Destiny Update 4/29/15

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As mentioned on Bungie's Destiny live stream today, the new upcoming weekly PvP activity, Trials of Osiris, will be locked to one map per week.

If that sounds limiting, there's actually a pretty good reason behind it. Teams will carry a punch card of sorts, called "The Passage of Osiris," with rewards being doled out based on how many wins (up to nine) they can scratch out before hitting three losses. In order to ensure as little randomness as possible, Crucible lead designer Derek Carroll felt that locking in one map for the week-long recurring event would create a stable, uniform competition.

Trials of Osiris will be played exclusively in the new match type, called Elimination, in which fireteams of three face off with no respawns. Revives are allowed, the first team to down all three members of the opposing team wins a round, with five round wins needed to take the win.

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Major changes are coming to the PVP mode in Destiny known as the Crucible. During a recent studio visit IGN had the opportunity to sit down with Bungie’s Lars Bakken the Crucible Design Lead and Derek Carroll the Senior Crucible Designer who have been hard at work bringing a lot of much sought after improvements to multiplayer.

First and most importantly they’ve doubled the marks and reputation across the board in Crucible which is used to buy certain weapons and armor. Now when you win you’ll receive six marks instead of three and twice the amount of experience per match. They also promised that you’ll be seeing a lot more loot in Crucible. Lars Bakken said "We've doubled that stream period so you're going to see a lot more blues dropping at the end. On top of that we've added purple. I believe there are 12 new legendaries that will drop." "Not only that, but we're allowing you to get etheric light." Etheric light is the new item that lets you upgrade all your gear to the new maximum level. Bungie confirmed that you’ll receive one from hitting level 3 in Iron Banner, one for hitting level 5 in Iron Banner, as random drops in Trials of Osiris, and as a supplemental drop in Nightfall missions. Deej also confirmed that the weekend vendor Xur will be completely abandoning the old upgrade system and that the only way to level up weapons and armor will be by using the etheric light items.
When discussing leveling your gear they also said that any progress will transfer over when ascending a piece of gear. For example if you have an exotic that is halfway leveled up you will not lose that progress, but you will have to complete leveling the armor or weapon at the new damage level.

In addition to the loot drop increase, they also said that players who place first are more likely to be rewarded for their efforts, meaning when the loot drops at the end of a PVP match the first place player is more likely to get something good. “It’ll be less likely that number 1 doesn’t get anything.” Also completing the daily crucible objective will give you a reward package that will contain Passage Coins for items that will help in Trials of Osiris, glimmer, motes of light, and more.

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Bungie has confirmed to IGN that with the release of The House of Wolves, The Dark Below multiplayer maps for the Crucible will be made free for all players.

The Dark Below, the first expansion released for Destiny featured new strike missions, story content, a new raid called Crota’s End, as well as new Crucible maps. According to Bungie, when the House of Wolves launches the three maps included with the first expansion, The Cauldron, Skyshock and Pantheon will be free for all players even if they didn’t purchase any of the DLC content. When purchased separately the original expansion can be purchased for $19.99, or buyers can purchase the season pass that includes both The House of Wolves and The Dark Below for $34.99.

Bungie also recently confirmed that major changes were coming to the crucible gametype including an increase in marks and reputation, an increase in the amount of loot that drops, and that players who place first are more likely to receive something good for playing.

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I hope the PvP gets a good update.