On Seasons:

• Season name revealed: Season of Defiance
• Umbral Engrams and Umbral Energy is going away. Seasonal engrams will stay on vendor, as to not clogging inventory.
• Holding large stacks of seasonal currency is going away. Keys instead. (More of a bonus than requirement)

• Fewer, more potent seasonal upgrades (reduce the grid)

• Second Season name: Season of the Deep

• This season will have no grid-based vendor upgrades (same with season after this one)

• Number next to username no longer Season Pass ranks, now shows Guardian Rank.

On Weapon Crafting:

• Less total patterns, more good random rolls, and the ability to level up and enhance certain random rolled weapons.
• You will only see red-bordered weapons for weapons you need pattern progress for.
• There will be a way (in the season after (Deep)) to activate deepsight on any craftable weapon you don’t have the pattern for.

On Keeping Secrets:

• Generally, more details will be shown ahead of time. (Think how Haunted was revealed day of, less like that in the future)

On Bringing the Challenge Back to Destiny

• Abilities will be tuned, see previous blog posts. (TL;DR abilities too strong, will be tuned)

• Some mod costs are being tweaked.

• If you liked the difficulty of the Heist Battlegrounds playlist, you’re going to like this:
• The same difficulty tweak will come to the Season of Defiance’s Battleground playlist and the Vanguard Ops playlist. (Though not as much in Vanguard Ops obviously.)
  • Basically adjusting how over-leveled the Guardian can be compared to enemies.

• Also will apply to Neomuna’s patrol area.

• Power: Will be changed in Final Shape, but…
• After a normal power jump at the start of Lightfall, there are no plans to raise the Power or Pinnacle cap for the Season after launch (Deep).

On Enriching Content

• PVP:
  • Countdown returns and a new Countdown Rush mode.
  • More labs + maps (Meltdown in second season, new Vex map in S22, Citadel returns in last season)
  • There will be three Iron Banners per Season.
  • More details in post.
• EXOTIC MISSION ROTATOR
  • Arrives in Season 22 (ref: 19 is Seraph)
  • Will start with Presage, Vox Obscura, and Operation: Seraph’s Shield.
  • Weekly rotation.
  • More missions in the future? (Hopefully)
• Strikes
  • Lake of Shadows and Arms Dealer are being majorly reworked.
  • Exodus Crash and The Inverted Spire are getting reduced appearances in Vanguard Ops playlist and removed from Nightfall rotation. (Returns to normal when updated)
    • Still can be directly launched.
  • Current Battlegrounds (Seraph and PsiOps) will join the Vanguard Ops playlist.
  • AND some Battlegrounds will join the Nightfall rotation. (Starting with Mars Heist for launch season (Defiance))
• In future seasons: (Slow burn over the year)
  • Moving earning exotic armor back to ritual playlists. (At least for initial earning)
  • No longer asking for all three pursuit weapon ornaments for Seasonal Challenges
  • Allowing players to earn more new rewards and complete more of their weekly challenges by playing content of their choice, not just in the newest seasonal activity playlist
• Connect our Guardians:
  • Commendations will have special ones for certain modes.
• Nice Chat
  • Game-wide text chat is moving to opt-out, from opt-in.
  • There will be an opt-out setting and a temporary opt-out as well.
  • Planning to invest in more features for text chat.
• Fireteam Finder:
  • Delayed to last season of the year with the dungeon
  • They want to make sure it’s good.

Read the full Bungie.net post
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