Late final 12 months, it was reported that Future 2’s upcoming enlargement, The Ultimate Form, was getting delayed amidst struggles and layoffs at Bungie. The enlargement, which was initially imagined to launch by February, was then formally pushed again to June, leaving an amazing hole of time between what was imagined to be the tip of final 12 months’s enlargement 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 notice, as they make up what Bungie has dubbed the “BRAVE arsenal,” a set of beloved older weapons which were renewed and enhanced for the present state of the sport. After they have been first unveiled within the second of three deliberate developer streams earlier this week, nonetheless, they have been met with each pleasure and a touch of hesitation. The latter was as a consequence of 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 taking part in Into the Gentle at launch wouldn’t be capable of get their palms on the complete arsenal for a full six weeks.
If there’s one factor I’ve discovered from being in and across the Future 2 group for years now, it’s that you need to do as little as attainable to face in the way in which of gamers and their loot. Followers of the sport have 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 might be solely accessible for a restricted time. On Bungie’s initially meant schedule, this time could be minimize dramatically brief for the weapons releasing later. Numerous gamers made their issues and complaints recognized to Bungie, which regardless of its missteps is usually open to suggestions and pretty fast to reply to it, and the staff is now (form of) reversing course.
A thread on the Future 2 Workforce Twitter account (which shares insights and suggestions immediately from the builders) responded to followers’ issues yesterday and introduced that Bungie could be tweaking the deliberate weapon rollout. Somewhat than six weeks, the schedule has now been minimize to a few weeks, which means the staff shall be dropping two weapons every week after launch. On this timeline, gamers will now be capable of get your complete BRAVE arsenal by the tip 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 basically a step in the precise course.
Additional down the thread, Bungie outlines lots of the methods through which it’s ensuring that gamers can get assured god rolls and restricted variants of the BRAVE arsenal. Based on Bungie, “weapon drop charges throughout Future 2: Into the Gentle shall 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 taking part in Future 2 throughout the subsequent few months will be capable of get their palms on the much-desired weapons.
The whole thing of the thread is value a learn should you’re curious in regards to the varied 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.
