Destiny has received a major update 1.1.2 ahead of its latest expansion, which is set to launch on May 19th.
This new expansion titled “House of Wolves” will include new Story Missions, New Strike, in addition to new battle gear and a brand new Arena mode for cooperative multiplayer. It lacks a brand new raid activity though, as confirmed by Bungie on their official website. You can read more about it from here.
This new update also fixes issues with suspend/resume on the PlayStation 4. It is about 6 GB in size on the current generation consoles.
Bungie has released the full patch notes and changes for this new update, check it out below.
Strikes
Cereberus Vae III
- Valus Ta’Aruc’s strength has been reduced by 33%
- Reduced the number of Major combatants in the Valus Ta’Aurc fight
Dust Palace
- Dust Palace: Reduced the number of Major combatants in the Psion Flayer fight
- Dust Palace: Lowered the strength on the Psion Flayers’ shields
Raids
Vault of Glass
- Vault of Glass will no longer display a highlighted activity notification despite players best efforts to remove it
- Fixed a bug where splash damage could penetrate the Aegis bubble
- Shield Relic melee attacks now land Minotaurs more consistently
- Improved issues associated with walking through the teleport
Crota’s End
- Crota will now wait until fully standing before a sword attack
- Fixed a bug where the sword immediately despawned after killing a swordbearer
- Swords will now last a full 30 seconds after being picked up
PvP
General
- Greatly reduced the weighting of Blind Watch and Firebase Delphi in Control, Iron Banner, and Inferno Control playlists
- Fixed a bug where a player that was killed by an enemy could commit suicide and be revived for points
- Fixed a bug that prevented players from receiving points for neutralizing a control zone
- Fixed a bug where capture points were not properly disabled after the game ends
- Added incremental revive timers to Skirmish and Salvage: Each time a teammate revives you, it takes longer before you can be revived again (currently +5s each revive)
- Stopping Power now requires Shotgun kills instead of sprees
- Target Practice now requires Hand-Cannon kills instead of sprees
- Electrocutioner now requires Fusion Rifle kills instead of sprees
Maps
- Anomaly: Added invisible physics over the pool table to keep people from hiding
- Shores of Time: Added kill volume to the open edge of “A” cave in to keep players from hiding
- The Burning Shrine: Moved the spawn point to fix camera view
Ammunition
- Crates are now visible for all players long before they are available to pick up, with a countdown timer added to show when they will arrive
- Guardians no longer drop Special ammo on death
- Lowered the amount of Special ammo picked up from crates (from 50% to 25%)
- Special Ammo crate respawn time raised (from 45 seconds to 120 seconds)
- Increased drop radius when a friendly picks up a Special crate (from 20 meters to 100 meters)
- Slightly increased interaction time on Special Ammo crate (from 0.1 seconds to 0.8 seconds)
- Reduced the number of Special crates on the maps and relocated them (from 6-8 crates to 3-5 crates)
- Special and Heavy ammo bricks now despawn when a player dies or on a timer (20 seconds for Special, 30 seconds for Heavy)
- Heavy ammo now lets everyone know which player or Faction picked up ammo
- Increased warning time on Heavy ammo (from 10 seconds to 15 seconds)
UI
- New visual treatment to Quest nodes and nodes that involve Quest activities or steps
- Players can now click the left stick to hide the UI when inspecting items, for screenshotting/sharing purposes
- Fixed a bug where precision kills did not appear correctly in the PGCR
- UI flyouts are now easier to navigate (i.e. “Amazon Flyout Menu”)
Audio
- Fixed an issue where Stealth Vandal audio was being suppressed by gunfire or other loud sounds
- Titan Ward of Dawn now has audio indicators at low energy so players can more easily read when it will time out
- Players walking into enemy Wards of Dawn now hear a sound when blindness is applied
Companion
- Fixed issue where Combined Arms Grimoire card was pointing to the wrong unlock conditions
- Fixed issue where Grimoire cards were awarding the incorrect number of Grimoire points
Technical
- Fixed a rare soft-lock when a player’s internet connection drops
- Clarified error that displays when user has insufficient hard drive space
- Better handling of rest mode/resume on PS4
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