Bungie’s third episode for Future 2 following The Last Form arrives on February 4th, and it returns to a well-known location: Oryx’s Dreadnaught. It’s not fairly the identical large ship orbiting Saturn that followers know and love, as detailed by narrative architect Nikko Stevens.
“What’s vital concerning the Dreadnaught’s return for Heresy is that it’s going to be altering, and we’re going to be preventing by it in methods we’ve but to expertise,” he mentioned on the PlayStation Weblog. “The Dreadnaught has reawakened for the primary time in nearly a decade, spurring the Vanguard and Guardians throughout the system to take discover. We lastly get to see what has develop into of the Dreadnaught years after Oryx was felled and its halls had been left to corrode, and not using a Navigator.”
Heresy introduces a brand new exercise known as The Nether, which mixes patrols, “a number of bubbles filled with difficult enemies,” and boss fights. As soon as these bubbles are full, enemies will enhance in Energy. Nevertheless, new boons assist even the percentages.
Minor boons enhance stats; main boons present passives like sprinting to build up Static Cost stacks; and corrupted boons. The latter will have an effect on you negatively, however the pay-off could be value it, like massively growing harm dealt and obtained.
Senior designer Ryan Harris added, “We’ve additionally experimented with participant modifiers, with elevated well being swimming pools, no regenerating of well being, low ammo drops and revive tokens, and a modification on therapeutic within the sandbox all through play. Gamers ought to look to construct their loadouts geared for survivability as the sport mode modifiers enhance well being swimming pools of gamers considerably whereas additionally stopping all well being regen.”
Gamers may look ahead to new weapons, together with a brand new Help Body Auto Rifle, Origin Perks, gear, and extra. Apparently, the livestream for the episode famous Oryx, the Taken King, as returning in “some capability.” Maybe he performs a task within the subsequent dungeon, which launches on February seventh.