In the MMO shooter Destiny players have created a new trend: surfing on the Sparrow. This is how you can surf along.
It’s quite amazing: Millions of gamers play Destiny on four different platforms around the globe for three hours a day, and two months after release, they’re still finding new stuff to pass the time until Bungie finally releases new content.
This already shows how much effort Bungie has put into the world and that quite a bit more is possible than it may seem. The world is designed so that Guardians come up with ideas that Bungie never foresaw. And it shows that people are now specifically looking for such fun beyond Lootcaves, Exotic runs, Bounties, and Raids.
Many of these “side activities” in the world of Destiny surprisingly revolve around the Sparrow, the hover bikes. In the beginning, the thing was used like a kind of skateboard to perform stunts, with the Suicide Bike Timebreaker also providing some fun for Guardians who jumped over the Hivenest like on a stunt bike (and thousands followed him) – now the Guardians are surfing on the Sparrow while dancing.
And the nice thing is: You can do it too, even if you aren’t exactly a controller artist of the fifth Dan.
A youtube video explains what the new trend is about. It’s quite simple: while jumping onto a vehicle, you can use a “gesture,” one of the emotes, and it will continue executing even if you stay on the vehicle. Dancing works well as a long-duration gesture. The key is to get the timing right when you start the emote. Then nothing stands in the way of your career as a dancing surfer in Destiny, although the accident rate, as kotaku notes, is quite high… but well. There’s always something!
The video explains everything in detail. Pretty cool.
And here you can see what can go wrong. Also pretty cool.
