If there’s one factor we are able to all agree on about Future 2, it’s that it has a variety of menus, the place you in all probability spend numerous time managing all kinds of little issues, from bounties to extra stock, quest monitoring, and extra. Truthfully, I believe I spend 1 / 4 of my time with Future not capturing aliens or exploring the floor of Europa or Nessus however simply trudging by way of unintuitive menus laden with tabs and subpages.
However there’s a greater strategy to play Future! All you want is an iOS or Android machine. Should you’re already an everyday person of the Future companion app, then I don’t have to sing its praises to you, although it’s price noting that with the Prismatic class launched in Future 2’s newest growth, The Closing Form, the app is arguably extra helpful than ever. For individuals who aren’t acquainted with the way it dramatically improves and streamlines the expertise of taking part in Bungie’s sci-fi shooter (particularly on PlayStation and Xbox), let me define a number of wonderful use circumstances for this more-than-handy instrument.
This information will solely cowl app features that allow you to handle bounties and stock. Clan and fireteam administration, in addition to different social options, are exterior the scope of this piece.
Simply handle your Prismatic construct in-app
Future 2’s The Closing Form launched a brand new subclass: Prismatic. It arguably has far more choices for builds than any subclass earlier than, letting you combine and match completely different powers from the unique photo voltaic, arc, void, stasis, and strand subclasses.
However Future’s menu construction, with its sluggish cursor and pop-up playing cards, could be an assault on the senses at occasions. Enter the companion app, which makes sorting all of the completely different talents, features, and fragments much more manageable.
Choose the Guardian tab on the underside row of icons on the Future companion app and select which of your guardians (if in case you have a couple of) you wish to handle. You’ll be dropped at a brand new web page the place you may change up your stock (extra on that in a bit) and your subclass. Faucet on Prismatic and also you’ll see a scrollable checklist of each factor of the Prismatic class divided throughout Talents, Tremendous, Transcendence, Points, and Fragments. There’s even a little bit of lore tucked in on the backside of this web page that’s method simpler to learn in your cellphone than in your TV display screen.
Tapping on every a part of the category will take you to a different display screen that allows you to swap out varied components of your Prismatic builds in actual time, without having to ever open up the display screen within the recreation itself.
Handle your loadouts and stock with out going to the vault or the postmaster
Future certain loves throwing tons of loot at you. It’s kinda the purpose of the sport. Managing all of it from the sport alone is (and this can be a technical time period) actually fucking tedious. So let’s check out a number of use circumstances with regards to sorting by way of your junk.
Notice that when you can kind and spec out your stock within the companion app, you can’t dismantle weapons and armor from it. You’ll nonetheless want to do this within the recreation.
Edit weapon mods simply
Identical to with speccing out your subclass, you can too use the Future app to swap up your perks, weapon mods, armor mods, and beauty shaders.
Underneath the Guardian tab, choose the guardian you want to edit and also you’ll see an inventory of every thing you’ve geared up or in your stock. Faucet on a given gun or piece of armor and also you’ll see choices to change its varied mods and perks.
Once more, this not solely saves you an incredible period of time and unnecessary menu-diving within the precise recreation itself, however it may possibly additionally assist you kind your objects as effectively.
Ship and retrieve issues to/out of your stock (or to different Guardians of yours) from/to your vault in a flash
On the identical display screen that exhibits you your subclasses and stock, you’ll see a full checklist of all kinetic, power, and energy weapons geared up and in your present stock. Faucet on any given one and also you’ll see the flexibility to lock a weapon, in addition to switch it both to your vault or to a different Guardian of yours.
You can too take a look at what the postmaster has ready for you on this display screen by scrolling horizontally alongside the highest bar to “postmaster.” Notice that some objects will nonetheless require you to really go to a social hub to retrieve them, however most weapons and armor don’t.
If you wish to pull objects out of your vault, navigate again to the “Guardian” part of the app that allows you to select considered one of your Guardians and faucet “Vault.” It’s going to show all objects in your vault, letting you simply seize one thing and ship it to your stock.
Decide up new bounties and look at what energetic quests and challenges you’ve
Underneath “Director” you’ll discover a number of very helpful utilities and bits of data which, like a variety of different issues on this app, are simpler to learn and make sense of in your cellphone than by navigating Future’s in-game menus.
Seize new bounties
Underneath “Distributors,” you’ll get an inventory of all distributors within the recreation. Deciding on any of them will present you their present store stock (although sadly you’ll want to go to them in particular person to really purchase something) and any accessible bounties. Fortuitously, you may seize bounties proper within the app both from a vendor or below the “Bounties” menu accessible below the “Director Web page.” These will probably be assigned to you in actual time as long as you’re in orbit (however not whereas on a planet or in a social hub). So in the event you clear a bunch whereas taking part in and wish to snag some new ones, you received’t want to go to these distributors in particular person.
Notice that finishing and “claiming” a bounty nonetheless requires you to take action through Future’s in-game menus. So when you can snag a bounty that asks you to destroy 15 Vex Harpies on Nessus, after doing so that you’ll nonetheless have to “declare” that bounty within the recreation, not the app.
Extra simply see what quests and actions can be found to you
Have you ever tried navigating Future’s in-game quests menu? It’s a nightmare. Fortuitously, selecting “Pursuits” below the “Director” web page within the app will present you a extra compact, simply navigated checklist of each bounty, quest, and problem you’ve accessible. Tapping on any given quest offers you a extra detailed breakdown of your present progress and targets.
Like with bounties, nevertheless, you’ll nonetheless have to “declare” accomplished seasonal challenges in Future’s in-game menus. You can also’t monitor a quest from the app. So when you can’t keep away from Future’s quest menus in-game utterly, you’ll no less than have a neater time realizing what to search for and solely want to enter them if you wish to monitor a selected quest or declare a problem.
Future 2 has solely gotten extra complicated through the years. Fortuitously, the companion app is greater than only a instrument for managing the sport’s social options and checking on Bungie’s weblog updates.
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