The wait is over for Guardians everywhere. Destiny 2: Renegades officially launched on December 2, 2025, bringing with it Update 9.5.0 (appearing as version 1.177/3.82 on consoles). This Star Wars-inspired expansion, developed in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, marks the second major release in the Year of Prophecy and kicks off Season: Lawless, which will provide content for the next six months.
Following a period of lower-than-expected player engagement after The Edge of Fate expansion, Bungie has positioned Renegades as a potential turning point for the game. The update delivers sweeping sandbox changes, significant quality-of-life improvements, and introduces entirely new gameplay systems alongside the expansion's fresh content.
Renegades Campaign and Story
The Renegades campaign picks up after the events of The Edge of Fate. The mysterious entities known as The Nine have begun executing their plans for humanity, which involve a new Cabal faction called the Barant Imperium. A mysterious figure calling himself Dredgen Bael leads the charge, and players must rise to meet this new threat.
Pro Tip
One notable change from previous expansions is that the Praxic Blade exotic sword will be earned during the campaign itself rather than through a separate exotic mission after completion. However, Bungie has confirmed that obtaining this weapon still involves a full exotic mission experience complete with puzzles, integrated into the campaign's progression.
The campaign offers both normal and legendary difficulty options, with legendary completions traditionally rewarding an exotic armor piece.
Lawless Frontier Activity
The Lawless Frontier represents Renegades' flagship replayable activity, designed around scalability and long-term engagement. Players build reputation through a new Notoriety system by completing missions commissioned by three distinct Syndicate factions:
The Pikers are an anarchist and atheist biker gang composed of Eliksni who seek to build a society free from traditional ranks and hierarchy.
Tharsis Reformation is a breakaway sect of sentient Vex driven by a desire to experience personal identity outside the Vex collective mind.
Totality Division operates as a rogue branch of the Barant Imperium Cabal, functioning as a Syndicate on Mars and ruled by psions.
Mission types available through Lawless Frontier include Smuggling runs, Bounty Hunts, and Sabotage operations. These missions span expanded areas across Mars, Europa, and Venus and can be completed solo or with a three-person fireteam.
Note
The activity introduces an Invasion mode that allows one Guardian to join an opposing team mid-mission, creating disruption opportunities and offering special rewards for successful invaders. Players can also earn and upgrade new Renegades Abilities that provide fresh combat tools specifically within Lawless Frontier activities.
New Weapons and Gear
Blasters: A New Weapon Type
Renegades introduces Blasters as an entirely new weapon category. Unlike traditional Destiny 2 weapons, Blasters utilize a heat-based ammo system instead of conventional magazines, requiring players to manage heat buildup rather than reload times.
New Exotic Weapons
The expansion adds several new exotic weapons to the game:
- Praxic Blade - A kinetic sword inspired by lightsabers that allows players to customize both its appearance and playstyle
- Heirloom - A Solar crossbow inspired by Chewbacca's iconic bowcaster weapon
- Service of Luzaku - A Strand machine gun
New Exotic Armor
- Deimosuffusion - Warlock Helmet
- Fortune's Favor - Hunter Legs
- Praxic Vestment - Titan Chest
Equilibrium Dungeon
The new Equilibrium dungeon arrives on December 13, 2025, available to all players who purchase Renegades or the Destiny 2: Year of Prophecy edition. The dungeon features unique rewards and weapons for successful completions.
A Contest Mode Dungeon Race will accompany the launch, with the official stream featuring Evanf1997 and CBGray beginning at 6 AM PT for the pre-show and 9 AM PT for the race start. Once a fireteam clears Contest Mode, the normal variant will also become available to all players.
Pro Tip
Viewers can earn the Paranoia Pink emblem through Twitch Drops by watching official Twitch channels for 30 minutes. CBGray will also distribute the same emblem to YouTube viewers.
Orders System
The Orders system represents a fundamental change to how players engage with objectives in Destiny 2. This new system replaces both bounties and Seasonal Challenges with what Bungie describes as a more approachable set of objectives that reward players consistently for their time.
Critical Note
Key features of the Orders system include: Orders can drop with Common, Legendary, and even Exotic rarities. Rewards are granted automatically upon completion without requiring players to visit an NPC. The system adapts to your playstyle dynamically.
Orders appear in the Nav Mode tracker where bounties previously displayed. Lapsed players receive a buff to their Order completions to help them catch up. Players can earn Bright Dust through completing Orders.
Orders are accessed through the Seasonal Hub, which has received updated features and layouts with this expansion.
Vanguard Alerts
Vanguard Alerts is a new feature designed to reignite the Destiny 2 weekly ritual experience. The system provides a range of activities available to players at all skill levels through different playlists, including a Grandmaster Vanguard Alert option and raid and dungeon challenges.
The stated goal is to recreate the feeling of logging into Destiny 2 for the week and immediately knowing which activities to tackle for optimal rewards, providing opportunities to have fun while building toward harder content.
Vanguard Alerts will become available starting in week two of Renegades. To access the list of active Alerts each week, players must open the Portal, select the Season Hub tab, and navigate to the Vanguard Alerts menu.
Quality of Life Improvements
Vault Expansion
One of the most requested features has finally arrived. The vault now holds 300 additional slots, increasing the maximum capacity to 1,000 items. Alongside this expansion, Bungie has revamped the vault filtering system, allowing players to sort by gear tier, weapon types, power levels, and other criteria without scrolling through multiple pages.
Universal Exotic Armor Ornaments
Players can now apply any owned Exotic Armor Ornament to any other Exotic of the same class and slot in PvE activities. This means a Hunter helmet ornament can be applied to a different Hunter exotic helmet, for example. To prevent combat confusion, armors will continue to display their base aesthetic in PvP activities.
Power and Progression Changes
- Seasonal Power (Power above 200) no longer resets with new seasons - players maintain their current Power level when Renegades launches
- Unstable Cores have been removed entirely
- Infusion continues to use Enhancement Cores and Glimmer
- New rewards now drop at 300 Power or higher, ensuring all players catch up with the Techsec Supply Drop reward levels even if they missed claiming it when available
- All Exotics now count as New Gear, providing 5% bonus weapon damage and up to 10% incoming damage reduction (2% per equipped armor piece)
Returning Player Benefits
Returning players receive powerful rewards and XP buffs to accelerate their catch-up progression, with additional benefits extending to friends they play with.
Seasonal Events and Twitch Drops
The Dawning
The Dawning winter event begins December 16, 2025, featuring new wolf-themed armor cosmetics and limited-time weapons.
Launch Twitch Drops
Between December 2 at 9 AM PT and December 12 at 9 AM PT, players can earn rewards by watching eligible Destiny 2: Renegades streams:
- 30 minutes of viewing: Unwritten Patience emblem
- 4 hours of viewing: Sherwood Wander Exotic Ship
Trials of Osiris Return
Trials returns for the first time in Season 28 on December 19, bringing new rewards.
Complete Update 9.5.0 Patch Notes
Activities
v9.5.0
Portal
Portal Bonus Drops
Portal Bonus Drops (green engrams) now use the highest stack among your Fireteam rather than your personal stack
Fireteam Stack Reallocation
If you aren't the highest in the Fireteam, extras are reallocated from other Portal activities, prioritizing single Bonus Drops over stacks of 2 or 3
NEW Tag Display
New activities in the Portal (not just legacy activities) display a "NEW" tag
NEW
Revive Timer Fix
Fixed an issue where lower tier Portal activities had longer revive timers than intended
Derealize Exotic Mission
Increased starting revive tokens for some difficulties in the Derealize Exotic mission
Bug Fixes
Fixed soft lock issue at the end of Expeditions; Fixed HONEYDEW error when launching with low Power; Removed limited revives from Expert difficulty Conquests without Champions; Updated Portal versions of Exotic missions to drop their associated Exotics, Catalysts, and Intrinsics
Crucible
Reward Rank Persistence
Crucible Reward Rank will not reset with Season 28 (Crucible Reward Multiplier carries over from Season 27)
NEW
Score Threshold Adjustments
Adjusted score thresholds for power greater than 400 and performance grade B+ and above; Gear tier rewards now scale with Reward Rank subranks
Trials Lighthouse Passage
Adjusted Trials Lighthouse Passage multiplier to 2% per win plus 1% per win streak (previously 3% per win streak)
Medium Impact
Campaigns and Missions
The Final Shape Fixes
Fixed Legend difficulty missions in The Final Shape showing incorrect Power levels on reward previews
The Corrupted Strike
Fixed cooperative difficulty scaling and related settings for the mission version of The Corrupted strike; Fixed players getting stuck at the ogre in some versions
Raids and Dungeons
The Desert Perpetual Raid
Updated revive token feat behavior to prevent multiple players being revived with a single remaining token; Fixed Koregos pylons being misaligned with Vex nodes; Fixed players dying to the decoherence debuff even when out of the danger zone; Significantly reduced the frequency of blinding effects at Epoptes
Spire of the Watcher Dungeon
Fixed Akelous not flying back to the arena center to recharge shields and end the DPS phase
UI/UX Changes
v9.5.0
Vault
Vault Expansion
Added 300 vault slots (now 1,000 total capacity)
NEW
Vault Filtering
Revamped the vault filtering system
NEW
Seasonal Hub Updates
Orders System
Added Orders to the Seasonal Hub (replacing Bounties and Seasonal Challenges); Lapsed players receive a buff to Order completions
NEW
Vanguard Alerts
Added Vanguard Alerts to the Seasonal Hub (available starting week two of Renegades)
NEW
Seasonal Challenges
Seasonal Challenges have been removed
REMOVED
Director/Map/Portal
Renegades Destination
The Renegades Destination entry point has been added to the Portal; Portal background updated to reference Renegades
NEW
Location Updates
The Timeline, Edge of Fate, and Tower locations in the Portal have been updated; The Kepler Destination from Edge of Fate has been moved to the Timeline
UI Improvements
Introduced an icon and tooltip next to Zavala's location on the Tower map to indicate when rewards are claimable; Updated Quick Launch algorithm to accommodate more variables including number of Bonus Rewards
HUD
Orders Tracker
Orders have replaced Bounties in the Nav Mode tracker
HUD Buff Priority
HUD buffs have received a priority pass to ensure less important buffs do not override more important ones
Abilities
v9.5.0
Void - General Changes
Suppressor Grenade
No longer suppresses the user; Increased detonation damage by 10%
High Impact
Spike Grenade
Now attaches to combatants
Void Fragments
Reduced the negative stat on Echo of Undermining from ?20 to ?10; Echo of Provision now gives +10 Grenade stat; Echo of Exchange now gives +10 Melee stat; Removed negative stats from all other Fragments except Echo of Starvation and Echo of Persistence
High Impact
Arc - General Changes
Lightning Grenade
Now attaches to combatants; Fixed an issue where the maximum grenade charges was capped at 2
Flashbang Grenade
No longer blinds the user; Increased detonation damage by 10%
Strand - General Changes
Threadlings
Threadlings that lose their target before impact will land and look for another combatant instead of exploding
Hunter Changes
Solar - Golden Gun (Deadshot and Six Shooter)
Increased damage against non-boss combatants by 15%; Increased damage against boss combatants by 26%; Projectiles now scorch targets (40 stacks base, +10 with increased-stacks fragment); When fired inside a Well of Radiance, now counts as Radiant for increased damage
High Impact
Solar - Blade Barrage Super
Increased damage against combatants by 39%
High Impact
Solar - Melee Abilities
Increased damage against red-bar enemies by 50%; Increased damage against other enemies by 36%; Lightweight Knife: Increased crit multiplier from 1.3 to 1.5
Solar - Acrobat's Dodge
Increased passive energy-regen rate in PvE by 112%
High Impact
Solar - Gunpowder Gamble
Shooting the dynamite to detonate it now increases damage by 50% (5% in PvP), expands the radius, and creates submunitions
Void - Deadfall Super
Tether source now attaches to combatants on direct impact; Increased Weaken effect from 30% to 35%; Now immediately weakens and suppresses enemies in an area-of-effect on impact
High Impact
Void - Moebius Quiver Super
While the Super is active, dealing damage now increases the power of subsequent Shadowshot attacks and bow weapons; Increased base Super duration from 10 seconds to 16 seconds; Increased Orpheus Rig duration from 16 seconds to 20 seconds
High Impact
Void - Smoke Bomb Melee
Increased projectile lifetime after sticking to a surface from 3 seconds to 9 seconds; Reduced lingering smoke time in PvP from 5 seconds to 2 seconds; Reduced damage against players by 16%
Arc - Storm's Edge Super
Increased passive energy regeneration by 25%
Arc - Tempest Strike
Reduced damage against players by 16%
Medium Impact
Stasis - Silence and Squall Super
Increased damage against combatants by 63%
High Impact
Stasis - Shatterdive Aspect
Shattering Stasis crystals or enemies now grants Frost Armor
Strand - Silkstrike Super
Increased passive energy regeneration by 11%; Increased damage resistance during Super by 13%
Strand - Widow's Silk Aspect
Looking at a Grapple Tangle for a short time now overrides your grenade ability with a free non-offensive grapple; Grapple Tangles created near the ground now rise into the air; Increased Grapple Tangle base lifetime from 15 seconds to 20 seconds; Hitting an enemy with a grapple melee that wasn't free now creates a Grapple Tangle
Class Ability - Marksman's Dodge
Increased ammo pickup radius from 10 meters to 15 meters
Class Ability - Gambler's Dodge
In PvP only, reduced melee energy gain from 50% to 35%
Medium Impact
Warlock Changes
Solar - Daybreak Super
Increased damage against combatants by 20%; Projectiles now Scorch enemies by default
Void - Nova Warp Super
Charging the primary attack now pulls enemies toward the Warlock; Increased primary attack damage against combatants by 15%; Dark Blink now releases Weakening seekers
High Impact
Void - Nova Bomb (Vortex)
Now repeatedly pulls enemies toward it during its lifetime
Arc - Stormtrance Super
Increased maximum sustained damage bonus from 50% to 65%; Increased landfall Jolt duration from 10 seconds to 16 seconds
Arc - Chaos Reach Super
Increased damage against combatants by 20%
Stasis - Winter's Wrath Super
Increased shatterwave damage against frozen targets by 210%
High Impact
Stasis - Frostpulse
Reduced player freeze radius from 7.5 meters to 5 meters; Now slows players between 5 meters and 8 meters
Medium Impact
Strand - Needlestorm Super
Needles now prioritize bosses, minibosses, and Champions over other enemies
Class Ability - All Rifts
Rifts can now be cast while moving (at roughly half-speed); Increased Rift radius from 3.75 meters to 5 meters
High Impact
Class Ability - Empowering Rift
Increased melee and grenade recharge rate while standing in Empowering Rift by 20%
Class Ability - Healing Rift
In PvP only, reduced healing rate by 10%
Titan Changes
Solar - Hammer Throw Melee
Impact damage now increases with range
Void - Sentinel Shield Super
Now grants Void Overshield to allies behind the shield; Damage bonus while behind shield reduced from 40% to 25%; Blocking attacks now extends Super lifetime; Blocking attacks and protecting allies now charges Shield Throw damage; Standing behind the shield now periodically reloads all weapons every 2.5 seconds (Note: Due to a late discovered issue, this auto-reload feature will go live in Update 9.5.0.1)
Arc - Fists of Havoc Super
Light attacks now increase the next heavy attack's damage
Stasis - Howl of the Storm
When used during Super, increased Super energy cost from 5% to 15%
Strand - Banner of War
Melee damage bonus against players now scales with stacks instead of always being at full strength
Weapons
v9.5.0
Global Updates
Artifact New Gear Bonus
Bonus weapon damage for New Gear weapons is now 5%; Bonus incoming damage reduction for equipping New Gear armor goes up to 10% (2% per equipped piece); All Exotics count as New Gear
Weapons vs Stasis Freeze
Increased Eriana's Vow and Leviathan's Breath bonus damage to frozen targets from 5% to 10%; Fixed issues with Forerunner, Micro-Missile Pulse Rifles, and New Malpais not dealing increased damage to frozen targets
Ammo System
PvE - Ammo Scout Mods
Reintroduced Ammo Scout mods on the helmet, which spawn an ammo brick for allies whenever you fill your corresponding meter
NEW
PvE - Ammo Generation
Assists with abilities now generate a small amount of ammo meter progress; Granting buffs to allies generates ammo meter progress when they land final blows while buffed
Increased Ammo Per Brick
Truth, Heir Apparent, The Colony, The Prospector, DARCI, Salvation's Grip, Heavy Burst Slug Shotguns, Rapid Fire Shotguns
PvP - Ammo Brick Lifetime
Increased lifetime of dropped ammo bricks from 30 seconds to 60 seconds
Weapon Types
Submachine Guns
General: Increased stability by 10% on controller; Lightweight: Increased ADS Damage Falloff Scalar from 1.4 to 1.45
Pulse Rifles - Rapid Fires
Increased base damage from 15 to 15.5, increased crit damage from 27.75 to 27.9
Bows - Recurve
Rescaled draw time to be slightly faster at base and less punishing if reduced; Reduced base draw time from 580 to 567
Bows - Compound
Rescaled draw time to be slightly faster at base; Reduced base draw time from 684 to 667
Fusion Rifles - PvE Damage
Precisions, Adaptives, Aggressives: Increased PvE bonus damage scalar from 2.5% to 6.7%; High Impacts: Increased PvE bonus damage scalar from 6.7% to 15%
High Impact
Shotguns - PvE Buffs
Rapid Fires: Added a 2.5% PvE bonus damage scalar; Lightweight: Increased damage per pellet from 22 to 23, increased PvE bonus damage from 12.5% to 15%; Aggressives: Increased damage per pellet from 26.7 to 28, increased PvE bonus damage from 12.5% to 20%
High Impact
Slug Shotguns - Pinpoint Slugs
Decreased damage against players by 6%
Snipers
Reduced flinch received from players by 40%
High Impact
Rocket Pulse Rifles
Reduced base reserve ammo from 18 to 14; Reduced ammo gained per enhanced special ammo pickup from 6 to 5
Swords
Empty Sword swings no longer scale with melee buffs; Reduced empty Sword swing damage dramatically
Exotic Weapons
Duality
Reduced hip fire spread by 6%
Chaperone
Changed to use the Rapid-Fire Slug frame damage and rate of fire profile
Revision Zero
Hunter's Trace rounds now create a small damaging shockwave and Exhaust targets on impact
Touch of Malice
Increased the amount of healing provided by the intrinsic perk; Reduced the number of kills needed to trigger healing in PvE; Activating Charged with Blight now fires the healing impulse
Suros Regime
Can now be special reloaded at-will to swap between Spinning Up and Dual-Speed Receiver behaviors; Added new hip-fire reticle elements; Grants bonus Special ammo progress with spun up kills while using Spinning Up; Grants bonus Heavy ammo progress on Dual-Speed Receiver kills while ADS
High Impact
Deathbringer
Reduced the spread of cluster munitions after they spawn
Collective Obligation
Added a very slow rate of leeching effects off unaffected targets, granting each effect in order (Volatile ? Weaken ? Suppression); Also charges the leech mode at the same rate
Black Talon
Heavy attack now suppresses on hit; if target is already suppressed, it spreads to nearby targets; Catalyst: On hit gives a 10% damage boost per void debuff on target for 2 seconds; Reduced heavy attack cost from 4 ammo to 3 ammo; Added Duelist's Trance trait; Increased max reserve ammo
High Impact
Symmetry
Now builds Bolt Charge with more than one stack of Dynamic Charge in alt fire mode; Grants more stacks at more than ten stacks; Can spend Bolt Charge with more than one stack; Increased base reload stat by 20
Ruinous Effigy
Catalyst now grants a 30% damage buff to the trace when killing anything with the orb or damaging a miniboss, boss, or Champion with an orb
Izanagi's Burden
Special Reload now scales with reload speed again
Deterministic Chaos
New Effect: Releasing the trigger after a Vexadecimal projectile now pulls 12 rounds into the magazine from reserves
Ace of Spades
Increased extra PvE damage bonus of Memento Mori from 18% to 30%; Firefly: Increased maximum damage in PvE from 65 to 100, increased minimum damage from 0 to 20, increased area of effect size from 6m to 7.5m, increased damage falloff start from 30% to 50%
High Impact
Osteo Striga
Reduced the cooldown of the poison burst on final blow from 4 seconds to 2 seconds
Still Hunt
Buffed Golden Gun damage while using Celestial Nighthawk by 40%; Allowed Sniper's Meditation (artifact mod) to buff Golden Gun shots
High Impact
Hawkmoon
Now gets a PvE damage bonus per stack of Paracausal Charge; Maxes out at 70% at eight stacks of Paracausal Charge; Does not include the final Paracausal Shot
Witherhoard
Reduced Break the Bank auto-load time from 3.5 seconds to 2 seconds
Worldline Zero
Fixed an issue where Tesseract was only hitting one instance of damage instead of the usual five; Increased damage instances via Tesseract from 5 to 7 (approximately 40% damage increase); Reduced time between instances from 0.66 seconds to 0.44 seconds; Reduced cost of chained Tesseract blinks from 20% Sword energy to 10% each
High Impact
Wolfsbane
Increased light attack damage by 8.5%; Increased nano assault duration from 10 seconds to 12 seconds; Increased Swarm-nado damage by approximately 20%; Retuned Axe Handles with increased damage resistance and linger time; Reduced internal cooldown on Subroutine: ~Recursion's extra nanites from 5 seconds to 2 seconds
Tessellation
Property: Undecidable - Final blows now grant 2.5% light and dark Transcendence energy and grant bonus time to Transcendence while active; Property: Irreducible - While Transcendence is active, special reload shots deal 25% more damage when combined with Transcendence damage buff; Catalyst: Increased applied Scorch stacks from 15 (+5) to 70 (+10) and Slow stacks from 30 to 80
New Malpais
Fixed an issue where kills would not proc relevant artifact perks or set bonuses; Reduced Super energy gains from detonation damage
Devil's Ruin
Added a tell in PvP when alt-fire is charged
Weapon Perks
Box Breathing
Now provides a flat 40% buff to precision damage to all existing weapon types and 30% to the new Heavy ammo Sniper; This works out to approximately a 10% buff for existing Snipers and LFRs
Rampage
Now loses only one stack after the timer expires (instead of all stacks)
High Impact
Shot Swap
Swap benefits are now more potent with new values: 0.7 ready speed multiplier (0.65 enhanced), 0.7 stow speed multiplier (0.65 enhanced); Maximum charges reduced from 8 to 6, but this is an overall increase in beneficial swaps
Sleight of Hand
Increased buff duration from 7 seconds to 8.5 seconds (9 enhanced); No longer need to swap to weapon within 5 seconds of a kill; Added a timer to HUD buff
Rangefinder
Now also provides +10 range while aiming down sights
Bray Legacy
Increased gains for rocket launchers to 17% per rocket from 10%; No longer activates from explosions caused by perks or from Gjallarhorn micro missiles
Bewildering Burst
Disorient duration increased from 0.5 seconds to 1.0 second against players; Enhanced duration increased from 0.7 seconds to 1.25 seconds
Exotic Armor
v9.5.0
Titan
Arbor Warden
Picking up three orbs charges up your next barricade; Charged barricade spawns a Y pattern of three of your selected barricade on detonation
Dunemarchers
Increased max chain count from 4 to 7; Each chain now gives 2 Bolt Charge stacks; Glaive melees can now also trigger the chain
High Impact
Ursa Furiosa
Will now properly grant Super energy if damage is blocked while player has an Overshield; Super energy stored is no longer scaled based on enemy difficulty; Super energy refund meter fill rate is doubled in at-Power activities
Second Chance
Now grants Shield Throw melee energy on Void Breach pickup; Now spawns Void Breaches on Shield Throw final blows; Now weakens on hit with the Sentinel Shield ranged attack
Armamentarium
Now grants 10% grenade energy on weapon final blow; Now reloads the player's equipped weapon when using a grenade ability
Lion Rampant
Now allows shooting while ADS when in Lift
Peacekeepers
Increased Mobility bonus from 25 to 30; Re-added ability to Swap-load SMGs
Hunter
Graviton Forfeit
Now grants +Grenade/Melee/Class ability scalars for a moderate duration each time you go invisible; Effect stacks up to three times; Effect time does not deplete while invisible; At 3x, successive triggers additionally grant a Void Overshield
High Impact
Omnioculus
Granting the effects of Beyond the Veil to allies now also starts their health and shield regen (applies to allies only, not the Hunter)
Orpheus Rig
Extended Super duration from 16 seconds to 20 seconds
Lucky Raspberry
Now always applies jolt on Arcbolt hits; Returns Arcbolt energy on applying or triggering jolt (from any source)
Gemini Jester
Increased disorient duration against players from 0.5 seconds to 1 second; Increased disorient duration against PvE combatants from 2 seconds to 3 seconds
Warlock
Nothing Manacles
Now spawns additional scatter seekers on scatter grenade kill; Charged Scatter Grenade Ability: Faster final projectile speed
Briarbinds
Now needs fewer kills to max out Void Soul damage bonus (decreased to 4 from 6); Void Soul now does more damage based on time deployed on target (up to 30% more damage after 10 seconds)
Winter's Guile - REWORK
Melee and Finisher final blows grant bonus melee damage; Melee final blows grant one stack, Finisher final blows grant three stacks; Maximum 10 stacks for +400% melee damage; Stacks are lost one at a time; At 10 stacks, immediately gain one melee charge and can enter Warlord's Rage when activating melee ability; While in Warlord's Rage: Dramatically increased melee regen speed, faster melee speed, melee damage bonus increases to +500%, lasts 10 seconds
High Impact
Stormdancer's Brace
While Stormtrance is equipped, now grants Bolt Charge for arc ability hits when Amplified; Stormtrance damage bonus now builds on hits instead of kills, increased max count to compensate
Mataidoxia
Hitting a target with five Needlestorm Super projectiles now also activates the Stylostixis suspending burst; The burst caused by the Super deals radically increased damage to all targets caught in the radius; This should allow Needlestorm to feel like a damage contender with Cuirass Thundercrash
High Impact
Armor Mods
v9.5.0
Armor Charge Decay
Equipping an armor mod that causes Armor Charge to decay now removes any current stack of Armor Charge if it wasn't already decaying (Note: This prevents the strategy of holding Armor Charge stacks and swapping to surge mods before damage phases)
Recuperation Mods
Reduced the stacking benefit of multiple Recuperation mods
Power and Progression
v9.5.0
Catch-Up Rewards
New rewards now drop at 300 Power or higher to catch all players up with Techsec Supply Drop rewards, even if they didn't claim it while available
NEW
Seasonal Power Persistence
Seasonal Power (Power above 200) will no longer reset with Renegades - players maintain their current Power level
NEW
Unstable Cores
Unstable Cores have been removed; Infusion continues to use Enhancement Cores and Glimmer
REMOVED
Additional Changes
v9.5.0
Localization
Voice-Over Updates
Added missing French and Spanish (Spain) voice-over for The Edge of Fate content; Fixed Banshee-44 sometimes delivering English voice lines in other languages
Player Identity and Expression
Universal Exotic Armor Ornaments
Players may now apply any owned Exotic Armor Ornament of the same class and slot to their Exotic armors in PvE activities (armors continue to show base aesthetic in PvP to avoid combat confusion)
NEW
Cosmetic Fixes
Fixed Competitive Spirit Gloves ornament having floating geometry; Fixed Net Purr Shell's pupil appearing incompletely filled on PlayStation 5; Fixed Extinction Orbit ornament missing decals; Fixed Taken Knife ornaments having minor glow obstructions; Fixed Stasis Entrance transmat missing VFX; Fixed hood visuals on Twisting Echo cloak
General Fixes
Various Bug Fixes
Fixed Year of Prophecy Ultimate Edition remaining permanently visible in Eververse Featured Carousel after purchasing; Fixed lootstream erroneously combining XP values; Implemented messaging notifying players that items from Edge of Fate Campaign Skip may be sent to Postmaster if inventory is full; PvE Notswap updated; Game credits updated; Legacy Achievements and Trophies updated; Fixed legacy Triumphs for Expert or Master Nightfalls not completing when expected; Fixed Testament of Strength quest from Iron Banner being stuck; Fixed Graviton Spike's lore tab being incorrect; Fixed Necrotic Grip VFX obscuring vision
Looking Ahead
The Edge of Fate content remains relevant within Year of Prophecy after Renegades launches. Players can continue farming Kepler loot through weekly featured missions and general farming up to tier five. All raids and dungeons remain fully farmable for both legendary and exotic loot without a featured weekly rotation.
The first major content milestone following launch arrives on December 13 with the Equilibrium dungeon. The Dawning follows shortly after on December 16, and Trials of Osiris returns on December 19. Bungie has indicated they will share ongoing plans through a roadmap in 2026.
Note
Update 9.5.0.1 is scheduled for the week after launch, which will include the Sentinel Shield auto-reload feature that was delayed due to a late-discovered issue. Players can expect continued bug fixes and adjustments as the development team monitors the expansion's launch.
