Three Destiny employees were streaming last night, raiding “Crota’s End” with three community members. A comment towards the end reignited speculation about a secret chest in the Glass Chamber.
Once again, from our perspective at an ungodly hour, the stream ran. In the last week it was a PvP stream, this time it was the raid against Crota. Three Bungie employees were involved: The community and PR guy Eric Osborne (the redhead in the foreground of the picture, whose perspective you can also see in the stream), raid designer Gavin Irby (in the back) and Rob Adams, a Senior World Designer.
Thrall Passage and Bridge Encounter in Crota’s End
During the stream, there was a rare opportunity to hear Bungie developers firsthand:
- The first part of the raid, the passage with the Thralls, centers around “Survival.” Players must work together and fight forward. It was important to the developers that it’s easier when players stick together and leave no one behind. Those who are selfish and activate the lamps too early harm their team. The reduction of players’ mobility creates a feeling of constant panic. The holes in the ground and the atmosphere contribute to this.
- The Bridge passage is the most tactically challenging encounter of the raid. It takes the longest to explain. The encounter is designed so that each team member has a chance to shine. Furthermore, everyone should learn how to handle the sword here.
Sniper Rifle Instead of Flowers
- Even the Bungie employees avoid saying the “G” word, they refer to “the thing with wolfpack rounds.”
- Osborne plays Warlock, while his wife plays Hunter on an account. When he wants to make her happy, he leaves her a nice sniper rifle – Patience and Time or Praedyth’s Revenge: That’s like giving flowers.
- Ir Yût is as close as you can get to a gear check in Destiny.
Bungie is Working on the Sword Bug and Almost Everything Else
- Bungie is working on the sword bug in Crota. Generally, the Bungie employees experience all the problems players encounter as equally bad or annoying, as the developers also spend so much time in Destiny and suffer from the same issues.
- It’s not that Bungie is stopping work on the raid in Destiny or doing less here, because they are balancing weapons. Two different teams at Bungie are working on these issues.
- The Wrath of the Queen event did not work. Bungie found other PvE activities more interesting. That’s why they pulled it back and will revise it. In this or another form, or something similar could come back. However, they remained tight-lipped about inquiries. They want to leave that to DeeJ and the Weekly Update. In the past, they have often burned their mouths. Now they only want to announce things that are ready. The silence is difficult for many, as they are excited about their work and would love to immediately tell and show everyone what they are working on.
In the aftermath of the raid, a small comment at the end of the stream made the biggest waves and was picked up multiple times on reddit within a few hours. It concerns a “possible secret chest” in the raid “The Glass Chamber.” They questioned the raid designer if all chests had been discovered. While it was said, “There are always more secrets” and after asking if there is another chest, someone said “Yes,” it’s not clear whether that was meant seriously and whether he really answered the question. So we are as wise as before.
Update: We don’t want to be the party pooper, but well … here we go anyway: In the last 12 hours, since the run ended, some posts popped up with “6th Chest!” that’s what he said in the stream … Let everyone look again!
Now it’s clear: Osborne meant it as a joke, as he clarifies in a tweet: He knows no secrets, Easter eggs, or chests. And if he did, he would never reveal them. He was just having fun.
To be clear, I’m not privy to most secrets/easter eggs/chests in Destiny. If I was, I’d never disclose what I knew! #nofunallowed
— Eric Osborne (@UrkMcGurk) February 12, 2015
