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Destiny 2 Faction Rallies: How They Work And Gear Rewards

The first Faction Rallies event is underway.

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Weapons tied to factions have begun to pop up in Destiny 2, but things will soon become much more involved. Bungie previously revealed that something called Faction Rallies would begin on September 26, but we had no idea of what those would actually entail. The developer has now provided details on how they'll work and what you can get by participating. [Update: Destiny 2's new patch is now online, and Faction Rallies are officially underway. You can see all of the Faction Rallies gear we've come across so far in our gallery.]

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Faction Rallies are a special event that kicks off with the weekly reset on Tuesday, September 26, at 2 AM PT / 5 AM ET / 9 AM BST and runs until the same time on October 3. All three factions return from the original Destiny--Dead Orbit (represented by Arach Jalaal), Future War Cult (Lakshmi-2), and New Monarchy (Executor Hideo)--to task players with "gather[ing] supplies for their faction and destroy[ing] enemy resources." This is done by simply playing the game--you'll choose one of the three factions to align yourself with and then earn Faction Tokens by completing public events, Lost Sectors, Strikes, or the Raid, or by playing Crucible.

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Faction Tokens can be turned in for rewards packages, which include a variety of faction-specific items, including weapons, armor, and shaders (you can see all of these in the gallery above). There looks to be quite a lot of gear for each faction.

Additionally, each faction has a "powerful weapon" that is specific to it--Dead Orbit has a scout rifle, FWC a pulse rifle, and New Monarchy a sidearm (also pictured above). At the end of the event, the faction that collected the most packages is named the winner, and its weapon will be sold to all players for 50,000 glimmer. Members of the winning faction will be able to purchase it for only 1,000 glimmer. The winner will be named at 10 AM PT on October 3.

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I can just imagine at Gamespot head office that everytime they write a destiny article, they just pull a lever and Bungie cash shoots from the heavens

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I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care......................

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@proceeder: If you have to type that, that many times to convince yourself, then I'd say you care.

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@joshrmeyer: Let me tell you about the magic of "Ctrl+C"....

Also, I care about this website, not this game.

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@proceeder: Oh ok. This was actually an article worth posting. I've skipped over so many Destiny articles, but not this one. If you haven't already done so, maybe post this kind of stuff in those really pointless Destiny articles. Then again, you probably think this one is pointless so... Forget what I said. I'm pretty sure Gamespot looks at game sales numbers and base the number of articles off that. They are out to get "clicks" aka money, so you really can't blame them.

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@proceeder: You care enough to post this comment. Most people who don’t care ignore and move on. Excuse Gamespot for not making catering to only your likes.

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@fig56: Divinity Original Sin II is out. Danganronpa v3 is getting released. NioH's DLC is out and "for some reason" Gamespot's homepage is covered with "Destiny's Stuff".

I care about those other games.

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@proceeder: Because Destiny is more popular. And popular means more clicks. Pretty simple concept. You can type those games titles into the Google search field and within seconds have 1000’s of websites for you to visit. Pretty easy.

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I think they should make the player speed even slower so these casuals can keep up with this watered down game...talk about a mediocre shooter...call of duty has a new competitor for most over valued game on the market...god..i cant believe i got duped into spending money on this game again...never again.

If this game was any more casual, it would come with free sandals and cabana wear.

God...what passes as AAA games these days is astonishing. Games are now more about marketing than actual game play. Great gun play as usual, but nothing else of worth to note.

I give this game 2 enthusiastic Mehs!

Although the gamespot writers still gurgling its pole make it seem like it is the best thing ever. lol

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@gamersince78: Great gun play is what people care about. It's an FPS. Kinda how Mario has excellent platform play, but not much for story or anything else.

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With these specific rewards, I am gonna go out on a limb and say Dead Orbit will be the winner, assuming the scout rifle is good. Either way, I can almost guarantee New Monarchy isn't winning with a sidearm as a reward. Outside of PvP, they just aren't great. Which makes me very sad because I loved my sidearms in D1.

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@RELeon: Dead orbit should win by a landslide. Seems so many people picked Dead orbit on the first game. I loved the scout rifle from Dead orbit on Destiny 1... This one doesn't seem as good but I guess we'll see. Need some firefly perk on these guns! I have that exotic pulse rifle that makes the enemies explode when killed but they fly backwards before exploding which kinda defeats the point. I want a gun that makes an enemy explode with a headshot kill immediately as it's killed. If you know of any, let me know.

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Will they be higher tier gear, all im getting now is bloody 273 gear all the time, I don’t get much time to do raid that much so I feel a bit stuck

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@rodoxthedark: Just do the milestones and you'll rank up fast. I went from where you are to about 289 in a week. And I only spent about 2 hours a day playing. Basically, while in orbit, check your challenges... Do what you can. Then if you haven't already, do all the adventures on the planets and those blue crown looking quests. The planet titan has a really easy way of doing 2 public events through fast travel, collecting chests and materials inbetween time. Also, do loot caches. There's some you can run through(Exodus black), run past the mobs and kill boss, collect loot, fast travel and repeat. (It's also great for a exotic quest requirement without saying a spoiler).

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@rodoxthedark: I know the feeling. I was stuck with 272 gear non-stop that I felt like I was wasting my time. So I moved onto the other characters to get them started. When the following week had came by, I done a nightfall with the clan and once my gear reached the next level, it was back on track again. The milestones was the only thing that could break me from the 272 gear drops

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@coolmanmick: my gear lv is actually 283 but I still just keep getting 273 drops all the time, but I can do nightfall again now and hopefully the faction stuff has some higher tier I’ll be playing tonight so I’ll find out

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@rodoxthedark: Im in the same kind of boat. I need Iron Banner to come back so at least I can play solo and earn some decent gear.

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@rodoxthedark: You can still do Call to Arms and Flash points every week. Also Nightfall if you have a couple of friends. Those should give you quite the boost.

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@Warlord_Irochi: I do the nightfall. Who hands out flash points?

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@rodoxthedark: ah yeah I do remember now, I flew through the tutorial and mission sections a bit, iv done his missions though so it should be available, cheers mate

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@rodoxthedark: Cayde-6 does once per week. Make sure you reached his milestone for them to be available.

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Looks like FWC for me.

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Edited By Warlord_Irochi

Won't be of much use if PW is capped to 265 like the rest of rewards.

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@Warlord_Irochi: They aren't actually capped at 265, that's just where the reputation rewards stop being a few points higher than your max power and start transitioning to a few points lower.

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@Mogan: Which still makes them pretty useless.

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@darkelf83: Depends on what you need. Could could be 300 power, but Nameless Midnight is still the best scout rifle in the game, and Better Devils is still the best hand cannon. If any of these faction weapons are specced out right, they'll be worth getting even if they're a few power lower than your average. Power's not all that important anymore, once you get to around 270 (or Iron Banner comes back).

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@Mogan: I keep trying different scout rifles hoping to get something a little more unique than nameless midnight, since that's all I use now for kinectic. Can't find anything that comes close to beating it. Although it sucks in PvP.

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@joshrmeyer: I'm real interested to try the New Monarchy scout rifle. It's got massive impact and range, and not much else.

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@Mogan: Just got an awesome scout rifles from the gunsmith... Looks like Destiny 1 Dead orbit one. It's an energy weapon with great stability/handling and faster shots than the midnight one, plus the exploding rounds... It's called Manannan SR4 made by Omolon.

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@Mogan: Sounds good... My fav would probably still be Vision of Confluence from the vault of Glass raid.

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@joshrmeyer: Yeah. We may never seen its like again. : \

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@Mogan: Probably not... I'll be happy with another fate bringer though! Give me explosive payload and firefly and I'm good lol.

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@joshrmeyer: The hand cannon I miss most is The First Curse. It just felt good to use, and the Way of the Sharphooter Gunslinger spec is just begging for it.
Sturm and Drang just aren't the same. : \

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@Mogan: I agree with you Nameless Midnight is hands down the best Scout rifle. Im 287 and its constantly being used. No matter which other Kinetic weapon I try out, I always return the the Tried, Tested and True Nameless Midnight.

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@z05m: Same... Predicting a Nerf soon :(

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@z05m: Word. That scout rifle turned most all my other kinetic scout rifles into shards.

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Oh them douche bags are back. Dead orbit are the only ones with a colour scheme that doesn't look awful.

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Well, New Monarchy sure isn't going to win if their thing is a sidearm. Bummer, they were my boys in the first game (to the extent that any of the factions could be 'your boys').

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@Mogan: Sorry dude but the "Last Hope" sidearm is one of the best weapons in the game. Most stable 3 round burst gun out there. Give it a try and you will see that Sidearms deserve their own place in a faction.

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@z05m: I do like Last Hope, but I don't know if it's one of the best weapons in the game. I'll have to use it some more.

That New Monarchy gun looks like a Suros though, and aren't all their sidearms full auto and hard to keep on target?

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@Mogan: Last hope is maybe not the best weapon in the game for me, but it is for sure the best sidearm for PvP that I use a lot.

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@Mogan: The rewards for the event are supposed to be Power Weapons.

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@Lord_Sesshy: I mean, it says right up there what the winning faction's weapon will be.

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@Mogan: Ah nevermind lol. I read another article and I figured this one said the same thing (came here to look at the armor) so I didn't read it. I guess they meant "power" weapons instead of "powerful".

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@Mogan: Hopefully it's not crap - some sidearms are seeing good play in Crucible.

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@Mogan: yep, alas

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