Even Future 2 Lightfall criticism couldn’t cease hundreds of thousands of gamers from having fun with the sport’s most up-to-date growth within the common FPS sport, which suffered from destructive suggestions concerning its shallow marketing campaign, gruelling issue, all-new Guardian Ranks system, Commendations, and Misplaced Sector drop charges. Nonetheless, Bungie has taken that suggestions to coronary heart in a brand new weblog publish led primarily by Future 2 sport director Joe Blackburn, which addresses almost each main participant criticism since Lightfall’s launch.
The replace highlights main changes to Guardian Ranks, reveals plans for Unique focusing, explains current issue causes and changes, shares modifications based mostly on suggestions concerning Dusk rating rating, and even guarantees that gamers will quickly have the ability to grant Commendations for participant swag.
In a publish titled Reflecting on Lightfall: Launch and Past, the dev group notes the sport skilled its “highest variety of concurrent gamers in years” with the launch of its new growth. It then segues into textual content from Blackburn, which explicitly addresses participant criticism concerning the current growth.
“We’ve taken a broad take a look at neighborhood suggestions throughout the sport since launch and have been working to deal with a number of areas within the coming weeks, whereas additionally forging forward on content material for our upcoming seasons,” Blackburn says.
After discussing the objectives behind Future 2 Guardian Ranks and Commendations, Blackburn acknowledges the group missed the mark in its rating system. Sooner or later, gamers is not going to have as many necessities to reset their ranks every season, and Commendations is not going to be so carefully tied to Guardian Rank progress. Additional, Bungie will quickly incorporate Commendations for Finest Dressed, a characteristic gamers have requested since Lightfall’s launch.
Blackburn additionally says the midseason patch will enhance map rating modifiers on Nightfalls to make it simpler to succeed in particular scores. The sport can even cut back some enemy hordes and the harm some enemies can take. It additionally guarantees Neomuna patrols might be simpler to finish and can extra reliably matchmake gamers with different Guardians partaking in Terminal Overload. The group can even enhance the spawn price of Vex Strike Power occasions, and these occasions will drop new Unique armour for gamers who’ve any left to gather.
It additionally outlines a number of season 21 buildcrafting updates, together with introducing two new amour mods and modifications to the Shoot to Loot weapon perk that may now enable it to loot Orbs of Energy along with ammo packing containers. The replace additionally reiterates the introduction of three forthcoming Strand Points, certainly one of every of the Guardian lessons.
As of Future 2 season 21, Trials of Osiris will launch as of week one of many season, as a substitute of holding the launch as gamers stage their characters as a result of there might be no Energy cap will increase subsequent season. Additional, Grandmaster Nightfalls will start on a rotation schedule as of the fourth week of the season as a substitute of ready till midseason as they’ve prior to now. The sport can even introduce Unique engram focusing to present gamers extra management of what Exotics they hope to achieve with higher stats.
Lastly, Blackburn hints at modifications to fifteen low-performing Exotics, bettering raid and dungeon drop possibilities via Triumphs, and addressing team-unfriendly Vanguard weapon bounties.
Although season 21 is on the horizon, gamers nonetheless have a number of weeks to grind for Future 2 Lightfall Exotics and discover every thing the present season presents, comparable to Future 2 Iron Banner, which is happening within the multiplayer sport proper now.
