How To Complete The Ace Of Exotic Spades In Destiny 2: Forsaken

If you notice an unusual number of players using hand cannons in Destiny 2 this week, it's because they're probably trying to unlock an exotic weapon called Ace of Spades. It's a long, occasionally annoying quest, but I'm happy to report that it's also super worth doing.

Spoilers for the Ace of Spades Destiny 2: Forsaken follow!

Ace of Spades is an exotic hand cannon that first appeared in a slightly different form in the first destiny. Until the start of Forsakenit was the property of Cayde-6, the charming robot hunter who met his unfortunate, Forsaken'S campaign. in Forsaken'S opening mission, your Guardian and the Cayenne head to investigate a situation called the Prison of Elders. It turns out to be anything but routine, and has the villain named Prince Uldren takes Cayde's gun and kills him with it. You spend the rest of the campaign Uldren down, and in the closing story mission, you finally reclaim Ace of Spades from him. The gun is broken, though, and one of your initial endgame.

I went up a little too late last night finishing the quest and getting Ace of Spades. I am here to tell you that while I was making my hair in frustration, I'm really glad I did it. Not only is the weapon itself incredibly cool-like, seriously, maybe the coolest hand cannon I've never used destiny, and I'm including Fatebringer and The Last Word in that comparison-the same is getting better at the game in some specific ways. As a bonus, it wrapped up with an unexpectedly thoughtful narrative tribute to Cayde.

Here are all the steps to get Ace of Spades. Before you get to these challenges, you'll need to finish the final story mission of Forsaken, titled "Last Call," then visit Banshee in the Tower.

1. Using a hand cannon, kill five invading players in Gambit

This is easily the hardest step in the quest. It's too bad that it's also the first one, since it'll be scary a lot of players. It's also confusingly worded: you do not have to get kills ace the invader, you have to kill invaders who comes to your side.

If you've played any gambit, you know how they are: people tend to be invaded when they have their super up, have a heavy load on a mighty weapon like a sleeping simulant, or both. They have an overshield that makes them more powerful than anyone on your side, and their HUD shows them to everyone on your team. Those advantages can make it really, really hard to take care of you, especially given that you get to the final blow. Assists do not count.

I'm sure it will be better to have a make-up in the towel. It's also one that I think is arguably poorly done, because it encourages players to gambit play "wrong."

Ace of Spades. A lot of peculiar behavior over the weekend. Often, whole teams would simply refuse to invade our side, because they were all waiting for us to come to them. Then again, the Gambit step didn't teach me how to focus on invaders on my own side, and it will be less of a pervasive problem than this one. And it was not That hard to get done, so, bygones.

If you're stuck on this step, have a couple friends of mine revealed the best way to do it: We loaded in together, and my buddies would call out invader rentals to me, damage the invader, and try to get me the finishing blow. I was the only one who needed help since they had already finished the first step, but you could do it with a group of people. There were times the invader got us, of course, and times my buddies accidentally stole my kills. But it only took a few games for me to get to five.

2. Get 250 hand cannon kills in strikes.

This one's a cinch and a pleasant follow-up to the stress of the Gambit challenge. It's also a good excuse to go to the new Forsaken strikes, since you do not have these kills on Heroic strikes. If you played the first destiny Prison of Elders Strike, do you a favor and check it out.

3. Get 25 hand cannon precision kills in Crucible.

I started doing this step in the book and thought it was going to take a while; then I remembered that there is also a rumble playlist. Rumble is basically nothing but 1: 1 gunfights, and it's a really fast way to get through this step. It was also helpful for me to drill down and focus on my hand cannon accuracy, since I tend to get kind of sloppy ordinarily.

By the time I'm finished, I was hitting way I have been at the beginning and fittingly, even at the top of the list. I topped off the quest.

4. Open the "Cayde's Stash" -style chests hidden in four different locations.

This step is another nice chillout step after the most intense Crucible challenge. All of these are well-hidden in patrol areas on Io, Nessus, the EDZ, and the Tangled Shore, respectively. There's no way I would have found them on my own. There are already tons of guides online. I watched a video by HarryNinetyFour, which you can view here:

Each of the chests you find includes a letter from the list of small pieces that you can read in the section under the Triumph tab in your menu. I will not break down here, but the stories are worth reading destiny-verse. Cayo talks about life as a robotic Exo, his past lives as a Cayde-1 through Cayo-5, and sheds some light on his thoughts about a variety of characters and events from over the years.

5. Complete the mission "Ace in the Hole"

The final step is to complete an all-new mission located on Titan. Rather than give you one last stiff challenge, the Ace of Spades is instead double down on narrative payoff. Once again Cayde's stashes. This time is ten, and they are placed along the path of Hive-infested underworkings of the Titan Arcology.

You'll see in the corner of your screen when you're near a stash chest, and you do not have to worry too much. Just remember that a lot of them are hidden above you, or are hard to see you.

It has been decided that he is going to keep his stuff, and he is going to keep it. Nolan North, actor who filled in for Cayde 's original actor Nathan Fillion for Forsaken, does a fine job capturing the rhythm of Fillion's performance.

"This one's for Eris Morn," he says in the first post. "If you're listening to this, congrats on killing me! I assume you have become Hive death god and fed me to your worm cult. That or you just finally got sick of me. Coincidently, if you do not kill me and still somehow hear this, I'm sorry for stealing your ship. And, well, pretty much every other interaction we ever had. But to be clear: if you did not kill me, I do not apologize, and I will consider all my actions one hundred percent justified. Either way, feel free to put your rock on my maps now. "All the message are similarly loaded with callbacks and in-jokes for longtime fans. Cayde's message to Ikora Rey is particularly good, and his message to the Drifter offers an enticing tease for what the game's future may hold.

6. Go get Ace of Spades, and have fun.

With the final step completed, I returned to Banshee in the tower and got Ace of Spades. I'd overcome some difficult challenges, and had gotten much better at Stalking Invaders in Gambit and Landing Crits in Crucible. I'd heard Cayde's final words, and gotten a nice reminder of his love affairs with his many comrades and frenemies. And for my trouble, I got a really, really good gun:

Ace of Spades is Extremely Frickin Good, and is easily worth the hassle of tracking down. It has a killer set of perks that work beautifully in concert with one another, both in PvE and PvP. Its Firefly is really a combination of Destiny 1'S Firefly and Outlaw perks, especially the two perks on the first game' s beloved Fatebringer hand cannon. It keeps your radar active as you go down the sights, which is a huge boon in the Crucible.

It also has a fittingly-named exotic perk called Memento Mori that puts a few extra-damage bullets into the gun if you reload after getting a kill. It's a lot like the top tier Kill Clip perk, but with no timer, so you can slow down and make those high-powered rounds count. It's also got great base stats underneath those amazing perks, and perhaps most important of all, has an outstanding reload animation:

I highly recommend taking the time to the Ace of Spades, if you find the first step frustrating. Not only will you hone your destiny You'll be rewarded with a sweet, glowing revolver that emits ethereal smoke from its super-powered bullets. Good luck.