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Dear Lightbearers,
To provide a better experience, we will perform update maintenance on 9/25/2025 at 02:00:00 AM (UTC-7), during which the Destiny: Rising servers will be down and Lightbearers will be unable to log in to the game. Please schedule your game time accordingly.

Maintenance Duration & Compensation:
Duration: Starts on 9/25/2025 at 02:00:00 AM (UTC-7) and is estimated to take 4 hours.
Compensation: 200 Lumia Leaves
Eligibility: Lightbearers who created an account before maintenance began and who have logged in within the past week.
The compensation will be issued to Lightbearers via mail, so be sure to check and claim it.

Update Content:
I. New Events
1. Morgran's Hunt Event Starts
● Duration: 9/26 04:00:00–10/03 04:00:00
● Event Intro:
The all-new, more challenging version of Morgran's Prey—Morgran's Hunt—kicks off! In these new stages, Morgran will give Lightbearers a score goal to meet each round. Accumulate enough points to meet the ever-growing goal and claim rewards from Morgran's hoard for successful clears.
● Rewards:
① Precious Keys will be awarded for completing specified rounds. Complete the activity to use your earned keys, opening random chests for generous rewards, including a chance to claim a particularly special reward—a certain lost Exotic weapon...
② Complete event challenges to earn even more great rewards including "Bon Voyage" Charms and Möbius Clusters.
③ Lightbearers who rank on the leaderboard will also receive rewards based on their tier. The top 30% can claim the limited-time chat frame "Morgran's Hunt - 14d!"
※ Lightbearers must be Team Lv.71 or higher to participate.
※ Match scores must be higher than 30,000 points to qualify for the leaderboard.

2. Sparrow Racing Event Starts
● Duration:10/2 04:00:00–10/16 04:00:00
● Event Intro:
Race to the top of the limited-time leaderboard! During the event, take part in matchmade Sparrow Races to race on specified tracks, and complete challenges to redeem an exclusive Sparrow! An exclusive limited-time title is also up for grabs on the server-wide leaderboards. Lightbearers, prove who's the fastest and pilot your way to glory!
This event is divided into 2 weeks:
Week 1 (10/2 04:00:00–10/9 04:00:00): 
Hit Boost. The specified track is Fallen Outpost; more combatants will spawn on the track, and you'll get more charge from hitting them.
Week 2 (10/9 04:00:01–10/16 04:00:00): 
Charge Boost. The specified track is Virtual Space; more nitrogen cannisters will spawn on the track for an exhilarating race.
● Rewards:
① Sparrow Racing leaderboards will be available for each week. The top 100 Lightbearers will receive exclusive limited-time title "Gravity's Deconstructor
② Complete challenges to earn Racing Tokens, which can be exchanged for the all-new Sparrow Pegasus Bravo in the Racing Event Shop.
※ The Racing Event Shop will remain open for 7 days after the event ends.

II. New Shop Additions
The all-new Mythic weapon ornament for Exotic Machine Gun: Gallows, "Sub-Zero," is now available.
● Availability: After maintenance ends on 9/25
● How to Acquire: The new Mythic "Sub-Zero" ornament for Gallows can be purchased for 960 Silver from Store - Featured.

III. Optimizations & Adjustments
1. Combat & Balancing Adjustments
● [Weapons] Sword Balancing Adjustments:
① Sword damage versus combatants has been increased by 5%.
② Initial Sword ammo held upon entering an activity has been increased by 50%.
③ Ammo picked up in activities has been increased by 20%.
④ Swords now deal 25% more damage to Impact Shinkas' shields.
● [Weapons] The condition for Exotic Machine Gun: Gallows' Void tracking projectile charge has been changed from charging on hit to charging when shots are fired.
● [Weapons] Improved the description of Glimmer consumption for resetting weapon enhancements, making it clearer.
● [Combatants] Improved the effect displayed when combatants can be finished off.

2. System & Activity Optimizations
● [Morgran's Prey] Added the limited-time challenge, "Morgran's Hunt."
● [Morgran's Prey] Added wish effects and enhanced the special effects for wishes.
● [Strike: The Foundry] Improved the visuals when overloading the Stabilizer.
● [Reward Display] Improved the mod icons shown for Strike and Gauntlet: Blitz rewards, helping to differentiate between different activities' drops.

3. New Features & System Improvements
● [Black Market] Improved the display for the unlockable Black Market Favor features.
● [Bundle Recommendations] Improved the bundle recommendation bubble on the main screen and adjusted the frequency at which it appears.
● [Quests] Improved the display of the Quests menu.
● [Triumphs] Improved display of the pop-up for Triumphs.
● [Voice Chat] Improved the real-time voice chat feature.
● [Controls] Improved controls on controller, letting Lightbearers who have died and are waiting for revival press a button to switch to different players' perspectives.
● [Controls] Added a Sparrow hotkey option to mouse and keyboard settings.

IV. Fixed Issues
● [The Expanse] Fixed an issue in which the Leaderboard would display incorrectly.
● [Weapons] Fixed an issue in which mods would incorrectly display as unable to be equipped.
● [Login] Fixed an issue in which staying on the login screen for a prolonged period of time would prevent entering chat channels after login.
● [Homepage] Fixed an issue in which others' Showcases would be displayed incorrectly.
● [English Localization] Improved some weapon perks and fixed an issue in which the contents of a subtitle in Attal's quest did not match the voice over.
● [Japanese Localization] Fixed some display issues, terminology issues, and dialogue tone issues.
● [Latin American Spanish Localization] Fixed some display issues, terminology issues, and dialogue tone issues.
 
That's all for the update details. Thanks for your patience! We will be continuing to collect your feedback and suggestions to keep improving the Destiny: Rising experience. May the Light be with you!

The Destiny: Rising Team