The Dawning returns

Dawning Preview

Baking cookies per usual
Earn upgrades for event rewards, snowball potency, additional weapon perks, and seasonal focusing
Snowballs now spawn from defeating enemies with abilities & Dawning weapons (rather than being at fixed points)
Icy looking Dawning Memento, earned first via quest, then farmable via Gifts
New Aggressive Glaive added to dawning that can roll with Beacon Rounds
Past Dawning weapons updated with new perks, including Deconstruct, Attrition Orbs, Cold Steel, and Beacon Rounds

Blind well for those worried, is only used for 2 seasonal quest steps, 1 seasonal challenge, and 1 seal requirement
Shards for the Coil are too unforgiving, and team is looking to improve this
When Checkmate Control is up, normal Control will be active
Bungie is aiming for something between current PVP and Checkmate PVP to land on
Improvements to Checkmate Special ammo system being worked on
Checkmate TTK will continue to receive adjustments to line up with current PVP TTKs
Body shot damage in PVP will be adjusted across the board to reward headshot TTK
Disabling Countdown Rush in Citadel and Multiplex due to spawn issues
New rocket sidearm designed to support Anti-Barrier sidearm perk
Fireteam finder getting bug fixes and additional title builder options
Bungie has a fix for accessing Vault screen outside or Orbit, though they will be reverting this fix in January update
Vault access from anywhere officially being added in post final shape update
Orb creation cooldown change coming soon, allowing Heavy Handed, Firepower, and Reaper mods to decrease this cooldown w/ multiple copies
Ritual vendor legacy focusing now requires 3 engrams, but unobtained Nightfall weapons will still cost 5 engrams

There is a Champion present in the Vanguard Ops version of the PsiOps Battleground: Cosmodrome.
Players are unable to gain health from Devour while in an active Nova Warp Super.
Players are not receiving chest rewards when completing PsiOps Battlegrounds in the Vanguard Ops playlist.
Players that are on the Polysemy activity step of the Seasonal quest cannot launch or join the activity with players that have already completed it.
The Gambit legacy armor chest piece costs Legendary Shards instead of Glimmer.
Healing rifts can stop healing players after an overshield is applied.
Some menu items in Fireteam Finder can sometimes appear blank.
The Exotic catalyst quest for Dragonâs Breath is not progressing in Seasonal activities as expected.
The Scorching Wish perk can cause players to deal continuous damage to themselves.
Activity checkpoints are not always saved when returning to orbit in Fireteam Finder activities.
Certain Triumphs in Warlordâs Ruin are giving out incorrect rewards. Players who have completed these Triumphs will be granted the appropriate rewards in a future update.
Tier 4 runs of the Blind Well are granting less progress to the The City a Wish Built Seasonal Challenge than lower tiers.
Some Fireteam Finder text is not visible in languages other than English.
Gunsmith Engrams are not displayed in the engram tracker.