Destiny 2 has been no stranger to glitches and exploits that allow players to break the game to their advantage, and that remains the case in its newest season, Season of Dawn. With a new season comes new activities, and with it comes newly-discovered ways to cheese it that Bungie evidently didn’t see coming.
This latest discovery was found in Season of Dawn’s new Sundial activity, wherein players team up to fight Cabal legions across multiple missions, all to stop them from using the titular time-bending Sundial to undo the events of Destiny 2’s base campaign, the Red War. Normally, when players complete a Sundial mission, they are offered a selection of new weapons from the Sundial Spire at the end, but are only allowed to choose one.
At least that’s how Bungie intended it to work, but as it turns out, there’s a bit of an oversight in Destiny 2 that lets players get around that limitation. As pointed out by YouTuber Cheese Forever, it’s possible for them to open up the Sundial Spire terminal again after claiming a weapon, allowing them to claim a second one. Best of all, the process is rather simple.
Speed is the important thing here, according to Cheese Forever. Players are encouraged to open up the terminal as quickly as they can, even if the button prompt hasn’t shown up on screen yet (the game will still register it). Then, once they’re in the rewards menu, they’re going to want to quickly back out of it and wait for the activity rewards to show up on the right side of the screen, at which point players have about 16 seconds to open up the terminal again and grab another weapon.
What this means is that it’s possible for players to earn a grand total of four new weapons per run (so long as they have the Temporal Slipstream upgrade that increases the number of Sundial rewards). And that’s not even taking into account the other big exploit players have found in the activity, which grants Destiny 2 players with free infusion material with every run.
With the amount of weapons and material that can be earned, Sundial could very well become the go-to farming activity for players during Season of Dawn, though of course it’s possible that Bungie may patch out the terminal exploit now that players are catching wind of it. Then again, it might not, being as Destiny 2's Season of Dawn has more problematic exploits for it to deal with right now.
Destiny 2 is available for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.