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This was posted on November 19th
This was changed just moments ago about 28 hours after the patch went live
So here is the actual story.
Destiny gets a weapon balance patch 3-4 times a year. We got a preview for some of these changes in the game last month. Of which most people started prepping for. However, after the patch went live yesterday, there were reports here and on Reddit that the changes in the patch weren't adding up. A weapon that was supposed to receive a 9% nerf, actually received a 19% nerf. Other weapons seemed to not have any changes at all that were supposed to. Then a couple hours ago we got this: https://twitter.com/sharkeatsman/status/674704401785708544
Which really had us scratching our heads. Bungie is telling us the buffs/nerfs actually happened, despite us not seeing any changes ourselves. Now, a few moments ago someone noticed the patch notes have changed and decimal points have been added. What was a 4% increase is now a .04% increase, which means absolutely nothing.
A weapon that was doing 12 damage per bullet (18 on crit) is still going to do 12 damage per bullet (18 on crit) with a .04% change.
So what the crap is actually going on here?
I mainly want to highlight Bungie's terrible communication with their playerbase here. This is not the first time we've been left to wonder what is actually going on, and I'm a bit ashamed for them that they've tried to backpeddle on this in such a way.
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As a side note, this most recent patch has certainly been one of the roughest for Bungie. Lot of bugs and errors have been found, and have the game in quite a messy state. Undocumented changes can be found here.
Update 1: Deej's boss is now involved
This was posted on November 19th
This was changed just moments ago about 28 hours after the patch went live
So here is the actual story.
Destiny gets a weapon balance patch 3-4 times a year. We got a preview for some of these changes in the game last month. Of which most people started prepping for. However, after the patch went live yesterday, there were reports here and on Reddit that the changes in the patch weren't adding up. A weapon that was supposed to receive a 9% nerf, actually received a 19% nerf. Other weapons seemed to not have any changes at all that were supposed to. Then a couple hours ago we got this: https://twitter.com/sharkeatsman/status/674704401785708544
Tested and confirmed that the 2.1.0 Auto Rifle changes are indeed active in Destiny. We'll talk soon!
Which really had us scratching our heads. Bungie is telling us the buffs/nerfs actually happened, despite us not seeing any changes ourselves. Now, a few moments ago someone noticed the patch notes have changed and decimal points have been added. What was a 4% increase is now a .04% increase, which means absolutely nothing.
A weapon that was doing 12 damage per bullet (18 on crit) is still going to do 12 damage per bullet (18 on crit) with a .04% change.
So what the crap is actually going on here?
I mainly want to highlight Bungie's terrible communication with their playerbase here. This is not the first time we've been left to wonder what is actually going on, and I'm a bit ashamed for them that they've tried to backpeddle on this in such a way.
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As a side note, this most recent patch has certainly been one of the roughest for Bungie. Lot of bugs and errors have been found, and have the game in quite a messy state. Undocumented changes can be found here.
Update 1: Deej's boss is now involved