In 2020, Bungie announced that it was vaulting a big portion of outdated Future 2 content material, and it could now not be playable. This content material included vital story missions and different stuff folks had paid for. Whereas the choice was deemed vital for technical causes, the vaulting of content material left a bitter style in the neighborhood’s mouth, and the MMO shooter’s popularity by no means totally recovered from the choice. However now, somebody goes into the vault and making outdated areas playable once more, although with some caveats.
As spotted by PC Gamer and plenty of others on Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube, there was an inflow of gameplay movies being uploaded on-line that appear to point out somebody taking part in outdated, vaulted Future 2 content material. This isn’t AI or trickery, however as a substitute one thing made doable due to a currently-in-development fan instrument that can ultimately be launched to the general public and supply gamers an opportunity to run round presently inaccessible areas, just like the Leviathan raid map.
The Future 2 Shadowkeep Singleplayer Exploration Mode is the instrument getting used to discover these vaulted areas. It’s being developed by Stanuwu, who has seemingly made good progress on the mod over the previous few weeks. The instrument is constructed on the final model of Future 2 that shipped earlier than Bungie started vaulting and eradicating content material from the MMO FPS.
Whereas the instrument could be very cool, don’t count on to have the ability to replay all of Future 2‘s authentic marketing campaign or previous DLC expansions. Stanuwu defined on the mod’s GitHub page that no mechanics or enemies will probably be included within the unvaulted areas and maps. The modder additionally confirmed that they haven’t any plans to implement mechanics, quests, enemies, and so forth. As an alternative, consider this mod as a option to stroll across the outdated locations of Future 2 and keep in mind what you probably did earlier than. And contemplating the truth that Sony put Future 2 on life help earlier this yr and it received’t be getting massive new updates anymore, that is probably the one approach followers of the shooter will ever be capable of hand around in a few of these inaccessible maps.
One of many high feedback on a video displaying off Leviathan’s beloved map was merely: “I’m going to cry bro.”