As somebody who loves science fiction, synthetic intelligence, and time journey, the Vex have at all times been a favourite of mine. For me, they represented a fruits of those parts, turning into arguably one of the terrifying forces in Future 2. Over the previous a number of expansions and seasons, the Vex have seemingly taken a backseat, with the narrative as a substitute focusing closely on the Witness, the Hive, and the Cabal, with a wholesome dose of Fallen. For these which can be anxious Bungie is finished with the Vex, there’s some excellent news, apparently there are extra Vex tales to come back.
Not too long ago, I had the pleasure of being in a Season of the Deep roundtable with a few builders from Bungie. Robert Brookes and Nikko Stevens, each senior narrative designers, had been part of the dialog, and whereas the main target was primarily on Season of the Deep revelations, the pair shed some mild on what’s occurring with the Vex.
“There are a few components to this. One: maintain taking part in. Actually maintain taking part in Veil Containment. There’s extra Vex stuff to come back,” Brookes mentioned when questioned about why the Vex have light into the background, turning into extra of a power of nature quite than an enemy faction on the forefront of the story.
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Stevens echoed the sentiment, noting that the Vex have certainly taken a step again and that there’s an excellent purpose for that. “In case you are a group of beings that may time journey and pop in on the timeline at any level, and also you see two god behemoths boxing it out in entrance of you and your objective is like, ‘I need to be standing when these two are achieved’ you’re in all probability going to take a step again and be like, ‘I’ma allow them to take one another out and we’ll see what occurs after that’.”
“I feel as soon as Remaining Form concludes, the Vex is likely to be able to do some extra stuff.”
– Nikko Stevens, Senior Narrative Designer
It appears the Vex, hyper superior intelligence that they’re, see no purpose to inject themselves right into a state of affairs as unstable because the showdown between the Traveler and the Witness. Stevens goes on to say that they’re in a “wait and see” place.
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Proper now, the narrative in Future 2 is concentrated squarely on the duelling forces of the Gentle and Darkness, represented by the Traveler and the Witness. Most of the alien races have already picked a aspect, with Stevens stating that a component of the Vex has additionally aligned with the Witness.
“We’re making an attempt to carry [the Vex] in a bit bit extra of a personalised approach proper now and in a approach that connects with the Witness’ story through the Sol Divisive,” Stevens defined. “These had been Vex that went all the best way again to Future 1 with the Black Coronary heart. They’ve form of been expanded via piecemeal drops right here and there up till Spire of the Watcher which was a extremely huge perception into the Sol Divisive and the way carefully aligned they really are with the Witness.”
Robert Brookes seemingly has a smooth spot for the Vex, very like yours actually. “Vex is my private favourite faction. They’re simply probably the most alien, probably the most fascinating, and probably the most uncommon.” Brookes went on to say that he fought laborious to get Vex Asher into the Season of the Splicer mission and that he’ll “at all times go to bat” to inform extra Vex-related tales.
A part of the issue with the Vex is their inherently robotic nature. It may be tough to offer character to an entity that has communicated solely via cryptic programming language, whose targets and motivations are past humanity’s comprehension. Nonetheless, Bungie has added character to the Hive within the type of Oryx, Savathun, and now Xivu Arath, an enemy race that couldn’t be extra at odds with the targets of humanity.
With Asher Mir now ingrained within the Vex and the suspicious connection to the Neomuna folks, Bungie is likely to be planting the seeds for what’s to come back subsequent for the Vex. Stevens hinted at this fairly closely together with his closing remarks, “We get a bit bit extra details about them developing sooner or later and also you positively haven’t seen the final of them. I feel as soon as Remaining Form concludes, the Vex is likely to be able to do some extra stuff.”
Might the Vex be the primary antagonist for no matter comes after the Remaining Form? I’d wish to assume so and plainly Bungie is positioning the items for this to be the case.
