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Tim Clark

Bungie can't catch a W: Rather than buffing the drop rate of Destiny 2's most-wanted exotic items, the latest patch nerfed it into dust

After the latest patch, the Overthrow activity was intended to see more frequent drops of exotic class items. Now it's much worse. (Image credit: Bungie)

It turns out that if you fire a bunch of your QA staff, the game you're making will tend to run into quality issues. I'm not saying the problems with Destiny 2's latest patch are a direct result of last week's drastic headcount reduction at Bungie, but it can hardly help.

Yesterday's weekly reset also saw the rollout of update 8.0.5, which included a swath of fixes and balance changes. The most anticipated of these was a buff to the drop rate of Prismatic exotic class items. Per the patch notes: 

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