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Bungie recently released some important details for the "Destiny" upcoming Patch 1.1.2. Slated to be released alongside the game's upcoming second expansion, House of Wolves, the said update will see changes on raids, strikes and improvements on player usage.

On forums and in other community venues, both hardcore and casual players will attest to that sentiment, yet somehow, both fan bases still chug along, min-maxing their stats, grinding out faction reputation for a chance at extremely rare cosmetic items, or chasing that one elusive gun.

Who wants to dance? Your Destiny character does, that's who. As part of Bungie's April Fools' Day prank, your Destiny character is locked into a constant state of dancing on Bungie.net.

However, most of these “cheeses” have been regularly patched out of Destiny in an attempt to keep players on the straight and narrow path. Once the Templar exploit was patched out, however, players found far fewer ways to exploit the raid as a whole.

“Destiny” may be looking at new bounties in the future, specifically some new Queen’s Wrath Bounties. This is if new unearthed information via data mining is to be believed.

The House of Wolves was originally set to hit download markets in March, but was postponed by Bungie and has yet to be given a set release date. An arrival window has been set between April 1 and June 30, which could mean the release could be set for this month.

Detailed on the Bungie blog, Inferno Clash will contain a few characteristics that were present in Inferno Control mode but has a heavier emphasis on scoring kills.

These include Angry (enemies don’t flinch), Epic (heavily shielded and plentiful enemies), Juggler (no ammo for your currently equipped weapon), Void Burn (void damage is greatly increased and this works for both you and your enemies) and Nightfall (return to orbit once your entire team dies in a Darkness Zone).

Destiny senior gameplay designer Josh Hamrick has left Bungie to join Fallout and Elder Scrolls developer Bethesda. He announced the news on Twitter, expressing gratitude to Bungie, and wishing the developer all the best as it continues to work on Destiny going forward without him.

The baking of Queen’s Wrath was likely drawn out further as resources were split between updating Destiny and getting The Dark Below expansion ready for release. However, it appears that it could return with The House of Wolves based on these bounties discovered in DestinyDB by a sharp-eyed Redditor.

For players on all four platforms, vault space will increase from 20 to 24 for two categories, armor and "general items," and from 20 to 36 for weapons. However, because of memory limitations on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the item comparison feature must be removed to allow for the vault expansion.

Starting with the strikes, there’s the weekly Heroic strike on Venus. This hard difficulty strike will come with the Heroic and Juggler modifiers and will reward players with Strange Coin, Cryptarch Engram, Vanguard Marks and Vanguard Reputation. Then there’s the Nightfall strike, a very hard strike on Venus that will come with the Epic, Nightfall, Void Burn, Angry and Juggler modifiers.