Destiny 2 players have known for quite some time that the release of Curse of Osiris would bring new content, a new season, and some huge quality of life and sandbox updates to the game. Bungie’s relative silence about the feedback from players has been concerning as many who want to play the game fall away due to systems that don’t reward long term or repeated play. The studio has finally detailed many of the Destiny 2 changes that we’ll see in December, along with providing a smattering of what we can expect moving into 2018.
While a lot of these changes are ready to go for Tuesday’s release of Curse of Osiris, there are some things that are taking a bit longer to work on. Bungie will be releasing a follow up patch a week later on December 12 with parts of the update that they were not able to have ready by next week. Their goal with these updates has four main areas of focus:
Deepen Rewards for advanced players
Provide More Player Control over obtaining rewards
Make Shards Useful by adding things to use them for
Provide General Quality fixes wherever possible

For the sake of easy organization, I’ll be breaking the key changes down into the December 5 release, the later December 12 update, and what Bungie has said won’t be coming until next year.

Destiny 2 December 5 Update

Heroic Strike Playlist – More difficult strikes that will challenge players.
Armor Ornaments – Armor ornaments will be rewarded for completing vari...