The Ultimate Form delay to summer time 2024

Bungie confirmed that Future 2: The Ultimate Form is pivoting from its February 27, 2024 to June 4. In a weblog submit, the developer defined that it wished to make sure the enlargement is in its finest form come launch and successfully saves the troubled shooter. 

Earlier within the month following Bungie’s layoffs, it was reported that Ultimate Form had been internally delayed on the studio to “construct one thing that will probably be regarded alongside one of the best video games we’ve ever made.” As the sport’s participant base has declined in latest months, the stress on this enlargement is larger than earlier releases. 

“The Ultimate Form wants extra time to change into precisely what we wish it to be. [….] Delays aren’t enjoyable,” famous Bungie. “For our half, we’re excited to have the additional time wanted to carry our imaginative and prescient for The Ultimate Form to life for all of you.”

Tomorrow (November 28) marks the launch of Season of the Want, which was beforehand anticipated to steer proper into Form. To account for the brand new delay, Bungie plans to fill the hole with further content material main as much as June 4. 

Weekly progression-focused quests known as Needs will start in February, then April will see a brand new content material drop dubbed Future 2: Into the Gentle. That is successfully meant to operate as a prologue to Ultimate Form, and will probably be accessible to all gamers to “put together for his or her Guardian’s journey into the Traveler.” 

One of many final occasions Bungie needed to delay a Future 2 enlargement was with 2020’s Past Gentle. Again then, the studio prolonged the previous season, Season of Arrivals, by two months to keep away from a content material drought. 

Different ongoing video games like Halo Infinite and Fortnite have additionally needed to lengthen a season by a couple of months or extra. Whereas not precisely widespread, it goes to indicate how a lot live-service video games are fully depending on momentum and the way simply plans can collapse by a easy delay.