#Rushdown is ideal for reusing Future 2 content material and I want it was sticking round – Destructoid

Future 2 has a brand new exercise featured for the 2025 Guardian Video games, and it’s simply what the sport wants. Rushdown pits gamers towards encounters from Campaigns and different narrative missions, revitalizing content material that may in any other case stay unplayed. The one drawback with Rushdown? It’s solely round for 3 weeks.

There’s a ton of content material in Future 2, however solely a lot of it’s frequently skilled. The sport has myriad Unique, Marketing campaign, and different missions, however most gamers will solely play by every as soon as, if in any respect. Rushdown goals to supply goal to this graveyard of content material, presenting a boss rush exercise much like final 12 months’s Pantheon however with out that includes Raid content material. Guardians race by 5 more and more tough encounters that change every day and vie for the most effective rating, rewarded for quick completion and rare deaths.

Rushdown is superior. My Fireteam has had a blast blindly throwing ourselves towards the every day lineup and scrambling to recall outdated encounters. It looks as if the proper method to preserve older or unplayed content material related, however for some purpose, it’s solely round for Guardian Video games.

The case for extra Rushdown

Rushdown looks as if a no brainer: an exercise that offers a brand new lease on life to content material gamers aren’t at present desirous about. However it’s greater than a trek by what’s already within the recreation. Rushdown can act as a car for Bungie to reimplement what’s been misplaced to the Future Content material Vault. Already, the exercise has highlighted encounters not within the recreation, beefed as much as pose a risk to present Guardians.

Picks from the Forsaken Marketing campaign and Season of the Haunted have already appeared alongside extra modern encounters like Calus or the reworked Zero Hour Unique Mission finale. Past what’s not playable, Rushdown additionally highlights a number of the most iconic fights from Future 2‘s narrative. There will not be a lot purpose to return and struggle Savathun on the finish of The Witch Queen Marketing campaign, however there’s no denying it’s an outstanding encounter. I’d like to have a purpose to play by it once more.

With its score-based reward construction, every day rotation, and large collection of doable content material, Rushdown has legs to face on. In any case, if content material can’t persist indefinitely in Future 2, why not cycle it out and in of the sport by this exercise? In an ideal world, I might even see Rushdown working just like the PvE equal of Iron Banner, arriving for a couple of weeks all through every season.

The Future Content material Vault might be our buddy

There are few issues that dig up extra disdain from longtime Future group vets than vaulting. The time period refers to how Bungie removes older components of Future 2 to make approach for the brand new. Whereas the studio has mentioned vaulting is important, others liken it to promoting somebody a automotive after which returning 5 years later to take again the automotive’s completed inside. Does the car nonetheless work? Sure. Will or not it’s straightforward to promote this automotive sooner or later or persuade others to drive it? Not a lot.

This precise situation performed out throughout the onset of the Past Mild enlargement when Bungie created the Future Content material Vault and eliminated the vanilla marketing campaign from Future 2. Over time, different main components of the sport have additionally been vaulted, together with complete locations and enlargement content material. The follow nonetheless occurs at present with seasonal (or Episodic) content material, leaving the sport on the finish of an enlargement cycle to make approach for extra. 

Whereas we all know the Pink Warfare Marketing campaign won’t ever return, Rushdown may be the subsequent smartest thing. If content material must be vaulted, it might be good to know the method got here with the opportunity of a return and a highlight. To that very same finish, what number of gamers are actively operating Empire Hunts or The Witch Queen Marketing campaign? The exercise digs up forgotten encounters so that they’re related or playable for the primary time in years—and that’s priceless to maintain round.

Rushdown is simply too good for Guardian Video games

I perceive why Bungie would need an incredible exercise because the cornerstone of the Guardian Video games. The occasion doesn’t have the identical attract because the Vacation-themed Competition of the Misplaced or The Dawning, and it feels just like the studio is attempting to persuade gamers to take part annually. That mentioned, Rushdown is simply too good to be restricted to Guardian Video games.

I don’t assume Rushdown wants to stay round completely like Onslaught has, however it ought to come round for greater than three weeks a 12 months. Nothing else within the recreation repurposes outdated or vaulted content material, and the exercise may very well be a part of an answer for the content material decay doable in any live-service recreation.

I’m not able to let Rushdown go on the finish of Guardian Video games. Who is aware of what the long run holds, however hopefully, Rushdown (or one thing else that fulfills the identical goal) ultimately turns into a extra concrete a part of Future 2.