Forerunner got BUFFED This Season (Exotic Deep Dive Review) | Destiny 2 Lightfall

Forerunner, the infamous special ammo sidearm that we got in Destiny 2's 30th Anniversary update, recently got a buff in the midseason update. Here's a look at what Forerunner is doing after Hotfix 7.0.5. Check it out!
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:40 Weapon History
2:34 Damage Tests
3:57 The Rock Exotic Catalyst
6:24 Forerunner in PvP
7:51 Forerunner in PvE
10:31 How to Improve Forerunner Further
13:01 Conclusion
13:56 Outro
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[HaloDieHard]

***Attention***
Unlike the Gjallarhorn, The Forerunner weapon can be acquired WITHOUT purchasing the 30th Anniversary expansion.

[Forcer]

Even when his wife is having his daughter Cross is still pumping out content.

[Raynergy]

4:10 Cross thank you so much for making me part of your GM run, honestly it means a lot to me since you’re literally all I watch. Go Dads, am I right ? Congrats on the baby girl, 🎉 YOU MAKE ME PROUD!

[BigKillaJoke]

I enjoy it alongside the aeon safes. The mod that most people use where finishers create ammo for allies, also has another perk where you make orbs for rapid precision kills. So you're making orbs and ammo! I don't think you make ammo for yourself sadly so you still need ammo finders for yourself.

[hjw]

Ningi actually put out a video of him using is against Caital and it SHREDS. Easily the best special weapon for DPS right now outside of very short DPS phases.

[John_President]

You keep the grenade when you swap weapons so verity's is pretty easy to use. Very fun!

[KeanuChrist]

Dwayne Johnson is having a rollercoaster of emotions from Cross here.

“The rock is not buffed.”
“I like the rock!”

[ElliotKingStuff]

Personally I'd change tricksleeves in a different way. Lean into the risk reward even harder by restoring health (not shields) on each kill with a sidearm, prolonging the duration of the damage buff and delaying health regeneration for a few seconds. This way you can slay out with a beefed up sidearm, but you're going to be vulnerable as all hell while you do it.

[RhynoE]

All i gotta say is forerunner and my crafted demo/ incandescent BXR helped me through solo legend campaign on my hunter. Switched to witherhoard at certain points.

[mud]

Congrats on the baby cross!! thanks for being the best D2 content creator

[ROFLWAFFLELAWL]

Ive been liking this on grapple because it allows me to use a grenade on top of having a grapple plus it procs all grenade perks too. This with a demolitionist and adrenaline junkie BxR has been a lot of fun giving a free reload and increased damage without needing to use my grapple.

[bandithm]

firstly, huge congrats to you for the new addition to the family!!
forerunner is one of a kind, its hard to use especially on controller, but so rewarding for those 20k headshots

[RandomPerson-tcpj]

Forerunner and the Dares loot are free. You only need the pack for the cosmetics, GoA, and Gjallarhorn.

[feyntmistral]

I'm on board with mechaneer's getting a rework. It being only usable while you're primed to be killed by even a blaster minion is lame. I'd like it to read:
"Swapping to a sidearm while you are either full health or at critical health gives you increased damage for 5 seconds. Full health increases damage by 30%. Critical health increases damage by 150%. Mechaneer's Tricksleeves go on cooldown for 10 seconds after activating." This way it works for the cock sure Cayde-6 in all of us (giving a significant increase in damage that's on par with some gun perks for the start of a fight), but also gives you a panic bonus when you're really suffering in a fight.

[SweetMeef]

Great job on the editing, from the Halo clips to Indiana Jones. Nicely done 👍

[ArcticWipeout]

A sidearm I think is really slept on in PvE is Cryosthesia 77K. It now has AoE feeeze effect, so you can just shoot the floor next to a group of enemies and freeze them all. It's literally like having a permanent grenade built into your sidearm and all you have to do is get a single kill. Its such a satisfying gameplay loop, especially since sidearms do a lot of damage now. Shoot a red bar, then freeze and entire group and wipe them out. Rinse repeat.

[Rob]

To complete the catalyst it's like 100ish pvp kills instead of those hundreds of pve kills which is what I did. I'd had enough pve just getting the catalyst. I've been loving it as a daily driver and love the new ornament, gotta rep the armory

[chuomge]

Just a heads up, Forerunner is FREE without the 30th anniversary pack. Wanted to put this out there because Cross kinda insinuated that you get it with the 30th anniversary pack

[Bucket_Buffoon]

If folk wanna use the Halo CE pistol effectively in PvP... treat it like the *Halo CE Pistol*
You should ALWAYS tap fire in Halo 1, full auto is too luck based to rely on because of bloom. Pace those shots, move side to side, throw in a jump or a crouch here or there and what not.
MCC's usually got a FFA lobby open in the custom servers if you're intrigued on trying the original Forerunner in a PvP environment, though you'll be testing yourself against Halo vets.

Another tip for HCE, that I hope get's turned into a potential catalyst buff: If your mag is almost empty, double tap your reload and keep the Pistol stowed. This will reload the bad boy in your backpack while keeping you in the fight with your other option. Just swap back once its been about how long the reload animation plays, and BOOM. Fresh mag.
Having the backpack reload as an exotic gauntlet, or a perk for Forerunner, would be pretty neat, and free up your legs for some other mods. Idk it seems neat to me.

[malicious]

Forerunner feels pretty great right now, though some sort of buff with Mechaneer’s similar to Luckypants duration and ease of use would be great. Personally, Forerunner is a fave in solo and any Vex related content. Free-est Hydra shred period lol