Destiny 2 New Blog Insight Article Covers The Director’s Return
The final update for Destiny 2 is around the corner on June 9th. The developer team posted a dev insight blog article that dived deeper into some of the new content in the update. Today’s blog covered updates to destinations, the Portal, Crucible, Gambit, Sparrow Racing League, and more. Our article summarizes the changes. For the full information, check out the dev blog.
Destiny 2: The Director Returns
The Director will once again become the centerpiece for Destiny 2. All your activities will launch from the Director again. The former Portal nodes will assimilate with the Director screen. In addition, the Kepler and Lawless Frontier destinations appear as their own planets. The image above shows the updated Director.
Destiny 2: Updates to Destinations and Patrol
Every single pre-Edge of Fate destination will receive new loot with new perks and tiered weapons for non-craftable pools, along with a set bonus. Destinations with crafted weapons will receive additional perks per column (think Savathun’s Throne World, Neomuna, and the Pale Heart.
Most of the loot will drop from Public Events. The base completion grants Tier 3 rewards, with Heroic increasing the tier to 4. The drops will have a chance to upgrade to Tier 5. If a destination has a distortion, the tier increases by one. Events like the Blind Well, Altars of Sorrow, or Terminal Overload also grant tiered rewards.
The World Loot Pool, earned through Legendary Engrams, will also have a collection of tiered loot that spans the entirety of Destiny 2.
Destiny 2: Known Weapons
Seventh Seraph CQC-12
- Lightweight Frame Solar Shotgun
- Drops from Cosmodrome
- Column 3
- Slideshot
- Discord
- Quickdraw
- Threat Detector
- Disruption Break
- Heal Clip
- Dual Loader
- Column 4
- Snapshot Sights
- Closing Time
- Trench Barrel
- One-Two Punch
- Chain Reaction
- Incandescent
- Surrounded
Plurperfect
- High-Impact Frame Kinetic Auto Rife
- Drops from Nessus
- Column 3
- Outlaw
- Rangefinder
- Dynamic Sway Reduction
- Rewind Rounds
- Stopping Power
- Enlightened Action
- Demolitionist
- Column 4
- Rampage
- All Star
- Kinetic Tremors
- Adhesive Ordanance
- Closing Time
- Aggregate Charge
- Adrenaline Junkie
High Albedo
- Micro-Missile Frame Kinetic Sidearm
- Drops from Europa
- Column 3
- Auto-Loading Holster
- Bewildering Burst
- Impulse Amplifier
- Enlightened Action
- Shoot to Loot
- Stopping Power
- Blast Distributor
- Column 4
- Kinetic Tremors
- Ancilliary Ordanance
- One For All
- All-Star
- Frenzy
- Desperate Measures
- Surrounded
Based on the screenshots provided, each weapon’s intrinsic trait will allow it to stun specific champions.
Destiny 2: Distortions
Distortions will alter the reality of specific destinations at a given time. Every hour, the Distortions will shift to a different destination.
- Increase the difficulty of enemies.
- Not drastic, but enough to keep players on their toes
- Increased reward tiers
- A new weapon set
- Some encounters that will test highly-skilled players
Destiny 2: Portal Changes
The Portal will assimilate into the Director. Everything that existed before will remain. Gambit Ops and RAD content will become a part of the Portal.
New Portal Activities
- Fireteam Ops
- Heist Battlegrounds: Mars
- The Disgraced
- The Lightblade
- The Scarlet Keep
- The Corrupted
- The Lake of Shadows
- Pinnacle Ops
- Operation: Seraph’s Shield
- Zero Hour
- Arena Ops
- Override (On a 4-week map rotation)
Destiny 2: Difficulty and Rewards
The difficulty and rewards of Portal activities will be easier after the update.
- Normal Difficulty
- C Reward Rank
- Tier 1 Rewards
- Advanced Difficulty
- B Reward Rank
- Tier 2 Rewards
- Expert Difficulty
- A Reward Rank
- Tier 3 Rewards
- Master Difficulty
- A+ Reward Rank
- Tier 4 Rewards
- Grandmaster Difficulty
- S Reward Rank
- Tier 5 Rewards
- Ultimate Difficulty
- S+ Reward Rank
- Tier 5 Rewards
Adding additional modifiers can increase the tier of your rewards by one. That means you can run master level difficulty but still get tier 5 rewards. Ultimate difficulty has no additional benefit, besides showing off. Matchmade activities will have fewer modifiers and grant rewards based on your selected difficulty. Additional Revive Tokens added in Fireteam, Pinnacle, and Arena Ops.
Destiny 2: Onslaught, Contest of Elders, and the Coil
Onslaught Changes
- Increased Scrap
- Removed revive tokens
- Reintroduced difficulty curve
- Reintroduced the full Brave Arsenal
- Does not include the Holofoil drops
Contest of Elders Changes
- Reduced the number of paths per run from four to three
- Reintroduced the difficulty curve
- Added World Pool Rewards
The Coil Changes
- Reintroduced the difficulty curve
- Added World Pool Rewards
Destiny 2: Gambit Ops
Gambit is finally getting the attention it deserves. The June 9th update will give players a reason to return to the game mode. With returning weapons in the tiered system and a new armor set, players have the opportunity to enjoy Gambit again.
Reworked Origin Trait: Gun and Run
Defeating targets builds stacks of Gun and Run for a short duration. Sprinting for a short time consumes a stack, partially reloading this weapon’s magazine from reserves; on Bows, this briefly improves draw speed.
Spare Rations
- Stasis Lightweight Frame Hand Cannon
- Column 3
- Slideshot
- Rapid Hit
- Snapshot
- Moving Target
- Firefly
- Keep Away
- Crystalline Corpsebloom
- Column 4
- Kill Clip
- Opening Shot
- Eye of the Storm
- Swashbuckler
- Desperate Measures
- One for All
- Explosive Payload
21% Delirium
- Arc Rapid-Fire Frame Machine Gun
- Column 3
- Overflow
- Reconstruction
- REDACTED
- Trickle Charge
- Fourth Time’s the Charm
- Feeding Frenzy
- Eddy Current
- Column 4
- Killing Tally
- One for All
- REDACTED
- Rolling Storm
- REDACTED
- Frenzy
- Jolting Feedback
Destiny 2: Crucible Changes
Iron Banne returns to a four-week rotation. Iron Banner control will always be the default game mode, in addition to one Iron Banner mode per Iron Banner week. Trials of Osiris will run every weekend where there is no Iron Banner. There can be up to three maps a week for Trials of Osiris weekends. In addition, there will be a featured weapon pool, instead of a weekly drop. Featured 6v6 modes continue, along with small-team modes that rotate daily until Trials of Osiris weekends. Rumble will remain permanently available. The update reintroduces Heavy Metal, along with a new 4v4 Arena Collision that focuses on weapon combat.
Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal is becoming a permanent game mode. In addition to the Drake and Brig, players can utilize a Cabal Behemoth. Players will also get the chance to select which vehicle to use when queuing for a match. Other Heavy Metal changes
- Reduced Score to 40 (was 50)
- New Map: Nightfall Station
Destiny 2: Sparrow Racing League
The SRL returns in big and exciting ways. The game mode returns with a more modern touch. You can use Sparrows and Skimmers for SRL. Most of the fancy techs for both vehicles will not be usable in SRL. Rocket Boost and Trick boosts grant players additional speed during the race. The four original maps return, with the addition of the Quantum Circuit held in the realm of the Nine.
The Rewards
SRL will have its only weapon pool and armor set focused on speed in Destiny 2
- Feather Weight Origin Trait
- Final blows with weapons that have the Featherweight Origin Trait grant increased movement speed while equipped.
- Revving Up 2-piece armor bonus
- Fast movement builds up a charge that gradually increases your health regeneration speed. Once you are Fully Revved, sprinting grants Speed Booster.
- Dielectric Draft 4-piece armor bonus
- Sliding while Speed Booster is active jolts combatants in front of you.
Players can earn new and old Sparrows, Skimmers, armor ornaments, shaders, and much more.
Related Destiny 2 Content
You can expect more raid and dungeon guides and Destiny news to follow in the coming days. Below are previous articles we have on Destiny 2.
