Destiny Update Changes Map Rotation, Increases Drop Rate of Quest Weapon

A small Destiny update went live today, tweaking some parts of Bungie's shooter. Specifically, this hot fix targeted map rotation in certain competitive game modes, increased the drop rate of the Husk of the Pit weapon, and fixed some bugs.

The changes to Husk of the Pit are the most notable; the weapon is a terrible autorifle, but it begins a questline that eventually morphs it into an Exotic weapon. It sometimes drops from Blades of Crota, special Hive units that appear in certain areas in the game. This update increases the drop rate by 150 percent and fixes a bug that prevented some players from ever receiving it.

You can see a full list of changes below (from Bungie's website).

Weapons

• Fixed an issue where the "Packing Heat" achievement/trophy could not be unlocked by newly acquired Exotic weapons
• Fixed an issue where Husk of the Pit drops were disabled
• Drop rates for the Husk of the Pit from Blades of Crota have been increased by 150%

Player vs. Player

• Updated the House of Wolves Control playlist to include the following maps with a lower weight in the rotation:
  
  • Rusted Lands
  • Shores of Time
  • Pantheon
  • Exodus Blue (Sony platform exclusive)
• Updated the House of Wolves Clash playlist to include the following maps with a lower weight in the rotation:
  
  • Firebase Delphi
  • Twilight Gap
  • Blind Watch
  • Exodus Blue (Sony platform exclusive)
• Inferno and Doubles playlists now have different tuning values for ammo crates
  
  • Special Ammo initial spawn time and respawn intervals have been changed to 180 seconds
  • Max of three Special Ammo crates will now be placed at one time
  • Heavy Ammo crates now spawn only once per match at 300 seconds

Tower

• Tess Everis is temporarily leaving the Tower
  
  • A Kiosk terminal can be found near Eva Levante in North Tower that contains Tess' old inventory of special order items
• The Nepal Aid shader and emblem have been added to the game
  • Redemption codes will soon be sent to the email used to place orders in the Bungie Store
  • These items will be found at the kiosk mentioned above

Technical

• Fixed a potential crash when closing the vendor screen
• Fixed a very rare case where an account could blocked by a WEASEL error on sign on
• Fixed issues with suspend/resume handling on Xbox One

The departure of Tower vendor Tess Everis, who dealt with storing items activated through Bungie's website before this update, is unusual because Tower vendors rarely are replaced, and Bungie provided no explanation as to why this was necessary. The developer might be preparing for next month's release of The Taken King expansion, but Bungie hasn't said whether or not Everis will play a role in it.

The expansion launches on September 15, and it'll come with a whole bunch of changes. For example, your in-game Ghost companion will be voiced by Nolan North instead of Peter Dinklage, there will be a new leveling system based on experience and not Light, and bounties and quests are getting overhauled. You can read our E3 impressions of the expansion's first story mission here.