This update introduces significant bug fixes, new features, and adjustments to gameplay, UI, and ammo economy in Death's Etude. Key highlights include fixes for activities, new game modes, quality of life improvements, and announced plans for further ammo system changes.

Activities and Destinations

• Kepler-Ingram focusing requirements now correctly display Fable Mythic Road as needed for higher gear tier.

• Conquest modifiers in The Portal now display properly.

• Player matchmaking now allows up to 100 power difference in all PvE activities.

• Extra drops fixed to drop at intended rates.

• Fireteam Ops quickplay now progresses Guardian Rank objectives correctly.

Crucible and Game Modes

• New "Cutting Edge" Crucible mode is live with loadout restrictions limited to new/featured gear.

• Mode modifiers and loadout limitations now function as intended.

• Competitive ranking fixed; season resets now place players appropriately (Ascendant reset to Platinum 1).

Raids and Dungeons

• Vault of Glass and Prophecy progression issues resolved.

• Duality bells and Corrupted Vanguard Ops teleportation bugs fixed.

• Limitality weasel error preventing activity start has been addressed.

Gameplay & Investment Updates

• Fixed camera issues and visual effects for Matterspark ability.

• Third iteration weapon bug causing excessive damage patched; amalgamation rounds unaffected.

• Specific ammo brick amounts for Aerial Denial and Rocket Sidearms clarified and corrected.

• Sword and Choir 1 ammo reserves reset to proper values.

• Agape Hand Cannon and Reaper’s Tithe damage bugs fixed.

• Overload perk improperly lingering in UI now addressed.

Armor, Customization, Vendors

• Armor mod distribution and certain ornaments (Chain Piston, Infernal Holo Chip) issues fixed.

• One-Eyed Mask now focusable at level 81.

• Ada now offers 20 free exotics (with basic stat rolls) for focusing by archetype.

UI, Loadouts, and Platforms

• Extra loadout slots and stackability of materials/currencies corrected.

• Activities now display correct modifiers for selected difficulty.

• Mouse blocking and audio dropouts on high-resolution/playstation/PC ultrawide fixed.

Localization and General Fixes

• Japanese in-game product page and voice line translation errors fixed.

• Exotic Sparrow “Anacorn” claimable by eligible owners.

Weapon & Ammo Economy Update

• Ammo brick drops and gains adjusted for Rocket Sidearms and Aerial Denial frames.

• Feedback acknowledged on ammo system; further tuning for lower investment builds and assist-based ammo drops in progress.

• Plan for 9.0.0.4 update (July 29): further ammo brick tuning and buildcrafting hooks.

Weekly and Vendor Updates

• Weekly vendor resets and currency/token requirements clarified for acquiring SMGs and other gear.

• Foundry Sponsorship modifier: Suros weapon overcharge active in portal activities for the week.

Recommendations / Advice

• Test weapon DPS following changes to damage and ammo systems.

• Visit Ada for free exotic focusing and check weekly vendor stock for optimized rolls.

• Explore the new Cutting Edge mode and portal activities for current meta adjustments.

Questions / Follow-Ups

• Monitor further details and balance changes regarding ammo economy in upcoming updates.

Game Update Summary

Patch notes! Death's Etude Update 9.0.0.3 Activities Destination Kepler Fixed an issue where Kepler-Ingram focusing at higher gear tiers was listing incorrect requirements. These now correctly show Fable Mythic Road to your quest as the requirements to unlock higher gear tier focusing.

The portal, fix an issue where some conquest modifiers were not displayed properly. Fix an issue where players would only match with other players who were within 20 power in all PV activities. Players will now be able to match with players up to 100 power away.

Fix an issue where extra drops were dropping at a lower than intended chance. Fix an issue where fireteam ops quick play playlists were not advancing guardian rank objectives correctly. Crucible, cutting edge. This game mode is now available.

today. Modifiers are now displayed properly. Loadout restrictions now apply properly.

So what this game mode is, we're going to play it today. You can only use new gear and I think featured gear as well. I'm curious to see how exotics work, but you can only use new stuff. This is a way to force the meta, which I know some people are like, obviously you don't like the meta to be forced upon you. But as someone who has watched people use the same rows of slug shotgun combo or the the same igneous hammer conditional find out you know what i mean like i've seen people use literally the same loadouts for years i think it's kind of nice to have a playlist there that you just have the newest gear all right competitive fix initial we're competitive it is not reset back to zero players who were ascended last season and completed placements this season will have their competitive vision reset to platinum one yeah damn I thought we were done.

We literally got ascendant placement rankings last week after we finished. Raids and Dungeons. Vault of Glass. Fixed an issue that blocked players from accessing the raid. Prophecy.

Fixed an issue that blocked progression after the cube encounter. Duality. Fixed an issue where bells did not teleport players to the Nightmare Realm. Vanguard Ops. The Corrupted.

Fixed an issue... where players did not get teleported during the ogre's encounter. Limitality fixed the weasel error that prevented players from starting the activity.

Now, gameplay and investment. Abilities. General Matterspark. All right, here we go.

Fixed an issue where the camera would spin when entering Matterspark when using mouse and keyboard controls at high FPS. Fixed an issue where the camera rotation was too slow when using a controller. Reduced motion blur, field of view change, and screen shake during Matterspark Dash.

So, I didn't run into this issue, but I'm sure that was extremely jarring. Weapons. Oh boy. Fix an issue where third iteration was doing more damage when used along with anti-barrier scout rifle. Note, charged out amalgamation rounds were not affected by this bug and their damage is unchanged.

Damn. So the first shot is still going to be very, very strong. So, so when you aim down sights and you get the scope in feature, that's still, I mean, that does a chonky amount of damage.

All right, we'll just have to look at it here in a little bit, guys, and see how bad of a nerf that is compared to last week's damage numbers. All right, fixing issue where some aerial denial grenade launchers and rocket sidearms receiving less ammo from ammo bricks than intended. The correct amounts are listed below.

Aerial denial frames, base PV ammo brick, three shots, enhanced, six shots. Rocket sidearm, base, six shots, enhanced, 12 shots. Good.

That fixed an issue where Choir 1's ammo reserves were incorrectly increased. Total ammo has been set to 225. Fixed an issue where Sword's ammo reserves were incorrectly reduced. Reserves for Swords have been set back to pre-educate values. Fixed an issue where the Agape Hand Cannon could generate multiple stacks of Precision Instrument per burst. Oh, dude, that's so unfortunate.

That's so unfortunate. Do we have another Burst Hand Cannon with Precision Instrument? Let's go look at this one.

I learned so many new words. This is my other part of the game. Oh, no, UK version?

Agape. Agape. Oh, shit.

I killed that in a bad way. Agape. Agape.

Agape. Agape. Agape. It's agape, right?

It's noun. Fixed an issue where a copy hand cannon could generate multiple stacks precision instrument per burst. All right, this is unfortunate enough.

Precision instrument per burst would have been really nice. Fixed an issue where overload perk for auto-rival sub-machine guns would appear in player weapon buff trays until they next reloaded or stowed the weapon regardless of sustained fire. Fixed an issue where Reaper's Tithe would deal inconsistent damage to max stacks. All right, armor. Fixed an issue preventing the armor mod distribution from being available.

Customization. Fixed an issue where chain piston ornament is not available for the synthesis. so the steps apologies to the knights of the punch table it's an issue that was causing the wings and taking flight holo chip to be smaller than intended position where the taken flight holo chip was visible while in matter spark form it's an issue where the infernal holo chip was not available in the collections now vendors fix an issue where the one eye mask cannot be focused at 81. by the way guys we'll go by today just to show y'all you know you can get 20 exotics 20 free exotics from ada which is fantastic if you're, I mean, they're not the best stab rolls, but they're at least, you can at least focus them in the archetype of your choice.

So go to Ada. We'll go by it here in a little bit and I'll show you, but, and then I'll show you exactly how to navigate the menu. It's not like I had, I needed to get a hazardous propulsion with, with good, you know, I wanted class and weapons.

So I, you know, I, I focused for that. Loadouts fixed an issue where extra slots were in the sets with some players, currencies and materials, destination, can now be dismantled and stacked. UI and US fixed an issue where activities can be launched with modifiers from a different difficulty tier.

No, brother. Bindings pursuits pursuits to acquire the catalyst for prior season past exotic weapons now properly reflect progress earned from portal activities. Platforms assist a fixed issue where audio was dropping out on PlayStation 5. Fixed an issue where high resolutions cause mouse blocking problems on Steam.

And fixed an issue where ultra-wide screen settings would cause mouse problems on PC platforms. Now, localization fixed an issue where the in-game product page with the final shape in Japanese was presented in the wrong language. Fixed several incorrect voice lines and translations. General and the exotic sparrow.

Anacorn? Anacorn? Is now available to claim by owners of the year Prophecy in addition to owners of the year Prophecy Ultimate Edition. All right.

There we go. Is the update live? Servers are still down.

Come on, Bungie. Come on. Put the shit out.

All right, chat. We're in, baby. New ornament available.

Hallelujah. All right. Oh my god, look at much rank we just lost.

Jesus Christ. Punchy reset us bad, dude. They reset us bad. Let me take a look at this. God, dog it, man.

Back to that platinum life. Lovely. All right, so cutting edge. This is the new game mode.

We're gonna go look at it in just a moment. This is lowdown restricted. You have to use current gear. We'll take a look at that today, though.

I've got a lot of Eververse crackheads, so Eververse this week, everybody. You got yeehaw. I'm not gonna lie. I don't normally buy loadouts. I mean, buy emotes, but we may have to get this one.

What the hell? What is that for? That's for Kvass stuff?

Oh, yeah. We've seen this already. Yeah, that's sexy. For bride dust, you get a ship. You get some boots.

Oh, that's sexy. Bungie nose, man. Bungie nose, brother.

Wow. If you don't have this ornament... Get it.

Get it. Now, let me just say this too on the thing about Hawkmoon. If you go to your inventory...

Bungie has not. I don't think they've acknowledged this bug yet. If you go here to your weapons and you scroll over to Hawkmoon, you can pull it from collections.

And notice each one of these roles are different. Each one of these roles are different. It's random each time.

By the way, if you're wondering what the god roll is, max range, not full bore, hammer force, moving target. That's my god roll. All right, so let me go do weekly missions. Let me take a look here at Zavala, guys. Okay, so listen, this is strange.

This is supposed to reset. I claimed the two last week. So this is bugged. This is supposed to reset, which should give us two items.

But you could pick up a tier three SMG here. Very nice. Very nice.

What are the roles? They're all double traits. Dynamic Swashbuckler. Encore Harmony.

You need another token. Oh, it's not bugged. Oh, you need more currency.

What's the currency for this? You get tokens from the portal. Oh, whoops. Can't keep up, man.

I don't even know anymore. All right. You got an SMG here if you want.

Why so many encore roles? Bungie, are you being funny? You put Encore on this weapon because we were farming Encore?

All right. Let me take a look at everything. Let me take a look at the portal.

The portal is the big thing. Solo Ops. No, let me look at Pinnacle Ops. You've got the Whisper, Starcross, Kelsfall.

Encore is still there with Bow as the drop. Crucible, you've got Cutting Edge. All right.

Okay, hold on. This is for this week too. Foundry Sponsorship Suros.

Suros weapons deal overcharged damage and portal activities. Oh, wow. Does that apply to exotics?

Suros Regime meta? Oh, there's a lot of weapons that fall in the Suros Foundry and all portal activities. Oh, test the scout rifle damage. Oh, hold on, hold on. Let me go test this real quick, guys.

Let me pull myself up in the shooting range. Let me pull up our DPS from last week here. All right, so we were clocking at about 1,500 DPS last week with the scout rifle, guys.

Between 1,300 and 1,500. Because remember, it starts to diminish. All right, so let me pull this out real quick.

Let me pull up old Greg here. Hold on, hold on. All right, here we go, baby.

That's rough, man. That's rough. I wouldn't say it's bad, but it's definitely not putting out what it was.

It's like, I would say, arguably say half, if not less than half. Yikes, brother. Yikes.

All right. Good luck to everybody. Have fun. I had to find some other weapons to use. Yeah, that's the best we got.

Try multiple charge shots. That's definitely not going to be optimal, dude. Watch. If you were to do this every single time, if you were to do this every single time, you would have worse DPS. Watch.

Watch. See what I'm saying? Hello.

Will we do want to review on this? I need to review this weapon anyways. And also the exotic, the exotic catalyst for it too, which is going to require some grime. We're like rank.

What are we right now? Rank 54. Catalyst. I think it's, I love the catalyst guys. Oh my God. It's nice.

Oh, good Lord. We'll get to it. We'll get to it eventually. Hey community, the Weapons & Armor Sandbox team has been absorbing a lot of feedback this week around the ammo economy changes in Edge of Fate and we're eager to share details on where we think the system is and where we'll go. First, we wanted players to have more control over ammo acquisition, being able to know when it will drop in combat.

Second, we want to provide build crafting options to generate ammo with some trade-offs. We could evolve long-term with more build crafting support options. and educate ammo can be built into through the ammo generation stat mods and perks and weapons and the weapon stat and ammo tuning mods and armor lastly we wanted to slightly reduce ammo gains for players who don't invest in the stat at all while providing more ammo than pre-educate values if folks invest more even enabling and supporting the running of double special ammo built in pve however we missed the mark on some of our targets as we've absorbed feedback from the community we want to make some additional changes mb 9.0.0.3 will which just released today. We've made a few targeted adjustments and have more coming in the next few weeks, and then even more planned in the long run.

We're committed to updating and balancing this core system, promote healthy build crafting diversity, and to construct a fun living sandbox for players to engage in. And V900 players will see the following: Increased rocket sidearm ammo per ammo brick. That's what we just went over. Fixed a bug that was reducing their total ammo. This also increased their ammo brick.

Fixed aerial deny frames. Only get one ammo brick. They will now get three base and six enhance.

One ammo per brick. We're currently in playtests in the following changes, which are subject to change with an eye for most of ship in 9.0.0.4 planned to release on July 29. Players at the lowest end of ammo investment, zero stats, zero mods, will see ammo progress faster, providing more bricks. Also, our initial tuning here was a bit too punitive, and we want to bring it a bit closer to pre-edge of fate values, while still encouraging a bit more buildcraft investment to Ain't that the In truth, dude, how many times did you guys... So many times this past week in the raid, a damn ammo brick got blown off the damn map and I couldn't get it. Improve how assists generate ammo for players and continue to build more sandbox combat hooks for generating ammo enabling players to feel like they specialize in ammo generation.

Alright, we'll see how that plays out in the live game. Slap that like button like your mama told you right.

PATCH NOOOOTES!!!! It happened, Fellas.. They nerfed our baby. Today we got Update 9.0.0.3 from Bungie with a list of hot fixes, including the bugged Third Iteration. We also take a look at the eververse and a tweet from the Destiny 2 Team going over some ammo economy changes.

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Patch Notes 5:25

Eververse 7:31

Weekly Rewards 8:58

Third Iteration Testing 10:38

Destiny 2 Team Tweet