New Destiny Update Fixes Quests and Items, Melee Changes Coming Soon

A new Destiny update is out now, and it has fixed some things that "were bugging" Bungie, the developer announced on its website.

Today's update fixes issues with activities, quests, and items. The quest "With Finesse and Speed" has now had an issue fixed where you couldn't complete it. Another problem mended was the ability to purchase Dreadfang before completing the appropriate quest to get it.

Chests from original Prison of Elders challenge modes should now properly give loot to players, while the Weekly Nightfall's Ghost-dropping issue should be fixed as well--Ghosts above your Light level were not dropping correctly.

Additionally, issues like Faction Class items not properly allowing quest progression and Cryptarch Rank Up packages incorrectly giving Year One Engrams have also been fixed.

On its blog, Bungie called this update, "[t]he one about melee attacks," as if it was an episode of Friends. However, the melee changes don't come with today's update; instead, they "will be manually toggled on" May 10 at 10 AM PT. Fixes include a bug that would cause you to miss a melee attack when you shouldn't have and the improvement of melee validation logic and player position networking to account for more accurate and reliable melee encounters.

You can check out the full list of fixes in the upcoming update in the lists below:

Character

The following two changes aren't activated until May 10 at 10 AM PT.

• Fixed a bug that would start a melee target search from an incorrect position, frequently coming up short and causing the melee attack to whiff
• Adjust melee strike validation logic and player position networking during melee attacks to improve reliability across the network

Activities

• Fixed an issue in which chests in the original Prison of Elders challenge modes (Level 32, 34, 35) did not properly give loot
• Fixed an issue in which the Weekly Nightfall did not drop Ghosts above the player's Light correctly

Quests

• Fixed an issue that prevented completion of the quest "With Finesse and Speed"
• Fixed an issue that allowed purchase of Dreadfang before the player had completed the quest to obtain it

Items

• Fixed an issue in which some of the Faction Class items did not properly allow quest progression for Factions
• Fixed an issue where the Hunter "Spektar Grasps" item did not properly display all geometry on PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360
• Fixed an issue in which Cryptarch Rank Up packages were incorrectly giving Year 1 Engrams
• Fixed an issue that would allow Universal Remote to decrypt from Special Weapon engrams when it is a primary weapon