At this year’s GDQ 2020, a speedrun event for charity, a raid from Destiny 2 was played for the first time. In the end, many viewers celebrated the speedrunners – but not just for their performance.
What is GDQ 2020 all about? GDQ stands for Games Done Quick. It is a charity organization that raises funds for charitable causes through speedrunning in games.
During the corresponding GDQ events, games from various genres and generations of video game history are played. The whole event is streamed live. The participants also explain many tricks during their runs, how they achieve the fastest times and give tips to the viewers.
What does Destiny 2 have to do with it? This year at GDQ 2020, Destiny 2 was also included for the first time – with a speedrun in the Forsaken raid Last Wish.
This was completed in just under 30 minutes by the raid team, but that was not the actual highlight of this run.
That was the big highlight at the end: The speedrunners had their show stolen at the end of their run – and it was by RNG-sus himself.
As the raid was basically completed, it came to the 25 infamous chests, from which you can draw raid loot with Aether Keys – all live in the stream. In parallel, the commentator in the stream explained that one of these boxes can contain the coveted raid weapon exotic – the fusion rifle One Thousand Voices.
Just at that moment, a member of the raid team opened the box, and lo and behold – as if on cue, this rare weapon jumped out. The audience celebrated.
Seconds later, as the commentator continued and began to say that in extremely rare cases, One Thousand Voices can drop twice, the raider opened a second box and a second copy of the popular raid exotic jumped out for him. Now the joy could not be contained – neither in the team nor in the audience.
You can watch the scene here:
What is so special about the drop? The chance of One Thousand Voices was very low. Several raid players have not seen the weapon even after over 100 raid completions – just like the exotic grenade launcher Anarchy. Although Bungie has increased the drop chance of One Thousand Voices, the coveted raid weapon is still a quite rare drop.
That almost an entire 2 copies drop for one player was already seen several times, but is extremely lucky. To experience the whole thing with a fitting announcement live in a speedrun event is almost a miracle.
Have you ever been so lucky? What was your greatest moment of luck when it comes to loot in Destiny 2?
