CRAZY UPDATE THAT ABSOLUTELY CHANGES HOW INSANE THIS BUG IS: Sly Rocko has discovered that you can switch on and off of soul siphon to get UCG. For some reason the aspect lingers so you don't need ads or a lot of time to now get UCG. This discovery is as important as the glitch itself, because it is now extremely viable.

As of the 9.7.0.3 update: Pack Tactics is no longer a linger buff. UCG is still in the game, you just can't reproc Pack Tactics to get it.

CORRECTION: the Aksis “Charge Lockout” does not affect the cannons, only the charges. That was something I misunderstood when trying to make this video.

Something things I didn't mention in the video:

Some lingering buffs get removed when you swap your artifact and some don't. Pack Tactics in particular gets removed when you swap your artifact, but something like No Bell persists. This makes Pack Tactics good for when you want to get out of UCG for good, while No Bell good for when you want to easily get in and out of UCG and have a different artifact on. Both are important and useful.

The spreadsheet is still being worked on, but we're working to get it looking a lot better. It looks the way it does for efficient testing. Once we have a bulk of the day, we're going to pretty it up and make it easier to follow and read.

I can see UCG being useful in speedruns one day, but at the moment the only people who seem to be experimenting with this bug are people in D2 Solo Raids and Lowman. Not that I know exactly what it would be good for in a speedrun, but it's still another tool that people can use.

Certain emotes will have their particle effects disappear while near or in UCG, so if you want to test if you have it, use an emote with particles.

Bullet traces stop matching up with your camera view when in UCG, as in when you shoot your gun, the bullet traces look like they’re coming from someone else.

Fuckin love when I open an endgame video and it looks like a TED Talk. I'll miss this

So that’s why my weapons kept vanishing during the artifact shenanigans

I wondew if this is applicable to my favowite wost sectow...

very cool video and now it makes sense when artifact glitch was out i kept getting into a "bugged" state where things werent working while farming gms and this explains it entirely

Oh my god… this explains so much. I remember once when doing Ghosts of the Deep solo during the Rite of the Nine, I was on Hunter and rocking No Bell BFG build. At some point in the encounter I just lost the ability to go invisible and everything just slowly stopped working. Thank you for finally ending my confusion!

18:33 instant Vietnam thousand yard stare

I have a feeling that the devs that got laid off know way more bugs than the player base currently playing that havnt discovered these glitches.

I hated that bug in seraphs shield when using a healing auto. Restoration Devour etc. didnt apply to us anymore which made us change our strat.

For solo queenswalk, if you kill rivens heart then quickly run out of the throat, the joining allies never activates which means you can go back down to one of the sides and use the ads which continue to respawn to proc ucg, this becomes even easier if you kill on second floor because then the ads respawn there which means you won’t have to go back up as far afterwards.  Doing this eliminates the need to have a no ad way to proc ucg

9:24 Makes so much sense why my weapon was disappearing, thank you!

It seems like this could be pretty well explained in programming terms. Based on the information we have, memory is allocated to a player for their buffs, in what is called a “stack”.

The stack has a preset amount of memory available for it. When most buffs that get removed are timed out, they are simply removed from the stack and the memory is freed. But if you happen to not free the memory from something that lingers, then it still treats that as allocated memory that it can’t use since it hasn’t been decoupled.

Its crazy how the smallest of tiny programming things can have larger effects if you aren’t careful.

This makes so much sense to me now...I was having a lot of random issues in Vesper’s Host this week, and that bug you mentioned at 11:15 was happening to me right after the first encounter!
As someone who plays a LOT with glaives, I was running No Bell the entire time! Thanks for sharing this here!

Something I've noticed, whenever I'm using my No Hesitation support frame with physic and attrition orbs to heal my teammate a lot I eventually get into UCG with my guns vanishing and being unable to get buffs. I'd guess this is being caused by the 'Support Frame Boost' buff. Not sure how useful it is for getting UCG compared to other methods since you need to kill ads to get healing charge and also have a teammate to heal but it could have potential.

Oh wow this explains the constant "disappearing weapons" bug that was happening to me during the artifact glitch.

I had never seen that bug before then so i guess my build had enough buffs to reach the threshold.
What a great video.

WE GOT A UCG TEDTALK BEFORE GTA 6 LETS GOOOOOO

Buffs, Unlimited Buffs but no Buffs

This is one of the best Destiny related videos I've seen in 12 years, thank you!

that laugh after you said "sixty seven" made me fucking die bro 😭😭😭

instantly subbed because of the form factor of this video. so professional and concise