Bungie is making even more adjustments to Destiny 2's PvP Special Ammo Transmat system, after new player feedback revealed that many were still confused by the system's many iterations and some imbalances surrounding the use of certain weapons.
1-1-1 is Terrible: A Special Munitions Analysis
The Destiny 2 development team shared the new ammo update via a thread on X (formerly Twitter) on April 29 as a follow-up to the original deep dive into how the system traveled two weeks ago. As part of this latest update, which is scheduled to go live after the weekly reset on April 30, Bungie has refined the Special ammo transmat system into two variants rather than having different systems in each game mode.
Players also receive less ammo per transmat, but the transmat meter recharges slightly more than twice as fast, meaning that as long as players are contributing to objectives or delivering finishing blows, they’ll still receive specialty ammo in their weapons. The second upcoming Destiny 2 balance change will remove the meter recharge for ability kills, meaning final blows with melee abilities or grenades will not add to the meter.
Bungie says this was intended to counter the rapid increase in shotgun-melee combos the mode has seen since the Transmat system arrived in February 2024. Bungie hopes the adjustment will "reduce the advantage the shotgun-melee combo has over other special weapons for meter growth," with many following up a shotgun blast with a beefed-up melee ability to feed ammo straight back into their shotgun.
