Destiny 2 Releases New Update for January 2026

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Bungie has just released a new update for Destiny 2, fixing many bugs and problems players have been experiencing. The update also includes some minor changes to how player abilities and weapon perks, such as All-Star, function. Although players are still unsure what the future holds for Destiny 2, especially with reports of the Shadow and Order update being pushed back in favor of the Marathon project, Bungie is keeping things interesting with special, limited-time events.

I’m so excited Arms Week is back in Destiny 2! This time it’s all about Combat Bows, and they’ve brought back some old favorites along with two brand new ones. Plus, there are special mods available for a limited time. But that’s not all – they’ve also started a really tough community challenge called the Dark Age Hunt. We have to solo Warlord’s Ruin using only Bows, Glaives, and Swords! If we pull it off as a community, we’ll unlock a cool emblem called Fallen Torches. And to top it all off, there was a new update that dropped right alongside Arms Week!

Destiny 2’s Update 9.5.5 includes a comprehensive set of fixes and improvements, detailed in the latest patch notes. Many issues in the Renegades expansion have been addressed, including glitches in the Fire and Ice exotic mission and unexpected behavior in the Lawless Frontier activity. Additionally, the Opportunist Triumph now tracks progress correctly, and Invasions are now properly counted when finishing Exotic job contracts.

This update makes rewards from the Destiny 2 expansion, Edge of Fate, better. Players can now earn gear with power levels above 300. Many noticed this improvement in the patch notes and are excited to replay the expansion, while others hope similar updates will come to other parts of the game, which currently feel underpowered and offer weak rewards. Players need to feel appropriately rewarded for their time; otherwise, they won’t be motivated to play.

So, the latest patch really shook things up with our Guardian abilities. I noticed as a Titan main that my Ballistic Slam wasn’t giving me a free Bolt Charge just for using it – I actually have to hit someone now, which feels right. Warlocks had a similar problem with Lightning Surge, but that’s been fixed too. Good news for Warlocks though – Lightning Surge now gives you Amplified when you cast it! One last thing for my Warlock friends – you can’t cancel the animation for a Healing or Empowering Rift by spamming emotes or switching weapons anymore. It’s a little annoying, but probably for the best.

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We’ve made a few changes for Hunters. The Nightstalker’s Mobius Quiver super won’t give you a benefit if it’s stopped before you can use it. We fixed a problem with the Combination Blow ability in player-versus-player combat. And the Gunslinger’s Gunpowder Gamble will now work as intended, increasing in power with your upgrades and counting as grenade damage – which could make it a very powerful ability depending on your build.

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This update includes several improvements to weapon perks. The All-Star perk now correctly increases weapon damage by 35% in PvE activities and 15% in the Crucible. The Adrenaline Junkie perk will now activate with both Grapple melee attacks and Hellion kills. The Opening Salvo mod has been updated to work with Swords, and a bug affecting the sound effects of Renegade’s new blaster weapons when overheated has been fixed.

Although the latest update includes several important improvements, a problem is preventing players from fully enjoying the current Arms Week event in Destiny 2. Ada-1, the vendor for this event, isn’t accepting Combat Telemetry, the special currency needed to participate. It seems the game is incorrectly identifying the current Telemetry as being from past events, making it unusable for Ada-1. Since Arms Week only lasts for one week, players are hoping Bungie can resolve this issue quickly.

Destiny 2 Update 9.5.5 Patch Notes

Renegades

  • Fixed an issue where Invasions would not count as job completions when completing Exotic Contracts.
  • Fixed an issue where the Piker Gang tier 2 contract was granting an additional reward upon completion.
  • Fixed an issue where the Out in the Cold mission would not progress if players moved too quickly immediately after loading in.

Lawless Frontier

  • Fixed lighting in the invader ready room for Mars invasions to match Venus and Europa invasions.
  • Fixed an issue where in-progress Lawless Frontier activities would kick players to orbit if the daily reset occurred mid-run.
  • Fixed an issue where cloth physics would not animate properly in Lawless Frontier activities.
  • Fixed an issue where the Opportunist Triumph would not progress with some optional objectives.
  • Fixed an issue where Ablative Armor health would not display correctly within a Vex Stun Field.
  • Fixed an issue where batteries in Venus: Sabotage activities could appear partially within the environment.

Renegade Abilities

  • Fixed an issue where the damage number displayed when hitting players with the Imperium Drop Pod was inaccurate.
  • The Renegade Ability coin-flip animation can now be interrupted earlier by the coin throw.
  • Fixed an issue where Renegade Abilities could stay active during some Supers/states.

Fire and Ice

  • Fixed a rare issue where players who disconnected from their first Fire and Ice run during the final boss fight, then rejoined, could not acquire the Praxic Blade.

Portal

  • Fixed an issue where weekly Vanguard Alert challenges were resetting after seven days instead of at weekly reset.
    • Note: Players that have completed their challenges in the past few days prior to this release may need to wait until the upcoming weekly reset before their challenges reset.
  • Fixed a rare issue in the Battleground: Conduit Fireteam Op where Vex goblins could spawn behind a shield, blocking activity progress.
  • Fixed an issue in the Arms Dealer Fireteam Op where players who died around the cannons could have their Ghosts placed in an inaccessible spot, preventing revives.
  • Fixed an issue where the Dungeon Pinnacle Ops did not display completion time predictions.
  • Fixed an issue where the Contest of Elders Pinnacle Op would apply modifiers that were not outlined or selected in rooms.
  • Fixed an issue in the K1 Logistics Solo Op where the Hive final boss’ shield could be broken with Sunspots.
  • Rotated some Banes in and out of the modifier pool.
  • Made adjustments to the Protected Bane.
    • Reworked drones to no longer clip through walls or get lost in the environment.
    • Reduced drone health.
    • Now randomly spawns between 1-3 drones.
    • While drones are present, combatants now have high damage resistance instead of immunity.

Raids and Dungeons

  • Fixed an issue in The Desert Perpetual epic raid that could cause more than one instance of encounter music to play and overlap.
  • Fixed an issue in Vault of Glass raid causing wyverns to de-spawn and preventing completion of the Conflux challenge “Wait for It…,”
  • Fixed an issue in the Desert Perpetual raid causing preventing players from loading when joining allies
  • In the Equilibrium dungeon, updated The Way Between quest’s Shade of Sere encounter to award loot as expected for players who have previously completed it and are already attuned to a gear piece.

Lost Sectors

  • Fixed an issue where launching into the Exodus Garden 2A Expert Lost Sector through the activity flag would result in a black screen.

UI/UX

  • The death screen will now appropriately report if a player was killed by the following Renegade Abilities: Vex Deflector, Imperium Drop Pod, Vex Stun Field, Piker Mortar.
  • Fixed an issue where Vendor menus would display incorrect pages when swapping between different screens quickly.

Gameplay and Investment

Armor

  • Fixed an issue where Tier 4 and Tier 5 armor acquired from vendors could sometimes have incorrect Masterwork costs and available Armor Mod energy.
    • Armor may still appear incorrect in some cases when inspected on the vendor before acquisition. All previous and future Tier 4 and Tier 5 armor pieces that have been purchased should now behave as expected.
  • Fixed a visual issue where armor cloth would lose movement physics after exiting a sparrow.

Weapons

Exotic Weapons

Praxic Blade

  • Fixed an issue where Cormorant Reversal projectiles would sometimes cause health bar rubber-banding when striking difficult combatants.

Alethonym

  • Fixed a visual issue where Alethonym’s crystal would flicker.

Weapon perks

All-Star

  • Fixed an issue where All-Star was having its damage multiplier against combatants overridden by its damage multiplier against Guardians.
    • In PvE, All-Star grants a 35% multiplicative bonus to weapon damage. In PvP, All-Star grants a 15% multiplicative damage bonus.
  • Fixed an issue where collecting Special ammo was providing more time to enhanced All-Star than intended.
    • Collecting a Special brick grants seven seconds of enhanced All-Star.

Adrenaline Junkie

  • Fixed an issue where Grapple Melee and Hellion kills were not activating this perk.

Weapon Mods

  • Fixed an issue where the Opening Salvo weapon mod would not activate with Swords.

Weapon fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the high-heat beeping audio for Heat frame weapons would sometimes not play as expected.

Abilities

General

Prismatic Transcendence

  • Fixed an issue where trying to activate Transcendence on controller would sometimes activate Renegade Abilities instead.

Echo of Domineering

  • Fixed an issue where the Echo of Domineering was not increasing the Weapons stat on activation.

Grapple Tangles

  • Fixed an issue where Grapple Tangles could be used to unintentionally cancel some ability animations.
  • Fixed an issue where instantly canceling a free Grapple from a Grapple Tangle could refund non-Grapple grenade energy.

Titan

Ballistic Slam

  • Fixed an issue where Ballistic Slam was giving Bolt Charge on activation without hitting enemies.

Hunter

Moebius Quiver

  • Moebius Quiver buff is now removed if Super is interrupted.

Combination Blow

  • Fixed an issue where Combination Blow was not working correctly in PvP.

Gunpowder Gamble

  • Fixed an issue where shooting Gunpowder Gamble’s dynamite to detonate it did not count as Grenade damage and wasn’t scaling with perks and stats.

Warlock

Lightning Surge

  • Fixed an issue where Lightning Surge was giving Bolt Charge on activation without hitting enemies.
  • Fixed an issue where the aspect description did not mention that it applies Amplified on cast.

Healing Rift/Empowering Rift

  • Fixed an issue where the cast animation could be cancelled by swapping weapons/emoting.

Seasonal Artifact

  • Fixed an issue where the Kinetic Synthesis artifact perk would not grant ammo to New Land Beyond.
  • Fixed an issue where New Gear armor was not providing the correct amount of bonus damage resistance.

Power and Progression

  • Gear items earned from playing The Edge of Fate can now drop above 300 Power.

Collections

  • Fixed an issue where the Psi Aeterna IV Pulse Rifle was sorted in the wrong category.

Orders

  • Fixed an issue where players with Returner’s Gifts could become blocked from claiming additional Order rewards.

Player Identity and Expression

  • The Collections entry for the Death’s Majesty Warlock Set will now point to the Warlock items, rather than the Hunter items.
  • The icons for Episode: Revenant’s Eververse sets and the Optica Lion helm will again appear in Collections regardless of ownership state.
  • Changed the name of the Pied Piper emote released with Edge of Fate to Sweet Serenade to limit confusion with an earlier emote also named Pied Piper.
  • The special audio for the Exquisite Weapon helmet will now also be present for all of D.A.R.C.I.’s weapon ornaments.
  • Fixed a texture alignment issue with the Malwear Titan ornament set’s helm for Body Type 1.
  • Fixed an issue where instances of Exotic Armors predating Armor 2.0 would not properly sort their Exotic Ornaments first in the list of choices.
  • Fixed an issue where the Pretender’s Grips unique glow when paired with Wormhusk Crown would not work on body type 2 characters.

General

  • The Eververse Recommendations tile will again share recommended items, rather than point to the Seasonal tab.
  • Fixed a minor misspelling in the Timeline.
  • Fixed an issue where the Timeline’s Expansion ownership nodes would occasionally not update properly.
  • Fixed an issue where duplicates of items would not always appear together in the Vault.

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