Trials of Osiris and The Iron Banner are Destiny’s endgame PvP, true contests for Guardians at the top of their game, competing for glory in the Crucible and delicious loot. Unless they were to become insane maelstroms of crisscrossing rockets constantly blowing people up. There’s an infinite ammo glitch going on in Destiny at the moment, where people have found a bug in the way the game handles the “cocoon” perk on the King’s Fall raid weapons that produces unlimited use of heavy and special weapons. Bungie has officially cancelled both Trials of Osiris and the Iron banner until the bug is squashed. Here’s Bungie community manager Deej:

Heavy Ammunition is a rare commodity in the Crucible, and with good reason! There are few defenses against a well-aimed Rocket that lands squarely at your feet. We limit the deliveries of purple crates to the battlefield to make those explosive moments the highlight of a match. When we learned that some Guardians had discovered a way to earn unlimited rockets, we knew it was time for a bug hunt. Rather than punish players for playing the game in a way we didn’t predict, we’ve been waging an investigation into our code. These things happen, so please don’t panic. We’re on the case – and we’ve slayed more dreaded bugs than these.

This is how it goes, and how it always will go: Bungie would never know about these bugs unless intrepid players found and exploited them, and the developer tends to do a good job of taking it in stride, fixing things, and treating the whole thing as one of Destiny’s most interesting metagames. It helps that the game modes are so separate that the developer can just shut something like Trials of Osiris down if it needs to address a problem. Deej continues:

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