With the current revelation that the upcoming Ultimate Form DLC for Future 2 will likely 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 healthier than what we bought 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 hold participant retention earlier than The Ultimate Form arrives.
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 identify of it but) will start. As an alternative of operating till late February when the Ultimate Form would initially launch, it can 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 can be pushed again from November 2021 to February 2022. That meant that the upcoming Season on the time, Season 15, in any other case often known as Season of the Misplaced, would run for six months slightly than the usual three.
Nevertheless, to compensate for the additional downtime, Bungie introduced that in the course of the Season, across the third month when the primary batch of content material can be getting stale, the thirtieth Anniversary occasion can 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 as a result of how lengthy and off it was.
So what occurs now? Bungie has but to make the official announcement relating to The Ultimate Form’s delay. Nonetheless, it appears most unlikely we’ll obtain one other thirtieth Anniversary-type occasion to maintain gamers busy with the additional time on their arms. Thus, I imagine now greater than ever, Bungie lastly wants to begin cracking open the DCV to maintain participant retention excessive whereas we anticipate The Ultimate 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 Present 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 period of a given Season. Nevertheless, now add an additional 4 months to the Season as a result of delay, and now what? Gamers are left with nearly no content material/updates for longer than a typical Season runs for. For this reason opening the DCV will likely be essential.
Bungie has steadily launched vaulted content material from the DCV over the previous couple of years because it was launched, however has saved the essential elements comparable to previous Raids, Strikes, and PvP maps. With the additional downtime from the delay, introducing an “Age of Triumph” sort of occasion from Future 1 can be a implausible method of conserving participant retention excessive, whereas additionally conserving gamers busy with actions till The Ultimate 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 mild stage of the Rise of Iron DLC actions. On prime of that, they launched new loot for the Raids, comparable to superb Armor Ornaments, Emblems, Unique variations of the weapons, and extra. It was a implausible occasion that many veteran gamers, together with myself, keep in mind fondly as we headed into the brand new age of Future 2.
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 might 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 significantly enhance the morale of the group.
It doesn’t have to be simply Raids, however we additionally mentioned just lately how the DCV should 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 may be a superb time to introduce them into the combination.
General, when Bungie publicizes the inevitable delay of The Ultimate 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 anticipate The Ultimate Form.
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