Destiny Update Kills a Major Exploit, Resolves Strike Issues

A new update has been released for Destiny, this one focused on resolving some Strike issues (and one exploit) that have cropped up since Rise of Iron's launch last week.

A popular technique that emerged for quickly increasing your Light level involved reaching a point late in the Will of Crota Strike. You're briefly able to fight Omnigul before she moves on to the final area, but players found it was possible to exploit this. Rather than let her move on, they force her to stay, kill her, collect any drops, and then die, allowing them to repeatedly replay this section without completing the entire Strike. Update 2.4.0.3 prevents players from doing this, as Omnigul will now only drop rewards a single time per Strike.

Image credit: Destiny WikiaThe patch also resolves issues with rewards not dropping with the correct Light level on Abomination Heist and Winter's Strike (which was this week's Nightfall before being switched). Echo Chamber also should no longer show up in the wrong playlist, and Vanguard Reputation Boosters should work properly in the SIVA Crisis playlist.

Finally, the patch makes some changes to Archon's Forge Offering drops and fixes a problem that caused players to not receive a Gjallarhorn after completing the quests to obtain one. If you were affected by that, you should be able to find the gun in the Year 1 tab of the Weapon Blueprint Collection screen.

Read on for the full patch notes or check them out on Bungie's website.

Destiny Update 2.4.0.3 Patch Notes
Activities
Strikes

Fixed an issue where the Abomination Heist Strike was not dropping rewards with the correct Light
Fixed an issue where the Winter's Run Strike was not dropping rewards with the correct Light
Fixed an issue where the Echo Chamber Strike was appearing in the wrong playlist
Omnigul will now drop rewards once during a Strike and will require the Strike to be finished to drop additional rewards
Archon's Forge

Quarantine Patrols will now always drop an Archon's Forge Offering upon killing the Splicer Priest in the second phase of the Activity
Archon's Forge has a higher chance to drop Offerings upon completion
Items
Fixed an issue where players who completed the "Beauty in Destruction" Questline did not receive a Gjallarhorn Players can retrieve their Gjallarhorn from the Weapon Blueprint Collection on the Year 1 tab

Fixed an issue where Vanguard Reputation Boosters were not working in the SIVA Crisis Strike Playlist