Destiny 2
When a gun breaks Destiny 2, it makes the game chaotic for a little while, then it’s disabled. But what if it’s ten guns? What if it’s fifty guns? What if it’s a hundred? The situation Bungie now finds themselves in with Destiny 2 is unlike anything the game has ever seen, the most broken, but simultaneously most hilarious bug the series has ever experienced, and this is not an exaggeration of any sort.
The bug has to do with crafting, where a glitch allows players to craft the existing slate of weapons…merged with loads of other crafted weapons. This means you can slap exotic perks on legendary weapons (IKELOS with Osteo Striga rounds) or you can merge two legendary weapons together (the Ammit auto rifle with an aggressive shotgun frame spewing ten thousand rounds a minute).
At first, players were worried about the sanctity of Trial of Osiris, but it quickly became clear that this was going to do far more than give players one-shot bows in the competitive 3v3 mode. This has upended the entire game with absolutely insane combinations of perks and abilities. Crucible is in glorious flames. Endgame activities are being solo shredded by machine gun grenade launchers and with bosses being 4-shot by mutant fusion rifles.
So, you want to party? Let’s party. You can do the glitch yourself as Bungie hasn’t disabled it. It’s not clear they really even know what to do right now, but they’re just letting everyone go nuts for now. Here’s how you do it, and it’s much easier on PC than console right now, though it’s possible on both. On PC:
- Go to video settings and cap frames to 30 fps.
- Go into Reshape weapons where you’ll need both a “blank” weapon to imprint the perks on and the weapons you want to pull from already leveled.
- The trick is to click on one weapon you want to pull perks or frames from, then spam click on the second one before the screen goes to the first weapon. Sometimes this can be done side-by-side, like this double Eager Edge sword:
- Other times you will need to position your cursor and spam click the second weapon that way after you switch pages, like this Dead Messenger Eremite combo:
- Here’s probably the most effective wild combo in the game, the Chill Clip, Explosive Payload, Aggressive Shotgun Frame Ammit AR2, deleting everything in PvP and PvE. This requires layering three different weapons for the “fast click” glitch, which is how all these combos are limited, but it still opens up a huge number of options.
The process is the same on console, just a bit harder to do. Players are doing things like starting massive downloads to slow down their consoles or opening multiple games to clog their RAM usage on their PCs to make the timing window on this open up even further. However, the internet bit may qualify as Bungie’s definition of “network manipulation” and that could tread into ban territory. Though I do imagine they have enough going on to keep track of that right now.
So, should you do this? Is it risky? What are the downsides?
- Bungie says that players who do this glitch will not be banned, they do not ban players for exploits or glitches that are on their end (minus network manipulation tool use or external scripting to enhance this).
- Bungie says that these perks will be erased from these weapons eventually.
- They later followed up to say that if things get “too wild” (I am not sure how they could get more wild) they may take “drastic measures.”
- There is a constant threat of a rollback here, so any loot or achievements you manage to acquire amidst this current chaos may not be permanent. Reportedly this glitch was live as of reset this week, it only was made fully public yesterday. So the rollback may be this entire week, if there is one. Just know that it’s a risk to play right now in terms of any progress you make. Though not in terms of risking a ban.
So yeah, have fun, it’s stupidly hilarious. But these weapons are not long for this world, and the stuff you get with them may not be either. Wild times. I absolutely love it.
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