Ludiomania / Destiny 2 Forsaken’s Gambit May Just Be the Best Game Mode I Ever Played

All right, all right, all right. After almost 64 hours of game time according to Charlie (a bot my clan uses in our discord), I finally saw my first Ascendant Primeval, affectionately referred to as a Meatball, in the second round of my four game post-patch on Kell’s Grave. Out of special and power ammo and lacking abilities, all I could do was pepper it with my pulse rifle, frantically watching the life bars race down to zero. My heart fluttered repeatedly as we slowly spray and pray. Finally, the meatball pops out of existence and The Seething Heart pop into my inventory. The Drifter congratulated my team on the win, and we went back to the Tower to meet with him and start the questline to get the Malfeasance, an exotic hand cannon and pinnacle Gambit weapon, one of the last triumphs necessary to become Dredgen. Sixty four hours and counting, my Gambit journey is barely beginning. And Traveller be damned, I love the game mode enough that I’m going to keep going at it. Let’s see what we got. Gambit is a new game made introduce in Destiny 2 Forsaken. A hybrid game mode comprised of PvE and a light touch of PvP, the premise of the game is simple. Fight. Collect. Bank. Invade.

You and your team of 3 other guardians spawn into the Derelict where you can get a glimpse of the opposing team before the match begins proper. The Drifter will let you know what enemy type you’re facing beforehand if you want to switch up your load outs before transmatting you to the ground of one of 4 …