Destiny Update 2.0 — the massive new patch that officially ushers in "Year Two" of Bungie's online shooter-RPG — is rolling out, and should be available to download on your console shortly.
While we're still awaiting official patch notes (Bungie says they'll be posted shortly), the developer did previously post a preview of what players can expect. The changes previously mentioned are detailed below. Check back in a bit for the full change-log once released.
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Character Level Cap for all players will be raised to 34
- Level Cap for The Taken King will be 40
- You will be able to level up by gaining XP alone
- Character Level and Light are now separate statistics
- Your Character Level will be grandfathered into your highest possible Light Level from all gear in your inventory and vault
- Attack and Defense ratings for armor and weapons will be translated to the new systems – their power levels will be unchanged
- Grimoire Score has been moved from the Character Nameplate and now displays in the Character Screen
- A Quest Screen will be added to your Menu
- Tracks all active Quests
- Abandoned Quests can be recovered in the Hall of Guardians
- Year One Activities have been converted to the Quest system
- Bounty slots will be increased to 16
- Incomplete Year One Bounties will be auto-abandoned on 09/08 in preparation for launch of The Taken King
- Incomplete Year One Exotic Bounties are auto-completed with their respective Vendors
- Year One bounties issues by Eris will be retired
- Reputation with Crota's Bane can continue to be earned by completing Quests in The Taken King
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Collections have been added to the Tower
- Emblems/Shaders can be found near Eva Lavante
- Ships can be found near Amanda Holliday
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Exotic Armor and Weapon Blueprint added to the Tower
- You will now have the Blueprint for all Exotics you own in your Collection
- Report to the Vanguard in the Hall of Guardians
- Motes of Light will be used to grant XP to Weapons and Armor
- Class-specific Armor materials will be deprecated in favor of a unified Armor Material
- Vanguard Quartermaster, Roni-9940, will exchange old materials for armor material [Update: This change takes effect on 09/15]
- Revised Sandbox balance will be in effect, based on our previous analysis
- Fallen Wolf Hunt Patrols will retreat in anticipation of the arrival of Oryx in your solar system
Today's update arrives one week ahead of Destiny's massive new expansion, The Taken King, which will bring a new narrative-driven campaign storyline for players to experience.
As a reminder, if you're playing Destiny on PS4 or Xbox One, you're going to need around 18GB of free space on your hard drive for the update. Xbox 360 players will need 10GB, while PS3 will need about 20GB to install it (once installed on PS3, you'll only need around 10GB free). For a full breakdown to prepare for Update 2.0, check out our previous post.
