Hello everyone
I've been super active in the Sparrow Race League and I currently am #3 (thanks Bungie for those random error messages I keep getting! I'd have 100 points more if those error messages never happened, each of them takes 10-15 Elo points away) on the Xbox One community Elo ranking on [url]guardian.gg[/url] with a winstreak of over 200 (I'm not counting those error messages Bungie keeps giving me, preventing me to reach a higher rank). So yea, I pretty much know how the event is running, including Eververse.
Before I'm going to answer general questions, here's some experiences I had:
1. The event is totally worth playing! You drop helmets, that you'll likely never drop in the raid. Additionally you can get some class items leveling up your guardian too.
2. SRL may be fun with some friends to play, if you're going casually and not too addicted to the races.
[b]Facts:[/b]
Correct me here in case I'm wrong, I'll fix those then. It should be pretty much accurate though.
[b]Amanda Holiday[/b]
Rank 1 (1750 Reputation): Helmets and Class Items drop -300
Rank 2 (2750 Reputation): Helmets and Class Items drop 300-310
Rank 3 (4500 Reputation): Helmets and Class Items drop 310-320
Rank 4+ (8500 Reputation): No more increases except that you get a racer kit or a horn kit with a random legendary racing armour (Arms, Chest or Legs) or a horn.
[b]Eververse[/b]
SRL Record Book, Vol. 1: You don't really get much from it. It's pretty much only a record book. Besides of the look of the armour, you can drop them in the event itself as rewards.
Sparrow Toolkit: Never bought one yet.
Custom Horn Kit: You gain a random legendary horn. The chance for getting the EV-43 Lightrunner is really low. I didn't get mine after 16 buys (to get all legendary horns).
[b]Horns[/b]
There's 17 different types of horns:
Air Horn
Alert Horn
Antique Horn
Aquarian Horn
Basic Horn
Bike Horn
Cadence Horn
Chime Horn
Clarion Horn
Clown Horn
Duck Horn
Electric Horn
Flourish Horn
Fog Horn
Happy Horn
King's Horn
Odyssey Horn
You can possibly earn a legendary horn from your second or third character's S license quest reward or by simply buying one at Eververse. Dismantling a legendary horn (except Happy Horn) grants you a horn relay, to upgrade another rare horn to a legendary one. Horns can not be gotten again in the vehicles shop except the Happy Horn.
[b]Reputation[/b]
The buff "SRL Champion" on your guardian's class item, dropped from SRL increases your overall reputation on Amanda Holiday gained by 15%. This includes bounties and quests.
Rank #1 in a race: 55 SRL reputation
Rank #2 in a race: 35 SRL reputation
Rank #3 in a race: 20 SRL reputation
Just participating and staying for the entire race (no matter the rank) grants you always 45 reputation.
Regular bounties give you 100 reputation. The weekly one gives you 500.
[b]License Quest[/b]
By completing the S license on your first character, you get a random sparrow from SRL. By completing S rank on a 2nd or 3rd character, you get a Horn Kit or a Sparrow Kit again.
[b]Sparrows[/b]
All sparrows are equally fast and only differ from their type (Standard, Trick and Overcharge). Overcharge however does boost your sparrow up quite a lot. Record times have been driven with it. Disadvantage is the low amount of fuel and it being extremely hard to control. As a casual player, you want to go with trick sparrows.
Instead of trying to explain how to run the maps, I'll just post links of my best runs. Venus is all about good landings whereas Mars has some curves you gotta deal with.
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDlWHqhwpU4][b]Infinite Descent 3:58.976 (Trick Sparrow)[/b][/url]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j18T6spuAEM][b]Infinite Descent 3:54.830 (Overcharge Sparrow)[/b][/url]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feZdl26BlsI][b]Campus Martius 4:13.543 (Trick Sparrow)[/b][/url]
[url=https://youtu.be/GQviwM80_GM][b]Campus Martius 4:13.006 (Overcharge Sparrow)[/b][/url]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v8zIfBRPFE][b]General Tutorial Video[/b][/url]
I'll add further information gained by the community or being asked, in case I can answer them.
Just ask if you have something you'd like to know.
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Here's my question: How can I identify which sparrow is overdrive, trick, or regular?