This Week At Bungie – 6/03/2021

Iron Rising 

Splicing Down the Runway 

Transcendent Hailstorm

Another Patch Out the Door 

 

PHOTOSENSITIVITY NOTICE

Recently, we’ve seen reports of certain in-game effects impacting photosensitive players. We appreciate everyone who notified us of these issues. 

 

In addition to an in-game notice that was distributed this week, we’re working on adding a permanent notice as part of the End User License Agreement (EULA) as well as adding notices to the sell text on the online stores where the game is distributed. 

 

We're getting started by looking into player reports and addressing issues related to specific effect combinations. Due to the complex nature of these changes, we are targeting a patch for later this year. We’ll let players know when we have more to share. We plan to use the knowledge from these fixes to refine our best practices moving forward. 

TELEPORTING ENEMIES UPDATE 

As mentioned in a previous TWAB, we’ve been noticing more “teleporty” enemies since the launch of Beyond Light. This past Tuesday, we tweaked the outgoing bandwidth limits that our servers use in order to provide more capacity for us to network data about what AI are doing to players. We believe that this will reduce significant source of AI teleporting across the game. Note that certain activities will still have some teleportation issues that will not be affected by this change.  

PC PERFORMANCE UPDATE 

Since Beyond Light shipped, players on PC have been experiencing less than ideal performance. Here is an update from our game performance team about PC performance updates: 

Performance testing and optimization on PC is very complex due to the different combinations of hardware, software, and in-game settings. With the release of Beyond Light, we made some major engine changes while working from home. One of the unfortunate consequences of working from home is that we no longer had access to our PC compatibility lab to do in-depth testing on the performance impacts of our changes. Partially as a result of this, the update introduced regrettable performance decreases on some PC configurations – some configurations more than others. 

We've been working on making improvements with every release since then, even though it doesn't always show up in the patch notes. Our work has been slow, as we've been forced to rely on our external partners and metrics from the live game. What this means in practice is that we make optimizations that seem effective based on our internal tests, but we don't know if they'll be helpful more widely until we receive feedback from the labs at external partners (such as AMD) or from you when you play the game. 

Today, the game's performance is close to what it was before Beyond Light for some PC configurations. Because of the difficulty in predicting how much each change will improve performance, we've been reluctant to promise a fix, even though we are making regular performance optimizations. 

We're aware of these problems and are continuing to work on them and are optimistic about the future. 

EXPUNGE REWARDS 

Last week, the new Expunge activity was released. Players noticed that they weren’t receiving Pinnacle rewards that were highlighted in our Seasonal calendar. This activity won’t grant Pinnacle rewards until the Weekly Challenge is added on June 15 and we’re updating our articles and calendar to reflect this better. 

HOTFIX 3.2.0.3 

Hotfix 3.2.0.3 was released earlier today. Click here for a full list of patch notes. Here are some issues that were fixed: 

Rollercoaster of Emotions 

 

You Know the Music... 

 

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