Sparrow Racing League

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Sparrow Racing League is a Event that begins on December 8, 2015 and ends on December 29, 2015 (3 weeks). Sparrow Racing League consist of 6 player free-for-all death race through the enemy territories. The races are not only match made but also allows the players to participate with up to 5 friends. Visit Amanda Holliday in The Tower to pick up league related quests and bounties. Tess will also sell items related to the league.

Basics

SRL Event Standing

See also: SRL Event Standing

General Information

SRL Event Standing is your reputation with Sparrow Racing League and Amanda Holliday. Every reputation rank up earns the player a Racer's Toolkit, which contains a random Legendary Sparrow Gear.

Ranks and Level of Gear Dropped

Rank Reputation Required Light Level of Gear Dropped
0 0 ≤ 290
1 1750 ≤ 300
2 2750 ≤ 310
3 4500 ≤ 320
4+ 8500 ≤ 320

Reputation from Various Sources

Placement

Placement No Class Item Class Item
1st 100 114
2nd 80 91
3rd 65 74
Finish 45 51

Quests

Quest No Class Item Class Item
Class C 300 345
Class B 300 345
Class A 300 345
Class S 600 689

Bounties

Bounty No Class Item Class Item
Daily 100 115
Complete 10 Bounties 600 690

Licenses

See also: Licenses
Quest Task Reward
SRL: Class C License Complete 5 races. EV-40 Snowscream
SRL: Class B License Hit 200 gates overall and hit 60 gates in a single race. Racing Legs, Racing Gloves
SRL: Class A License Finish 10 times in top 3 and hit 15 gates consecutively. Racing Suit
SRL: Class S License Win 3 races and finish 3 races without losing your sparrow. Racing Helmet/Crash Helmet/Racing Wings
Winner's Circle
With Finesse and Speed* Kill Taken and Taken Ultras
Complete 2 Tier 3 Court of Oryx
Complete Outbound Signal and Fear's Embrace within time limits
EV-42 Nightsteed

*Only available to PS3 and PS4 players.

Bounties

See also: Sparrow Racing League Bounties
BountyTaskReputation
SRL: Bugs on the WindshieldKill 5 enemies on the track during any SRL race.100
SRL: Go Big or Go HomeComplete 10 other SRL bounties.100
SRL: Mars PacesetterComplete an SRL lap on Mars in fewer than two minutes.100
SRL: Martian MonopolyPlace in the Top 3 on Mars.100
SRL: PacesetterFinish SRL races in the top 3 places 3 times.100
SRL: Speed BumpsKill 5 enemies on the track during any SRL race.100
SRL: SpeedsterComplete laps in less than two minutes.100
SRL: Threading the NeedleHit 15 consecutive gates.100
SRL: Through the GatesHit 60 gates in a single race during any SRL race.100
SRL: Trick RiderComplete 10 tricks in SRL races. Tricks are emotes, rolls and flips.100
SRL: Venus PacesetterComplete an SRL lap on Venus in fewer than two minutes 3 times.100
SRL: Venusian Victory LanePlace in the Top 3 on Venus.100
SRL: Wear the Shiny OffComplete a race without your Sparrow being destroyed.100

SRL Record Book

SRL Record Book can be purchased from Tess Everis for 1,000 Silver ($10). The book not only tracks your SRL stats on each map but also present challenges players can complete for additional rewards.

Rewards: Momentum Gear, Shader, Emblem and Sparrow

Eververse Trading Company

Tracks

Campus Martius

Campus Martius is the track on Mars. It is the easier of 2 tracks.

Infinite Descent

Infinite Descent is the track on Venus. It is the harder of 2 tracks.

Sparrows

BountyAcquired by
EV-35 ArcrunnerRandomly dropped from Sparrow Toolkit
EV-36 SolscoutRandomly dropped from Sparrow Toolkit
EV-37 VoidstreakRandomly dropped from Sparrow Toolkit
EV-38 LaurelbearerRandomly dropped from Sparrow Toolkit
EV-39 LumosRandomly dropped from Sparrow Toolkit
EV-40 SnowscreamComplete SRL: Class C License by completing 5 races in Sparrow Racing League
EV-41 Momentum MasterCompleting the objective 100 Tricks Landed in Infinite Descent for SRL Record Book
Vol. 1
EV-42 NightsteedComplete the PS3/4 only quest With Finesse and Speed.
EV-43 LightrunnerRandomly dropped from Custom Horn Kit

Horns

See also: Horns
Horns1.jpg

General Information

  • Horns or Sparrow Horns are awarded after completing races, licenses, bounties, opening Custom Horn Kits and from ranking up with SRL Event Standing.
  • Rare Horns are temporary, they expire after a SRL season. Legendary Horns are permanent. Rare horns can be upgraded into legendary horns with Horn Relay.
  • Horn Relay is obtained by dismantling Legendary Horns, except Happy Horn.
  • Players can activate horns by pressing “Circle” button on PlayStation or “B” button on Xbox while riding a Sparrow.

Year 3 Horns

Year 2 Horns

Gear

Gear are obtained from completing races, licenses, bounties, SRL Record Book challenges and from ranking up with SRL Event Standing. Each rank-up earns the player a Racer's Toolkit. The weekly bounty, which requires completing 10 daily bounties in a week, guarantees a legendary piece of SRL gear. Additionally, the higher the rank the player is with the SRL Event Standing, the higher light gear players can obtain after matches. You need rank 3+ for 320 gear.

SRL Armor Perks

Note that only Legendary SRL gear have perks, Rare SRL gear are cosmetically similar to Legendary gear but have no gears or bonuses.

  • Helmets: Increased control while airborne on a sparrow by giving them the option to pitch their sparrow forward or backwards for decreased or increased time in the air. Use this to optimize air time for tricks or to more easily position yourself during tricky jumps. OR Reduced Time needed spent holding the “summon” button to hop on to your sparrow. Useful if you’re constantly being blown up.
  • Chest Armor: Reduces the summoning cooldown after a player’s sparrow is destroyed so that they can get back into the action quicker.
  • Gauntlets: Reduce fuel consumption during side-boost maneuvers allowing players to strafe more before needing to regain fuel.
  • Leg Armor: Increase the amount of fuel players get from successfully performing tricks.
  • Class Armor: Increases SRL Event Standing reputation gains.

SRL Armor Sets

Legendary

Set Rare
Equivalent
Helmet Chest Armor Gauntlets Leg Armor
Bright Stellam Bright Guard
Bright Shield
Bright Ward
Bright Armor Bright Gauntlets Bright Sheath
Circuit* Circuit Defender
Circuit Keeper
Circuit Runner
Circuit Chestplate Circuit Gauntlets Circuit Striders
Momentum Momentum Guard
Momentum Helmet
Momentum Shield
Momentum Defense Momentum Gloves Momentum Boots
Jade Rabbit Rabbit Headpiece of the Jade Rabbit
Helm of the Jade Rabbit
Helmet of the Jade Rabbit
Vest of the Jade Rabbit Gloves of the Jade Rabbit Boots of the Jade Rabbit
Racing Celeritate Crash Helmet
Racing Helmet
Racing Wings
Racing Suit Racing Gloves Racing Legs

*Can be purchased from Amanda Holliday with Legendary Marks.

Rare

Set Legendary
Equivalent
Chest Armor Gauntlets Leg Armor
Celeritate Racing Celeritate Type 2 Celeritate Type 1 Celeritate Type 3
Rabbit Jade Rabbit Rabbit Type 2 Rabbit Type 1 Rabbit Type 3
Stellam Bright Stellam Type 2 Stellam Type 1 Stellam Type 3

Class Armor

Racer's Mark (Titan Mark)

Racer's Scarf (Hunter Cloak)

Racer's Bond (Warlock Bond)

Cosmetics

Emblems

BountyAcquired by
Blessing of MomentumSparrow Racing League???
Martius MomentumTreasure of Ages
Sign of MomentumComplete all the objectives in SRL Record Book, Vol. 1
Winner's CircleComplete SRL: Class S License quest

Shaders

BountyAcquired by
AzuraAcquired in Sparrow Racing League by completing races and bounties.
Bright LaurelAcquired in Sparrow Racing League by completing races and bounties.
HallowAcquired in Sparrow Racing League by completing races and bounties.
KrokosAcquired in Sparrow Racing League by completing races and bounties.
Midnight LumosAcquired in Sparrow Racing League by completing races and bounties.
Momentum's PrideAcquired by completing the objective 100 Tricks Landed in Campus Martius for SRL Record Book, Vol. 1
PhosphoreAcquired in Sparrow Racing League by completing races and bounties.
ShimmerAcquired in Sparrow Racing League by completing races and bounties.

Guide

See also: SRL Guide

Basic Things You Should Know Going In

For starters, you should know that your sparrow behaves differently in SRL than it does in patrol. What do I mean by that though? Specifically, your sparrow is balanced differently. In patrol, you sparrow behaves like a hand cart. If you imagine a rectangle that outlines your sparrow, in patrol, the points of balance are spread evenly to the corners. This is why I'm patrol you can move another guardian and be moved uniformly in any direction- that is to say you would only be pushed and not turned. In SRL your sparrow is balanced differently, instead of the center being spread evenly it's sat underneath your guardian(as illustrated by this pen on my finger). This difference is what allows other guardians and objects to turn your sparrow while racing in the SRL. In the photo above, the front of your sparrow is the longer portion of the pen leading right from my finger and the back is the cap leading left.

What Does That Mean?

It means that in SRL your sparrow is harder for other guardians to turn the closer to center they make contact with it. Barring head on contact which I'll cover here in a sec, your sparrow is easiest to turn from the front, less so from the back, and hardest to turn from its center of balance. In the case of head on collisions, where you and the guardian you're racing are sharing the same line of track, the front is much harder to turn(you're more likely to go under or over the person in front of you), and the back even more so. So if you mean to turn another guardian you want to be pushing from flanks and edges rather than directly pushing the front or back. If you're defending a push you want to keep contact either in line with your path or on your sparrow's center of balance.

The other change in SRL is your sparrow's speed. Unlike in patrol, in SRL your sparrow will not be able to reach its top speed by holding down on the trigger or boosting; it comes from hitting the gates laid out along the track. Your "fuel" gage on the bottom left of your screen still indicates how many lateral boosts you're capable of, but now that energy can be refilled by passing trough gates and performing tricks. Assuming you have racing gear on, which you should, this difference will become more pronounced. In patrol this gauge is refilled by letting off the accelerator.

The last thing to remember is that in SRL your sparrow is much more likely to explode. Hit something going max speed? Boom. You'll also take damage more easily from whatever enemies are loose on the maps. You can kill these enemies too however if you hit them while racing without taking a penalty to your speed. Even if you don't explode, just getting out to a dead stop when you run into a wall or fan blade can be just as bad as dying depending on how long it takes you to right yourself so keep all this in mind while you're out in the lanes.

Tips and Tricks

Use Both Sticks

When racing you should be driving with both your left and right stick. One controls your camera and the other your guardian as in the rest of the game but when used in conjunction while racing you'll notice you have a lot more control taking turns and positioning your sparrow when you use both sticks as one.

Brake for No One

What I mean by this is that in SRL, speed is king. You want to be going as fast as possible for as long as possible. This might seem redundant and obvious but I can't stress it enough. If you're not moving you're losing. Braking isn't bad, and can allow you to readjust your direction if it gets sent way off course, but you're better off managing your lateral boosts and powering through your turns. Personally I have my triggers set to standard for SRL and my right middle ringer is holding the gas the whole race. If I'm doing this right I'll only need my index fingers to boost laterally and I won't even touch the brake. If I need more control on a particularly sharp turn I will let off the gas before I brake. You regain almost the same amount of turning control and lose far less speed.

Use Your Weight To Your Advantage

What I mean by this is when colliding with other guardians while out on the track, and you will believe me, you need to approach each interaction as is most advantageous for you. Is someone coming directly behind you? Make sure you stay in front of them. If they push you from behind they won't turn or pass you. If they push you from and angle you'll be spun out and have to readjust. Is someone coming at you from an angle? Line yourself up with them so they're pushing into your center of gravity and won't be able to turn you. This is actually one of the few situations I might brake and would recommend your doing so as well. Are you approaching someone from behind? I'd recommend staying on the same line as them. You won't turn them but you have a good chance to go either under or over them as the track turns and that can place you ahead without getting spun out. Nothing worse than trying to push someone at their flank only to have them brake and ruin your afternoon.

Know Your Track

This probably seems obvious but I wanted to stress how important knowing the track is. There were plenty of s-turns and tight corners in the last SRL(especially on Venus) where you won't be able to really see what's going on as you take the turns at top speed. You're going to need to know how the track turns in these moments, that's where muscle memory is really key. Once you know where the gates are going to be you'll be able to laterally boost and slide your way through these tight turns faster than you probably think you can. When you reach higher levels of play it's going to be how you handle the toughest parts of the map that determine who wins, so set yourself up for success.

Don't Worry About Being In First Place

Try to focus on your performance. Did you not finish first but beat your personal best time? That's a win in my book. Did you finish in the top three against a group of tough opponents? Take that as a W, buddy. Much of SRL is chaotic and honestly something that had nothing to do with how you're racing can get you the win or leave you in last place. Don't sweat it though. Think of it as more you against the track rather than you against the other five guardians. Sure, you're competing against them but for the most part I think you'll find you're competing against your self. Keep that in mind if you start to get down because you haven't won a race in a while. That doesn't mean you aren't improving.

Remember to Have Fun

It's cliche I know but don't forget how easy it is to get salty in Destiny. SRL is no different and for some can open the salt mines very easily. Things aren't always going to go your way but honestly, if you persevere, you're only going to get better. So keep that in mind and try to relax, racing is supposed to be fun!