The Dawning Brings Plenty of Gifts to Destiny

<p>The Dawning is the next <em>Destiny<&sol;em> event&comma; following October&&num;8217&semi;s Festival of Lost Souls&comma; and is coming to <em>Destiny&colon; Rise of Iron<&sol;em> players on December 13&period; The event brings the Sparrow Racing League back to the game&comma; with 2 new tracks&comma; as well as new sparrows&comma; gear&comma; shaders&comma; emblems and more&period; The Dawning also appears to be putting the Tower in more of a festive mood&comma; with plenty of winter themed decorations and potential items available to players&period; One exciting bit of info that Bungie included in the announcement is that sparrow racing would be available in private matches once the event ends on January 3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"efcJmZjHBTk" title&equals;"Destiny&colon; Rise of Iron - PlayStation Experience 2016&colon; The Dawning Trailer &vert; PS4"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;efcJmZjHBTk"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;efcJmZjHBTk&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Destiny&colon; Rise of Iron - PlayStation Experience 2016&colon; The Dawning Trailer &vert; PS4"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another key addition that The Dawning update will be bringing to <em>Destiny<&sol;em> is that of strike scoring&period; It looks similar to how scoring works on the Prison of Elders&comma; where players get scores based on their performance&comma; earning points and medals&period; It is not known what final tallies will be used for&comma; other than bragging rights&comma; but there could potentially be loot available based on how well a player does on strikes&period; Speaking of loot&comma; on top of the new sparrows and sparrow racing gear&comma; there looks to be more guns and gear that will be added in the update&period; Some of the armor is brand new&comma; however in the reveal trailer there is a warlock wearing Seraph type gear&comma; which has been rare&comma; or blue gear&comma; but now appears to be legendary&period; It will be interesting to see if there are other pieces of legendary gear that has been promoted from uncommon or rare to legendary&comma; something that would easily add end-game armor styles to the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;116007" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-116007" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-116007" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;12&sol;04104339&sol;psx-2016-new-winter-event-coming-to-destiny&lowbar;tb1q&period;1920-1024x576&period;png" alt&equals;"New Sparrow and racing gear&period; Destiny&comma; Activision" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-116007" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">New Sparrow and racing gear &lpar;Destiny&comma; Activision&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>One of the biggest reveals shown in The Dawning trailer was the return of Icebreaker exotic sniper rifle&period; This will be the first time since Year One that Icebreaker makes its appearance&period; The sniper was a favourite of many Year One <em>Destiny<&sol;em> players due to its ability to regenerate ammo&period; Little is known as to how one will acquire it&comma; but due to the number of exotic quests in <em>Destiny&colon; Rise of Iron<&sol;em>&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s probable that there will be a quest to obtain it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Dawning looks to give <em>Destiny<&sol;em> players plenty of activities to keep them occupied over the holidays&period; New sparrow racing tracks&comma; new gear to get&comma; strike scores to set and quests to go on means good things for <em>Destiny&colon; Rise of Iron<&sol;em> players&period; Hopefully Bungie can keep putting out these updates for players to keep them busy until <em>Destiny 2<&sol;em> arrives later next year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bungie&period;net&sol;en&sol;News&sol;Article&sol;45484&sol;7&lowbar;The-Dawning">Bungie Blog<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;