Destiny 2 is known for its weird, wonderful, and sometimes downright convoluted puzzles, but the one found in its latest activity has to take first prize.
As part of the latest Black Armory update, players must group up into teams of three in order to beat a challenge that will unlock the final forge for all players in the game where Guardians can construct some of the most powerful weapons in the game. Titled the Niobe Labs, it went live yesterday at 17:00 GMT and at the time of writing, it has not been beaten. Streamers over on Twitch are making continuous attempts at trying to solve the puzzle, but it's almost as if the game is working against them at this point.
Currently, streamers have made it to Bypass Level 7, but who knows if there's more to come after that. The real kicker here, though, is the fact that to make any progress, the teams have to make their way through levels one to six every single time they fail. This means there's at least a 20 minute gap between a failed attempt and another shot at learning something new.
Naturally, this has to be incredibly frustrating and exhausting. It reminds us of the epic day long raid completions of the past, but at least Guardians were prepared for that. Nobody in the community expected this activity to take 24 hours to finish, and there's always the possibility of more to come. If you want to follow the progress being made, or torture, in real time, check out xGladd's stream below:
Would you ever put this much time into a game in one session? Shoot some symbols in the comments below.
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They have more patience than me.
I didn’t know D2 had a Don’t Believe His Lies side to it.
"This means there's at least a 20 minute gap between a failed attempt and another shot at learning something new."
Unfortunately this is Destiny in a nutshell for me these days. I feel like I'm spending way more time doing basically nothing than I am having any kind of fun.
I was hoping to see "why are we still playing this" as the mystery
Well people complain when content is too casual - 24 hours isn't exactly long for this type of endless game. I like it, I'm sure some players are having fun trying to solve it.
@ShogunRok and that's fair enough, how many hours did you get out of it before you felt that way? Good bang for your buck I say.
@kyleforrester87 Oh absolutely, especially seeing as I paid nothing thanks to review code. HEH HEH HEH
No but as much as I enjoyed Forsaken and Destiny 2 as a whole, the grind finally got to me and I've currently got no desire to return. A shame but I guess it was inevitable.
@ShogunRok yup it's the way it goes with all of these endless/service type games. I have great memories of playing Destiny, it's one of the best and most unique experiences of this generation actually, but like other online games I've played over the years (namely Ultima Online and Counter Strike) it kind of always feels a bit sad to look back on how it ended - never with the bang of a great ending and credit sequence but the whimper of repetition and negativity. What a life.
@kyleforrester87 Not good enough 6/10.
@ShogunRok I can't believe you guys review racing games without a wheel.
I've enjoyed the base game but was so put off by the first two expansions that I haven't played since. I wouldn't even call them expansions really with what little amount of content they added.
Soo, the streamers and community at large couldn't solve it and Bungie just opened the forge to all players and rightly so. I'm a huge Destiny fan but Bungo really screwed the pooch with the delivery of this Black Armory DLC. The forges grind has been horrific from start to finish.
Put a crazy amount of hours into Destiny 1. I haven't put in 10% of that time into Destiny 2. I give credit to bungie they are good at these intricate puzzles in the game shame in this case it is behind yet another paywall. That's my biggest bugbear with Destiny is the constant wanting more money for little content. I enjoyed Forsaken picked it up for £20 and got to play the expansions I missed but as soon as it became the weekly grind of the same stuff I lost interest.
I haven't touched in a month and don't feel any urge to buy the season pass, still no strike specific loot and still not possibility to choose which pvp mode you want to play. Pass.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi I got the season pass and after spending 10 hours with the new "content", I've now moved on. Forsaken was great, the forges... no so much. Bungie tried something new with this, which is commendable. But drip-feeding content like an I.V. is unfortunately not going to keep the patient alive for long. Reddit's sub has never been so active, but it's no longer people commenting on content, but rather on issues that have yet to be fixed since launch (bug, exploits and PvP matchmaking for instance). Fair to say that we got a good bang for the buck, but I'd be surprised to see Destiny 3 be the salvation of this declining franchise.
Is it really worth all of that work?
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