Version/1.2.0

Patch 1.2.0 “The one about Warmind”
Information
Type	Patch
Version ID	1.2.0
Released	May 8, 2018
External Link	Patch 1.2.0
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Warmind Launch

• Warmind is now available
  
• Season 3 has begun
  

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Player Character'
'General

• Players who own Warmind may now reach level 30 and Power level 385
  

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Emotes

• Multi-emote is now available, and players can now configure all four emote options with player-selected emotes
  
• Emotes are now stored on the Multi-Emote page of the character inventory
  
• The emote collection has been removed from the Vault, as emotes are now stored on the character
  

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Sandbox
Abilities

• Additional grenade charges granted by some Subclass trees or Exotic Perks now charge at the same rate as the primary grenade (was considerably slower)

Exotic Weapons – General

• Implemented Exotic Masterwork weapons
  

Exotic Kinetic Weapons

• Sweet Business
  
• Increased the ammo gained when players pick up Kinetic ammo
• Increased ammo inventory

• Vigilance Wing
  
• Recovery is set to maximum while the Last Stand perk is active

• The Jade Rabbit
  
• +20 stability

• Rat King
  
• Enhanced the total stat benefits of running with a pack
• Benefits are front-loaded; there are now larger damage benefits when two people equip the Exotic, with slight damage increases for each additional player 
• The Rat Pack perk can now activate and stack while Rat King is stowed
• Added HUD notification text for when the Rat Pack perk is active
• Increased ammo inventory
• Added full auto

• Crimson
  
• Refined damage, rate of fire, and recovery time between bursts 
• Increased ammo inventory

• Sturm and Drang
  
• Sturm
• Increased base stability stat
• Overcharged rounds from Drang now deal 80% bonus damage
• Added HUD status notification and visual feedback for when the magazine is overcharged
• Drang
• Kills with Drang reload Sturm and add one overcharged round even if Sturm's mag is not full
• Increased magazine size
• Now has the Rampage perk

Exotic Energy Weapons

• Hard Light
  
• Can now be manually reloaded to change the damage type
• Hits after its rounds bounce now deal double damage

• Graviton Lance
  
• Now fires two-round bursts
• Increased stability
• Reduced recoil on its final round in a burst
• Cosmology explosion deals more damage
• Cosmology explosion now spawns secondary Void projectiles
• Enemies eliminated float up and back, detonating closer to their death location
• Improved aim assist

• Skyburner’s Oath
  
• +10 aim assist
• +30 increased handling
• Now has the Explosive Payload perk
• Hip fire now lobs slower-moving projectiles with tracking

• Riskrunner
  
• Now deals more damage while Arc Conductor is active
• Enhanced Arc damage resistance to 50% while Arc Conductor is active and Riskrunner is in the player’s hands
• Arc damage resistance is now enabled against Guardians in the Crucible
• Arc Conductor can be activated while the weapon is stowed
• Added Arc FX to the player while Arc Conductor is active

• Sunshot
  
• Increased damage and radius of kill explosion

• Coldheart
  
• Damage now ramps up faster
• Reduced incoming flinch
• Increased precision modifier to 1.4x (was 1.05x)

• Prometheus Lens
  
• Increased magazine size to 100 rounds
• Deals more area damage and less beam damage
• Increased precision modifier to 1.4x (was 1.05x)

• Fighting Lion
  
• Deals more blast damage and less direct hit damage
• Increased ammo inventory
• Increased spawn ammo
• Kills with this weapon guarantee Energy ammo drops

Exotic Power Weapons

• Tractor Cannon
  
• Weapon damage now suppresses targets
• Weapon damage now makes targets more susceptible to Void damage (+50%) for 10 seconds

• D.A.R.C.I.
  
• Reduced flinch
• Reduced zoom on scope
• Increased precision damage to locked-on targets (up to 4x)
• Increased aim assist

• Borealis
  
• Reduced flinch
• After breaking the shield of an enemy (a combatant or a Guardian using a Super) with the matching elemental damage type, it deals double damage for the remainder of the magazine

• The Prospector
  
• Grenades now stick to surfaces
• Grenades now cause burn damage over time

• Wardcliff Coil
• Fixed an issue where players would receive unintended amounts of power ammo when changing from Wardcliff Coil to alternate power weapons

Weapon Perks

• Pulse Monitor
  
• Now reloads 35% of the magazine (up from 17.5%)
• Now can activate while the weapon is not equipped

• Precision Frame
  
• Fixed an issue that was causing inconsistent recoil reduction on precision-category weapons
• The pattern is now more consistent as the weapon kicks

Legendary Weapons

• Precision Hand Cannons
  
• Adjusted the ADS firing animation

• Linear Fusion Rifles
• Increased precision damage modifier to 2.0x (was 1.5x)

• Lightweight Grenade Launchers
• Adjusted breach-load Grenade Launchers so that they can fire sooner out of a reload, and fire sooner out of a sprint cancel

• Sniper Rifles
• Reduced overall flinch value for all sniper rifles
• Tuned sniper scope cameras and reticles to behave consistently for flinch, recoil and sway across all sniper rifles
• Developer note: We can now update individual sniper rifles as needed, which was prevented before due to this issue

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Activities'
'PvE

• Changes to outgoing player damage scaling vs. higher-level combatants
  
• Higher-level combatants take longer to kill if you’re below their level
• Increased the outgoing and incoming damage scaling, from capping at a 40 Power level delta to a 50 Power level delta
• Over-level combatants continue to increase in difficulty up to 50 Power levels above the player
• When enemies are 50 Power levels or higher above a player, they will be immune to damage
• Over-level, immune combatants will display a “??” icon in their nameplate
• Updated the damage dealt to combatant Energy shields from the following weapon damage types:
• 3x damage dealt from Energy weapons of a matching damage type
• 2x damage dealt from Energy weapons of a nonmatching damage type
• No bonus damage from Kinetic weapons

Strikes

• Heroic strikes now feature rotating modifiers:
  
• At any given time, the following will be active on the Heroic strikes playlist:
• 1x Elemental Burn (weekly rotation)
• 1x Advantage (daily rotation)
• 1x Disadvantage (daily rotation)
• In addition to the above, the baseline difficulty of Heroic strikes is boosted to be closer to Nightfall difficulty

• Legendary Nightfall Strike Challenge Card
  
• Can be obtained from Xûr (at no cost) by replacing your Rare Challenge Card
• The Legendary tier adds additional slots for new Advantages and Disadvantages

• Fixed an issue in which scoring did not add points for killing the bosses in the Nightfall strikes “A Garden World” and “Savathûn’s Song”
  
• Fixed an issue where the Nightfall score summary was only displaying kills since last death
  
• Now displays the score for entire activity completion
  
• Fixed an issue in which the Unbroken Challenge completed for all fireteam members even if the clear criteria had not been met
  
• Fixed an issue where strike scoring granted points for players in public bubbles, Lost Sectors, or other unintended areas
  

Raid

• Weekly lockouts for raid rewards are now class-based
  
• Players running multiple instances of the same class will receive rewards only the first time they run the raid in a week
  

Tower

• Seasonal Ranks are now available for the Vanguard, Crucible, Trials of the Nine, and Iron Banner
  
• Increased Vault size from 200 items to 300 items
  
• Fixed an issue with collections where event emblems would not show up unless players owned Curse of Osiris
  
• Fixed an issue where Cayde-6 refused to offer all three Treasure Maps for Mercury
  

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Items and Economy'
'General

• Milestones now award a more balanced distribution of Exotics between weapons and armor, but overall they award Exotics less often than before
  
• Fixed an issue where powerful engrams could not draw from Exotics released at Destiny 2 launch
  
• Fixed an issue where the first powerful engram opened after each sign-in was guaranteed to produce an Exotic
  
• Fixed an issue with slow load times for Uncommon gear
  
• Mods and shaders can now be dismantled from the Item Details screen
  
• Items can now be dismantled from the Postmaster and the Vault
  
• Season 2 Exotic Ghost Shells that use destination perks now have a chance to have Hellas Basin destination perks when initially awarded
  

Character Inventory

• Created a  “Pursuits” category in the character inventory to contain pursuit tracking items, such as those associated with Exotic quests
  
• Items in the Pursuits category are specific to each character and not shared across the account

Eververse

• Players now may receive one Bright Engram per character (account limit of three) from Tess for the seasonal milestone
  
• Increased the number of items available for purchase via Bright Dust from 14 to 18
  
• Additional slots will feature shaders and transmat effects
  
• Fixed an issue where players could purchase bundles or engrams when their inventory and Postmaster were full
  
• Fixed an issue where items rewarded from Eververse Gleaming Boons would not display the correct icon within the Postmaster screen
  

• Added the Prismatic Matrix to Eververse
  
• At launch, 10 Eververse items from Season 3 are featured each week that the Prismatic Matrix is available
• An account's first well-rested level-up each week grants one Prismatic Facet, allowing one free use of the Prismatic Matrix
• Players may hold up to three Prismatic Facets at a time
• Additional activations may be purchased for 200 Silver each
• This item inventory is based on a knockout list and will not drop duplicates
• Items earned via Bright Engrams, Bright Dust, or previous Matrix activations will contribute to the knockout list

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Clans'
'Progression

• A new set of clan perks is available for you to earn in Season 3
  
• A new Clan Banner Staff has been rewarded to those who hit clan rank 6 in Season 2
  

Clan Engrams 

• Trials of the Nine and raid clan engrams no longer grant Trials of the Nine or raid weapons
  
• These now grant Crucible and Vanguard rewards
• Clan Engrams no longer grant rewards above the player’s level when reaching 340 Power
  
• The Nightfall and Crucible clan engrams will grant rewards up to 340 Power

Guided Games

• A new set of Guided Games tickets has been granted to all players
  
• Players can earn a Leviathan Guide emblem that tracks the number of raid encounters and raids they complete as a Guide
  
• The emblem rewards an aura for 14 days when completing a raid as a Guide
  
• Once a week while the aura is active, guiding a raid to completion grants a Bright Engram
  

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Crucible'
'General

• Private Matches are now available to all players
  
• Players must own Curse of Osiris or Warmind to play maps from those respective releases in Private Matches
  
• Added a Crucible ranking system (see details here)
  
• Added a fireteam matchmaking system (see details here)
  

Maps

• Curse of Osiris and Warmind maps are now available to all players in matchmade Crucible playlists
  
• New Warmind maps: Meltdown and Solitude
  
• Added spawn points to Altar of Flame, the Dead Cliffs, and Endless Vale 
  
• Added kill volumes to the Burnout to prevent players from escaping the intended playable space
  
• Fixed a cinematic camera point on the Dead Cliffs for 6v6
  

Game Modes

• Added “Doubles” to the Weekly Rotating playlist
  

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Audio'
'Settings

• Added and revised in-game audio options that can be accessed through the Settings menu in Destiny 2: (Help Article)
  
• SFX Volume
• Dialogue/Cinematics Volume
• Music Volume
• Chat Volume

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PC

• Key Mapping
  
• Secondary key mappings can be assigned through the Settings menu in Destiny 2.
• Key Mappings are now stored per-account by default.  There is a setting in the Settings menu to store Key Mappings per-machine instead.

• Text Chat
  
• Incoming Text Chat messages are now visible by default.  There is a mappable key (defaults to 'L') to toggle Text Chat to a minimized state.
• Incoming Text Chat messages now play an audio cue while text chat is in the minimized state.  This can be disabled in the Settings menu.

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UI'
'General

• Fixed an issue where the cursor sometimes failed to appear on destination maps
  

Notes

Destiny 2 Updates 1.2.0 and 1.2.0.1 were both bundles in the same update.