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

and developer Bungie don’t have 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 .

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 . Fixing Destiny 2’s weirdly broken Dawning snowballs 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 . Indeed, with 2023’s Dawning now having come and gone, we can say that an entire third of ‘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 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 in a broader sense. Following a s and a pushback of the company’s flagship DLC, as well as a , the game, the creatives supporting it, and the community are in an ugly spot..