Following reports that player triumphs, seals, and catalysts were suddenly missing, Bungie provided clarity on the downtime and rollback that happened in Destiny 2 to resolve the issue. While players have seemingly enjoyed the content of the current Destiny 2 season, it hasn't been a smooth ride from a technical standpoint. Season of the Seraph has had all sorts of technical issues pop up including game modes like Gambit not awarding xp and gear, to server instability causing enemies to basically respawn after seemingly being killed to due to lag.
The rise of these bugs and glitches in Destiny 2 has led many to wonder about the long term future of the game's engine, even with a couple of years worth of content still planned. For now, things have seemingly continued to worsen as a recent hotfix, which also held the long awaited removal of Blue engrams and items from the Destiny 2 loot pool, but ended up causing chaos. The Rumble playlist never appeared as expected, blue items continued to drop, and worse yet, some players reported that some of their hard-earned weapon catalysts, seals, and triumphs had been removed entirely.
Bungie sprung into action, bringing the Destiny 2 servers down for maintenance and applying a rollback. While the news no doubt left many players concerned, the latest blog post from Bungie provided some clarity on what happened. As it turns out, an internal tool Bungie uses to help move player states from one location to another, helping to place outdated triumphs into the archived area, had a configuration error that accidentally re-ran an older state migration previously used for the Beyond Light release. Essentially, this ended up re-copying older data, which overrode some recent aspects of player progression.
Thankfully, Bungie was able to identify the issue and rolled the game state back while they removed the build change. While the issue has since been fixed and missing Destiny 2 triumphs now restored for players, some players may have lost a bit of progress. As Bungie noted in its update, any player progress made between 8:20am to 11am PST on January 24 was lost. Any prucahses made during that time frame were also refunded.
Missing content isn't a new problem for Destiny 2 either. Just a few weeks ago, new reports began surfacing that player characters had suddenly disappeared. While Bungie was able to fix these isolated incidents and restore the missing Destiny 2 player character, this glitch set off a wave of panic inside the community. While Destiny has run into plenty of bugs since, missing characters hasn't been one of them.
Destiny 2 is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Bungie