Future 2 is getting an enormous new growth this yr with Past Mild on September 22, however along with discovering out what new stuff is coming into the sport, Bungie has revealed the way it’ll be biking out older content material from the sport. Beginning within the fall, some locations and content material can be eliminated to shrink its measurement and make room for the brand new location of Europa and different content material coming within the growth.

Bungie revealed a number of the particulars on its livestream detailing Past Mild, the place director Luke Smith defined the brand new “Future Content material Vault.” The DCV is the place Bungie will shelf some content material for intervals of time, pulling it out whereas different content material is cycled in. However the vault can even enable for Bungie to drag outdated Future 1 content material and replace it for Future 2, biking it again into the sport. The adjustments as to what content material can be accessible in Future 2 will change annually with the discharge of its subsequent three fall expansions: Past Mild in 2020, The Witch Queen in 2021, and Lightfall in 2022.

Smith confirmed after the livestream that one of many first issues coming again to Future 2 from D1 is the Vault of Glass, Future 1’s first raid. We’re additionally seeing the return of the Cosmodrome, considered one of Future’s first areas, together with its three authentic Strikes. These items of content material will come to the sport with Past Mild within the fall.

Leaving the sport with the discharge of Past Mild are a number of present locations and their actions: Mars, Io, Titan, Mercury, and the Leviathan. Bungie says there’ll nonetheless be methods to earn Exotics linked to these locations and their actions, although.

Bungie says the DCV method is a step to keep away from letting Future 2 proceed to develop till it turns into unmanageable. The thought is that the developer can take away some content material to make means for brand new stuff in order that the sport shopper measurement does not develop exponentially, or make updates too troublesome for the crew to implement.

“We’ll all the time do our greatest to provide early discover of what is being cycled into the DCV, that can assist you and your folks plan round the way you need to full your collections and construct up your account earlier than the brand new Future yr begins,” Bungie wrote on its web site explaining the DCV. “The overwhelming majority of content material we select to vault can even be from locations and actions which were free for all gamers for a number of months previous to their departure. For instance: the Curse of Osiris marketing campaign, which has been free since Shadowkeep launched in October 2019, and a part of the Future 2 expertise since December 2017, will go within the DCV later this yr.”

The rundown additionally contains different key particulars about what content material can be accessible in Future 2’s 12 months 4:

• There can be three raids playable this fall, together with a brand new one set within the Deep Stone Crypt on Europa as a part of the Past Mild growth.
• Obtainable strikes can be based mostly on a pool of potential strikes from energetic locations. When a vacation spot goes into the DCV, so too will its strikes.
• The PvP Map playlist will stay a curated ‘better of’ combination of maps from Future 1 and a pair of.
• Gambit and Gambit Prime are being merged right into a single mode, with their authentic armor visuals accessible to earn from the Drifter.

In fact, there are a whole lot of gamers who aren’t excited concerning the thought of Future 2 content material ever being diminished. Gamers are already cautious of adjustments which might be coming to the game–starting within the Season of Arrivals that kicked off on June 9, Bungie is beginning to sundown previous weapons and armor, placing a restrict on how lengthy they will be viable in endgame content material. Despite the fact that Bungie says putting some content material within the DCV is important for the sport to proceed to develop, some see it as dropping content material they’ve paid for. Equally, with a stay sport, much less content material means much less number of actions over time. For gamers who play incessantly, the discount in selection could make the sport get stale extra shortly.

As with every little thing Bungie has been doing in Future 2, nevertheless, the developer refers back to the DCV as an experiment that can possible change over time, so we’ll have to see how the system develops as soon as Bungie implements it.