Faction Rallies are ready to go for launch.
We know it must have been hard for you to not be able to play Destiny 2 for the hour that the servers went down, but your sacrifice has been rewarded with an update that introduces Faction Rallies.
Faction Rallies will let you sign up as a member of one of the original Destiny‘s three factions—Dead Orbit, Future War Cult, or New Monarchy—and perform tasks that will net you faction reputation tokens, which you can then cash in for special faction-themed rewards. Tasks you can complete towards earning reputation tokens include destroying enemy resources in Lost Sectors and completing public events, strikes, Crucible matches, and the Leviathan raid.
Facton Rallies will also introduce an overarching metagame similar to For Honor‘s faction wars. Each faction will offer a special weapon at the beginning of the event. The faction with the most rank-ups will offer the weapon to all players, and members of that faction will get a major discount on purchasing that weapon: 1,000 glimmer for the winners, as opposed to 50,000 glimmer for everyone else. This time around, Dead Orbit is offering a scout rifle, Future War a pulse rifle, and New Monarchy a side-arm, though the weapons are supposed to change with each Faction Rally.
What we didn’t know was that whatever faction you sign up for will place a specific buff on the player character “for the duration of the event associating the character with the faction.” We’ll have to wait until the event goes live tomorrow to see what these buffs actually do.
This current Faction Rally will run from September 26th at 2 a.m. PT until October 3rd at the same time, but unfortunately brand-new players will not be able to partake in the event right away as you’ll need to be level 20 and have access to the Tower (i.e. complete the campaign) in order to join up.
The recent patch also introduced some fixes to smaller, annoying problems, like how the health bar would remain on the HUD for Hunters with a specific amount of health. Clans also got some love, as an issue that was preventing some players from receiving weekly clan engrams has been fixed.
You can read the full patch notes below:
Destiny 2 Update 1.0.3 Patch Notes
Faction Rallies
- Pledge to a faction Vendor
- Pledging places a buff on the player character for the duration of the event associating the character with the faction
- Earn faction Reputation tokens
- By Destroying Enemy resources in Lost Sectors, completing public events, completing strikes, completing Crucible matches, and the Leviathan raid
- Turn tokens in for reward packages
- Earn faction themed rewards from your faction
- Help your faction win
- The faction with the most rank ups across the game will sell a new weapon at a discount for faction members
UI
- Fixed an issue in which Hunters with a specific amount of health would see their health bar on the HUD at all times
Activities
- Fixed issue in the raid that granted resurrection tokens unintentionally to players joining encounters in progress
- Fixed an issue in which killing the first Minotaur too quickly in the Unbreakable Adventure would result in progression being blocked
Clans
- Fixed an issue where clan XP was not being granted for completing public events
- Fixed an issue preventing some player from receiving weekly clan engrams
- Players who leave a clan will still not be eligible for clan rewards that week
Eververse
- Fixed an issue in which Bright engrams would show 'Requires Level 20' if a player hadn't accepted all Leveling Rewards from Tess after reaching level 20
- Fixed an issue in which the action button on weapon ornaments displayed Discard instead of Unlock
Crucible
Call to Arms
- Reduced the amount needed to complete the milestone to align it with other weekly milestones
Midtown
- Adjusted Clash & Supremacy power ammo locations
- Added invisible physics volumes to keep players from leaving the intended playable space
Eternity
- Added a soft-kill volume to keep players from hiding on the edge of the map
- Dead players' Ghosts will no longer appear in the "Fork" location
General
- Fixed an issue in which players in the Tower could sometimes fail to load gear
- Fixed a crash when signing out of Destiny 2
Companion
Android
- Fixed an issue in which the gear search button was covering item actions
- Fixed an issue in which Ghosts were not showing in character gear
- Added a filter and member count in the clan roster
iOS
- Fixed an issue in the way gear power was sorted when including items that don't have power
Web
- When you close an explore item in trending, the page no longer refreshes
- Paging update in search
Source: Bungie.net
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