The upcoming Future 2 Frontiers DLC could also be a smaller content material pack in line with the most recent insider rumors. Whereas many of the Future 2 DLC to date has been significant-sized expansions, the current layoffs at Bungie probably imply that not one of the sport’s future content material packs will attain that scale once more.
What’s a Future 2 content material pack?
Content material packs are Future 2 DLC that will likely be lighter and smaller in scale than The Last Form. The purpose is that Bungie can proceed to provide new content material for the sport regardless of funding being diminished following the studio’s restructuring course of.
Throughout right now’s Sport Mess Mornings podcast, trade insider Jeff Grubb claimed he had been informed that Future 2 content material would proceed however in a unique kind: “With regards to Future 2, the expectation internally is that the long run content material will likely be lighter, smaller, to take much less time than what The Last Form did, and require fewer folks.”
He then stated that Bungie now internally refers to all future DLC as content material packs. These will likely be “not a shell of their former selves, however they’ll undoubtedly have that vibe about them.” Apparently the administration at Bungie “need Future 2 to maintain being a factor, however the funding degree goes to pair again in a major approach.”
In a “The Journey Forward” stream in June, Bungie teased new Episodes that might proceed the sport’s narratives. Every of those self-contained narrative arcs was to final a interval of six weeks. The primary of those, Echoes, was launched on June 11 with the ultimate a part of its story scheduled for later this month. Whether or not the remaining two Episodes — Revenant and Heresy — will likely be launched stays to be seen, though they do seemingly match into the brand new content material pack DLC mannequin.
In the meantime, Future 2’s new Codename Frontiers pack promised to proceed the sport’s journey in 2025. Little else is understood concerning the upcoming content material, however the probabilities of it being a major growth now appear to be pretty slim.
