Destiny 2 Update 1.072 Releases Patch 6.3.0.5 on January 24

Destiny 2 update 1.072 is now out on both last-gen and next-gen platforms, and it’s for what Bungie is calling hotfix version 6.3.0.5! This brings armor changes, activities and more! Read the official Destiny 2 January 24 patch notes.

Destiny 2 Update 1.072 Patch Notes | Patch notes for Destiny 2 January 24:

activities

seasonal

• The battlefield of robbery
  • Fixed an issue where Shadebinder Warlocks could not fire Stasis Missiles during their Super.
  • Legend difficulty now grants progression towards various victories and challenges.
• Year-5 Seasonal Ritual Activities are now included in the Ritual Progression of all Season Pass Exotic Catalyst Quests.
• Fixed an issue where the season’s victory ceremony progressed with heavy grenade launchers instead of pulse guns.

Aggregate

• Rumble: Restored as a game mode and removed from the weekly round.
• Showdown: Fixed an issue where respawn was not displaying correctly on the scoreboard.

gambit

• Increased goodwill gains by more than 50%.

Game and investment

armor

• Sitan walls:
  • Increased the cooldown of the Barricade ability while Citan’s Ramparts are equipped by 70%.
  • Increased the amount of damage players deal to Citan’s Barricade by 25%.
  • Key Note: This change should reduce how often Citan’s Barricade is seen in PvP, as well as add more opportunities for effective counterplay.

Weapons

general

• Adjusted Deep Stone Crypt raid rewards Deepsight weapons whose patterns have not been fully unlocked.
• Updated Deep Stone Crypt Commemorative Machine Gun to properly allow Quick Hit and High Impact reserves as crafting options, as well as Feeding Frenzy and Under Pressure.
  • This includes crafting support for the enhanced versions of these perks.
• Fixed an issue where Tripwire Canary was not displaying the correct draw time figure in the UI.

Weapon Archetypes

• sub-machine gun
  • general
    • Increased damage and drop assist to target starters at range 0 by ~30%.
    • Damage reduction and aiming drop starts at range 100 by ~10%.
  • adaptation
    • Increased critical hit multiplier from 1.44 to 1.5.
    • Critical damage goes from 16.2 to 16.9.
  • Accuracy test
    • Forensic Nightmare zoom increased from 13 to 14.
• pulse rifle
  • general
    • A decrease in aid for reduced purposes starts in the range of 100 by about 10%.
    • Reduced damage falloff starts at 100 range by about 5%.
    • 20% increased recoil on mouse and keyboard only
  • easy
    • BXR-55 Battler zoom reduced from 20 to 18.
• side arm
  • general
    • Reduced removal range from 30% to 20% by 20%.

Aircraft efficiency

• Primary weapons
  • aid for purposes
    • Reduced all additional penalties of auto-aimed primary weapons (bullet bending) by about 60% at 0 AE (ie, penalty reduced from 1.2 degrees to 0.5 degrees) for both mouse and keyboard, as well as controller.
    • Increased accuracy angle (how far you can be from the target and still have auto aim to help you land a head shot instead of a body shot) by 50% at 100 AE.
      • Changed the curve to be exponential so you get more benefit at high AE for both mouse and keyboard and controller.
    • Remove all additional penalties on primary weapon magnetism (grid friction), and at 60 to 100 AE you get a magnetism bonus compared to pre-AE (0.5 degrees per 100 AE) for controller only.
  • Reduced accuracy penalty for all primary weapons.
    • At 10 AE they are now as accurate as if they had an Icarus Grip mod before season 17. (Previously they reached this level of accuracy at 30 AE.)
    • Estimated penalty reduction:
      • Hand cannon, side arm: 60%.
      • Automatic rifle, scout rifle, pulse rifle, submachine gun: 20%.
      • Sagittarius: 30%.
• special weapons
  • Sniper rifles and shotguns
    • Reduced the base airborne accuracy penalty by 50%.
  • Pellet shotguns
    • Airborne accuracy penalty has been completely removed.
    • Airplane spread angle penalty still exists.

exoticism

• dead messenger
  • Reduced splash damage against scout players by 35%.
• A dead man’s story
  • Removed the damage penalty for 5 stacks of Cranial Spike.
  • Reduced hip firing and aerial orientation assist in cone angles by 25% on mouse and keyboard.
  • Reduced hip fire cone angle scaling from 20% to 5%.
  • Reduced aim cone angle of fire hip from 3 degrees to 0.8 degrees.
  • Reduced hip shot autodrop scalar from 1.5 to 1.1.

benefits

• Reversal of Fortune now triggers on two misses in 6 seconds.
• Fixed an issue where the Perfect Float perk could cause the Frenzy perk to activate prematurely.

Abilities

• Increased the base cooldown of the following class abilities by 20%:
  • Barricade Tower base cooldown increased from 40s to 48s.
  • Rally Barricade base cooldown increased from 32 to 38.
  • Boost base cooldown increased from 30 to 36.
  • Marksman’s Dodge base cooldown increased from 29 seconds to 34 seconds.
  • Gambler’s Dodge base cooldown increased from 38 to 46.
• Thunder Touch – Storm Grenade:
  • Wandering Storm lightning strike damage reduced from 40 to 30.
  • Added a 0.24 second delay to creating a traveling storm after the main grenade detonation.
  • Travel speed now starts at 1.5 meters/second and increases over 1.3 seconds to a maximum speed of 3 meters/second.
    • It used to be a flat 3.5 meters per second at all times.
  • The trace’s search range now grows in size for more than 2 seconds after creation, instead of starting at full size.
• Removed weapon stability, incoming recoil, and shotgun pellet spread angle penalties applied to the player while swiping.

Power and progress

• Rare (blue) agrams no longer drop after reaching the soft cap. An equivalent Glimmer amount will be awarded instead.
  • This update will launch later today. keep an eye on @BungieHelp When it’s live.

providers

• Gunsmith reputation gains increased by 25% to compensate for the lack of rare anagrams.

Prizes and the chase

• The Exotic Catalyst Quest Boost now applies to all previous Season Pass Exotic Weapon Catalysts.
• The Season of the Haunted gear victories “Shape Rich Weapons” and “Nightmares Take Shape” will now correctly track the weapon design.
  • If you crafted one of these weapons and did not complete the objective for it, you can re-engineer the weapon without modification (and therefore at no cost) to advance the objective.
• Step 7 of the Revision Zero quest “The Hidden Shape” will now correctly follow the weapon design.
  • Like the Triumph mentioned above, you can redesign the Revision Zero without modifications to further this goal.
• Adjusted the pattern requirements of the exotic gleeve quest “Report: Reverse-Lure”.
  • The recipe now only requires one part of the required Wellspring Weapon Pattern.
    • Additionally, the first daily Wellspring weapon drop will be with Deepsight.
  • After unlocking a character, each class’s respective exotic Glaive recipe will be available for purchase in the evidence panel.
• Stage four of the Witch Queen’s “Report: Relic-Data” quest now tracks weapon design.
  • The requirements to redesign weapons with enhanced perks have been temporarily removed.
  • Redesigning any weapon will complete this objective, regardless of whether the weapon has been upgraded with improved perks or not.
• Phase six of the Witch Queen’s quest to “reshape the enigma” will now follow the design of the weapon.
  • Like the “Relic-Data” quest, the Enigma quest phase has temporarily removed the enhanced perks requirement.
  • Redesigning the Enigma will advance this stage regardless of the presence of enhanced perks on the weapon.

UI and UX

• Fixed an issue where the glorious seal icon was incompatible with other tools.

source: Bungie