Destiny 2 Season 13 changes setback and adds seasonal challenges

In the weekly Bungie blog, the studio wrote about some major changes to come. Destiny 2 in less than two weeks. When Season 13 – likely referred to as Season of the Chosen, according to some leaks – launches on February 9, PC players will see major setback changes and all players will receive new seasonal challenges. Bungie also gave away a Very Little Tease for Season 13 and announced a reveal trailer on February 2.

The biggest blog ad only affects a percentage of the player base. Currently, when using a mouse and keyboard, destiny 2 players have virtually no recoil when firing a weapon. With Season 13, Bungie will adjust the difference between controller and mouse and keyboard from 40% to 20%. Mouse players will still have a 20% advantage – as using a mouse is more difficult – but the difference shouldn’t be so obvious.

This change specifically affects six types of weapons: 3333

• Automatic rifle
• Hand cannon
• Submachine gun
• Pulse rifle
• Scout rifle
• Submachine gun

For pulse rifles, submachine guns, and machine guns, Bungie also reduces their recoil and / or camera movement on all platforms.

These changes appear to be designed to address the “stability problem” on PC. The weapon stability stat changes how much a weapon kicks when you fire it, and it’s a completely useless stat for mouse and keyboard players since destiny 2Launched on PC in 2017. While weapons still don’t hit as hard when using a mouse and keyboard, this change should prevent gamers from rejecting high stability reels entirely.

The change is a major concern for PC gamers as well, as any change in the feel of the gun in Destiny can take away from gamers’ enjoyment. But assistant game director Joe Blackburn insured Polygon the team is monitoring the numbers and comments to make sure the changes aren’t too extreme.

The other big announcement in this blog post is about seasonal challenges. Seasonal challenges replace Weekly Bounties – long bounties that have yielded large rewards each week and forced players to adopt specific playstyles. Unlike Bounties, Seasonal Challenges don’t require players to pick up an item from a vendor, and they’re located in the Triumph section of Destiny 2menu.

Each week, Bungie will offer players between three and 10 seasonal challenges. These challenges don’t expire until the end of the season, and Bungie will only add them for the first 10 weeks – meaning players who don’t log in until week 10 will have plenty of seasonal challenges to solve. Their goals are similar to weekly bonuses, but less restrictive. Some seem to be specifically aimed at new seasonal activities, while others require players to defeat Guardians in Mayhem or beat Fallen in Strikes.

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In terms of rewards, these Seasonal Challenges offer Season Pass XP, Shiny Dust to spend in the Eververse Shop, special seasonal currencies, or even “cool items”. Players can only complete them once per account, which means those with multiple characters can’t triple their Seasonal Challenges. Players who complete most of the Seasonal Challenges will also earn 4000 Bright Dust Bonuses each Season.

Due to the new Seasonal Challenge system, Zavala, Drifter, and Shaxx will lose their Weekly Bounties, as will Banshee-44 and the Seasonal Vendor each season. All of these providers will still offer repeatable daily bonuses that offer XP. And in terms of free-to-play versus season pass holders, only about 60% of the seasonal challenges are available to free players.

But in the teaser image above, Bungie left clues about Season 13. At the top you can see the seasonal art, which shows a helmet with pointy ears, gold weapons, and pots made of gold. gold. This suggests that we’ll be dealing with the Cabal Empire, as the aesthetic is very similar to both Season of Opulence and the Leviathan raid.

All Emperor Calus-related activities have just been placed in the Destiny Content Vault with Beyond Light, meaning they are no longer in-game. This leads players to believe that we will be dealing with a different arm of the empire: Caiatl, daughter of Calus. Of course, we should get a better idea of ​​the season’s theme on February 2, when Bungie launches the new trailer.