[2022] The first step of the Exorcism Quest chain has been auto-completed for everyone, per @BungieHelp on Twitter.

Hey all, wanted to give a bit more context here:

The team has been digging on issues with the Exorcism mission since Tuesday morning. While they've been able to identify a few causes, we are unable to issue a hotfix at this time. The Witch Queen is in final stages of preparation and deploying a hotfix could cause some hiccups that we do not want to introduce.

To help players who've completed the mission, yet received no quest progress, we've auto completed the first step. This should let players access subsequent story dialogue without issue. Anyone can still go back and play the mission if they'd like.

While the Triumph still requires activity completion (this should trigger if you stay in the mission until the cutscene begins – do NOT quit after defeating the boss!), we wanted to make sure that story was more easily accessible over the weekend.

(A little behind the scenes stuff) - One of the issues identified deals with how the mission objectives progress. Sometimes these are dependent on player actions, like passing through volumes or defeating a number of enemies. Other times, objectives require specific things to happen in the mission that are dependent on enemy spawns or set pieces happening around you as you play. As an example, one of the triggers in this mission requires a hive ship to finish its flight path as it assaults the Awoken structure.

Somehow, this Hive ship is spawning in geometry. As such, it's unable to move, or reach the "checkpoint" that's required for the mission to progress. Oddly enough, this didn't come up in playtesting unless players specifically jumped onto Hive ships and forced them to fly off their preordained path!

It’s quite fun to think that a disgruntled Hive pilot is doing their best to prevent this exorcism from happening...