Guardian Games returns to Destiny 2 on May 3

Destiny 2’s Guardian Games will make its third annual return to the Tower on May 3. The competition to see which of the three Guardian classes is the second and third best (it’s a poorly kept secret that Titans are obviously first), kicks off Tuesday and will run through the end of the season, May 24.

As usual, players will take on small quests to earn medals and turn them in to increase their class’ standing in the ranks. But this year Bungie is bringing back an oft-requested feature for the duration of the event: Strike Scoring.

Instead of rushing through Strikes, players are given quests that will allow them to cause the greatest damage and kill enemies in new ways. This feature will manifest in two different Strike playlists: Training and Competitive. The Training playlist will be active Tuesday through Thursday each week. The rest of the week — Friday through Monday — players can jump into the Competitive playlist to earn better rewards.

By gaining high scores, players can unlock torches in the Tower, which gives their Guardian a special glow on their right shoulder. Players can get glows on their left shoulders by turning in medals to help their class win. Players will be awarded the “The Title” submachine guns, along with an Origin perk, Classy Contender, that can kill refund class energy and gives them a glow on their left shoulders.

Bungie is also making slight tweaks to the weighting of medal deposits for the event — due to the discrepancy in player population among the classes. The event will give proportional multipliers to the classes that are second and third, as well as those who fall behind. This will also take data from last season into account, meaning Titans (who received third last year, despite winning in 2020) will get the largest boost. Warlocks will get a small boost for getting second, and Hunters will receive very little boost since they won in 2021.

Finally, Bungie announced some exciting loot coming to Destiny 2 on May 24, with the new season. The seasonal ritual weapon will be a machine gun called Chain of Command. The Horror’s Least Pulse rifle will be available to players from Nightfalls. Hand cannon. Trials of Osiris will get the Forgiveness sidearm and the Burden of Guilt fusion rifle.

But before players can get their hands on those new weapons, they’ll need to throw down the gauntlet in the 2022 Guardian games. Let the class with the highest score win.