I worked on flashpoint last night. Did 2 heroic public events, 5 patrols and completed the 6th level of EP. My progress bar was filled about 75% but the numeric value was at 1%. I did a few more patrols and the progress bar was unchanged.

I assumed it was one of the "known performance issues" the update screen was talking about.

Sounds like user error to me :P

Probably. I'm generally oblivious.

I worked on flashpoint last night. Did 2 heroic public events, 5 patrols and completed the 6th level of EP. My progress bar was filled about 75% but the numeric value was at 1%. I did a few more patrols and the progress bar was unchanged.

I assumed it was one of the "known performance issues" the update screen was talking about.

Flashpoint progress is achieved by completing public events, adventures, and lost sectors. So the patrols and EP that you did weren’t counting towards your flashpoint completion.

That said, there is a bug with the progress indicator. The progress bar fills up as it should, but the % text underneath just sits at 1%. You’ll still get your powerful loot drop when the bar fills up, though :)

I did a bunch of stuff and checked the progress bar. Then did a few more things and it looked like the progress bar didn't move. Maybe it was just because my first go around was substantial and the second was minimal, I just didn't notice the gained progress.

Thanks for the info though, glad I'm not crazy or wasting time.

I was wondering about this a few days ago in some other thread. Sounds like the 1 core per level theory is out the window. It must scale up as you progress?

Did each level improve s different stat? I wonder if they're randomized, or fixed for each weapon?

No clue at all. (One data point. ;) )

I saw stuff like "small improvement to handling and range" with a tiny sliver added to those bars... then "substantial improvement to Stability and Handling" with the same tiny slivers added to those bars. In one case, it looked like they went backwards.

I DO know that the last step (9 to 10) saw a substantial climb in one stat (don't remember which).

Yeah, I'm not sure what to make of it yet. It's clearly (a lot) more expensive to go all the way, but it's also cheaper to get SOME of the way there, up to a point. What I don't know yet is which masterwork level is equivalent to the previous masterwork? If you have to get to level 10 to get equivalent stats to before, then this new system sucks. But what if level 7 (just as an example) is equivalent to a previous masterwork, and everything past that is just extra gravy?

I got a Trackless Waste (kinetic submachine gun) doing the Flashpoint last night.

There were 10 Masterwork levels - each had different text about what was being improved (though the bars didn't move like I thought they might, based on the text). They started cheap - the first level was 100 Glimmer... but by the time I got the thing to max (10 levels of Masterwork), I'd spent 25 Masterwork Cores, along with a bunch of shards (wasn't keeping track of shards).

I'm sort of hoping this is bugged, and that I got overcharged, because that's a LOT of cores for a single weapon. :(

Yeah, I'm almost positive that's the intention. Masterwork cores are supposed to come from some additional sources once Forsaken hits, so you should be getting them more often than you're used to, but they are also going to cost a lot more materials to upgrade your stuff.

Even though the "grind" will be hard to masterwork something completely, I do love the feel of saying "this is my favorite weapon cause I master worked it completely" as oppose to the other weapons I didn't want to put my full effort into.

Ultimately I think we will know what our favorite weapons are before we masterwork them. I can't image the weapons will change so much with the masterworks that we are constantly changing our minds about them. But you never know! Time will tell.

They detailed it in the combat stream for Forsaken (at about 27 minutes):

In addition to them giving more masterwork cores to compensate, you also get a bigger boost to stats, instead of being limited to a 5% boost to a stat it's up to a 10% boost.

I'm sort of hoping this is bugged, and that I got overcharged, because that's a LOT of cores for a single weapon. :(

From Bungie support:

Masterworking Armor/Weapons: The number of Masterwork cores needed to Masterwork armor or weapons will drastically change in the 2.0.0.1 update on Sept. 4.- added 8/29/2018

My understanding is that it will cost 10k Glimmer, 27 Legendary Shards, and 17 Masterwork cores to take a weapon to tier 10 (after Tuesday). I don't recommend spending any cores this week.