Destiny 2’s Dawning snowballs did not get fixed, after all

Destiny 2 and developer Bungie don’t have the best reputation with the MMO’s community right now, and that sentiment continues to pop up even in smaller ways. That rings true for this year’s Dawning event, too, as it seems Destiny’s snowball feature remains broken.

More specifically, special throwable snowballs are a unique feature of Destiny 2‘s seasonal Dawning celebrations. Only appearing for a limited time, snowballs have an entire series of upgrades dedicated to them as part of the Dawning progression system, as they allow players to take down enemies and apply crowd control via Stasis effects. Further, snowballs also spice up the regular gameplay loop, as they appear in Patrol Zones and playlist activities while the Dawning is active.

It should come as no surprise, then, that players are not happy with the fact that all five of the pertinent Dawning snowball upgrades have been broken from the very start of the event until its finale.

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Fixing Destiny 2’s weirdly broken Dawning snowballs

Destiny 2 players reported that the game’s Dawning snowball upgrades were practically ineffective at the start of this year’s holiday event. The obvious expectation was, naturally, that Bungie would get around to sorting this issue out before the event wrapped up, but that ship has now officially sailed. Indeed, with 2023’s Dawning now having come and gone, we can say that an entire third of Destiny 2‘s unique event upgrades did not function for its entire duration.

Of course, there was still merit in completing the Dawning upgrades and all of the event’s attached quest lines, as players could score a bunch of themed cosmetics and assorted loot drops. Still, it’s not surprising to see that many are unhappy with how Bungie’s handled the issue.

In and of itself, this wouldn’t be a huge problem, necessarily, if Bungie wasn’t already going through a hard time with Destiny 2 in a broader sense. Following a series of layoffs and a pushback of the company’s flagship DLC, as well as a general loss of trust in Bungie, the game, the creatives supporting it, and the community are in an ugly spot.

Filip Galekovic

A lifetime gamer and writer, Filip has successfully made a career out of combining the two just in time for the bot-driven AI revolution to come into its own.