Destiny 2 Update Adds New Crucible Maps, Fixes Pantheon and Onslaught Issues

Bungie releases update 7.3.6.4 for Destiny 2, making another special ammo change in the Competitive playlist, adding a trio of Crucible maps, while also addressing a number of bugs in activities like Pantheon and Onslaught. Since the launch of Into the Light, Destiny 2 has seen a resurgence of sorts from the community, with returning weapons like Mountaintop and Luna’s Howl, alongside new activities like Onslaught, Pantheon, and The Whisper, players have certainly found new things to enjoy while waiting for the highly anticipated Final Shape expansion.

Even with the influx of all this new content inside the current Season of the Wish, Bungie has continued to tweak the overall experience, adding quality of life features like giving players more ways to earn Deepsight Weapons they may have missed from the past few seasons. One of the biggesr reveals is Bungie’s decision to end weapon sunsetting, allowing players to fully use their saved legacy weapons with full power relevance, something many players never expected to see. With big changes set to arrive next month, Bungie continues to release smaller updates in the meantime to further improve the current Destiny 2 experience.

For Crucible fans, today’s Destiny 2 update makes good on Bungie’s PvP overhaul plans revealed back in February. In addition to various tweaks and updates made to the Crucible over the past few months, Update 7.3.6.4 adds three new maps for players to experience, called Cirrus Plaza, Eventide Labs, and Dissonance. Better yet, a new playlist called New Territory has been added, featuring these maps exclusively through 3v3 specific game modes, like Survival, Elimination, Clash, and Collision. For those who check out this temporary playlist, which will be replaced by the usual 3v3 Quickplay node at the end of Season of the Wish, they’ll be awarded with a new Slaycation emblem.

Outside of the PvP maps, special ammo has again been tweaked inside of the Competitive playlist, dropping exclusively following final blows from primary weapons regardless if that player was carrying special ammo or not. Special and Heavy weapon final blows will not spawn a special ammo brick, though the player who was defeated will lose their ammo.

In addition, Pantheon and Onslaught, the two newest modes added during Destiny 2‘s Into the Light update, have seen multiple issues fixed as well. In terms of the Raid oriented Pantheon activity, players should now be able to finish runs after entering from a saved checkpoint, and adept weapons will have the correct perks after the first Platinum run clear. For Onslaught, players will now be teleported to the correct ADU location after Pyramid and boss phases. The Extinguish modifier on Heatwaves no longer ends runs if the party dies, and killing bosses too quickly no longer prevents Onslaught progress.

Destiny 2 Update 7.3.6.4 Patch Notes

CRUCIBLE

Maps

• Three new maps have been added to the Crucible: Eventide Labs, Dissonance, and Cirrus Plaza.
  • These new maps will be available on a separate 3v3 playlist called New Territory.

Competitive

• Special ammo bricks will now exclusively drop from Primary weapon final blows, regardless of whether the player who was defeated had Special ammo.
• Defeating a player who has Special ammo through any means other than a Primary ammo weapon will not spawn a Special ammo brick, though the defeated player will still lose their Special ammo.
• Fixed an issue where players could be blocked from spawning on Burnout in the Competitive playlist.

THE PANTHEON

• Fixed an issue where players would be unable to complete a full run if entering from a saved checkpoint.
• Fixed an issue where Adept weapon loot from the first Platinum clear did not have the correct perks available and selected.

ONSLAUGHT

• Fixed an issue where the Extinguish modifier on Heatwaves would end runs if the entire party died.
• Fixed an issue where players were not teleported to the correct ADU location after the mechanical and boss phases.
• Fixed an issue where killing the boss too quickly could prevent further Onslaught progress.

Destiny 2

Bungie’s Destiny 2 is an online FPS that blends single-player and multiplayer content. Constantly evolving, the shooter has established a strong following since its 2017 debut. 

Released

August 28, 2017

Multiplayer

Online Multiplayer , Online Co-Op

ESRB

T For TEEN for Blood, Language, and Violence

Expansions

Destiny 2: Forsaken , Destiny 2: Shadowkeep , Destiny 2: Beyond Light , Destiny 2: The Witch Queen , Destiny 2: Lightfall