This Weekend in Destiny 2 – Xûr and Trials (Jan 20 – Jan 24)

Here are sandbox changes coming next week with Update 6.3.0.5

AIRBORNE EFFECTIVENESS

• Primary weapons

• • Aim Assist
    • Reduced all additional Primary weapon auto aim (bullet bend) penalties by ~60% at 0 AE for both mouse and keyboard (MnK) and controller.
    • Increased the precision angle (how far off a head target you can be and still have auto-aim give you a headshot instead of a body shot) by 50% at 100 AE. Changed the curve to be exponential, so you'll get more benefit at high AE for MnK and controller.
    • Removed all additional Primary weapon magnetism (reticle friction) penalties, and at 60-100 AE you get a magnetism bonus compared to pre-AE for controller only.
  • Reduced airborne accuracy penalty for all Primary weapons, per weapon type:
    • Hand Cannon, Sidearm: 60%
    • Auto Rifle, Scout Rifle, Pulse Rifle, Submachine Gun: 20%
    • Bow: 30%
• Special weapons
  • Sniper Rifles and Slug Shotguns: reduced base airborne accuracy penalty by 50%.
  • Pellet Shotguns: fully removed airborne accuracy penalty.

WEAPON TYPES

• General
  • Increased damage and aim assist falloff start at 0 range by ~30%.
  • Reduced damage and aim assist falloff start at 100 range by ~6%.
• Adaptive SMGs lag behind Lightweights in effectiveness, dealing more body shot damage, but much less critical hit damage despite sharing the same rate of fire. To narrow this gap, we have increased their critical hit multiplier, which makes them feel more rewarding in skilled hands and increases their lethality against certain resilience values.
  • Increased critical hit multiplier from 1.44 to 1.5.
  • Crit damage goes from 16.2 to 16.9.
• We inadvertently skipped Forensic Nightmare when we adjusted the zoom of other SMGs, so we're correcting that oversight:
  • Increased Forensic Nightmare's zoom from 13 to 14.

Pulse Rifles

• General
  • Reduced aim assist falloff start at 100 range by ~10%. 
  • Reduced damage falloff start at 100 range by ~5%. 
  • Increased recoil by 20% on MnK only.
• BxR-55 Battler is by far the most effective Legendary Pulse Rifle, in large part due to being extremely strong up close with the Legacy Frame intrinsic and highly lethal at long range with best-in-subfamily zoom. We felt the fantasy of the gun fit better with the CQB, hip-fire, aggressive style of gameplay, so we have brought the zoom down to more closely match standard Lightweight Pulse Rifles, which will open some space for other options to work in.
  • Reduced BxR-55 Battler zoom from 20 to 18.

Sidearms

• Reduced the Season 18 aim assist falloff distance buff from 30% to 20%.

EXOTICS 

Dead Messenger

• Reduced wave splash damage against players by 35%.

Dead Man's Tale

• Removed the damage penalty for 5 stacks of Cranial Spike.
• Reduced hip-fire and airborne aim assist cone angles by 25% on MnK.
• Reduced hip-fire cone angle bonus scaling from 20% to 5%.
• Reduced hip-fire precision aim cone angle from 3 degrees to 0.8 degrees.
• Reduced hip-fire auto aim falloff scalar from 1.5 to 1.1.

PERKS 

Revoker Perk - The Reversal of Fortune

• Now triggers on two misses within 6s.

CITAN'S RAMPARTS

• Increased the cooldown of the Barricade ability while Citan's Ramparts are equipped by 70%. Increased the amount of damage players deal to a Citan's Barricade by 25%. 

ABILITIES

Increased base cooldown time of the following class abilities by 20%:

Barricade

• Towering Barricade base cooldown increased from 40s to 48s.
• Rally Barricade base cooldown increased 32s to 38s.

Thruster

• Base cooldown increased from 30s to 36s.

Dodge

• Marksman’s Dodge base cooldown increased from 29s to 34s.
• Gambler’s Dodge base cooldown increased from 38s to 46s.

Touch of Thunder’s enhanced Storm Grenade

• Secondary strike damage reduced from 40 to 30.
• Added a 0.24s delay between the grenade’s initial strike on impact and the creation of the roaming storm.
• The roaming storm’s travel speed now begins at 1.5 meters per second and ramps up over 1.3s, to a maximum of 3 meters per second. This previously traveled at a flat 3.5 meters per second.
• The roaming storm’s target search range now increases over 2s after creation, rather than starting at full size.

SHOTGUN SLIDING

Removed stability, incoming flinch, and Shotgun pellet spread penalties while sliding.

THE FUTURE

Bungie is also planning to a Heavy weapon balance pass, adding Subclass 3.0 verbs to several Exotic weapons, tuning Kinetic weapons, and adding a new perk to make Kinetic weapons more valuable. 

Here is a look at some changes coming in post-Lightfall Seasons: 

• More substantial changes to weapon hip-fire reticles, with the goal of exposing more information specific to weapon types or Exotic functionality.
• A full auto melee setting.
• Another set of craftable, reprised raid weapons with an origin trait (similar to what we did with the Deep Stone Crypt weapons in Season 19).
• Regular Seasonal and mid-Season balance updates.
• And more!

Source: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/twab_01_19_2023