It’s lovely when video video games break. It can be extremely enjoyable for gamers, and a nightmare for builders in command of ensuring all the pieces retains buzzing alongside with out situation. Over the weekend, Future 2 gamers found an exquisite glitch that allow them craft god-like weapons and tear via difficult end-game missions with ease. Days later, Bungie remains to be making an attempt to place the genie again within the bottle.
Future 2 is a sci-fi MMO shooter constructed round amassing uncommon, magical weapons and utilizing them to finish cosmic gauntlets with ever-increasing effectivity and style. This “grind” can at occasions really feel like working on a treadmill, and Bungie spends a ton of time and sources making an attempt to calibrate the variations in velocity and incline to make it difficult and rewarding quite than tedious. Balancing the sport’s a whole lot of weapons is an enormous a part of that, with minute modifications to perk descriptions or numerical values leaving large marks on the general form and trajectory of the expertise.
Future 2’s weird weapon crafting glitch
On September 15, a brand new crafting glitch began making the rounds on social media and varied Future 2 subreddits. It successfully permits gamers to create a brand new weapon with any set of perks they need by slowing down the sport and swapping screens rapidly. On PC, gamers put the framerate all the way down to 30fps to extend the window of time to tug off the exploit, whereas console house owners initiated large file installs within the background to create an analogous quantity of lag. The end result was the flexibility to create bows that fireplace grenades and auto rifles that shoot shotgun shells, every with mixes of a number of the strongest perks from commonplace legendary ones like Chill Clip to distinctive Unique perks from weapons just like the Useless Messenger grenade launcher and Osteo Striga submachine gun.
These damaged builds rapidly began proliferating in varied modes. In dungeons and raids it allowed gamers to clear encounters and demolish bosses in report time. In aggressive PvP like Trials of Osiris, nevertheless, it gave gamers extremely unfair benefits, and made it straightforward to basically glitch your manner into a few of Future 2’s most coveted accomplishments—like flawlessly going via a complete Trials run (with out dropping). Many in the neighborhood assumed Bungie would roll again the sport to take away the glitch and something gamers had gained from utilizing it. As an alternative, the studio gave gamers its blessing to have enjoyable whereas it labored on a repair.
“We’re conscious of a problem that enables particular weapon perks to be crafted into different legendary weapons and are investigating a repair, which can end in these weapons being reset sooner or later,” the studio announced on Twitter on September 15. “We at the moment don’t have any plans to disable Trials of Osiris resulting from this situation.”
How Bungie is fixing the Future 2 weapon-crafting bug
As an alternative of banning gamers who gained in-game rewards or achievements utilizing the exploit, Bungie revealed the subsequent day that it will work on deploying two fixes. The primary could be a server-side replace to disable gamers from utilizing any crafted weapons. The second would reset the “unlawful” weapons again to their defaults.
“It is a advanced situation, and because of testing, our unique timeline for a server-side repair has been prolonged,” Bungie tweeted on September 17. It disabled the Osteo Striga, Revision Zero, Useless Man’s Story, Useless Messenger, Vexcalibur, and Unique class glaives, however over 72 hours later remains to be engaged on the second half of the repair to convey all the pieces again on-line. “Please chorus from asking your native Future 2 triage builders how their weekend was,” Joe Blackburn, the sport’s director, joked on Monday.
Bungie even leaned into the chaos with a Ted Lasso TikTok meme encouraging everybody to go forward and “stay.” In response, the highest remark reads, “The most important glitch in Future’s historical past and Bungie is letting us have…..enjoyable?”
Phrase of the loot occasion clearly unfold, as a result of Future 2’s concurrent participant spiked over the weekend on Steam. The place it had been peeking round 80,000 in the previous few weeks, it cracked 100,000, a quantity often reserved for seasonal updates. Whereas the glitch has seemingly despatched the group into disaster mode and little doubt ruined a number of builders’ weekends, the sudden bonanza has additionally been a brilliant spot for a recreation that’s been caught in a little bit of a malaise as its pivotal The Remaining Form enlargement arrives forward of Future 2’s 10-year anniversary. The integrity of the sport and its loot chase might have been basically undermined, however at the least for the second anyway, gamers had a blast.
