Destiny 2 Trials of Osiris Update Date Confirmed

The official patch notes should be available in the coming weeks, but for now, here’s what we have:

Goals:

• Get more people:
  • • Playing
    • Doing something besides ‘Flawless or Bust’ and resetting their card once they take a loss
    • Feeling like they can win more often
    • Feeling like the rewards are on-par with other, similar activities in the game
    • Embracing movement, conflict, and resolution during a match

Access Changes

• Reduced the requirements for the Trials Access quest to use lifetime Valor ranks and kills.
  • • This should open Trials to more long-term Crucible dabblers.
• Trials now allows queuing and matchmaking without a full fireteam.
  • • We want to allow more players to try the mode out and start earning rewards, even if they don’t have a fireteam.
    • You can enter the playlist solo or with a friend, and matchmaking will fill the rest of your fireteam for you
    • Freelance Trials (No pre-made fireteams, solos only) will also be available via Labs. More on that below.
    • Going Flawless on your own will be hard-to-impossible, but we are sure someone will do it thanks to the other players they match up with!
• Trials of Osiris now requires the annual expansion to play.
  • • In our efforts to strengthen security around the Trials experience, we’re removing opportunity for players to create numerous free accounts to circumvent cheat detection, bans, and restrictions. (More on Security below)
    • This is Beyond Light for Season 15, and will change to The Witch Queen once it launches.

Activity Ruleset Changes

• Round time is reduced to 90s (from 120s).
  • • Stalling to wait for ability energy is not fun for either the winning or losing team.
    • This will not eliminate stalling but will lessen the amount of stalling that can take place.
    • We will talk about other plans to help this further down in the article.
• Emotes stay in first-person camera, and Swords can’t be equipped unless you have ammo. (This change is in Elimination and Survival also).
  • • If you run out of Sword ammo while using it, you will be force-swapped to a different weapon.
    • This removes the ability for players to secretly peek around corners without putting themselves in danger.
• Special and Heavy ammo no longer carries over between rounds.
  • • Having the winning team keep all collected ammo, but the losing team getting set back to default creates too big of a snowballing advantage.

Rewards And Reputation

• Saint-14 is getting new Trials ranks, reputation, and a rewards track.
  • • Trials tokens have been retired.
• Reputation is gained at match complete, based on the number of rounds won on your Ticket.
  • • Tickets track up to 20 round wins now.
    • Emphasizing winning individual rounds for the core rewards gives every player more achievable goals at all skill levels.
    • Since you don’t have to win full matches to get rewards, you always have a reason to keep trying even if you are behind.
• Ranking up gives you a Trials engram (more on that in a bit).
  • • Powerful Trials engrams show up every three rank ups before your first reset of the Season
    • Just like the other ritual reputations, there are other rewards to earn every three ranks – and Trials ranks has one of the unique Trials weapons at Rank 10 and Rank 16 for each of the first three resets of Season 15.