Future 2 is likely one of the most profitable live-service video games of all time, however not with out a price. To that impact, the sport has sundown a lot of its content material that maintaining with the story has gotten actually arduous, and I goal to summarize its broadest strokes proper right here.

Under, you’ll discover a quick however to-the-point clarification of what’s gone down in every one of Future 2‘s sundown seasons: all 20 of them in complete, for now. We’ve bought loads of floor to cowl, so no dawdling: let’s get to it.

Future 2’s seasonal tales: all sundown content material, summarized

Our story right here begins with the second yr of Future 2 content material: the Forsaken-era goodies. These weren’t technically seasonal items of content material as they caught round for a number of years earlier than being absolutely eliminated out of the sport, however they’re nonetheless unavailable at the moment, which makes them truthful sport.

Yr 2 (Forsaken) – Season of the Forge

The Season of the Forge launched the Black Armory and Ada-1 to Future‘s lore, resulting in the introduction of probably the most beloved aesthetic gear kinds in your entire franchise. Typically, the affect of Black Armory stuff on the grander lore of the sport is pretty minuscule, though Bungie did find yourself utilizing among the narrative seeds featured right here later down the road. Forge’s greatest contribution to Future 2, broadly, was the superior Scourge of the Previous raid, although it, too, is unavailable on the time of writing this text.

Yr 2 (Forsaken) – Season of the Drifter

The Season of the Drifter, then again, got here out swinging with the third (alleged) gameplay pillar of Future 2: the Gambit. This PvPvE sport mode was a complete novelty for the sport again within the day, and although Bungie has been overlooking it in favour of the Vanguard playlist and Crucible fight, it’s nonetheless a fairly large deal. Story-wise, the Season of the Drifter was all in regards to the 9 and their unusual workings, and we additionally loved the Reckoning exercise to maintain issues spicy.

Yr 2 (Forsaken) – Season of the Opulence

The preferred of the three “unique” seasons, Opulence was the spotlight of Forsaken‘s post-launch content material for positive. The story of Calus’ appeals to the Guardians was enjoyable, for positive, however the Menagerie exercise was the true deal. That includes the downtrodden Leviathan aesthetic, now specializing in boring metals and darkish, dirty marble, this was a putting departure from the same old gold-and-purple of the Leviathan correct, and the entire thing was only a stellar method to finish the yr with.

Yr 3 (Shadowkeep) – Season of the Timeless

Season of the Timeless was the primary of a brand new breed of seasons: that includes a pointed narrative slant and a brand new seasonal development system, this set the stage of what we’d be enjoying for… effectively, for years afterwards. It wasn’t a wonderful season, although. Timeless was stricken by extreme repetition (due to its Vex Offensive exercise), questionable loot, and a narrative that sort of went nowhere. Gamers helped Ikora construct a flowery new Vex Gate to mount a ultimate assault on the seasonal boss, and that was it.

Yr 3 (Shadowkeep) – Season of the Daybreak

Season of the Daybreak, nevertheless, was a a lot better providing compared. Heck, even as we speak, it stays a excessive mark for Future 2, as we bought to carry again Saint-14 by not solely a wonderful Sundial exercise (brimming with superior time-defying loot) but in addition some standout story missions. One other spotlight price mentioning right here is the mysterious reveal ready for us on the finish of the Corridors of Time: the loss of life of the Guardian themselves, which stays unresolved to at the present time. All in all, Daybreak confirmed us what Bungie may do with Seasons, and left the gamers wanting extra.

Yr 3 (Shadowkeep) – Season of the Worthy

Sadly, Worthy couldn’t sustain with the sheer moxie of Daybreak. A Warmind-focused story, Season of the Worthy despatched Guardians on a mad sprint to get better and safe secret Rasputin services strewn throughout the present Patrol Zones. A few of them, the truth is, are nonetheless seen in case you exit to patrol on, say, the Moon, although you clearly can not enter the bunker correct. Story-wise, Season of the Worthy centered primarily on Ana and Zavala as they put aside their variations to work for the betterment of humanity. Worthy’s greatest mistake was its heavy reliance on bunker clearing, which bought very repetitive as time went on. Its greatest win, although, had been the huge, ominous tracker shows displaying that one thing pyramid-shaped was fast-approaching the galaxy. It was a hoot, I can inform you that a lot.

Yr 3 (Shadowkeep) – Season of the Arrivals

Season of the Arrivals is likely one of the greatest seasons Future 2 has ever had, with out the faintest sliver of a doubt. Constructing onto the content material launched in Worthy, Arrivals made gamers return to certainly one of Rasputin’s bunkers to delivered on the terrifying promise of Worthy by truly displaying off the Darkness pyramids as they invaded our planets. Immense, unknowable (on the time), and deeply terrifying in-lore, they led to large modifications to numerous patrol zones and Guardians labored alongside the Drifter and Eris Morn to stifle their progress. On the similar time, the forces of Savathun tried to do the identical, resulting in a wild ménage à trois that stored you busy regardless of the place you went. Sadly, all of it sort of fell aside within the subsequent season.

Yr 4 (Past Mild) – Season of the Hunt

After the occasions of Past Mild performed out, the Season of the Hunt had no hope of substituting what was misplaced. We misplaced large chunks of the sport right here because the sunsetting performed out, and in return, we bought a number of crummy boss hunts and questionably helpful gear. Nonetheless, Hunt had a compelling story specializing in the return of a sure prince, which in flip set the stage for The Ultimate Form years down the road. On the time, although, this was a very poor follow-up to Arrivals, with its narrative being a uncommon spotlight.

Yr 4 (Past Mild) – Season of the Chosen

Compared to Hunt, Chosen was superior. That includes some new core content material, the introduction of Cabal Empress Caiatl, and the idea of Strike-adjacent Battleground missions, Chosen confirmed us that one thing good was cooking within the background nonetheless. Its narrative was centered across the plight of the Cabal as they run from Xivu Arath’s Hive, serving to clarify the species’ conduct in opposition to the broader backdrop of the Future universe.

Yr 4 (Past Mild) – Season of the Splicer

Season of the Splicer was to Eliksni/Fallen what Chosen was to Cabal, however with a extra putting aesthetic plastered on high. Because the Final Metropolis is beset by a Vex-incurred limitless evening anomaly, Mithrax joins forces with the Guardians to resolve this drawback and, maybe, combine his Home of Mild with humanity correct. Splicer’s neon-laden actions had been enjoyable, its gear was extraordinarily potent, and its story – coping with immigration and integration – confirmed up as a excessive be aware for the yr. All in all, a wonderful chapter in Future‘s historical past.

Yr 4 (Past Mild) – Season of the Misplaced

Mara Sov made a less-than-triumphant return within the Season of the Misplaced, which opened up a fairly hefty can of worms now that her brother was kind-of-sort-of-dead but in addition working with the Vanguard. Misplaced started the lengthy means of the pair resolving their issues, and activity-wise, it tasked the Guardians with the six-player Astral Alignment to cease Xivu Arath’s Hive from rising from the area between areas. This was good enjoyable, to make certain, however the spotlight of the season was the Shattered Realm, riffing on Metroidvania and Roguelite gameplay tropes to ship a surprisingly replayable exercise.

Yr 5 (Witch Queen) – Season of the Risen

Season of the Risen constructed on high of Witch Queen in a remarkably participating method: although Savathun was now taken out of the image, her Lucent Hive had been nonetheless a critical menace. To that finish, the Vanguard joins forces with Caiatl’s Cabal to cope with them. Enter an entire host of recent Battlegrounds, and a side-story of the Crow making an attempt to do an excellent factor, solely to very practically destroy the Vanguard/Cabal settlement alongside the best way.

Yr 5 (Witch Queen) – Season of the Haunted

Haunted, too, was moderately nice when all was mentioned and performed. That includes the grand return of the downtrodden Leviathan, now absolutely overtaken by Nightmare growths and Scorn enemies, Eris Morn units up a small expeditionary pressure to attempt to retake it as soon as and for all and purge Calus from its halls. These of us who remembered the Leviathan from years handed bought a hearty dose of nostalgia right here, and we bought to get pleasure from it as an impromptu patrol zone for the entire yr, too.

Yr 5 (Witch Queen) – Season of the Plunder

Plunder was yet one more strong providing within the yr of Witch Queen. This season went all-in on the Eliksni’s pirate-inspired previous, tasking Guardians with finishing six-player Ketchcrash missions, three-player Expedition operations, and separate Pirate Hideout boss hunts. Nice enjoyable every body, and with a narrative to match: Guardians had been chasing down the physique elements of Nezarec himself, which no one noticed coming on the time.

Yr 5 (Witch Queen) – Season of the Seraph

There wasn’t a lot to complain about within the Season of Seraph both, if we’re being trustworthy. This might be the grand finale of Rasputin’s wider story, pitting him in opposition to Clovis Bray himself in an sudden flip of occasions. Seraph was a stark, dramatic story that wrapped up with Rasputin sacrificing himself to cease a disaster within the making and, coincidentally, reveal the reality of Nefele Stronghold: Neomuna.

Yr 6 (Lightfall) – Season of Defiance

Season of Defiance was a surprisingly by-the-number seasonal providing, which didn’t work within the sport’s favor following the questionable state of the Ligthfall DLC on day one. Defiance introduced with it a brand new batch of Battlegrounds, this time coping with the Cabal’s kidnappings of human and Eliksni civilians… for some cause. It was good enjoyable, although it wasn’t touched upon in future lore. We did get a beautiful callback to Splicer, although, with the hard-as-nails AVALON Unique quest!

Yr 6 (Lightfall) – Season of the Deep

A protracted-anticipated return to the oceans of Titan, Season of the Deep was a visually putting chapter of Future historical past that introduced with it an enormous checklist of lore reveals due to the presence of Ahsa, the leviathan space-whale. The Salvage and Deep Dive missions had been neat, Fishing was a strong change of tempo, and the story stored issues fascinating for method longer than you’d count on.

Yr 6 (Lightfall) – Season of the Witch

Within the Season of the Witch, Guardians helped facilitate Eris Morn’s ascension to Hive godhood. Yup, that’s proper: Eris turned the Hive God of Vengeance for a short time, fancy chitin and all, and it was about as horrific as you’d count on. It was an ideal season although, with the Altars of Summoning and Savathun’s Spire missions enjoying into the grander anti-Hive efforts of the Vanguard.

Yr 6 (Lightfall) – Season of the Want

Lastly, within the Season of the Want, Bungie resolved probably the most annoyingly persistent mysteries of Future 2: the fifteenth Want. This Season resolved an ideal many various tales, from Riven and Ahamkara lore all the best way to the connection between Crow and Mara, this was a satisfying end-cap earlier than The Ultimate Form hit. The Riven’s Lair was strong, however the roguelite The Coil exercise was an actual pleasure to play, displaying us that Bungie may do one thing really particular with the sport on a protracted sufficient timeline. All in all, then, a wonderful send-off for the yr and a strong kick-off for The Ultimate Form.