The response was quick and livid from the Future 2 group when Bungie introduced solely half of its reprised “biggest hits” weapons would launch with the arrival of its free Into the Mild content material, with the others being timegated to 1 every week after that for six extra weeks.
Slightly greater than a day later, Bungie modified their thoughts to at the very least some extent, and went by means of a bunch of issues they hoped that may handle participant issues concerning loot.
- There may be nonetheless some timegating however quite a bit much less of it. All the weapons will probably be out in three weeks somewhat than six, in order that’s two new ones every week. Then there will probably be over a month to grind out restricted version variants somewhat than 2-3 weeks for the final additions.
- They says they need “contemporary rewards” for the primary half of the occasion, and extra playable content material will probably be added within the second half (there may be speculated to be an unique mission).
- They reiterate that there’s a weekly quest from Arcite, a Shaxx vendor, that may assure at the very least one limited-edition rarity of every of the 12 weapons earlier than the occasion is over and the restricted editions go away. We nonetheless don’t know the potential drop charges of restricted editions within the wild.
- They preserve that there’s going to be a lot of loot for this, the place one 50 wave run would get you a number of copies of a weapon you’re focusing. They evaluate it to the quantity of loot you have been getting when Season of Opulence’s chest was bugged (that was like 5-9 copies of a weapon per run). There’s additionally a weapon chest you feed foreign money into for much more drops.
- They reiterate all 12 weapons might be farmed after The Remaining Form as Onslaught isn’t going away, you simply can’t get the restricted version decoration ones. There appears to be some confusion amongst some gamers that these weapons are solely out there typically for 2 months, which isn’t the case.
So that is…adequate, in my view. No, it’s not zero timegating, however I feel all of this provides as much as be okay sufficient to cease complaining, and it does look like there will probably be a superb quantity of grinding/incomes time for restricted version weapons. I do assume some folks should not present up on week one in the event that they haven’t launched the weapons they care about, however that’s Bungie’s drawback I suppose.
I’m nonetheless trying ahead to Into the Mild and these (closely power-crept) traditional weapons, and we have now another showcase that ought to reveal new Crucible maps (the place Onslaught is more likely to happen) and a few unique mission-related stuff. We’ll see on Tuesday.
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