A Future 2 gun referred to as the Khvostov 7G-02 has been showing in Lightfall cutscenes, leaving gamers questioning why this weapon, which gamers obtain early on as a part of the FPS recreation‘s New Gentle marketing campaign, appears to look with out a good cause. This led some gamers to suspect it might return as an Unique weapon, however Bungie implies that gained’t occur. In a current put up as a part of the Future 2 crew’s This Week at Bungie weblog put up sequence, cinematics director James Meyers shared why this gun makes a seemingly random look.
Meyers explains {that a} particular story beat pitch required the participant to reluctantly level a weapon. If applied, it could require a selected animation relative to what the sport cinematics normally necessitate. As a result of some weapons can lead to “sillier outcomes” in real-time scenes, Meyers instructed a “default weapon” that the crew may characteristic in instances the place the crew would possibly want one thing particular. He instructed the Khvostov as a result of it’s the primary gun each Guardian receives as a part of the New Gentle marketing campaign and, in a way, could possibly be thought-about one of many few weapons each participant has encountered no less than as soon as within the multiplayer recreation.
Nevertheless, Lightfall offered the crew with a number of visible bugs, significantly these with less-standard animation codecs resembling glaives and bows. The animation crew was “stretched skinny” on closing cinematics, and a brand new set of animations would have price beneficial time.
“Due to that, we made the choice to make use of the identical default logic within the cases the place a visible bug would detract from the standard bar we goal to realize,” Meyers says within the put up.
Within the unique Future, Khvostov was additionally the primary weapon that gamers would get. In that recreation, it returned as an Unique, which contributed to the thrill that the Khvostov would possibly seem as one other weapon on the Future 2 Lightfall Exotics record. Nevertheless, this doesn’t look like the case.
Meyers additionally notes that some Future 2 season 20 animations honour the Guardian’s determination to default to sporting a helmet in widespread areas, and future animations will acknowledge that persistently the place acceptable.
The put up additionally showcases how animators should work to render photos to get cutscene framing excellent, exhibiting an instance of what gamers see throughout an animated scene and the character and setting fashions that result in that shot.
So, whereas it doesn’t seem the Khvostov will return as an Unique in Lightfall, there are nonetheless loads of different nice weapons to get your arms on this season, such because the Future 2 Ultimate Warning Unique sidearm and the Future 2 Winterbite Unique glaive.
