Since 2020, Destiny 2 has pit the three Guardian courses towards one another within the Guardian Games to find out whether or not the Titans, the Warlocks, or the Hunters will reign supreme for a yr. On March 11, the 2025 Guardian Games will start with just a few modifications. Guardian Games Nightfalls and Centered Actions have been dropped from this yr’s occasion. Of their place is a brand new boss rush mode referred to as Rushdown, which seems like it would check even essentially the most seasoned Destiny 2 gamers.
Bungie has shared the details for this year’s Guardian Games, together with the way in which that Rushdown will work. Rushdown will assemble bosses from the campaigns, the seasonal story missions, and the unique missions in battles that can get exponentially tougher for gamers. Every run via Rushdown will characteristic 5 boss encounters, all of which have to be accomplished earlier than time expires. Time will get added to the clock with every boss that goes down, and groups that end extra shortly have a greater probability of incomes increased high quality rewards.
Rushdown consists of warm-up, commonplace, and knowledgeable modes, however solely the final two will embody combatants with modifiers whereas additionally letting gamers obtain revive tokens. Nevertheless, gamers will get the next rating in the event that they use fewer revive tokens. All three modes will likely be open for normal matchmaking, class-based matchmaking, and personal fireteam matches. Gamers will likely be judged by what number of bosses they defeated and by their total rating.
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It simply would not be a Guardian Games and not using a new weapon. This yr’s addition to the armory is named Keraunios. It is a highly effective new Arc Hint rifle that options jolting impression, recycled power, and rolling storm. Final yr’s addition, the Allstar Vector Skimmer, will likely be accessible once more throughout this yr’s Guardian Games. Gamers will obtain a brief model of the weapon in the course of the occasion. But when gamers need to completely add it to their assortment, they might want to full a drop-in quest.
Gamers who end three encounters in any of the Rushdown modes will likely be assured to obtain a Guardians Games weapon throughout that run. The 5 scoring thresholds are bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and diamond. Naturally, gamers who attain the upper tiers in commonplace or knowledgeable will get higher rewards. And gamers who obtain excessive scores in knowledgeable mode will even get the possibility to select up totally Masterworked Guardian Games weapons.
To ensure that gamers to assist their most popular faction to win the general Guardian Games, they need to crew up with members of the identical class and battle in PvP and different actions to earn medallions. As soon as the medallions are in hand, gamers have to deliver them to the rostrum to rely them among the many complete factors for his or her class. There will likely be profitable courses on daily of the occasion, however just one faction will likely be named the victor when the Guardian Games shut after three weeks of competitors.
Outdoors of this occasion, Bungie lately introduced a brand-new, limited-time PvP mode referred to as Heavy Steel that can arrive throughout Heresy Act 3. This can lastly give gamers their probability to pilot a Brig. There’s additionally a Ceremony of the 9 occasion that is geared for each Destiny 2 veterans and newcomers.