Bungie has lastly confirmed that The Closing Form, Future 2‘s main growth 10 years within the making, has been delayed, and can now arrive June 4 as a substitute of on its beforehand deliberate launch date of February 27. Extra importantly, the studio defined what gamers will likely be doing within the meantime.
The Closing Form’s delay, first reported by Bloomberg, comes at a troublesome time for the sci-fi MMO. Amid mass layoffs and missed income projections, Future 2 has struggled to hold onto gamers coming off of 2023’s lower than stellar Lightfall growth. With the following main content material drop coming in June as a substitute of February, the massive query was how Bungie will hold much more gamers from abandoning the stay service sport within the months forward.
Sport director Joe Blackburn teased a solution in a brand new weblog submit and YouTube video, and it’s not simply extending Season of the Want previous its preliminary late February conclusion as many gamers had anticipated. Bungie can even be rolling out new weekly progression-based quests referred to as Needs on the time The Closing Form was initially set to drop, in addition to shifting forward with the launch of latest Moments of Triumph with distinctive rewards.
The Guardian Video games occasion, in the meantime, will get moved as much as March, whereas April will carry a free content material replace referred to as Future 2: Into the Gentle which can “put together gamers for his or her Guardian’s journey into the Traveler.” It seems to be geared toward getting new and lapsed gamers up-to-speed earlier than the finale. Lastly, PvP modes will proceed to get reworked, with three new maps arriving in Might.
That appears like lots of stuff but it surely stays to be seen simply how attention-grabbing and concerned the Needs questlines and Into the Gentle replace really are. Not less than there will likely be causes to examine in with the sport each week till June 4 arrives. In the end, the one factor gamers actually need from Future 2 proper now could be for the conclusion to 10 years of grinding by means of its loot and story drops to really feel impactful, stunning, and satisfying. Hopefully the brand new content material coming earlier than then doesn’t simply really feel like extra filler that distracts from The Closing Form.
“I’m going to be trustworthy, we’ve been holding some playing cards near our chest on this one and I’m going to ask that you simply bear with us for slightly bit longer,” Blackburn mentioned. “as a result of we expect a bunch of the systms and gameplay that we wish to speak about are stuff you must see not simply hear so in April once we come again with gameplay for The Closing Form we would like the sport to talk for itself.”
