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Destiny Update 2.0 rolling out now. Patch notes coming soon

Destiny Update 2.0 — the massive new patch that officially ushers in "Year Two" of Bungie's online shooter-RPG — is rolling out, and should be available to download on your console shortly.

While we're still awaiting official patch notes (Bungie says they'll be posted shortly), the developer did previously post a preview of what players can expect. The changes previously mentioned are detailed below. Check back in a bit for the full change-log once released.

Character

Character Level Cap for all players will be raised to 34
- Level Cap for The Taken King will be 40
- You will be able to level up by gaining XP alone
- Character Level and Light are now separate statistics
- Your Character Level will be grandfathered into your highest possible Light Level from all gear in your inventory and vault
Attack and Defense ratings for armor and weapons will be translated to the new systems – their power levels will be unchanged
Grimoire Score has been moved from the Character Nameplate and now displays in the Character Screen

Quests

A Quest Screen will be added to your Menu
Tracks all active Quests
Abandoned Quests can be recovered in the Hall of Guardians
Year One Activities have been converted to the Quest system

Bounties

Bounty slots will be increased to 16
Incomplete Year One Bounties will be auto-abandoned on 09/08 in preparation for launch of The Taken King
Incomplete Year One Exotic Bounties are auto-completed with their respective Vendors
Year One bounties issues by Eris will be retired
Reputation with Crota's Bane can continue to be earned by completing Quests in The Taken King

Tower

Collections have been added to the Tower
- Emblems/Shaders can be found near Eva Lavante
- Ships can be found near Amanda Holliday
Exotic Armor and Weapon Blueprint added to the Tower
- You will now have the Blueprint for all Exotics you own in your Collection
- Report to the Vanguard in the Hall of Guardians

Inventory

Motes of Light will be used to grant XP to Weapons and Armor
Class-specific Armor materials will be deprecated in favor of a unified Armor Material
Vanguard Quartermaster, Roni-9940, will exchange old materials for armor material [Update: This change takes effect on 09/15]

Weapons & Armor

Revised Sandbox balance will be in effect, based on our previous analysis

World

Fallen Wolf Hunt Patrols will retreat in anticipation of the arrival of Oryx in your solar system

Today's update arrives one week ahead of Destiny's massive new expansion, The Taken King, which will bring a new narrative-driven campaign storyline for players to experience.

As a reminder, if you're playing Destiny on PS4 or Xbox One, you're going to need around 18GB of free space on your hard drive for the update. Xbox 360 players will need 10GB, while PS3 will need about 20GB to install it (once installed on PS3, you'll only need around 10GB free). For a full breakdown to prepare for Update 2.0, check out our previous post.

Matt Liebl

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