Bungie had to take Destiny 2 PVP mode Breakthrough offline again this week after players complained of numerous issues with scoring and balance. The catch is that this isn’t the first time Breakthrough has been removed from the game, having been taken down for a period of a few weeks during October. At this point, six weeks after the new mode was launched, it’s been offline for longer than it’s been active.
Shortly after the Forsaken expansion launched for Destiny 2, the Crucible?Destiny 2’s PVP mode?was updated to include a few new maps and a brand new game mode called Breakthrough. This mode sees players fighting over a central point. Once that point is captured, the dominant team then pushes up on their opponent’s point and attempts to capture it in order to score a point. If they fail, the defending team scores a point instead. It didn’t take long for players to begin criticizing the new mode. In particular, there was an issue where a dominant team could exploit the losing team by farming spawn kills off of draws. Breakthrough was pulled by Bungie pretty quickly after its release, and returned with Destiny 2 update 2.0.5 on October 30. Less than a week later, it’s offline again for complaints regarding balance and scoring that doesn’t make sense or accurately reward the team that actually performed better. Breakthrough is still available when the weekly playlist rotation features the mode, but will no longer be part of th...