Future 2 gamers are an absurd however lovable bunch, maybe by no means extra so than once they turn into obsessive about attempting to unravel one of many sprawling area MMO’s new secrets and techniques. And after an extended drought, followers assume they could have stumbled upon one. Telesto, probably the most bugged Unique within the sport’s historical past, is performing even weirder than ordinary, releasing smoke, sparks, and violet laser blasts that drift up into the heavens. Naturally, the group thinks the gun is sending a hidden message, and has spent the final 24 hours attempting to decipher it.
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Earlier than diving into what gamers assume could be happening right here, right here’s some fast background. Telesto is an Unique fusion rifle whose void vitality blasts connect to their goal after which detonate. It made the soar from Future 1 to Future 2 with 2018’s Forsaken enlargement, and has been inflicting havoc ever since, with its distinctive mechanic steadily glitching different components of the sport that gamers have then gone on to use in numerous methods, like getting infinite supers or grinding actions extra rapidly. Bungie’s acknowledged this checkered historical past and even made Telesto’s buggy legacy part of the game’s lore.
It’s now performing up once more at a time that’s completely suited to sending gamers into “spin foil” hat mode (the sport has a useful resource that appears like aluminum however is named spinmetal, however I digress). Along with its elaborate raids and grindy loot chase, Future 2 can be well-known for its advanced mysteries that may take the group days and even weeks to resolve. There hasn’t been one shortly, and gamers are desirous to get again to area sleuthing, so that they’ve been hyper vigilant for clues, particularly as the sport enters a holding sample till its subsequent seasonal replace.
Each of these items got here to a head through the sport’s weekly reset on Tuesday as a result of Forbes author and Future aficionado, Paul Tassi, stated he’d heard from a supply {that a} new community event was being added. Regardless of one being teased for months in datamined information, Bungie hadn’t talked about something formally, and different large personalities had been skeptical, however positive sufficient Tassi ultimately discovered that one thing extra wonky than ordinary was happening with Telesto. Gamers on the Future 2 and RaidSecrets subreddits did as properly. In contrast to previous glitches, the gun being damaged was animated with precise results, and even included a solution to return it to regular by holding the reload button and punching it. The projectiles additionally all veered up into the sky in unusual patterns that saved altering.
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Some gamers thought it was only a enjoyable easter egg. Tassi and a rising variety of gamers assume in any other case. One idea was that the projectile patterns are literally recreating particular constellations of stars. Consequently, some gamers spent all day saving screenshots of the blast patterns and attempting to superimpose issues like The Massive Dipper and Orion’s Belt over them. There have even been shut matches. However nothing that illuminated what any of it would imply for subsequent steps.
Issues have solely gotten weirder from there as gamers have tried to scour the sport for different bizarre clues and unlikely connections. Some gamers thought bunkers on the Moon and elsewhere that had beforehand been open had been now closed when the truth is that they had by no means been opened. Perhaps the gun was making sure statues glow? Perhaps a fireteam of three wanted to make use of Telesto, Lorentz Driver, and a 3rd Unique collectively due to some word soup about Saturn’s moons? Perhaps extra clues had been left behind on the previous websites of Telesto’s most infamous bugs?
By the top of the night time nobody was any nearer to realizing what was happening, and quite a lot of gamers have since began to lose religion. One even instructed Bungie was deliberately trolling the group. An emblem known as Schrödinger’s Gun options Telesto and was added final season however nonetheless isn’t obtainable. Perhaps the present frenzy is just a nod to how mysteries at all times exist in Future 2 till confirmed in any other case. On the similar time, Bungie often likes to play alongside in these cases, whereas this time it’s been fully silent about Telesto’s newest glitch. It’s additionally extraordinarily coincidental timing for a gun that was initially launched in The Taken King to begin performing up on this means the identical season that enlargement’s raid, King’s Fall, was added again to the sport.
As revealed within the datamined information for the present season, there may be what seems to be an upcoming group occasion based mostly round rebuilding the Eliksni Quarter within the Final Metropolis by contributing forex and assets, which might be in step with previous ones. However whether or not there’s a deeper puzzle in it linked to Telesto stays the massive query. For his half, Tassi is satisfied one thing bigger is afoot, however would require extra time to progress within the sport earlier than further steps are revealed.
One factor’s clear: Future 2 followers are “thirsty for secrets and techniques.” Because the cadence of the sport’s updates and content material construction has turn into extra predictable and repetitive, followers have been determined for one thing, something, to interrupt them out of their Future doldrums. We’ll discover out quickly sufficient whether or not Telesto is the gun to do it.
