The Season of the Risen is coming to a detailed in Future 2, and Bungie has taken the lid off a few of the huge adjustments on the way in which within the coming season. The multiplayer recreation will lastly see the Iron Banner rework gamers have been asking for, in addition to the return of the favored Rift PvP mode from the unique Future.
Within the newest This Week at Bungie, Future 2 neighborhood supervisor Liana Ruppert runs down the adjustments coming to Iron Banner, Future 2’s limited-time Crucible occasion. When Season 17 begins, Iron Banner will disable energy ranges (though these will nonetheless be lively in Trials of Osiris). Reasonably than being restricted to Management, Iron Banner’s recreation modes will change with every season.
In Season 17, a kind of modes can be Rift, which is coming back from the primary Future. It’s a seize the flag-style mode by which groups of Guardians have to choose up a Spark that spawns within the centre of the map and carry it into the enemy staff’s base, the place it may be ‘dunked’ for some extent. The Spark grants a weapon and skill buff to the Guardian carrying it – a change from the unique model, by which you couldn’t shoot if you happen to had been holding the Spark. Rift will initially solely be accessible in Iron Banner, however as soon as Season 18 begins, it’ll go into common Crucible rotation.
Naturally, Rift requires a purpose-built map. It’s referred to as Disjunction, and it’s set in Savathun’s Throne World, within the swampy pyramid space. Bungie says to “count on plenty of many-butted horses, clear brown glass, and artwork deco designs”.
It’s additionally one of many greatest maps thus far, designed with brief, medium, and lengthy vary engagements in thoughts. Whereas it’s constructed for Rift, it’ll even be accessible in all 6v6, 3v3, and free-for-all recreation modes, each in Crucible and Iron Banner.
Different adjustments are on the way in which to Iron Banner, too: Lord Saladin gained’t be bothering with Iron Banner tokens anymore, and can as an alternative use a repute system like the opposite distributors. He’s additionally getting his personal engram-focusing system, which can work identical to Saint-XIV’s does – you may open engrams for a random dupe of any weapon or armour you’ve beforehand earned, or pay a supplies value to ‘focus’ them on a particular dupe to get a brand new roll on it.
Bungie can be bringing again the repute bonus you get for carrying Iron Banner armour and symbols, and Iron Banner is getting its very personal seal and title. Nonetheless, we’ll see fewer Iron Banners every season – it’s dropping to 2 occasions, down from the same old three.
