Destiny 2The new infusion cap system – often referred to by the community as weapon destruction – is no more, Assistant Game Director Joe Blackburn announced on Thursday. In a post on Bungie’s website outlining important changes for the game, Blackburn revealed that players no longer have to worry about losing their favorite weapons to the sands of time.
In Blackburn’s report, he noted that the team believes that shifting the weapon meta is the key to keeping Destiny alive, but that the team has violated with weapon destruction. From next season, weapons will no longer see an infusion shell after a year. Anything players can now use that did not go down at the start of Season of the Chosen will retain the functionality permanently.
This change comes with two important caveats. To maintain the balance, Bungie will rule in a few current outliers that would be under sunset later this year, specifically Warmind Cell buildings and the Felwinter’s Lie rifle. Blackburn have also revealed plans for a meta-shift system – something that will help Bungie achieve its goal of getting players to try new weapons. However, the studio is not yet ready to talk about its plans, and the players will only hear more after that. The Witch Queen expansion early in 2022.
If you are unfamiliar with infusion and infusion caps, guardians can carry powerful guns they don’t want to their favorite weapons, bringing their desired weapon to a usable power level, which they can use in more difficult encounters. Infusion limits the ability of payers to do so. By “hiding” weapons after a year and limiting the highest power level, the weapons effectively became useless for raids, dungeons, nightfalls or anything with a high degree of difficulty.
After the studio announced it in early 2020, the studio underwent Out of the light, to take years of weapons out of the pool at the same time. But over the past few months, players have begun to feel that their weapons do not matter so much, thus changing away from sunset.
While Guardians still expect some sort of system to hinder the constant use of the same weapons for years and years, it should be much friendlier than the sunset system that Bungie launched. Out of the light.