many Eververse bounties as they have Bounty Notes

Eververse bounties expire seven days after acquisition

Bright Dust Dismantle Yields

Bright Dust, which you gained from dismantling types of Eververse items, is now a fixed amount

Example: Shaders will always yield 10 Bright Dust

Bright Engram Updates

Reward probabilities are now displayed on bungie.net

Added new Legendary weapon ornaments to the Bright Engram

Added new Ghost Projection category to the Bright Engram

Weapon and armor mods are no longer available in Bright Engrams

Eververse Armor and Perks

With the addition of random perk rolls on armor, we have made some changes to how perks are applied to Eververse armor

Eververse armor acquired from non-deterministic sources (i.e., the Bright Engram) will include random perks

Eververse armor acquired from deterministic sources (i.e., the Prismatic Matrix or Bright Dust storefront) will have fixed perks

Leveling Rewards in Forsaken

Starting in Forsaken, you will no longer earn Bright Engrams each level until you reach the level cap

Players progressing through the campaigns will receive an Eververse gift at the end of each campaign once per class with a variety of items and some Bright Engrams included

This includes players who use a Character Boost

Once you reach the level cap, Bright Engrams will once again be awarded at the same rate as they are in the current game

General

Silver transaction history is now displayed on bungie.net

Bundles that have not been opened can be refunded for seven days after purchase

Gleaming Boons of the Vanguard and Crucible have been updated to drop the current season’s items

To make room for bounties, Bright Dust offerings have been moved to the second page of Eververse

Clans

General

The Season 3 Clan Staff reward has been granted to all clans who hit max rank this season

Gambit now offers a clan engram when a fireteam from your clan wins a Gambit match

Season 4 Clan Progression

Clan experience is now earned by completing clan bounties available from Hawthorne

When a player reaches level 50, three new clan bounties become available

Guided Games

General

Players have the option reconnect to Guided Game activities if they encounter a disconnection from an active Guided Game

Technical

Audio

Adjusted ambient audio in the Tower

UI

Fixed an issue where having a certain number of unique items in the vault was causing items to not load

Fixed an issue where text would hitch on multiple screens when players are playing on a PlayStation Pro

What’s your favorite part of the Destiny 2 update 2.0.0.1 patch notes? Will you be playing Forsaken today? If you want to get a look at the opening mission, you can watch our gameplay from Bungie’s studios last week.