Version/7.2.5
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| Update 7.2.5 “The one about the Mid-Season weapon balance update” | |
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| Information | |
| Type | Update |
| Version ID | 7.2.5 |
| Released | October 17, 2023 |
| External Link | Update 7.2.5[1] |
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Activities
Crucible
- Fixed multiple out of bounds areas on Multiplex.
- Disabled Icarus Dash while using Aegis shield in the Crucible Relic game mode.
- Fixed an issue where Sparrows could be used on Multiplex.
Trials of Osiris
Raid and Dungeon
- Root of Nightmares
- Encounter challenges are now active.
- Grasp of Avarice
- Players no longer lose additional ability charges when acquiring ten Burdened by Riches.
Seasonal Activities
- Fixed an issue where the Lacuna Card would suppress players after eliminating a combatant with a weapon with
Repulsor Brace. - Fixed an issue where the Victory Lap Braziers and Deepsights that have been interacted with disappeared before newly joining players could interact with them.
- Fixed the missing speaker name for holographic message subtitles.
Open World
- Fixed an issue that caused a small number of players to be granted owned Exotics from Legend and Master Lost Sectors and from Vex Strike Force instead of unowned ones.
Gameplay and Investment
Armor and Expressions
Exotic Armor
Antaeus Ward
- Reflective Vents now requires full class ability to deploy.
- Following deactivation of Reflective Vents, your class ability energy is drained proportional to the amount of damage reflected.
- No longer provides an improved slide.
- Reflective Vents now requires full class ability to deploy.
Young Ahamkara's Spine
- Reduced the Tripmine Grenade's increased HP to 70 (down from 100) and removed the bonus 50% damage resistance.
- Grenade energy is now provided on ability kills instead of damage with abilities.
Foetracers
Icefall Mantle
- Fixed an issue where players spawned without class ability energy in the Crucible.
Astrocyte Verse
- Description has been updated to better match its functionality.
Path of the Burning Steps
- Fixed an issue where having the Exotic perk active wouldn't change its appearance.
Pyrogale Gauntlets
- Updated the Exotic perk description to match its gameplay.
General
- Fixed an issue where
Photonic Vest was not available in the Armor Synthesis screen. - Fixed an issue where the Hinterland, Biosphere Explorer, and Ossuary ritual armor sets dropped with lower than intended stats.
- The
Valkyrian Mask Hunter helmet no longer has a hole in it. - Fixed an issue that caused the new ritual armor to drop with low stats.
Weapons and Accessories
Weapon Tuning
- Submachine Guns
- Auto Rifles
Rapid-Fire
- Reduced the Aim Down Sights (ADS) Damage Falloff Scalar from 1.7x to 1.6x.
Adaptive
- Reduced the ADS Damage Falloff Scalar from 1.7x to 1.6x.
- Increased base damage from 14.25 to 15.
- Decreased critical hit multiplier from 1.6 to 1.55 (crit damage goes from 22.8 to 23.3).
Precision
- Reduced the ADS Damage Falloff Scalar from 1.7x to 1.6x.
- Reduced the zoom on
Ammit AR4 from 17 to 15.
- Pulse Rifles
- General
- Increased damage falloff range at 0 stat by 1m.
Aggressive
- Increased the ADS Damage Falloff Scalar to 1.8x.
- General
- Fusion Rifles
- General
- Reduced the minimum damage fusions can deal after damage falloff from 50% to 45%.
- General
- Sniper Rifles
- General
- Decreased the airborne accuracy penalty by 20% (Sniper Rifles are now as accurate at base as they were before airborne effectiveness (AE) with
Icarus Grip).
- Decreased the airborne accuracy penalty by 20% (Sniper Rifles are now as accurate at base as they were before airborne effectiveness (AE) with
- Aggressive
- Decreased body shot damage from 157.5 to 135.
- Increased critical hit multiplier from 3x to 3.5x.
- Adaptive
- Decreased body shot damage from 131 to 119.
- Increased critical hit multiplier from 2.95x to 3.25x.
- Rapid-Fire
- Decreased body shot damage from 90 to 85.
- Increased critical hit multiplier from 3.25x to 3.45x.
- General
- Shotguns
- General
- Decreased the airborne accuracy penalty for Precision Slug Shotguns by 20% (Slug Shotguns are now as accurate at base as they were pre-AE with Icarus Grip).
- Decreased the airborne pellet spread penalty for Pellet Shotguns by 20%.
- General
Checkmate Weapon Tuning
- Pulse Rifles
- Decreased bonus damage very slightly to decrease some resiliency forgiveness (critical to body shot ratio) thresholds by 1 tier.
- This does not shift optimal time-to-kill against base resilience for any Pulse Rifles.
- Decreased bonus damage very slightly to decrease some resiliency forgiveness (critical to body shot ratio) thresholds by 1 tier.
- Hand Cannons
- Increased bonus damage slightly to remove the resiliency threshold that shifts optimal time-to-kill for Adaptive (140 RPM) Hand Cannons.
- Adaptive HCs will again kill all resilience levels with 3 critical hits.
- However, they will lose the ability to kill with 3 shots sooner into damage falloff than in standard Crucible.
- How quickly that happens will still depend on the resilience of the opponent.
- Increased bonus damage slightly to remove the resiliency threshold that shifts optimal time-to-kill for Adaptive (140 RPM) Hand Cannons.
Weapon Perks
Perfect Float
- Increased base duration from 6s to 10s, increased extended duration from 7s to 12s.
Kickstart
- Reduced damage bonus from 20% to 15%.
- Enhanced
Heal Clip
- Now heals allies when reloading after a kill.
General
- Modified the descriptions on how to obtain the intrinsic perks for crafted
Dead Man's Tale and what each of them unlocks. - Fixed an issue where the Defiant Ghost Projection was not showing the right image.
- Fixed an issue where the x20px Word of Crota Hand Cannon could be crafted with unintended magazine perks.
- Fixed an issue where the
Cataphract GL3 Grenade Launcher was still showing grenades in its magazine when empty. - Fixed an issue where
Tessellation was impairing vision when combined with certain armor pieces. - Fixed an issue where Tessellation could reload its alternative fire mode an unlimited number of times in combination with Gunpowder Gamble or
Arbor Warden. - Fixed an issue where Aggressive Frame Sword’s airborne heavy attacks required full energy and did not start the energy recharge delay.
Abilities
Seasonal Artifact
- Fixed an issue where tangles created using the Thanatotic Tangles Seasonal perk had a longer cooldown than intended.
- Fixed an issue where the Unstoppable Fusion Seasonal perk would incorrectly activate on Linear Fusion Rifles.
Vendor Focusing
- Reduced the price of Exotic armor tier-2 focusing.
- UNLISTED: Price changes for Master Rahool's Exotic focusing:
- Before:
- Advanced Decryption: 1
Exotic Engram, 
30,000, and 1 
Ascendant Shard; - Precision Decryption: 1 Exotic Engram, 60,000, 3 Ascendant Shards, and 1
Exotic Cipher.
- Advanced Decryption: 1
- After:
- Advanced Decryption: 1 Exotic Engram, 30,000, and 10
Enhancement Prisms; - Precision Decryption: 1 Exotic Engram, 60,000, and 2 Ascendant Shards.[2]
- Advanced Decryption: 1
- Before:
- UNLISTED: Price changes for Master Rahool's Exotic focusing:
Player Identity
- Fixed an issue where Guardian Rank objectives were displayed as completed before the player reached the rank required to claim them.
- Fixed a spelling error on the Seasonal Challenges objective for Guardian Rank 6.
- The x20px Luminous Paragon Sparrow from Guardian Games is now available in Collections.
UI and UX
- Favorited Ornaments no longer act chaotically.
General
- Fixed issue where players could send whisper messages in text chat to recipients who could not read the message due to having restricted message settings. Players will now get an error when sending a message to someone who cannot receive it.
- Fixed issue where text chat whisper command would fail to open the text chat channel in certain cases.
- Fixed missing subtitle for Cayde's coughing in Forsaken’s opening cinematic. [cough]
- Updated the quest icon for the Grenade Logic catalyst quest.
- The x20px Refined Revels shader now correctly reflects its additional effects when viewed in Eververse.
- Fixed an issue that was causing players to earn Triumphs for certain Guardian Games Vanguard Medals when Guardian Games is inactive.
- Fixed an issue where the Learning Light quest was not available to some players.
References
- ↑ "Destiny 2 Update 7.2.5" Bungie, posted by Destiny Dev Team, 17 Oct. 2023, https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/patch-7-2-5.
- ↑ "This Week In Destiny – 10/05/2023" Bungie, posted by Sam, 5 Oct. 2023, https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/10-5-23-this-week-in-destiny. Accessed 17 Oct. 2023.
