Bungie’s will shouldn’t be its personal because the Ceremony of the 9 launched manner, manner too early.
The Ceremony of the 9 exercise was alleged to launch with Future 2: Heresy Act 3 someday in April. It launched midway via March. Gamers rapidly found the unfinished exercise, loaded in, and began incomes some beautiful textureless weapons. Bungie has disabled the exercise however it could possibly by no means take our hilarious pictures.
All of this kicked off on March 11, 2025, which was the launch of Future 2: Heresy Act 2. Bungie had teased data about Ceremony of the 9 in a current developer livestream. This exercise will give gamers a “new twist” on three dungeons, provide new rewards, and embrace a brand new Ultimatum mode. It additionally options some 9-themed weapons. As you may see, this unintentional early launch of the exercise has yielded some improbable weapon designs.
Try this textureless Judgment that includes double perks alongside each strains.
Right here we will see a shotgun with no textures that includes a inexperienced shader.
Here is an Auto Rifle that includes a bedazzled shader. Because of the lack of options, it appears totally clean.
Bungie was fast to deal with the issue. The developer took Future 2 offline, however as an alternative of a rollback (which might influence each single participant, even those that didn’t contact the exercise), Bungie determined to simply disable entry to Ceremony of the 9. Gamers nonetheless have their cardboard weapons, although there’s no figuring out if Bungie will take them again sooner or later.
The neighborhood has been fast to level out that maybe had administration not fired a lot of its employees, a number of which is reported to be within the QA crew, that errors like this would possibly cease popping up. However right here we’re with one other Future 2 content material drop that’s damaged and a playerbase that has seen a gradual decline. For now, although, we’ve bought funny-lookin’ weapons.
