Future 2 developer Bungie is on the brink of launch the subsequent main enlargement, titled Lightfall. Lightfall has a February 28 launch date and a 6pm GMT UK begin time. The launch of the brand new season will coincide with a interval of server downtime, which lasts for twenty-four hours, starting at 5pm on February 27. Followers can login at 5pm GMT on February 28, earlier than Lightfall turns into playable at 6pm. Along with server downtime, Future 2 Lightfall will launch alongside season 20, which will likely be generally known as the Season of Defiance.
As for Lightfall, the brand new enlargement comes with a model new Marketing campaign, a brand new location, one other Raid and many high quality of life enhancements.
The marketing campaign revolves across the new location of Neptune, and its neon neon-soaked capital.
“In a Neptunian metropolis underneath siege, discover energy in your fellow Guardians as the top to all issues approaches – the Witness is right here,” reads the official description.
“Arm your self with new rewards and unlock new Darkish powers to triumph in Lightfall’s unforgettable Legendary mode.”
Bungie can even add the brand new Strand subclass, full with mystical weaving and grappling skills. You’ll be able to see a number of the skills within the Lightfall trailer beneath.
Lastly, there’s the Root of Nightmares Raid, which opens at 5pm GMT on March 10.
If you wish to see a number of the modifications coming with the Lightfall replace 7.0.0.1, try the patch notes beneath.
Future 2 Lightfall replace 7.0.0.1 patch notes…
ACTIVITIES
CRUCIBLE
• Added an Unique Armor Swap penalty utilized to Trials of Osiris and Aggressive Division.
– Equipping a distinct piece of Unique armor drains all skill vitality in these modes.
• Aggressive Division
– Fastened a bug that brought about the Aggressive intro quest to auto-claim the completion reward.
– Rewards are actually claimed upon interacting with Shaxx.
– Aggressive Rift & Showdown have decreased revive delay time to 1.5s from 2s; decreased respawn time to five.5s from 7s.
VANGUARD OPS
• Fastened a difficulty in Heist Battleground:
– Europa the place a Heavy ammo crate might respawn for gamers who get quarantined into the boss battle enviornment.
• If you play Vanguard Ops or Dusk, your ultimate rating determines a popularity multiplier for that exercise’s completion.
– Multipliers run from 1.0 (underneath 30,000 factors) to 7.0 (above 250,000).
– We additionally tuned the quantity of Vanguard rank you obtain for completions, Dusk high quality, and streaks.
• Full cross on all Vanguard map and mode multipliers, with an eye fixed towards balancing score-per-hour, somewhat than score-per-attempt.
• Vanguard and Dusk strikes: Added on-screen well being bar for bosses beforehand lacking them.
• Fastened a difficulty the place participant might be given the identical goal twice in fast succession in The Satan’s Lair strike.
• The Vanguard Ops playlist has elevated in issue – gamers can not degree past the enemy combatants.
• Extra rotating modifiers have been added to the Vanguard Ops playlist.
DIFFICULTY OPTIONS
• Hero, Legend, and Grasp difficulties have been reworked for better problem and to accommodate new modifiers.
– Adept issue has been eliminated.
– Hero exercise degree is now comfortable cap + 20. Legend is Energy cap + 30, and Grasp is Energy cap + 40.
– Every has a scaling fight delta that retains you underneath degree within the exercise and supplies a smoother pathway to Grandmaster.
• Most Hero/Legend/Grasp/Grandmaster actions now characteristic the flexibility to make use of “overcharged” weapons for elevated harm.
– Which weapons are overcharged are decided by your Seasonal Artifact unlocks and exercise modifiers.
• Elemental singes and burns have been changed and damaged out into incoming and outgoing parts: “threats” and “surges”.
– Harm bonuses for surges and overcharges don’t stack.
RAIDS AND DUNGEONS
• Armor items from Grasp issue Grasp of Avarice, Duality, and Spire of the Watcher drop with greater stats.
PLATFORMS AND SYSTEMS
PC PLATFORMS
• Added assist and in-game setting to toggle NVIDIA Reflex (on supported PC {hardware}).
• Fastened varied minor QoL points concerning the Controller settings menus on PC.
GENERAL
• Collision harm is not deadly in opposition to Guardians.
• Ghost projections that modified colour based mostly in your subclass now assist Strand coloration when utilizing a Strand Subclass.
LOCALISATION
• Gamers now have entry to full Mandarin audio localization throughout all new Lightfall content material, the accompanying Season, and core recreation modes masking Crucible, Gambit, and strikes.
• Ikora for German has been re-cast.
