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With Future 2: Lightfall releasing on February 28, the sport is at its most fun level but. Lightfall is the franchise’s penultimate enlargement within the Mild and Darkish saga, that means this story arc will quickly be coming to an finish, however there are many free threads to tie up earlier than then.

On February 16, Bungie shared a 16-minute video documentary that gave followers of the collection a deeper take a look at Lightfall and what comes subsequent. There was loads of data to sink our enamel into, and we’ll dissect the Lightfall ViDoc and convey you all it’s worthwhile to learn about its contents.

Osiris, the strand weaver

The start of the ViDoc exhibits the Traveler, which had an necessary cut-scene featured within the second week of February 2023, surrounded by The Witness’ pyramids in addition to Osiris wielding Strand fibers. Strand, as we now know, is the brand new subclass coming to Future 2 with the launch of Lightfall. Osiris himself now not has the Mild, the facility which retains Guardians alive, so it’s attention-grabbing to notice right here that he’s the one wielding Strand and educating Guardians about it. It’s described as one thing that everybody has inside them and isn’t associated to the Mild, which is necessary for the narrative forward.

Our finish begins

The Witness’ ship is proven within the ViDoc and we’re knowledgeable that they’ll lastly materialize bodily to face off in opposition to the Traveler. This would be the first time gamers have seen the bodily manifestation of The Witness within the sport, and when it’s adopted by the quote, “Massive shit goes down,” we are able to’t assist however really feel that’s considerably of an understatement. Concerned in that “huge shit” might be Crow, Amanda, Petra, and Devrim Kay. That is the primary time shortly these characters have been closely concerned in an enlargement’s storyline, however it stays to be seen wherein context.

New weapons incoming

A number of new weapons had been proven off within the trailer, considerably not directly. In numerous cutscenes and stills new weapons and armor could possibly be seen. Firstly, an Unique stasis bow referred to as Verglas Curve that appears to freeze enemies at fast pace, ought to make an attention-grabbing addition to most builds. We had been additionally proven a brief clip that includes a purple sword which we now know is the season’s ritual weapon. That is the weapon Guardians can earn by collaborating in ritual actions akin to Crucible, Gambit, and Vanguard Ops.

In a loading in display screen, there’s some Lightfall-themed armor with plentiful bullets and a pink and inexperienced aesthetic. The Titan’s helmet appears new and could possibly be an Unique we haven’t seen but. The Quicksilver Storm from the pre-order bonuses is proven off, in addition to a Strand monitoring pistol that Bungie has beforehand revealed.

Guardian ranks and loadouts

Guardian ranks have been introduced by Bungie already, however a brand new display screen exhibits how this method will look when logging in after Lightfall releases. There are 11 ranks to attain, and every rank has particular person sections of options for methods wherein gamers can obtain the following rank. This isn’t locked to particular content material, and Bungie stipulates that these are solely options and never necessities.

The brand new loadout screens present all geared up mods and all armor items on one display screen in addition to some new weapon perks and armor mods. The seasonal sword is Photo voltaic power and might roll with Incandescent, that means that it could unfold scorch stacks to enemies leading to igniting them and inflicting enormous injury. The seasonal grenade launcher has the flexibility to roll with the Volt Shot perk. If Guardians acquire the flexibility to make use of blinding grenades and volt shot it may rapidly enter the brand new meta, particularly in PvP. Round Logic, one other seasonal weapon, is proven to roll with the Hatchling perk which we are able to assume is said to the brand new Strand subclass and the threadlings linked to it.

By way of armor mods, one new addition is the Font of Vigor arms mod which causes gamers to realize a short lived armor cost when amassing an orb of energy. Armor Cost is proven to offer a bonus to the energy statistic, and decays over time. Melee Kickstart now additionally positive aspects a short lived Armor Cost. Font of Agility positive aspects one momentary Armor Cost in addition to a bonus to the mobility statistic. Void Weapon Surge causes one momentary Armor Cost in addition to bonus injury to Void weapons.

Other than these finer particulars, the rest of the ViDoc centered on displaying extra of Neomuna as a metropolis and detailing some patrol zones, in addition to shedding slightly mild on some multi-guardian actions that might be coming to Future 2 when Lightfall releases on February 28.