Future 2’s Iron Banner including Rift, brand-new PvP map in season 17

Bungie has not been afraid to rethink, remix, and overhaul parts of Future 2 over the previous 5 years, and one facet 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 by way of how rewards are doled out and the core sport mode it’s constructed round.

One of many greater modifications: Bungie is disabling energy ranges in Iron Banner so as to, effectively, stage the enjoying subject. (Energy stage will nonetheless be lively in Trials of Osiris, Bungie notes.)

Iron Banner gamers may also 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 numerous 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 interchange Management in Iron Banner. And Bungie says it plans to modify out the Iron Banner sport mode each season, noting, “Typically it may be a model new or returning mode, typically it may be an fascinating twist on an current mode.”

Iron Banner can be getting new every day challenges, dropping Iron Banner tokens, and getting a brand new reward observe, amongst different modifications. To acclimate gamers each new and previous to Iron Banner, Saladin will provide gamers a brand new, obligatory quest to elucidate the PvP mode’s new options.

“You solely must run by means of 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. “In truth, you’ll want to start out this quest to even entry the Iron Banner node.”

Season 17 of Future 2 will go dwell Could 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.