Bungie has apologised to Future 2 gamers for connection points following the discharge of The Closing Form.
The long-awaited enlargement was lastly launched on Monday after delays, and noticed the sport receiving a big improve in gamers.
In keeping with SteamDB, the sport hit a peak of 314,624 concurrent gamers on Steam, falling simply wanting its all-time highest Steam peak of 316,750 (which was as a result of launch of its Lightfall enlargement in February 2023).
Regardless of (or maybe due to) the spike in numbers, gamers reported that they had been struggling to hook up with the sport or had been lacking cut-scenes as a result of non permanent workarounds being found by the group.
In a thread on X, Bungie has now addressed the problems and stated it’s laborious at work making an attempt to repair them.
“Hey everybody,” the message reads, “if connection points have blocked you from taking part in or having fun with The Closing Form right now, we need to apologise. We’re laborious at work making an attempt to resolve every of those points as rapidly as doable, and most of the connection points from this morning have already been mounted.
The studio goes on to record a number of the points it’s addressed, together with network-related sign-on points and errors codenamed Honeydew, Weasel and Plum.
“Errors inflicting gamers to get kicked out of actions began at round 3.00pm (PT) and stays our highest precedence situation to resolve,” it provides. “We consider we’ve got recognized the difficulty, and shall be doing rolling server restarts quickly to try to resolve this.
“For those who missed a cutscene as a short lived workaround, you possibly can replay the mission by accessing the Replayable Missions node in the course of the Pale Coronary heart map. There are cutscenes on the finish of Mission 1, 4, 5, 6 and seven.
“We constructed The Closing Form to be an thrilling, cathartic, story-driven journey for everybody to take pleasure in. We’re really sorry if connection points and instability is getting in the best way of that have, and we promise to maintain working till these points are resolved.”
Following declining Future 2 participant numbers and layoffs at Bungie, the studio reportedly has so much using on The Closing Form.
It was claimed in December that Bungie’s place as an impartial subsidiary of Sony Interactive Leisure was below menace.
IGN beforehand reported that Bungie’s present board construction is contingent on it hitting sure monetary targets, and that if it fails to take action, Sony may select to dissolve the board and take full management.
