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Seriously, Bungie did something to fix this issue within 48 hours of it cropping up, which is awesome. It's apparently still being monitored, which is also nice, because ciphers still feel like they don't drop often, at least for a casual player.

I'm a New Light who bought the game to help with Covid boredom, and this is my first FotL. I really like everything about this, but I still need to play (normally; crucible, strikes ect) for around 2-3 hours before getting the 2-4 ciphers that make a forest run enjoyable. The umbral decoder is letting more casual players get access to great rolls on some neat guns without going insane on the grind... why not let us look at rolls on some non-meta ARs without so much suffering?

The tower still looks great, though!

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almost 4 years ago - /u/Cozmo23 - Direct link

Thanks for the continued feedback. The team is aware of the feedback that the Cipher Decoder drops still feel too infrequent and are looking into it.

almost 4 years ago - /u/Cozmo23 - Direct link

We just issued another change that will drop two Ciphers instead of one.

Please note, Ciphers do NOT drop from the following: enemy kills, Gambit, Forges, and non-playlist Strikes.

I know this doesn't address other feedback around the core loop of playing other activities to earn keys for the chests, but we wanted to make a change that we could put out quickly. I'll continue to share other feedback with the team.

https://twitter.com/BungieHelp/status/1314717668981710849?s=20