DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 - FUTURE SAGA Chapter 1 (DLC)

Let me be straight with you: Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is not a shooter, and I am not the guy who usually spends his evenings grinding Parallel Quests in an anime arena fighter. But the Scout Team covers what the audience is searching for, and a lot of you are asking whether Future Saga Chapter 1 is worth adding to your copy of Xenoverse 2. So here we are. Future Saga Chapter 1 is a story expansion for the base game, pulling content from the Dragon Ball Super Future Trunks arc. It adds five new playable characters: Vegeta in his Super Saiyan God form plus an Ultra Supervillain variant, Goku Black in Super Saiyan Rose plus his own Ultra Supervillain version, and a Restrained Broly. If those names mean something to you, your interest level is already calibrated. If they don't, this DLC - and honestly the base game - probably isn't your entry point into anything. Gameplay sits squarely in Xenoverse 2's existing framework: third-person arena brawling with ki management, vanish counters, stamina breaks, and super move chains. The new characters each bring their own move sets and supers, and Goku Black in particular handles with enough personality to feel distinct rather than reskinned. The Ultra Supervillain forms add a visual escalation that fits the power-fantasy tone the series lives on. The story missions are serviceable - they exist to get you from cutscene to fight, not to surprise you with writing. If you played the base game expecting Disco Elysium-level narrative, you already made a wrong turn somewhere. What works: the character roster additions are genuinely useful in PvP and the game's online hub, the move sets feel grounded in how the source material presents these fighters, and for players who were already logging hours in Conton City this is a low-friction content drop. What doesn't work as well: the mission structure is thin, the difficulty curve is inconsistent in the way Xenoverse 2 often is, and if you have any latency issues in the base game's online they carry over here unaddressed. The DLC does nothing to fix the netcode situation, which ranges from fine to frustrating depending on region and time of day. For the audience actually playing Xenoverse 2 competitively or in co-op, new characters with viable kits matter more than new story. On that front this delivers. For someone hoping a DLC chapter reshapes how the game feels to play - movement, combo windows, the general pace of a match - it won't. This is content for the committed, not a reason for a lapsed player to reinstall. Fred, Scout Team