Developer Bungie has revealed that its plans to nerf the Destiny 2 Lord of Wolves firearm have been postponed in order to preserve work-life balance for the team. The shotgun is currently enjoying stint as one of the most deadly weapons in Destiny 2’s multiplayer modes, after a minor update inadvertently buffed its combat prowess.
Destiny 2 Lord of Wolves Nerf Has Been Delayed
Speaking in its latest update, Bungie’s Luke Smith acknowledged that the recent update to the Lord of Wolves “created a monster,” and that the team is looking into ironing out the problem. For now though, it’s holding off on nerfing the weapon.
“Sometimes, Destiny is going to have goofy outliers, or periods of time where something is OP (like the Wolves howling right now in IB on PC),” commented Smith. “We don’t want these periods to last too long (post-Forsaken launch Voidlocks), but they can be memorable moments.”
“Internally, we had a bunch of spirited debate this week around whether or not we should just prevent players from equipping Lord of Wolves throughout the game. This is a blunt tool, and basically banning an item from being equipped isn’t something we take lightly.”
Smith further elaborated on the situation during a GuardianCon 2019 charity stream:
“We’re having the conversation about, ‘is it worth doing that or is it better to preserve the work-life balance and ship it later in July?’,” Smith said. “To ask a team to do that back-to-back – full disclosure, it’s not a thing we want to do. We try to be really careful about stuff like that.”
Bungie recently split from Activision, the publishing partner that it was originally meant to team up with for a decade on the shared-world shooter franchise. Now fully in control of the IP, the company has confirmed that Destiny 2 is going free-to-play later this year complete with full cross-save support.