Bungie will ship a last replace to wrap issues up.
Future 2 has nearly reached its last vacation spot. Almost 9 years after the sport’s initial release, Bungie is ending lively improvement on the live-service shooter. Its final content material replace, Monument of Triumph, will arrive on June 9.
The ultimate live-service replace will embody adjustments designed to make the sport “a welcoming place for gamers to return to.” Regardless of the dearth of up to date content material past that, Bungie plans to maintain the sport’s servers on-line indefinitely, just like the unique recreation.
The transfer comes after a rocky interval for Bungie. It went by way of two rounds of layoffs (in 2023 and 2024) following its 2022 acquisition by Sony. The studio lastly got Marathon out the door this March, however solely after a delay. Even with the additional improvement time, evaluations have been mixed. Find it irresistible or hate it, Marathon does not look like the huge, runaway hit the studio hoped for. What’s subsequent? Bungie says it should start “incubating [its] subsequent video games.”
At the very least Future 2‘s last replace sounds fairly vital. After listening to participant suggestions, Bungie is bringing again the Director and pushing the much-maligned Portal to node menus on the backside of the display. A brand new, everlasting Pantheon mode will probably be added (together with a brand new slate of bosses). And all raid and dungeon gear is being up to date to fashionable requirements. Bungie’s weblog put up explaining the choice contains plenty more details in regards to the Monument of Triumph replace.
