Bungie announces major buffs to airborne effectiveness ahead of Destiny 2 Season 18
Airborne effectiveness has been a recurring issue in the Destiny 2 sandbox ever since it was released with Season of the Haunted. Players have been unable to land shots that, under normal circumstances, would have surely hit while floating in the air.
With the majority of the community complaining on multiple social platforms, Bungie has decided to deploy some major changes before Season 18, despite announcing there will be no sandbox updates.
In the most recent TWAB (This Week at Bungie), the company announced some of these changes. Players can expect the following changes to arrive somewhere before Season 18 and during the Solstice in July.
Disclaimer: The patch notes mentioned in this article are based on Bungie's official website.
It has been quite the first half of Destiny 2 Season 17 for Bungie, as airborne effectiveness brought more criticism than praise from the community.
Something that was initially announced as a massive game-changer for PvP was spotted inside the sandbox of PvE without any prior announcement.
Typically, this displeased a lot of players, leading to requests for immediate changes and tweaks to balance out Exotics and weapons.
Thankfully, Bungie was quick on the take and decided to work on the issue before they initially planned. The following are all the Airborne buffs coming a month before Season 18:
Gjallarhorn and Last Word will be getting a nerf in Destiny 2 PvP, with the Exotic Rocket Launcher having its proximity and Wolfpack Rounds dealing less damage in both Gambit and Crucible.
On the other hand, Last Word's hip-fire precision aim angle will be reduced by 50%, alongside damage and aim-assist falloff getting reduced by 3m.
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