Incoming Destiny 2 update will improve performance on console, fix Spectral Blades hit detection
But a legendarily awful Exotic has seemingly been abandon𝔉ed

The latest This Week At Bungie finally addresses 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Destiny 2's flagging performance on PS4 and Xbox One. "We've been bringing new content, bug fixes, and patches at a cadence more frequent than we had previously accounted for," engineer Ben Thompson said. "That cadence of patching has tranꦡslated into some unexpected🧔 overhead within the code that is responsible for loading data into the game."
Thompson said Bungie is looking into startup times, destination loading times, and inventory loading times on console. Improvements to destination and activity load times are said to be coming in the Season 5 update. For example, the wait to load into the EDZ "should be reduced from over two minutes down to just over one minute." However, it's unclear when invᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚentory load times will❀ be addressed.
An incoming update will also improve Spectral Blades, one of the worst supers in all of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Destiny 2: Forsaken. The unfortunate Hunter super has been ignored by most players due to its pitiful durati൲on and inaccurate attacks (plus the fact that i🦋t isn't Blade Barrage). Fortunately, Bungie says it's being buffed in virtually every respect. Planned changes include:
- Increase range of all attacks
- Reduce super cost of light attacks
- Increase the number of hits required to increase attack speed (and decrease base attack speed both to compensate for this change, and to improve hit registration on opening attacks)
- Increase effect of player input (i.e. where your camera is facing) on melee targeting
- Add slight damage resistance to stealth mode and decrease super drain while stealthed
Spectral Blades isn't the only super being tuned, either. Chaos Reach will also receive a fix for its early deactivation ability, which until now has been basically useless. In the future, ꦿ"it ꧒will be more punishing to deactivate the Chaos Reach super extremely early, but less punishing when deactivating later in the super," sandbox designer Claude Jerome said.
Theseও supers were undeniably in need of a boost, but some less popular balance changes have🐲 cropped up elsewhere. In , community manager dmg04 announced that, after weeks of tinkering with the Oathkeeper Hunter Exotic gauntlets in an attempt to fix its weak secondary ability, Bungie is removing the "bows charge faster" ability from the gauntlets entirely. It'll still provide the imperceptibly small charge boost that it's always had, but it "will no longer be called out as an aspect of the Exotic perk."
In , Bungie said it will be "investigating an issue where bow-draw speed benefits granted by the Oathkeeper Exotic Hu🐷nter arms armor are not performing as expected." Evidently that investigation didn't bear fruit, so Bungie is ditching the perk altogether. Which is a shame, because if nothing else is done, Oathkeeper will forever be ignored as a useless Exotic, seeing as how its main ability of unlimited draw time isn't worth sacrificing an Exotic slot.
Happily, two other under-powered Exotics were buffed to reasonable levels in澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: a previous update which is also chock-full of quality-of-life changes.
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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelik⛄es as possible.