Bungie Clamping Down on 'Destiny's Raid Exploits, No New Content in Sight as Iron Banner is Again Recycled

"Hot Fix" nearly exclusive to Crota's End changes.

Only four months in, and the narrative of 'Destiny,' a game which is known as shipping without much of cohesive story, has become pretty standard. No new content in-bound as Bungie focuses its energy on making the one activity that is left for most players, the raids, harder. Bungie had already announced that it would be fixing the exploits that players have been using to beat the game's second raid, 'Crota's End,' and today, as the remaining player base prepared to run the raid one last time under the December 9th rules, Bungie has released a hot fix that fixes the Pit Encounter exploit, the Bridge Encounter exploit, and multiple Crota Encounter exploits, including the pull the network cable while Crota's kneeling exploit. 

Of course, the other big part of the hot fix is the prep for the Iron Banner, which will start again tomorrow, January 13th. For whatever reason, the ever resetting Iron Banner seems to be Bungie's idea of new content. Naturally, for those still playing 'Destiny,' the Iron Banner and Xur inventory re-treads are the norm. Bugs that afflicted the game since launch are left alone, while raid "fixes" are issued regularly.

Full Hot Fix notes below:

Activity Rewards

Fixed an issue with Ascendant Materials no longer being a possible reward for Daily gold-tier public events

In addition to other potential rewards, Weekly Nightfall Strikes can now award 9 or more Strange Coins

PVP

Maps

Added to the rotation for Control, Clash, and Iron Banner* playlists:

The Anomaly

Asylum

The Burning Shrine

Iron Banner*

Starts 1AM PST, Tuesday, January 13th

Playlist weapon drops

Level 32 Sniper Rifle

Level 32 Auto Rifle

Gain event standing to earn Legendary gear

Level 32 Hand Cannon

Level 32 Rocket Launcher

Level 32 Gauntlets

Level 31 Boots

Weapons

On the Sniper Rifle, Black Hammer, the Hive Breaker upgrade has been disabled until it is fixed to play nicely with the White Nail upgrade

Raids

Vault of Glass

Exotic weapon drops (though still very infrequent) are now Level 32

Crota’s End

Rewards

Treasure chests now contain Radiant Materials

The existing Pit treasure chest reward has moved to killing Ir Yut, the Deathsinger

Pit Encounter

Pillars of Light no longer launch players into the air when they explode

Bridge Encounter

Players will now be required to cross the bridge in order to complete the bridge encounter

Players will now be required to wait for the bridge to be completed prior to crossing with the sword

Deathsinger Encounter

Fixed a rare case where the Shriekers would not spawn, preventing players from reaching the Deathsinger

The Deathsinger now has a chance to drop Exotic weapons and armor, class pieces, and Radiant materials

Crota Encounter

Two Swordbearers will no longer spawn at the same time at the outset of the encounter

Crota will now recover from his kneeling state after a player quits

Fixed a bug that allowed players to remove the “Presence of Crota” using a Radiance Warlock’s Fireborn ability

Fixed a bug that made the Oversoul appear destroyed to some players in a Fireteam when it was actually still active

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Source: Bungie