Destiny’s hotly anticipated update v1.1.2. will be available for download at some point today, developer Bungie has announced.
As previously teased, the update will apply various tweaks to Crucible ammunition (Special & Heavy ammo), item locks, as well as the ability for Guardians to wear their helmets in the Tower.
"Special Ammo will spawn less frequently, it will take longer to pick up, there will be less crates located on the map, and the bricks you find will provide you with less ammo," said Bungie’s Kevin Yanes.
"The main thing we wanted to prevent in terms of Heavy Ammo was players trying to buffer their supply by sitting within range of a brick without picking it up. This hurts your ability to anticipate when heavy ammo would be in play during a match. By introducing despawn conditions, we’re ensuring that players will have to acquire ammo when it becomes available, or risk losing it all together."
Andrew Davis added: "The design team came to us wondering if we could give players the option to show off their sweet helmets while running around the Tower. We all agreed that it’s important to give players every opportunity to show off the cool gear they’ve earned. It turned out to be a fairly quick UI task to turn helmets on in the Tower. Our engineers banged out the code for it in short order.
All we had to do was figure out where to put the menu option. A number of locations in the UI were discussed. Character screen? Details screen? We decided that the Settings menu was the most obvious and easiest place to control this new feature."
Destiny’s next slice of DLC, House of Wolves, will be released on May 19, 2015. Despite earlier rumors however, the expansion will not include new Raids. Check out this week’s Nightfall/Heroic Strike in our weekly reset round-up.