Although the reveal of Future 2: The Ultimate Form actually might’ve performed with an additional banger or two, Bungie is now seemingly on a little bit of a path towards redemption with the Future group after the failures of the Lightfall DLC. The studio’s hype machine for the 2024 DLC is already ramping up, although, and an all-new interview held by the Recreation Director, Joe Blackburn, shed extra gentle on subsequent 12 months’s grand launch.

Notably, Joe Blackburn has taken the lead with Future 2‘s promotional efforts as of late, positioning himself as the brand new face of Bungie’s franchise efforts. Whereas the studio beforehand tried to depersonalize its group efforts attributable to extreme harassment, Blackburn has performed away with that, for higher or for worse, and a latest interview with PC Gamer allowed him to double down on some key details about The Ultimate Form.

Joe Blackburn tells it like it’s in a brand new Future 2 interview

Whereas PC Gamer’s interview is pretty fascinating regardless of how a lot expertise the reader has with Future at massive, there are some notably notable tidbits which are price singling out. The interviewer, for instance, couldn’t assist however ask a few comparatively fashionable conspiracy idea that the Strand Darkness talents had been initially alleged to launch as a part of the Witch Queen DLC, attributable to their thematic match. And, after all, attributable to the truth that Strand is actually discovered randomly on the road when gamers begin Lightfall.

“Strand was all Lightfall, on a regular basis,” mentioned Blackburn. “For one factor, it simply takes us longer than a 12 months cycle to make a complete new harm kind… Even the inexperienced correlation is admittedly humorous to us as a result of Strand didn’t begin out from somebody writing ‘Inexperienced Energy’ on the white board.” Blackburn does add, nonetheless, that he is aware of some folks gained’t consider him it doesn’t matter what he says, which is a good assumption.

What’s actually notable right here, nonetheless, is that Blackburn’s assertion underlines the notion that The Ultimate Form gained’t get the third and last Darkness set of talents in spite of everything. As a substitute, that’s the place the brand new Mild-based supers come into the image.

The Witness wins any 1v1 battle

PC Gamer additionally requested Blackburn concerning the Witness and the way unusual it was that Bungie wasn’t attempting to introduce an all-new race of enemies for the grand finale of the Mild and Darkish saga. Blackburn used this chance to contextualize the Witness’ energy: “What makes The Witness scarier [than any other Destiny foe],” he requested. “It’s necessary for us that the Witness has to really feel completely different. The best way that we maintain phrasing it to the raid crew and the combatants crew is: ‘If the Witness 1v1s any character within the Future universe, The Witness wins.’ The Witness vs Riven? The Witness wins! The Witness vs Atheon? Straightforward!”

It’s a curious, out-of-universe clarification of the mysterious villain, to make certain, nevertheless it ought to quell any discussions of whether or not Oryx beats the Witness in a uncooked energy match-up.

Whether or not Blackburn’s statements concerning the availability of Strand and the dearth of a brand new enemy race in The Ultimate Form are taken at face worth or not, one should admit that his responses are moderately amusing, if nothing else.