Future 2 blue weapons and armour, which point out they’re of ‘uncommon’ rarity versus ‘legendary’ purple or ‘unique’ yellow, will not drop for gamers after they attain a selected threshold. The change will start with subsequent week’s Tuesday reset within the common FPS sport. Going ahead, after gamers bypass the tender cap threshold, they’ll not earn blues however will get Glimmer as a substitute. Bungie can even enhance Gunsmith status positive aspects by 25% to account for the status positive aspects a participant would have obtained from dismantling Future 2 blues.
Bungie outlined the adjustments in a weblog publish in its This Week a Bungie (TWAB) collection.
Modifications to this technique are generally requested by group members, as blue weapons are a lot much less highly effective than their legendary or unique counterparts. Blue gear made sense early within the multiplayer sport‘s historical past by incentivising Guardians to chase extra highly effective purples and yellows. Nonetheless, they started to lose their attraction as soon as Bungie shifted its focus to its slew of high-performing legendary weapons and armour.
Gamers would generally have the ability to use a high-level blue weapon or armour set for fast infusion to carry a bit of substances to a higher energy stage. However, the general sentiment is that such weapons and armour had little worth throughout the context of the sport. Consequently, longtime gamers typically contemplate them a nuisance, taking over much-needed stock house on the Postmaster, which may as a substitute be harbouring pink border weapons for sample extractions or engrams for focusing functions.
Though there are some robust blue weapons within the sport, gamers ought to nonetheless have the ability to purchase these from collections, as Bungie has not indicated any transfer to eliminate blues utterly.
The TWAB additionally outlined extra adjustments rolling out earlier than the Future 2 Lightfall launch date. As of January 18, the sport elevated drop charges for pink border weapons in raids with craftable weapons and the Duality dungeon. Bungie has additionally accelerated the method for incomes the Dredgen title from Gambit matches, added Rumble as a everlasting Crucible sport mode, and adjusted the hunt wanted to craft unique glaives, making it simpler to take action.
It additionally introduced that the sport’s subsequent raid drops on March 10 at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm UTC. The publish contains detailed info on the success price of recently-implemented matchmaking adjustments, exhibiting that, as a complete, matchmaking replace is having the online results of placing similarly-skilled groups towards each other.
The publish additionally outlines adjustments to airborne effectiveness and weapons, together with pulse rifles, which have risen to turn out to be one of the best Future 2 PvP weapons. It additionally says, beginning with Lightfall, the workforce will start rolling out common seasonal and mid-seasonal weapon stability adjustments.
Although Lightfall is on the horizon, there’s nonetheless loads to find in Future 2 Season 19. You solely have a number of weeks to finish the Future 2 Revision Zero unique quest earlier than Lightfall and the introduction of the Future 2 Strand subclass coming to the house sport in late February.