After Destiny 2 lifted the time gate for Strand this week, the path to another Lightfall exotic was clear – the “Final Warning” pistol. However, the weapon is not just a Strand pistol, but a tracking unrelenting nightmare in PvP that is truly insane. We will show you why.
Currently, players in Destiny 2 have started various side quests revealed after the Lightfall campaign of the new DLC. An unplanned live update from Bungie also early on opened up the path to a new exotic pistol that revealed surprisingly nasty attributes that can dominate everything, especially in PvP.
What makes the new weapon so crazy? After the first players earned the exotic Lightfall weapon “Final Warning”, it quickly became clear that it is primarily an unrelenting exotic in the kinetic slot in PvP, equipped with some nasty special abilities.
Especially the tracking bullets are really aggressive and almost never miss their target.
Those who own it are in for a treat, as the weapon behaves like it has an aim-bot built in by Bungie itself, prompting some players to laugh maliciously after the kill, as you can see and hear in this weapon review:
The “Final Warning” is aggressive and relentless in PvP
Especially the tracking is way too good: The exotic traits give the new Strand pistol a mean relentlessness in PvP, which could lead to a nerf quite quickly. Because it’s just too good.
- The 450 pistol “Final Warning” can fire bullets that aggressively track targets.
- When firing from the hip, the bullets cause higher body hit damage on impact.
- If you prefer aiming, you benefit as well. In this case, projectiles have a significantly increased speed and deal additional damage to marked targets through critical hits.
- A marked target is also disintegrated when hit by a fully charged volley.
- And the kinetic weapon has unlimited ammunition, which could become a problem in PvP.
So if you still have tasks pending in PvP that require pistol kills: this is the opportunity.
The pistol shouldn’t even be available yet: Destiny 2: Lightfall contains a few new exotic weapons. However, while the machine gun “Deterministic Chaos” or the glaive “Winterbite” could be unlocked relatively early, the new exotic Strand pistol “Final Warning” was actually timegated.
- Players were supposed to receive the quest for the exotic weapon only after mastering the raid starting on March 10, which would have unlocked the last Strand fragments.
- Additionally, to receive the quest, one must purchase each Strand fragment for a character.
However, after the recent criticism of Strand, Bungie changed the plan. Only 4 days after release, a live update came that revealed the full potential of Strand to players.
At the same time, the unlocking meant that the weapon quest “The Final Strand” for the pistol “Final Warning” was available to everyone, who could gather enough Strand meditation quickly.
In this trailer, you see all the new exotic weapons and gear from Destiny 2: Lightfall:
Here’s how to get the super strong exotic pistol “Final Warning”
If you also want to enjoy the weapon now to track other players, you need the quest “The Final Strand” and must meet the following requirements:
- Completely complete the new Lightfall campaign.
- Unlock all Strand subclass upgrades for a character.
- Strand grenades cost 50 Strand meditations each.
- Strand aspects cost 150 Strand meditations each.
- Strand fragments cost 200 Strand meditations each.
After that, you can complete the quest, which only has 7 steps.
- Step 1 – Visit Nimbus on Neomuna: You can find him at the spawn point “Wanderer’s Gate”.
- Step 2 – Find Strand devices: Now travel to the Vex incursion zone, as you need to find Strand devices there.
- Step 3 – Defeat Shadow Legion looters: Now the quest requires you to survive a few Cabal waves until a Colossus appears that you need to kill. Read their orders to find out where they got their loot from.
- Step 4 – Get the “Veil Spectrometer”: For this, you need to go back to Calus’s ship, the Typhon Imperator.
- Step 5 – Return to the Wanderer’s Gate: You now need to head to the Pouka Pond at the Hall of Heroes.
- Step 6 – Complete Osiris’s training program: Now go to the “Vex Mixer” where Osiris will test your Strand abilities. Unlike in the campaign, this mission “Upended” is now a timed version of 5 minutes, so you need to hurry.
A real Vex mixer: Inside the “Testing Grounds” at Osiris’s training program, Destiny 2 throws you into a Vex mixer that you must escape from continually while keeping enemies at bay. Especially in the legendary campaign this kept the guardians busy and gave the grappling hook a purpose.
This rather special obstacle course and the subsequent boss fight also offer a few Neomuna triumphs in time, encouraging speedruns with Strand.
- Step 7 – Done: The final step is just a visit to the Pouka Pond. There, you can pick up the “Final Warning” weapon and complete the quest.
All individual steps of the quest can also be found in the video from Nexxoss-Gaming:
What do you think of this intelligent pistol? Do you find it just right? Or do you say, this can’t be intended and the kinetic Strand pistol will soon be nerfed due to its properties in PvP? Feel free to let us know in the comments.
Another new weapon exotic that you can currently hunt in Lightfall is the machine gun “Deterministic Chaos”:
