Bungie is eradicating the requirement to finish a troublesome, time-consuming goal for this week’s Season of Plunder story quest in Destiny 2. The quest goal to “defeat 50 Champions” will auto-complete for gamers, permitting them to advance the search ahead rather more simply.

Bungie made the announcement on Twitter, stating that the 50 Champion goal was too troublesome for some gamers. Judging by participant suggestions, that was positively the case, since Champions largely seem in high-level content material and in comparatively low numbers. Even Legendary issue Lost Sectors or Nightfall Strikes solely embrace a handful of Champions, forcing gamers into numerous runs to finish the requirement. Champions are additionally tougher to kill than regular enemies and customarily require particular seasonal weapon mods to defeat, including a talent barrier to the requirement.

The transfer is a reasonably massive one, not simply because the target was irritating numerous gamers, particularly amongst Destiny 2’s extra informal followers. This week’s story quest unlocked an enormous revelation for Season of Plunder’s plot, giving new details about the season’s predominant characters, Mithrax and Eido, and advancing the sport’s total plot towards its subsequent enlargement, Lightfall, in February.

It appeared as if Bungie created the 50 Champion requirement with high-level seasonal content material in thoughts. Players rapidly discovered that Champions killed within the Expeditions seasonal exercise every counted for 3 kills towards the requirement, moderately than only one every. The hassle is, Champions are few and much between in Expeditions–you would possibly see three Champions on a superb run, and as few as one or none on a foul run.

The greatest strategy to full the requirement was within the Master issue model of the Ketchcrash seasonal exercise, which is each stuffed with Champion enemies and counted every Champion defeated as eight towards the requirement. It was doable to clear the 50 Champion requirement in a single Master Ketchcrash exercise, however extra informal gamers struggled as a result of Master Ketchcrash may be very robust. It carries each the very excessive Power degree of 1,600 and does not supply crew matchmaking, that means gamers want to seek out their very own group of 5 different gamers in an effort to participate in it.

With the requirement eliminated, gamers can rather more simply advance by means of Destiny 2’s present story. The pirate-themed Season of Plunder has been quite a bit lighter than the spooky and tumultuous Season of the Haunted, however as this week reveals, nonetheless carries some heavy themes and excessive stakes.