After many players complained about the problems with the House of Wolves expansion, Destiny finally releases patch 1.2.0.2.
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]ith any sort of massively popular online multiplayer game, there will always be patch updates. Some times the patch offers new content, some times the patch fixes several bugs, and some times the patch nerfs or buffs certain content.
Bungie’s latest patch for its immensely popular game, Destiny, solved many problems that plagued players who took part in the House of Wolves expansion pack and the latest patch 1.1.1.
House of Wolves, the latest expansion pack offered for Destiny, was seen as the expansion that got everything right where the latest expansion pack did not. The previous expansion pack, The Dark Below, had several problems. For starters, it wasn’t content rich. The expansion had an exciting raid, but it introduced mechanics that punished loyal fans of the game who have been playing since Destiny’s release. Luckily, newest expansion pack made up for all of this.
House of Wolves has several fantastic battles, a thrilling arena mode and a brand new upgrade system that lets players choose just how they wish to progress. But that doesn’t mean House of Wolves didn’t have some problems of its own, in addition to the issues of patch 1.1.1.
A number of issues that came with patch 1.1.1 and House of Wolves were fusion rifles working as they did prior to the balance changes made in the 1.1.1 update, Weekly Heroic strikes not awarding engrams to your character(s), and the Trials of Osiris emblems were not being sent to a player’s mailbox if their inventory was full. Patch 1.2.0.2 is to solve these problems, you can take a look at what the patch covers below. Otherwise you can look at the patch details at Bungie’s website here.
- The first Wanted Fallen Bounty completed each week is now guaranteed to drop a Treasure Key
- Greatly increased the drop rate of Treasure Keys from the small chests at the end of the Prison of Elders
- Increased the drop rate of Treasure Keys from Ether Chests
- Greatly increased the drop rate of Treasure Keys from the small chests
- Class Items will now drop from Level 32, Level 34, and Level 35
- Fixed a bug in which the Ship (Hildian Seeker) did not drop under certain circumstances
- Fixed a bug in which the ‘Elder Cipher’ Bounty could not be acquired if your Bounty inventory was full
- You will need to defeat Skolas again to receive the ‘Elder Cipher’ Bounty
- Damage caused by Qodron’s Gaze is reduced by 25%
- Damage multiplier for the Jailbreaker buff increased by 100%
- Fixed an issue in which Trials of Osiris emblems were not sent to the Postmaster if your Emblem inventory was full
- Passage Coins can now be dismantled
- Fixed an issue where the Weekly Heroic strikes did not award engrams (Note: Tooltip will not display them as rewards)
- Increased the drop rate of Treasure Keys from Ether Chests
- Ether Chests may only be looted once per spawn
- Ether Chests will no longer grant ammo consumables when opened
- Ether Chests will now grant a small amount of Queen’s Wrath reputation when opened
- Ether Chests now have a chance to drop Tokens of Flight, Identity, and Judgment
- Petra will no longer display a quest waypoint for players who have not purchased House of Wolves
- Fixed a bug in which players abandoning the ‘Gone to Ground’ quest were still being directed to the Venus Patrol
- The first Wanted Fallen Bounty completed each week is now guaranteed to drop a Treasure Key
- Fixed a bug in which the 1.2.0.1 hotfix mistakenly did not contain the 1.1.1 Fusion Rifle balance changes. As a result, players were playing with its pre-1.1.1 weapon balance state. The original fix has been re-applied.
- Tokens of Flight, Identity, and Judgment can now be dismantled to gain +10 House of Judgement reputation each
- Ammo consumables can now stack to 100
