Bungie’s subsequent growth for Future 2, The Ultimate Form, has been delayed till early June 2024, and gamers are questioning what new content material will arrive lengthy after Season of the Want reaches its narrative epilogue. Ever because the huge worker layoffs at Bungie, the longer term appears unsure for Future 2’s future, particularly with the announcement of their new venture, Marathon, and plenty of former Future 2 workers engaged on the venture. Nonetheless, Future 2’s present director, Joe Blackburn, launched a video revealing their plan to introduce new gamers into the sport’s story and gameplay as a result of a lot of the narrative being rendered unplayable as a part of Bungie’s resolution to vault all outdated content material.
Vaulted Content material and Narrative
It’s troublesome for brand new gamers to maintain up Future 2’s story and characters because it requires prior data of vaulted storylines just like the Purple Conflict, Curse of Osiris, Warmind, and Forsaken expansions, in addition to outdated seasonal content material that’s now unavailable. Bungie has tried to treatment this difficulty by introducing the New Mild replace, which offers a tutorial expertise just like Future 1’s starting. Although the gameplay expertise for New Mild is stable, gamers nonetheless discover the narrative transition from New Mild to the present seasonal story jarring. Many very important characters, reminiscent of Mara and Uldren Sov a.ok.a Crow, Riven, Caiatl, Mithrax, and so forth., could also be unfamiliar to new gamers as they’re thrust into the brand new seasonal story.
Reprising Seasonal and Raid Weapons
One other a difficulty with Future 2’s time gating is the seasonal loot that’s made unavailable. Ever because the sport launched its crafting system in The Witch Queen growth, each gun discovered within the seasonal loot desk is craftable, and a few weapons have been extremely sought out by gamers for his or her craftable god rolls. New gamers will miss out on seasonal weapons thought of meta within the present sandbox of the sport. In response to group leaks, Into The Mild will reward gamers with crafting patterns of outdated seasonal weapons, which permits new gamers to meet up with veterans within the endgame by crafting one of the best weapons within the sport. Bungie is hoping to expedite the endgame journey for brand new gamers by offering an exercise that aids in catching as much as veteran gamers.
As you might know, Future 2’s API is open for everybody to see, and Bungie permits the group to leak some components of a brand new content material replace or growth. Story beats, cutscenes, and different sport recordsdata are sometimes leaked, and Into The Mild’s content material is not any exception. In response to Bungie, this content material replace will drop 2 months earlier than The Ultimate Form is launched. Leaks say that this exercise is not going to solely drop seasonal weapon patterns for crafting however might return some outdated Future 1 weapons on the loot desk. Future 2 has made efforts to reprise outdated raid weapons and provides them a contemporary coat of paint to match within the modern-day sandbox. Some outdated exotics that may drop embrace the Dreg’s Promise, to be transformed to a Particular Rocket Body Sidearm, Endurance and Time as a Void sniper rifle with invisibility on crouch, and doubtlessly, the well-known Icebreaker Photo voltaic sniper rifle, which ignites killed targets each time they’re scorched. These reprised exotics will probably operate otherwise from their authentic counterpart, very similar to the present Dragon’s Breath unique rocket launcher.
One other a part of the Into The Mild replace is the introduction of Raid Mastery. Because of the introduction of the Fireteam Finder, this has spurred Bungie to present raid content material extra consideration than ever earlier than. These are challenges that reward weapon patterns of lacking reprised raid weaponry. For instance, the legendary Black Hammer sniper rifle, initially dropped in Future 1’s Crota’s Finish raid, was lacking within the Future 2 reprised variant of the raid, however with Raid Mastery, will probably be given to all gamers that full that raid’s challenges. With Raid Mastery, gamers can now full raid-specific quests to obtain their crafting patterns.
Preparation For The Ultimate Form
Joe Blackburn quotes “That is actually constructed not just for the oldsters which have performed Future 2 for 5000 hours, but additionally to your mates, your loved ones, for people who find themselves simply stepping into Future and wish to put together for The Ultimate Form.” As revealed throughout a livestream anniversary, The Ultimate Form shall be seeing a brand new enemy kind and is Future 2’s most expansive raid but. Because the final growth to the Mild and Darkish saga of Future, Bungie is making large preparations to ship off the story with the most important bang. This growth features a new miniboss race referred to as the Subjugators, which, just like the Tormentors of Lightfall, have crowd-control capabilities utilizing Stasis and Strand powers. As for his or her unnamed raid, it’s going to have a complete of 6 encounters, the best quantity in any raid, matched solely by the legendary Final Want raid.
Bungie has all the time appeared to enhance the brand new participant expertise, and with the Into The Mild replace, they’ve supplied the means to maintain up by way of gear. By the tip of the Season of the Want, we hope to listen to extra about what this replace will deliver quickly.