Late final 12 months, it was reported that Future 2’s upcoming growth, The Last Form, was getting delayed amidst struggles and layoffs at Bungie. The growth, which was initially imagined to launch by February, was then formally pushed again to June, leaving an incredible hole of time between what was imagined to be the top of final 12 months’s growth and the eventual conclusion of Future 2’s ongoing saga. In gentle of this hole, Bungie has deliberate a pseudo-season of content material, billed as Future 2: Into the Gentle, which is bringing new maps, modes, and weapons when it launches on April 9.
Into the Gentle’s weapons are of specific word, as they make up what Bungie has dubbed the “BRAVE arsenal,” a group of beloved older weapons which were renewed and enhanced for the present state of the sport. Once they had been first unveiled within the second of three deliberate developer streams earlier this week, nonetheless, they had been met with each pleasure and a touch of hesitation. The latter was attributable to the truth that Bungie introduced it might launch half of the BRAVE arsenal at launch, adopted by a protracted weekly rollout for the opposite half of the armory. Per the preliminary plan, gamers who began enjoying Into the Gentle at launch wouldn’t have the ability to get their arms on the complete arsenal for a full six weeks.
If there’s one factor I’ve realized from being in and across the Future 2 group for years now, it’s that you need to do as little as potential to face in the best way of gamers and their loot. Followers of the sport had been none too happy in regards to the drip feed of weapons, particularly contemplating what number of of these weapons are fan favorites whose worth deprecated over time. Crucially, earlier entry to the complete arsenal would grant gamers extra time to grind them in Into the Gentle’s new PvE Onslaught mode and earn particular variants which are solely out there for a restricted time. On Bungie’s initially supposed schedule, this time can be lower dramatically quick for the weapons releasing later. Numerous gamers made their issues and complaints identified to Bungie, which regardless of its missteps is usually open to suggestions and pretty fast to answer it, and the group is now (type of) reversing course.
A thread on the Future 2 Crew Twitter account (which shares insights and suggestions instantly from the builders) responded to followers’ issues yesterday and introduced that Bungie can be tweaking the deliberate weapon rollout. Reasonably than six weeks, the schedule has now been lower to a few weeks, which means the group will probably be dropping two weapons every week after launch. On this timeline, gamers will now have the ability to get all the BRAVE arsenal by the top of April, fairly than late Could. Although it doesn’t utterly get rid of the “timegating” that many gamers are calling out, the choice is essentially a step in the precise course.
Additional down the thread, Bungie outlines most of the methods by which it’s ensuring that gamers can get assured god rolls and restricted variants of the BRAVE arsenal. In response to Bungie, “weapon drop charges throughout Future 2: Into the Gentle will probably be amongst our highest in Future’s historical past, even harkening again to the times of Season of Opulence,” making certain that people who spend any time enjoying Future 2 through the subsequent few months will have the ability to get their arms on the much-desired weapons.
The whole thing of the thread is value a learn when you’re curious in regards to the numerous pathways to earn loot all through Into the Gentle, however the message is obvious: it is possible for you to to get the BRAVE weapons it doesn’t matter what.