Destiny 2 Preview – Private Matches And More On The Horizon, Patch Notes Here

Bungie has stated in the past that they were waiting on the PC launch of Destiny 2 to be out before unveiling any major plans for the future. Makes sense having all platforms available before season 2 gets the ball rolling. We’ve had several sneak peeks into what’s to come and this week Bungie takes Guardians a little deeper into what they have to look forward to.

Though the private matches won’t be available in time for the first expansion Curse of Osiris, Bungie does assure players that the plans haven’t changed and the inclusion of this requested feature is still definitely on the way. According to the team behind the sequel, they are still shooting for an early 2018 release window.

Other Changes

Other changes on the horizon include new emotes, a major overhaul to the game’s economy, better rewards, additional pursuits, and more. You can check out the full list of outlined changes, not including expansions, right here. As far as the more recent changes being made to the game, here are the most recent patch notes courtesy of Bungie: 

Next week, we will be deploying Patch 1.0.6. Stay tuned to @BungieHelp for dates and times early next week. It contains a fix to an emote issue and should help you find more Guardians backing you up in public spaces. There are also several Crucible changes that affect scoring and spawning. These are not all of the notes – we’ll have the full list for you when the update goes live. 

Patch Notes

• Fixed an issue with collision detection on the Bureaucratic Walk emote
• Fixed an issue causing players to encounter empty public spaces too often in free roam

• Updated Mercy Rule settings to allow Mercy to activate slightly later in the match, allowing a wider range of scores to trigger it.

• Reduced score limit to 50 (was 75)

• Reduced score limit to 90 (was 100)
• Reduced influence that enemy-controlled zones exert over the spawning system

• Reduced round time limit to 2 minutes (down from 3) 
• Reduced life count to 6 (down from 8)

• Increased score-to-win to 70 (up from 50)
• We now grant one point for defeating an enemy Guardian
• Adjusted the influence that enemy crests have on the spawning system

Destiny 2 is out now for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and now – PC.