Yr 5 of Future 2 is quickly coming to an in depth, and a brand new period will start with the upcoming Lightfall DLC. With that in thoughts, it’s time to mirror on what has transpired within the final 12 months, particularly concerning the Seasons that got here with the Witch Queen DLC, Season of the Risen, Season of the Haunted, Season of Plunder, and Season of the Seraph. Every Season has its ups and downs, however at present, we wish to rank them from greatest to worst by way of how good every Season was total. So at present, let’s rank every Future 2 Witch Queen Season from greatest to worst.
4. Season of Plunder
Let’s begin this checklist by stating that not one of the Seasons launched within the final 12 months have been unhealthy, as there have been worse ones for positive, however Season of Plunder is kicking this checklist off because the worst amongst the entire Seasons this previous 12 months. Plunder was fairly strong total, however in comparison with the remainder, it felt fairly underwhelming. Let’s begin with the storyline for the Season.
The Season revolved across the Witness liberating Eramis, the ultimate boss of the Past Gentle DLC, from her Stasis jail. We wanted to cease her from gathering historic artifacts the Witness was taken with. This time round, we teamed up with the Drifter, the Spider, Mithrax, and a brand new character, Mithrax’s daughter, Eido. To cease Eramis, we shaped a crew of fallen pirates to battle her and her employees of fallen pirates.
All through the season, as we acquire extra artifacts, we be taught extra of Mithrax’s darkish previous, together with the key behind the mysterious artifacts, which turned out to be items of one of many Witness’s disciples, Nezarec. In the long run, we collected the entire artifacts, thwarted Eramis’s schemes, and she or he retreated. We even used the ability of the artifacts to revive Osiris, who had been in a coma since Season of the Misplaced.
General, the story was fairly attention-grabbing to be taught week after week, and the reveal of Nezarec being contained within the artifacts was fairly cool, as we knew Nezarec was really the one who induced the primary collapse of humanity a few years in the past. The gameplay, however, was a a lot completely different story.
Season of Plunder launched two new seasonal actions, Ketchcrash and Expedition. Ketchcrash was a humorous six-man exercise the place we’d board enemy pirate ships and take out their captain ultimately. Expedition however was a really slow-paced three-man exercise the place we’d search around round a chosen space for “buried” treasure. The concept was cool, however the execution was poor, because the exercise was very gradual and never very rewarding, however it was the one exercise that rewarded Plundered Umbral vitality, which was wanted for an abundance of things and such.
Together with the seasonal actions got here the return of the beloved Future 1 raid, King’s Fall, which was an enormous success, and can be thought of the “saving grace” of the Season. General, the gameplay loop was “strong,” as, sadly, Expedition actually held again the general pleasure of it because of its gradual pacing.
In the long run, Season of Plunder was season by way of story, loot, and gameplay, however it might have been higher with some changes to Expedition, and extra.
3. Season of the Haunted
Up subsequent is Season of the Haunted. Season of the Haunted is a kind of Seasons the place the story actually shined extra so than the gameplay, however the gameplay was additionally noteworthy as effectively. Not like Season of the Plunder, Haunted acquired proper to the purpose and didn’t drag issues out, which was a pleasant bonus.
Season of the Haunted noticed the return of Calus and the Leviathan and is now infested with the ability of Nightmares, which affected three of our important characters, Crow, Zavala, and Caital. These characters have been introduced head to head with the Nightmares of their previous. For Crow, his sinful previous life as Uldren Sov; for Caital, her hero and rumored lover, Dominus Ghaul; and Zavala, his spouse, Safiyah.
Every week we realized extra about these characters, like how Crow couldn’t forgive himself for his sins as Uldren Sov or how Zavala blamed himself for the demise of his son. It was a really emotional Season, to say the least, which was a pleasant deal with since we don’t get “heavy” moments like that too usually. In the end, we have been finally in a position to drive out Calus and banish the Nightmares, at the price of Calus totally changing into the following disciple of the Witness. We’ll get an opportunity to face him as soon as once more within the upcoming Lightfall DLC.
The seasonal gameplay loop revolved round a brand new exercise, Nightmare Containment, the place we’d face off towards Nightmare enemies within the Castellum of the Leviathan. It was a pleasant deal with to have the ability to freely discover the Leviathan once more, however you possibly can solely discover a portion of it, and never any of the areas from the sundown raid, which stunk a bit. That stated, Nightmare Containment was a strong exercise to take part in, and the loot was extraordinarily worthwhile.
On prime of that, a model new Dungeon had launched shortly after the Season began, Duality, the place we traveled into Calus’s thoughts to find his Nightmare, which ended up being his personal daughter, Caital. Duality was met with constructive opinions and is taken into account to be the most effective Dungeons within the sport to today.
General, Season of the Haunted was met with very constructive suggestions however acquired a bit gradual close to the tip of the Season because of an absence of content material. By way of story and loot, although, the Season did an important job of maintaining us entertained.
2. Season of the Risen
Usually, the Seasons that launch with an growth don’t straight correlate with the occasions of the DLC, however Season of the Risen straight capitalizes on the hype of the Witch Queen, bringing us loads of Hive Guardians to come across and extra.
Beginning out, the storyline wasn’t something to brag about, as primarily, the entire level of the Season was to forestall the Lucent Hive from spreading their affect throughout the system. That stated, this not directly benefitted the Season because it capitalized on permitting us to combat extra of the Lucent Hive, which was an enormous success with the participant base.
Lucent Hive, in any other case referred to as light-bearing Hive, was the primary time we, as Guardians, needed to face enemies wielding the Gentle in such a fashion exterior of PvP actions, and it terrified us in a great way. The seasonal exercise, Psi-Ops Battlegrounds, was an important exercise to constantly battle these enemies whereas additionally having the ability to combat a projection of the Witch Queen, Savathun, which was a pleasant bonus. The loot from the Season was additionally prime tier in each weapons and armor, which made the exercise extra satisfying to run, figuring out there was superb loot to earn.
On prime of that, we additionally noticed the introduction of Gentle subclass revamps, in any other case referred to as Gentle 3.0, which began with the Void subclass. This was an enormous change to the sport that energy crept the sport to a complete new degree, and Guardians beloved it. Regardless that the opposite Gentle subclasses can be up to date in Season of the Haunted and Season of Plunder, it didn’t convey the identical impact because the Void revamp, and you possibly can argue that it modified the sport ceaselessly as Guardians grew to become extra highly effective than ever earlier than.
General, Season of the Risen did an important job using the success of the Witch Queen DLC and introduced extra to the desk than any Season that launched with a DLC ever did. But, just one can sit on the prime.
1. Season of the Seraph
This shouldn’t shock most gamers, because the final Season of the Witch Queen DLC, Season of the Seraph, was actually one for the books. The checklist of explanation why this Season was so particular might go on and on, however we’ll get to the purpose.
The story goes as follows, Xivu Arath, the Hive warfare god, has returned as soon as extra to attempt to take management of Rasputin’s warsats so she will be able to use them for her plans. It’ll take the mixed efforts of us, Anna Bray, the Stranger, Osiris, Mara Sov, and Clovis Bray, to assist cease this disaster. Nonetheless, Clovis Bray has plans of his personal, as he needs to take management of Rasputin’s tech so he could use it for himself. Ultimately, we have been in a position to drive out Clovis Bray and restore Rasputin within the course of.
Sadly, Xivu Arath and Eramis efficiently hacked into Rasputin’s warsat community and aimed his missiles towards the Traveler. In a last-ditch effort, Rasputin was in a position to divert the missiles and sacrificed himself within the course of. By way of story-telling, this is without doubt one of the greatest items in franchise historical past.
Transferring onto the gameplay, we noticed a brand new seasonal exercise, Heist Battlegrounds, which noticed terrific opinions and is even being utilized as Nightfalls in future Seasons. We additionally noticed a model new Dungeon launch referred to as Spire of the Watcher, which additionally noticed constructive suggestions and had nice loot to acquire. Even the Deep Stone Crypt raid acquired revamped, the place the weapons grew to become craftable, offering extra incentive to play it. By way of loot, Season of the Seraph simply clears each Season launched to this point by a big margin.
General, by way of content material, loot, and story, Season of the Seraph is without doubt one of the greatest Seasons the sport has ever seen, and hopefully, we will see future Seasons of this high quality and past, going into the Lightfall DLC.
