Destiny 2 Episode 3: Heresy launched today, February 4, but the legitimately promising new not-season was waylaid by a spike in stability issues that spiraled into full-blown emergency maintenance and downtime.
At 2:20pm ET, the official Bungie Help account confirmed that, "as part of the investigation into today's server and stability issue, we will be bringing Destiny 2 offline shortly for maintenance." The most recent update, at 3:13pm ET, confirms that "we are bringing Destiny 2 back online.
Players may be placed into a queue while we continue our investigation." I can smell the servers sizzling now. This all started shortly after reset time rolled around earlier today. "We’re currently investigating stability issues and a rise in various error codes, including PLUM," Bungie Help advised, understandably raising alarms after the litany of technical issues that Destiny 2 has faced in the past few months.
Shortly afterward, the account added that "we're investigating an issue where surges were mistakenly re-enabled in Raids. Note, today's server and stability issues are our top priority to fix.
We appreciate your patience while we continue our investigation." It wouldn't be a Destiny 2 content launch without some unintended features coming back like a stain on the couch you thought you'd bleached out of existence.