Guardian Video games 2024 kicked off on March 5 in Future 2, and together with the annual class-versus-class competitors, we obtained an extremely enjoyable reward—Skimmers, also called hoverboards.
Skimmers aren’t your common Sparrow. They’re a complete new transport archetype with new mechanics, together with leaping and air grinding. Unsurprisingly, it solely took gamers a few hours to search out out you should use grinding for a number of the silliest motion tech in Future 2. On March 5, a number of gamers shared movies on Reddit of them grinding by means of the air at unbelievable heights, with completely nothing stopping them.
“Ultimately, the age of the sparrow has come to an finish, thus the daybreak of the skimmer is upon us,” one participant wrote—as if Gandalf had joined the Future universe—and plenty of others agreed Skimmers shall be their go-to mode of transport any longer.
The Skimmer’s air-grinding mechanic does precisely what it says on the tin—it helps you to grind the air such as you’re on a skateboard rail. When you activate it, the hoverboard will grind by means of the sky till cancelled or its cost is depleted. It doesn’t matter the place you might be, or how excessive. The one factor that may cease you is hitting the sting of the map. Having stated that, I wouldn’t be shocked if we see Guardians grinding by means of holes on this planet over the subsequent few days.
Because the Skimmer has a reasonably substantial cost, you possibly can spend fairly some time within the air, which made some followers anxious Bungie will “nuke-nerf” the mechanic. Whereas we don’t know for positive, I’d say that’s unlikely to occur, since Future 2 already has a number of damaged mechanics that allow you to transfer unnaturally all through the battlefield, like wellskating and shatterskating.
Skimmers may make the Sparrow sections of sure dungeons and strikes a lot simpler, although. Particularly for the reason that Prophecy dungeon had a loot refresh, the Skimmer could be an ideal alternative so that you can begin grinding (pun meant) for brand spanking new weapons, just like the Adjudicator.
