Future 2 Frontiers DLC Could also be a Smaller Content material Pack

The upcoming Future 2 Frontiers DLC could also be a smaller content material pack in response to the most recent insider rumors. Whereas many of the Future 2 DLC up to now has been significant-sized expansions, the latest layoffs at Bungie possible imply that not one of the sport’s future content material packs will attain that scale once more.

What’s a Future 2 content material pack?

Content material packs are Future 2 DLC that will probably be lighter and smaller in scale than The Ultimate Form. The goal is that Bungie can proceed to provide new content material for the sport regardless of funding being lowered following the studio’s restructuring course of.

Throughout right now’s Sport Mess Mornings podcast, trade insider Jeff Grubb claimed he had been instructed that Future 2 content material would proceed however in a distinct type: “In relation to Future 2, the expectation internally is that the long run content material will probably be lighter, smaller, to take much less time than what The Ultimate Form did, and require fewer individuals.”

He then mentioned that Bungie now internally refers to all future DLC as content material packs. These will probably be “not a shell of their former selves, however they’ll undoubtedly have that vibe about them.” Apparently the administration at Bungie “need Future 2 to maintain being a factor, however the funding stage goes to pair again in a big method.”

In a “The Journey Forward” stream in June, Bungie teased new Episodes that will proceed the sport’s narratives. Every of those self-contained narrative arcs was to final a interval of six weeks. The primary of those, Echoes, was launched on June 11 with the ultimate a part of its story scheduled for later this month. Whether or not the remaining two Episodes — Revenant and Heresy — will probably be launched stays to be seen, though they do seemingly match into the brand new content material pack DLC mannequin.

In the meantime, Future 2’s new Codename Frontiers pack promised to proceed the sport’s journey in 2025. Little else is thought in regards to the upcoming content material, however the possibilities of it being a big enlargement now appear to be pretty slim.