A Future 2 season 21 teaser confirms a beloved character is probably going nonetheless alive. In case you haven’t watched it but, you’ll need to try the brand new, 9-second Future 2 Season of the Deep teaser instantly earlier than we bounce into what it means for Bungie’s well-liked FPS sport.
Launched as a part of Bungie’s This Week at Bungie (TWAB) sequence, a voice acquainted to longtime gamers shares a misery message.
“If there are any Guardians listening, that is Deputy Commander Sloane requesting emergency assist,” a voice says over static on an intercom. Imagery exhibits two ships traversing by house over a big physique of greenish water.
This confirms Sloane, who has been lacking in motion because the planet Titan disappeared from the sport after being usurped by the Black Fleet again in 2020, will return not directly as a part of Future 2 season 21.
This additionally confirms theories that Titan will return in some method, because the greenish water is indicative of the moon’s aesthetics inside the sport world. Whereas the Bungie workforce developed a lore cause for the planet’s removing alongside different locations similar to Io, Mercury, and Mars, the truth is that the workforce made the troublesome option to vault the moon of Saturn and its associated actions as a part of a posh technique to enhance the core sport.
Whereas this doesn’t essentially imply Titan could be reprised as a totally explorable vacation spot, it does imply gamers might see bits and items of it not directly. As an illustration, Mars initially returned to the sport as an outpost and finally grew to become the setting for a Heist: Battlegrounds in-game exercise and the Future 2 Spire of the Watcher dungeon.
So maybe it’s solely becoming that the TWAB additionally teased its forthcoming dungeon, which it referred to solely as [redacted], and introduced it might launch at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm UTC on Friday, Could 26.
Titan’s return just isn’t a complete shock based mostly on data introduced within the Future 2 Lightfall Strider quest, which included a knowledge transmission that urged such.
“Pressing: Saturn VI accommodates very important data. Enemy of Witness on Titan. If nonetheless dwelling, preservation paramount. Don’t waste time,” the transmission says.
Contextually, the planetary imagery within the Future 2 Root of Nightmares raid might additionally present context for Titan’s return. Some have speculated that as a result of gamers defeated Zo’Aurc, Explicator of Planets, within the raid, this releases locations from their grasp (although, notably, Titan just isn’t technically a planet).
Sloane’s seemingly return can also be not a complete shock, as an IMBD itemizing beforehand shared that the character’s voice actor could be concerned with Lightfall in some way.
The TWAB additionally consists of extra teases from the forthcoming season, together with sea-themed decoration units and site imagery.
Whereas the brand new season is coming shortly, there’s nonetheless time to get your palms on all of the Future 2 Lightfall Exotics, so that you’ll be geared as much as tackle no matter Titan throws at you as we go deep into the multiplayer sport‘s lore later this month.
