Destiny 2 Update 9.7.0.2: Full Patch Notes Breakdown

Destiny 2 Update 9.7.0.2 just dropped, and for many Guardians this feels like a genuine last goodbye from Bungie’s dev team. The patch lands as the game’s likely final major update following the Monument of Triumph content launch, targeting some of the most beloved exploits the community has been running wild with since June 9, alongside a massive list of bug fixes, balance tweaks, and quality-of-life improvements. Here’s everything that changed.

• Destiny 2 Update 9.7.0.2 released June 23, 2026, and weighs approximately 131 MB on Steam.
• The crossbow boss yeet glitch has been patched, shutting down the Ward of Dawn exploit used to fling Pantheon bosses off maps.
• The Stackening artifact perk stacking exploit has been fixed, ending the era of seven-stack infinite damage builds.
• Truth Exotic Rocket Launcher has been nerfed, dropping from 14 to 10 maximum ammo reserves.
• One Thousand Voices, Fafnir, and Tarrabah catalyst progression bugs have been fixed.
• Bungie’s community team has indicated a smaller follow-up update may still come, but only for severe game-breaking issues.
• Sony remains firm on ending Destiny 2 with no Destiny 3 currently greenlit.

The Boss Yeet Glitch Is Gone: “They Shall Yeet No More”

If you’ve been on Destiny 2 YouTube or Reddit at all since Monument of Triumph launched, you’ve probably seen the clips. Players discovered that a Void Titan with a crossbow could shoot bolts into the core of a Ward of Dawn bubble, then pick up the bubble. That pickup interaction caused a wildly unintended physics reaction that flung anything near it across the map at high speed, including raid and Pantheon bosses like Morgeth, Koregos, Argos, and Insurrection Prime. Once a boss left the map, the game’s encounter logic would register it as defeated and hand out Spoils of Conquest, Catalysts, and top-tier gear without a real fight.

Update 9.7.0.2 addressed it directly in the patch notes, with Bungie even giving it a line in the official notes: “They shall yeet no more.” The fix closes out one of the most chaotic farming methods the community has ever found, and it’s bittersweet timing given how close to end of service the game is.

Vow of the Disciple Raid Loot Table in Destiny 2

The Stackening Is Over

Monument of Triumph’s reworked artifact system gave players access to all seven historical artifacts simultaneously, and players quickly discovered that duplicate perks could be stacked across those artifact slots. The result was builds running seven copies of the same modifier at once. Thundercrash with seven stacks of Thunderous Retort was one-phasing raid bosses. Threadlings with Pack Tactics stacked seven deep became a boss-erasing swarm. The community named it the Stackening, and it was genuinely hilarious to watch.

Bungie’s own official stance before the patch reflected that. The team publicly acknowledged the exploit with something close to appreciation, saying they found the videos quite hilarious and were planning a fix but encouraging players to go ahead and have fun with Atheon in the meantime. That grace period is now over. Update 9.7.0.2 fixes the artifact perk duplication restriction, meaning builds are back to one copy of each perk maximum.

Destiny 2 Update 9.7.0.2 Full Patch Notes

Activities

• Fixed an issue in Operation: Seraph’s Shield causing players with uncapped framerate settings to die unexpectedly.
• Fixed an issue in Ketchcrash where the activity could get soft-locked by enemies spawning behind doors.

Raids and Pantheon

• Fixed an issue in the Consecrated Mind encounter where players tethering at outer pylons would gain the Enlightened buff incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue where players could skip to the damage phase on Argos by exploiting Joining Allies.
• Fixed teleport points for the Calus challenge feat to reduce fatal landing locations.
• Fixed an issue where Calus would wipe players after they had successfully completed his Last Stand.
• Fixed an issue in Salvation’s Edge where armor was not granted when purchasing from the Master mode vendor.
• Fixed an issue where some of the Witness’ animations would not play properly in Salvation’s Edge.
• Fixed an issue in Garden of Salvation where Pit of Heresy items were incorrectly dropping from the final encounter.
• Fixed Master modes for Vault of Glass, Crota’s End, and King’s Fall not appearing in Fireteam Finder.

Dungeons

• Fixed an issue in Duality where craftable weapons were dropping as tiered weapons.
• Fixed un-tiered item drops from the focusing chests in Vesper’s Host and Sundered Doctrine.

Armor and Armor Set Bonuses

• Fixed Stasis turrets from Stasis Shatter Grenade not inheriting Rime-Coat Raiment effects.
• Fixed the Ex Diris and Mothkeeper’s Wraps interaction to work at all times, not just when active moth charges are present.
• Fixed Shinobu’s Vow enhanced skip grenades not skipping off surfaces correctly.
• Fixed Vesper of Radius not blinding targets on Arc subclass.
• Fixed Shards of Galanor knife explosions playing inconsistently over the network.
• Reduced the Frostees Exotic Frost Armor generation rate in PvP.
• Fixed some Pit of Heresy armor dropping with an Armor 2.0 masterwork, making it un-upgradable.
• Fixed the Pit of Heresy four-piece set bonus looping and instantly igniting targets. Scorch reduced from 30+10 to 20+10.
• Fixed the Moon two-piece set bonus causing memory issues.
• Fixed the Exodus Down two-piece Emergency Electromagnet perk not triggering more than once per life.
• Fixed Grasp of Avarice’s four-piece set bonus granting incorrect orb size and making Tangles deal more damage than Supers.
• Reduced King’s Fall two-piece set bonus ammo progress: Special ammo bonus reduced by 70%, Heavy ammo bonus reduced by 75%.
• Reworked the Pale Heart two-piece set bonus to provide a static amount of Light and Dark Transcendence energy per Stack ‘Em Up stack.

Weapons

• Fixed Ergo Sum’s vortex heavy attack costing six ammo instead of four.
• Fixed Hierarchy of Needs not gaining Guidance Energy from precision damage on players.
• Fixed Turncoat being unable to damage objects like Gunpowder Gamble while empowered.
• Fixed One Thousand Voices, Fafnir, and Tarrabah catalysts not progressing.
• Reduced Truth Exotic Rocket Launcher maximum ammo reserves from 14 to 10.
• Fixed crossbow bolts displacing bosses by attaching to pickable objects.
• Fixed Cynosure Rocket Launcher not dropping with extra traits on higher tier versions.
• Fixed Helmsman Sniper Rifle’s Accelerated Assault not working as expected.
• Fixed Europa and Moon Rocket Launchers dropping with Lead from Gold (a Special ammo-only perk). Updated to Impromptu Ammunition.
• Fixed Lingering Dread Grenade Launcher not benefitting from the Discord perk.
• Fixed certain Adept weapons dropping from raids out of sync with their base versions. Adept perks in players’ inventories have been updated retroactively.
• Fixed the non-enhanced version of Forge’s Kin not gaining increased benefits from multiple Black Armory weapons equipped.

Abilities and Artifacts

• Fixed Hunter’s Lethal Current Aspect activating multiple times on a single attack, causing PvP one-shots.
• Fixed Hunter’s Void Snare melee not unlocking after meditation. Affected players should meditate again to resolve.
• Fixed Hunter’s Crackshot Aspect not properly targeting enemies with the Medusa bane active.
• Fixed Hunter’s Smoke Bomb not applying proper Invisibility on Prismatic.
• Fixed artifact perks ignoring the “no duplicates” restriction under certain conditions. This closes the Stackening exploit.
• Fixed Vile Weave artifact perk on the Tablet of Ruin not reducing Tangle cooldowns.
• Fixed Unto the Breach artifact perk not providing benefits on Prismatic subclasses.

General and Eververse

• Some Titan Mark ornaments were incorrectly dropping from the Warlock Bond Focused Engram. Moved to the correct Titan Mark Focused Engram.
• Skatepunk Skimmer now properly appears in Collections.
• Fixed Titan’s Gauntlets of the New Pilgrim Guard nearly blocking first-person visibility.
• Fixed Hunter’s Atrament Sleeves having a detached thumb covering.
• Fixed Hunter’s Triumphal Anthem Mask appearing dented or warped.
• Fixed sights on the Beast Magic ornament for Bad Juju being extremely difficult to see through.
• Iridescent Engrams can now be exchanged for Eververse Engrams in the Bright Engram Focusing tab.
• Updated Old Lights and Toast to the Monument emblems to their final visuals.
• Fixed the Conqueror emblem not displaying its name and not appearing in Collections.
• Fixed Solo Ops attunement sometimes selecting the wrong weapon.
• Xûr now has a chance to sell Imperial Decree, Goldtusk, Death’s Razor, and Throne-Cleaver via Strange Engrams. These are un-tiered but can have patterns unlocked via Deepsight Harmonizers.
• Fixed the Pantheon accessory set (Orbiter Ship, Far-Traveling Shell, Gilded Record Sparrow) not appearing in Collections.
• Added the Motorsport Shell, Extreme G-force Ship, and Aerodynamic Chassis to Special Deliveries as a free-to-claim set for all players to celebrate the return of SRL.
• Fixed the PvP suspension timer displaying incorrect remaining time.
• Fixed Eververse offers not appearing in the iOS Destiny 2 Companion app.
• Fixed certain Archived Pass items from Episodes: Echoes, Revenant, and Heresy not contributing to completion counters.

What Comes After Update 9.7.0.2?

Bungie community manager Dylan Gafner has confirmed that a follow-up update may still come down the line, but with a much more limited scope. From this point forward, the team’s triage logic is essentially: fix it if it’s genuinely game-breaking, leave it if touching it risks causing bigger problems. Widespread crashes and severe server issues would qualify for attention. A weapon perk behaving slightly off or a minor visual glitch won’t make the cut. As Gafner put it, any fix now requires weighing whether the correction could break something else entirely, and with no active development pipeline to catch new regressions, that’s a real risk every time.

Bungie’s own line on the final patch state is blunt: some bugs will become permanent features of Destiny 2’s final build. New exploits discovered after this point could stick forever. It’s a strange kind of legacy for a game this size, but it’s the reality of winding down a live service title.

Where Does Destiny’s Future Stand?

Despite renewed player enthusiasm around Monument of Triumph, Destiny 2’s long-term future remains bleak. Sony, which acquired Bungie in 2022, appears firm in its decision to end Destiny 2 and has not greenlit any new Destiny projects for the foreseeable future. Whether that changes depends entirely on whether Sony reconsiders its position on the franchise, something the player community has been lobbying for actively, including a circulating petition pushing for Destiny 3 development. For now, Guardians have what they have, and Update 9.7.0.2 is almost certainly the last major effort to keep that experience as clean as possible.

For the full official patch notes straight from Bungie, the official Bungie patch notes page has the complete list, and the Destiny 2 Team on X is where update announcements typically land first.

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