💠 This Weekend in Destiny 2: Xûr and Trials (05.07 – 05.11)

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SECRET EMBLEM CODE

Sequence Flourish emblem code was hidden in binary in the Season of the Splicer trailer. Thanks to many creators in the community, the puzzle has been solved and the emblem is now available to be claimed!

Emblem: Sequence Flourish | Code: 7D4-PKR-MD7

Redeem Code: bungie.net/Redeem

Notes: Once you have redeemed the code, open your collections, go to flair and then emblems, select general and it should be there (most likely on the last page).

These emblem codes should also still be redeemable, if you haven’t already redeemed them:

1. The Visionary: XFV-KHP-N97
2. Cryonautics (Beyond Light): RA9-XPH-6KJ
3. Galilean Excursion (Beyond Light): JYN-JAA-Y7D
4. Future In Shadow (Beyond Light): 7LV-GTK-T7J

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SEASON 14 REWARDS PREVIEW

Info from: bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/50325

• Seasonal Armor will be earned from Seasonal activities. You’ll also be able to guarantee pieces from these sets using Focused Umbral Engrams. Season Rank levels that once featured armor have been updated with packages of Glimmer, Legendary Shards, Upgrade Modules, Exotic Engrams, Enhancement Cores, and Enhancement Prisms. Universal Armor Ornaments will continue to be earned towards the end of the Season Pass.
• On the Seasonal Track, there will be three weapons to earn. Season Pass owners will unlock the new Exotic Sidearm on day-one of the Season as soon as they claim their first reward. Additionally, the new Shotgun and Heavy Machine Gun will be up for grabs as you level up.
• New weapons will be available through Umbral Engrams and Override completions.
• Outside of Override, there’s even more Legendary loot to claim. To start, you’ll receive a new quest to earn the Null Composure Fusion Rifle. Once the weapon is unlocked, you can collect Gambit, Crucible, and Vanguard themed weapon ornaments to further customize your style.
• There are also weapons joining the current slate of post-game rewards for Gambit, Crucible, and Vanguard Strikes. In total, there will be 12 Legendary weapons to earn — four per activity.
• For the endgame focused Guardians out there, three familiar weapons will be up for grabs. (Destiny 1 veterans among you will recall these legends in an instant.)
• Like last Season, each weapon will be on a weekly rotation in Nightfall playlists. Upping the difficulty will give you a higher drop chance as you search for desired rolls. Starting June 22, Grandmaster Nightfalls will become available, introducing Adept versions of each weapon.

Here are links to all of the images shown in GIF below:

• Seasonal Armor | Seasonal Armor
• Season Pass Weapons – Sidearm, Shotgun, and Heavy Machine Gun
• Umbral Engrams and Override Weapons
• Quest Reward – Legendary Fusion Rifle
• Gambit, Crucible, Vanguard Strike Weapons
• Nightfall Exclusive Weapons

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UPDATE 3.2.0 PREVIEW

Here is a look at what’s coming with Update 3.2.0 that arrives next week:

Abilities, Aspects, and Fragments

• Colorblind Support
  • • Stasis abilities now have colorblind support:
      • • Enemy Crystals
        • Enemy Squall
        • Enemy Duskfield
        • Enemy Bleak Watcher
    • Player highlighting in the Crucible now has colorblind support.
• Sublcass Tuning
  • • Hunters
      • • The freeze detonation from Silence & Squall has been reduced from 12m to 8.5m in radius.
        • Enemy Squall now has a red ring to define area as it approaches.
    • Titans
      • • Shiver Strike melee energy is now refunded when Glacial Quake ends.
        • Fixed an issue in which players can trigger Whisper of Torment by standing in an opponent’s Barricade.
    • Warlocks
      • • Shadebinder
          • • Bleak Watcher Aspect now grants two fragment slots.
        • Chaos Reach
          • • Fixed an issue with Chaos Reach Super that was allowing it to penetrate some thin walls or objects enough to damage and kill opponents on the other side.

Regarding future tuning plans, Bungie also wanted to pull a word from Sandbox Discipline Lead Kevin Yanes:

Kevin: Hey all!

“The Sandbox team is working on a slew of tuning updates over the next few Seasons. We’re aware of key points of feedback in PvE and PvP. In update 3.2.0, we have a few minor changes to Stasis Hunters and some bug fixes that you see above. Here’s a quick list of some key places we’re actively looking at for the future: Stasis Freeze, Slow accuracy penalties, and Whisper of Hedrons. We will share more with you soon.”

Now, back to the patch notes preview!

Nav Mode (Menu that appears when pulling out your Ghost)

• Separated Bounties from Quests in Nav Mode.
• All Bounties now appear in Nav Mode. They can no longer be tracked as a result.
• Category switching on keyboard and mouse can now be controlled with the scroll wheel.
• Tracked Triumph now appears in its own Nav Mode category.

UI

• Legends added to the Director Destinations tab.
  • • This is where you’ll find Vault of Glass in just a few weeks…
• Shortcut between HUD quest step notifications and quest details screen added for keyboard and mouse users.
• 6v6 Crucible activities have an updated intro experience.
  • • Cycle through your teammates to view metrics associated with the activity you’re entering.

H.E.L.M.

• H.E.L.M. now appears in the Director Destinations tab (moved from Tower map) and has its own map.
• Focused Umbral Engrams and Prismatic Recaster
  • • Umbral Engrams now auto-decrypt when Focused via the Prismatic Recaster.
    • The visual states for focusing options on the Prismatic Recaster have been streamlined to reduce visual clutter and confusion.

Glory, Valor, and Infamy 

These changes are a precursor to some larger improvements planned for Season 15 (e.g., introducing Vanguard reputation, rebalancing Infamy to bring a reset in-line with Valor, and more). We’ll have more information on those changes in a few months!

• Glory, Valor, and Infamy reputations have had their internal systems rebuilt to a unified implementation. In-game, players should expect minimal perceived changes.
  • • Unified Glory, Valor, and Infamy rank reputation tracking.
      • • Before Forsaken, Glory and Valor had only Major ranks (Guardian, Brave, etc.).
        • After Forsaken, Glory and Valor gained sub-ranks (Brave I, II, III) alongside Infamy. However, all the historical tracking (Lifetime Ranks) and quest usage still used the original Major ranks.
        • Now, the sub-ranks are now referred to simply as Ranks, and all usage has been converted to use them where appropriate. (I.e., all lifetime values and quest targets have been multiplied by three.)
    • Glory playlists no longer block Valor win streaks from declining.
    • The Valor badge now appears on the Trials launch screen.
    • Infamy win streak bonus is now linear (+35 points per win).
    • Glory win streak bonus is now linear (+20 points per win).
      • • Note: With the eventual update to Vanguard reputation, players should be ready to spend their Vanguard Tokens during Season of the Splicer.

Eververse

• Eververse Archive Filtering
  • • Players can now easily filter the offerings in the Storefront Archive tab.
    • Per numerous community requests, we added many Exotic weapon and armor ornaments from previous Seasons to the archive tab.
• Bright Engrams
  • • Spawn FX and Shaders are now standalone items in Bright Engrams.
      • • Bright Engrams can no longer decrypt into duplicates of these items.
    • A small amount of Glimmer will be awarded when decrypting Bright Engrams.

General Things…

• Momentum Control and Team Scorched have returned and will be available as part of the weekly playlist rotation.
• Added repeatable bounties to Shaw Han in the Cosmodrome.
• Fixed an issue causing Vaulted gear to erroneously drop from strike-unique loot lists.
• Added a full suite of Trace Rifle-focused armor mods to the game.

Patch notes are planned to drop, in full, around 10 AM PDT next Tuesday, right alongside the release of Season of the Splicer.

One more thing: While the following won’t happen in Update 3.2.0, Bungie has some news concerning 2018 and 2019 Solstice of Heroes Armor Glows. In the April 22 TWAB article, it was stated that glows for these armor sets would not be supported by Armor Synthesis due to technical issues. Since the new 2020 ornament mechanics were well received, Bungie was able to rework/rebuild how 2018 and 2019 glows worked to address the community’s request.

Bungie’s current plan is to make these glows into universal ornament sets like 2020 Solstice of Heroes Universal Armor Ornaments. This fix will have some limitations. These ornaments will not be updated to support Stasis, but will support Solar, Arc, or Void subclasses. In addition, the granted ornaments will be for the legendary armor set from each year only. Players who acquired any subclass type glow for that year/slot will receive the corresponding Legendary Universal Ornament for all three classes.

They are hoping to have this fix deployed by Solstice of Heroes 2021, but cannot yet guarantee the date. Stay tuned to future TWAB’s for additional information.

Source: This Week at Bungie – May 06, 2021

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