Destiny 2 developer Bungie recently posted one of its weekly updates to the game’s community, informing them of future updates, changes, and what the latest additions to Destiny 2 will be. Now that Season 15 of the popular, massively multiplayer shooter is winding down, many fans are looking to see what Season 16 will bring.
The “This Week at Bungie” posts created by Destiny 2’s developer are often full of inside jokes, information on how certain features were meant to be vs how they actually play out, and the odd Easter egg here and there for keen-eyed fans to spot. With the highly-anticipated The Witch Queen expansion just around the corner, Destiny 2 fans are looking forwards to a vast array of new content, including new story details, with some fans even speculating that some NPCs will meet their end in the DLC. On top of this, Bungie is giving players some quality of life changes as well.
Outlined in the first few paragraphs of the post to Bungie’s website, the Destiny developer describes the trend it saw in the data provided by players in Season 15. According to Bungie, Destiny 2 players had been approaching the Vanguard playlist and Trials of Osiris differently than had first been anticipated, leading to some players finding that their Reputation ranks weren’t advancing as quickly as expected. In the new Season 16, Bungie is looking to tackle this problem, and adapt Reputation gain more around a players’ play style than the models it had expected.
Vanguard, Nightfall, and the Trials of Osiris are all playlists that will be receiving a change to how players gain Reputation. Vanguard is being adjusted so that Reputation is increased on completion and activity streak amounts. Nightfall multipliers and completion quality will also be seeing a change, to bring the Reputation gain seen more in line with that of Crucible. For Vanguard players, the Reputation gain should be twice as fast for most players. In Trials of Osiris as well, players will see up to a fifty percent increase in their Reputation gain.
It’s not just Reputation gain that’s being changed in Destiny 2 either. New guns are being brought into Trials of Osiris, and Nightfall, giving players a reason to jump back into those modes while playing through the new “Witch Queen” content. It’s worth mentioning as well that the Vanguard Strikes playlist is now being renamed into Vanguard Ops, though this doesn’t affect the Reputation gain seen in the playlist.
Destiny 2 is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
