After five-and-a-half days, Destiny 2 gamers have solved the new mystery in the Corridors of Time and located new loot. This was an enormous communal effort, with innumerable a whole lot of gamers sharing hundreds of map fragments to construct a route by an alien time machine. The map is ludicrously big. The effort is exceptional. I adopted the newly-revealed route this morning and may inform you the reward is, ah, properly, I’ll not say simply but for individuals who want to go in blind.
Last Tuesday, Bungie quietly added a brand new quest sending gamers again into the Corridors of Time, the large alien time machine we used to rescue our pal Saint-14 earlier this season. Just discover, it stated. See what you see. No actual motive. Players found symbols being displayed on this season’s time-bending Obelisks, altering each hour. These symbols matched symbols marking portals within the corridors, and turned out to be maps by timelines all ending on the identical place: an unnamed Guardian’s grave. Players may earn quick lorebooks and an emblem from following all these routes, and that opened a brand new thriller.
At this level, gamers begin seeing new symbols in that last room, mirrored within the ground. These didn’t lead anyplace clear. By themselves, they imply little. Together, they type an enormous map. Players realised that the room revealed a tiny fragment, just a few items that would snap along with views from different gamers to begin forming routes. And so started an enormous effort.
That view is one single cell of the completed map. Some huge secret-hunting streamers labored with their friends, placing in ridiculous hours trawling by screenshots submitted by followers. Some of us set up websites and databases gathering screens and transcribing the symbols and paths. Some wrote code to robotically put transcribed items collectively. The near-complete map appears to be like like this:
The quantity of effort to place that collectively, one piece at a time, is staggering. I peeped in on streamers like Gladd and Datto from time to time, whose teams spent dozens of hours this week observing screens like:
And:
Now we’ve one appropriate route, in the end, and it’s a doozy. We have to journey by thirty portals within the appropriate order, which is way too straightforward to muff up for those who’re as simply distracted as me. But this is the route, and I’ve achieved it, and I do know the place it goes and what we earn from it.
Stop studying now for those who’d slightly head in for your self.
The first reward, I suppose, is one other snippet of story: time skips just a few beats and Saint-14 delivers hints of occasions but to return. The extra materials reward is the beginning of the hunt for Bastion, this season’s Exotic kinetic fusion rifl. Do just a few hours of busywork for Spider and also you’ll seen have it in your arms.
Bastion is the primary fusion rifle within the kinetic slot. Its entire deal is charging as much as burst three spreads of slugs in fast succession, making it a giant like an autoshotty on three-round-burst. It can even deal a portion of harm by power shields. I don’t but have a way how sturdy Bastion is. Videos like this make it look doubtlessly WILD however how typically will you get three enemy gamers to line up and stand nonetheless?
The season calendar nonetheless lists Bastion’s quest as launching on January 28th, so I suppose all this puzzling results in an opportunity to get it early. It appears unlikely the precise quest path would require gamers to search out info listed out the game, so I suppose we’ve used a map of time to skip ahead one week. Imagine plotting a path by time itself simply to leap the queue and get a gun one week early. Greedy, grasping Guardians.
I had hoped this maze would result in an precise shock, one thing we didn’t know was coming. Maybe that fancy sword Saint-14 talks about on the finish of the maze. Ah properly. Anyway, for now, I’m off to play with my new Bastion.
