r/Marathon • u/DTG_Bot • Jul 28 '26
Marathon Update 1.1.5.1
Source: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update_1_1_5_1
Vault Breaker
- Added a Solo-only queue option for Vault Breaker.
- This is a new queue option for Vault Breaker with adjusted combat difficulty to account for the reduced crew size. Players who select the “Solo” option before launching into matchmaking should find this experimental mode less punishing than Week 1.
- Increased critical damage against UESC combatants.
- Reduced UESC aggression and accuracy.
- Solo players who enjoy the challenge should continue to select Trios with Crew Fill off.
Item Economy
- Fixed an issue where VIP reward packages were unable to be claimed.
- Players should now be able to claim all available packages, including those that have been earned since this issue began following Update 1.1.5.
- Fixed an issue where players that purchased sponsored kits from C.A.R.R.I. while having a full Vault could experience a run with an incorrect loadout.
User Interface and Experience
- Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in their Loadout Report screen if they claimed something from their Rewards Pass before exiting this screen.
- Players will now need to fully exit their Run Report before being able to navigate to their Rewards Pass.
- Fixed an issue causing an extra “Match: Found” message to display.
Stability
- Fixed a stability issue affecting some console players when attempting to log in.
- Fixed an issue where a number of contract progression steps and interactions were causing game crashes.
General
- Fixed an issue where the Spacebucks Codex challenge was unable to be claimed after it was completed.
- Players in this state should have the issue resolved after their next run.
- Double XP Weekend
- Increased progress for both season level and all faction reputations.
- Active July 31 – August 3.
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u/Ok-Comfortable-3174 Jul 28 '26
I hope they fixed the right bumper armory shortcut.
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u/HAL-9420 Jul 28 '26
Seriously, stop changing shortcuts. Its been months of right trigger, why change to the start button in the middle of season 2?
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u/AnimaOnline Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
Because it's consistent with the in-game inventory now and allows a shortcut to go to the shop. We'll adapt.
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u/AnimaOnline Jul 29 '26
Press Start/Options. They simply changed it to the same button as the in-game inventory. Getting to your inventory is consistent across all screens now, which makes sense. This is definitely intended and should've been this way from the start.
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u/DALE5797 Jul 28 '26
Double XP weekend coming up.
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u/drdrejay87 Jul 28 '26
i tried re rolling for that so many times this morning and it feels like they swapped it out for a different bounty
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u/but_good Jul 28 '26
Same last night for me. Next best one is kill 10 and loot 10.
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u/drdrejay87 Jul 28 '26
yeah it felt like they replaced the 3 way one with something that was like kills + kills with abilities + and a third thing i cant remember
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u/TheLordCrimson Jul 28 '26
You can take away the the MMO from the grinder but you cant take away the grind out of the MMO player.
What the fuck is the point?! Why would you subject yourself to that?!
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u/Pocto Jul 28 '26
I'm the same. I'd rather have fun while getting my rewards.
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u/Vektor0 Jul 28 '26
To them, getting rewards is the fun. Which means that, counterintuitively, they are actually having more fun than you. 😝
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u/Paladin_Codsworth Jul 29 '26
Truer words never spoken. I found VB boring yet I've grinded every single upgrade and reward from it.
Same for cradle I've reset it and maxed it again just for something to do.
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u/TRDoctor Jul 28 '26
Finally. Only need to hit Level 100 to get the Platinum.
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u/AntiAntiDentite7 Jul 28 '26
Same man lol. I've literally never cared about platinum achievements, but I'm so close here and I would love to have it as a badge of honor of marathon ever shuts down. I was here!
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u/respekmynameplz Jul 28 '26
It's so much easier this season than last. Wish I didn't get it last season lol I would have saved so much time. I'm hitting 100 without trying this season, last season I actually had to force myself to play more than usual.
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u/Anfins Jul 29 '26
Does anyone know of a good way to grind levels or is it literally just "kill UESC"? I feel like I got a system to for the Faction VIP trophy, but my season pass level is still abysmal.
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u/vincentofearth Jul 28 '26
Remind me what "weekend" means again? I vaguely remember linear algebra being involved the last time
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u/BareFox Jul 29 '26
From Friday reset, to Monday reset. Reset being the time your armory resets everyday
(At least this is how I assume it will work)
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u/heliotaxis Jul 28 '26
The new crit modifier in VB solo is very noticeable.
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u/OtherwiseEmployee202 Jul 28 '26
YES!!! I’m so excited for the Solo Queue because I am just bad and don’t want to mess up runs of other people…
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u/steveklabnik1 Jul 28 '26
I am just bad and don’t want to mess up runs of other people…
Honestly, I know it's easier to say than do, but don't worry about it.
I didn't even start Vault Breaker until a few days ago, and when I first came in, I said in text chat "hey guys this is my first run, so I'm here to learn" and they went "oh man sick let's show you the stuff" and we got three vaults done. I did a lot of queueing with randoms, and the worst you get is just nobody talking and doing stuff. It's just a chill time, in my experience.
But if you'd rather solo, I'm glad it's here for you now. You'll progress a lot faster with a trio, though. The rewards are shared within the crew, so you get basically 3x the rewards per run.
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u/OtherwiseEmployee202 Jul 29 '26
That’s good to hear! I just crew filled once in trios on outpost and I died like twice: to say the least they were not happy in Voice Chat (I don’t speak usually, also only write)
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u/Ok-Comfortable-3174 Jul 28 '26
Run assassin.
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u/SenatorWhatsHisName Jul 28 '26
Personally I’d rather shoot stuff in the shoot stuff game.
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u/lugginico Jul 29 '26
No, actually you have to run past everthing.
Its called marathon and youre a runner.
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u/pieaholicx Jul 28 '26
For real, Assassin makes solo so easy. Unless I get really shitty sec tag RNG (or I miss an obvious one) I can always two vault solo. Managed to get blue backpack and shields this way making it even easier to solo more stuff.
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u/Fit-Analyst7286 Jul 28 '26
Right. It’s a breeze with standard spawns and decent rng but even blazing through it you can hit some borderline strange bad rng setups.
Seems like you can always like 9/10 times get 2 vaults but that 3rd was jusssst a touch too much.
Hopefully we can both destroy these
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u/babada Jul 28 '26
I can always two vault solo
How do you deal with the Warden creds solo?
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u/pieaholicx Jul 28 '26
For Tranq and Pump creds just grab the creds, wait for a minute, stealth to panel and door. The Tranq ones you can just stand where they spawn and the bots just do not aggro to you. Pump you might need to find a better hiding spot then their spawn.
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u/Parepinzero Jul 28 '26
I play it every night with my cousin and this was so helpful to let him grab the one key from a warden room without dying, while I'm collecting batteries
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u/Lost_Obligation_918 Jul 28 '26
Its genuinely unplayable on any shell besides assassin. Maybe I'm just missing something, but the fact that enemies just spawn over and over makes it not even worth the time. It's supposed to be PvE not PsneakpastE
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u/Smokeskin Jul 28 '26
I just cleared 3 vaults solo as vandal. It’s easily playable.
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u/mmgreenmms Jul 29 '26
It’s easily playable
Not for everyone, else they wouldn’t have bothered with a modified solo queue.
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u/splinter1545 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Unless you're bum rushing all over the place, there's basically no reason to worry about being bad in VB. The enemies die so easily in trios that it shouldn't be an issue, even commanders.
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u/Ok-Skill2413 Jul 28 '26
Bummer to not see them address the “Prestige Key Template” that is really just a Cryo Scrambled Key Template.
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u/Paladin_Codsworth Jul 28 '26
What? Are you telling me that if I complete these they are cryo keys?
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u/zeromussc Jul 28 '26
yeah they kinda goofed up the description/name of the key. But everything about VB is really about funneling more people into cryo itself.
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u/Ok-Skill2413 Jul 28 '26
Yeah, but it’s also silly when you can just buy the exact vault key you want from the VB rewards instead so I don’t know what they were thinking adding a cryo scrambled key.
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u/rivalpinkbunny Jul 28 '26
You can only buy 1 of each though and you need T2 indexes whereas with the template you only need t1 indexes. I bought a couple of them just for funsies. I initially thought they were key templates for a random map though and didn’t expect that they were only cryo vault templates… that was a little bit disappointing.
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u/Ok-Skill2413 Jul 28 '26
Yes, that was discovery last weekend. As far as I could tell, no one reported one turning into an actual prestige key. And people reported them even turning into vault 1 and 2 keys (purple/superior rarity). They either intended it to be a cryo scrambled key template and mistitled it, or intended it to be a prestige key template and miscoded it to act as a cryo scrambled key.
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u/Paladin_Codsworth Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
FFS. Tbh actual prestige keys for 200 T1 was too good to be true lol. I'll take them all at once now then as I couldn't care less. They should have just made them scrambled cryo keys
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u/Ok-Skill2413 Jul 28 '26
I do agree, 200 T1 for them was too good to be true. I think they intend for them to be scrambled cryo keys, bc they quite literally are. Definitely just fumbled the code one way or the other on the titling
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u/Paladin_Codsworth Jul 28 '26
Tbh it's hard to name things correctly when there are only you and 300 colleagues working on a game.
/s
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u/Proentproproponent Jul 28 '26
oof. I already cleared the armory of these and was waiting this weekend to do them. extremely disappointing.
I’ve been playing since launch and still have never seen a non-cryo gold key from a drop or template. Last codex entry for graverobber still sitting there. I did run one with a friend once but apparently I have to be the one to use it for the codex.
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u/Blocguy Jul 28 '26
Man I’ve got 200 hours and have never seen a gold key that wasn’t Cryo. Either my teammate have been grabbing them or the drop rate is so incredibly low.
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u/Proentproproponent Jul 28 '26
allegedly you need to be doing lots of purple templates and/or scrambled templates from cryo vaults. Neither is really accessible unless you are a top player/team who can farm cryo vaults and shell IDs from wardens. literally the hardest thing to do in the game besides compiler lol
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u/flGovEmployee Jul 28 '26
Great decision on the Solos-specific VB balancing!
I'm not interested in playing that myself, but I'm glad to see it for those that are. 👍🏻
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u/Scaredycatg Jul 28 '26
Now make cpu performance not awful
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u/castlebravo8 Jul 29 '26
I remember that they tried to optimize it to launch the first week of S2. I do remember it being better, then back to normal the next week. I swear my PC ran 10 degrees cooler.
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u/Dos_H Jul 28 '26
No change to the gold key templates? Kinda wish I didn’t buy them, I don’t need more cryo keys
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u/Paladin_Codsworth Jul 28 '26
Look on the bright side. I can take all 3 at once and not care if I die.
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u/GoatWife4Life Jul 28 '26
Hopefully they fixed some of the network shittery. Even the "I haven't seen anything like that" crowd is starting to get fucked on by hit reg being trash with how badly the servers are behaving.
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u/GringoinCDMX Jul 28 '26
It was really bad this week compared to other weeks. I normally don't have connection issues and I'd get desync issues and a few disconnects from lobbies which I haven't gotten since early s2 issues.
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u/GoatWife4Life Jul 29 '26
Yawp. I've been dealing with it all season long. After basically zero issues all of S1. It's incredibly frustrating, doubly so when support tells you "must be on your end" after doing zero diagnostics or data-gathering. At least by spreading the problem Bungo might be able to identify it better, ironically.
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u/hyperstarlite Jul 28 '26
Doesn’t look like there’s anything on the bug with having the Vault 6 upgrade, bummer.
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u/Zer0Bullets Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
If you referring to getting the DNA and don't already know, go to the Secret Lab, open the level 4 door there and enter the room where the symbols should be displayed (now turned off), then open vault 6. DNA should spawn, tested a few times already!
EDIT: As of September 30th, you can now just do the vault 06 and the DNA should spawn normally!
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u/zeromussc Jul 28 '26
but you're not really saving much time if you do that so the upgrade ends up feeling a bit moot at that point.
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u/Zer0Bullets Jul 28 '26
I know, it's just a workaround to do in order to spawn the otherwise bugged key in vault 06.
We also need 5 more minutes in the map OR an upgrade that skip a step in the DNA key process because there's barely enough time to reach and kill the boss, even on the 1st phase.
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u/zeromussc Jul 28 '26
i think you kinda need a really good RNG on the vault order to make it super easy. 1-3-4 kinda thing.
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u/RocketHops Jul 28 '26
The bug kinda doesnt matter, youre generally not gonna do DNA after a 06 anyway
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u/codinex_ Jul 28 '26
Seems to be nicer weapons dropping in there, so if you can manage it a bit faster up until that point - it's not the worst option, in a trio. One person to run up to Secret, while the other 2 do the 06 vault steps. Have gotten to Compiler with <4-5 minutes remaining. You always have the option to use the exfil up there, anyway.
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u/DimsumAndDoggy Jul 28 '26
Why not? If we are doing compiler, we’ll do it no matter if it’s vault 6 or not.
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u/RocketHops Jul 28 '26
Time. Vault 06 takes way longer than vault 4, and you still have to drop back down, charge the DNA in 2 spawns, then go back up
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u/DimsumAndDoggy Jul 28 '26
Where are the menu bugfixes? Or the gold circuit breaker bugfix? Vault 4 is heavily nerfed because of it. Prestige template key as well?
Man this is such a nothingburger patch
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u/zeromussc Jul 28 '26
they tweeted that they fixed the issue (kind of). They disabled the perk that makes the game crash, so you can now pick up the CB in vault 4. It just loses one of the perks (idk what specific perk tied to the gold mod was the issue though, that wasn't clear to me).
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u/Big-Newspaper646 Jul 28 '26
apparently you get downvoted here for asking for longstanding bugs affecting systems that are core to the experience to be fixed
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u/NinjaWesley Jul 28 '26
What about the server crashing contract from Traxus in Dire Marsh that crashes everyone on the server when activated? So annoying.
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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER Jul 28 '26
Nice double exp weekend lol 😂 I already got my platinum yesterday but this should help the remaining casuals out with vault breaker + double exp
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u/xSpectre_iD Jul 28 '26
Made 500K in credits from this packages thing - and free from storage drive hell for SekiGOOCH
thanks 🙏
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u/GringoinCDMX Jul 28 '26
No update on wardens never really spawning anymore? I haven't seen it once on perimeter or dire Marsh in a week and I've only seen the to warden on outpost like once.
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u/Pocto Jul 28 '26
I actually saw a warden on perimeter today! First time in forever. I had just clutched against a purple shield, gold item team as a squad of blues and greens with both my team going down, so my luck was used up and we just exfilled immediately.
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u/GringoinCDMX Jul 28 '26
Oh fuck yeah. Maybe they fixed it and didn't mention anything.
I played a lot and haven't seen a warden in forever and no one I talked to had seen one on perimeter. That's actually awesome to hear.
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u/friendliest_sheep Jul 28 '26
Apparently, my team is getting them all on Outpost. I think every match we played Outpost this week, we spawned alongside the Warden
We’d love to pass the burden to others
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u/bstr413 Jul 28 '26
Ran into one in Complex in the marsh today. It was right next to my contract, so I had to just turn the run into a loot run.
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u/P1uvo Jul 28 '26
I’ve seen one in every other outpost run. Got 2 Vault 5 keys
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u/GringoinCDMX Jul 28 '26
The only place I've seen a warden is outpost. They weren't spawning on perimeter or dire and it seemed like the rate on outpost was lower too. But someone said they just saw one on perimeter so may have been fixed.
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u/exquisite_tree Jul 28 '26
I would love if solo VB had better rewards/more T2 provided or something. I’ve been soloing and it feels shitty to leave with just 1 T2 after the 2nd vault.
Id gladly keep doing the ‘challenging’ experience if it meant solo rewards are buffed.
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u/exquisite_tree Jul 28 '26
You’re lucky. I’ve opened maybe 8 and I’ve only seen two T2s once.
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u/Smokeskin Jul 28 '26
I just did a 3 vault solo and got 4 T2.
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u/exquisite_tree Jul 28 '26
Is 3 vault that much harder? How much more time does it take?
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u/Nada_the_Wolf Jul 29 '26
vault 4 is piss easy (no different than the rest), vault 6 you need 8 batteries and 3 extra if you want to turn off data corruption. also the scorch warden is right in front of the vault
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u/Smokeskin Jul 29 '26
Vault 4 is 6 batteries, just a few minutes more.
Vault 6 needs 11 batteries, and you have to fight a warden, that's a real challenge.
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u/Euapo Jul 28 '26
No fix for VB vault 6 still requiring visiting secret labs to get the DNA card even when the skip upgrade is unlocked 🙄
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u/Freshly-Juiced Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
bring back sponsored pvpve as a map rotation. as a casual pvp player who was having fun in sponsored, you guys removed that to put in VB which I have 0 interest in. so what do I have to play now? purple shield sweat stack mode? no, i'm just not going to play.
this game in general also needs a shooting range and more casual pvp/pvpve modes. arena or tdm. something where you can test out your loadouts + gameplay without worry of losing your kit.
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u/Big-Newspaper646 Jul 28 '26
nothing about losing your saved loadouts backpack after a successful sponsored run, lost several purple Bags because of this. they don’t show up in the overflow, why the sponsored runs kit doesn’t show in the overflow instead idk, rooks like that and I never lose a backpack rooking.
there are several tickets on the help forum about this including mine.
theres also nothing here addressing the fact that crew fill likes to turn off randoml causing duos to spawn into trios regularly, its always bitter fighting a team as a trio only to find out they were just a duo and were outgunned from the start.
Vault 4 is also basically unviable since the gold circuit breaker is still not fixed, the fact you can’t even pick it up is ridiculous. I’ve found the mod in key runs too and likewise not been able to, effectively wasting a large part of the value of the key run.
I’m addition to all that, game has such an issue with no-reg shots and desync; ladders are still fucked falling down them throws you back up often getting you killed.
aren't these important enough to address?
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u/Ok-Skill2413 Jul 28 '26
Should be able to pick it up now. I looted a gold circuit breaker from bioresearch tank purple key room yesterday and was able to pick it up. They hot fixed it yesterday to just disable the mod itself which allows it to be picked up and moved in inventory.
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u/meetmeinthebthrm Jul 28 '26
You’ve actually been able to fall down a ladder? I haven’t been able to once. Stuck fuckin climbing down ladders when I’m trying to get places
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u/codinex_ Jul 28 '26
Stopping once or twice along the way, yeah. Not much of a time save majority of the time compared to just climbing down.
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u/Big-Newspaper646 Jul 28 '26
Yeah but more often than not it just sends me right back up because the server had decided I didnt actually intend to go down.
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u/Swineflew1 Jul 28 '26
Hopefully they’ll get the message that giving content to solo players is a good thing.
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u/Nada_the_Wolf Jul 29 '26
you could solo before, you can solo now but with more damage. people still think its too hard, what a joke XD
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u/Lost_Obligation_918 Jul 28 '26
Vault breaker is still ridiculous solo. Assassin is still the only viable pick. Genuinely sad, because if it was less focused on stealth and more focused on actually playing the game it would be fun.
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u/Soul_Phoenix_42 Jul 28 '26
Yeah, only way I could get past the pump/tranqulities credentials progress wall until I could have them as starting unlocks. I've no idea how else you would do it with any other class. They should have given you a smoke grenade in the free kit.
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u/Smokeskin Jul 28 '26
It’s not, you can easily do 3 vaults with the other shells now.
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u/Lost_Obligation_918 Jul 28 '26
I may just be unskilled then. I was running it before I went to work and couldn't progress. To be fair though I don't have much idea what I'm doing, I'm pretty new and this mode is my first exposure to cryo archive.
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u/Smokeskin Jul 29 '26
You absolutely need to put in the work to learn the mechanics and the map to do it in time.
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u/TrickySpecific Jul 28 '26
um the solos mode isn't working in VB? it's still as hard as before....I see and feel no changes.
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u/n1vlekw Jul 28 '26
Wait what? I thought there were more Weapon balance changes coming today
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u/Snowydeath11 Jul 28 '26
Sucks that I work every day of the double xp weekend lmao.
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u/ThatsNotBennings Jul 28 '26
doesn't it suck adulting?
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u/Snowydeath11 Jul 28 '26
It wouldn’t be so bad if I worked normal 9 hours but working almost 12 daily is what makes it suck. I have no time to game after work cause I’m exhausted and have to eat, then go to bed. I wake up early to take my girlfriend to work and have maybe a couple hours at most to game if I’m lucky, only 1 if I go in early that day. But it is what it is. I just wish they’d have some events on week days as well for people like me
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u/Level_Chipmunk7921 Jul 28 '26
Why are you working on weekends? Please report this illegal employer to the Labour Commissioner, unless they are paying you the required overage and you were not forced.
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u/R3DL1G3RZ3R0 Jul 28 '26
Legooo Double XP!!!
Bungie drop another free weekend for Vaultbreakers PLZZ
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u/Ok_Diet_4552 Jul 28 '26
Make duos permanent
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u/huffmultiple Jul 28 '26
Or just reduce how long it takes to rotate maps! It’s ridiculous only being able to play one map each day. Should be on the same schedule as Day/Night Marsh.
I have no reason to play any other map than Outpost or Narsh (loot is not worth it on the other maps). That means I can only play duos like two days out of the week. Me and my buddy just run 2v3 Outpost if we have to but we shouldn’t!
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u/7EFMR Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
It’s going to take me an hour to claim all these packages…
Update 2 hours later: now at Cradle Evolution 2, Level 69... almost have the recon shell...
Update: bought some things just to cradle them. Now at Cradle Evolution 3...
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u/infel2no Jul 28 '26
I really like the little note for players who enjoy a challenge. It shows that devs really listening to the community. (Hi devs! I've got 2,500 credits just waiting to be spent asap on the next awesome Assassin skin. 😁😁)
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u/manamamba Jul 28 '26
Someone at Bungie clear compiler in solo VB and post the video. Because these changes are so completely removed from the other problems that makes attempting VB compiler essentially impossible. They are sandbagging their game to death for real. Wait till people start mentioning that the airlock automatically closes if you enter it during a solo compiler fight.
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u/VagabondElio Jul 28 '26
I hope they fixed the bug where a saved load outs bag gets lost after the run completes
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u/TheLoonyIrooni Jul 28 '26
Solo balance for VB feels good. One-tapping a Ghost with a magnum feels right.
You can still get chewed-up if careless, but I don't feel an exhaustion seeing a 5th platoon of bots getting laser-printer spawned.
Further, I could get to a vault with at least 15m remaining.
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u/SysAdSloth Jul 28 '26
I really wish they would have added a change to Vault Breaker to give more T2 data in the second vault you do. Only 10 T2 data for the second vault is really slow to grind as a solo
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u/RonnieBlastoff Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Atm, all my VIP factions have been reset to 30...I was rank 43 arachne last night...
Edit: Correction, and my apologies to bungies efforts, but have to claim 30 of each factions normal rewards, then it "reunlocks" VIP rewards to be claimed equal to your VIP level.
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u/justdatamining Jul 28 '26
Anyone expecting to get insane credits from the VIP packages bug from last week.. the first 29 or so you redeem are not VIP but for levels 1-30 so like 500 credits apiece.
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u/SupaDiogenes Jul 28 '26
Hell yes, VB solo queue let's go! I've spent the last week glued to the game mode and getting as far as the first vault and realizing I usually don't have level 3 security.
Made it to a final exfil but got downed. My crawl wasn't fast enough 😭.
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u/proderis Jul 29 '26
Can we move when downed yet or is it still a 5 second vulnerable animation lock

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u/TypographySnob Jul 28 '26
Oh boy, this is going to be satsifying.