Bungie had introduced an official puzzle that had a direct effect on the in-game world of Destiny, but there was literally no way to solve it on one’s own. I want to pause here and note my fascination with what was happening here. But it is decipherable in concert with thousands of other players who have also received their own code string. Details about a forwarding protocol and node sensors is followed by a complex string of code – largely meaningless on its own. Once logged into your account, this site provides an indecipherable string of letters and numbers. The possible solution began to make its appearance yesterday, on Tuesday morning, as a new Bungie site offered a puzzling dilemma. What were we missing? What waited beyond that last infuriating lock? Turning on the monitors throughout the raid deactivated laser grids that blocked the way to this chest, except for one. In addition, those same enterprising raid groups had begun to uncover hidden, static-filled monitors in out-of-the way places, and a room at the tail end of the raid that showed off one final intriguing box.
There are more chests and hidden secrets in this six-person expedition than any raid in the game’s two-year history, including cleverly disguised secret clusters of SIVA, and loot chests hidden at the top of complex jump puzzles. Simultaneously, clever raid teams had been spending the days since the September 23rd launch of Wrath of the Machine attempting to uncover all of the raid’s many secrets. As Rise of Iron rolled out last week, many players knew of the existence of Outbreak Prime, an amazing looking new exotic pulse rifle that was planned for release in the game. But should we do it? Should we take our own shot at it?Ĭut to more than four hours later, and the cheering of an exhausted but triumphant raid team as we opened a treasure chest, and a chance to acquire Destiny’s most exclusive weapon. My party, including fellow Destiny enthusiast and editor-in-chief, Andy McNamara, began to buzz with excitement. The “puzzle,” in this case, was the ARG-style community project that first intrigued players yesterday morning, and the “they” was the entirety of the Destiny community working in concert to confront a seemingly unsolvable problem.
At 11:30pm last night, I was getting ready to log out of Destiny when someone popped into my group’s party chat to declare that someone had solved the puzzle.
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