Lee Harvey Oswald, you might be off the hook—within the Future universe, no less than.
Yeah, it certain appears like Future 2’s new DLC, The Fringe of Destiny, launching at this time in a couple of hours, goes to get actual bizarre with time journey shenanigans within the wake of The Closing Form placing a bow on the entire Mild and Darkness Saga with The Witness and such.
I’ve spent over a decade as a Future nerd, however for the previous 12 months or so, I’ve been fairly checked out. I really feel like defeating The Witness was a correct endpoint for the collection, however Bungie is urgent on with The Fringe of Destiny and extra DLCs to come back. I wasn’t all that hyped till simply this morning.
It was delivered to my consideration by a co-worker that the DLC’s new character, a mysterious man named Lodi, who’s seemingly a time traveler of types, might need accomplished one thing very unhealthy. Mainly, the growth’s new character might have come from the previous and in some way been manipulated by The 9 (highly effective and mysterious entities manufactured from darkish matter that look to be the point of interest of this new saga) to assassinate US President John F. Kennedy. What.
Highlighted a couple of days in the past by Forbes’ Paul Tassi and YouTuber Aztecross, the brand new lore drop might be discovered within the Collector’s Version of The Fringe of Destiny, which comes with a bunch of bodily goodies and distinctive tidbits concerning the story, as Bungie is wont to do with expansions.
To place it as succinctly as potential, the bodily objects comprise documentation from an entity referred to as The Division of Exterior Commentary that signifies JFK was killed by the unique pulse rifle Graviton Lance (probably by Lodi earlier than or after he was pulled by way of time and area by The 9).
The reviews state that the president’s bullet wound sample “is indicative of tissue being pulled in direction of the projectile because it handed by way of the cranium, earlier than it was pushed outward once more,” which might be a signature of the gun that fires mini black holes by way of area and time. Whoa.
It wouldn’t be the primary time JFK’s murky assassination was defined in a recreation, both. Name of Obligation: Black Ops famously put the participant character behind the gun after being brainwashed, however this appears a complete lot odder and extra sci-fi.
Trailer footage for the DLC exhibits Lodi in what seems to be like a Sixties time interval earlier than he ended up at The Fringe of Destiny’s new vacation spot, Kepler, so it appears as if this new period will lean closely into The 9 and the way they’re able to manipulate such occasions, and why.
And now I’m all of a sudden excited for this growth, as a result of, what the hell? The sort of utter ridiculousness just isn’t what I might count on from Future 2. So if we’re going to embrace the bizarre of touring by way of area and time, time paradoxes, and complex silliness of the ilk, then I’m all for this subsequent chapter.
Future 2: The Fringe of Destiny kicks off 12 months eight of Future 2 this afternoon at 12pm CT.
