Future 2’s closing season, Season of the Want, is almost right here.
Should you haven’t heard that Bungie was wrapping up the sport’s season releases, don’t panic. This can be Future 2’s closing season, however solely as a result of Bungie is switching the sport to an episodic mannequin as soon as the Remaining Form enlargement launches on Feb. 27, 2024.
With Season of the Want’s launch, Bungie is trying to finish seasons in type. Along with coping with the fifteenth Want (a narrative beat left dangling greater than 5 years in the past), Guardians can get their arms on some stunning Witcher-themed armor, an in-game LFG, and a few long-awaited Stasis upgrades. Right here’s a breakdown of the Season of the Want particulars Bungie revealed in its Wednesday blog.
Earlier than we get into any of the large modifications to Future 2 coming in Season of the Want, it’s necessary to deal with the announcement everybody truly cares about: the tremendous scorching Witcher armor units (seen above).
Every class’ armor set takes inspiration from Geralt of Rivia’s regular garb — every with their very own wolf pendant and double swords on their again. It seems to be like there’s additionally a Witcher-inspired Ghost shell and ship. Bungie hasn’t revealed a worth but, however these collaborations are usually very costly. The opposite collaborative armor units (Fortnite, Sony first-party video games, and Murderer’s Creed) all run 2,000 Silver per class. That’s $20 in actual cash, or $60 in order for you all three courses.
In different information, the long-awaited in-game group finder is lastly coming to Future 2 in Season of the Want, albeit not precisely when gamers thought. Bungie introduced on Wednesday that the LFG system will initially launch right into a beta throughout Season of the Want, and that comes with some limitations.
The primary testing interval for the LFG will likely be on Nov. 30, and can solely be obtainable for raids. It seems that, opposite to the unique plan, the group finder won’t be obtainable for the brand new dungeon’s launch on Dec. 1.
Nonetheless, Bungie is attempting to stay versatile with the beta. Assuming all goes effectively on the thirtieth, the complete beta expertise will roll out in December. Bungie plans to speed up or delay the LFG based mostly on how the check goes, and is now trying to absolutely launch the characteristic in January.
In Season of the Want — and once more within the upcoming Remaining Form replace — Bungie is trying to tune Stasis to convey it again consistent with the opposite powers within the sport. For Season of the Want, which means touching a lot of the skills to make them extra dependable, and altering the Fragments in order that they’re much less punishing on stats.
So far as the longer term is worried, Bungie teased a brand new Stasis key phrase referred to as “Frost Armor,” which is designed to assist hold gamers protected whereas working Stasis — a serious downside with the facility set’s present iteration.
The very last thing price mentioning right here is that Bungie is nerfing each Ward of Daybreak and Properly of Radiance, growing the assist Supers’ cooldown occasions by about 40 seconds every. This nerf additionally comes with a threatening message concerning each Supers, which Bungie has bigger rework plans for someday sooner or later. The put up particularly calls out Properly of Radiance as an issue little one in Future that enables gamers to be far too protected in in any other case harmful conditions.
All of those modifications and additions will come to Future 2 throughout Season of the Want, which hits reside servers on Nov. 28.