Bungie has not been afraid to rethink, remix, and overhaul parts of Future 2 over the previous 5 years, and one side of the sport that’s getting a considerable refresh is Iron Banner — the enjoyable, extra informal aspect of Crucible PvP. For season 17 of Future 2, Bungie is altering how Iron Banner performs, each when it comes to how rewards are doled out and the core recreation mode it’s constructed round.
One of many larger modifications: Bungie is disabling energy ranges in Iron Banner with a view to, properly, degree the enjoying subject. (Energy degree will nonetheless be energetic in Trials of Osiris, Bungie notes.)
Iron Banner gamers can even get a brand new place to play, within the type of a brand-new map known as Disjunction — the primary brand-new map for Future 2 PvP in about two years — set “within the swampy Pyramid space of Savathûn’s Throne World, so count on a lot of many-butted horses, clear brown glass, and artwork deco designs,” Bungie says.
Season 17 of Future 2 will see the return of Rift, Future’s rugby-with-guns PvP mode, to switch Management in Iron Banner. And Bungie says it plans to modify out the Iron Banner recreation mode each season, noting, “Generally it is perhaps a model new or returning mode, typically it is perhaps an attention-grabbing twist on an present mode.”
Iron Banner can be getting new each day challenges, dropping Iron Banner tokens, and getting a brand new reward monitor, amongst different modifications. To acclimate gamers each new and previous to Iron Banner, Saladin will supply gamers a brand new, necessary quest to elucidate the PvP mode’s new options.
“You solely should run by it as soon as per account, however with this reset we wished everybody to get the identical introduction, even Iron Banner veterans might want to do that,” Bungie stated. “Actually, you’ll want to begin this quest to even entry the Iron Banner node.”
Season 17 of Future 2 will go reside Might 24. Extra particulars on upcoming modifications to Future 2’s Iron Banner mode and its new Disjunction map can be found in Bungie’s weekly weblog.
