Destiny 2 is gearing up for the upcoming DLC for The Phantom of the Phantom, with prep missions rolling out towards the end of the season. The overall response from players has been good so far, but a glitch has caused many players to be annoyed: after completing a final mission called “The Exorcism,” the Guardians found that the game often only gets progress for the leader of the Fire Squad, but not the other members. Can’t get progress.
Operations studio Bungie has fixed the issue to some extent for now but admits it’s just a botched temporary patch. They hope to roll out an “appropriate” fix if they can be sure that it won’t affect the content of this new expansion. Bungie community manager Dmg04 explained it in a thread on the Destiny Reddit forum.
He said: “Our team has been trying to resolve issues with the ‘Exorcism’ mission since Tuesday morning. While they have been able to identify some of the causes of the issue, we are currently unable to release a hotfix. In the final stages of preparation and release, patches may cause some issues that we don’t want to introduce (in the extension).”
This means that players can play and trigger missions normally in most cases, and the problem has been temporarily resolved. What’s interesting is what caused the problem, and why Bungie is currently unable to “properly” fix it.
Dmg04 explains: “Sometimes, mission objectives require specific things to happen in the mission, depending on what happens when enemies are spawned or in your surroundings while the player is playing. For example, one of the trigger points in this mission requires a demon The clanship completes its flight path as it attacks the Awakened building.”
“Somehow, the fiend ship spawned in the ground so it couldn’t move or reach the ‘checkpoints’ needed for the mission to proceed. Strangely, this didn’t show up in playtests unless the player specifically jumped on its demons and force them to fly away from their intended path!”
To summarize the cause of the problem is that an alien spaceship was born in stone and got stuck in it. The spaceship is stuck in the stone and cannot complete the originally set task trigger, which also causes the player to be unable to continue the task. And Bungie didn’t do hotfixes because it was afraid that the potential chain reaction would lead to more bugs.