On Tuesday, Bungie launched a massive target range Destiny 2‘s Stasis – the game’s latest powerhouse – to the relief of Destiny’s hardcore PvP community. Hotfix 3.1.1.1 fixes some bugs, but it’s mainly aimed at the repressive power of Stasis, especially in the multiplayer arena of the game.
Scroll down for a complete list of patch notes.
One of the biggest changes for all three classes is to the Duskfield grenade. The grenade’s pull radius is about a third of what it was, from 9.5 meters to 6 meters. The grenade field also does not slow down players so quickly. Stasis Crystals also handles reduced Shatter damage, which means it will not be as dangerous to players in the area.
Hunters, Titans and Warlocks also saw some individual changes. Hunter’s Shatterdive now has a cooling of four seconds, and Wither Blade inflicts less damage to players in PvE. Titans no longer freeze players in the area when they activate Glacial Quake, and they take on more damage while doing Supering. Warlocks actually got a favorite in their Super PvP detection, but the explosion for frozen targets is now scaling down.
Many of these changes only apply to PvP, and most of these abilities should be just as strong in PvE as a week ago.
Here are the official notes for Hotfix 3.1.1.1.
ACTIVITIES
Presage
- A problem solved where players could react in vain and thus put an end to their poor efforts to survive this activity in a difficult way.
Wrathborn Hunts
- Fixed an issue where the text “Immune” appears when players damage the High Celebrant.
Destinations
- Fixed an issue where players would die instantly if they were to land at a specific location in Quitter’s Well in Tangled Shore.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Scan and Heroic VIP patrols from appearing in Europe.
Battlefields
- Fixed an issue where players could generate infinite Super Energy from teammates walking through hallways.
- Fixed an issue where players would mistakenly receive an ‘online privileges’ dialog when starting specific Battlegrounds activities or the Battlegrounds playlist with a member of the fireteam not unlocking the activity.
- Fixed an issue where the Cabal Pyro Flamethrower projectile produced a lot of network consumption, leading to strange fighting behavior within Battlegrounds activities.
UI / UX
General
- Fixed an issue where the Prismatic Recaster did not display all available engram types on one page.
GAMEPLAY
Armor
- Updated Mantle of Battle Harmony to function in PvP.
- Give small amount of super energy when you defeat Guardians with weapons that match the type of damage your Super has.
- Grant bonus for small damage if you defeat enemies with weapons that match the type of damage to your Super while you are Super full, but at a shorter time than when you defeat fighters in PvE.
Arms
- Fixed an issue that caused Eyes of Tomorrow to do less damage than intended against yellow bar enemies.
- Fixed an issue where Guardians could embrace their darker side and damage their teammates with the Frenzy limit.
- Undoubtedly added as a possible benefit to THE SWARM machine gun.
hunters
Shatterdive
- Remove damage resistance from Shatterdive.
- Added a 4s cooling between activating Shatterdive.
Wilting blade
- Reduced damage to the waning blade against players from 90 to 65 damage. PvE damage is unchanged.
- Reduced Withering Blade slow stacks applied to players from 60 to 40 stacks. PvE slow stacks are unchanged.
- The goal range of Withering Blade diminished after affecting a player from 12 to 8 meters. The scope after the impact of PvE enemies is unchanged.
Titans
Ice tremor
- Remove AoE freezing point against players in Super Cast. Will still freeze PvE enemies on the cast.
- Reduce damage resistance while in Super from 60 percent to 50 percent.
- Increase the energy cost of using Shiver Strike in Glacial Quake from three percent to seven percent Super Energy.
- Using the combination of a Shiver Strike in a Heavy slam attack now costs the full Super energy of both the Shiver Strike and the slam (it previously only cost energy for the slam).
Shake strike
- Increasing downward velocity is applied to Shiver Staking players when they are slowed down to pull them out of the air faster.
- Fixed an issue where Shiver Strike (or Thundercrash) could get the player stuck in softcards in Crucible cards.
Warlocks
Winter’s wrath
- Improved detection of Winter’s Wrath projectiles, and the strength now follows from the maximum value of more than ten instead of 2.2.
- The size of the Warlock Super projectile’s proximity explosion radius of 1.5 to 1.65 meters.
- The proximity explosion is now starting at its biggest and will be scaled down to 40 percent over time.
Penumbral explosion
- Reduced damage to the penumbral explosion against players from 80 to 30 damage. PvE damage is unchanged.
Ice bolts
- Fixed a bug where Iceflare Bolts was constantly trying to switch targets.
- Increased target acquisition range of Iceflare Bolts by 33 percent.
- Increased turning speed of Iceflare bolts so they can hit target targets more efficiently.
Chaos Range
- Reduce the amount of Super Energy reimbursed when Chaos Reach is canceled prematurely.
General Stasis Tuning
Duskfield Grenade
- Reduce how strong Duskfield Grenade pulls players in, effectively reducing the pull distance from 9.5m to ~ 6m. PvE tensile momentum is unchanged.
- The slow stacks applied to players by the grenade blast are reduced from 20 to 10 stacks. Explosion slow stacks are unchanged in PvE.
- The slow stacks applied to players on each tick of the grenade are reduced from ten to five stacks. Slow stacks per tick are unchanged in PvE.
- Adjusted the “delayed” status UI version to display slow stacks as X / 100 instead of X / 10, to increase readability when adding quantities of less than ten stacks.
Stasis crystals
- Less damage to crystal breaks against players from (85 maximum, 55min) to (55 maximum, 25min). PvE damage is unchanged.
Whisper of chains
- Reduced Whisper of Chains damages resistance bonus while in Super from 25 percent to five percent. Damage resistance when not in Super is unchanged. It only harms other guardians.
INVESTMENT
Stasis fragment fragments
- Significantly reduced objective completion values for all Crucible fragment searches.
Bounties and chases
- Fixed an issue where players could earn exotic cyphers with a full inventory, losing their reward.
Triumphs
- Fixed an issue that prevented the “Trash the Thresher” Triumph from completing, even if the conditions were not met.
Stat Trackers
- Set the raid completion stat stat trackers back for any player who has exactly five minutes of time in the stat tracker.
Rewards
- Fixed an issue that prevented crash protection for Eyes of Tomorrow from properly accumulating on accounts where players had hit multiple characters.
- Additional details can be found in the This week at Bungie – 18/3/2021 article.
- Problems with the Frozen in Time ornament for the exotic wrist gun solved had no time to explain.
- The ornament will no longer display ‘Exclusive Item’ which prevents players from stopping it.
Selected stamp and title requirements
- The “Bound in Memory” Triumph was replaced by “All the Scattered Memories” to ensure players who missed a week’s Presage activity could earn the seal before the season ended.