Destiny 2 balance changes to nerf Final Shape\u2019s overpowered Exotics BungieDestiny 2 developers have detailed the balance changes coming to Final Shape Exotics like the Khvostov. The Final Shape expansion brought back Destiny\u2019s first weapon, the Khvostov, as a powerful Exotic Item. In fact, the Auto Rifle\u2019s proven so formidable that its usage in Trials of Osiris marks the highest of any gun since The Craftening. This is due in no small part to the Khvostov\u2019s incredibly quick time-to-kill in the Crucible, but it\u2019s not the only Exotic causing issues. Other Final Shape Exotics have also been overpowering to a degree, namely the Red Death Pulse Rifle and Speaker\u2019s Sight. Bungie developers plan to implement balance changes for all three in an upcoming update. The team outlined the tweaks in its \u2018This Week in Destiny\u2018 blog, mentioning that a \u201chandful of things have jumped out as early issues in Crucible, and we wanted to get those addressed sooner rather than later.\u201d Recoil on the Khvostov represents one such issue. While the developers meant to reduce recoil on special ricochet rounds by 50 percent, this resulted in a bug that applied the reduction to the rifle\u2019s full magazine. The unintentional \u201cmaximum stability\u201d has, thus, made the Khvostov much easier to use than Destiny 2\u2019s other Auto Rifles. No one wants to rob players of how good the weapon feels in its current state, yet \u201cthe level it\u2019s at is objectively too strong.\u201d As such, Bungie will remove the bugged recoil effect but increase the base stability by 30 to 72. \u201cThis will give it back some (not all) of that stable feel, without leaving it so far out of band.\u201d Destiny 2 devs will similarly tweak the balance on Khvostov\u2019s Ricochet Shots since they\u2019ve become an issue for PvP. The high uptime and orb buffs allow the rifle to enjoy a quick time-to-kill typically \u201creserved for more difficult-to-trigger damage boosts.\u201d To address this, Bungie will \u201creduce the initial bonus impact damage against players only from 15 percent to 5 percent.\u201d Plus, bouncing bullet damage against players will drop from 18.4 to 4.6. The Red Death\u2019s recoil pattern is also out of whack, though it was a purposeful move to reference the gun\u2019s classic Destiny variant. Still, developers plan on reducing the \u201cadded stability the pattern provides\u2026 [to] align the burst spread more closely with other Pulse Rifles.\u201d Finally, Speaker\u2019s Sight makes it far too easy to generate an \u201cextreme number of orbs in the Crucible.\u201d The team\u2019s \u201cshort-term solution\u201d revolves around disabling the Orb Generation part of Speaker\u2019s Sight in the Crucible. Long-term goals include plans to later reconsider \u201callowing the weapon to create Orbs at a more reasonable rate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 balance changes to nerf Final Shape\u2019s overpowered Exotics BungieDestiny 2 developers have detailed the balance changes coming to Final Shape Exotics like the Khvostov. The Final Shape expansion brought back Destiny\u2019s first weapon, the Khvostov, as a powerful Exotic Item. In fact, the Auto Rifle\u2019s proven so formidable that its usage in Trials […]<\/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-40149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40149","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=40149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}