The upcoming Future 2 Frontiers DLC could also be a smaller content material pack in response to the most recent insider rumors. Whereas many of the Future 2 DLC to this point has been significant-sized expansions, the current layoffs at Bungie probably imply that not one of the recreation’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 shall be lighter and smaller in scale than The Closing Form. The goal is that Bungie can proceed to provide new content material for the sport regardless of funding being decreased following the studio’s restructuring course of.
Throughout at present’s Recreation Mess Mornings podcast, trade insider Jeff Grubb claimed he had been advised that Future 2 content material would proceed however in a distinct kind: “In relation to Future 2, the expectation internally is that the longer term content material shall be lighter, smaller, to take much less time than what The Closing Form did, and require fewer folks.”
He then stated that Bungie now internally refers to all future DLC as content material packs. These shall 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 stage goes to pair again in a big manner.”
In a “The Journey Forward” stream in June, Bungie teased new Episodes that may 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 — shall 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 possibilities of it being a big growth now appear to be pretty slim.