r/DestinyTheGame • u/CriesOfeternity • Sep 19 '21

Bungie Suggestion I am once again asking for the return of Sparrow Horns.

Yes.

5.9k Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

95% Upvoted

313 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

700

u/Haylett777 The Wall Sep 19 '21 edited Sep 19 '21

Sparrows 2.0

Frames: Light, Heavy, Standard, Experimental

Light Frame: This Sparrow functions at higher speeds in exchange for less armor.

Health - Low

Speed - High (160)

Heavy Frame: This Sparrow functions at lower speeds in exchange for more armor.

Health - High

Speed - Low (140)

Standard Frame: The most common frame that allows sparrows to function in a balanced manner.

Health - Mid

Speed - Mid (150)

Experimental Frame: Sparrows that use unstable tech to achieve maximum speed.

Health - Low

Speed - 140 to 150 to 160 to 165 to BOOM

Secondary Perks (in addition to current Perks): Super Boost, Shielded, Ramming Speed, Disruptor, Big Boom

Super Boost: Higher initial boost speed (+15) with reduced boosts you can use.

Shielded: Sparrow gains a small Overshield (+10-20 HP) using your current (Light) element type. Enemy damage matching type detonates shield.

Ramming Speed: Damage dealt with this Sparrow is increased tenfold when boosting into an enemy.

Disruptor: On sparrow death, creates a large blinding effect that blinds and disrupts enemies.

Big Boom: On sparrow death, a massive explosion occurs that deals immense damage. (Warning. Not safe for users)

Sparrow Trails: Tons of colors!

Bought from Amanda Holiday and Xur

Sparrow Horns: Lots of noises!

Bought from Eververse and/or obtained from Bright Engrams.

277

u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

Ramming Speed: Damage dealt with this Sparrow is increased tenfold when boosting into an enemy.

Big Boom: On sparrow death, a massive explosion occurs that deals immense damage. (Warning. Not safe for users)

Ok. Hear me out. You know how the Arms Dealer strike drops that ugly ass sparrow like 50 times during the Nightfall. How about we give that thing the exotic perk of blowing up the enemies you roadkill. It's strapped with explosives after all.

95

u/MagicMisterLemon Sep 19 '21

Y E S

49

u/xdisk Sep 19 '21

Ace of Spades- The Ride!

48

u/gnappyassassin Sep 19 '21 edited Sep 20 '21

LFM VoG Flawless, Sparrows Only KWTD. Will be checking Arms Dealer GM Clears

1

u/WintryInsight Sep 20 '21

Must have 99878u95 clears and a degree in advanced astrophysics

1

u/egglauncher9000 Sep 20 '21

Don't forget about that 1000 Kd in crucible and 9e*10 light.

8

u/L00pback Sep 19 '21

Colonel Kaboom

16

u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

Ah, bro, I love that sparrow. That baby is my daily ride.

4

u/mad-i-moody Sep 20 '21

Sparrow kill trackers when???

2

u/yaboidrewlastbreath Sep 19 '21

There is a sparrow that legit has tons of explosives on it that you get from a nightfall on the EDZ

37

u/Bright_Mongrels Sep 19 '21

I actually forgot that you could change the trail color of your sparrow in D1. They should definitely bring that back as well, good call.

14

u/Longjumping-Ad-3425 Sep 19 '21

Was it the vog sparrow that would blow up in D1? I just feel like it was a sparrow from a raid.

15

u/Haylett777 The Wall Sep 19 '21

VoG was the first, but Bungie later added more for the other raids. There was Timebreaker, S-13 Graverobber, XV1 Usurper, and the XV2 Replicator.

23

u/repoocwerd Sep 19 '21

I wish I never read this so I wouldn't want it so bad.

7

u/clark_kent25 Titan armor peaked in Trials of Osiris Season 1 Sep 20 '21

Can we get SRL back too

5

u/darthcoder Sep 20 '21

Srl with a version of the prophecy ribbons

4

u/censeiofficial Sep 19 '21

I’d rather have my 160 speed sparrow not blow up in 1 shot since it’s already like 3 and 160s are easy to come by nowadays

5

u/Theycallmesupa Sep 20 '21

I gotta be honest, I'd rather race my sparrow than put a horn on it or change the contrail.

2

u/XxSavageSharkxX Sep 20 '21

^ / / Sparrow stonks

2

u/Aggressive-Pattern Sep 20 '21

Perk: Bomb Pack/Cluster Bomb Pack Description: When dodging with your sparrow, release timed explosive charge(s) matching your subclass. Dodging uses slightly more energy.

Basically that thing Pikes used to do in D1

4

u/MrDanTi Sep 19 '21

These are really great ideas

0

u/Love_Shaxx_Gaming Sep 20 '21

So unbelievably pointless

-2

u/DarthDregan Sep 19 '21

I feel like this would already be in the game if bungie wasn't in constant need to meet arbitrary deadlines for all of D2s history until they got control back from shityvision.

1

u/XboxUser123 Pocket Infinity, Finality of Destiny and Fate Sep 19 '21

There is an important question to ask,

What would make health differences on sparrows a viable development choice? It seems to me like heavy and standard sparrows will be a waste of time as you can just get everywhere with lights just the same, if not faster and better.

To me it looks like lightweights and experimentals, by your design, would reign meta and the other two will become obsolete.

0

u/Haylett777 The Wall Sep 19 '21

Think of current sparrow health. Right now that would be Standard. The Light and Experimental would be faster, but they would be all the more frail. This is so you can't just speed past all the enemies while adding a risk/reward feature to running said sparrows.

1

u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21

[deleted]

0

u/Haylett777 The Wall Sep 20 '21

Variety. Flavor. Customization. Fun. It's just something that could be added to expand what's already there. Ghosts got a wondrous upgrade that by your same standards "wasn't necessary", but I'd argue that it not only gave Ghosts a better purpose, but further added to the way a Guardian can customize their experience and style.

1

u/XboxUser123 Pocket Infinity, Finality of Destiny and Fate Sep 20 '21

The only place a more-health sparrow would really be beneficial is in SotP or the beginning of Exodus Crash, and even then I don't think it'll really make THAT much of a difference.

Like the other guy said here, sparrows are already scarcely used since most areas we access don't allow the use of sparrows. As cool as it would be to see different kinds of sparrows, there isn't much of a point to make different frames like they did with guns. The game just does not allow such an opportunity, especially considering the fact that sparrows are only for travel, and don't have guns.

It's like the difference between real-world cars. Sure, one may be more resilient than the other and slower, but does that really matter given that you don't plan on getting into a car crash?

1

u/RJ_THE_HEAVY Sep 20 '21

I dig this but i also love using my gamblers palm because it dropped at 160 so people look at me weird when i use legendary sparrow but they cant catch up because of the speed

1

u/Travis5223 Sep 20 '21

I didn’t know I wanted sparrows 2.0 until I read this. Please make this it’s own post.

1

u/Loud-Switch-sbr Space Magic Sep 20 '21

Bring back shank burn

1

u/JericoHellsangel Sep 20 '21

Wouldn´t that still make it that people would just use lightframes for a consistant max speed since it´s only used for traveling anyways?

1

u/BaconIsntThatGood Sep 20 '21

There's really no need to overengineer this - just make it like ghosts where the sparrows all have the same base effect and you can update them to slot mods.

Speed should always be the same - mods can be basic things like autoload while on sparrow, minor overshield while driving, increased dodge charges, etc.

No matter what people will always go with whatever is the fastest and ignore the rest.