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Destiny 2: Season Of The Chosen Patch Notes (3.1.0)

Bungie has tweaked a bunch of things with the start of the Season of the Chosen, including how weekly bounties work, what destination rewards you can earn, and how strong some guns are. By Phil

Bungie has tweaked a bunch of things with the start of the Season of the Chosen, including how weekly bounties work, what destination rewards you can earn, and how strong some guns are.

By Phil Hornshaw on February 9, 2021 at 3:26PM PST

We knew a lot of changes were coming with the Season of the Chosen in Destiny 2, but Bungie's patch notes to go with its most recent update are pretty extensive. Bungie provided more detail about how its adjusting weapons, however, which will likely have some effect on the overall metagame and which guns players choose to take into activities like raids and the Crucible.

Bungie posted the full patch notes for Destiny 2's Update 3.1.0 on its website, detailing a host of bug fixes coming with the launch of the Season of the Chosen. The rundown also includes many changes the developer had already outlined--like the return of higher-level rewards to the Moon and Dreaming City. Bungie also posted a list of known issues for the season so players know what they're getting into.

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As it was gearing up for the new season, Bungie said it would be adjusting how some guns handle to make them more viable. Feedback has suggested that SMGs, for example, don't get a lot of use because camera shake and recoil make them less effective than other rapid-fire alternatives, like auto rifles. Update 3.1.0 reduces camera movement while firing an SMG by a big margin--24%--which should make them a little easier to handle in combat situations. Pulse rifles and machine guns also got their camera movement reduced, by 7% and 9.5%, respectively.

Meanwhile, swords have been nerfed a bit against top-tier enemies. For the last two seasons, swords were pretty much the go-to damage-dealing weapons against major enemies and bosses, so Bungie has backed down their damage against higher-level enemies by about 15%. Rocket launchers, on the other hand, have been pretty much ignored as big-damage weapons for quite a while, so Bungie has boosted their damage against miniboss-level and higher enemies by about 30%.

Other items are things we already knew were coming. Bungie has tweaked rewards on the Moon and the Dreaming City so that loot earned there will come in at a higher level, making those places and their activities worth revisiting. Last season, all loot earned in both locations was capped at the base Power level of 1060, meaning players couldn't boost any of that gear to use in activities in the Beyond Light expansion or the current season. That changes with Update 3.1.0, and new high-level rewards are available in the Shattered Throne dungeon in the Dreaming City and the Pit of Heresy dungeon on the Moon.

Check out the full patch notes below. For more Destiny 2: Season of the Chosen, check out our breakdown of all the new gear, exotics, and emotes you can get with the season pass.

Europa

Dreaming City

Cosmodrome

Tangled Shore

Moon

Nessus

EDZ

Public Events

Strikes

Crucible

Maps

Gambit

Raids

The Last Wish

Garden of Salvation

Deep Stone Crypt

Dungeons

General

General

General

Abilities

Stasis Freeze Breakout

Armor

Weapons

Weapon Archetype Changes

Perks

Mouse and Keyboard Recoil Scalars

Exotics

Updated Power bands

Player Identity

For Season of the Chosen, some of the localized voice actors were recast permanently or temporary due to ongoing challenges imposed by the pandemic.

We intend to return to the original cast as soon as possible.

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