• Contest Mode will be enabled for 48 hours.
• You will need to be 1790 to be at the power level limit for all encounters
• Because this is a reprised raid, two clears will be required: a clear of the raid as it is played normally, and a "Challenge Mode" clear where all encounter challenges are enabled and required to clear the encounter (you will wipe if you fail the challenge)
• In order to increase the difficulty of Contest Mode, they are making the following changes to contest mode:
  • Increased the cap of player outgoing damage vs combatants. The cap for incoming damage is unchanged.
  • Some enemies will gain elemental shields
  • All enemies will be more aggressive than previous contest mode.

• Later this season, a selection of cosmetic items from previous season passes will be brought to Eververse.
• To start with, these will be available for weeks 4, 5, and 6 this season, and will feature a handful of items from Season of the Worthy.
• They're accepting feedback on their Twitter account on which items people would like to see come back in the same way in the future

• New home page of the quests tab
• The amount of quests shown on the page varies by how active the player is, if they're brand new (or returning after a long break) only 1 or 2 active quests will be highlighted. For active players, multiple ongoing quests should be highlighted.
• You can now launch directly into quest activities or landing zones from the quest inspection screen.

• If you're a content creator and want to work with bungie, they're accepting applications here
• Check out the new community emblems here, earnable by being chosen to be features in a TWID post:

• Check out our summary of the 2023 showcase here
• They talk through the new Strand aspects in the blog, but I would recommend just logging in and trying them yourself, the in game descriptions are self explanatory, and all of them seem very strong.
• Favoriting finishers is now deprecated, now all finishers in the finisher inventory will be cycled through randomly when doing a finisher. To remove a finisher from rotation, dismantle it from the inventory. To add a new one in, claim it from collections in Flair -> Finishers.
• Steam will be ending support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 on January 1 2024. When this happens, Destiny 2 will no longer function on these operating systems, along with all other Steam games and Steam itself. Anyone still on these operating system versions should update before the new year.

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Sources:

• This Week In Destiny - 08/17/2023