Bungie outlines changes to Destiny’s Vault of Glass boss Atheon

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In the latest weekly update for Destiny, Bungie touched upon upcoming changes to the final battle with Atheon in the Vault of Glass raid; an un-nerfing to Mythoclast in PvE and an explanation as to why changes were made to base damage for certain weapons.


According to the update, bumpers will put in place in the Vault of Glass raid to keep Atheon from being knocked out of the environment. The ability to push him off a ledge is a bug, and it will be addressed “as quickly as possible.”

The implementation of the “baby bumpers” was met with relief by the community, but changes being made to Atheon’s target selection had the opposite effect.

“The encounter goal for Atheon is to act as a climax and the culmination of learning for a given Raid group,” wrote Bungie’s community manager David “DeeJ” Dague. “Part of that is making sure that each player in your group can perform every job as required.

“A change will take effect next week which fixes a bug with Atheon’s target selection. When using its Timestream ability, Atheon will select 3 players at random, instead of choosing the three players furthest from it.”

According to community member replies, the majority felt the change would break a team’s strategy plan to defeat the boss, resulting in a fight which will play out as “utter chaos.

“The Atheon teleport change will break not only our strategy, but most successful teams’ strategies,” community member Fragmented Hero offered. “Not everyone plays the same role in a team – if we could all perform the same roles, we’d be interchangeable. We are using legitimate strategy there, Bungie.”

Elsewhere in the weekly update, Bungie admitted it nerfed the efficacy of the Vex Mythoclast too much in PvE, and would issuing a fix “soon”.

“Our nerf was intended to target PvP play – where we felt and heard that Mythoclast was over-performing – but it also reduced its effectiveness in PvE,” wrote DeeJ. “Our PvE nerf was stronger than we intended and we are going to fix it.”

An explanation has to why the base damage of certain weapons was also touched upon. These explanations included why the Auto Rifle’s was decreased by 2%; why the Scout Rifle’s was increased by 6%; and why base damage for the Shotgun was decreased at maximum range.



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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2014/10/18/destiny-vault-of-glass-atheon-patch/

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DPMPosted:

Destiny isn't a bad game, but I read so much about them changing things that it must be like a new game by now..

DeluxeHazardPosted:

The strategy that you had for who would stay outside and who would go inside has been completely ruined.

TendPosted:

I hate that they're deciding to teleport 3 random people. But it also makes it more challenging so everyone has to know how to use the relic.

LatencyPosted:

This just makes this game too easy.

-NeganPosted:

So it wasn't hard enough to carry complete idiots through the Vault of Glass, but now ANYONE can be teleported? Well, I quit. Level 30 for nothing.

jdog876Posted:

What they should should really do is work on fixing there networking problems but bungie is so but hurt about everyone farming for weapons the right way that there too busy to not know that their game keeps crashing.

TaylorPosted:

Gossip There's been too many changes, went from decent to horrible.


I actually agree with you, when the game first came out, it was very fun. Now, they're adding to much stuff, and it's making the game less fun, in my opinion at least.

GossipPosted:

There's been too many changes, went from decent to horrible.

21Posted:

Boring, boring, boring. That's all I think of this game, but I think it's about time I actually try it out.

SakiPosted:

CyberPunk
Roaming It is a terrible idea to randomize the timestream. Yes it makes it easier to complete but teams have working strategies that involve certain people going in. Why break something that isn't broken? The raid is still some what difficult on hard if you don't push him off the edge and this makes it even worse. I doubt there will be few Vex drops over the next couple weeks.


theyve not done it to harm the legit players its to make finding and abusing the cheese methods harder ;)


But this IS going to harm the legit players, there were no "cheese" methods that involved the 3 back people being TP'd; so all this is doing is screwing up everyone's strategies for the lulz.


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