Late final 12 months, it was reported that Future 2’s upcoming enlargement, The Remaining 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 mild 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 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 because of the truth that Bungie introduced it will 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 be capable of get their arms on the total arsenal for a full six weeks.
If there’s one factor I’ve discovered from being in and across the Future 2 neighborhood for years now, it’s that you need to do as little as attainable to face in the best way of gamers and their loot. Followers of the sport have been none too happy concerning the drip feed of weapons, particularly contemplating what number of of these weapons are fan favorites whose worth deprecated through the years. Crucially, earlier entry to the total arsenal would grant gamers extra time to grind them in Into the Gentle’s new PvE Onslaught mode and earn particular variants which can be solely obtainable for a restricted time. On Bungie’s initially supposed schedule, this time could be lower dramatically brief for the weapons releasing later. Numerous gamers made their issues and complaints recognized to Bungie, which regardless of its missteps is commonly open to suggestions and pretty fast to answer it, and the staff is now (form of) reversing course.
A thread on the Future 2 Workforce Twitter account (which shares insights and suggestions instantly from the builders) responded to followers’ issues yesterday and introduced that Bungie could be tweaking the deliberate weapon rollout. Slightly than six weeks, the schedule has now been lower to 3 weeks, that means the staff shall be dropping two weapons every week after launch. On this timeline, gamers will now be capable of get the whole BRAVE arsenal by the tip of April, fairly than late Might. Although it doesn’t utterly eradicate the “timegating” that many gamers are calling out, the choice is essentially a step in the suitable course.
Additional down the thread, Bungie outlines most of the methods during which it’s ensuring that gamers can get assured god rolls and restricted variants of the BRAVE arsenal. In line with 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,” guaranteeing that people who spend any time enjoying Future 2 through the subsequent few months will be capable of get their arms on the much-desired weapons.
The whole thing of the thread is value a learn for those who’re curious concerning 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.