Destiny 2 Beyond Light Patch Notes: It’s Huge

Destiny’s Beyond Light expansion released and it came with an huge patch. The update is also known as Destiny 2 update 3.0.0.1. So let’s check Destiny 2 Beyond Light patch notes.

Destiny 2 update 3.0.0.1.

General

• Fixed an issue where dying while holding Riven’s Heart could cause the Heart to disappear.
• Removed flashpoints.
• Removed the following Shadowkeep challenges from the Moon: Rune table, Repeatable campaign missions, Nightmare Hunt completion and time trials, Pit of Heresy completion, Garden of Salvation completion
• Matterscourge ornament can no longer be reacquired from Collections.
• Last Perdition on Shaxx now dismantles for less than its vendor cost.
• Universal Ornament item descriptions no longer refer specifically to Year-3 items.
• Emotes now display flavor text on the item detail screen or when being previewed on the Eververse store.
• Added icons to weapons that were missing their release watermark.
• Exotic Ciphers can no longer be added to a player’s Vault.

Player Identity

• Login screens now have a dark background.
• Updated the Full-screen Menus to have a dark background style.
• Player waypoints now display Season Rank, HUD waypoints.
• Changed selection from “Male” & “Female” to “Masculine” & “Feminine.”
• Guardian head and hair models replaced with improved versions.
• Several color swatches changed to better represent the applied color.
• Players previous head selections are still used.
• Added toggle functionality to the character screen, allowing the player to make a choice between Light and Dark subclasses.
• Character screen visuals updated depending on player choice between Light and Dark.

Abilities

• Increased Hunter’s dodge cooldown by a few seconds.
• Orbs of Light changed to Orbs of Power as they can now be consumed by Light and Dark subclasses.

Misc

• Fixed a bug that prevented online friends from showing up in the roster on Stadia for players with over 100 friends.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented players from earning progress on bounties when joining an activity in progress.
• This most notably impacted Iron Banner bounties, and also caused players to have their artifact power bonus enabled.

PC

• PC players with compatible NVIDIA cards and drivers will be able to take advantage of Destiny 2 integration with NVIDIA Reflex, reducing “click-to-display” latency during gameplay.

Localisation

• Due to the challenges of voice recording during a global pandemic, different actors had to be used for the following characters: Osiris (Brazilian version), Eris (Brazilian version), Eris (Polish version).
• We intend to return to the original cast as soon as possible.

Advanced Rendering

• Lighting improvements and better dark area standardization.
• Please revisit your brightness settings and tune to your taste.
• We recommend HDR black point set to the default middle value for best results.

So these are just “some” of the patch notes. As we said, this patch is a huge one. If you want to check all Destiny 2 Beyond Light Patch notes, you can visit the official webiste.