Destiny patch notes today

In its first This Week at Bungie update for 2021, the Destiny 2 studio discussed updates coming to Crucible and Gambit rewards, some reissued Dreaming City and Moon gear, and—this is the big one—a nerf to the Hunter's Shatterdive ability, which was introduced with the arrival of Stasis as part of the Beyond Light expansion, and has been enjoying an icy reign of terror ever since. … [Read more...] about Bungie details Stasis Shatterdive nerf coming in Destiny 2’s next update, plus revamped rewards for season 13

Last night’s This Week At Bungie post revealed the new plan coming in with Season 13. Rather than get tokens from matches and bounties to cash in, we’ll instead have a progression track offering new rewards as our PvP Valor rank goes up. On our first climb up the ranks, we’ll get Upgrade Modules, Enchantment Cores, a seasonal shader, Enchantment prisms, an emblem, and an Ascendant Shard. After resetting the rank and restarting, the shader, emblem, and Ascendant Shard will be replaced with more Cores, Prisms, and an Exotic Engram. Going up Valor ranks will still give Ritual Engrams too. … [Read more...] about Give Shaxx your Crucible tokens while you still can, Guardians

I will say that despite the wait, GTA Online's loads are impressively seamless. You enter an online session with 20-30 other players, without any visible strain on the server or disruption for other players. It's all pretty invisible. But the extra wait time involved in joining friends and loading in and out of missions totally negates the benefits of this design. Being able to choose a session to launch together without first sitting through an exhausting load would be so much better. (It is possible to launch the singleplayer, then start a private online session where some of the open world online features are disabled, then invite friends, but you're still facing long loads with this method, anyway). … [Read more...] about GTA Online makes half a billion dollars a year even though it’s a hot mess