Destiny 2 PSA: Save Your Iron Banner Bounties, They’re Currently Bugged

Destiny 2’s first Iron Banner event of the Season of the Splicer is here, bringing four new guns to the game’s loot pool for the event. But while you can earn some of those guns by completing its seasonal quest, two of them are currently not dropping properly when you complete Iron Banner bounties or spend Iron Banner tokens. And it sounds like those guns won’t be easy to come by until the next Iron Banner event in June.

Bungie tweeted about the issue after the start of the new Iron Banner event on Tuesday, May 18. Not long after that, it released an in-game warning against players from spending their tokens or turning in their bounties because two of the four new Iron Banner guns aren’t being rewarded through those methods.

A day later, Bungie gave a brief update that suggests those Iron Banner bounties and token drops might not be fixed until the season’s next Iron Banner event, which will start on June 8. So you can either hold onto your tokens and completed Iron Banner bounties for a few weeks, or use them now and try to get better rolls on weapons in the smaller Iron Banner loot pool.

Riiswalker, a shotgun, and machine gun Archon’s Thunder are two guns that are new to Destiny 2 and the Iron Banner with the Season of the Splicer. You can earn both from the Iron-Handed Diplomacy quest that runs throughout the season, which is why Bungie is suggesting running through that quest on three characters if you should have them. But if the system was working correctly, you would also be able to earn additional copies of the guns, complete with different perks and stats, by just playing Iron Banner matches, spending tokens with Iron Banner vendor Lord Saladin, and completing Iron Banner bounties. Currently, none of those sources are providing the guns, so you won’t receive all possible rewards if you turn in your Iron Banner bounties or spend tokens before the situation is corrected.

If you’re hoping for more Riiswalkers and Archon’s Thunders, you can hold onto your tokens and bounties until the next Iron Banner. In the case of bounties, you’ll need to make sure you actually complete those bounties before the end of this Iron Banner event–otherwise, they’ll expire and disappear. You might also want to keep in mind that those four bounties will be taking up space in your quest inventory a few weeks, which can make it tough to pick up new bounties along the way. But once they’re completed but not turned in, they should just sit quietly in your quest inventory until you interact with them. Tokens, meanwhile, don’t expire, so you can hang onto those and spend them with Lord Saladin in the Tower whenever he’s around.

Meanwhile, two additional guns that Season of the Splicer has added to the loot pool are still available through bounties and tokens: Finite Impactor and Occluded Finality. These two, a hand cannon and sniper rifle, respectively, and were released with the Warmind expansion in Destiny 2’s first year, but they’ve been out of the game for quite a while.

So you can still nab lots of copies of those two guns by playing Iron Banner matches, and if you work through Iron-Handed Diplomacy on three characters, you’ll get three different versions of both Riiswalker and Archon’s Thunder. But if you want a better chance at new versions of those guns–especially Riiswalker, which players are finding to be pretty useful in PvP situations–you might want to hold onto your tokens and completed bounties until June 8.

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