Bungie has confirmed that major changes are coming to its shared-world shooter, Destiny, with the arrival of update 2.00 on Tuesday, September 8.
Writing in its weekly update, the former Halo developer confirmed that the level cap will be raised to 40 on Tuesday as part of the update. In addition, a number of other features will be featured, including the fact your character level will be ‘grandfathered’ into your highest light level from you gear and vault inventory.
In case you had forgotten, levelling up will be based on XP alone with The Taken King; character level and light level will become two separate statistics. Oh, and you had better make the most of Dinklebot while you’re at it—he’ll be replaced by Nolan North soon enough.
Here’s a teaser of the patch notes below. Bungie has said that the full list will be revealed next week.
Check out Xur’s latest stock in our roundup and have a butcher’s at a rather flashy new sword you’ll be able to wield in The Taken King. The new raid is due to go live a few days after the expansion’s launch on September 15.
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Character
Character Level Cap for all players will be raised to 34
Level Cap for The Taken King will be 40
You will be able to level up by gaining XP alone
Character Level and Light are now separate statistics
Your Character Level will be grandfathered into your highest possible Light Level from all gear in your inventory and vault
Attack and Defense ratings for armor and weapons will be translated to the new systems – their power levels will be unchanged
Grimoire Score has been moved from the Character Nameplate and now displays in the Character Screen
Quests
A Quest Screen will be added to your Menu
Tracks all active Quests
Abandoned Quests can be recovered in the Hall of Guardians
Year One Activities have been converted to the Quest system
Bounties
Bounty slots will be increased to 16
Incomplete Year One Bounties will be auto-abandoned on 09/08 in preparation for launch of The Taken King
Incomplete Year One Exotic Bounties are auto-completed with their respective Vendors
Year One bounties issues by Eris will be retired
Reputation with Crota’s Bane can continue to be earned by completing Quests in The Taken King
Tower
Collections have been added to the Tower
Emblems/Shaders can be found near Eva Lavante
Ships can be found near Amanda Holliday
Exotic Armor and Weapon Blueprint added to the Tower
You will now have the Blueprint for all Exotics you own in your Collection
Report to the Vanguard in the Hall of Guardians
Inventory
Motes of Light will be used to grant XP to Weapons and Armor
Class-specific Armor materials will be deprecated in favor of a unified Armor Material
Vanguard Quartermaster, Roni-9940, will exchange old materials for armor material [Update: This change takes effect on 09/15]
Weapons & Armor
Revised Sandbox balance will be in effect, based on our previous analysis
World
Fallen Wolf Hunt Patrols will retreat in anticipation of the arrival of Oryx in your solar system