{"id":760468,"date":"2025-11-27T16:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BTLq29siRozBfSNdHBJep7"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:28:55","slug":"destiny-2-is-adding-back-to-the-future-style-hoverboards-and-i-doubt-ill-ever-ride-a-boring-old-sparrow-ever-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/destiny-2-is-adding-back-to-the-future-style-hoverboards-and-i-doubt-ill-ever-ride-a-boring-old-sparrow-ever-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Destiny 2 is adding Back to the Future-style hoverboards and I doubt I’ll ever ride a boring old Sparrow ever again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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if you’re trying to lure players back to your game, this isn’t the worst start. <\/span>(Image credit: Bungie)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It's no secret that Destiny 2 has been in a rough spot for a while, between the current marathon season due to the delay of The Final Shape<\/u><\/a>, last year's brutal round of layoffs<\/u><\/a> at Bungie, and game director Joe Blackburn's surprise departure<\/u><\/a> this month. Throw in a notoriously vocal community that's grown fatigued with the game's seasonal model and monetisation, and the current gloom at parent company Sony, and the good times are very much not rolling if you're a guardian. But, hey\u2026 Hoverboards!<\/p>\n

As part of today's This Week in Destiny<\/a> blog, Bungie dropped the news that players are about to get a new type of personal transport: the Skimmer. It's the first time in the series' entire history that we've have had an alternative type of mount, with players standing on these Skimmers like surfboards rather than straddling them like the old and now terminally uncool Sparrows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You'll be able to earn your first Skimmer, the Allstar Vector, from the Guardian Games: All-Stars Event, which is free to all players and starts on 5 March. Here's the trailer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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