Destiny 2The new IV-cap system – often referred to by the community as gun sun – no longer exists, assistant game director Joe Blackburn announced Thursday. In a post on Bungie’s website detailing the major changes for the game, Blackburn revealed that players no longer need to worry about losing their favorite weapons to the sands of time.
In Blackburn’s post, he noted that the team believes moving the weapon meta is key to keeping Destiny alive, but the team has gone too far in undergoing weapons. Starting next season, guns will no longer see an IV cap after a year. Anything that players can use now, that did not set at the start of the season of the Chosen, will permanently retain its functionality.
This change has two important caveats. To keep the balance, Bungie will reign in some current outliers that would otherwise have been sunset later this year, most notably Warmind Cell builds and the Felwinter’s Lie shotgun. Blackburn also revealed plans for a meta-shifting system down the line – something that will help Bungie achieve his goal of getting players to try new weapons. However, the studio isn’t ready to talk about its plans, and players won’t hear more until after that The Witch Queen expansion in early 2022.
If you’re not familiar with drip and infusion caps, Guardians can feed powerful weapons they don’t want to their favorite weapons, bringing their desired weapon to a more useful power level, allowing them to use it in more difficult encounters. Infusion that limits payers’ ability to do so. Sunsetting weapons after a year and limiting the highest power level they can have basically made the weapons useless for raids, dungeons, Nightfalls, or anything else of high difficulty.
After the announcement in early 2020, the studio implemented sunsetting Beyond light, which removes years of weapons from the pool at once. But in recent months, players have started to feel that their weapons don’t matter that much, hence the change of sunset.
While Guardians should still expect some system to hinder the constant use of the same weapons for years to come, it should be much kinder than the sunset system Bungie launched in Beyond light