Bungie ditches \u201cSunsetting\u201d in Destiny 2 after huge player backlash BungieBungie has binned the Destiny 2 infusion cap system \u2014 known as \u201cweapon sunsetting\u201d \u2014 just four short months after introducing the unpopular feature to a heavy heaping of backlash during the Beyond Light expansion. After announcing their intentions to implement a \u201cvault\u201d system for Destiny 2 guns and powerful gear in early 2020, they officially pulled the trigger during the Beyond Light release late last year. The infusion cap system was near-universally despised from the get-go. The \u201csunsetting\u201d mechanic basically locked away any weapons Guardians had earned in raids, dungeons, and competitive playlists. Though Bungie originally stuck to their guns, it seems they\u2019ve now backflipped on that decision. \u201cSunsetting\u201d has been shelved, Joe Blackburn announced on Thursday. \u201cWith Season 11, we introduced infusion caps. While we still believe in these goals, it\u2019s clear our execution was off the mark,\u201d Destiny\u2019s assistant director admitted. \u201cSo, we\u2019re making a change. Any weapon or armor that can currently be infused to max Power will continue to be able to reach max Power permanently. Starting in Season 14, we won\u2019t be capping the infusion on any weapons or armor.\u201d There are, however, a few caveats being added with this long-awaited reversal. Mainly, Bungie has now locked their eyes on \u201cproblem guns\u201d which would have been solved via \u2018vaulting\u2019. Instead, they\u2019ll have to be nerfed. \u201cBecause we won\u2019t be capping our guns, we must consider more variables in the game balance of our upcoming seasons and releases,\u201d Blackburn said. \u201cSo, expect to see tuning when it comes to our biggest outliers in PvP and PvE.\u201d First on the list are guns like Felwinter\u2019s Lie and Warmind Cells. Bungie are also expected to slowly reintroduce any weapons that were originally vaulted between Beyond Light and Season 13. How they will be re-releasing these missing weapons has not yet been confirmed by the Destiny 2 dev team. \u201cThis is a big change for Destiny and one that we did not make lightly. However, we believe there\u2019s nothing more important in Destiny than getting our rewards right.\u201d The long-awaited removal of \u201cSunsetting\u201d is far from the only major Destiny 2 news Bungie decided to drop for Guardians on Thursday either, however. Perhaps the biggest headliner is that The Witch Queen, which was slated to be the franchise\u2019s major 2021 expansion, has been delayed until \u201cearly 2022\u201d. This release date switch comes alongside news a fourth expansion will be added to the \u201cLight and Dark saga\u201d around 2024, following the trilogy release \u201cLightfall.\u201d Read more: Bungie is working on a brand new game series – Full crossplay across PlayStation, Xbox, and PC is also being deployed in Bungie\u2019s series by Season 14, the devs promised. Catch up on all the details here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bungie ditches \u201cSunsetting\u201d in Destiny 2 after huge player backlash BungieBungie has binned the Destiny 2 infusion cap system \u2014 known as \u201cweapon sunsetting\u201d \u2014 just four short months after introducing the unpopular feature to a heavy heaping of backlash during the Beyond Light expansion. After announcing their intentions to implement a \u201cvault\u201d system for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}