With the current revelation that the upcoming Remaining Form DLC for Future 2 can be delayed from February 2024 to June 2024, Future 2 gamers brace themselves for an impending seven-month-long Season. Usually I’d be okay with this to make sure the standard of the DLC is best than what we received with the Lightfall DLC, however with no content material bulletins for February and past, Bungie must crack open the DCV (Future Content material Vault) now greater than ever to make sure they maintain participant retention earlier than The Remaining Form arrives.
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Season 22, Season of the Witch, ends on Tuesday, Nov. 28, lower than 4 weeks from now. When it ends, Season 23 (we don’t know the title of it but) will start. As an alternative of operating till late February when the Remaining Form would initially launch, it’s going to now final till the start of June, taking the throne as probably the most prolonged Season ever within the Future franchise.
The final time one thing like this occurred was two years in the past when Bungie introduced that the Witch Queen DLC launch date could be pushed again from November 2021 to February 2022. That meant that the upcoming Season on the time, Season 15, in any other case generally known as Season of the Misplaced, would run for six months somewhat than the usual three.
Nonetheless, to compensate for the additional downtime, Bungie introduced that in the midst of the Season, across the third month when the primary batch of content material could be getting stale, the thirtieth Anniversary occasion could be held, giving gamers new actions and loot to chase to carry them over till the Witch Queen DLC launched. It’s no secret that with out the thirtieth Anniversary occasion, Season of the Misplaced would go down as one of many worst Seasons in franchise because of how lengthy and off it was.
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So what occurs now? Bungie has but to make the official announcement relating to The Remaining Form’s delay. Nonetheless, it appears not possible we’ll obtain one other thirtieth Anniversary-type occasion to maintain gamers busy with the additional time on their palms. Thus, I imagine now greater than ever, Bungie lastly wants to begin cracking open the DCV to maintain participant retention excessive whereas we await The Remaining Form to reach.
Season 23’s roadmap will go as follows:
- New Seasonal Story that lasts 6-8 weeks
- New Dungeon
- New Craftable Raid weapons from Current Raid (Will both be Backyard of Salvation or Vault of Glass)
- New Seasonal Weapons & Armor
Primarily, the same old quantity of content material that retains gamers occupied for the usual three-month length of a given Season. Nonetheless, now add an additional 4 months to the Season as a result of delay, and now what? Gamers are left with just about no content material/updates for longer than a typical Season runs for. This is the reason opening the DCV can be essential.
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Bungie has steadily launched vaulted content material from the DCV over the previous few years because it was launched, however has stored the essential parts akin to previous Raids, Strikes, and PvP maps. With the additional downtime from the delay, introducing an “Age of Triumph” kind of occasion from Future 1 could be a unbelievable method of preserving participant retention excessive, whereas additionally preserving gamers busy with actions till The Remaining Form arrives.
In Future 1, earlier than Future 2 arrived, Bungie introduced the “Age of Triumph” occasion, which revitalized previous Raids just like the Vault of Glass, Crota’s Finish, and King’s Fall and introduced them as much as the present gentle stage of the Rise of Iron DLC actions. On prime of that, they launched new loot for the Raids, akin to wonderful Armor Ornaments, Emblems, Unique variations of the weapons, and extra. It was a unbelievable occasion that many veteran gamers, together with myself, bear in mind fondly as we headed into the brand new age of Future 2.
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Now, Bungie ought to use this technique once more by re-releasing the older, vaulted Raids like The Leviathan, Scourge of the Previous, and even the Leviathan Raid lairs, giving them new, up to date loot. In an ideal world, the Backyard of Salvation and Final Want Raids may additionally use an replace just like that nature, given how previous they’re. Participant’s have been asking for the return of those Raids for fairly a while now, so re-introducing them in such a vogue would vastly enhance the morale of the neighborhood.
It doesn’t must be simply Raids, however we additionally mentioned not too long ago how the DCV ought to re-release some Strikes, because the Dusk playlist has been stale for fairly a while now. Bungie has already introduced a PvP map pack releasing someday subsequent 12 months, so this is also a superb time to introduce them into the combination.
General, when Bungie declares the inevitable delay of The Remaining Form DLC, they should make one other announcement of a thirtieth Anniversary-type occasion, or one thing just like the Age of Triumph as we’ve mentioned, or it’s going to be a really lengthy seven months whereas we await The Remaining Form.