In preparation for Destiny's upcoming House of Wolves DLC, Bungie has added some new features, including more vault space to collect all the treasures gained from missions. Destiny 1.1.2 patch will also bring more gears, plus the leaked two new regions in the House of Wolves.
According to Bungie, update 1.1.2's expanded vault space can house 24 armor pieces, 36 weapons, and 24 general items, like ships, vehicles, materials, emblems, and shaders. Destiny currently secures in its repository 20 armor pieces, 20n weapons, and 20 general items. The US-based developer finds it necessary to enlarge the Vault for players "ever since the Guardians acquired more gear than they could carry on their character."
Bungie's user research lead John Hopson, however, stressed that majority still have room to spare. He said: "Very few people have completely full Vaults, but a lot of endgame players are bumping up against the limits."
The challenge for Bungie behind the good news is the memory constraints that limit the number of items that can be displayed on-screen.
Live team lead M.E. Chung also said: "For many, many weeks, Vault space has been an important request in the queue that we've been tracking. As we get closer to the House of Wolves content update, we knew we had to expand the Vault or the community would not have enough space to store the new Exotics we're making... Our goal was to find a solution that could deliver more Vault space to the greatest number of people in the short term."
The largest increase of vault space is for the weapons to make sure storage is enough for all the Exotics Bungie has been brewing, not only for the update but until the House of Wolves comes out.
However, user-interface engineering lead Brad Fish furthered on some considerations as adding vault space was not easy.
'Each modification to Destiny has the potential to introduce a variety of side effects. Planning and meticulous verification are key to ensuring the continued stability of the game. In the case of the Vault expansion, it became clear that we would be pushing very limited memory constraints on older generation hardware. We had a choice: leave the Vault as-is, or find some kind of compromise to enable it safely," said Fish.
After weighing the choices, the team decided to disable the item comparison feature within the Vault on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, while continuing with PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
The main story of House of Wolves consists of three missions: Pact of Wolves, Tracking Quarry, and Path of the Traitor.
Meanwhile, the House of Wolves is composed on three story missions-Pact of Wolves, Tracking Quarry and the Path of the Traitor. Pack of Wolves happens in the Cosmodrome of Earth, while the other two take place on Venus' Ishtar Sink.
Two new leaked regions in the next DLC will be called Dusk Warren, the setting of a Strike Mission. The other one is the Fallen Ketch ship, the reported stage for the Boss fight.
Bungie has announced Destiny 1.1.2 update arrives in April. It comes with added Colorblind Mode, Chat Volumes, and fixes.
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