In the MMO shooter Destiny , new tricks are always emerging. Now a Titan has managed to defeat the final boss of the raid “The Glass Chamber” alone.
“As legitimate as possible,” writes the Titan, who is probably the first of his class in the world to defeat Atheon. And as legitimate as possible is anything but “legit.”
The final boss of “The Glass Chamber” Atheon is actually not defeat-able alone, as he regularly triggers a time shift. Solo players are sucked in, cannot free themselves from the time shift alone, and die. Therefore, it was long thought that at least 3 players were needed for the stunt; later, with some tricks, 2 players also managed to defeat him. For a long time, this was considered the end of the line.
Recently, however, a Warlock managed to defeat Atheon solo by committing suicide whenever the time shift occurred, resurrecting, and slowly gnawing away at Atheon’s health bar. Even this method appeared to some as “cheating.” The tactic the Titan has found now will likely be much more annoying for those people.
The Titan positions himself, as seen in a video, in a corner that is far from Atheon but still seems to belong to the combat area. The time shift would catch the Titan here. But there is a trick to get a little further out of the range so that the deadly mechanic does not work: The Titan simply jumps. Every 51 seconds the portal appears, and the Titan can repeatedly jump over the deadly hurdle.
In the meantime, he chips away at the giant’s health using the Icebreaker sniper rifle, as it has no ammo issues. He could not use the Black Spindle because he couldn’t consistently achieve the three precision hits.
Surely a kill that will annoy some, but again a proof that nothing is impossible and that in Destiny even long-settled areas still hold surprises. Perhaps such kills will not be possible for long. Bungie plans to overhaul the final bosses of the two raids, Crota and Atheon, in Destiny soon.
