Season 18 of Destiny 2 introduced a number of small but substantial changes to almost every weapon archetype in the game, and for Season 19, Bungie will be doing some more fine-tuning on its digital arsenal. One of the bigger changes being applied to all weapon types will be a Full Auto toggle, which players will be able to find in the gameplay section of the settings menu once Season 19 goes live, allowing for all weapons to become fully automatic tools.
Bungie explained in its weekly blog post that it’ll be looking into additional ways for players to pick which types of weapons this setting applies to after next year’s Lightfall expansion launches, and certain melee weapon attacks are also being looked at for a similar modification in the future.
For the weapon archetypes that didn’t get tweaked in the mid-season patch, Bungie will update them with more substantial changes when compared to previous patches. These are very granular changes, but in a nutshell, expect each archetype to lean harder into its core identity and to have more of a signature feel in combat. Shotguns will have a fixed spread pattern that changes based on the weapons manufacturer, and Bungie is expecting to revisit these changes in future seasons as it narrows down the right feel for each brand of close-range weapon.