Bungie Reveals Season Of The Want, Forsaken’s “fifteenth Want” 5 Years After It Was First Teased

Future 2‘s subsequent season is the Season of the Want, and it will concern one of many weirdest components of the sport’s lore: the highly effective wish-granting dragons referred to as ahamkara.

Bungie formally introduced the season’s title on Twitter after gamers accomplished a brand new puzzle within the Imbaru Engine, one of many actions which are half of the present Season of the Witch. The brand new season kicks off on November 28.

Finishing the ultimate puzzle unlocks a cutscene that hints at the place the story goes, and it is truly a return to a dangling plot thread Future 2 gamers have been questioning about for years. The cutscene hints on the fifteenth Want, a component first launched again within the Forsaken growth in 2018.

When you’re not acquainted, this is the backstory on why the fifteenth Want is such a giant deal. Forsaken’s raid, Final Want, had gamers venturing into the Dreaming Metropolis to destroy Riven, the final recognized dwelling ahamkara in Future 2’s photo voltaic system. Ahamkara are extremely highly effective and harmful creatures within the lore of Future 2. They’re mainly genies, able to granting needs to anybody who asks, however with a bent to twist these needs towards the wisher, monkey’s paw-style.

In Future 2’s backstory, Guardians banded collectively to wipe out the ahamkara lengthy earlier than the time wherein the sport is about, since they had been so extremely dangerous–granting needs that backfired on those that requested for them, consuming people, and usually being a spooky, semi-magical menace. Riven was the one ahamkara to outlive that Nice Hunt, and was secretly stored by the Awoken queen, Mara Sov, to provide her an influence nobody else had. Mara used a tool referred to as the Wall of Needs to make her needs, which diminished Riven’s capacity to misread them and use the desires towards her.

Again in the course of the Forsaken growth, gamers uncovered a number of needs that may very well be entered into the wall forward of enjoying the Final Want raid, which got here with totally different advantages. Some may warp you straight to a particular encounter, others gave you additional probabilities on the raid’s Unique weapon, and a few had been simply enjoyable, just like the one which modified whose voice you heard over the radio in the course of the raid. Utilizing every want unlocked a Triumph, which was how gamers knew there have been 15 needs in total–but for 5 years, solely 14 had been found.

Finishing the puzzle within the Imbaru Engine reveals the setup for the Season of the Want. Gamers uncover one final ahamkara egg, with the implication that the one solution to chase down the Witness to cease it in the course of the upcoming growth, The Remaining Form, is with the assistance of an ahamkara’s magic. And through a cutscene that turns into out there after ending the exercise, the participant character and Eris Morn put collectively clues that look to result in the fifteenth Want.

These are some fairly huge story implications for the subsequent season of Future 2, and recommend the Season of the Want will take gamers again to the Dreaming Metropolis. That location has ongoing problems with its own–it has been caught in a three-week time loop because the occasions of Forsaken, and not one of the recreation’s characters know methods to break it. We’d lastly see some conclusions to those plot traces that gamers have been coping with for many of Future 2’s life.

The Season of the Want announcement is the primary main improvement in Future 2 since Bungie laid off a big chunk of its workers in October. Bloomberg reported that the layoffs come alongside Bungie delaying The Remaining Form’s launch to June from February, though Bungie has not formally delayed the growth.

The report acknowledged that as a lot as 8% of Bungie’s workforce, or 100 individuals, misplaced their jobs, and people layoffs included distinguished members of Future 2’s neighborhood staff and two of its music composers. That is created a destructive sentiment amongst Future 2 content material creators and gamers, after what Bloomberg reported was a forty five% drop in income following its earlier growth, Lightfall.