Bungie is currently updating Destiny with a hotfix aimed at player connectivity, and the servers will be down for "several hours" as a result of the maintenance.
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Given that Destiny is an always-online title, the game will be unplayable during that time as described in the Hotfix notes. This patch is not gameplay focused unlike many of the main patches, but is looking to help players who have had consistent connectivity issues with the severs.
Updates to Destiny are in progress. You can't play right now, but your sacrifice will benefit Guardians who have seen connections issues.
— Bungie (@Bungie) October 7, 2014
One smaller fix in the update will remove the ability of some weapons to quick scope, but that's the only portion of the patch related to the game itself. Here's a specific list of what fixes will be implemented:
- Added more data logging for matchmaking system
- Improved connectivity failure handling to reduce beaver (Kick To Orbit events) KTOs
- Improved logging of player disconnections
- Internal tools fixes to speed up our release process
- Fixes to the roster system to allow us to tune the frequency of roster updates on Xbox One
- Fixed a bug that allowed users to quick scope on some weapons
- Security fixes
- Server performance improvements
- Fixes to reduce the frequency of some KTOs
- Better logging to help diagnose connectivity problems
- Fixes to some Centipede errors that were exclusive to specific player characters
