With Destiny‘s recently-released The Dark Below expansion came the hardcore Crota’s End raid, and much like last year’s Vault of Glass mission, budding Guardians soon unearthed loopholes in the system that made the excruciatingly difficult raid much, much easier.
But it looks as though those exploits in question won’t be around for much longer, after Bungie confirmed that an imminent update will serve to remove the loopholes. Due to land at some point next week, the full patch notes can be found below, with the studio also targeting fixes in the Crucible along with some of the shared-world shooter’s AI.
In tandem with the announcement, Bungie also noted that January 13 will hearld the return of the Iron Banner — a multiplayer event that challenges the even the most skilled of Guardians. It’s understood this will continue through until January 19.
For more on this latest update for Destiny, be sure to head on over to the studio’s dedicated blog and check out the full list below.
Crota’s End – Updates
The existing Pit treasure chest reward moved to killing Ir Yut, the Deathsinger. She has a chance to drop Exotic weapons and armor, class pieces, andRadiant materials.
The Pit treasure chest will now contain Radiant Materials.Pit Encounter
Removed the physics impulse caused by exploding lanterns.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.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.Vault of Glass – Updates
Exotic weapon drops in the Vault of Glass are now Level 32.Getting Swole in the Crucible
The Raid crew wasn’t the only team readying tweaks heading into and out of the holiday season. Our Crucible designers have a few things in the works to add some spice to the early goings of 2015.Asylum, The Anomaly, and The Burning Shrine maps will be added to existing Clash and Control playlist rotation.
Iron Banner will return, with updated rewards, running from January 13th through January 19th.