A Destiny 2 emote bug appears to be causing some players to lose in-game character animations that they’ve accumulated over the years in the popular FPS game. However, Bungie is aware of the apparent issue and is actively investigating it.
In a Reddit post titled “Turns out…there’s a limit to emotes,” Redditor u/Its-DooZ pointed out that his friend’s emote inventory screen appeared to have a limit of 512. emotes. Screenshots show the player appearing to lose green rarity emotes to make way for rarer ones after going over 13 pages of inventory space in the UI. Its-DooZ also suggested that limited inventory space could be an issue for people with a large number of shaders. However, BNGHelp, an official Bungie account, responded to the thread, sharing that the team is actively investigating the issue.
While losing emotes may seem insignificant to some, players often have to spend money to purchase them from the in-game Eververse store. Losing them could also mean losing items they paid for. Additionally, some of the shaders in the game are incredibly rare, such as shaders that drop after completing quests or specific tasks like resetting ranks in Destiny 2 Iron Banner. Therefore, the loss of favorite shaders might upset some players, especially those interested in the Destiny 2 fashion.
Bungie hasn’t confirmed how long it will take to fix this issue, but they’ve also confirmed that this is in fact a problem, as reports on Reddit of missing characters months ago turned out to be hoaxes. However, players worried about losing emotes should keep an eye on their inventory for now. Guardians who encounter issues can report them to Bungie via their Bungie support forum.
Although emotes are purely cosmetic and provide no in-game advantage, they are used as tools by players to bond with each other without voice communication. For example, Guardians used specific emotes as part of an in-game vigil to honor Commander Zavala’s voice actor, Lance Reddick, who died suddenly over the weekend.
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