After Blues, 5 Extra ‘Future 2’ High quality Of Life Gripes To Repair

My years-long campaign to finish the plague of blues in Future 2 is over. Beginning this week, blues will now not drop when you’ve hit the comfortable energy cap in a season, fixing most stock muddle points whereas nonetheless permitting them for use for leveling earlier than that.

In some sense, I’ve misplaced the wind from my sails. A dozen anti-blues articles and movies later, there isn’t any minor Future 2 situation I’m as keen about. I’ve some bigger complaints (cease content material vaulting the most effective missions within the recreation), however by way of high quality of life issues? Nothing rises to that stage.

That mentioned, I’ve some candidates. Listed here are 5 minor gripes which were plaguing Future 2 for a protracted whereas now that might use some fixing.

1. Character Recreation – It was a fairly bizarre within the first place that Future 2 primarily ported the an identical character creation system from Future 1 with few adjustments. With increasingly cutscenes inserting our helmet-free Guardian into the story, it has been a long-standing request for gamers to have the ability to remake their Guardians with out the inexplicable must delete your complete character and begin over simply to vary their race or gender and even their haircut. The sport wants the flexibility to do that post-creation, and it wouldn’t damage to have extra choices added on the similar time (beards!).

2. Supplies Caps – Whereas I perceive the necessity to cap no less than some sorts of supplies to encourage spending over hoarding, I’d argue that Alloy and Shards are two that want some exceptions. 10 shards in storage when exotics price 3 to masterwork and also you don’t need to sink them into any random piece of substances simply to make room for brand new ones. I suppose now you may retailer 10 extra within the postmaster with much less danger of deletion due to the blues change, however supplies caps have to be greater for these two classes, and it might be time to extend the glimmer cap once more.

3. Transmog Caps – That is type of a forex as properly, but it surely’s a extra sophisticated situation. I do know that almost all Guardians most likely neglect or fail to even do the ten transmog bounties in a season, however now we have reached some extent the place two issues are clear 1) promoting transmog as a microtransaction is silly and can’t be that worthwhile 2) with 10 bounties a season, it’s bodily unimaginable to ever catch as much as unlock the grand assortment of Future seems for transmog. Both simply make transmog free altogether (like actually each different recreation), or improve the per-character cap.

4. Ping System – This can be a extra concerned request than the others as it could require a brand new system, however for the love of god, let me simply level my gun at a champion, press up on the D pad and mark the goal for my mic-less LFG teammates. Even simply essentially the most primary ping system on earth would assist immensely right here, particularly as in-game LFG is coming, and this might be joined by a second QoL enchancment, an emote wheel so the D-pad isn’t used actually only for 4 emotes alone. That’s a colossal waste (sorry Ben).

5. Shader Favoriting – This one is self-explanatory and about as “high quality of life” as you get. Allow us to mark our favourite shaders like we mark our favourite finishers, and ship these to the entrance of the road throughout transmog. That’s it.

Once more, I’m not practically as intense about any of those as I’m the scourge of blues that ravaged the sport for half a decade, however they’d be…good? Simply contemplate them Bungie, thanks.

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